saubeidl

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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Coming from the people that keep lecturing Europe about Free Speech: Speech-based harassment at the border. Can't make this shit up...
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
You seem to be on some sort of vendetta against the messenger instead of addressing the message at all.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Do you not think the achievements of YT are down to the personal brilliance of its engineers? And what you describe is fiddling with knobs at best, not actual new innovative features.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
That is precisely my point, that is the only type of free market to ever exist, because it's an ideological construct.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
When was the last time YouTube did anything innovative? Aren't they just an ossified bureaucracy now? The Soviets, too, innovated. Sputnik shock and all that. But at some point the structures were just too rigid - just like they have b
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
At least in the context of the Irish famine, capitalist policies were a key driver: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43910575
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
How dare people use their privilege for good instead of for self-enrichment!
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
That's a nice parallel to the article, which points out that the biggest fans of capitalism haven't managed to actually create their predicted free markets. Pure ideology.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
It's similar to the mythical "free market" in that way.
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Big Tech are the new Soviets(unherd.com)
54 points by saubeidl 11mo ago|131 comments
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Or maybe their products just aren't that compelling ;-)
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Doesn't matter. Rich enough to afford most products, as pretty much the only market other than the US. And more people. Biggest addressable market for most things.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
The EU consists of roughly 500M well-off consumers, the US of roughly 300M. Maybe not quite double, but almost.
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The Authoritarian Stack(authoritarian-stack.info)
20 points by saubeidl 11mo ago|1 comments
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
That is completely orthogonal to my point. You can only sell so many iPhones in the US until the market is completely saturated. A market of twice as many people that can afford them sure is tempting.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
I feel like the madman with nukes approach would probably be enough - just ask North Korea if they've been invaded lately ;-)
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
The EU represents around 500 million wealthy consumers compared to the US's around 300.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
This trope is tiring. * We're leading the world in fusion research. https://www.pppl.gov/news/2025/wendelstein-7-x-sets-new-perf... * Our satellites are giving us by far the best understanding of our universe
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Unless you want to be able to sell to a market twice as big as the US, of course.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
But the world's largest market of wealthy customers does. Might still be a problem.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Then why are all of these metrics worse in the US than even in notoriously poor communist Cuba?
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
But isn't that counter to the very article we're commenting on? Everyone is shoving half baked AI junk into everything because that's what makes number go up on the stock market, but I'm pretty sure that's not act
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
I'd argue the Cold War isn't over and the US is losing it right now with how their president grovels before the Russian one
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
As somebody doesn't consider himself a capitalist, wouldn't it be fair to say it is "the most efficient" in precisely one thing: capital reproducing itself? And if so, why is that necessarily a good thing? Why should tha
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Maybe the stock market is not a good system to organize ones economy around then?
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Again, I would recommend you familiarize yourself with the Paradox of Tolerance, written up by an Austrian philosopher after the horrors of WW2. Honestly, the entire book - The Open Society and its Enemies - might be a good read. We've
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
Our market has rules. Either abide by them or get out. We are fighting Russia all by ourselves already.
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
The authoritarians are the ones owning the platforms - X is owned by somebody who's openly calling for the abolishment of our democratic structures, is supporting far-right extremists in our countries and has done a Sieg Heil on the wo
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by saubeidl 11mo ago
https://archive.ph/gvGaQ
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Keep hitting US Big Tech with fines, Europe's Greens tell von der Leyen(politico.eu)
8 points by saubeidl 11mo ago|9 comments

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