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by throwaway284721 7y ago
This is in fact a major problem for the EU.
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
This has nothing whatever to do with this article.
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
Since when is cleaning the streets the responsibility of private companies?
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
Why not pirate it.
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
The reason for this is that if one state has better social programs then another and higher taxes the poorest are going to move there, and the high earners are going to move away.
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
So what's wrong with being bought off? People in Kuwait have it very well.
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
An honest article would say that a humanity degree signals that you're conformist and happy to tolerate boredem just as well as a STEM degree, and a STEM degree doesn't teach anything relevant either. This article says that with a
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
> As a rule, populists of the right (who are usually capitalists) don’t know how to divide the pie well, while populists of the left (who are usually socialists) don’t know how to grow the pie. Right populists don't know how to grow
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
> Inflows of hard currency push up prices, squeezing the competitiveness of non-oil businesses and starving them of capital. This is true for any kind of industry that a country has a competitive advantage in.
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
How much you pay in taxes does not depend on how much you use roads. So it doesn't incentivise people to use roads less. That's the point of road congestion pricing.
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
The difference is that people loose their money if the policy doesn't have the effect they predicted.
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
Isn't that the purpose of reputation? Some people are more trustworthy then others, even if they aren't perfect.
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
Technical solutions solve social problems all the time. A lock is a technical solution to the social problem of theft, and much superior to a social solution.
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
What's interesting about this is that there isn't even a narrative or a partisan bias here. The media just lies because there's no reason not to.
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
I think you should show up at my home to justify yourself for this comment in person, otherwise I don't think you deserve a hearing either.
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
> That being the case, I'm not sure that statement is correct at all. On the contrary, it seems like if FB were required to offer an easily exportable data format, that other services would pop up overnight to try and lure people aw
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
> I agree with this. Having a private corporation that's invested in engagement, which is also headquartered in the US (very far geographically and culturally from some of the places it moderates) be in charge of defining what'
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by throwaway284721 7y ago
> while extracting value through some kind of exploitation. In your view, are there ways of "extracting value" that are not "some kind of exploitation". Is "changing the world for the better" incompatible wi
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by throwaway284721 8y ago
I doubt US allies are going to buy a plane because of a PR piece.
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by throwaway284721 8y ago
It also reduces the incentive to innovate in the first place.