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by ericffr 5y ago
Fascinating article, on a part of the world that gets largely ignored
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by ericffr 5y ago
I found Fishkin article more convincing that this one. The author seems to try to justify his worth (and job) rather than understanding the ads market.
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by ericffr 5y ago
Wondering if the social distancing reduced the spread of virus in the bee colonies, why so many collapsed because of the virus?
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by ericffr 5y ago
We are going to see more of this. UK is like a teenager who wants to leave home, but comes back every weekend to have it's laundry done by mon
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by ericffr 5y ago
Unfortunately, no country would do it on its own, knowing that a neighbor could have an economic advantage. By making it a global problem with a global treaty, it makes everyone accountable. Like the Cold War weapons race: until the Arm tre
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by ericffr 5y ago
Her point is that no country can survive with zero tax. Everyone knows that. In order to have roads, schools, hospitals, parks, police, you need everyone to chip in, specially huge corporations who know how to subvert the system for their o
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by ericffr 5y ago
As a normal guy, it is hard to understand the extremes to which a company will avoid taxes, basically getting all the profit to it's stakeholders, and none to the ones who made it possible for them to succeed (the workers, the ones who
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by ericffr 5y ago
So Apple doing a webapp means that they want to avoid the 30% tax from Android app store, if/when the need to charge comes up???
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by ericffr 5y ago
I agree. Just saying "it's not my fault, it's the others: they are the culprit, not me" is what led us here. Without reducing meat consumption (and many other actions), the crisis won't go away
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by ericffr 5y ago
I disagree. Killing animals just because humans have been doing is not the answer. I'd rather go with plant-based diet than ignoring the harm even small family farms do to animals, and the environment.
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by ericffr 6y ago
The problem with this line of thinking is that it might be a little short-sighted. Since we are intelligent, we should be careful. With great powers come great responsibility. If someone doesn't like hurricanes, they can move where the
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by ericffr 6y ago
Not every weed moves as fast as a virus. It might take decades before we realize that some species have disappeared, and in their wake, others are going too, and we are left with a homogeneous ecosystem where a new virus will come and be ev