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by jariel 6y ago
"Competition is competition." Not if you have a state-backed cultish operation leveraging hyper nationalism and breaking all of the rules. You can't compete with an entity that has unlimited cash, a massive spy apparatus behi
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by jariel 6y ago
Twitter tanked 10% on the Trump ban announcement. Trump pushed very hard to dump legislation that favours them. Angela Merkel, Macron and the EU Comission have spoken negatively about the ban. i.e. the most powerful people in the world are
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by jariel 6y ago
This is a very contemporary American view. Look at the situation globally, over the 20th century and it doesn't look quite like that. China, Soviets, Cuba, Venezuela, Poland, Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong etc. etc. there's a long
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by jariel 6y ago
Canada has a stable 3-party (+1, Greens) Parliamentary system. But either way - even in more proportional systems, people know what they are voting for. In the EU, they generally do not.
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by jariel 6y ago
The power imbalance means companies can use all sorts of crazy leverage to do all sorts of things that wouldn't really be fair in a free market, and certainly not a free market of ideas etc.. I'll bet $100 that companies would lov
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by jariel 6y ago
This argument doesn't work very well because even in Parliamentary systems there is good clarity as to what people are voting for. Your arguments is resting on technicalities, but not on the realities of awareness and participation of
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by jariel 6y ago
"You voted for A a long time ago over there, who appointed B over here, who supported C up there, who finally backed D - the leader you never heard of - so it's all very democratic!" Von der Leyen was not elected in any reaso
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by jariel 6y ago
Republics don't fall internally because their 'armies are defeated'. These are 'coups' and they mean to overthrow the legitimacy of the government. It happens all the time in other countries. This was a 'coup b
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by jariel 6y ago
Element was a group of ex-consultants and a bunch of AI researchers with no market, no product plan. They were going to do some 'consulting' type work, and then ostensibly use the results of that to come up with product offers. Th
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by jariel 6y ago
That's nice, but it doesn't explain why SR&ED is bad. If the reporting was crazy burdensome - ok - but that doesn't seem to be the case. The article makes the impression that it's more like a 'welfar trap'
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by jariel 6y ago
Mueller determined the Russians were interfering in the election, but there was no evidence linking Trump to those efforts. Given it was the largest such investigation of it's kind in history with hundreds of witnesses, many of them &#
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by jariel 6y ago
Why specifically is the RNC being targeted?
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It depends on one's situation. 'Gainfully Employed' people are generally better off in the US. The healthcare there is great - when you are covered. The risk comes for those unfortunate/unforeseen situations, and of cou
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by jariel 6y ago
Those are all inputs, which are nice, but the outputs which we care about, are negligible. Where are the exceptional companies employing a lot of people, doing 'important' or 'impactfull' things? Or the exits? Or even ex
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by jariel 6y ago
It's not Canadian companies that are 'keeping salaries' low, it's Valley Companies (and to some extent, American companies) that are paying a lot. Also - the USD varies at 1 to 1.5 CDN that has tremendous comparable effe
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by jariel 6y ago
This is a very interesting piece but: 1) Although it may be impossible ... you might need 'more data' to prove your point and 2) "SR&ED forces you to play finite games, because it forces you to articulate what you’re spen
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by jariel 6y ago
Having to host comments on a board one may disagree with is absolutely not 'compelled speech' any more than AT&T's requirement to carry 'all websites' is 'compelled speech'. There's grey area ther
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by jariel 6y ago
This is all fine and good - but the previous governments 'changing of the law' governing Judicial appointments, and then controversially 'stacking the court' to 14 out of 15 appointments in their favour, is clearly the
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by jariel 6y ago
So I think you just proved my point: "This proposal is obviously dictature of free speech. " ? That seems pretty 'newspeak' to me. They are making it so that anyone can post anything unless it's literally against th
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by jariel 6y ago
"Also, no, not really - that didn't start the crisis in any reasonable meaning of that word." The entire world disagrees with this. The issue, in public, is very clear - actions by the the previous government in the summer of
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by jariel 6y ago
This comment misrepresents the situation by failing to indicate that the 'Constitutional Crisis' started before the current Law and Justice government took power by the previous governments anti-constitutional actions of trying
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by jariel 6y ago
Legitimacy aside - purely from a political perspective - this is pretty smart. Poland is at odds with the EU bureaucracy over a bunch of things, and 'Freedom of Expression' is definitely a populist issue a lot of people can feasib
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by jariel 6y ago
Amazon may have the right to deny anyone service - but can they do it 'immediately' on whatever grounds? Parler could very well make more money suing Amazon than anything else. This was a huge moment for Parler, and AMZN may have
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by jariel 6y ago
First, currency is mostly used as a medium of exchange. If you are worried about devaluation, then don't sit on it. Exchange it for something else. Anything. That's easy. And it's usually better to hold some kind of currency
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by jariel 6y ago
That's really not the case. These platforms haven't changed that much in terms of their policies. If you called someone the n-word or tried to coordinate murder of some public official you would be banned. Bannon was calling for D
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by jariel 6y ago
That's a good point, but we are supposed to have systems of credibility for that. Even Fox news - after the election - was careful not to directly support Trump's false claims. Instead, they 'sympathized' with voters who
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by jariel 6y ago
Walmart is interested in moving a lot of stuff at scale. Apparently they wanted to help build a massive superhighway from mexico to somewhere in the midwest. It's a great idea. Walmart should be taking much more initiative in all of th
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by jariel 6y ago
I cannot believe that this isn't the foundation of autonomous driving: long hauls, highways, no stop signs, semi-controlled circumstances. The economics are more clear and industrialized. Even if a driver had to be present when they go
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This is not a lie though. If you say "Democrats have ignored certain classes of Americans and pushed them to the brink and this is the result" - it's a heavily editorial opinion The press overall uses these types of editorial
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Funny, nobody has stolen any money from my bank account and it's not something I ever worry about. Sounds like solving for problems created by other problems ...

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