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by jariel 6y ago
When labour is a total commodity, some type of non-market support is often needed. Software devs are not a commodity and the best one's are some of the highest paid people in the country. 'What could go wrong' is that innovat
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"union didn't leave me thinking "this is an organizational structure I want to be part of"" If you're being paid $40/hour to move monitors and your alternative is serving coffee, you definitely 'want
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I understand the sentiment - but this may not be the case. A lot of software was written a long time ago with as-of-yet-unestablished good practices. Almost no concern for security or anything else. I wonder if they actually took really goo
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Don't yell fire in a crowded theatre ... But what if the theatre is actually on fire? Or what if you whisper something quietly and people still react like you screamed 'Fire!'? And that's the whole point: we're not
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I think you're maybe confusing 'Free Software' in the FSF sense, and just 'free' or 'open' software in the broadest sense. Open/Free/Public software is obviously very useful. But it's the &#
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It worked out wonderfully? For the Tibetans? Uyghurs? The 100's of millions still in poverty? The millions in jail without a proper trial or due process? The 100's of millions breathing toxic air? The 100's of millions unable
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by jariel 6y ago
In the short term - yes. But it's a massive, massive industry. Maybe the biggest. 5 years is a blip. The 'brand value' of BMW is going nowhere, same can be said for 'all the other brands'. The industry will catch up
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Some bad habits deserve to die but anyone wanting to snuff this is bonkers - this is legit, creative, authentic culture. It's the most rare and valuable thing. They should be encouraging it.
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Everything failed until it didn't. Millions of EV's are sold by companies that didn't copy or follow Tesla. I agree with your assessment of how Tesla 'did it' - but other companies were 'doing it' at the s
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I don't think the bees mind if we borrow some of their surplus. A more organic approach to cow's Milk I think might be sustainable as well.
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Yes, but they are not more of a status symbol that BMW, at least broadly. Their brand power is not going to be enough for them to live in a very well established industry of premium and regular brands. Tesla will do fine, I think they will
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The shift was inevitable and always in progress with or without Tesla. They have been selling and experimenting with electric cars for a very long time. Nobody has 'copied' anything that Tesla has done, they've done it on the
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Do customers care about who is the best innovator? They want cars, which are electric, and BMW et. al. will give them tons of those and that's it. The other 'nice things' Telsa has are niche feature offers; nice, but not goin
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"No one wants to buy the actual chat application itself, because they could build equivalent technology on their own." MS is actually one of the few companies that could try. Most companies are unable to innovate even with a clean
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None of this is true. The UK screwed nobody, they just wrote a good contract independent of EU. If the UK knew there were not going to be able to manufacture there, they would have made it elsewhere. Nationalizing exports is a massive probl
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The WHO will never look where they don't want the answer to be found and will actively work against it. The chair of the WHO (Tedros Adhanom) [1] was a communist rebel (Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front) fighter in
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Both things matter a lot. In particular, if true that it 'leaked' ... it's not like other nations are leaking pathogens which kill millions and cause 5 Trillion in destruction. It would literally change the geostrategic equat
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Here are national breakdowns: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
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Yes, but the UK is so far ahead with jabs/person that it's going to make a the bigger difference. The volume of jabs will dictate the outcome more than the 1-now-1-much-later or 1-now-1-soon strategies.
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To answer both yours and the above response: --> demand for transportation is absolutely elastic. There's no doubt there - it's easily demonstrable. If right now you increased the cost of a tram ticket so that the Subway could
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This is an incredibly important lesson in public communications. 'The Crowd' is dumb, even if it's made up of mostly smart people. 'Fact' and 'Communications' are completely different things. FYI it's
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This argument has to work against the fact that the 'stuff' in the shops is x% more expensive because they are paying for their bus on the backend. Do you think a transportation system that is perversely incented and controlled by
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'Totally free' is usually a bad idea because the asymmetries inherent in the system are multiplied. The OP argument 'everyone uses it' is also not super rational argument either on it's face - we all 'use food&
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Here is the 10 page lists of Stallman's 'demands' for people hosting him [1]. This is considerably longer and more detailed than any heretofore described pop singer 'diva' or CEO. I can't think of anyone but he
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Soviet propaganda was (and is) directed by the government. US news is not directed by government, for the most part. It's a confluence of capitalism, opinion, ratings, populism, intellectual movements, petty fighting and opinions. It h
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"any time a black person murders a white person, the media also digs deep to see if this shows a larger problem" This is not true. Black-on-White and more so Black-on-Black crime is very common, and nobody ever bothers to put that
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The author made the wrong conclusion. Most of these are either by design or just UI bugs or poor design.
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"This isn’t hard, people are having less children because the economy is crumbling. " Overwhelmingly people are having less children because 'birth control'. This is a giant social change that we don't remotely talk
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1. Both the growth in population and the current rate of decline are 'unprecedented' in velocity. They are 'spikes' like the spike we see in climate change graphs. 2. 'Growth' to the extent there are resources
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Coffee is a commodity. Marketers will re-brand their roasts pretty quickly and convince us all that 'it's better'. Coco is special in that production is limited.

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