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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 …

"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 servic…

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 behavio…

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.

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 supp…

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. Y…

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 …

Not to mention that the Patriot Act kicked off digital surveillance and the US has far less privacy protection online, if any at all.

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…

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 billion…

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 …

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 …

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 …

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…

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 cr…

True, one can not be famous but still have a lasting impact on society. This is not one of those cases.

That's exactly what it does mean. If you're not famous, you have no legacy.

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.

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…

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.…

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 pr…

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…

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 …

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 …

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 …