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by nickpp 3y ago
Are addicts lesser humans? Do they lack free will? Am I entitled to decide for them and impose my will on their lives? And who said I am not addicted? I don't do hard drugs but I am certainly addicted to coffee, sugar and maybe other h
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by nickpp 3y ago
Actually they did. Standard Oil was already on the way out at the time of its anti-trust action and subsequent breakup. It's well documented.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Isn't that pretty much settled already? It seems to me our society is becoming more and more permissive while giving up the previous "war on drugs" failed approach which did an incredible amount of damage.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Countless people play the at the casinos, online poker games, bets - even the stock market is viewed by a lots of people as something of a gamble. Personally I don't partake - but they get a value in it, I guess. Who am I to judge?
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by nickpp 3y ago
> how much worse off we are than they were during socialism All you need to understand how false that is is to remember that the machine guns on the border during communism were pointing inwards , so people couldn’t leave. > constant
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by nickpp 3y ago
In the communist Eastern Europe where I grew up the nomenklatura formed the ruling class. And the only distribution of surplus was to themselves. The rest of us was starving. Common theme to all the “proletarian revolutions” I know. All tha
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by nickpp 3y ago
Governments confiscate an even bigger slice of the value produced in communist countries. The difference is that there is much less value produced there…
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by nickpp 3y ago
No. You posited that the majority of the value generated by labour is appropriated by the owners of capital. You were corrected (with numbers) to the actual culprit capturing the majority of value generated by labor&capital: governments
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by nickpp 3y ago
Of course infrastructure is useful, even if not that amazing. But why are governments charging us for it even more than the Romans did when countless other, much much more amazing things (and just as useful) came down in price dramatically
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Oh, the old Labor Theory of Value. It's been debunked over and over again.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Governments are taxing: salaries paid to employees, sales of products and services, profits made by the company, dividends paid and capital gains. Also the great majority of value created by a company is captured by the society in improved
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by nickpp 3y ago
> majority of such value is appropriated by the owners of capital majority of such value is appropriated by the governments Here. Fixed that for you.
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by nickpp 3y ago
There must be some incredibly expensive technology in those roads, considering how much governments are taking from us to build them. I mean I can get a supercomputer in my pocket that allows me to access the sum of our civilization knowled
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by nickpp 3y ago
GDPR actually disallows refusing service to people who opt out of tracking.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Arguing 'legitimate interest' in front of a non-tech judge in one of the many EU countries where a local agency implements GDPR would be... not fun.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Let's be real. How many users care? I don't - and I am fully informed and prepared. A month into the cookie banners avalanche and I just started clicking OK without looking. Now I have the "I don't care about cookies&quo
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by nickpp 3y ago
The resolutions and brightness are also relevant: MBA (13in): 2560 by 1664 at 500 nits MBP (14in): 3024 by 1964 at 1000 nits MBA (15in): 2880 by 1864 at 500 nits I also would compare the 14" MBP with the 15" MBA&q
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by nickpp 3y ago
Who would you rather have building businesses? Those good at creating, innovating and leading? Or those good at studying and following rules? “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the
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by nickpp 3y ago
So - let me get this straight - a whole industry does something in response to a law, something consultants and lawyers advise and approve of, but - you know better. You understand the law better than them, you understand their business b
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by nickpp 3y ago
> Why are so willing to blame the law for something that the industry is doing When a whole industry (and, mind you, pretty much any business with a website, not just those selling ads) reacts identically to a law is either a conspiracy
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by nickpp 3y ago
First, I would suggest you select an idea which is not a verbatim copy of a tech giant of today. Do the due diligence and ask yourself: what is your unique value proposition? What are you gonna compete on? How are you gonna differentiate? H
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by nickpp 3y ago
Plenty of shops in my town that sell stuff I can find cheaper on Amazon. Also plenty of employers too (which is the kind of "shop" I was talking about) that compete with Amazon on the employment market. Pretending that people woul
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by nickpp 3y ago
> infinite subsidies There is no such thing. Private money is finite, it ends up eventually as investors want ROIs. > Uber has not been profitable Actually, they announced their first profitable quarter in 2023. > In which other in
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by nickpp 3y ago
Are you sure those incidents actually happened? The first was debunked: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/viral-video-reckless-... Driverless cars seem statistically safer than human drivers already.
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by nickpp 3y ago
If they are not sustainable they will go bankrupt. Are you saying all those investors are dumb and just burning money for the fun of it?! That's... interesting. More gain for us consumers then - subsidized goods and services!
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by nickpp 3y ago
Ever heard of second order effects? Dumb laws have consequences. I live in EU and browsing the web in EU has significantly degraded since GDPR compared to the US. I can see a cause and effect, I don't need to invent conspiracies and ac
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by nickpp 3y ago
And that, together with heavy regulation, is why we have the present situation where young people can't stat families because they can't afford a home. Not the example I would like to follow anywhere else.
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by nickpp 3y ago
All top 10 richest men in the US are self made. And they worked damn hard at it. Of course they worked smart too, and took chances - that's the part most people miss.
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> no further back than the robber barons The fact that you have to dig back to the 19th century speaks volumes. And if you knew your history, you'd know that, for example in the case of Standard Oil competition and free market alrea
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by nickpp 3y ago
How did they become rich then?

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