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by nickpp 2y ago
The exact same argument, that Trump voters were “influenced” by algos, can be made that anti-Trump voters were influenced by mainstream media or whatever. So you either believe that people have agency and actually decide for themselves, or
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I have triple-pane windows since 2014. No leaks, no fog. Superb comfort. Same with countless friends, colleagues and neighbors. Almost nobody has been installing single-pane windows around here since early 00s. Double pane is the default. L
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Sounds like lots of ideas and principles copied over from the much-maligned X?!
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You can look closer, if you want. The EU is cheaper and cheaper for the American tourists. And please make sure to visit some of the Eastern European countries, like Romania or Bulgaria too. They are part of the EU as well.
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But said income would've been much lower - like in Europe. Europe "solved" inequality by effectively limiting the upper range. Meanwhile the lower tier is just as low (or lower) than in the US. People would still rather emigr
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Also, Russia is sabotaging European satellites: https://nltimes.nl/2024/11/15/dutch-childrens-channel-outage...
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... so... your answer to my question is "no"? I thought so. I use Twitter daily and, for all its flaws, I think the "community notes" feature is pretty awesome. In fact, I like it so much I would enjoy having in on prett
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> Twitters community notes reflect the received wisdom of a mob. Not the truth. Do you have an example of such flawed community notes? The ones I encountered were pretty sane and middle of the road, often correcting Elon himself.
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Please do feel free to point us to those stories from “refugees from Donbas”. Also, the Russian cities leveled, Russian families obliterated and Russian children kidnapped - by the Ukrainians. They must be some amazing stories to keep the w
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So what's your message for the Ukrainians being bombed, their homes destroyed and families killed? What should they do? Pack up and leave, take refuge in other countries? Just give up and stay under the Russian boot, obey when taken to
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> under Russian occupation since 2022 Which is not Russia advancing and occupying Eastern Europe at all. Nope. Just friendly neighboring acts.
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As someone who lives in a country neighboring Ukraine, hosted Ukrainian refugees and heard the stories about what is happening in occupied territories directly from escaped friends and relatives, (some of the older ones still remembering st
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Russian conquest wars in the last 30 years: Chechnya 1994–1996 and 1999–2009, Georgia 2008 (Abkhazia and South Ossetia) & Ukraine (2014 - today). If Putin ever gets tired of war, he seems to quicky recover and start again.
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No. Government was overthrown in February 2014, the Ukrainian parliament renounced Ukraine's non-aligned status in December 2014 while Russia annexed Crimea in February/March 2014 and attacked Donbas in April 2014 - all while whil
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I can see and hear its rockets every time Russia decide to target cities in Eastern Ukraine.
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> It is completely disconnected from reality. Russian conquest wars in the last 30 years: Chechnya 1994–1996 and 1999–2009, Georgia 2008 (Abkhazia and South Ossetia) & Ukraine (2014 - today). > Ukrainian neutrality lead to peace.
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> Donbas and Crimea is the price of avoiding Nuclear war On the contrary, the risk of nuclear war increases when Putin gets Donbas and Crimea. Because what he wants next will be even more valuable to nations with nukes. Appeasing sounds
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I think the base configuration recently jumped from 8GB to 16GB while keeping the same price.
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So the 16GBx256GB Mac Minis are discounted?
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> literally nobody else has in the history of the planet Literally every single western country who embraced free markets in the last 100 years did. Conversely their growth slowed the more they adopted leftist measures. > zero reason
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Yes. All he has to do is walk into a hospital or detox center and he’ll have access to medical care King Henry VIII could not buy with all his riches. > opiate addict Indeed, we don’t have the technology to save people from themselves, y
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The poorest people of today's developed countries are countless times richer than the kings of old - in terms of the products and services they have access to. Medicine, communication, transportation, entertainment - we can't even
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> You can't equivocate the USA to Venezuela Many other socialist experiments happened in the world during the last 100 years. Take your pick - they all failed miserably compared to the amazing increase in prosperity of the USA. >
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Venezuela is one of the most oil-rich countries on Earth - and they had gas shortages. It isn't enough to have resources in the ground. They are worth zero until extracted and turned into products and services. And for that you need te
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> Antitrust laws do not impact startups They do, through second order effects. Read up on them. > Customers don’t care. Of course we care. We get attached to the brands we buy and value the services and products they provide. And most
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No, it doesn’t. Besides, a vicious cycle in which antitrust creates monopolies to only take them down later is a nightmare for consumers.
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> foreign companies Incumbents by definition. Besides, crushing your local businesses in favor of foreign competition is not a very smart strategy. > boutiques and lifestyle businesses Which are also obeying startups laws and thus are
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> they themselves become incumbents […] after the previous incumbents were brought low by antitrust action Haha, you’ve never built a startup have you? Try it and let me know how easy it is to become incumbent. :)
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> We shall simply patronize other businesses. Which won’t be any new business, since you know, no startups. So we’ll patronize whatever state-granted too-big-to-fail monopolist is left and then whine for more regulations when their pla
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> armies of lawyers Which no startups have. So, antitrust favors incumbents, of course. > money they've made operating in the competitive space cleared out Again, not startups. It’s incumbents that take advantage of opportunities

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