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by nickpp 3y ago
> Certainly we are better off with the FAA regulating Boeing and the airlines than not regulating them! Are we really? Then why all these Boeing fails? They are quite regulated and that's supposed to prevent them but regulatory fail
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> advertisers made a shittier web experience, GDPR just exposed the issue But GDPR didn't get rid of the ads. It just added another unbeatable popup I have to understand and agree to - on top of them. > Apple made a shittier mobi
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It seems that way, but startups are creating with the dream (unrealistic and quite misguided, I know), of conquering 100% of the market. You mess with that dream, you get fewer startups. It's how the founder's mind works, sorry.
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And patents do quite the damage to the free market. The theory is that they incentivize innovation - in reality innovation is incentivized quite enough by the perspective profits. Patents incentivize rent-seeking and playing the court syste
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But startups are created with big dreams. Almost zero chance of success, of course, but that is the nature of the startup founder. When those dreams are illegal, startups don't get created and the founders simply choose to get a cushy
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> Standard Oil is a perfect example Common example (dug from over 100 years ago), quite flawed one too. By the time of the anti-trust regulation the free market was already pushing Standard Oil out - healthy competition evolved. Read up
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Bell was a government-granted monopoly. It was literally illegal to connect a 3rd party telephone to their network. Of course you need government intervention to fix a government-created mess.
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Before my country joined the EU, people were hanging ethernet between apartment buildings to make "neighborhood nets". There were dozens of providers everywhere. Now we have one huge one in the whole country. And it's illegal
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> Isn't the whole argument here that there isn't enough healthy competition? And I don't know of a single example where regulation created more competition. The more barrier of entry you add to a market (of course for go
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Changing your country is kinda harder than changing your phone. The competition was free. Now startups have regulation to contend with. This logically results fewer startups. You can plainly see that too, comparing the EU startup scene wi
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Is that why in the free market capitalism the shelves were overflowing were people are spoiled for choice while in communist countries people were starving and being killed while trying to leave?
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> we try to not collect any data we don‘t absolutely need Do you have analytics/telemetry for your products/websites? Do you include 3rd party fonts, libraries or use a CDN or a anti-DDOS service like CloudFlare? Do you have d
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> About 30% of married mothers don’t work outside the home So the great majority do. That actually confirms my world view. Of course my bubble is not representative, but it turns out that it formed the most probably correct opinion. Go
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> unpaid labor in the home Maybe that used to be the case when divorce laws were written, but today I know very few marriages with the wife in a traditional role like that. The modern marriage has the home workload split equally and very
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> On scale of state actors, this means war. So far the only ones waging war are old imperialist forces falling behind the West: Russia and its ilk. > Socialism, on the other hand, means rational and planned distribution of resources.
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> being anti war If you were anti-war you'd be anti-Russia. They are the ones waging war right now. The war would end tomorrow if Putin would get out of Ukraine. Ukraine would end tomorrow if Ukrainians would stop fighting.
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In case of divorce women are usually financial and parental winners. That was my point. The book has per-state situation and examples.
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Is it a bold claim that women profit disproportionately off divorces? http://www.realworlddivorce.com/
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> Why? To dictate the terms of the market. How? With military. This has nothing to do with capitalism. Any economic system can do that. But with free markets a fair price is reached and healthy competition encouraged. Of course most gove
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For women the 50% chance of divorce is a net win though.
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> Because they want to? I also want to do tons of drugs every night. The reason I don't? A pros vs cops debate happening automatically in my brain. Even if you don't rationalize it, it still happens. And since it's there y
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Another day another episode of the “Legacy Media vs Billionaires”. Today: Media strikes back. Quite the hit job, too: light on facts but quite strong in name calling, insinuations and quick judgements. Journalism has adapted quite well to o
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> By seeking a monopoly on resources How exactly is capitalism seeking a monopoly on resources? > TOO MUCH LOOOL Absolutely. Eastern Europeans are now in the EU and we have freedom of movement, expression and to work anywhere we wish
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> capitalism is bringing international relations to pre WWI levels And how exactly does it do that? Offering Eastern European countries too much freedom and prosperity and thus making thugs like Putin envious and hungry for conquest? Hmm
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> who cares Most people spouting anti-capitalism rhetoric never even bothered to visit some of communism's success stories like Cuba or Venezuela, but how about living there? > Capitalism, freedom, and democracy are all seperate
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I live in Eastern Europe, close to Ukraine. Never did I think that I would be pro-military complex until March 2022 but here we are. Also San Francisco used to be one my favorite cities on Earth to visit. Never did I think that I would be p
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No, they want peace. But you need to invest in defence if you want peace. Like how you need a well funded police if you want less crime in your neighbourhood. I believe the opposite - defund the police - has been tried recently in certain U
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> triumph of capitalism at the expense of freedom and democracy As someone who was born on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, I can assure you capitalism, freedom and democracy came together while we had communism, lack of freedom and d
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Yes, there is a danger there, and it wasn't always an easy path, but anti-tech movements were always around. Call them luddites, de-growth, doomers, anti-tech, anti-nuclear greens, anti-development (or their e economic equivalent: anti
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Never in our civilisation history have we had so much available to so many. Yes, nature and the planet are in a worse state but the humanity is in a much better one. And I am confident with time and technology we will improve them both. The

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