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by nickpp 3y ago
Thank you very much for your (and the GP's) input. Interesting perspectives. As I said, I was hoping for more personal experiences like "this happened to me so I decided to leave" than just perceptions and perceived fears whi
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Entrepreneurs do, so the even more depressing thing is how low EU's entrepreneurship rate is.
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Thanks for your reply. Care to be more specific? I guess I am more curious about how you were personally affected than generic sweeping statements. I live in the EU and I used to live in USA for a while so I am always looking for similar ex
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I am curious: what specific horror of modern America are you escaping?
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Thank you. And this is why capitalism is such a great complement to democracy: it fixes policy failures. This is also why socialism is so dangerous under democracy: policy failures spill over and break the economy as well.
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> Where was Europe keeping up exactly? EU's per-capita GDP growth was aligned to USA's. > You really are clueless. I live in EU and I've been running software startups for over 20 years now, while doing angel/seed-
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> what happens when Uniqlo or H&M starts dictating You simply switch to a producer with more acceptable terms or one that doesn't dictate at all. Unless the competition was curtailed through excessive regulation, of course. Why
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> Why in the name of Christ do we need closed platforms? Is it hard for you to accept the fact that other people make different choices? The market has spoken already and Apples success indicates that yes, people do want closed platforms
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Do you think I didn't vote?! Do you really believe a single vote changes anything when populist politicians promise to fleece "evil foreign corporations" while giving free money to their constituents?
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> Wide open computing has also enabled generations I totally agree with you. I love open computing! I grew up with it and it afforded me the chances in life that allowed me to get where I am today. And I hate what Apple has done to it an
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by nickpp 3y ago
Have you actually seen how a wide-open computing device looks like in regular person's hands?! Those IE instances full of "punch the monkey" toolbars were not just a meme, you know. I moved my family from Windows to Linux a
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> You can vote And of course I did. None of the politicians I voted for won. Turns out proposing populist measures, like "be tough on those evil multinational corporations" is much more electable than saying uncomfortable truth
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Are you being serious?! I know those guys. I voted in their election. I didn't vote for any of them, of course, since I know how weak they are. You see, here is how it worked in my country: populist parties share the power and easily
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I have parental control for my children and they sidestep it every day. Suggesting that to my nan would get my ass kicked.
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Maybe in theory. But in practice, I've enacted much more change in the society voting with my money than I ever did with my actual vote. In fact, I think my actual vote has never in my life counted. My choice never won, my candidate ne
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I actually live in the EU. We (the citizens) have zero control over that regulatory body. ZERO. None of those represent me and I have no way of influencing them in any way. While multinational companies?! I can actually stop being their c
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The fact that I don't have to worry if the newfangled clipboard manager my grandma was tricked into installing is sending the passwords she is copy&paste-ing to a server in China is wonderful.
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> Apple's total control of all aspects of the iPhone platform is harmful to consumers in a way that is not at all obvious, especially not to the less technologically literate. EU's attempted total control of all aspects of the
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There were two great evil ideologies that ravaged the last century. One promoted hate agains people based on race, another based on wealth. One was called fascism and the other marxism. They both killed millions and they both are rearing th
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Official inflation from 2015 to 2024 was around 33%. If the house cost 1mil, then the entire appreciation of 300k was due to inflation. If the house cost 500k - over half of the appreciation was due to inflation.
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> it cost $300,000+ more. Have you try to inflation-adjust that? You may find the price jump is not that great for the last ~10 years.
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> equates to a higher cost to the taxpayers Considering the astonishing inefficiency of government works I really doubt confiscation compensations is a significant expenditure.
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Maybe I am quibbling about execution, but as someone who went through a (tiny) expropriation I find it's huge difference between: "here's just market value (in a depressed market too) for the land you really cared about"
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I agree about the transparency when it comes to a business's activity : its goods and services. But a business's ownership is about the privacy of its owners/stock holders - which are regular people. Saying their privacy i
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I went through such a expropriation a couple years back. All I got was a notification letter and a check for corresponding amount (arguably under market value).
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> And for the ones that won't? Then you confiscate, sure. And show publicly that you offered 10x and were refused. But not confiscation by default, in all cases. I guess my argument is that if you really want something, you better p
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When I set up my LLC I used all available ways to protect my name and address. No reason really, but I guess growing up hearing my grandparents stories about the communist take-over of our country taught me what happens when you are a targe
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> But hiding who you are: feels morally dubious and self serving in that case you present. I wonder: do you hold the same views when it comes to regular people's online privacy?
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> because people try to hold the project hostage for ransom Unions hold countries hostage by closing down rail or airports. Still, a solution that doesn't cost 1 billion dollars per person is always found. > imagine that you ha
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It's interesting that the government can't convince owners to sell. I mean - we're talking about politicians. They manage to negotiate everything and compromise even in the middle of wars. See prisoner exchange between Russia

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