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by xster 9y ago
Are eggs really literally $0.50 a dozen? And perhaps a bit alarmist but if it is, is it really a good thing for you/your family/the chicken/the environment/the employees in the factory/the transportation system&#x2F
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by xster 9y ago
The whole dynamic rerouting thing is a prisoner's dilemma though. And the Bay Area is probably the worst are to avoid the metaphorical snitches.
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by xster 9y ago
I wonder, if a European implementation of the TPP existed and passed, whether Facebook could have sued Belgium('s public coffers) back for lost profits.
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by xster 9y ago
Not sure you can win at this game. I wouldn't be surprised if facebook pushes engagement notifications to you friends saying 'Person X commented on product Y with all caps comments! Exciting? Shocking? You decide! (After a short 4
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by xster 9y ago
The most underrated comment of the whole page.
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by xster 9y ago
And you can also get redeem codes from secondary markets so there's always a way to get a deal.
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by xster 9y ago
Is it just because the volume is too small or it's due to the material? Can some breathable membrane ports be installed?
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by xster 9y ago
I think history would be a good source. We think we're facing unique challenges but the debates we're having today are already eerily discussed ad nauseam by Greek thinkers. And first sources are already so accessible that it&#x27
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by xster 9y ago
I think there's also a risk of conflating 'education' with our 'education system' that teaches citizens to be good productive workers but doesn't teach citizens how to analyze and debate about the nature of our
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by xster 9y ago
And Rome lets the mob run the Comitia Tributa via popularity contests, including dismissing opposition Tribunes. I'd argue Rome died not in 476 but in -121 when the Senate killed Gaius Gracchus and didn't realize they needed refor
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by xster 9y ago
Ya, I don't mean in private conversations. In corporate media.
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by xster 9y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted. Going through their about page, I'm still not sure I understand the monetization model but from a technical perspective, the infrastructure solution is fascinating.
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by xster 9y ago
YouTube is like Walmart. - There are people who just need to do some work and get out of their house and aren't motivated by earning money. - There are those who make it their career and want to work up the chain. They will be minimall
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by xster 9y ago
Sounds reasonable in isolation but you can pretty much apply this line of thinking to all of capitalism. Health insurance can be divided into the healthy-young-professional-who-pay-premium-and-never-get-sick package and the old-sick-people-
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by xster 9y ago
Is it me or terms like 'dumping' is only ever used in one direction and when the US exports heavily subsidized agricultural products, it's just plain old free market trade.
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by xster 9y ago
I'd add 2 more anecdata points - The strong sense of rapid progress, culturally, technologically, socially, infrastructure-wise. Everything transforms every few years and there's still the sense that everyone's hard work goes
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by xster 9y ago
Shanghai is "smog-choked"? The AQI is the same as San Francisco. The score is easily 10x worse in other cities but specifically Shanghai seems overblown.
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by xster 9y ago
Wouldn't that physical analogy be caused by factors unknown to this algorithm though? Air flux, non-homogeneous air, air impurity etc. Would flames not be symmetrical if all of the above plus everything imaginable like quantum physics,
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by xster 9y ago
Though to be fair, the article claims Bezos is 'the richest man in history'. Not 'the richest man in their cultural sphere in history' or 'the richest man in their continent in history'. https://en.w
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by xster 9y ago
I was just talking about the macro level Washington Consensus capital/labour trade mobility. i.e. I'm comparing the lower labour cost of the west in general vs the west before the 70s. https://www.epi.org/productiv
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by xster 9y ago
Couple the labour immobility with capital extreme mobility and you get the capitalist's wet dream: lower labour costs.
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by xster 9y ago
Basically it's like a progressive tax system. How the income is sourced doesn't affect the budget expenditure in the end. And instead of varying on your income bracket, it varies on how early you got in the queue, which has nothin
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by xster 9y ago
I wish we can use the same technology to turn all distractions into opt-ins instead of opt-outs. i.e. once a month, you get a Gmail or iPhone admin notice that says: "This month, these 4 new apps you installed and there 3 new domains s
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by xster 9y ago
It was a fun read but I feel like the article is also partly re-invoking your imagination on assumed stereotypes you already had. I'm by no means an expert but from playing around with it a bit, it seems no different from something lik
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by xster 9y ago
And the native culture is thriving. All tribal languages are taught at school. No child is being sent to resident schools and getting sexually abused. The native population is has lower rates of suicide, substance abuse, obesity, poverty et
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by xster 9y ago
The CIA's overt branch NED doesn't exactly hide that they fund separatist movements in Xinjiang either.
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by xster 9y ago
> not properly communicated to the user s/user/buyer Selling a car that markets 300,000 miles but can't drive over 3,000 rpm anymore after the first year is not a car, and marketing it as such is fraud.
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by xster 9y ago
It's fine rationalizing it but how is that conceptually different from say Comcast saying: "Well actually your 100Mbps connection was just a first year promotional speed and now dropped to 20Mbps unless you sign another limited pe
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by xster 9y ago
I love how straight-faced and dark this is. You sir are a poet. Please accept my reddit fake gold as a token of social approval.
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by xster 9y ago
I agree with your general sentiment and how China's gaming the system. I'd also be very cautious about assuming the 'system' (WTO) even pretending to be fair or democratic or not conducting economic wars of aggression

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