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Even if Meta doesn't do it themselves there are likely hundreds of companies that do, and Meta can pay them for the data they want.

Dumb people say dumb things. My guess is there are a lot less dumb people now than there ever has been. But dumb people will always exist.

I've never read any of those authors. Sociology has never really interested me, but good for you for learning history and studying what interests you.

Like, if you're looking to engender yourself to someone common hatred is surprisingly effective. People inherently trust others who agree with them, and shouting loudly you hate Nazis is a cheap and easy way to gain points to the crowd they're trying to gain favor with.

My take is if you're so unconfident in your ability to discuss you resort to shouting you hate Nazis, you're probably a moron. It's like saying "I disagree with anyone who even SUGGESTS drinking rat poison."

Like yeah, no shit.

You're getting downvoted, but I'm not picking up the "just asking questions" vibe.

In context that quote is about race mixing. I had never read the book until I searched for that quote, and the author is, essentially, claiming human achievement is the result of a few hyper capable people, and everyone else is simply benefiting from their ideas.

Leading up to that quote the author is saying "species" (and I'm assuming in earlier chapters the claim is made that humans are not a single species) shouldn't interbread because one is always better than the other, and therefore the offspring won't be as "good" as the better parent.

So in context this is essentially saying the death of every culture happened because less "quality" humans started breading with the "quality" humans.

Which is hilarious, because after reading a handful of pages from this book I can only assume Hitler is the dumbest mother fucker whose ever existed.

What about something like the Salem witch trials.

Everyone agreed they were witches.

There is no such thing as a witch

I guess I'm not following your thesis then. Can you say, simply, what you believe ethics are. And why democracies are inherently more ethical

I fully believe a benevolent dictator has more capacity to be ethical than even the strongest democracy.

And it's ridiculous to argue otherwise.

In reductive terms, there is ultimately the best decision. The thing that is the best. Humans, by definition, have varying capacity, and varying experience. I can say, unequivocally, that younger me was an idiot. And the decisions I make now are much better than the decisions I made when I was younger.

In a democracy you're optimizing for the most acceptance of outcome. People of varying capacities and varying world views will argue their opinions, and results will be the closest to the middle ground that most people can live with.

So yes. If you're maximizing for ethics a single person can do that.

And in my scenario the person who owns and controls the wages isn't taking the stance of paying the lowest wage the market will bear.

Let's push this a little further though. Let's say the company paying $100/hour is ethical by your definition. And by your definition the comoany paying $200/hour cannot be.

I would argue the second is still the more ethical company, especially when you consider the community it's within. There would be more resources for more people.

That's just not true.

Let's say a person became a billionaire running a consulting firm. The going rate for consultants at every other consulting firm is paying their employees $100/hour. Our billionaire paid their employees $200/hour.

Are you saying that wouldn't be ethical?

This article is more about how insane the EV market was during covid than anything else.

They're discussing how a Tesla ordered in 2022 has had its price cut by 30% in the last year. Most people here are probably aware of Tesla's massive discounts since their covid peak.

EV depreciation is also a weird topic on the whole. I bought an EV in the last year and received a 7500 tax credit. To make the numbers round let's say I bought a 50k ev. That's the price that gets reported. If I were to sell that car today I'd get around 45k for it. That's a 10% depreciation in the first year

However, with the tax credit I effectively paid 42,500. If I sold the car today I would make 2,500. The sales records don't include the tax credit in either of those transactions.

Tesla cutting their prices massively did hurt companies or people who paid pandemic prices. That said, arguing EVs should be more expensive is ridiculous. They should be as cheap and as plentiful as possible.

No. You can confirm the server received it. That's different from a user opening it and reading it

You're hand waving how it's actually implemented.

Like if you want to tap a wire you can do that. It's not hard.

If you want to selectively listen to communications happening on that wire you still start by tapping the wire. Then you listen to everything and filer out what you need.

I'm unfamiliar with how this is currently done, obviously. But if the difference here is the FBI not using their taps, or the taps being completely removed when this expires that is a meaningful difference. And should be discussed.

That's the whole point. They can force you to agree to updated TOS before they allow you to access their app.