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by oatmeal1 3y ago
> A whole lot. Think of all those ChatGPT queries that are robbing Google of search ad revenue, as people realize they can get the information they want more efficiently than looking at search results. Is this overblown? The questions C
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
Twitter revealed illegal government censorship of US social media because Elon bought it and was transparent. That's what I'm referring to. I don't know much about Twitter's legal fights against authoritarian countries
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
Are there any counterexamples to what the author presents as the inevitability of European open market regulations? > And we certainly don’t want more Elon Musks in the world. Boy, wouldn't it be horrible if we got more Tesla's
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
Real-estate does not increase in value in Japan. Land might increase in value, but the developments depreciate. Agree that land value tax is much better than property tax.
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
> Real Estate is a free money machine, and it won’t stop until we adopt realistic government controlled system. Real Estate will stop being a free money machine when the government stops artificially restricting housing supply with singl
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
What prevents a quid pro quo where government officials pressure social media companies to restrict speech of their political opponents, with the understanding the social media will be given preferential tax/regulatory oversight in exc
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
That would be great if we had real federalism. The states cannot try anything really unique, because they are hamstrung by federal law and federal subsidies with strings attached.
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
> Which to say that, imo, "restoring the free market" isn't a useful action in this mess. State controlled medicine is essentially the only solution to the already partly collapsed US health care system. I don't trust
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
I think the rat problem is actually pretty manageable with proper standards of how trash is stored, and the use of Jack Russell Terriers. The lack of political will to put up with the mild inconvenience of the former and the brutality of t
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
Using the word "violence" the way you are is clearly newspeak; it's inflammatory and unhelpful.
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Vinay Prasad on Cancer Screening(econtalk.org)
1 points by oatmeal1 3y ago|0 comments
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
The point isn't to win new people to your cause. The point is to get other people who already believe in your cause to overcome apathy and make this cause a primary factor in how they vote . For example, the Free Palestine movement
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
The government has invested grotesque amounts of money to support the most inefficient, isolating, unhealthy, environmentally damaging mode of transit known to the public (cars). Transit would be vastly cheaper, cleaner and faster if priva
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
> That's assuming, of course, you mean the US government--which does not own things like highways I was responding to a comment which said "states or the fed," so of course I was referring to those both. The states own th
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
> For some reason, our railroad are privately owned rather than owned by the states or the fed. Because we want them to work well? Look at how the government handles the infrastructure it owns.
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Customer Sues USDA over Policy Preventing Truthfully Labeling Food (2023)(ij.org)
11 points by oatmeal1 3y ago|2 comments
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
> These are apple's customers they have given you access to. What would happen if this had been the standard applied to Windows? > If the arguments were "these restrictions are so burdensome I can't be in the app store!
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
Paranoid people are not allowed to opt out of police help because it is a negative externality to the neighbors and society for police to respond to reports of crime at a particular residence.
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
> You must be new to this, because denialist outrage over the "hockey stick" has been the core, or quite honestly the only, numerically base objection that I have experienced. Perhaps you are the new one?
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
> This is a classic case of just how factually, scientifically, and morally bankrupt the money-backed climate denialism movement is. Here was a huge dustup, lots of sizzle, tons and tons of examination, and the end result: it all held up
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
Profit caps disincentivize companies to be efficient, meaning they'll just waste resources that could be used better elsewhere in the economy. Capping price or profit does nothing to address the root cause of the problem - lack of com
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
Does she not have wired internet? VoIP sounds like a remedy.
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
This is a big reason why it's so hard to start a startup. You need access to high quality customers. You can't just start by making the beta version of your product free, because the customers you want aren't motivated by p
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
> Did you read the article? Are you not piping hot mad? Dozens of mg of major pollutants per liter when the legal limit is 0.1mg. Flouting clean air regulations with abandon. A massive campaign of illegal dumping. This isnt absurd, this
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
No
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
The author is foaming at the mouth by the end of this. Criticism of Elon is fully warranted, but criticizing him for what he's done at Twitter is unreasonable. He's the only tech executive that actually voluntarily revealed ille
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
There's no problem with critiques of Rogan. There is a problem with flamewar critiques.
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
The media is the problem much more than the parties. The parties want to focus on their differences, but there's nothing forcing the media to focus on them. Any candidate that steps outside the traditional talking points is ignored&#
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
> Like that the only reason children are exploited is for photographs. The unreasonable assumptions you assert I'm making are of your own imagination.
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by oatmeal1 3y ago
Who are you seeing as being desensitized in this scenario? People searching the net for CP are already desensitized.

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