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Why would they be fined? All tech businesses operate like that.
Re:Why the world stopped having sex on Sunday February 25, 2024 @01:53PM (#39503567)
The industrial revolution created unusual economic conditions that evened out socioeconomic inequalities. The socioeconomic inequality that existed before then is probably a more nature state for societies to tend towards. Over time the inequality will eventually be restored.
I used to live in a historic property in rural MI built in the 1800s. There was a huge chestnut tree growing on it that was at least 50ft tall and looked like it could've been as old as the house. I don't live near there anymore but I always wondered if it might have been an American chestnut.
It's weird to write an article about the housing crisis without mentioning the artificial scarcity caused by the foreign speculators and domestic monopolists like Blackrock buying up all the houses.
Amazon is first and foremost a marketplace for cheap Chinese goods and counterfeits. It strange it's taken this long for people to start picking up on that.
Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data on Thursday June 09, 2022 @10:00PM (#31689143)
Are we pretending it wasn't Musk calling Twitter's 5% bluff to begin with?
This study tests judgement but then makes conclusions about behavior when behavior was never actually tested.

Is this science?

Re:Inflation rises to 6.8% year over year on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:12PM (#29514137)
Having the economy crash would just speed up global warming. You can't have clean energy and reduced pollution without investment in new tech.
Re:How do you solve a problem like misinformation? on Friday December 10, 2021 @01:41PM (#29513732)
It's not a technical problem, it's a cultural one. Society's values simply have to be in the right place and it's takes time for a sophisticated culture to evolve.
Re:Gravitational waves should permanently distort space-time on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @02:09PM (#29488958)
So were talking about magnetic monopoles except with gravity this time?
I'm more concerned about political bias in the scientific process at this point.
One issue that I've noticed with their system is that usually when a person posts an image, they take a random guess at the ID, and then all their friends will dog-pile on agreeing with it. There are so many misidentifications on there and not enough experts to correct it.
if society's intuitions began instituting racist rules like this, would everyone have to become racist just to compete?
Re:Why has examine.com disappeared from search results? on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:20PM (#20678290)
because google is following their bottom line. they're getting paid push healthline and webmd to the top.