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by nickpp 2y ago
Every time I took a vacation in Greece (and I took plenty in the last 20 years) and I had to visit the doctor (for the kids mostly) it was either Romanian or Bulgarian. Same in Italy and Spain. Also other people working in the turism indust
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And Eastern European engineers and doctors go to Mediterranean countries for bigger opportunities and salaries. Looks like the biggest culprit is the “free education”, no?
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There are thousands trade offs going into each product. Demanding that a subset of these trade offs must include certain solutions in effect elevates those solutions' importance above all the other issues, past or future, encountered
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Even better - it made the whole market irrelevant instead.
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I’ll get you one next time I go to the doctor to get an MRI.
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I remember when this BS was being pushed about Wintel capturing the market and killing competition. Then mobile happened, Google and now AI - doomers just changed the brands doing the capturing.
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As a survivor of communism, I sigh every time I see this ideology that killed countless millions still being pushed in places where other inhuman ideologies (like fascism and its ilk) will attract a swift ban.
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> humanity Humanity is much better off with companies making all those products and services for us than without, though.
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Self driving cars, for one.
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Except the only ones building products and services actually used every day by humans are corporations - not “the EU”. Hardware, software, stuff I use for fun, work and live, comes from corporations of all sizes - not politicians.
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> corporations and rich folk In 2022, about 58% of American households owned stock, either directly or indirectly through mutual funds and other investment accounts. https://www.axios.com/2023/10/18/percent
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This is exactly how populism rises: who will vote no to the simple proposal to take money from "others" and give it to them?
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Whose morals though? In my life time I've seen being gay or smoking weed (for example) turn from immoral to widely accepted. Kind of hard to consider these shifting sentiments as a solid foundation for anything.
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> With extreme inequity, who's gonna make all the smaller bets? The more large, visible winners you have in a society the more us little people are incentivized to buy those lottery tickets. Crowd funding, angel investing and small
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It seems those "megalomaniacs" are needed to at least build those large organizations. And I'd rather have them run by their founders with vested interests than bureaucrats, committees and politicians.
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> "real estate holdings" Real estate is not cash. It's cash spent . > History also shows us that sooner or later, unbounded wealth disparity ends poorly for the wealthy. History also shows us that societies without wea
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Actually corporations are naturally balanced by the free market: the competition and their customers (whose needs they must serve in order to even exist) keep them very well in check. Regulations pretend to "improve" this but inev
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Thing is removing checklists very rarely happens. Almost nobody votes "Yes, let's have a bunch of deaths in the name of (potential) progress". But on the other hand the great majority enthusiastically supports adding more rul
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iPhones (and probably Androids too) support up to 10 eSIMs with 2 active at the same time, if I'm not mistaken. And you can buy data eSIMs before even leaving the country in an app like Airalo.
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> actually care about the planet Shouldn't they have been pro-nuclear if they actually cared about the planet? But it seems to me they really care more about pushing their own ideology instead.
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I think I wasn’t very clear when I said “support”, my bad. Trying again… Apps made for keyboard and mouse suck on touch&pen devices and vice versa (even if the device is basically able to run both) because most devs pick just one mode o
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By default it comes with neither and most iPad users probably don’t add them.
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Because touch-based and mouse/trackpad based UIs are different enough to need separate support. An app optimized for one will look&feel much worse on the other. Remember Windows 8?
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Because app developers will never fully support two interaction modes. They will focus on one while the other will be an after-thought.
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> Oil companies aren't the cause of climate change. The people who burn the oil are. Also the people who fought tooth and nail against transitioning to oil's natural successor: nuclear power.
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I am old enough to remember when everything was written in C++, except embedded and OS kernels in C. Today even my chat, email client and IDE are written in JavaScript...
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Because nobody's counting deaths from "not doing stuff". Everybody counts deaths from actions done (things built, products sold, meds taken) but nobody's counting losses from things (like meds) simply missing. In effect
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I used to feel the same, but eventually I came to understand that they have a tremendously important role in the business ecosystem. Like sharks in the sea or wolves in the wilderness, they identify and remove sick and ailing businesses. Ad
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But the fact that developers often need to be able to cover any one (or even multiple) of these areas, and that language proficiency (with platform APIs and various quirks) is quite hard to achieve - makes me think that the actual alterna
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by nickpp 3y ago
> Relatively few people own stocks 61% of Americans, says Gallup [1]. Not sure if this includes those indirectly owning stocks, through pension funds. [1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans

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