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by nickpp 4y ago
The whole US society seems more puritan while more capitalist at the same time, seen from this side of the pond. It’s a paradox I can’t really explain, any clues?
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by nickpp 4y ago
The world doesn’t have to decide to go "all in" on anything. It can simply lift all the unnecessary burdens it placed on the nuclear industry and let the free market sort out the best solution, like always. If nuclear works for th
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by nickpp 4y ago
Battery life is a huge advantage of the current MacBook hardware, unparalleled in the non-Apple laptop land.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Sell/trade your old hardware and there is no e-waste. Apple devices are great at keeping their value.
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by nickpp 4y ago
I never lost data in iCloud - is this a common occurrence?
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by nickpp 4y ago
The cleanup after a nuclear incident is also regulated through the wazoo. Thus it's expensive, deeply corrupted and probably unnecessary. We'd probably be better off simply closing the area for a couple hundred years until the mos
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by nickpp 4y ago
Most of those costs are because of onerous regulations and lack of competition due to... you guessed it: onerous governmental regulations.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Wasn’t Sweden's excess mortality over the whole period smaller than Australia's though? And smaller than most of the lockdown-happy countries as well.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Data wants to be free.
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by nickpp 4y ago
> there's nothing we can realistically do about it There is something we can do about it: we can keep improving, evolving, getting better. The solution will only be found in the future, with tools maybe outside of our grasp today.
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by nickpp 4y ago
They did?! I thought they just had to learn and adapt doing something else eventually during a transition which was not very fast while also enjoying the new, better and cheaper products available to all. Any source for those starvation dea
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by nickpp 4y ago
Humans were doing that just fine already.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Anybody else tried the Stage+ app from Deutsche Grammophon? https://www.stage-plus.com/ The player is kinda crappy. The content quality is quite good though, lossless and such. The selection is excellent.
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by nickpp 4y ago
The money always comes from the citizens, no matter who pays. If the government pays - it is taken through increased taxes. If the business pays - it is taken through increased prices. But it's always the people's money - lifted f
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by nickpp 4y ago
Who said anything about a complete lack of regulations?
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by nickpp 4y ago
Everything has a cost. Serving special needs may costs more. A rich society can decide and afford to cover that cost and that is perfectly fine. A developing economy on the other hand, may decide to impose that cost on its businesses, thus
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by nickpp 4y ago
A strong, competitive free market naturally selects what people value the most. Because there is no black and white - most decisions are tradeoffs between cost, difficulty, time, convenience, safety, functionality, and so on. Government reg
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by nickpp 4y ago
> I moved from a country without anti-discrimination laws to a country with Maybe the country you moved to was also rich and with a functioning free-market economy? Capitalism naturally incentivizes entrepreneurs to seek and serve niche
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by nickpp 4y ago
> Digital advertising > obviously suboptimal outcomes I find targeted ads obviously superior to generic ones. And "surveillance capitalism" is so far just a derogatory term for which I am still waiting to see any actual, rea
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by nickpp 4y ago
> I can point at gazillions of other industries where markets have led to obviously suboptimal outcomes Please do.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Any examples?
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by nickpp 4y ago
The actual history proves my point though.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Turkiye had building codes. But a corrupt government didn't enforce them. Non-libertarians: this is exactly why we never trust governments with our lives. Free markets would eventually find a cost-effective solution but governments w
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by nickpp 4y ago
Most of the people born healthy and living in the West are.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Since men are inherently unequal (differing in so many ways, including their so-called luck) it follows that equality of outcome is a myth. That is why you’ll need power and abuse to ensure an equalitarian society. Which is quite easily ver
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by nickpp 4y ago
> will make life worse in the future We've been burning hydrocarbons to keep warm and move around long before tech. But the future of energy (and thus of our civilization) will come from tech, not from looking back at burning wood a
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by nickpp 4y ago
Eastern Europe before and after communism fell.
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by nickpp 4y ago
They're also the only ones maintaining and improving a desktop OS with native apps in your language of choice. Microsoft’s focus is now Azure, with Windows 11 development only recommended in .NET
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by nickpp 4y ago
Maybe this is what happens when you try to force people do something, even if for their own good? Like some sort of resistant force born in response to the force applied? Added: I am totally pro-vaccine as an extraordinary medical tool, jus
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by nickpp 4y ago
> The reasons for people to band together in the form of government [...] to protect members of society from those who would cause them harm. Or to exploit and rob minority members of said society. The "good willed" government

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