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by esarbe 3y ago
While I don't have any intention of letting my carbon footprint balloon up, there's one point I thoroughly agree with you. This is not a problem that can be solved with individual responsibility . It just makes you feel guilty. T
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Switzerland has lost 10% of its glaciers in the last two years(euronews.com)
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by esarbe 3y ago
As I wrote before; I don't think that arbitrage and gatekeeping are the same as creating value. It's capturing the differences in the perceptions of value of two parties. But it's not creating said value. Let's once ag
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by esarbe 3y ago
I strive to learn. With markets I see it similarly as with democracy; it's the best of all the bad options we have. Given the challenges ahead (demographic crisis, climate crisis, environmental crisis) we must have a dynamic and flexib
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by esarbe 3y ago
It changes at least one thing; now there is Google1 and Google2 and FB1 and FB2 and they offer the same services to different prices. Now the consumer can chose between more competitors.
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by esarbe 3y ago
Yes, please, let's do this. And Amazon too. In general; let's take that whole monopoly thing serious again, together with regulatory capture. I'm no free market liberal, quite the contrary. But competition is *good* and we sh
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by esarbe 3y ago
In this particular example, the value was not created by Bill Gates or Microsoft, he only leveraged his connected position to sell IBM somebody else's product. The value was created by someone else. So no, I'm not stuck on the p
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by esarbe 3y ago
It makes sense in the conclusion. I don't think I agree with the premises. None of the products that Bill Gates made himself were uniquely brilliant. He did not make money by himself writing software that provided unique value. He made
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by esarbe 3y ago
Yeah, from shoestring to millionaire, right? Not so much. Bill Gates was born into an already very wealthy family. He enjoyed an top notch education, had access to promising early technology and - maybe most important, had connections throu
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by esarbe 3y ago
Ah, I think I got your question now; you mean to ask; "What makes you think that all that wealth is not rightly earned by the rich people. They are producing value, that's why they are rich." At least that my interpretation
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by esarbe 3y ago
What make you assume that this is the case or that the data I linked to would answer that question?
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by esarbe 3y ago
That's the idea, the "American Dream" - you roll up your sleeves, spit in your hands and go to work - get busy and rich. Alas, that's not been the case for a long time. Please look at the data. https://www.bro
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by esarbe 3y ago
You're making quite a number of faulty assumptions. > Medical bills, sure, but they have always been around. Prices for medical care have increased disproportionately in the last few decades[0]. > Investing giant sums in defendin
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by esarbe 3y ago
I propose an another strategy. Bail them out and hand over the company to the workers, organized as a equal shareholder corporation. The workers are the ones that have to most to lose when the company goes under. For the shareholders, it&#x
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by esarbe 3y ago
I think, they are arguing from a deregulated/free market capitalist perspective. Supposedly workers can freely chose to whom they sell their working capacity and thus can negotiate a fair share of the value created. I personally don&#x
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by esarbe 3y ago
https://www.wsj.com/politics/tax-cuts-budget-deficits-republ... I'm fine with spending cuts. But let's start with the oversized military, the fossil fuel subsidies, the industrial tax bribes. Instead of, you
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by esarbe 3y ago
That's what you get for not taxing the rich.
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by esarbe 3y ago
1) GDRP has been in effect since 2018. It doesn't matter that they were in violation of the law "only" two years - they broke the law. 2) Just because they are incompetent doesn't mean they get to break the law. Why shou
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by esarbe 3y ago
They wouldn't even notice 100'000 Euros and so the fine would be useless as a tool of discouragement. The laws have been specified so that they scale with the size of a company. Tiktok it's a big company. They make a lot of m
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by esarbe 3y ago
I understand the tool of hyperbole, but this is a very flawed hyperbole. We do have to keep people around if they behave in ways that harm society, but society is not morally bound to keep companies existing despite them misbehaving. They a
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by esarbe 3y ago
You are absolutely correct with this. I'm absolutely in favor of making it impossible for adtech to make any profit at all as long as they build their business on monetizing user data and exposing their users to all kinds of hazards. I
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by esarbe 3y ago
Sure I'd prefer that. I don't need those companies. I wouldn't phrase it as "losing out" though. I would put it as "not being in the crosshairs of endless streams of manipulative content whose only purpose it t
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by esarbe 3y ago
The GDPR applies to all companies, social network platforms or not. It's not even about the internet in particular, it's about how companies can store and process private information of EU citizens.
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by esarbe 3y ago
You keep throwing around the "unbelievable" and "unreasonable" fines. Why do you think that these fines are "unbelievable" and "unreasonable"? Because for me they are rather on the low side, given the
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by esarbe 3y ago
What exactly is insane about giving the citizens control over their own data and about making it more difficult for companies to monetize that data? I don't think that the fine is ridiculous high, by the way. I think it's too low.
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by esarbe 3y ago
Thanks for providing some context. I still don't get one point though; Nobody is taking X away. You can still run any DE and any application on X if you want to. You're not being restricted in your ability to run applications, qui
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by esarbe 3y ago
> Great, I'm glad you agree the labour theory of value is unable to explain and is unlikely to be valid. You know that I didn't write anything in that regards and that you are - using sophistry - putting words under my fingerti
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by esarbe 3y ago
Given the previously demonstrated callousness towards the well being of his staff, I wouldn't be surprised. Emotional abuse and abuse of power seems in the same alley. That said; this is an allegation, nothing has been confirmed or pro
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by esarbe 3y ago
I'm not sure about your use case here. Why would a server in a data center need to render the GUI for thousands of clients?
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by esarbe 3y ago
Wayland is more than a compositor protocol. It's a whole suite of replacement protocols for all the functionality that X used to offer. And it takes time to replace an established protocol. Especially when you need to provide a feature

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