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by zpeti 2y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but frankly human nature just doesn’t work that way. We don’t have self control. We weren’t evolved for a world of abundance. This is no one’s fault, and it’s everywhere, china is getting fatter than most countr
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by zpeti 2y ago
I don’t know why you are getting downvoted. This is just as valid as saying education has gotten worse. It’s likely both are causes, and some other things too.
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by zpeti 2y ago
How is reducing the government “bad policy”? Clearly there are bad ways to do it, and it’s risky, and hard, but calling it outright bad policy is wrong. It could be great policy if done well.
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by zpeti 2y ago
> I really loath Cato's hand-wavy libertarian claims pieced together with weak arguments in their writing pieces. There's very few actual libertarian voices anymore, so I think just for sparking conversation it's good. Whe
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by zpeti 2y ago
You know you can actually like people with different political views to yourself. I think Zizek is a super nice guy, despite disagreeing with 90% of what he says. I still think he's a great person with a nice soul.
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by zpeti 2y ago
Yes, but the author of the article doesn't do that either. Everything is dismissed as ridiculous and old fashioned. Which is also just silly. Not rebelling or rebelling against everything are both bad paths. You need to realise some th
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by zpeti 2y ago
> Not knowing your life, it feels like you could have said the same towards people buying pricy concert tickets when there's royalty free music abundantly available. Wow, What a great analogy. That really is almost the same except n
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by zpeti 2y ago
So building an amazing product (as the author says), and then charging however much you can for it is “price gouging” (Thanks Kamala. The only reason I imagine this article popping up now is the price gouging wording) As far as I knew from
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by zpeti 2y ago
He didn't "escape to Russia", this is a very disingenuous, and plain wrong to say. It's ridiculous having to explain this after 11 years on HN, which is supposed to be a techie place for intelligent people. Either you&#x
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by zpeti 2y ago
> One Ket trip away from becoming a recluse This was literally debunked by nasa but I’m so glad HN is so captured by anti musk narratives it’s impossible to post anything good about him with getting downvoted. Pretty sad state of affairs
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by zpeti 2y ago
We have Ariane space, rocket lab, blue origin. We need more than one musk. Unfortunately that’s like one in a century.
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by zpeti 2y ago
Does spacex not exist in your world or what?
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by zpeti 2y ago
I don’t think this has anything to do with apple. It’s about getting out before a likely market crash, that will inevitably lower the value of almost all companies. The only risk here for buffet is the fed coming in with a huge rate cut or
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by zpeti 2y ago
I genuinely hope this isn't a massive political issue where the people in charge are risking these two astronauts lives because they simply cannot stand asking Musk for help, and again making it look like the establishment simply canno
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by zpeti 2y ago
I think maybe OP is thinking “populist” generally is a slur for non-social democrat right wing governments these days.
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by zpeti 2y ago
He gets laid off to if he fails. And both he and employees get to keep what they've earned up to that point. I don't see the difference except in the size of the paypacket. Both are employees, and are owed AT MOST 30 days of work.
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by zpeti 2y ago
Why is Microsoft winning the ai race, not google who everyone said is best placed? Was this a collective decision by thousands of Microsoft employees, to go in this direction? Is it thousands of google employees fault they missed it? By you
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by zpeti 2y ago
No, a lot of that value (and revenue, something you are missing!) was created before AI. Azure, office 365, cloud, these were all massive to Microsoft and had created loads of value and revenue. That isn’t a bubble. Also AI might be hype, b
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by zpeti 2y ago
Why didn’t IBM, oracle, or google or apple do it then? Or you? You do realise you are saying, if you haven’t done it, you are less than an untrained chimp yourself, just by the logic of your statement?
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by zpeti 2y ago
Sigh. First of all, Nadella has created a trillion dollars of value over his leadership. His pay packet of $40m is nothing. Second, the E was never about equality of pay, or fairness. It’s equity. It was about quotas in hiring and equality
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by zpeti 2y ago
It depends, yes ESG was pushing these agendas, but I’m not sure how much influence blackrock and vanguard have in the tech sector. Although it seems many in the tech sector agreed with ESG and implemented it anyway.
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by zpeti 2y ago
Now do Snowden.
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by zpeti 2y ago
Ok great, you’re definitely right, let’s not do it. What now? Will Elon stop? If Elon doesn’t stop, does that make you right?
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by zpeti 2y ago
> Landing and then what you plan a flag and die? Pretty much, why do you think columbus set off? And he didn't even know if he'd actually find anything. I don't understand your attitude and people like you, human beings ha
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by zpeti 3y ago
“ Turns out you were the uninformed one. From the context through parent posts you can clearly see this was about a website using google adsense and by that, the company sells my info to an external (google) which then tries to take advanta
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by zpeti 3y ago
Many websites that you rely on would not be around if it wasn’t for Google ads. You think it’s some sort of choice you have between being tracked or not, but it’s not, it’s between having a fairly decentralised internet or not. And unfortun
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by zpeti 3y ago
“ Selling my personal info to external companies” What? What are you even talking about? Google does not sell your personal info. You’re delusional
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by zpeti 3y ago
Come on, this is such a ridiculous take. Adding google adsense to a website needs a cookie bar. That’t not "doing sketchy shit with people's data" I can’t believe how many people have bought into this EU regulation hook line
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by zpeti 3y ago
It’s not socially acceptable to me. If someone talks to me with their AirPods in they are already at -100 in my opinion of them.
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by zpeti 3y ago
Highly doubt this is a good political move atm, so it’s very unlikely to happen

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