pieds

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by pieds 1y ago
Counterculture is a culture that is counter to the mainstream culture. If a culture is happy on its own, it is more of just a subculture. Cyberpunk itself features counterculture not just subculture, but is also inspired by the countercultu
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by pieds 1y ago
The UK certainly have had its own counterculture. In some ways more than the US. That still doesn't take away from the franchises being published (and in parts made) by US companies with US culture in them. The UK had an influence in p
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by pieds 1y ago
Gibson was obviously very inspired by Japan. The Matrix was also in part directly inspired by Ghost in the Shell, even creating The Animatrix at the same time. But Ghost in the Shell and Blade Runner was told from the inside. It is about th
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by pieds 1y ago
No it wasn't. The question was that if regulation creates more competition with Apple what are the markets with this competition? European companies compete with US companies, including Apple, in areas where there is competition. In mu
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by pieds 1y ago
> The problem is that you pass DMA, DSA, GDPR, etc. which Google, Apple etc. can fight for years in court and if they have to pay a few billion, so be it. And how do you compete with the big tech companies without it? It's been deca
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by pieds 1y ago
Hollywood is organised and there have been many strikes over compensation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hollywood_strikes
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by pieds 1y ago
In some ways, it is just more noticeable now. Because even countries like the US had a huge push for public infrastructure in the road network, state schools and energy when those things were both more and less important than now. Now urban
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by pieds 1y ago
> Comparison data also showed that at every wealth level in the U.S., mortality rates were higher than those in the parts of Europe the researchers studied. The nation’s wealthiest Americans have shorter lifespans on average than the wea
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by pieds 1y ago
It think the site is an interesting exercise. If nothing else to show that science fiction doesn't have to happen like we might think it does. There is no space elevator, but 1 million people in the air at any given time. There is no m
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by pieds 1y ago
No, they aren't. These things happen all the time. Anyone can install Linux on a few laptops. Heck, 'anyone' can create their own Linux distribution. And plenty do. To make a difference they need to hire staff to actually man
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by pieds 1y ago
They don't have the capacity. The opinion you present is actually part of the narrative you are seemingly against. That you can compete with big tech if you just want to. And you "can" compete with big tech, but it isn't
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by pieds 1y ago
PG recently wrote this: > If something isn't important to know, there's no answer to the question of why people don't know it. Not knowing random facts is the default. But if you're going to write about things that ar