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by permo-w 3y ago
so you've cherrypicked two examples, one of which-Mr Beast-is basically just a tv variety gameshow but better presented for a younger audience. the sums of money may well be high but that doesn't change the fact that it's not
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by permo-w 3y ago
Youtube is largely composed of amateur content and — Kurzgesagt aside — not-very-good professional content. This is a different market to high production quality TV shows and films. perhaps you went to Youtube, but I suspect most people&#x2
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by permo-w 3y ago
why do companies seek infinite growth?
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by permo-w 3y ago
the main issue is that if you reduce the effectiveness of the tire, all you do is increase fuel consumption. balancing that out is difficult. rubber is always a less-toxic option, but it's expensive, and probably still somewhat toxic a
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by permo-w 3y ago
the point I'm making is that the people on the ground making these places operate are the people that should have that power, and the idea that the government - supposedly the collective of all people in a country - would stand in th
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by permo-w 3y ago
who runs the ports? labour
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by permo-w 3y ago
if it was unrelated then their actions would have no effect
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by permo-w 3y ago
if they can regenerate from a severed limb does this mean they can be cloned into 5?
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by permo-w 3y ago
it's obviously not the engineers that are making the decisions, and if you're being paid $x00,000 a year by Google, maybe you do have some enthusiasm about your work, 1984 or no
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by permo-w 3y ago
reminds of the plastic vs cotton bag carbon footprint debate
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by permo-w 3y ago
what happens in 5 years time when Curb has loss-led to the top? the exact problem again, only possibly worse. maybe this time Curb learns the lesson of Uber and finds a way to anti-compete away the possibility of another "Curb" th
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by permo-w 3y ago
these subreddits are/were absolutely full to the brim with bots/adversarial actors. it's obvious after spending any time on them. the incentive to manipulate is just too high, and the ease with which to do it is too low
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by permo-w 3y ago
the two things are not mutually exclusive
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by permo-w 3y ago
my question is: why do we need taxi companies that make money? why can we not have non-profit or publicly-owned taxi apps? I'm not saying make taxis free, just provide the infrastructure without the need to extract any money from worke
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by permo-w 3y ago
perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but this doesn't read so much as why as it does a rephrasing of the problem with an example
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by permo-w 3y ago
the problem with this is that sleep loss has myriad other consequences; something I often discover when I take ADHD medication. it's all well and good being productive for a day, but when you wake up the next day at 2pm, things start t
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by permo-w 3y ago
I don't think I've ever seen anyone lean into the nature side of nature vs nurture as much as this. she may well be right, who knows if free will is even a thing. maybe we all are on a predestined path from birth, but you don&#x27
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by permo-w 3y ago
companies managed just fine before the internet
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by permo-w 3y ago
there's no reason a person can't be educated and inflexible. in fact the two often go hand in hand. also, I'm not sure you're using "by all means" correctly
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by permo-w 3y ago
I think the parent commenter is being ironic to some degree
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by permo-w 3y ago
if you want that, go on reddit or 4chan or twitter or hacker news or even instagram to some degree. reddit, instagram and hacker news don't even require email validation afaik
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by permo-w 3y ago
>twitter/facebook/instagram/youtube/tiktok/reddit /hacker news
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by permo-w 3y ago
I wouldn't go that far. you've got blackmailers, scammers, child pornographers, blackhats, ad-tech, etc
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by permo-w 3y ago
by wi-fi, I of course meant broadband
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by permo-w 3y ago
I bow to your superior knowledge
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by permo-w 3y ago
in some games there's a certain degree of "everyone else is doing it, so I have to in order to compete", which I can somewhat understand, but obviously the game has to get to that point in the first place, and a lot of that i
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by permo-w 3y ago
>what? people are following direction, and the way the plane boards is actually important to how fast it loads, so youre messing with that because its a mild convenience to you and you consider that intelligent behaviour? if this had bee
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by permo-w 3y ago
I've personally avoided missing flights by breaking from the crowd in airports
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by permo-w 3y ago
that's not the exact opposite though, is it? what you want is what the parent commenter wants with an addendum
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by permo-w 3y ago
I think you may be underestimating the size of the population who are into control and submission. but I don't disagree, see my comment from yesterday where I say something similar[1] [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/

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