CPLX

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by CPLX 2y ago
Indeed. The problem is and has been for awhile that the "other team" is not willing to purposefully acquire and wield power. They seem to have a very confused view of what politics actually is, to the point where it's not cle
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by CPLX 2y ago
> The standard for the judicial is not "the truth", its about what you can "prove". It's not though. Completely unprovable allegations by a single person have real consequences. That's just the way the syste
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by CPLX 2y ago
The last time dems held the House, Senate, and Presidency at the same time was a little over two years ago.
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by CPLX 2y ago
When reality doesn't agree with logic, question your assumptions. Why does an alcoholic crash their car and ruin all their personal relationships? Why does someone with impulse control problems make a self destructive statement? Why do
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by CPLX 2y ago
When you ask yourself why the Democratic Party doesn't in fact do things that you think would be obvious ways to further it's goals and purpose, over and over again, for generations, you might want to start pondering this concept:
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by CPLX 2y ago
The current system is wildly unfair and harmful to American manufacturers, and it's especially unfair to American brands that manufacture abroad but bring their goods to the U.S. in bulk.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Right, and a related problem is a lot of the logic is more like Zeno’s paradox.
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by CPLX 2y ago
The point is that capital has a cost. If you’re not carrying the cost of that capital on the books you’re not “making money” at all.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Depends on what kind of restaurant. But the point is that a business model that is "profitable" but actually took millions in initial capital and has no provision for debt service isn't an actually profitable business model.
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by CPLX 2y ago
You have to add “and return initial capital” to that list. That’s usually what’s at issue here.
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by CPLX 2y ago
While I do agree with you, if it took tens of millions of dollars in initial capital to get there, which hasn’t been returned, it’s quite a different thing to the standard small businesses model.
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by CPLX 2y ago
> At least we got some good universities out of the 19th century iteration. You mean the ones that turned around and produced the current market fundamentalist and elite-run culture we have today? What a coincidence.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Jack Welch
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by CPLX 2y ago
The core reasons the jobs left are industrial and monetary policies. Or, said another way, because the Chinese prioritized and subsidized manufacturing growth and we did the opposite. Why? Because it made some specific Americans very rich.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Order of magnitude it's within range. A single wafer for something higher end is worth tens of thousands of dollars. So whatever that weighs. It's not much.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Airplanes. They use airplanes. We are talking about microchips here, possibly the highest dollar per gram substance that exists on the planet. The interest you'd pay just losing a couple days in transit time would exceed the cost of pu
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by CPLX 2y ago
> you can fit a lot in a container Guys these are microchips on wafers. You can put a million dollars worth in your jacket pocket. They aren't being shipped in containers.
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by CPLX 2y ago
These are literally microchips. Tens of thousands of dollars of value in each gram. Shipping cost is fundamentally irrelevant, you can put $100MM worth on a direct flight and have room left over for your family and friends.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Indeed. It's just bullshit, propaganda. There's simply no real reason we can't have a deep and robust manufacturing base in America. Well except for the fact that some specific people made a whole lot of money while letting i
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by CPLX 2y ago
Trying to parse this and can't tell. Can you use this with Apple's AirTags or do you have to create your own tracking devices?
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by CPLX 2y ago
Those underground parties still exist for the most part. I've aged way out of all this, like you have, but I'm aware of their existence through many friends in the music scene in NYC. If you're enterprising and skilled at nav
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by CPLX 2y ago
You are correct that 80 years ago New York was also the greatest city in the history of world civilization. Quite a run isn't it?
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by CPLX 2y ago
Is there a song called "Cleveland, Cleveland" that says if you can make it in Cleveland you can make it anywhere?
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by CPLX 2y ago
The quality of bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwiches is sufficiently high to offset the Mets.
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by CPLX 2y ago
Well yeah sure, but obviously people who fail at living in New York don't count.
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by CPLX 2y ago
I've literally been to 80+ countries and have spent time in every U.S. city of significant size. If you can't look at the world and figure out the obvious fact that New York is the greatest and most significant city that has exist
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by CPLX 2y ago
My empirical evidence is going to Europe and looking around. I'm being somewhat argumentative on purpose but the concept I'm explaining actually is important. There's something similar to a phase change when a city/are
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by CPLX 2y ago
I mean it's not hard to figure out. Here's an easy test. Think of the city you currently live in. Ask people where you live if they think this city you're living in is better than New York. They'll have a lot to say abou
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by CPLX 2y ago
> Metered parking everywhere. Why is NYC giving away the most valuable real estate in the world for free? Would be a huge revenue stream while discouraging car ownership in Manhattan. There isn't all that much free parking left in M
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by CPLX 2y ago
Once the Uber drops you off, it's available to take someone else somewhere they need to go. Car services are an essential part of a total system that enables people not to have to drive. Personal cars are the opposite of that. It'

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