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by rocgf 5y ago
Gonna leave out housing and education, but for healthcare, you are painfully incorrect. European countries has vastly more regulated healthcare and yet pay about an order of magnitude less for it.
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by rocgf 5y ago
I honestly never understood this argument. Corporations don't just emit greenhouse gases for the fun of it, like some sort of villain, they do it because they produce the stuff that we, the "ordinary citizens" buy like mad ev
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by rocgf 5y ago
I also find it baffling that people still think about things the way you do. It's not necessarily some kind of inferiority complex or anything else, it's about the free market.
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by rocgf 5y ago
I appreciate this as a joke, but on a serious note, I'm not sure if I should mock or encourage this project. My intuition is that, if the intention is indeed as they portray it, then this sounds totally doable and commendable. Designin
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by rocgf 5y ago
It is amazing just how many people draw conclusions from having visited Amsterdam for coffeeshops and the Red Light District, without having cycled or gone outside of Amsterdam's city center. The city center in Amsterdam is not the Net
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by rocgf 5y ago
If it was something truly idiotic or malevolent, sure. Otherwise, that would be a really crap culture to work in.
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by rocgf 5y ago
If it's not China, then who is it?
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by rocgf 5y ago
I would be genuinely impressed if you can successfully defend your point of view. I fail to see how it would be possible for a single type of port for everything to increase waste and worsen consumer convenience.
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by rocgf 5y ago
Maybe India?
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by rocgf 5y ago
There are exceptions like this everywhere in Europe. Can't speak for Denmark specifically, but anecdotally most countries in Europe have similar rules - certain workers cannot legally strike the same way McDonald's workers can.
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by rocgf 5y ago
I think you are forgetting that, at least in principle, the government is just some folks we decide should handle the laws & stuff in the country so that we can go about our lives. Your comment makes it sound like those pesky 'peop
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by rocgf 5y ago
The goal is not to end humanity, though.
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by rocgf 5y ago
Haven't read the article because it's paywalled and I can't be bothered right now, but after reading Steven Pinker's "The Better Angels of Our Nature" and "Enlightenment now", I just don't know w
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by rocgf 5y ago
There is Uber around, 100%. I use it from time to time. I think it's always a regular taxi that shows up, though.
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by rocgf 5y ago
Not sure if that's quite right? The ones targeted by the law and activists for illegal logging are usually companies connected to politicians. They are indeed violent, but they don't get to benefit from any excuses like the one yo
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by rocgf 5y ago
You're definitely right technically. The problem is that Europe is split up into dozens of countries with very somewhat different values and cultures, so whenever you say "In Europe X happens", then you can always invoke some
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by rocgf 5y ago
I disagree so much with this that I wouldn't even know where to start arguing against it.
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by rocgf 5y ago
There is this one thing I always wonder about, not just in this particular context, but generally about what is seen as "greedy" corporations, politicians and so on. Was the conversation ever blatantly villainous or was it a bit m
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by rocgf 5y ago
Which part of it screams 'sarcasm' in this post? It may not seem like it, but being miserable while making a lot of money is a thing.
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by rocgf 5y ago
Well, I actually I agree with a lot of the stuff you write, but definitely disagree on taxes. The main point I disagree with is that adding taxes somehow makes your choices seem okay. I don't really think that's the way to look at
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by rocgf 5y ago
I don't think you really understand what cost means in this case. Or a compromise. Thinking that cost just means paying more -> bad is a very simplistic way to look at things. Cost, especially via taxation, means setting aside a par
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by rocgf 5y ago
I was by no means implying that people want this, I know categorically that almost nobody wants this. But it doesn't matter what people want, I have already lost hope because nothing in our system is geared towards helping out with thi
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by rocgf 5y ago
Pardon me, but your post is just about virtue signalling or you're missing the point entirely. If you increase the taxes for something, you will drop the demand and, therefore, consumption. It doesn't matter whether OP will change
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by rocgf 5y ago
Well, guess you want both eternal exponential growth for everybody, as well as a healthy planet to live on, but without any sort of compromise whatsoever.
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by rocgf 5y ago
> let the service rot to the point anyone who can afford it will jump ship for the private sector I think that's pretty far-fetched and can't see a good reason for this purposefully being the case. It's just Hanlon's
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by rocgf 5y ago
Do you have any source for this? This sounds so incredibly dodgy that I can't really believe it.
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by rocgf 5y ago
Have you ever worked in a kitchen or are you just assuming? I personally haven't worked in a restaurant, but I see how the staff and chefs are always running around, doing 20 things at once. Stimulants use like cocaine and amphetamine
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by rocgf 5y ago
I'm sorry, but this makes no sense to me. The people paying for the development of the AGI can mean many things - the Google customers/users, Alphabet as a company, the executives throwing money at the problem? Either way, I don&#
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by rocgf 5y ago
There is a huge assumption baked into your comment and I do not agree with it. AGI does not necessarily require for it to be conscious or throw tantrums about its creators' purpose. AGI just means that it's an intelligence that ca
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by rocgf 5y ago
No offence, but I think you are extremely wrong. Creating an AGI is the endgame for everything. Who cares about ads when you have an AI that can learn to do anything and improve upon itself continuously?

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