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“Software has inertia.”

I also wondered what’s the connection between the online gambling industry and slavery so I Googled. Here’s one article I found: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story&#x…

> contributions are worth 1/4 as much if they live in Warsaw? Under the "free market", compensation isn't some objective number etched into a tablet somewhere in the universe. I…

> This may be a little easier to grasp if you look at language. In many languages (most? nearly all?), you generally don't express lacking food as saying "I have 0 food" but as sayin…

> And some people are holding multiple full-time jobs doing that sort of "work" glares at /r/overemployed I would be highly surprised if there are any meaningful number of peopl…

> blaming their poor performance on this downturn Do you think their poor performance is primarily due to something other than this downturn?

Just as there are far fewer producers than consumers, so too are there far fewer do-ers-of-interesting-things than people who only dream of or fantasize about doing interesting things.

> "Despite how great the newfound mental-health awareness is among teens, there seems to be a trend of using mental-health diagnoses as a social currency,” he said. Is it healthy to be so acut…

> IRC, as an example, Newsweek lost its trusted status Precisely, it lost its trusted status, but the GP posts that WP trusts publications that have gone bananas. So your example speaks in fav…

Right, but that just emphasizes the parent comment: if there’s nothing to disturb your sleep, why would you wake up to notice the train isn’t moving.

> one merely challenging them I'm always more interested to hear from someone who also has suggestions for improvement or change.

> premature hyperbole just slows down adoption Wasn't it intentional euphemism in this case, however?

> cesspit of flashy videos and clickbait posts. ... that people in your network (re-)post, right?

Where have they "gone"?

I don't know that that is a relevant rebuttal to the argument that "lots of money means more likely to survive (even thrive)". More money means more degrees of freedom to experiment, th…

> Constantly asks for access to location, contact book, photos etc. a) Isn't that reasonable for a chat app? I mean, contact book, photos, location are all things that are likely part of the …

> Why do you consider TikTok to be social media A reasonable definition of social media is that it refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and/or exchange…

I don't know that fashion or cultural norms (e.g. hat wearing) are of the same fleetingness as deeper human behaviors like FOMO, narcissism, vanity, etc. These seem so deeply ingrained and transc…

> dominating the cultural communications of billions of people I think it is much worse than dominating. Let me try: as a FB user, your "communication" with your network is not only medi…

> Facebook cares a great deal about its users--advertisers. > You and I aren't Facebook's users A user is someone who uses a product, by any reasonable definition. Advertisers are cert…

good lord, that's obscene.

Just $400? I couldn't find pricing anywhere on their website. Is it really that inexpensive?