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by rfwhyte 6y ago
No, this is not a problem that will be solved by "Entrepreneurs and investors" as they're precisely the people who caused this problem in the first place and to suggest more capitalism will solve problems inherently caused by
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by rfwhyte 7y ago
I find it a bit disingenuous to call song lyrics Genius' "content." If anything the content here belongs to the artists who actually wrote these songs, not some website that puts a text version of songs other people wrote on
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by rfwhyte 7y ago
There's also plenty of evidence that at the time of its construction it wouldn't have been surrounded by desert, but rather a much richer and greener savanna like landscape.
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by rfwhyte 7y ago
Sure seems an awfully uncritical fluff-piece for an app that's such a central part of China's dystopian surveillance state. Unknown scores of people have been arrested and detained indefinitely for things they've posted on We
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by rfwhyte 7y ago
One of the most mind blowing things to me, is that where I'm from (Canada) we've pumped almost 2.5 times more oil and gas than Nowrway over the past 30 years, yet our "oil fund" is somewhere around $20 Billion. Norway de
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by rfwhyte 7y ago
I think more than anything its that Cannon has really missed the boat when it comes to the transition from still images to video. A decade or two ago, the vast majority of consumers only wanted a camera to shot photographs with, but now mos
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by rfwhyte 7y ago
I sincerely hope the TMT gets built regardless and in spite of this opposition. It would be an absolute shame to allow a special interest group to use superstition to stop a project that would contribute such a tremendous amount to the adva
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by rfwhyte 7y ago
Amazon desperately needs to fix their completely broken third-party marketplace. There are entire categories of products I simply won't buy from Amazon as its near impossible to find anything that even approximates an authentic listing
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by rfwhyte 7y ago
Seems like more and more "content creators" are getting into the platforms business, and I genuinely don't think many, if any of them are going to succeed. If Legendary Pictures, with their Chinese government money and big ac
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by rfwhyte 7y ago
I hate how all these so called "unpretentious" places always seem to charge $40+ for an entree. I don't know what world they live in, but in the one I inhabit, $40 for a piece of fish is plenty pretentious no matter how quirk
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by rfwhyte 7y ago
This is why I have a certain distaste for articles like this. The author has this sort hypothesis / contention, specifically that user onboarding is a waste of time, yet presents no data to either validate or disprove their hypothesis.
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by rfwhyte 7y ago
As someone who loathes the pretense, attitudes, and money-grubbing of so called "Fine-dining" I've long dreamed of the emergence of canteen style dining in the western world. Where I live, every new restaurant is more expensi
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by rfwhyte 7y ago
It is indeed a "huge blessing." A "huge blessing" for the owners of companies who are able to use "culture" as an excuse for the exploitation of workers. The upside of this exploitation only ever accrues to own
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by rfwhyte 8y ago
As a Canadian I would tend to agree. My take on things is that while both countries spy, the reasons they do it are what matters. Broadly speaking the US spies to prevent terrorism and violence, where as China spies to steal IP, control the
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by rfwhyte 8y ago
I'd imagine a factor in the rising rates in developing nations is the due to the fact that 40%+ of global tobacco sales come from state owned firms. China's state owned China Tobacco company is the world's largest tobacco com
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by rfwhyte 10y ago
That's the thing. No one who knows what they're talking about trusts the "real growth" numbers. They're all massively inflated by the CCP in order to maintain their growth driven political narrative.