IkmoIkmo

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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
> Done with muscle. Yes, Chinese muscle, many of whom died in the process. And I think we covered the 37 years of life expectancy during that time in the US, let alone for a Chinese immigrant doing heavy labour at a fraction of white peo
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Now try a list of conflicts in the EU instead of in Europe.
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
There's more differences between EU countries than the US and Canada, or hell, US and Mexico for that matter. It's 27 countries with their own systems of governance, choosing to work together in a partnership on an internal free m
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Does it help to be another non-Chinese Oppo or Xiaomi? There's not a ton of profit to be made competing with Apple and Samsung in the West. There's opportunities elsewhere, but it's hard competing with low-cost Chinese smartp
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
And to note, no evidence in double blind tests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivi...
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Which Seattle transit of 22 miles? The Line T took 3 years to construct, Line 1 is 22 miles but it's already built, it took 6 years of construction. Indeed it took longer to plan, but we're talking building in a major metropolitan
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
I wonder how much of these developments remain when correcting for factors we don't necessarily deem to be an issue. For example, between 1960 and today life expectancy in the US grew by 10 years. If we look at educational attainment,
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
The gender gap in education is observed all around the world, including in virtually all countries in Europe where university is free or subsidised to the point of being free-ish and there's no real scholarship culture to speak of.
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Here's the problem with your argument. Nobody is saying that white privilige means that if you're white, you always have it better than when you're not white. e.g. if you're white and poor, of course you don't have
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Could you recommend one or two of these short stories? Thank you!
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Making laws that prohibit purchasing, selling or holding bitcoin, with penalties. Laws already exist requiring gatekeepers of the financial system (e.g. Banks and payment processors) to monitor transactions on illegalities, e.g. money laun
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
> but this his view is very unhelpful Did you read it? If so, why do you take this opinion? > Does CPB actually has anything to say here? The CPB does analysis to inform public policy making, they're not a legislative body. Neith
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
> I am a little bit skeptical of the assumption that a wealth tax encourages riskier investment strategies, though. After all, the effect of a fixed rate wealth tax is the same irrespective of your investment strategy; riskier strategies
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
The Netherlands is an example of such a country which effectively taxes wealth, not income. Technically it does tax income, but it's an assumed fictitious income based on your net wealth that's taxed, regardless of actual investme
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Glad it works for him, sounds terribly boring to eat the same supper every day, and be so religious and stubborn about it, too. Imagine living your entire life and not having enjoyed Indian food, but only had the same meal every day, when y
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
The following was posted on Macrumors. Definitely not a perfect user-first response from Apple, but didn't seem terrible either. Particularly because Apple wasn't the source of the issue, the issue was people downloading an unoffi
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
> I was surprised by how many of my girlfriends here had at least one instance of rape or sexual abuse, usually from partners. Same here, absolutely appalling. Whenever I speak about it with guy friends they don't quite believe me a
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
There's already VAT on revenue (or added value more strictly speaking after reconciliation).
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
And if you put a holding company above a profitable company, and the holding company has 1 employee, then it makes billions per employee. There's no reason to think this gives any perspective.
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
> Simple logic leads to the latter explanation being more likely. Simple logic would be to conclude that a US company with >$400 billion in revenue looking to take-over an EU market is going to make long-term investments that aren&#x2
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Well, that's what I'm wondering but the article doesn't specify at all. It's like an article's headline states: Amazon stopped paying thousands of employees it hired last year. Incendiary title, is Amazon perhaps br
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Of course I’m serious. I explicitly state I’m not absolving Amazon of anything. What I’m saying is that the article contains no information at all on any dirty tricks being used, yet implies acting in bad faith. That’s just bad reporting. I
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
Terrible article, Amazon didn’t pay profit taxes, because Amazon didn’t make profits but instead, a loss. How is this an issue? Unless the article contains any details or hint whatsoever of undue deductions artificially depressing paper pro
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
My post was mostly about the fact the ECB has negative rates, not a 0 or 0.5% rate as parents' comment listed. The 100k is just an example from my country to indicate the negative ECB rates have been affecting most EU countries. I thin
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
So there are various ECB rates, the one that's key here is the deposit facility rate. It's the rate at which banks can deposit money with the ECB overnight. This means if there's tons of excess deposits from customers, this r
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
I'd consider myself on the left, progressive etc, concerned about issues of discrimination. But hear hear, the four points you make regarding 'new segregationism' are very, very familiar and I'm truly concerned about it.
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
I think the real question is, suppose they make this thing 10x as fast, with 10x as much storage, and 5x the pixel density, 5x the max brightness, unlimited battery life. Would I get one (at >$1k)? The answer is likely no, unless it&#x27
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
1. What's your point? 3. Sure it can. You can have a market governed by supply and demand. Lots of demand? Price increases. Price increases? Incentivises supply. More supply? That's great, it addresses the scarcity and prices will
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
The definition of rural is not agriculture, it's non-urban, with urban being defined by population size (and linked strongly to density). To avoid arguing semantics, supporting a large population in low-density is less efficient than i
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by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
They generally are. The prices are related to the earnings. The current P/E ratio of the S&P500 is about 2x the historical average of the past 200 years. High, yes, (which is driven by low interest rates), but definitely linked to

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