caramelcustard

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by caramelcustard 4y ago
So basically: instead of just having what you need, just, like, hope that your neighbour has what you need. Great plan, i also hope that the neighbours are going to always follow me (just in case i'm going to move elsewhere). "Sur
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
"...we change direction to reshape society, to become more ecological, more sustainable etc." This is literally what the criticized growth-focused system is doing: from recycling waste into new products to carbon-capture technolog
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
"Inequality" in percentage but not the actual revenue. Not sure what is the point of adding VAT though. "The rich" does not pay it i presume, just like "average people" are free of capital gains taxes (lmao).
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
"The latest government data show that in 2018, the top 1% of income earners—those who earned more than $540,000—earned 21% of all U.S. income while paying 40% of all federal income taxes. The top 10% earned 48% of the income and paid 7
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
"Honestly I think this is obvious to anyone who is not financially motivated to think otherwise." which implies that the interviewer and the economist are acting in good faith and are not financially motivated to push certain idea
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
Encouraging stagnation among the easily impressionable English-speaking audiences of the economically successful nations i see. Good luck convincing certain Asian countries that they should stop their growth in the name of the "steady-
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
Outside of small scale Etsy-tier tech/non-tech stuff? Nothing. What a garage is good for though is prototyping and prototyping related R&D. Given that you have a 20k-50k USD budget, perhaps you should look for cheap commercial prop
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
"...they're not rich enough to be deemed an "accredited investor"..." startup investing is not Kickstarter and both the investors and the recipients tend to like knowing that there is some merit behind the money. &q
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
Alternative title: FCC brings an end to an internet meme.
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
In an act of slight contrarianism, i would add another one to the list: trying way too hard to be the complete opposite of a "self-centered narcissistic control-freak".
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
Journalism as both an industry and an institution is going through a global "subculture" phase: from the arrogance of "you can't sit with us" attitude of ideologically driven media to those who follow neutrality for
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
If only! The "traditional media" bubble is merely getting augumented with the help of "influencers", sketchy Twitter accounts, state-run networks, fringe outlets, social networks, web celebrities and so on. Just because
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
Thunderbolt and docking are to blame.
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
No way, i thought laptop manufacturers were running a charity! "...these anti consumer things." except AFAIK it's because of Thunderbolt and docking. Yes, USB 4 is a thing, but it has some differences.
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
"That is why Macs have wget instead of curl." I got curious and decided to look that up. Did you mean to say "curl instead of wget"? "GPL does not necessarily mean poison, but that is what it has become." don&
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
What's more peculiar is that the laptop in question belongs to the Thinkpad lineup. Before reading the article, i expected it to be an Ideapad.
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
Depends on what tech industry we're talking about. Do you consider car parts to be mainstream? Manufacturing equipment?
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
Yep, perhaps if Apple/Google decided to be more hesitant to work with more difficult markets all of this wouldn't happen.
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
I doubt that EU wants companies to leave the market and they don't seem to encourage the growth of profitable European competitors to Google/Apple, so most likely it's the literacy issue and on top of that they're "
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
The observer astronaut back on Earth: you two weren't supposed to say that!
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
If someone wants to invest in a startup, wouldn't they prefer to use a system that, you know, isn't going to be decentralized? Traditional (or should i use the term "legacy"?) startup investing already has a huge slew of
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
If the innovation is worth something, even if the company is forced out of the market, it can be either reused in further endeavours of the shareholders/company owners or the research can be continued under the guidance of some other c
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
Leg-Ows. (Sorry).
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
People say stuff all the time but tech speaks for itself. Capitalism has always been on Joe's side, wanna know why? Because unlike the alternatives, it doesn't try to hide the "means of production" AWAY from them and in
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
Thanks for clarifying!
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Mercedes-Benz Bionic – the “fish car” concept of the 2000s(en.wikipedia.org)
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
I agree on that and i didn't take a whole lot of things into account. In fact, i'll add up another aspect: making a communuty dependent solely on a desalinated water transported either by pipe or vehicles of any kind from far away
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
I meant the hippies that eventually became high ranks in finances/tech (in terms of pay and Buicks per garage ratio).
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
There are videogame streamers and YouTubers who easily provide over 4 hours of content on a regular basis, mostly for free. It's going to be either making subscriptions as content rich and cheap as possible or hoping to get a renaissan
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by caramelcustard 4y ago
I wonder what quote people brought up during the licensing bickerings of way before that "what if we were all to just like rent things lmao" article.

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