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by mcv 1y ago
I think this is mostly about the US, right? Most countries haven't invested all that much in AI. Even if all this new AI would completely vanish overnight, I'm pretty sure most of the world wouldn't care one bit. Of course ma
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by mcv 1y ago
> And is the argument there that the Dutch no longer practice capitalism? Who is saying that? Nobody. > They are one of the major names in the history of the limited-liability stock corporation, we've already had the VOC invoked
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by mcv 1y ago
I don't think anyone disagrees that the US is extremely hypocritical. The US has a long history of overthrowing democracies and supporting dictators, all in the name of "democracy" (oil, mostly). That doesn't make Maduro
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by mcv 1y ago
It's not just about the parties, but about the systems. Dutch social democratic parties haven't been in power in ages, but the foundation of our economy is social democratic, and right-wing parties don't dare to touch it. Peo
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by mcv 1y ago
That monopoly doesn't mean all that much. Sure, they had no Dutch competitors east of Africa, but they had English, Spanish, Portuguese and local competitors. But due to their extreme wealth, they ended up controlling entire countries,
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by mcv 1y ago
> denying the hazards of the regulatory state would be unreasonable. The same goes for denying the hazards of unregulated corporations. Completely unregulated corporations will, if given the chance, grow to become their own unaccountable
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by mcv 1y ago
Who do you mean by "you people"? I know what I'm talking about. It's unclear to me what you're talking about.
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by mcv 1y ago
> AI, if successful, is different. Combined with robotics[0], it makes all jobs obsolete. I'm still skeptical that AI will be able to take our jobs anytime soon, but when it does, we really need to make sure that we have a different
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by mcv 1y ago
> Steeped in blood compared to what? Compared to social democracy and probably some other systems that protect the rights and interests of the poorest in society.
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by mcv 1y ago
> The quality of life of the poorest in the world has been improving over time. Because those technological improvements were accompanied by social changes and regulation to adjust for the technological changes.
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by mcv 1y ago
Adam Smith was not in favour of capitalism, and in fact warned against it. He was in favour of the free market, which is not the same thing. A market is free when it's transparent and accessible for everybody. Extreme discrepancy in we
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by mcv 1y ago
It's not laissez-faire that has increased living standards, it's the combination of the free market, union organizing, and resulting from that, regulation and the social safety net. Before that, there was still massive poverty. An
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by mcv 1y ago
The American presumption of having a single middle initial has always seemed weird to me. In NL, you can have as many names as you want, and some have a lot. Others have just a first and last name. I happen to have that single middle initia
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by mcv 1y ago
I still prefer cables that are USB-A on one side for exactly this reason. Directionality is totally fine and even expected if one end is USB-A, but for a symmetrical looking cable it's a terrible idea.
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by mcv 1y ago
I think there are two pieces of legislation needed here: 1. Email providers need to be required to forward your email to your new address for a year if you ever lose your email for any reason. 2. Domain registrars need to save your domain n
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by mcv 1y ago
And yet there's tons of building going on. It's true, you can't build everywhere, but there are a lot of places you can build.
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by mcv 1y ago
I lean towards telling your manager what they should want. Put issues that you identify as important on the table and draw attention to them. Explain why they're important. Make them benefit from your expertise by being proactive about
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by mcv 1y ago
Only when your assumption is that the government wants to make it hard to build houses, but why would the government want that? That's the part that makes no sense.
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by mcv 1y ago
Confusing title because of the choice for the word "humanoid". When I see that, I expect we're talking about a creature shaped like a human. The word for human-shaped robots has always been "android". Can we please
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by mcv 1y ago
Let's have a look at those articles you linked, that are supposed to demonstrate left-wing bias in Wikipedia. > https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/ This one is vague on specific instances o
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by mcv 1y ago
> I'm a European - Dutchman living in Sweden Then you really should know better than this, man. I'm Dutch, and from my perspective it's pretty obvious which way US media and the society as a whole is biased. There's b
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by mcv 1y ago
I don't know what a renaissance fair is like exactly, but Netherland has several medieval and fantasy themed festivals. Castle Fest is centered around music (I think it was originally organized by the folk band Omnia), but has tons of
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by mcv 1y ago
Where is the article? I'm getting something about Kevin Kostner's The West. Nothing about renaissance fairs.
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by mcv 1y ago
> It was supposed to be an encyclopedia, not an activist manual or propaganda organ but in many ways it has turned into the latter. Can you give examples where it's an activist manual or a propaganda organ? My impression is that eve
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by mcv 1y ago
> Could you explain in your own words why the right wing is not intellectually honest while the left wing supposedly is? This one is easy. The right wing is peddling lots of conspiracy theories and misinformation, and is more likely to e
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by mcv 1y ago
I think it just seems that way because at this period in time, truth, science, and facts are seen as left-wing. Although universities have always been interested in exploring new ideas, which probably tends towards progressiveness.
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by mcv 1y ago
Yeah, but Wikipedia doesn't work the same as Reddit. Wikipedia insists on verifiable sources, and wants to be a universal and reliable source of information for everybody. Reddit has no such aspirations (though it can still be remarkab
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by mcv 1y ago
> I’ll probably get downvoted Always happy to oblige. But honestly, I find this sort of upfront self-victimization annoying and not conducive to honest debate. > Wikipedia’s volunteer editor community leans heavily left wing political
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by mcv 1y ago
That other one about anachronisms feels a bit too familiar. Something about George Washington taking airfields.
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by mcv 1y ago
Sometimes it is, sometimes not. In 2009 I worked for a really chill company with small but nice management. The owner/CEO wanted to turn it into a worker-owned co-op. But one of my coworkers was so stuck in the "management is evil

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