unity1001

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by unity1001 4y ago
> But what I’m saying is that there are so many factors that all contribute to the problem This kind of overcomplicating the problem makes finding the solution more difficult. Regardless of many smaller factions converging in different m
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> what creators can do on twitch comes down to what the advertisers are willing to put up with Eh. Then those advertisers will have to create the content from now on...
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by unity1001 4y ago
> Are there any DAOs that do something that's NOT entirely about crypto things? That will be difficult until crypto is improved to have the user friendliness to allow non-crypto-savvy people to use crypto services. Even the very act
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by unity1001 4y ago
> But I could just as easily say that a rise in unfettered capitalism led to a loss of public good research combined with regulatory captur These are the very lot who pushed all the deregulations and created the movement to go back to 19
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by unity1001 4y ago
> Its just SV and its very... Clintonesque(?) brand of doublespeak Wow now. That's an interesting and a very good way to describe the problem that plagues SV in general...
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Thinking that one single person could end an entire religious movement with 'arguments' is totally naive. Neither thinking that Reagan wasnt on board with them for speaking up against certain personas. Birchers were behind most of
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by unity1001 4y ago
Unfortunately it is not a story. The group started with people who convened in small bible study groups who met in each others' homes and churches. These people thought that 'America' was lost, and it should be 'taken ba
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by unity1001 4y ago
> What precisely caused the observed reversal of the long-term trend around 1980 remains perhaps even more difficult to pinpoint Not at all. https://newrepublic.com/article/161603/john-birch-society-qa... John
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by unity1001 4y ago
> Profit motive above all else is fundamentally incompatible with the social engine that powers the open source community. Its not. Freemium format works splendidly in various ecosystems, one of the biggest being WordPress. It enabled WP
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by unity1001 4y ago
> Only half? That's so civilised. Inter tribal wars ended with all the men dead or in slavery Well yes, that's true. But one could consider the central Italian unification wars as even nastier affairs. However yes, its not like
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Those rebellions in those provinces start after Romans export half of the population as slaves and send the rest to work in the local mines. There's the catch. Actually, its worse - even if you were a saintly society neighboring Rome o
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by unity1001 4y ago
> I see this in a lot of historical Wikipedia articles now. I'm not sure what to think of it. It feels like a modern tag added to articles that feels somewhat out of place. > My understanding that at the time, and most of history
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> No, that is wrong. At least in Finland And in Spain and France, its the other way. With the new Euparl draft law soon going to make it mandatory. https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/02/eu-platform-worker-direc
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> US has been arming Taiwan since its inception. How is now different? After Nixon and the relations being restored in between China and the US, a detente was reached on this. The US avoided arming Taiwan in a way that it could be a thre
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by unity1001 4y ago
> True, but it's entirely possible that such a use case will never materialize Hard disagree. DAOs already exist, for example, and they are widely used even if the phenomenon is unknown to who doesnt have an interest in it or who is
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> China is concerned about currency markets so that is why they have to invade Taiwan? China has to invade Taiwan only if the US starts arming Taiwan to use it as a pawn against China like how the US openly declared that it intends doing
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> the crypto tech cycle was one of the stupidest things Same was said for the user-generated content that lived in the community forums on the fringes of the web back in 2000s. Big sites and 6-figure columnists even suggested that these
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by unity1001 4y ago
> I hope China recognizes that challenging the West politically and economically is much better option The Taiwan War is being pushed precisely because China has been doing exactly that and the US wants China to stop and do what Japan di
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> You seem to be assuming that there are no assets available to match to the depositors above the $250,000 per account I dont assume that. Since the bonds they have lost their value, there aren't enough assets to match the deposits.
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SVB didnt lobby to relax the laws against unpaid overtime, faulty advertising etc. Not any banal evil like that. SVB lobbied against laws that protected both the bank and its depositors from the very thing that happened. And succeeded to ge
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> The depositors “took risks” by literally keeping their cash in a bank? This is ridiculous Its not ridiculous. Its how the free market works. Its a choice. There were other banks that were compliant with the regulation that !protects! t
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> Having your bank account randomly disappear isn't one of the risks that anyone should have to take. Then you put your funds in less risky banks who did not lobby to get an exemption from the regulations that protect against precis
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It is a bailout - the 2008 bailouts were done to save the deposits and investments inside the banks, not 'the shareholders' as so many seem to try to use as an escape argument. Its because if the banks' hollowed assets were n
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Bank bailouts in 2008 were not made to bail out 'the shareholders'. They were made to bail out the sunken assets inside the banks so that those banks could continue operating, including still 'having' the depositors&#x2
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> “Privatize the profits”? What are you talking about? The owners of SVB are wiped out The depositors took risks by lending their money to such a risky bank for better returns in lieu of the risk. It doesnt matter whether SVB gave 0% int
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> Why do you think that? There is no axiom of "capitalist philosophy" that says "when one party screws up all parties must maximally feel the pain". That was a capitalist business in which the depositors were LENDERS
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> Linux happened and nobody paid (in the beginning) Linux happened mostly through the contributions of the paid developers of the Linux foundation. And still the majority of the commits belong to those developers. And it was possible to
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The public has an interest in enabling high risk ventures, BUT, this must happen through a well designed mechanism that sustains itself. Like how I explained in my comment later: Through the taxes levied for that reason, through insurance f
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The general public doesnt care about the shareholders. For the public, a bailout is a bailout. By lending money to that bank, depositors took a risk and participated in the bank's business. It was NOT a state bank. It did not pay any t
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> Here, the depositors are being bailed out There. Now its correct. Rephrasing something does not change its nature. The 2008 bailouts were done with that excuse too. They were 'too big to fail', and it would 'affect eve

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