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by throwaway44773 2y ago
Of course, monopolists force you to pay extortionist prices for their services in your local market, while they get to take advantage of the global market to keep down their expenses, and move their revenue around to avoid taxes. If corpora
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
Animals who see infrared are cold blooded. My guess is that the hardware that evolution can easily produce to detect and process infrared gets flooded by the heat of warmblooded animal and is therefore not effective for them.
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
I pictured eagles consulting google maps to find their way before I realized that some eagles have GPS tracking devices put on them.
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
The US has already strongly reduced the use of a very addictive substance in the past by making it culturally unacceptable in the case of cigarettes. Japan has the same culture already with food, where there is strong cultural pressure to n
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
US corporations managed to make food addicting by using science to formulate food in such a way as to trigger a massive spike in dopamine followed by a massive drop a short time later. Combining that with an individualistic culture that lea
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
My main complaints with protests these days is that they seem to be astroturfed to keep the discontent people busy with protest that cannot bring about any meaningful local changes. Either they are about far away things happening in the wor
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
It's telling that dei in latin means gods and I always found it weird that people rarely point this out.
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
Regarding the Manhattan project: you can't compare the cost of research and developing a novel device vs the cost of developing the same device using stolen secrets.
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
Scarcity of skillset. If there are 10x as many people than now willing to do the job, companies would offer much lower salaries while making the same or worse work demands.
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
The solution to homelessness is not allowing people to sleep in the streets, but making sure they have a place to live.
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
The right equivalent would be a christian proselytizing to his colleagues. He’d end up with HR complaints quite quickly.
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
No one needs 32GB, the same way no one needs a MacBook Air: you could very well lug around an iMac or a tower PC if you don't actually need macOS. That doesn't stop me from being annoyed at the arbitrary market segmentation that A
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
Is this the year where Apple increases the memory on the base model above 8GB? Will they finally allows you to have 32GB of memory on the macbook Air? Will Apple finally do like all other computer manufacturers and allow you to connect two
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
Kids spend too much time thinking about social issues that they are not ready to deal with because they are used as pawns in the culture wars or manipulated to feel like they need to consume more. Society has a responsibility to stop manipu
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
I'd be curious to see where these 14 million vacant units are located. It's quite likely that the majority of them would be located in places where people do not want to live.
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
A comment doesn't conform to my worldview, so it has to be satire, right? Your solution is what? More government?
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
They are only able to do this price fixing because of the scarcity of housing right now. If much more housing is built, prices will drop.
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by throwaway44773 2y ago
Not to mention that construction has seen little gains in productivity over the past few decades resulting in the Baumol effect in the industry. There's little reason that constructing new housing cannot be automated to the degree that
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by throwaway44773 3y ago
Unless the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights and freedom is invoked
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by throwaway44773 3y ago
So, by your logic, if someone forgets to lock their door, you should be allowed to walk in and steal everything not bolted down?
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by throwaway44773 3y ago
There’s already a well known correlation between heart disease and gum disease. One of the hypothesis is that plaque creating bacteria from the mouth end up in the bloodstream and create plaque in the heart. It wouldn’t be a big stretch to
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by throwaway44773 3y ago
Then mysql got bought by oracle
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by throwaway44773 3y ago
Great, another app that will no longer work soon after I buy it.
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by throwaway44773 3y ago
The world needs identity verification as a service. By this, I mean it should be possible to go to an office of ID Check inc, show ID and prove who i am. The id vetting company can then give you a number that you can give to a company to pr
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by throwaway44773 3y ago
Or the internet is being gradually completely censored leaving only the big sites that are controlled by whoever is in power, as well as a sea of harmless spam that provides the illusion of lack of censorship.
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by throwaway44773 3y ago
Saying that prices rise because of corporate greed is the same as saying that fires burn because of oxygen. Sure, it's true, but it's not helpful because you cannot stop people from being greedy. What is useful is to look at why c
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by throwaway44773 3y ago
Those are the expected, if not intended, consequences of environmental legislation looking to decrease CO2 emissions. I can live with that. The real scandal is that we're not building out public transit so that people do not need to ow
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by throwaway44773 3y ago
Having a driver's license is basically table stakes for having a job in the United States. There are exceptions if you live in dense areas with good public transit, or you can work from home.
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by throwaway44773 3y ago
The barrier to entry to driving a truck is a few months of training so the amount of people that can become truck drivers is quite large. However, the social status of driving a truck is quite low and there is a constant threat of automatin

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