npc_anon

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by npc_anon 1y ago
All these takes on European workers being too shielded are nonsense. First of all, they're greatly exaggerated. The specific case of a large German company that is union connected doing layoffs is cherry picked. It's basically the
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by npc_anon 1y ago
"If you don't like it, don't use instagram." I get what you're saying but by current EU privacy law interpretation this approach is not allowed. You can of course charge for services but you cannot charge people jus
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by npc_anon 1y ago
You're just retrofitting reasons to justify the behavior I describe. Forget about those reasons. They don't matter. They can have merit or not, it's irrelevant. Because the behavior takes place regardless. When people can leg
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by npc_anon 1y ago
When I say "all" and "zero" it's obviously tongue-in-cheek, not a scientific assessment that is to be taken literally. Of course there's exceptions.
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by npc_anon 1y ago
In a situation of supply scarcity all the market needs to do to function is to sell this limited supply. And this does not require the median citizen to be able to afford this supply. Thus the market isn't even irrational.
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by npc_anon 1y ago
People block ads and/or not pay for content because they can. Simply because it's possible. People have been conditioned to consider any and all digital content to be worth zero. Yet continue to consume it for hours on end every d
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by npc_anon 1y ago
The problem in your logic is that all points starts wit "I". You're not the only stakeholder in any of those interactions. There's you, a mediator (search or LLM), and the website owner. The website owner (or its users)
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by npc_anon 1y ago
Not to mention that the Patriot Act kicked off digital surveillance and the US has far less privacy protection online, if any at all.
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by npc_anon 1y ago
In a recent tweet the company gave an example of a user running Claude 24/7 costing them "tens of thousands of dollars". For any such users it requires hundreds if not thousands of "normal" users just to break even.
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by npc_anon 1y ago
Apple is late but has the resources to catch up in AI. And if not, they can just partner with the AI providers. They'll even get paid for it, similar to Google handing over billions per year to Apple just to be the default search provi
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by npc_anon 1y ago
Balancing the population pyramid does not require number go up. It requires replacement level birth rates. When that birth is far below replacement, you get a collapse that cannot be stopped once it gets going.
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by npc_anon 1y ago
The two things are not mutually exclusive. One looks at the size of the population, which is projected to keep growing for a while. It keeps growing because people live for a long time. The second looks at the age distribution of the popula
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by npc_anon 1y ago
This suggests an optimum of 2 full-time working adults where after a long day at work they perfectly share the workload of chores. This is morally fine and correct from a fairness principle but it misses the point entirely. Dual income work
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by npc_anon 1y ago
The problem is that the time benefits of automation are never returned to the people. We'll just invent new bullshit jobs. (paid) hours worked per family are massively up over time despite exponential progress. We have stuff but no tim
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by npc_anon 1y ago
My utopian vision is that people should largely be freed from work. The new job is to create families, raise them, and enjoy them. No coercion is needed for these families to be created, we'll produce them out of boredom. Similar to wh
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by npc_anon 1y ago
True, one can not be famous but still have a lasting impact on society. This is not one of those cases.
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by npc_anon 1y ago
That's exactly what it does mean. If you're not famous, you have no legacy.
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by npc_anon 1y ago
What legacy? She's not a well known public figure. She ran the ad department at NBC. Is now very rich and at age 61, close enough to retirement age.
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by npc_anon 1y ago
The article praises Jamie Zawinksi, for calling out Mozilla on its failings. My take is that listening to him is the quickest way to irrelevance. He calls out Mozilla for accepting crypto donations, so they stop it. Now they get less donati
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by npc_anon 1y ago
States with a low sales tax tend to have high property taxes. Apparently the New Hampshire median home price is 487K. With a property tax of 1.89% that's 9.2K/yr or $767 per month. EU property taxes are a fraction of that: https:
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by npc_anon 1y ago
The "United States of AI" cannot produce everything themselves. The USA is the biggest importer in the world. Your 100% independence scenario is a fantasy. Also, when you disown property owners and default on debt, this doesn&#x27
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by npc_anon 1y ago
Meta is an ad business. You maximize ad revenue by maximizing time spent. You maximize time spent with a slot machine that exploits our psychological weaknesses. Meta intentionally drives this and don't forget that it's helped by
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by npc_anon 1y ago
The context is is Big Tech regulation. Of which there is barely any, allowing these monopolies to exist in the first place. Everything you claim to be American, responsibility and choice, is harmed by having monopolies. You're so anti-
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by npc_anon 1y ago
The "EU over-regulation" argument is pathetic. The exact opposite is true, 2-3 decades of zero regulation has led to Big Tech empires that can get away with anything. It harms the free market, harms the freedom to compute, creates
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by npc_anon 1y ago
People like you keep forgetting that the EU is the single largest consumer market in the world. This does not mean that Apple gets most of it revenue from the EU, but it's still a sweet $90B in 2024. In which world does a company give
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by npc_anon 1y ago
They absolutely would struggle. 70% of browser usage is mobile where people use the pre-installed browser: Chrome or Safari. There's not a single alternative mobile browser that has more than 2.5% market share.
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by npc_anon 1y ago
Correct, and it's a proper moral test for Mozilla, which they obviously fail.
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by npc_anon 1y ago
When you fork Chrome, you have zero users instead of 4 billion.
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by npc_anon 1y ago
In the US it's 40%. The 10% difference is explained by the US having limited to no public healthcare or pensions. Those are largely paid for privately, which pretty much balances it out.
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by npc_anon 1y ago
When the bill arrives you already knew it was coming since you requested it. So you could have simply had your payment method ready. Then you look at the number and pay it. As adults do. To make clear that you want to make the payment immed

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