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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
Economic stagnation for the past 15+ years? Economic growth almost stopped in much of Europe after the GFC. > suffer two world war consequences I don’t particularly see how relates to general attitudes towards innovation.
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
It’s mostly pennies relative to the US, though? Obviously nobody implied it literally doesn’t exist.
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
Also extreme risk aversion and generally very conservative business culture stuck in 60s (just less accepting of innovation than back then)
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
The product “quality” seems hardly relevant for social network services? Only the user base matters, otherwise Google Plus would have won against FB..
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
That doesn’t work when the incumbents are so entrenched. You’d need to go the Chinese route and just ban everything to give the full market to domestic alternatives.
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
Mosaddegh was appointed by the Shah and Iran was very far from a functioning democracy with fair elections in 1953.
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
Courts and legal obligations are to a certain extent irrelevant at this point. There are plenty of illegal ways that Trump can fuck over Google and face no consequences. e.g. he had Colbert fired (and who knows what else) by threatening to
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
> Trump cannot instruct Google to Tim Apple and the other tech CEO constantly groveling at Trump’s feet indicates that he might be able to do that. Just like threatening TV networks about having their licenses revoked of blocking mergers
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
But I do. Often based on direct personal experience.
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
It’s not so much the individual employees fault (or personal failing) that most of them in most large enterprise companies aren’t doing anything meaningful and useful. That’s just how large organizations works, bloat and inefficiency is kin
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
Intelligent individuals tend to make rational decisions very often this doesn’t result in rational behavior on the organizational level. Large corporations like Microslop, Google, Meta etc. were frequently behave like headless chickens
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
There is hardly any need to import food from anywhere besides the EU, though. Which would be rather low risk.
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
Well Switzerland is effectively in the EU (economically if not politically) so same standard mostly apply anyway.
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
Economically it would make more sense to import food from France, Spain etc. it would reduce the cost of living for the overwhelming majority of people with limited negative economic impact.
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
There is a distinction between racism and xenophobia, no need to assign the same label to everything. i.e. the thing about Italians was cultural an educated immigrant from Northern Italy would have been considered as white as a French (not
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
Maybe its a bit like Brexit, i.e. not rational immigration being one of the major issues when it did nothing to reduce the immigration of (non-white) people from third countries and EU migration was rapidly decreasing anyway.
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
It has slowed down massively for CPUs at least. e.g. modern CPUs are hardly more than 3-5x faster than those from 10 years ago. There is zero reason to think won’t happen over the next 10 years again.
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
That’s really cultural, though. In a lot of places those topics are generally more than acceptable and maybe even expected (in moderation at least)
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
I mean maybe not in a vulgar and explicit way but it really depends on the environment and the manager.
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
> Citation needed for that one. Current reality? Of course its more on the (social)media level. Significant proportions of the society in many countries seem to be living in alternate realities. Real life echo chambers reinforce that as
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
> replaced human social interaction That was always the case historically. Outside of family people mainly interacted and formed social the mainly with the people they worked with. There is nothing modern about that if anything we have m
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
Which to be fair isn’t that great in either country regardless if you work in tech or not. In major cities if you rent or have a mortgage (taken out recently) it’s basically poverty level.
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
> Different category Isn’t Steam mostly webviews though ? > Java Well.. It’s not that massively different from running Qt apps in Gnome, though? > ABI compatibility I’m sure it matters for Swing to an large extent. Of course it the
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
> If building data centers in space is cheaper So you don’t have an argument because everything you are saying is based on some absurdly speculative nonsensical premise? > costs for space tech keep going down How do you measure the co
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
Yes and no. Downplaying “honest” convictions and other motivations unrelated to greed is flawed. Plenty of people in history did what they did because they truly believed in it (of course there were usually several motivations) For instance
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
No they didn’t, quite the opposite, they were the main customers and and certainly accelerated the spread of the technology. Of course banning the printing of specific books is another matter. Islamic countries OTOH handle banned or strictl
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
> India in 1947 invested in freedom of though Almost nothing China did until the late 80s really helped economic development. If the CCP focused on doing the inverse of that through its brutal and exceptionally misguided policies. China
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
> Exterminate millions of its own (undereducated) population in meaningless wars and poorly–planned public works? Well economic growth and development in China only began several years after they stopped doing all of these things. They w
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
Economic growth in Taiwan only began accelerating when it began transitioning from a brutal dictatorship to a democracy. Something like applies to China, of course liberalization there was primarily economic and only political to a much les
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by wqaatwt 4mo ago
Taiwan and South Korea were ruled by quite brutal dictatorships until the 80s - 90s. Massive growth only started when they sorted that out. Of of course we must attribute China’s success to significant liberalization and the rejection of Ma

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