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by vladms 1y ago
Many north African and middle eastern states tried to switch to democracy and that did not go as planned either, would that mean that democracy does not work? Any policy (UBI or others) must take into account the state and potential of the
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While I would like that as well, I think inequality is easier to define than poverty (for inequality you can consider only wealth and income), easier to explain and easier to act on. I think that even two like-minded people can spend too mu
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by vladms 1y ago
I think we should avoid extreme inequality. We should talk distributions not "equality" vs "everything else".
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Individual agency is important but I feel that people perceive it in a very simple way, "I work" => "I live as I want". I think a major difference between East Europe and West Europe (can't talk generally about E
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Solving any of the existing diseases, will not result in significant upheaval of society. I am not against trying to "solve aging", but I don't think we should think of it as just a disease, and there should be more plans on
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Generally true, although population ratio seem a bit off (EU population is 75% of USA population and USA GDP is 1.5 of GDP EU). But GDP is not the only thing that matters. I personally (as European) care also about how the average people li
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by vladms 1y ago
> There will always be a limited quantity of being "The Best" at anything Still, to pick a simple example, we do have different sports at which different people are "The Best". One solution would be to multiple the c
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by vladms 1y ago
To be fair, we have lots of things that people in the '90 were just hoping for (in medicine, tech, average world wealth, etc), but sure we didn't get all the maximalist/idealist results. Also, I think tech optimists might hav
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by vladms 1y ago
I think that if you expect that "movements" that promise you something, to deliver at 100%, you are in for many disappointments. Still, it is not like nothing happens: 1) Many people I know in IT work at least partially from home,
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by vladms 1y ago
It means there is a law, and Germany makes a reasonable effort to apply it. Germany asks for Steam to use a different system than "Asking the age to the user" (which in my opinion is hilarious and obviously a joke), Steam decides
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by vladms 1y ago
So how does the US deal with age restricted games? I find this much more related to actually willing to implement a rule, rather than having rules for the sake of it (like the US buying alcohol rule - it is forbidden for people under 21 to
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Not sure if "mainly" means in terms of total value, number of transactions or people using it. If I would be to guess it would be total value. Now, these guys might be biased, but to quote: "The EUR 500 note alone accounts fo
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Cards and transfers are different things though. What I have seen from Wero (released to the public) are Peer to Peer transfers, so if you don't need to transfer money to a person, Wero will not help you for now. Some card fees are cap
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by vladms 1y ago
Have you ever read the contraindication list of a medicine? It is the same kind of trade-off. Someone can choose to use something in a "mission critical system" (whatever that is) because the alternatives are worse, not because th
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by vladms 1y ago
Isn't this the idea of charity though? To give without expecting something in return? I think open source software had a tremendous positive impact even if some companies also made profit out of it. How would it have been otherwise? On
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Worth thinking of it also "the other way". As long as some people (developers) accept an MBA above them getting 38x, without adding much value, this will happen. I don't personally like it (so generally did not allow to happe
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For me personally they seem to be more expensive than competitors and have a more aggressive stance on openness (ex: compare PWA support on Android vs iOS, not to mention the multiple other things like no multiple stores, the browser engine
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There are so many actors out there that collect data (ex: GSM companies, utility companies, CCTV, states, etc.) but nowhere near as much discussions as mobile phones. Regarding Google, I’m consistently disappointed by the ads they suggests
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Tech companies that I use and (more importantly) I pay for and I think there is a "respectful" relationship: Google (via Android), Microsoft (via office365), OVH (via servers), Proton (via email). And there are others, but tried t
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I think it's more about the type of store. I was with acquaintances returning clothes at high end stores (meaning: expensive) and service was great. I would not try that at a low end store (meaning: cheap). From my point of view proces
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> It is amazing how upset even the most decent and understanding of people can get when they feel you've slighted them in some way. I personally think that shows hidden issues in said people - at least that they take things too pers
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For me, having people consider "moral failures" aspects of their personality is the root of the problem. We should not have that except for the most horrible things (murder, etc.). Still, after living in a couple of different coun
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Glad it somehow worked out for you. I find it very sad though that you felt somehow "guilty" (based on "selfish malformations in my personality and social skills"), which I would see as a toxic society pressure. Not sure
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I do not think there is "one" purpose for a PhD, and not everyone gets the same thing from it - it depends on what are a person's strong and weak points. I have seen very smart people not able to explain at all their work and
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I never thought to check my banks login pages, as I never had an issue with the loading speed. I had other issues (related to bad bank related service) so I changed a couple of banks. Current banks login pages are a bit below 3 MB. I see it
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I am sure a capitalist system will NOT work great for a tribe of hunter gatherers! The problem is not the socialist type of ideas, it is whom you are applying them to and at what point. The society must have certain complexity, capabilitie
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Talk about it (worked for the ozone layer and some pesticides), use less (not that hard), support any alternative. And I think this works for any topic. The helplessness is a feeling, hard to assess the impact of individual actions, so why
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It is optimistic to think they will "laugh" about the environments harm. That would mean they would not suffer a lot of the consequences of said harm. Let's hope it will not be that bad to become fanatical about it.
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I would favor freedom over one size fits all "that is good, that is bad". 40 years ago you had no option to make and keep that many pictures. Even if I would agree with you that people keep too many digital pictures, if someone wa
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I see it as a trade-off. There will be people passionate and rational enough about a project to make it work 90% while being a total jerk for the rest 10%. Would that make me put in the effort to do all the work? If jerk people "push i

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