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Employees wages are not made by "inflating the costs of what's being sold" it is though their labor. A piece of steel does not get sold as a screwdriver unless someone's labor has been applied to it. Labor is inherently what provides use-value to a good. In the service sector this holds equally true.

The only person whose earnings are made through inflating the costs of whats being sold is the owner. Hence the "stolen" marginal value of the underlying good.

Co-ops give all of their earnings to those that labored to improve the use-value of the product.

Should be relatively easy to prove that no ownership is the best and only alternative, if you can provide a argument against no ownership.

To be a business owner is to skim the excess earnings of your workers.

It's at best amoral.

So the medium is the only point of contention? If HN supported image uploads you'd argue it shouldn't exist?

> Most users barely log in, maybe once or twice a month to check their direct messages and waste a few minutes on the feed.

This is clearly wrong.

> Facebook led the way, where Americans spent an average 58 minutes a day on the app.

> Instagram was the second most used service, and it remained most popular among Gen-Z users, who spent almost 53 minutes per day, or 297 hours year;

With DAU of >2b people, I think you're drastically underestimating the scope of damage from a FB withdrawal from the EU.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2021/06/24/americans...

As other comments have said, Meta never said they would leave the market willingly.

Reminder that the OP of this chain is explicitly coming at this question from Apple's POV.

>I continue to think Apple should have never released AirTags to the public, and should discontinue it

This discussion is specifically about what Apple should do, so I don't see how this is relevant.

But are you arguing that Instagram and TikTok are not competitors? Or WhatsApp and Telegram? Or Facebook and Twitter?

>the social media that people want to use _in practice_ is all controlled by Facebook

Twitter? Reddit? LinkedIn?

Hell TikTok just passed Whatsapp in monthly active participants.

Anticompetitiveness is hard to argue when one of your largest competitors started after all of these acquisitions

Replied in other thread.

I posted this study to show that it's likely "communist" countries are not lying about their COVID numbers. I assumed my use of the word "these" would have made that obvious, but given these responses it seems not.

I have read the study hence why I posted it (couldn't find a study of similar rigor for Cuba specifically). This study sufficiently shows the point I'm trying to make.

To say I didn't read the link to a study I posted is a bit rude no?

What do you think the word factual means?

I've referenced the study twice in about 50 comments, and only in the past 2 days. Not exactly frequently, and I even acknowledge I'm reposting it in the OP.

Incredibly disingenuous to assume everyone that disagrees with you (and with factual data noless) is a bot/shill

These are all points in favor of my position.

China has obviously succeeded in defeating COVID, and done so with none of these secondary deaths you're describing (look at excess mortality). All of these "secondary" deaths did not occur in countries that implemented effective containment strategies, why do you think that is?

The western strategy has resulted in these "secondary" deaths you're describing, as a result of people like yourself being unwilling to accept the effective containment is possible and worth the cost.

I'm sure the 800k dead Americans would disagree.

There have been independent studies showing their numbers are, while not perfectly accurate, within the margin of error for extrapolated excess mortality[0].

As I've said in other threads on this issue, it is very difficult to hide deaths on even a small scale. Bodies do not simply disappear, and even small numbers of deaths are easily discoverable by measuring economic output (and even air quality!) of the region.

China is being at least reletively honest in their reporting, and I think thats difficult for us westerners to believe because their numbers are so shockingly low. An effective containment strategy _is_ possible, and the west has utterly failed in that respect.

[0]: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n415

Why the quotes around doctor? Cuba has some of the best health outcomes in the LatAm (and arguably the world), it seems like their doctors are of a higher quality than most.

The source for this article is a "study" from Chainanlysis which only tracks a handful of the possible illicit activities crypto can be used for. They are tracking scams and rugpulls, adding them together, and using that as the "illicit transactions" metric, then dividing that by a ballooned marked cap to get 0.15%.

Considering 40% of all of Bitpay's transactions are for "Gift Cards" [0] (a la money laundering), it seems to be that this blog is being as charitable as possible to CC to get their numbers.

[0]: https://bitpay.com/stats/

Source on them making a "strategic move"?

I see that they completed a landing a couple years ago, but India made the same attempt.

Not OP but yes there are official channels. Best bet of getting unbanned is knowing someone at FB.

There are plenty of people at FB that work in privacy and integrity. If all of the ethical people left only the unethical would be left.

Curious to hear if this lawsuit has any significant merit. From my perspective (IANAL), Ohio is going to have a tough time proving to the SEC that FB willfully misrepresented any of the key facts it alleges.

I think the most arguable is Xcheck, and that would require clear language from FB that it applied all rules equally on it's platform, which I haven't seen yet.

Where would these two landlords be living? Both would be exactly the same if the landlord doesn't rent.

Do you not get sick of this being repeated constantly?

Every year someone repeats that Facebooks doom is imminent, and every year their revenue and user base gets larger and larger

When does this opinion just become pasé?

This is addressed in the discussion of the study they completed. This wasn't a formal survey and shouldn't have been interpreted as such. WSJ were the ones who contextualized this as a valid study.

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/09/research-teen-well-being-a...

Sorry about the delay getting back here. They have been forthcoming with this data. See here:

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/09/research-teen-well-being-a...

I will correct myself and say the majority surveyed believe Instagram has a neutral or better impact.

>This is an incredibly disingenuous description of the situation. Facebook's own (non-public, now publicly leaked) research indicates that Facebook causes harm to teens mental health. The only "US narrative" here is the one backed up my the incredible amount of research supporting the growing issue of mental health in the US (and the world for that matter).

This is disingenuous, that same data shows the majority of the teens surveyed said FB improved their mental health.

Do you assume that neither Tesla nor the court did due diligence in confirming the allegations before bringing this to court?

They do. In the linked article it discusses high-risk accounts requiring less reports to take down a post, down to as little as one.