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by jowea 1y ago
As someone who has gotten to 2000 a few times, even I have to ask myself "how? why?"
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by jowea 1y ago
As much as a I agree with the first paragraph I don't think that is a reason to donate money.
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by jowea 1y ago
It's the word for "woke activist" from 10 years ago.
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by jowea 1y ago
I've seen youtube videos with the nazi swastika humorously censored with a $ monetisation sign. Are all those people doing this unnecessarily?
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by jowea 1y ago
Wouldn't perfect individualised dynamic pricing mean that the seller (Uber in this case) would get to capture the entire consumer surplus? Is that good?
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by jowea 1y ago
I think people saying that are comparing them to their favourite European social democracy yes.
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by jowea 1y ago
Depends which crusades. The Baltic Crusades definitively were to spread Christianity.
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by jowea 1y ago
> If you define the left in some completely novel way, maybe. I don't think it is an absurd notion. The founding fathers maybe wouldn't be outright Montagnards by the original standards of left-right division in the French Revo
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by jowea 1y ago
Yeah this sounds like making a webgame out of /r/AITA
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by jowea 1y ago
> with 12% being polite in case of a robot uprising. I wonder if they mean it or it's just joke answer.
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by jowea 1y ago
> Is that what people are worried about? What about the economy, civil rights, wars, etc. I meant this more like what people could be worried about. In a functioning liberal democracy, there are things people usually don't worry
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by jowea 1y ago
> People literally do this on social media and they aren't even being forced. I think applying the authoritarian-totalitarian distinction in a democracy gets weird because democracies like totalitarian systems but unlike the archety
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by jowea 1y ago
Hah good point. Which leads to what the other comments brought up, what's to stop real people from selling their ID to bot posters?
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by jowea 1y ago
Is it not? Maybe not the full tech level, but real ID requirement for facebook is already a thing for a while.
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by jowea 1y ago
I thought most people in the US wanted the UN to have less control over this stuff? Remember the talk about moving control of the Internet to the ITU (International Telecommunication Union)?
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by jowea 1y ago
National (technological) security?
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by jowea 1y ago
Well, a bit. A part of liberal democracy is that elections don't matter that much. The losers can trust that they aren't going to be arrested, have their property confiscated etc. The established system like the courts, constituti
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by jowea 1y ago
The distinction is fuzzy, but I think what is meant here is more directly political. In a totalitarian system, it is considered important for everyone to know and openly and regularly support state ideology with words and deeds. In the lea
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by jowea 1y ago
You don't need to completely change someone's positions for it to be worthwhile. This is a thread about something that has directly to do with HN's usual tech topics, and it would be hard to not talk at least a bit about the
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by jowea 1y ago
Audible (Amazon) is good with this, just set a sleep timer, then when you wake up look at the play log and you can go back to when you set the sleep timer + X minutes.
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by jowea 1y ago
A lot of rewinding, books that aren't ultradense non-fiction, and mindless tasks you can do on autopilot.
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by jowea 1y ago
Well I must be a weirdo because I literally would rather use a mouse on top of the laptop keyboard than use the touchpad
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by jowea 2y ago
I never understand how people can bear using a touchpad long term. Is carrying a mouse that hard?
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by jowea 2y ago
And with a digital system like Pix at least you can definitively prove you did pay, unlike with cash, unless you take extra steps when paying.
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by jowea 2y ago
There seems to be a new solution for tourists in Brazil to use Pix but with their digital wallet: https://www.infomoney.com.br/minhas-financas/pix-para-gringo...
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by jowea 2y ago
I googled a bit, seems that maybe Bradesco bank allows it but it's a lot of paperwork and you need to be physically present at the bank branch.
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by jowea 2y ago
You can use QR codes with your Pix address. I don't see why it would matter that much? I think the IBAN system is mostly used in Europe.
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by jowea 2y ago
Yeah it is a thing, lots of different scams to watch out. And being held at gunpoint and made to send a transfer is also a concern.
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by jowea 2y ago
This is true but the next step is a Brazilian bank account.
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by jowea 2y ago
Interestingly enough Brazil also has a system to use Bank login to authenticate on government systems.

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