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by repolfx 7y ago
I agree with the rest of your points, but: Germans don't want uncontrolled groups accumulating power precisely because it could lead to a situation like Nazi Germany Uh huh. Really. Germans totally hate uncontrollable groups trying t
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She's not a politician as she's not standing in an election. If she was people could refuse to vote for her, as they usually do for Green politicians, and maybe that'd give her a reality check. Yes that's my position, if
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Why? America has historically had very high corporate tax rates relative to the rest of the world, that's what trump's tax reforms fixed. This idea in Europe that Google lives in a low tax environment is really very wrong. Their e
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Yeah the court challenge is the big issue here. Google haven't done anything illegal. The so called "loophole" in the law is actually the way the law was explicitly designed to work. If France pushed this too far Google might
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LE could do more today true, but if there were no borders at all how would they not be overwhelmed? They don't even have the law successfully enforced at the moment, let alone in a world where nothing stops people moving at all. And wh
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Since when is she autistic? Autistic people don't get up on stage, go on live TV, speak eloquently and go on round the world sailing trips. I don't understand this recent push to dilute the word "autistic" into meaningle
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The current setup of law enforcement doesn't scale to millions of lawbreakers who aren't being reported by any victims of crime. Are they just coming up here because they feel like it, or are they responding to some kind of deman
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What you're talking about is basically a surveillance based internal border. It can work that way for people if you have massive levels of internal surveillance (otherwise how do you think the government can catch employers of illega
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The minutes of that meeting merely say that Theresa May informed them of the outcome, which they all knew already of course. It says nothing else. Quite possibly nobody else spoke. The meeting I'm referring to is this one https:/
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But most modern automation doesn't create new jobs or new technologies, the infrastructure for automation already exists and is stable. It just removes jobs, and at an unprecedented scale. If that were true then we'd see record
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How is that our default trajectory? Things aren't infinitely more scarce for some these days. Poverty has been in long term decline across the world. The poor today are much better off than they were in the past despite huge population
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The EU Parliament is much like the Supreme Soviet. It has votes. There are elections. Things are set up such that this can only change small details around the edges in ways the elites already approve of, nothing fundamental. Look at how th
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The first meeting of EU leaders after Brexit was devoted, entirely, to discussing the apparently urgent EU army. Guess how much time they spent discussing that the EU was just rejected completely by the biggest vote in British history: none
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You're not an EU citizen. The EU doesn't grant citizenship. GDPR doesn't do anything for consumers except annoy them. The vast majority, and I do mean the vast majority of consumers, don't care about internet "pr
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Then I'll offer a counterpoint - Vestager sums up everything wrong with the EU and why every country should leave. Firstly, her position violates all known good principles of governance. Her office acts as judge, jury and executioner.
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Capability based security isn't a panacea by itself. It suffers from the confused deputy problem, for one. If subsystem A has a capability to read every file, and exports an API that takes a file path and opens it, returning the opened
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Do you have any justification for this belief that war is just a stage that humanity will get over? There has always been war. There will always be people who think it's their destiny to rule over you, that you'll really be much h
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by repolfx 7y ago
It's possible . People wouldn't like it. Mandate that all software - everywhere - is written in Java or Rust with no unsafe blocks (but, oops, you can't realistically do that in Rust). Make it illegal to use web apps to admi
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by repolfx 7y ago
The EU isn't cooperation of armies towards a common goal, or really cooperation of anything towards a common goal. The EU is "cooperation through massive centralization of power under a unified command structure". Nothing dec
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Well, or it's because a black cab is often nearby and can be easily flagged on the street, whereas Ubers are technically illegal (or did that get fixed) and cannot be spotted on the street. The Knowledge is archaic. It exists only beca
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You don't actually need a minimum wage, as it's a very recent invention. Things worked fine before that was introduced. And do you really have to assume employers always "exploit" employees? That's the basic idea of
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To my mind, these questions come from a part of the Internet's architecture - text isn't generally signed or strongly attributed, and if it were, we don't really have a solid global identity infrastructure - hence a lot of w
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So what? Lots of news is fake already, written by journalists who already have an agenda. You don't need any AI breakthrough to have that problem.
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The Apple ecosystem is huge though. You can't claim Google is dominant "outside the Apple ecosystem". That's the same as saying Google has a monopoly if you ignore its competitors. I used to work at Google. Apps written
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MEPs don't create laws in the EU, it's the Commission that controls that. MEPs may only rubber stamp or delay them somewhat. They aren't politicians in any normal sense.
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You can't really know if you're underpaid for what you're doing if nobody else is paying more. You might be overpaid - who knows? If there's no market there's no price discovery. If you can get better pay elsewhere
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Ideally all the workers of a firm would be organized together They are. That organisation is called a company and decides what they get paid, which varies by job and rank. There's no such thing as a union in which every employee of a
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BA was in financial trouble partly because their unionized staff are paid far too much. Putting their salary back "where they should be" (a novel concept) would just cause them to be unaffordable again. As will going on strike for
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Honestly it's sometimes been tempting when you look at things like Uber. How long have they been around now? No signs of investors pulling the plug yet. How long is a long time?
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You're completely right about the problem of socialized losses, but that's a system level problem rather than a problem of individuals - it would exist even if everyone in the financial industry was completely replaced. And it&#x2

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