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by Epa095 9mo ago
In what way have we become left leaning? From my perspective right-leaning economic views have won. We have new public management, we have privatisation, we have death of unions, and we have reduction in wealth and inheritance tax over the
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by Epa095 9mo ago
FYI, as a center left from a European perspective that is a beautiful picture of just how right-leaning American politics is. The Democrats is such a big tent it contains pretty much the complete political spectrum in Europe, but for the ac
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by Epa095 9mo ago
What you describe seems to fit the term 'Dual State', and you live your day to day life in the normative state. I hope foe your sake you don't get much contact with the prerogative one. https://www.theatlantic.com&
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by Epa095 9mo ago
That might be, but with hundreds of millions of paying customers there is a market, and it will be filled. Maybe by some of the tens of thousands of European developers currently working for Google in Europe, or the other American companies
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by Epa095 9mo ago
What scenario is this? If AOSP is suddenly the only acceptable smart-os on phones for 600 million people, I think it would work out yes.
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by Epa095 9mo ago
Yes, it's clearly all 5d chess to manipulate a retarded ally to do what's best for it against it's will, all going according to plan. /s Good luck meeting China without friends. Clearly brilliant statesmanship. Europe is
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by Epa095 9mo ago
It would take Samsung (or what's left of Nokia) a whole 10 seconds to produce a Google-free phone based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) if there was a market for it. Which it might soon be.
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by Epa095 9mo ago
It seems like savings include pension ([1], but it is a bit unclear to me) , and that is a kind of forced saving (as in many places in Europe you can't choose to not get pension and get it as cash to spend instead). 1: https:/&#x
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by Epa095 9mo ago
Thanks for posting the article, it's really well written and worth reading! I think he raises some important points in the `“Possible” doesn’t mean “guaranteed”` section. His argument is based on comparative advantage, and he says &quo
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by Epa095 10mo ago
People often use it instead of 'raises the question'. E.g "There was very little fallout to the Y2K bug, which begs the question: was the Y2K crisis real and well handled or not really a crisis at all?" E.g https:/
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by Epa095 10mo ago
OT: I enjoyed seeing a dictionary-correct use of the term 'begging the question' in the wild :-)
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by Epa095 10mo ago
Others has given good reasons, but I think it's hard to overestimate the effect of 'rich gets richer'. Once you have the stronger pool of talent you get the better companies, you get more income, higher salaries and talented
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by Epa095 10mo ago
So you think USA will go into Venezuela and do a complete takeover, rewrite it's constitution, and have troops there for 50 years to enforce the new order?
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by Epa095 10mo ago
I have some friends on the east coast of Canada playing in a indie band. They have experienced this many times, that the venue is sold out but then only 15-20 people show up. Supposedly a lot of these places have people buying annual access
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by Epa095 10mo ago
Where would this blockade be? In the NATO sea (baltic sea)? Covered by European Nato countries at every direction, and then whole entry passes through Denmark.
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by Epa095 10mo ago
It is actually extremely common in Europe (as I linked to in a sibling chat), with 30-40% of kids having it at any time. With those rates, my guess is that you probably had it several times, but just thought your bum was itching for no reas
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by Epa095 10mo ago
Pinworms are particularly common in children, with prevalence rates in this age group having been reported as high as 61% in India, 50% in England, 39% in Thailand, 37% in Sweden, and 29% in Denmark. [1] Remember that prevalence
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by Epa095 10mo ago
I live with amazing technology all around me, and I often take it for granted. But whenever I take mebendazol (against e.g. pinworm) I think about my ancestors, and how they just had to live with it!
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by Epa095 10mo ago
Images are a good example where doing it at install-time is probably the best yeah, since every run of the image starts 'fresh', losing the compilation which happened last time the image got started. If it was a optional toggle it
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by Epa095 10mo ago
How can you conclude that the current price and value is fairly close? Seems to me that all you are showing (rightly so) is that there are some use of gold which has higher value than today's price. I agree that industry use creates a
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by Epa095 10mo ago
Notice that the weavers, both the luddites and their non-opposing colleagues, certainly did not get wealthier. They lost their jobs, and they and their children starved. Some starved to death. Wealth was created, but it was not shared. Reme
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by Epa095 10mo ago
According to Wikipedia > The engine was an air-cooled, 4-stroke, 155 cc engine over the front wheel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoped
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by Epa095 10mo ago
Yeah, it's easier to analyse the past than predict the future. I agree that I made a statement about the luxury of wealth the last century. I don't know if the S&P500 will grow at the same rate the next century, but I am willi
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by Epa095 10mo ago
2-4% of the wealth you mean? That surely depends on the wealth... If you need 200k a year that's 2% of 10 million, but 1% of 20 million. If you manage 1% then the real value doubles after 15 years. If you need 2% annually, the real val
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by Epa095 10mo ago
And? The article by Peter Norvig is still interesting.
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by Epa095 10mo ago
Over the last 100 years, the S&P 500 has grown with an average of 6% yearly adjusted for inflation (9.8% nominally). That means an inflation adjusted doubling every 12 year. It also means that if you manage to live on e.g 1% of the we
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by Epa095 10mo ago
No, I don't get 'this', because you have not actually said anything. Across this post and the ones above it you have pretty much only insulted me witouth saying anything I can either understand or misunderstand, because there
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by Epa095 10mo ago
> You aren’t really aware of the realities of the modern economy are you. OK, but you did recognise that it was a reference to the parable of the broken window by the 'sweet summer child' Claude-Frédéric Bastiat?
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by Epa095 10mo ago
Paying someone to break a window, and then someone else to fix it, will also stimulate the economy. But it's clearly not a rational use of our time here on earth.
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by Epa095 11mo ago
Making them illegal does not fix it. There will be a indefinite whack-a-mole game which is very hard to solve without draconian control over the Internet. The problem is that it's easy to make, easy to deploy, easy to make money on, an

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