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by nickpp 4y ago
This is mostly a thing of the past. Wikipedia lists about a handful of company towns left in US today.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Strange, I have a couple of C9 LG OLED a few years old connected to WiFi and up to date and I never saw any ads nor popups. I am using them sparingly though, and I live in EU, if that makes any difference.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Please feel free to suggest a 3rd option. I live in Europe and I don't know any.
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by nickpp 4y ago
I too was alive in those times and I remember them very well. I remember a doctor visit meant a pack of Kent or a bag of coffee beans. How a kind's school year meant a deodorizer or some soap for the teacher. How a promotion or advance
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by nickpp 4y ago
They had the ultimate privilege: unlimited power over their fellow human beings. They were much closer to royalty in that respect than to today's billionaire. What you call "small" advantages: car, pool, VCRs, bananas - put t
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by nickpp 4y ago
Oh no. It doesn't even compare. The current "price" is set by the free market and it can be met, negotiated or worked for. It's clear and it's fair even if sometimes steep. But asking for permission was dehumanizing
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by nickpp 4y ago
> lack of party membership signaled lack of ambition Or, you know, having a conscience? Values? Ideas? Wanting freedom? Daring to think differently?!
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by nickpp 4y ago
USSR was also officially (rural people kept their beliefs though) atheist. Current (I wouldn't call it "modern") Russia seems to be quite Christian Orthodox.
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by nickpp 4y ago
The difference is you: you have choices, and they are your choices. Under communism you'd just get told what to do, by others. In capitalism, if the system is not providing you opportunities, you can go out and attempt to make your o
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by nickpp 4y ago
You mean like negotiating their pay, changing their employer or even the city they lived in? Those simple things were completely impossible under communism: the only employer was The State and you needed papers to move. Of course things wer
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by nickpp 4y ago
I can attest that in the Eastern Block (not USSR) where I lived, this was indeed true. Things could've been different in the USSR which was the conquering country while the Eastern Block their vassals. Many goods produced went straight
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by nickpp 4y ago
As someone who lived in the Eastern Block (not USSR though), I can tell you: struggle and no hope. Struggle to get the basics for life: heat, food, clothing, books, disposables. It all took queues, friends, relatives, and black markets. No
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by nickpp 4y ago
Very possible. How would you recognize a creative thought if you had one?
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by nickpp 4y ago
> using entirely novel and evolving mental models and representations that we hardly understand What if they're just statistics plus some randomizer?
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by nickpp 4y ago
I am very excited about higher PPIs as well.
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by nickpp 4y ago
If you like start-ups you don't take away one of the greatest motivations to create them: the possibility of getting acquired. If you love competition you don't take away the ability of the biggest players to enter "hard&quot
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by nickpp 4y ago
I am afraid it's this forum's policy, as well. I got rate-limited since forever and my votes don't seem to count because I got into heated debates with leftists with clear agendas. I used to think that I had a duty to educate
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by nickpp 4y ago
Garbage is a difficult issue everywhere. Part of the entropy problem of the universe…
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by nickpp 4y ago
As I aged, 32" became my sweet spot replacing 27". Same resolution - 4K.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Maybe they're also monitoring what you are watching making you part of the greatest Nielsen ratings group of all times?! Content producers and advertisers would pay a lot for that.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Not to take from the (very real I am afraid) dangers of substance abuse (starting with alcohol and sugar, of course) - I am curious: who you trust more to decide for the individual: the person itself or the larger social group?
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by nickpp 4y ago
Well said. Nanny state vs the sovereign individual.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Wasn’t it offered for free?! Or was something asking in exchange? There are plenty of licenses which are free only for non-commercial use. The author choose the “free for all” license for a reason though.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Europe is divided between countries deeply infiltrated by Russia and countries who can’t wait to escape and write their own futures. UK, Poland, Hungary will welcome fleeing capital. Brexit wasn’t the last exit. With its anti-business attit
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by nickpp 4y ago
> A company that has become wildly successful will equally hold a lot of financial power. The most successful and influential companies of today did not even exist 50 years ago. > the good of human kind Please define “the good of huma
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by nickpp 4y ago
Good luck with that! The most authoritarianists have ever managed to do was make it illegal for people to leave their inhuman regime: guns on borders, pointing inside. Not surprisingly, those countries were quickly outcompeted by free count
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by nickpp 4y ago
I lived in a country lacking capital (first because it was robbed by communists and then due to the risk of the transition managed by a deeply corrupt political elite) and I can tell you existing demand was only met through imports. It suck
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by nickpp 4y ago
Maybe, but I would bet they both impact the device cost while their rank on most people's desired characteristics list is not very high.
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by nickpp 4y ago
> things people desire, but either not strong enough or not enough people or both > I like […] but not enough > I like […] but not enough Sounds like the market has managed to understand perfectly the things people actually want in
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by nickpp 4y ago
History has even more examples of how planners and regulators are bad at accounting for… reality, really. Or the unexpected creativity of people bent on getting what they want in spite of "well meaning" regulators. "What harm

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