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herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
True overall the price is probably not that significant. I appear to have bought about 250 ebooks for my Kindle over several years. So even if I had saved 2€ for every one of them (which would be a lot), it probably wouldn't really warrant a lot of effort.
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I've decided to get rid of Amazon, and ebooks are one of the difficult issues.

Are there no independent sites like goodreads or LibraryThing left? I don't really need the tracking, but the discovery.

Also I have found that actually ebooks are sometimes cheaper on other places than Amazon, so a price comprison would be good. It could be integrated into a site like LibraryThings- LibraryThing already has it to some extent, but doesn't seem to include most vendors in my country (Germany).

Also there were other reasons why I didn't want to use LibraryThing anymore, which I have forgotten. I just remember that I didn't want to use it anymore some years ago.
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Extracting gold is very wasteful, I'm not sure it is better than Bitcoin in terms of environmental impact.

And Bitcoin is much more useful than gold. You can easily send Bitcoin to your family at the other end of the world. With gold, not so easy. Even buying and selling gold is much more difficult. Storing gold is also much more complicated, you can not encrypt gold, so you need physical protection.
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
In many cases it doesn't.
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
So you propose shutting down the internet to end Bitcoin?
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Interesting idea, but how exactly would you validate the CO2 emissions? If somebody mines a block and claims it only consumed x of CO2, how do you know it is true?

What seems possible is to check what miners mined a block, and externally verify their footprint. But I don't think there is a decentralized way to do it. An entity certifying "green miners" would be a centralized authority.
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Sorry but "doctors going on social media" is absolutely no proof for anything. I have also seen several doctors on social media say that there is less activity at hospitals than usual.

Seriously, just provide the numbers about hospital use. No social media nonsense.

Your data about "excess deaths" is only for the last five years, by the way, not "any previous year".
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Why not simply provide data to counter their "lies"? What makes you so sure to be in possession of the truth? Have you verified yourself, or have you simply chosen to trust the authorities?
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
So individual labs can set their own standards for detecting an infection? Isn't that rather support for the skeptic's viewpoint? So there actually is no standard, just labs claiming things?
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I don't know about the UK, but for example in Germany there are official statistics about ICU use. ICU use was at normal levels the whole time. But of course that is also being managed by scheduling risky surgery, for example.

Nevertheless, I don't know what makes you so sure your claims are true. I haven't really seen completely convincing evidence.

I have seen politicians publicly proclaim that the opportunity the pandemic provides should be used. So there definitely ARE politicians who would like to use it. What makes you so sure that none of the politicians in power, or indeed any of the other actors involved, don't share that sentiment?
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
That article is hate speech. How can I be sure that it is not "bylinetimes" that is part of a "disinformation network"?
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
It doesn't matter, the German government hardly ever finishes their big projects. They just want to look good on paper and spend some tax payer money.
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
That doesn't make sense. You claim Trump rejected the offer that Amazon secretly made to him?
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Who was responsible for the decision to not offer help with vaccinations under Trump? I had always defended Amazon, until that moment, when they declared they would let people die for their ideology.

Now I am trying to purge Amazon from my life, and it is hard. Much more difficult than Google. I had even started to use their grocery deliveries during Covid lockdowns. Maybe if it was Jeff's doing, and he is gone, I could justify continuing to buy from Amazon. But I guess not.

Interesting that many say AWS is the actual business of Amazon, and they may get rid of the rest. It seems to me AWS would be the easiest to replace, after all, there are lots of cloud standards. Can't you just take your Docker images and publish them somewhere else?

It seems much more difficult to me to replace the aggregation and efficient logistics. In fact I don't see any competition.

Now that they want to see me dead, I want to see Amazon dead, but I have little hopes for it.

Their achilles heel might be trust - online reviews are almost completely broken now, and complaints about fake products are rising. Their answer to the latter seems to be to steal successful products and sell them as "Amazon Basics", but that is evil and also won't work for having "everything".

Another issue could be people returning their stuff or even damaged goods. I see a surprising number of people who have no ethical qualms about returning things they already used or that are broken.

Maybe the future will be to buy directly from producers? That seems to be the only way to avoid the fake products? So someone should come up with ways to make it easy for producers to sell their products online, or at least provide a chain of trust.
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
You mean Brexit was kind of UK truck drivers smashing the trucks (because of cheap competition, and AI would be even cheaper, so more truck smashing)?
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Maybe they will? I think somebody will still ship stuff to the UK. Or are the predictions coming true and the British people will now starve to death because of the EU trade embargo?
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Nobody can prove existence or non-existence of a god (except a god if a god would exist).

It is usually just a statement about likelihoods. Absence of evidence for existence of god(s) makes it seem very unlikely god(s) exist. Especially after millennia of people looking for evidence.

Not all beliefs are equal. You personally probably wouldn't put the likelihood of the existence of the great spaghetti monster in the sky to the same level as your belief in your personal god.
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Do you personally feel like smashing such a truck? Or would only ex truck drivers feel that way? Because if they are simply being faded out of existence (replacing retiring drivers with AI), there won't be any ex truckers to smash the trucks.
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Fair enough, but I would still maintain that even for "internet culture", don't let journalists shape your views of it.
herewegoagain2
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Why you shouldn't read the news. They always want to create narratives and drama. And reshape how people see the world. Don't let journalists shape your view of the world.