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by piva00 10mo ago
I've seen private companies cutting down on logging expenses that would completely fund my friend's whole research department at Stockholm's University. There's absurd waste in private companies which always makes me lau
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by piva00 10mo ago
Which is the connection I think is interesting to be discussed in the tech circles, we all know that Larry Ellison is dangerous from how heavy handed Oracle always has been with lawsuits. Now that he is part of the inner circles of the US g
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by piva00 10mo ago
I think the politics of the USA becoming so entangled with the tech scene to be quite interesting, it's definitely not a phenomenon I expected to see given the ethos of the industry when I started my career in the early 2000s. Seeing t
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by piva00 10mo ago
> How do you think the groceries got to your shop in first place tho? Through economies of scale with a truck delivering tons of goods while consuming more than the single-person car delivering it... I think it was pretty clear from my c
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by piva00 10mo ago
It's related to culture, a culture that normalises driving as a non-risky activity while also being very individualistic, a culture that requires you to drive from early age to have access to places, with minimal training and not very
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by piva00 10mo ago
An EV is still 2 tons of metal, plastics, batteries, that needed to be mined, refined, transformed, assembled, and delivered. Sounds excessive for getting groceries. The solution, as usual for complex systems, involves more than one factor,
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by piva00 10mo ago
"No, you" is a bit of a lazy cop out. I ask this kindly: you don't really see a markedly increase in corruption across your government the past year? Not saying it wasn't corrupt and it became now, just that it increased
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by piva00 10mo ago
> The biggest disaster of recent times (MCAS) was because of the tight regulations around type certification and trying to avoid costs to carriers Meaning they tried to skirt around the regulations, including regulatory capture by pushin
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by piva00 10mo ago
Every Noise was created by a former Spotify employee.
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by piva00 10mo ago
The USSR didn't have the advantage of getting all the manufacturing supply chains in its soil funded by customers of the products it produced. If there's one thing China learnt from the USSR was on how to be part of the globalisat
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by piva00 10mo ago
I was about to answer the same, I'd go to carpentry. I love being in the workshop, I love the pieces I made, I wish I had more time to properly finish some of them with all the details I had envisioned. I've considered it a lot wh
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by piva00 10mo ago
> The "stricter" privacy rules of "Accept all" banners that send your data to 1000+ companies? Or "Accept all", but to Refuse you must tap a small grey link and manually uncheck dozens of boxes? Or worse, ba
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by piva00 10mo ago
They could, it could be a blessing for competitors in the EU. But they won't because the EU is a huge market and money speaks, while that happens they need to comply with the laws. Stop breaking the laws and you stop being fined, it&#x
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by piva00 10mo ago
No, they are punishing because the ATT pop-up is not enough to comply with privacy rules, requiring 3rd party apps to have a secondary pop-up to be compliant (which Apple's own apps wouldn't need since they don't use ATT). So
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by piva00 10mo ago
> In Latin America, many people take on masters and PhD while living with their parents. You are often seen as smarter than the idiot who's working. In Latin America a very small minority of young people even get to go to a proper a
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by piva00 10mo ago
Mostly an artefact of the non-application of antitrust laws, the US selectively decided to not apply those anymore for the past 30-40 years, corporate consolidation takes hold, companies providing a service grow enormously and are allowed t
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by piva00 10mo ago
You need to compare Southern Italy to a similar impoverished area of the USA which might have the exact same doctor shortage. Of course different parts of a country will have different availability, seeing a doctor in Torino will be much fa
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by piva00 10mo ago
I believe you need to compare notes on a societal level, of course that richer Americans will have great healthcare. The quality of care is not the problem, it's the accessibility of it.
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by piva00 10mo ago
I don't believe it's trying to give up control, the current US administration don't want to be the world police but still wants the control given by being the world police, both can't exist at the same time and some sort
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by piva00 11mo ago
How isn't it a market solution for a collective of individuals to band together to determine what they think are fair conditions of wage and labour? If they are wrong then the whole thing fails just like a business mispricing and/
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by piva00 11mo ago
It disheartens me to see how Polish opinion on the EU has been systematically dismantled, not sure if it's mostly Russian propaganda but EU skepticism is growing a lot over there, given that Poland is right at the footsteps of Russia i
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by piva00 11mo ago
No change in trend is part of the problem, no change or accelerating is exactly the whole problem...
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by piva00 11mo ago
I've seen other articles showing how Meta/Facebook profits from scams. Instead of blocking publishing, the company instead charges a premium for impressions. In this instance, a Swedish police officer was deepfaked, and the video
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by piva00 11mo ago
You know about statistics and how population-wise aggregate data can be skewed given you know which levers to press and where, I don't know why you play dumb about money in politics being a massive influence. Nowhere is said "mone
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by piva00 11mo ago
Define inefficiency, I'd much rather pay for local inefficiency which is still money changing hands in my local economy rather than paying a bit less for my money to be siphoned out of my local economy with increased efficiency. Losing
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by piva00 11mo ago
Reductionism is the sign of a lack of nuance, I speak badly of the USA but still would like to attend a friend's wedding if they choose to have it there. It doesn't mean I don't have contempt for how the country is being run,
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by piva00 11mo ago
Slippery slope is a fallacy for a reason... Yes, controlling children access if done wrong could lead to control adults but it doesn't mean it inevitably will. Social media for teens has been studied, we know what it can cause psycholo
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by piva00 11mo ago
Sure, money buys a stage, and an outsized stage for a worse idea is still persuading many more voters than a smaller stage with a better idea. If one campaign saturates communication it drowns others, this is what money buys on political ca
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by piva00 11mo ago
> Obamacare is of no use at all for the wealthy. So why do those in power support it? They... Didn't? It's been defanged and reduced to the aberration it is right now, instead of being single payer, universal healthcare. > E
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by piva00 11mo ago
Agree that green hydrogen is still in its infancy but I don't think it can be considered a "black hole", it's a new technology which requires, as any novel technology not yet proven commercially, government investments f

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