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by tomdell 6y ago
I think it more to do with the historical lifestyle and culture - Swedes, Finns and Norwegians have been integrated into the continental mainstream of settled agriculture and Christianity for centuries while Saami held out as a more nomadi
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by tomdell 6y ago
Funny considering Apple’s argument for disallowing alternate app stores is that their App Store curation creates a safe experience for the user.
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by tomdell 6y ago
It’s encouraging that initiatives like this seem to be popping up more often - co-operatives of workers looking to cut out corporate middlemen. It will be an uphill climb, but I hope this is the future. The technical moats of a lot of recen
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by tomdell 6y ago
That’s roughly 10% of China’s annual national GDP. Doesn’t seem like a big deal yet.
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by tomdell 6y ago
That seems to be the MO!
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by tomdell 6y ago
Personal experience: My company had record profits due to cost cutting in 2020, yet my department’s budget was frozen at the beginning of the pandemic and remains frozen. Two team members quit briefly before the pandemic and were never back
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by tomdell 6y ago
“ The senior official told Reuters, however, that the plan is to ban private crypto-assets while promoting blockchain - a secure database technology that is the backbone for virtual currencies but also a system that experts say could revolu
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by tomdell 6y ago
I genuinely can’t understand why so many people are willing to make a large purchase from a company so willing to lie to and exploit its customers.
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by tomdell 6y ago
Bitcoin still doesn’t provide any significant value outside of black market purchases, though. The increase in value is due to an increase in hype and a lot of people hoping to get rich quick - not due to increased practical adoption. Gove
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by tomdell 6y ago
Isn’t an editorial just a long opinion article? What would you describe it as?
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by tomdell 6y ago
Pitchfork editorials almost always skew more political than musical.
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by tomdell 6y ago
Just another instance of VCs pumping money into a bad but appealing idea and propping it up indefinitely at the expense of society at large. This kind of investment really needs to be more closely regulated - the businesses never even have
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by tomdell 6y ago
Surprised by the majority of comments here. How many of you have actually looked at these pictures? A private entity decided to stop publishing certain things. Another private entity is declining to sell old copies of said things. This is n
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by tomdell 6y ago
Starting a company has the potential to create something of value for people outside the company, though. Buying some Bitcoin and it increasing in value doesn’t really change anything in the world but the amount of money the person who boug
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by tomdell 6y ago
“Replacing” gold? Do you expect that gold will disappear or become worthless?
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by tomdell 6y ago
McKinsey is in the business of convincing governments and other entities into parting with massive sums of cash for relatively simple research and recommendations. They get by mostly on the appearance of prestige rather than any legitimate
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by tomdell 6y ago
I’m not so sure that video games are the “most important” aspect of youth culture. Within certain groups, yeah, but that has been true to an extent for decades. AAA video games still skew to largely male audiences, and people don’t build th
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by tomdell 6y ago
That’s a high price for one season of Reno 911.
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by tomdell 6y ago
Switch which sides of the bed you sleep on. Get more involved in each other’s individual pursuits and hobbies. Buy tiny canvases and paint together. Call friends and family you haven’t talked to for a while.
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by tomdell 6y ago
This led me down a Wikipedia hole where I learned about John B. Calhoun’s experiments with mice - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun#Mouse_experi... Very interesting - once the “mouse universe” reached a h
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by tomdell 6y ago
That claim by Jeff Dean has been more or less debunked. The real reason that Google demanded the paper not be published is that it is critical of models underlying the company’s fundamental business - the whole message from Jeff Dean is ver
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by tomdell 6y ago
My Spotify recommendations are great. Do you listen to music on it often?
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by tomdell 6y ago
Polling has issues, but it's an extreme exaggeration to say that it's dead and that any statement based on it is fictional. Anecdotally, very few people I know are comfortable with the state of personalized ads. The kind of people
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by tomdell 6y ago
76% of incorporated places in the US have a population of less than 5000. I’m not sure a 50k+ place can be referred to accurately as a small town - where I’m from, cities with populations that large have managed to maintain their local pape
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by tomdell 6y ago
This seems like a profoundly irresponsible move. After selling expensive snake oil FSD hardware for years, Tesla is putting a flawed system into production that people will trust too much and which will inevitably lead to accidents. This co
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by tomdell 6y ago
Waiting on incompetent and self-aggrandizing “ourselves” to save us is a recipe for disaster. Corruption is not a problem “we” can solve.
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by tomdell 6y ago
America and American capitalists benefit from America’s position, so I can’t imagine American isolation going much further. The US controls many of the world’s major supply chains and trade routes and ensures them with its military. What co
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by tomdell 6y ago
Half the population will still destroy the planet in half the time. Businesses, governments, and individual people (especially in the Western world) need to coordinate on consuming less energy and focus on sustainability.
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by tomdell 6y ago
That was my point of view when I considered myself a libertarian. If you actually give the stuff a chance and read it - it’s just facts, often untold and unknown. It did shift my views far to the left, but the only thing holding me back fro
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by tomdell 6y ago
Who are these “people” who keep referring to “we”?

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