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by nickpp 11mo ago
> upsides on the other hand seem to be the most insignificant things An abundance of intelligence on Earth with all its spoils: new medicine, energy, materials, technologies and new understandings and breakthroughs - these seem quite sig
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by nickpp 11mo ago
> In the hands of the owners of the AI With a hundred bucks and a Robinhood account, you too can be part of this greedy, evil and mysterious "owners of AI" class and (maybe) some day enjoy the promised spoils. Oh the wonders of
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> Western countries have not been attacked since WW2 Mostly because they've sold out, at Yalta, the Eastern countries as a "buffer zone" to protect them from the orcs. Even today, Ukraine's heroic people are dying dai
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by nickpp 11mo ago
> the regulations de facto do not exist But they do exist. Their downsides still apply. They will keep intimidating and burdening the honest players and deterring prospective startups while completely failing to stop bad players. They wi
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by nickpp 11mo ago
Actually building in Turkey is strongly regulated - it’s just that corruption in government allows bad players to easily ignore it. Just another way regulation fails to do what is supposed to, while its downsides (diminished competition, de
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by nickpp 11mo ago
> How exactly? GDPR is quite literally "you can ask people for their consent to give you their data". Patently untrue. Under GDPR you are not allowed to withhold your services from users refusing to give you "their" d
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by nickpp 11mo ago
> Tell me you didn't even read a line of GDPR in the past 9 years or know anything about European regulations As a matter of fact, I am the founder&owner of a small ISV (nothing ad, privacy, crypto or AI-related) in the Eastern
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by nickpp 11mo ago
> Define "small amount of privacy". There is no universal measure for that, only each individual can answer the question for herself. GDPR is robbing people of that chance though. > Is this a small amount For me, yes. I alre
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> GDPR [...] somewhere between place 1000 and 1500 of things that hinder startups. No. GDPR was presented as a company ending regulation. You make a mistake - you are doomed. The fines are in revenue percentages. User data was said to be
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> Over-regulation being what One easy example is regulation making it hard to fire people. Then, naturally, firms will hire just as hard. The tradeoff is thus between a healthy, fast, dynamic and competitive job market with plenty of opp
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Such unhinged takes are one of the reasons EU has fallen behind so much. Nobody is arguing for child labor. We are just fighting for the right to build startups without worrying about reading hundred-page regulation manuals and having to
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by nickpp 11mo ago
Interesting that you have privacy so high on your list of priorities. The general public usually considers other small thing like "cost" and "convenience" when thinking about privacy. Most of us actually don't mind
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> Gig economy businesses are exploiting workers Actually, around here they are giving a second chance to people whom over-regulation of the work market made too expensive to hire. > insane monopolistic pricing and practices in the US
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During communist years here in Eastern Europe, we got to experience the "knowing people in the Nomenklatura and Party" resource allocation algorithm. It was obvious to us that the "people with most money" algorithm was v
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I lived in a world without billionaires - Eastern Europe pre-1990. It wasn't a world without powerful people though: party nomenklatura and their friends ruled us with an iron fist. Not billionaires in numbers but in lifestyle, power a
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Western Europe is bankrupt: larger and larger deficits financing a lifestyle we can't afford any longer. Politicians catering to voters used to getting benefits for free and refusing to adjust to common sense policies like increasing r
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Could it be any other way? Are there people that understand how money works and won't apply it for their own case?! We each do our best for us and our own - it's natural. Capitalism is ensuring the society advances and benefits di
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by nickpp 11mo ago
You guys remind me of the old joke: A Mexican goes to Spain, accosts the first Spaniard he sees, and lays into him: “I demand an apology, sir - your ancestors pillaged my country!” The Spaniard blinks. “I’m afraid you’re mistaken. Your ance
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by nickpp 1y ago
You can't know what is missing because it hasn't even been invented - because of those limitations. Devices usually have killer apps that determine their success. The iPad is conspicuously lacking one.
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by nickpp 1y ago
What you are describing is how governments prop-up incumbents. But this rarely apply to startups, who seldom stand a chance at getting government contracts and the like. Entrepreneurs will ignore those and build the startup from the bottom
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> I'd argue that having a system of lobbying government and lax rules on political donations would have a much greater effect on stymying competition. Interesting. My belief is that regulations are the most harmful since they raise
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Multinationals cherish and welcome regulations. They have whole compliance departments for exactly that: obeying regulations. How’s Australia’s startup scene though? Startups are the hardest hit by regulations. Fewer startups mean less comp
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Military build-up. Xi's own bellicose declarations towards Taiwan. Closeness to and participation into other dictator's military endeavors.
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So what do you propose we do when China attacks? Capitulate?!
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> We don't need an economic angle [...] We aren't just cogwheels in an economic system This kind of thinking is exactly how people go bankrupt. "But I deserve those shoes" "I need a Starbucks to get the day start
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> You can't have wealth without power, because then I can come over and take your wealth from you. So power beats wealth. Easy to see these days with today’s wealthiest people on the planet cowering and paying tributes to Trump. Als
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Did you take your Ibuprofen with some food?
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They don’t because the government is already confiscating their money to do (supposedly) exactly that.
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> We are? Yes we are. When discussing a salary offer, do you negotiate it down ? When buying products and services, do you just pay the minimum amount asked or do you offer more from the goodness of your heart? When getting your paych
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We're all greedy. We all want to get the most for our money, time and effort. Greed and desire push us to spend our energy, otherwise we'd simply conserve it. It's normal, it's natural and it works. It's human (and

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