Aunche

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by Aunche 4y ago
Part of it definitely has to do with their compensation is poor by Western standards.
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by Aunche 4y ago
> Or people do actually prefer the slightly-more-expensive option, but it gets phased out and then there is only the cheap option and some artisanal bullshit version that costs 5x and much so only rich people buy it. If the majority of p
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by Aunche 4y ago
> Despite not wanting a touch screen and only a barebones car, nobody is going to make one. This isn't a great example because the government mandates all cars have a back up camera, so given the real estate that takes in the center
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by Aunche 4y ago
>I hate how much this is made into 'rich' versus 'poor' countries. It distracts from the main culprits: Coca-Cola, Nestle, Pepsico, Unilever, P&G, Mars, Kraft-Heinz ... etc Let's not scapegoat a group that I&
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by Aunche 4y ago
I wonder if all countries are this ideologically dogmatic. On one hand, you have PragerU. On the other hand, you have organizations like this that insist we need to give severe drug addicts private hotel rooms that they can trash. You hear
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by Aunche 4y ago
Even if cryptocurrency isn't a Ponzi itself, cryptobros and definitely responsible. The same bad economics promoted by crypto enthusiasts that made it so popular were the same arguments that Celsius used to get popular.
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by Aunche 4y ago
That's a general trend. Obviously it's not going to apply to every case. Usually, reducing mortality is about improving healthcare and nutrition, especially during the period your study tracked (1990-2014). Keeping working age peo
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by Aunche 4y ago
Clearly China's sole goal isn't GDP growth when they're still trying to pursue zero-covid.
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by Aunche 4y ago
> we end up with entire countries whose sole goal is to eternally increase their GDP What countries are you talking about? I don't know of a single country that does this.
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by Aunche 4y ago
>And merit is transferred down the generations. Privilege begets privilege. Etc. This is the issue that we are rightfully trying to counter. Counter that by providing less privileged people with more opportunities, not by changing the de
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by Aunche 4y ago
He didn't just brag about his dick. He went out of the way to show it off to his colleagues. I mean it's possible that his fetish outweighed his empathy, but it's more likely that he simply didn't care about making peopl
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by Aunche 4y ago
Loder has 130k Twitter followers without any claim to fame besides Twitter, so he knows exactly what he's doing. If he had vented about his friends cutting themselves with a knife that's too sharp, he would have been ridiculed, bu
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by Aunche 4y ago
More people ought to read this: https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth... . Google is already providing a free service to homeless people. It's not empathy to tell someone else to solve a problem t
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by Aunche 4y ago
You can already get 8 free SAT practice tests and Khan Academy offers a free online class. If you go through all of them and learn from your mistakes, that should be more than enough to get a decent score. With tutoring and classes, you&#x2
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by Aunche 4y ago
I volunteer tutor teens in the SAT and the problem is a bit deeper than just parents. A few of my students have a similar amount of base intelligence as me, and if they studied as much as I did, they would have no problem with finding a pat
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by Aunche 4y ago
> Before WW1, the economy was roughly as interdependent as it is now. This is untrue. In 1913, exports were roughly 14% of economic activity. Today, it's at 24% [1]. This effect is exaggerated when you consider that people were a lo
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by Aunche 4y ago
Zero inflation is fine, but a small hiccup would cause it to spiral into deflation. Deflation sounds good in a micro-scale because money gets more valuable. However, this is actually a terrible thing because the only way this can happen is
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by Aunche 4y ago
A 1962 Ford truck would only have a single row. Without the Maverick's second row, you'd probably get a full-sized bed.
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by Aunche 4y ago
I'd be surprised if you can get a truck at anywhere near MSRP these days. Trucks aren't a great example anyways because they're seen as a luxury good in the US today, which wasn't the case in the 60s.
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by Aunche 4y ago
If you genuinely put an effort into refining your critical thinking, you should have no problem getting a return on your investment on any publicly subsidized university. Plenty of jobs demand strong critical thinking or writing skills, but
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by Aunche 4y ago
Meanwhile, if you ask the interviewee what he thinks about the billions of people who gained access to basic amenities like running water, electricity, and antibiotics, he'd dismiss that capitalism had anything to do with this. > I
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by Aunche 4y ago
Maybe it's not to the extent that people are saying, but the charts clearly show that the EU and the US do outsource their emissions.
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by Aunche 4y ago
A mortgage isn't a cost. It's an investment. You would call money you put in a 401k a cost either.
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by Aunche 4y ago
The is the weirdness that I'm talking about. If interest rates are lower than inflation, it's impossible to make money without taking risk.
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by Aunche 4y ago
>it does seem to be the case that in sum total we see, decade after decade, a cumulatively destabilizing effect on both financial markets and the financial security of everyday folks I'm not an expert in finance by any means, but fo
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by Aunche 4y ago
>The main issue with the Fed, was that they made the wrong call on Inflation in 2021, thinking it was "transitory". They made the wrong prediction, but the Fed isn't in the business of making predictions. It makes sense th
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by Aunche 4y ago
Your liabilities only decrease in the interest exceeds the payouts, but I doubt that's happening even as they're raising interest rates. What are they supposed to do in the meantime? Pray for the central bank to raise interest rat
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by Aunche 4y ago
So if this interpretation is correct, what should the fund directors have done instead? If you can only get 2% safely, but you need 6% or else the pension becomes insolvent, you're going to have to take some risks. UK stocks have been
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by Aunche 4y ago
>It's not a question of whether that's good or bad, it's just inevitable. Nonsense. Almost everyone is going to agree that powering ventilators a country that's too poor to upgrade to renenwables is a better use of en
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by Aunche 4y ago
In terms of market share, Windows phone was a few percent, but that's still millions of phones. Silverlight may have a replacement, but that doesn't help the devs who sunk their time developing with it. Same for people writing ext

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