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Because there aren't avatars and signatures. Those are essential to recognize users and also find out what they're about (signatures with links to other sites helped everyone). Also even a little personalization will be an incentive to invest a little more time in the community.
Don't worry, if you read the article well and then read her other article you'll see what kind of person she is and why she comes up with that conclusion. You are probably wise enough to know when it's socially appropriate to ask questions, so go on.
Good job, more space for people who don't care about the planet or anything outside their tribe
What if it succeeds for the wrong people?
Voting is not speech. Also it's what you aren't allowed to say that changed.
Take a look at anarcho-capitalism and Murray Rothbard. You can find many works of his on mises.org
It happens in all societies where people are forced to conform and markets are closed to people without a license. Japan is economically the mono-ethnic version of what US/EU are moving towards: a society where you must fill in the boxes given by the system or f* off.
On hacker news since most people are in CS/IT, a field that is almost free (but not for long), it may look like we still live under goverments that are business friendly. But that's not the case at all in other sectors, and many people aten't allowed to find a place in the market.
People today can't get their feet wet when trying to find a place in the market, they must immediately do a full dive. No wonder more and more are drowning.
Some things shouldn't even be proposed. If someone proposed to kill old people, he would be fired or even arrested. Same thing should happen here. But no, idiots and evil people can propose all kinds of evil stuff over and over and over, until it passes. Why? Many reasons, but "it's just a proposal" is one of them. It's never just a proposal a proposal and since these people have huge responsibilities they should use their brains or it means they are evil and must be punished.
I am from the EU and I appreciate you
I wonder if he teaches word because it's mandatory or if it's a choice. Because if this people live in a village without electricity and computers, maybe there are better skills they can learn before microsoft word.
Not just business, even information websites are affected. This is the most vicious attack against freedom of speech the EU ever pulled off.
Nobody believes the legislators have ill intent. Then they find themselves ruined but waking up then is hard too.
Unable to direct attack freedom of expression, the spread of informations and small business, the EU developed another bureacratic layer on top all the bureaucratic layers already in effect. This layer is pretty hard to comply with, and requires a lawyer always on retaneir for peace of mind, ensuring that publishing online is de facto reserved to few players. Every other interpretation of the law is naive, just like with the cookie law, if they really wanted to stop the abuses of the big players they could have done so. Instead they're ruining normal people, because that's the real objective.
I'm gonna go full populist here and say that instead of making AI really smart so that they can read a contract, we should make AI as smart as an average human and discard the contracts it can't understand.
Yes, in fact I was talking about crony-capitalism. Also consider the fact that Italy is the country where a communist party got the largest share of the popular vote, ever.
But fun thing is that after ww2 many communists in Italy didn't really like economic central planning bcause it felt too fascist. So, they were communist but they didn't practice communism to the full extent. Italy also used to have classical liberals like Einaudi who even became president for many years, and kept politics in check. Sadly, I noticed that we are moving towards statist ideas more and more, with people expecting the State to solve everything and regulate all aspects of life. It's scary. Even people like Berlusconi or Salvini, while right wing, still have a lot of statism in them, even considering just what they appear to be.
Taxes and bureaucracy and crony capitalism are really high. The State and political parties also have a great propaganda machine in place and blame everything on tax evasion (it starts in school with specially designed cartoons [1]. Truth is that with a real tax rate that goes from 70% to well over 100%, only those who evade taxes or practice crony capitalism can survive.
But even despite this the tax evasion rate is really low in rich areas, even if you take into account the rate given by official stats (which are probably fake since those who made the stats need tax evasion to appear high in order to justify the persecutions of entrepeneur), while is a little higher than EU average in poor areas where people either eat or pay taxes (and in Italy there are no food stamps no real welfare for the cronically unemployed).
Also we had hundreds of capable entrepeneurs who were brought to suicide by State persecution, with illegitimate request of money from various government body.
Also, another fun thing is that if you are persecuted by our equivalent of the IRS you can go to a special court, where the judges are people who used to work for the IRS equivalent or similar institutions designed to persecute business (not exagerating). Despite this the IRS equivalent still loses over 50% of the time [3] because it asks for money it shouldn't even in light of our anti-business laws. Just recently they have been found out while bringing fake documents in court [2].
But that's nothing but a hint of the terrible tax situation in Italy, so there you have it
[1] https://goo.gl/images/VjFqaB [2] http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/altro-che-fisco-amico... [3] http://www.linkiesta.it/it/article/2012/03/20/contenziosi-co...
In some cases you can assign the object you want to copy as the [[prototype]] of another object, this way you delegate what you don't want to change and change what you want in the "copy" via assignments
This looks more like the old dance that has always been done in all industries. Rich and influencing people saying "we need to regulate the giants", so the legislators regulate the market and the giants don't have to face competition anymore but just give the lawyers a little more cash, maybe for some bribes too when things get a little too messy.
This tactics is as old as the laws, we should recognize it instantly.
Yeah, this "alarms" are just a way to call for regulations that will in practice pull up the ladder so other companies will never be able to climb where fb or google stand now. This has always happened in all industries: some companies become big and then they use the excuse of limiting their own power to close off the competitions to enter the market, in fact stabilizing their power and creating a REAL monopoly. I don't understand how can informed people still fall for this move.
This looks fun, good job
Honestly when I see other libertarians speaking against net neutrality I suffer a lot. Good to see at least there is one other that understands the pro-nn arguments
Putting in jail legislators who make evil laws should be a good starting point. What's evil will be defined later. The point is that there must be a serious incentive in thinking before making laws, this stuff affects everyone, if you want to do it you must be willing to pay a price when you act evil like the EU thugs are doing recently. Am I really so naive if I ask to protect freedom of speech with some better incentive than a paragraph on a constitution that says "plz don't do it"? Really demotivated.
Because it is one of the few sectors where you can be a little creative and not obey the rules set by corrupted bureaucrats decades ago
Wikipedia is extremely biased and, more important, it is not the internet. If you teach people that internet is cable tv 2.0 very bad things will happen.
Proof EU isn't needed, free market will fix everything
This is how most of uni lectures are. The only interaction you get is badly answered questions that would not have been asked if it was to possible to pause or rewind the lecture.
Politicians keep saying things like "China is the future", young people hate free speech, so there are no reasons to hope.
But that's all the fun