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by wubrr 2y ago
All of the VPN shillers/advertizers on youtube should arguably be demonetized/banned for spreading 100% false information.
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by wubrr 2y ago
Except Brave privacy policy directly contradicts your claims (many times). https://brave.com/privacy/browser/ > Safe Browsing > The Brave Browser automatically uses Google Safe Browsing to help protect you
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by wubrr 2y ago
Holding up Brave as some sort of privacy-preserving, ad-blocking replacement to Chrome is a complete joke and 100% untrue.
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by wubrr 2y ago
> it has reasonable way of funding, crypto may suck, but it is believable they will not sell my data You can rest assured that Brave absolutely will and does sell your data. > anonymous bookmark sync with multiple profiles. With Chrom
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by wubrr 2y ago
Slow, and full of ads/tracking.
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by wubrr 2y ago
Firefox, Chrome. Much faster, you can actually block ads with ublock, etc. What is the benefit of Brave over those?
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by wubrr 2y ago
> The difference between the NSA and local cops is that the NSA won't be looking for some bullshit to use as an excuse to arrest or harass you. No, the difference is NSA is much more capable and has much less oversight (not that cop
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by wubrr 2y ago
> The disorder that you dropped from "psychological" is actually semantically important, you know. Lack of self control can be described as a 'psychological disorder'. Also you completely avoided the actual question :
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by wubrr 2y ago
> Addiction is a psychological disorder - it is not at all a matter of self-control. And self-control is not psychological? > people need to stop equating really liking something and being addicted to said thing. Self control is preci
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by wubrr 2y ago
Self control is not 'simple', nor did I say anything about a 'moral failing'. 'Deluding yourself' by arguing against a position you imagined does yourself a disservice and just seems like a simple straw-man.
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It's 100% a matter of self-control.
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by wubrr 2y ago
No, no, no, yes.
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by wubrr 3y ago
In what ways was it better/worse?
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by wubrr 3y ago
I mean, if they're all corrupt, I don't really feel bad for them going after each other either.
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by wubrr 3y ago
Why is it more barbaric than death penalty for something like murder? How much damage would 27B in corruption cause to people and society?
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by wubrr 3y ago
I used zoom in browser before using the apps.. and the annoying dark patterns basically pushed me to avoid zoom whenever I can at this point. A lot of these kinds of dark patterns sacrifice long term user satisfaction and brand reputation f
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by wubrr 3y ago
9's are useful when they're backed by an actual SLA - like GCP Cloud Storage and AWS S3 availability SLAs. Neither one commits to any durability SLAs whatsoever so I wouldn't put any stock into the 'eleventy nine nines&#
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by wubrr 3y ago
> As far as I can tell, every cloud provider's object store is too durable to actually measure ("14 9's"), and it's not a problem. How can you tell that if it's not measurable? As far as I can tell the &#x27
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by wubrr 3y ago
Profit margins on new builds have been increasing[0] and the labour market in not too hot from what I understand, so that makes me think we can probably build more. But if we truly can't build more - introduce a tax on multiple propert
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by wubrr 3y ago
> Where do housing in the rental market come from if they aren't purchased and rented out by investors? Purpose-built rentals. Also, the need for rentals and rent prices in general would go down if most of the new builds weren'
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by wubrr 3y ago
Nah, ~20% of all housing supply is already owned by investors. Over 50% of new builds are now being bought by investors (over 80% in some cities) [0][1]. [0] https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-cities-have-seen-up-to-9... [
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by wubrr 3y ago
Investors buying up housing supply are not creating any new housing whatsoever. What they are doing is decreasing the availability of new housing for those who actually want to buy a home to live in, while at the same time cornering the ren
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by wubrr 3y ago
They didn't say they are empty? Most investors aren't keeping their properties empty. The empty places are generally owned wealthy people as a second/third home, or as means for foreigners to offshore their wealth. And this a
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by wubrr 3y ago
What? The market price of labor always 'demands' that it be lower... literally import millions of 3rd world immigrants into any first-world country and you will see housing shortages, infrastructure shortages, wage decreases/
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by wubrr 3y ago
You're ignoring the fact that most of the new supply being purchased by investors means they have more power to increase rents, re-leverage their existing real-estate and buy up more. Continuously increasing real-estate prices and rent
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by wubrr 3y ago
Most investors don't keep their housing vacant, and getting around this specific tax is trivial. This is mostly for show, similar to the foreign buyers tax - the vast majority of investment properties are bought by local investors, but
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by wubrr 3y ago
I bet 80%+ of that is bought by investors before construction completes.
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by wubrr 3y ago
The point is supply does not match demand. Immigration is unlikely to ever be low enough to counter the housing demand at this point - every single corporate/lobbying group in Canada is pushing for more immigration, and every single re
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by wubrr 3y ago
Canada is not building enough housing, but you're 100% right about the government propping up the housing prices any way it can.
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by wubrr 3y ago
The problem is that most new housing in Canada is being bought up by investors, and the government refuses to do anything to disincentivize this, and continues to prop up the bubble any way it can. That might be because the majority of the

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