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by Aunche 4y ago
Windows phone was the biggest shutdown of all time. Off the top of my head, there's also Edge and Silverlight.
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Mr. Beast himself used to subject himself to torture for profit, so it's not surprising that other people are happy to do the same. His first viral video was counting to 100,000. There was another video where he tried to spend 24 hours
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It's not even exclusive to developing nations. For example, Portugal tends to side with China.
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The empire apple one confuses me. Everything about it seemed good besides it being too sweet, but that's something that can be easily fixed by adding less sugar.
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Out of a whim, I checked the Playstation store, and they actually had the PS5 in stock. I'm paying some extra for the blu-ray edition with Horizon bundle, but it's still cheaper than scalpers.
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This is talking about the public sector. Public sector unions are a disaster, with the police unions being the the star example. Unlike the private sector, you can't capture profits from the owners because there is no profit to begin w
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It sounds wacky because they're framing it in the worst possible light to generate populist outrage and get more clicks. The goal of raising interest rates is to contract the money supply because it would disincentivizing lending. Incr
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>The steady chorus of claims that wages are too high strikes me as consent-manufacturing by capital. It's the opposite actually. The Fed is raising interest rates to contract the money supply, which will temper inflation. They ackno
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This definitely resembles black-hat much more than white-hat hacking. At the end of the day, the author is still spreading fake news, getting people trying to lose weight to eat more chocolate, and giving tabloids more advertising dollars.
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Elites do tend to be... elite. That's not what I was objecting to. My contention is that this has little to do with corruption. Rather, the government happens to be a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy. Regular people have little interes
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It's easy to believe that rich people "outright buy political influence" when you only pay attention to examples of when they happen to get what they want, and don't care about the examples of when they don't: - Blo
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Being educated and tech-literate means that you should try to think more critically than "Facebook bad." You brought up Cambridge Analytica as your scandal of choice, which is the most newsworthy scandal, but the one where Faceboo
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GPU prices will trend towards market prices either way. I'd rather them somewhat overshoot MSRP rather than undershoot, which is what happened with the 30-series GPU. It's not fair that scalpers were getting rich while EVGA was op
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It's convenient that this transitivity of evil always stops exactly when it comes to writing snarky comments on a device that inevitably has as questionable of a supply chain as any Apple device. As far as the suicide nets go, during t
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Monetary policy isn't fiscal policy . QE is just a way of lowering interest and by itself does not significantly increase inflation. We've QE'd plenty of money since the recession without inflation. Japan QE'd even prop
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>The assumption is that it is somehow optimal for Bezos personally to extract maximal personal wealth constructing a pseudo-monopoly before exiting I don't understand what you're saying. It's undeniable that Amazon revolut
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All Scandinavian countries have billionaires. Sweden and Norway even have more billionaires per capita than the US. Scandinavian countries don't treat billionaires as policy failures. They merely have higher taxes across the board. In
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Bezos didn't take on $100 billion of risk from the start. He took on the risk of not having a job like any other startup founder. It just so happens that this risk created over $100 billion of value. If there were an artificial cap pl
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Without billionaires, the net result wouldn't be that their money would be distributed among the populace. The result would be that this wealth simply wouldn't exist at all. This is why the Soviet Union stagnated after they reache
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I doubt you're going to find any meaningful insights from a environmental impact study of a standardized 5-over-1 built in a suburb.
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I'm also seeing a lot of spam comments pretending to be organic conversation about the market, which eventually leads to you to a "financial advisor" with an oddly unique name that is easy to Google, which leads you to a sket
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And yet none of Google's competitors are in the EU, despite their stronger antitrust laws. You can actually make a case that this fine was made in good faith, but historically, their fines have been completely arbitrary. They fined Goo
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Modern day activism tunnel visions on "raising awareness" which why we end up with so much virtue signaling and doomposting rather than substantial action. Look at Montgomery bus boycott. Everyone remembers Rosa Parks, but in real
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>So stop your fake concern for the poor who would have more options, and more spare cash. They would have fewer options. They already have the choice to reduce to emissions without a carbon tax, and now they have financial pressure to
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>If the money in is proportional to carbon, and the money out gets distributed perfectly evenly by population then the net result is progressive. Monetarily, sure, but in practice the effect would feel regressive because income scales mo
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Emissions scales very sublinearly with wealth. Someone who is 1000x richer than average isn't going to live in 1000 houses, eat 1000x more beef, or drive 1000 cars simultaneously. This means that they're in a much better position
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>Only if you are currently emitting more than the post-tax average emission. If you are already below average, you can emit the same amount and get paid. You need to consider the downstream effects of the tax. The oil can only get taxed
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Unfortunately, consumption taxes are always regressive, and a carbon tax would be no different. Even if you happened to receive more from a carbon dividend than you would pay in carbon taxes, you would "pay" for it by having to sa
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At the end of the day, any sort of tax is going to generate a dead weight loss. The amount of money that gets distributed to you with a carbon dividend inevitably is going to be less than your additional tax burden or the consumer surplus f
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Ensuring stability in the Middle East is a subsidy for fossil fuel consumers . It hurts the oil producers, which are the companies targeted by this bill. The war in Ukraine is a good example of this as it's contributing to their recor

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