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by nickpp 2y ago
Competition is a good thing. We all lose when powerful players band together and form a cartel. If companies did that - it's illegal. If government politicians do it - their populism brings them votes.
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> I am not sure if you catch the point? I definitely don't, especially pertaining to the actual question I asked: >> participants are appraised based on the value they provide to the society >How do you measure that? And wh
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Good for them. I do like Garmin. But the "cheaper models" are still more expensive than what is Apple's Top Model . Which excels at my main usage scenario (being a smartwatch) and also superbly supports various secondary act
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No idea what you are talking about. > market where the people with the biggest guns can coerce That is not a free market - free markets require rule of law to function. > governing body only allow a single person to treat ill people T
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Never encountered this. Maybe a pointer to those reports would be helpful.
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Went diving last vacation and my Ultra 2 turned into an excellent dive computer (after paying $10 for one month of the corresponding app). The equivalent watch from Garmin is much more expensive.
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So what is a "fair market" then? Also "well governed"?! Free markets on the other hand have already devised pretty effective ways to measure value and allocate resources.
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> participants are appraised based on the value they provide to the society How do you measure that? And who decides?
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Welcome to America, where companies know they can fire easily so they hire easily. Strong competition between employers benefits employees. That is why salaries in the USA are so much higher than those in Europe. But hey, at least we’re not
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Chains have whole departments dedicated to compliance. They chew through any new regulation you throw at them. I get my groceries from a tiny neighbor market here in Eastern Europe. Usually from women of surrounding villages. Their main wor
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The consumer learns very quickly what they like. Eat a good tomato, you’ll look for one next time. The local fruit shop was even a joke in Seinfeld, I believe. The closing of the small grocery store and producer can be mostly attributed to
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Small grocery shops can and will deal with small producers. The fact we are losing both in favor of giant chains is largely due to regulation and subsidies. Otherwise we’d have plenty of boutique retailers and producers charging more for be
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Like all free market failures, the culprit is regulation. Regulated food, local and weekend markets reduced competition by discouraging and removing small retailers until large supermarket chains remained de facto monopolies. Those chains m
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Is that how forums on the Internet work?
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> capital gains tax should be much higher than income tax Then you would in effect discourage investing. Investing, which creates jobs and promotes innovation. Is as simple as that.
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> there is no way that Musk being paid $54b for his actions in control of his companies Except the people doing the actual paying, with their own money, voted twice to do it.
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The only way GDPR is unambiguous is if you interpret it in the strictest sense. Which we actually did - you truly have to, in a business-hostile place like the EU. For example, consider IP addresses as PII. (This is of course not clearly sp
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That “we” was the lawyer’s “we”. But their point stands: tools change and even if we understand and trust their specs and descriptions now, those change too inevitably in the future. A bad law, an ambiguous law compels you to be defensive a
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I take my legal advice from lawyers, not the internet. They are the ones defending us in court if need come. Their position was simple: my team uses 3rd party analytics tools (no ads or anything) so IPs will be passed and cookies will be st
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Because immigration does impact housing, no matter the races involved. The questions is: why are you bringing race into this?
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Opt-in works for me. As long as they don’t get something like the browser selection prompt - that is a nightmare. No problems with the Dev Mode menu (knock on wood) but I did have to tell them not to install VPN profiles…
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He’s replying to a different person, I did not write the words he’s quoted.
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Check out the user author of those comments. You are replying to a different person. I did not write those words.
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Did I say or imply anything about the race of the immigrants?!
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I am the one they call when something doesn’t work anymore. Getting them iPhones & iPads reduced those calls tremendously. I still have nightmares about the browser plugins they used to have installed on their Win XP PC.
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Is there a switch to turn this crap off? Especially on my parents’ iPhones. I don’t want to have to explain them “which App Store did you get this app from”. They have enough trouble grokking the app/web app distinction as is. I just d
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And immigrants impact housing by renting them thus increasing demand.
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Some are always more equal than others
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That is simply false. Talk to a lawyer. They advise for cookie banners as good precaution against disproportionate punishment mandated by law.
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We actually hated that while living under communism. It meant there was never hope for better, no better future on the horizon. All while those judging “your needs” kept the lion share for themselves and their apparatchik friends.

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