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by orange_tee 6y ago
The border checks will happen between Northern Ireland and Great Britain instead of between Ireland and Northern Ireland. In return for this concession, Northern Ireland will continue following some EU rules.
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by orange_tee 6y ago
As always with any trade agreement there will be winners and losers on both sides. Sure on the macro level you can run some numbers and conclude that one is the overall winner, but this is of little meaning to the people. What is more meani
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by orange_tee 6y ago
What about SWEs who work on surveillance tech and despite knowing all the privacy implications, they just don't care to protect themselves? I think a lot of people want to protect their privacy, but it just takes too much effort and pe
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by orange_tee 6y ago
Here is my theory: these researchers were not naive and they knew the deal, they could work on their research as long as the topics were not too sensitive and as long as the results did now harm Google's image too badly. So what likel
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by orange_tee 6y ago
I much prefer a really good and feature full browse and search functionality rather than recommendations. Youtube has really poor search and even worse browsing ability.
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by orange_tee 6y ago
The way this story is told, makes little sense. So he sprinkled some Mexican seasoning on plain Cheetos and gave a presentation, and they gave him $20 million for that? WTF? There's a lot left untold. Or if this is the entire story,
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by orange_tee 6y ago
Wealth accumulation is exponential so starting with "mere millions" is deceptive. The first million is the hardest.
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by orange_tee 6y ago
Financial inequality is a good thing. Consider the alternative: humans are equalized in terms of income/wealth. What happens? They start competing along other axes and their status will start being measured by other means. Would that a