goldenbikeshed

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by goldenbikeshed 4y ago
If the entire world gets to participate, wouldn't that make everyone a rent seeker?
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by goldenbikeshed 4y ago
See that's the point. Having a trusted party is a better solution.
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by goldenbikeshed 5y ago
> capitalism working as intended. Needlessly destroying the planet and making it more expensive for me to drown the inevitability of impending doom by playing AAA video games. Well ain't that just swell.
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by goldenbikeshed 5y ago
Or maybe our western liberal democratic capitalist societies have long degenerated to a point of complete and utter directionlessnes. Your conspiracy would have the west fucking themselves over. How about this: a plutocratic elite has accum
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by goldenbikeshed 5y ago
Yes, nvidia and AMD should collude to destroy crypto from a market risk reduction perspective.
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by goldenbikeshed 5y ago
Nice timing as finally today Julian Reichelt has been removed from his positions: https://www.axelspringer.com/de/presseinformationen/nach-neu...
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by goldenbikeshed 5y ago
They have been moving towards holocaust denial since 2015, actually.
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by goldenbikeshed 5y ago
No it hasn't. It would perhaps have if the strategy of history falsification that the far right kept trying since about the 60ies would have worked. These laws were one factor in making sure no such history falsification took place on
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by goldenbikeshed 5y ago
That law is still put to good use nowadays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Haverbeck
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by goldenbikeshed 5y ago
That's for Canadian YouTube to decide in accordance with Canadian laws.
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by goldenbikeshed 5y ago
Break up YouTube into multiple companies, each only allowed to operate in one country. Then break up YouTube US into at least 5 more companies. Monopolies are bad, mmmkay?
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by goldenbikeshed 5y ago
It's high time facebook, YouTube and Google get broken up like the Bell Corporation was (maybe even avoid some mistakes that were made with that company). Regarding 3.: I think it will radicalize some but it will also stop the misinfor
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by goldenbikeshed 5y ago
Regarding 2): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34237049/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34473684/
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by goldenbikeshed 5y ago
I think the problem is less what YouTube is doing here and more that YouTube has this kind of power. If every country had 10 video Websites like Youtube that each had a 10th of the users from that country, and maybe some international users
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by goldenbikeshed 5y ago
Technologically possible, corporocratically impossible - it would lose the company money.
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by goldenbikeshed 5y ago
I don't get this. Here in Germany for example holocaust denial is illegal. Assume you are in a country where it's not, say the USA. Assume you slowly witness a rise of naziism that as usual comes with holocaust denial. Now the USA
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by goldenbikeshed 5y ago
Yeah I've been running Wayland on my desktop since quite a while now. There were minor issues when Fedora made the switch to wayland as default, but since at least a year i haven't had a problem that switching to xorg would fix.
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by goldenbikeshed 7y ago
Fossil fuels only account for about 70% of global CO2 emissions. Replacing all of them with renewable energy sources will lower emissions but also bring more emissions (e.g. from cement needed to build those power plants). Our current globa
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by goldenbikeshed 8y ago
How about getting a Librem 5 Purism?