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by zpeti 1y ago
Can someone explain to me how populism is different to democracy? I know what the mainstream answer to this is, but fundamentally, if you are pro democracy, how can you be against the choice of the majority of the people?
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by zpeti 1y ago
He’s not “being paid that much” He’s earned almost all his money through owning part of a company that millions of shareholders think is worth trillions, and does in fact generate a lot of profits. A committee didn’t decide Zuckerberg is pa
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by zpeti 1y ago
Maybe this time the top posters on HN should stop criticizing one of the top performing founder CEOs of the last 20 years who built an insane business, made many calls that were called stupid at the time (WhatsApp), and many that were actua
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by zpeti 1y ago
The one that just agreed to pay 3000 dollars per capita to the USA to prevent a trade war? The one that is also working on a digital age verification system? The one that created an AI regulation that stopped all innovation, and a data prot
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by zpeti 1y ago
Journalists should have realised a long time ago that their opinions are a commodity, and they will destroy their entire industry by focusing on opinions and not on on-the-ground reporting. But they doubled down, and decided to be as opinio
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by zpeti 1y ago
How about all the people out there who are at rock bottom, or have major issues, are not leaders, are not at the top of their game, and need some encouragement or understanding? We may be talking about the same thing, but it's very dif
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by zpeti 1y ago
A lot of the comparisons I see revolve around comparing a perfect therapist to an LLM. This isn't the best comparison, because I've been to 4 different therapists over my life an only one of them actually helped me (2 of them spen
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by zpeti 1y ago
OK I don't think I'm going to persuade you if you don't use GPS. Buy 95% of the population do.
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by zpeti 1y ago
SEPA came 10 years after paypal.
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by zpeti 1y ago
I don't get this sentence. It's pretty damn hard sending money in the EU too. We only had SWIFT and CHAPS too like in the USA. The EU isn't some banking haven with ultrafast transfers. If they are talking about the new legisl
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by zpeti 1y ago
> But the dream has died. It almost came true, and then it was immediately co-opted by a bunch of get-rich-quick grifters and a bunch of turbo-libertarians whose entire identities are defined by the Things that they Own and who want to c
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by zpeti 1y ago
Do you use a GPS? That sometimes gets the route wrong, but overall gets you to where you want to go in less traffic than if you didn't use it? And occasionally really delights you with new routes? (thanks Rory Sutherland for this analo
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by zpeti 1y ago
Absolutely baffles me how you can blow $500m on a website builder without anyone noticing. What the hell happened? Unless it was an actual defrauding of investors, but how were the investors so stupid?
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by zpeti 1y ago
In this case, it's not hard to make the argument that you can't have one without the other. If you're always going to lean into risk aversion and safety nets, you will lose to the player who is willing to make more risks. Thi
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by zpeti 1y ago
> which show that peasants primarily moved into the cities during hard times, when famine and economic woes made their previous lifestyle impossible this is exactly the point. Your children might only starve every 10 years, but when they
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by zpeti 1y ago
> Initially, it was a big step down Is this really true though? Being an agricultural feudal society is much much worse than the dreamy view we have of farming these days, and almost everyone even today chooses to work in a factory rathe
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by zpeti 1y ago
This is quite an interesting post. I would guess that facebook does actually show you friend content if that's what you engage with. After all their single metric of success is ads viewed on the platform, which is the same as time spen
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by zpeti 1y ago
Yes this is the key point, and I really don't think Zuckerberg is to blame for this. It's just how the market moved. Before tiktok Zuck did actually try and move facebook back to friend territory, but tiktok became such a threat t
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by zpeti 1y ago
You can buy an android or huawei phone. Just because the ecosystem you like to use doesn't have certain features doesn't make it a monopoly.
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by zpeti 1y ago
I think this is what your conscious mind thinks but your actual desires don’t. Facebook was refocusing on friend and family content before TikTok came along. But they had to adjust to the TikTok trend otherwise they would have lost market s
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by zpeti 2y ago
Those subsidies also went to Boing and ULA, who also bid on those contracts. This is such a debunked argument but I guess its undebunkable because its a branch you can hang onto about how the only reason SpaceX exists is the government. Qu
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by zpeti 2y ago
I think you have to consider personality types when discussing things like this. Rand seems to me like she probably had Asperger’s, which explains why she is attracted to rationality, and her heroes are like that too. That works for some pe
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by zpeti 2y ago
> There is no Comgressional mandate for DOGE. There is. It was given during Obama. You might not like it, but it looks like DOGE is likely to be completely legal and working within the frameworks of the government.
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by zpeti 2y ago
Who says they are illegal? Can you cite some sources please? Like actual legal experts, not the guardian. As far as I know, the chevron deference ruling makes it easily arguable that these agencies don't necessarily have any legal stan
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by zpeti 2y ago
Nicely said. The problem here is the message clearly resonated and people voted for him. Yes, he might have had help in spreading that message, but the message still landed and people chose him. To now say that the election was invalid when
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by zpeti 2y ago
Which country? This matters a lot. I doubt you are in Greece, or Italy, or Portugal. Did you know on GBP PPP Warsaw and Budapest are now better places to live than Madrid, Lisbon and many other Mediterranean cities? It’s crazy. Perhaps Berl
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by zpeti 2y ago
Ah yes. People didn’t travel before 2020, and that’s why we didn’t have TB back then.
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by zpeti 2y ago
Remind me again - who in the history of the world has ever not been ok with abortion to save the mother?
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by zpeti 2y ago
Because OP is talking about the side that lost. If you want to win, you probably need to change. This isn't about standards, it's about what works.
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by zpeti 2y ago
> his past performance is terrible by all measures. What was terrible for you? He didn't start new wars, he did the abraham accords. He put in a policy of -2 regulations for every new regulation. He was much better on spending UP UN

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