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by ta1243 1y ago
If iphones were charged with US labor costs then nobody would buy them
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> What products can I buy that don't filter up some percentage into these billionaires bank accounts? Very little, that's why wealth tends to increase in the 8-10% a year increase but income doesn't.
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His business practices in the 90s and 00s were terrible. His actions since then have been far better. The hate he gets now tend to be from people attacking his more recent actions. "Trying to cure malaria - clearly mind control" s
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by ta1243 1y ago
Tax on income keeps wealth with people who have wealth, and people without wealth wage slaves. If you rent a $10m house you pay $500k a year for it. With 50% tax you'd have to earn $1m a year to pay the rent. If you own a $10m house yo
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Starlink was built to provide a customer for large numbers of space launches.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Depends where you live, but plenty of countries you're at risk of kidnapping at 1/100th of that net worth and thus need bodyguards
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by ta1243 1y ago
The average rural farmer in India has instant access to a world of information and entertainment at his fingertips 24/7 via his phone Even just 30 years ago the most a billionaire would have were staff who would find information (at a
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by ta1243 1y ago
Personally I'd hate the lack of privacy
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It's really sad that you equate "reward" with "earnings"
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by ta1243 1y ago
Of of the BBCs jobs is to scrutinise the government. Editorial independence is essential. You can argue how well it does this, but if the government has direct control over its funding, it clearly won't be doing that task any better.
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It's never been changed to a direct tax to prevent direct interference from the government The BBC has an obligation to serve everyone, not just subscribers. Netflix has an obligation to serve subscribers, at least well enough that the
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by ta1243 1y ago
If you want to change it to a BBC subscription fee, then you're just changing the BBC into Netflix. The whole point of the BBC is that everyone pays and everyone can benefit - same as the NHS, or libraries, or roads. I think the only w
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by ta1243 1y ago
The protagonist with Vietnam flashbacks would obviously have to be altered, you couldn't have skits about Ronald Reagan - nobody knows who he is, nor do they know who Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is. Having the autopilot smoking after being inf
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> I actually don't disagree that the license fee in its current format is a problem, ideally it should just be impossible to access it without having paid, but I don't think it's feasible with the way freeview works So you
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> I do not believe that people are more productive after about 4-5 hours a day of work. That depends very much on your work
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by ta1243 1y ago
> It is a living thing. It should not be destroyed on a lark. Weather it is 10 year old or 150. They are being remanded in custody for their own protection . They've received death threats. It's a pile on powered by social med
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by ta1243 1y ago
The Sycamore Gap tree was only about 150 years old. Sure it was striking given the position, but the outrage over it seems to be somewhat overexagerated. Compare far less outrage when a restaurant chain chopped down a 500 year old tree. Whe
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However many people will infer causation from the timing. Half of people don't even read the full headlines any more.
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The is from a 2022 EU directive, well before recent US government actions, it's been developed for quite some time.
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I'm confused. This is a story about war crimes, not local councils? Are you saying your binman or librarian will shoot you?
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by ta1243 1y ago
HN is a US Site America doesn't care about Russia. Russia is a threat to Europe, not to America, and America doesn't care about Europe either. Likewise Europe doesn't care about China, and certainly countries like North Korea
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Only when those papers are referenced
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Alas half of drivers are worse than average. I'm one of them. Yet I still haven't had a situation where "lane assist" or "front assist" has actually been a good thing.
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> Access InsideEVs and over 450 other websites as e.g. motorsport-total.com and formel1.de without banner ads, personalized tracking and video ads for only 3,99 € per month.
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My car randomly braked today because it thought a car on a side road was pulling out. Not just sound the alarm but actually apply the brakes. Fortunately I didn't have a tailgater behind me. I disable the "land assist" every
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London Underground has nice clear policies around this, both about what you'll be charged https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/how-to-pay-and-where-to-buy-tickets... And about refunds (typically you'd get an automatic re
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Do robots rely on being ionized? I'd have thought a robot which wasn't ionized would work just fine
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SSH Certificates is a far better approach even if that many users needed direct access. It's not 1990 any more.
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A better idea would be the terminal trusting one or two core certificate authorities and then those authorities creating time limited certificates when needed. So the terminal accepts "sshauthority1" Then the 41 remote sites conta
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> I don't want to subsidize the US military-industrial complex. Well you picked the wrong government for that!

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