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by postingpals 6y ago
Was any of that invented in silicon valley? None of those things were even improved by silicon valley, it was mostly large pre-existing corporations or government funded research (google was founded on a public campus, for example). ISPs ar
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by postingpals 6y ago
How can one be 'over-educated'? Is that a bad thing?
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by postingpals 6y ago
In practise none of this is correct. We already 'do what we want', what we want happens to be improving ours and others lives by making things. The great issue since the division of labour has been to figure out how to distribute
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by postingpals 6y ago
Or we could restructure society a little bit so we don't have to work as much, freeing up time for us to explore our ideas and thus improving the economy in the long run. Authors like this take things to their logical extreme as a form
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by postingpals 6y ago
We actually can give everyone a phone since there are well over 8 billion in circulation.
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by postingpals 6y ago
I find people who argue scarcity more often than not don't have actual numbers to back it up. Amongst human beings biggest necessities, what are actually scarce? Food? Not at all, tons and tons are thrown out daily. Housing? Well there
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by postingpals 6y ago
"Jobs and Wozniak's lives were worthless when they were making no money developing Apple" Is essentially the argument you're making.
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Look at the phone in your hand – you can thank the state for that(theguardian.com)
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by postingpals 6y ago
No, you misunderstand antitrust laws. Signing an exclusive deal with your direct competitor who is as much of a monopoly as you are is cartel behaviour. Google then seemingly abused this exclusive privilege.
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by postingpals 6y ago
I'm gonna go against what others are saying here... learn openings if you're a low rated player. They not only give you tactics against players who don't prepare against them, but you also never have to feel lost in the firs
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by postingpals 6y ago
The amazon rainforest is not the only forest on earth. Watch the latest David Attenborough documentary if you'd like a bit more understanding of how forests are destroyed and replaced with oil palm trees, in a way it is worse than the
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by postingpals 6y ago
I made this point elsewhere, but honestly I think if a fascist reads Salt Fat Acid Heat (a book made by a woman, btw) they will probably become a little more in touch with reality.
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by postingpals 6y ago
Actually this tool seems to solve that problem by showing you multiple books, and not just direct opposites in terms of content. If you don't believe me search for 'Mein Kampf' and something similar, it doesn't spit out
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by postingpals 6y ago
What I find most interesting about these situations - and they've happened in google before - is that the employees are almost always fired for 'security breaches'. Is it a huge coincidence that the employees who want to unio
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by postingpals 6y ago
I love how the US government, having long been very anti-collectivisation themselves, are now attacking firms for this behaviour. That should tell you how powerful private corporations have become.
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by postingpals 6y ago
Contrary to what you might have learned on hackernews, monopoly doesn't mean there is no alternative and having no alternatives is not the primary downside to monopolies. > United States v. Grinnell Corp., 384 U.S. 563 (1966) Grinne
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by postingpals 6y ago
But... I don't disagree with this. This is exactly what is happening, and it is yet still creating monopolies. Just because it is what people want does not mean it is a good thing.
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by postingpals 6y ago
Your second claim has a simple counter-argument: the government has allocated wealth so well in the past 100 years that they are responsible for some major tech innovations (nasa, CERN, every startup that began in a public college) and subs
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by postingpals 6y ago
These are just 3 examples of thousands of acquisitions by big companies with dominance in their industry. The trend is very clear, a handful of companies buy out competition and own virtually every serious competitor in the market. There ar
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by postingpals 6y ago
Crunchyroll acquired by Sony, BD acquired by Hyundai, Slack acquired by Salesforce... Our economic system seems to have a natural tendency towards monopoly. This is happening before our eyes and we don't even realise it.
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by postingpals 6y ago
Why would google release a press statement like this if they felt it was insignificant or that they were in the right here?
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by postingpals 6y ago
> extreme poverty widely refers to an income below the international poverty line of $1.90 per day extreme poverty is a well-defined term, it's not emotive language.
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by postingpals 6y ago
Dark traits are helpful once you are actually in the position of power. This article thought dark traits might help get you there, but this is not the case. The economic system rewards leaders who are cut throat and rewards subordinates who
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by postingpals 6y ago
You are entitled to your opinion but I believe the climate crisis alone is reason enough to believe incremental change is not always a good approach.
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by postingpals 6y ago
His ability to annoy people seems to stem entirely or mostly from the fact that he writes about topics, like this one, that are uncomfortable for people to hear. Just to clarify for anyone thinking he goes around harassing people.
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by postingpals 6y ago
Their claim in one section of the white pages is that blockchain provides reliable data serialisation, so keeping track of how many KWh you saved, for example, becomes trustworthy. By this logic though, all financial services and human data
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by postingpals 6y ago
for the confused, here's the key: > For the entire duration of the contract, the Beneficiary pays a part of the energy savings generated to the E.s.Co. This gives a return on the initial investment. > The greater the energy savin
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by postingpals 6y ago
Was anyone else hoping by the title that this would be a company that researches ways to save energy on technology like blockchain? I am a bit disappointed that it is not. Actually after doing more reading, I'm not really sure what thi
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by postingpals 6y ago
Well I also questioned whether they should be given as much power, since it can lead to abuse. Would be as simple as changing a law so they can no longer abuse their power. And if it's not that simple, maybe you have to question why.
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by postingpals 6y ago
Tv and Movies are not really propaganda in US jurisdiction. They have a major bias sometimes because of propaganda, and this can make them seem like it, but... Propaganda takes roots in more serious media, like news and schooling.

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