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daevout

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    Comment #36013365

    That might be true for the subset of suicides the author has studied, but there are about as many reasons humans commit suicide as there are reasons they commit homicide, which is …

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    Comment #35674081

    That is a good way of looking at it. What's missing is a catchy name to debase store-based installation similar to what was done through "sideloading". Perhaps "lord-loading", "beg…

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    Comment #35340814

    China has done what's only being talked about in the west: successfully broken up a powerful tech conglomerate. One needn't resort to the kind of marxist leninist tactics that were…

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    Comment #35336259

    The problem is that children, rather than free farm labor, are now too expensive, while the wages on which the majority of people depend, are too unpredictable and intermittent for…

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    Comment #35335871

    Google's is the best business the world and chatgpt opens up round 2 over who gets the hold the rains of that beast. The hype originates in the business comminity, and it's about a…

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    Comment #34735606

    Of course, the problem is that the trade is on offer at all. In the antiquated view that the government exists for the protection of the people, rather than to coddle corporations …

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    Comment #34735202

    > Five years from now, I think we will not see "remote only" for a large company and think "ooh, they value their employees I guess" Also, remote work opens the door to replace exp…

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    Comment #34665358

    Yes it absolutely is, but imo less so than what GitHub Copilot and various image generation companies are doing. My theory is that if AI turns out to be as disruptive as the curren…

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    Comment #34543094

    Amazon, Meta, Google are most certainly cut from the same cloth, only slightly smaller. For Wal-Mart I can't think of anything strictly anit-competitive, but its practice of paying…

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    Comment #34542728

    I can't think of a company more blatantly engaged in anti-competitive practices than Apple, but I'm glad to see all that unfairly amassed wealth benefitting even the lowest rungs o…

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    Comment #34542222

    Indeed if we did apply that level of analysis to other companies, we might not have emded up depending on a one man dictatoship flush with concentration camps, ongoing genocide and…