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by nickpp 3y ago
Of course there is. We are using it every day to decide how much a loaf of bread and an hour of work should cost. We couldn't function without it and economies that tried to abolish it failed to even feed their citizens. No one other t
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by nickpp 3y ago
Did the “Norwegian” model work in Iraq first then? If not, why not?
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It’s not race but it may be culture. Not what color Norwegians are, but what they do . Things like corruption, education, religion, ethics, customs and life/work habits all influence productivity. Also here in Europe at least there se
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by nickpp 3y ago
I never seen Norway model successfully replicated anywhere else. Maybe it requires something else as well, like… Norwegians?!
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So was Venezuela.
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Biggest drawback is the government's complete inability to exploit said resources. Didn’t anybody learn Venezuela's lesson?!
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Nationalizing the economy usually leads to lots of dead people anyway. Of starvation, if history is any guide.
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by nickpp 3y ago
While the democratic government of Russia (who never had a democracy) is busy bombing innocent civilians any taking away their country. Why is US moving in fascist directions again?! Please elaborate or give some examples at least.
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Nope. It was rather to prevent them falling into the hands of the Russian Empire (aka USSR) who was already shipping arms, financing leftist parties and infiltrating universities. You know, the classic KGB playbook.
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> they gave consumers a choice Choice is exactly what we had before the usb-c authoritarian mandate. Now it's only that for devices that are size-limited. I am glad you are happy about your connector - but please understand I am not
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I know that if a corporation fails to innovate competition and free markets ensure other more innovative companies have the opportunity to come up and eat their lunch. That mechanism simply doesn't work with governments and regulation
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If you found a better system, by all means - propose it here. But usually when leftists say that they just mean some form of watered down communism and completely skip over stuff like Stalin's, Mao's or Pol Pot's blood baths
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"those pensioners and others in the 1990" were enjoying the fact that they could finally buy bread and other foodstuff in the store. And have medicine in hospitals. And the fact that they could talk to one another without wonderin
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The are multiple wall power plugs standards in use today in EU. And I am not aware on any being mandated on the device itself. And RJ-45 is so big that it wouldn't even fit on the slim edge of my MacBook Air - I would love for it to be
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by nickpp 3y ago
That hasn't been true in quite a while, the market has unified around two standards (lightning and usb-c) without EU's intervention. Their previous recommendation from 2010 was for micro-usb and it was toothless as it wasn't
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by nickpp 3y ago
Lightning connector is smaller, more robust being a straight male connector as opposed to some weird female-in-male contraption. The port is beveled so it slides easier unlike USB-C whose edge catches and I always have to fumble around. Not
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The only one who can answer that question is the free market. And while not satisfying for everybody, it certainly is the best answer we found so far while trying various forms of organisations with this humankind of ours. The best answer i
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I'm a consumer and I lost: I'll have to change all my charging cables with an inferior alternative.
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Lighting has been the standard for Apple devices longer than USB-C existed, since 2012. The previous standard, the 30-pin connector was introduced in 2003.
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So you want the ideological argument then? Well let's see if we can find the various freedom's borders here. You deserve the freedom to do whatever you want with you device, of course. Jailbreak it if you want. Or throw it away an
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by nickpp 3y ago
> Which is a reflection of an intensely unequal distribution of income. Which is a reflection of an intensely unequal distribution of productivity and value creation. I've also lived under communism, where they ignored this uneven c
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by nickpp 3y ago
My grandfather was a fisherman. Had a massive heart attack that killed him at 60. I barely met him. Years of hard work, exposure to the elements, the ever-present stress of the next catch, family worries and a general life of subsistence we
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by nickpp 3y ago
There was a statistic saying that top 10% of income earners pay something like 80% of all income taxes (not exact numbers but you get the gist).
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How many phones have you seen with multiple different ports for the exact same purpose: charging?
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If you want to jump out of the plane, please pick a provider that serves skydivers. Do not try to open the door of a regular plane from a normal airline. Moreover, please do not try to make it illegal to have airlines that don't allow
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by nickpp 3y ago
By definition, we cannot know the creations and innovations we are missing due to the unintended second-order freezing effects of regulation. This is why we need to be extremely skeptical of regulation and only accept it in truly importan
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Depending on the rest of the world for tech, research and innovation is why us, Europeans, are worried about these authoritarian EU mandates which can only cause us falling further behind the rest of the world.
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Most people do not have "their own code". Instead it is your code you want me and my grandmother to load and I simply do not want to, unless you go through Apple's hurdles to check and verify it.
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There are now zero incentives to research and develop better plugs in the EU since it is illegal to market devices sporting them instead of USB-C.
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If the new plug comes from a big company (like Apple) then maybe they have the time, money and lawyers to push it through the bureaucratic layers a couple of years until maybe it gets approved. However, there is very little chance for that

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