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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
I thought the Chicago School had already proved blindly applying "policy recommendations" from on high was a receipt for disaster and misery, but sure, let's do the same with AI, this time it will surely work.
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Sounds like a great way to have less "human resources". If you are earning the big bucks, you are the one that should be teaching the underlings, not the other way around!
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Once again even professional people that write about money do not understand how marginal tax rates work, or more likely, are ideologically driven to lie. No, if you earn 20k€ you don't pay 26% of taxes, that's the start of the br
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Well, technically NSO needs permission from the government to sell Pegasus, so those aren't really "private companies" either. They are private arms of the state.
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Capital flight to where? The US economy is still the largest in the world, there aren't enough assets in the rest of the world for that capital to buy. Plus, the US government could just implement capital controls overnight (or better
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Eh, it's not that linear. Remember when Michael Bloomberg spent 500 million dollars to be on the Democratic debate, and Elizabeth Warren burned that money down with a single zinger? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD4cs
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Then change from the bank equivalent to MVNO into a real bank with a website.
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Do you doubt that a million iraquis died in the war that lasted almost a decade? How many people died in Ukraine or Gaza in a couple years?
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Just make sure not to fly to Hong Kong from there.
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Indeed, I agree. A private founder-owner-CEO combination (like Steam) might be the least vulnerable organization to many of those ills, short of a cooperative (not sure it counts as private ownership).
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Persona non grata that cabinet ministers are clamoring to be "rescued"?
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
And yet, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl6en1NPTYM
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Steam is not owned by private equity. A private company is not a corporate raider.
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Can you even buy physical copies of streaming shows? Or online news? Or podcasts?
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft can do anything, snuffing out some mid company is the least of their crimes. > not contribute anything, and reap all the profit Yeah, it's called capitalism. What's their stance on Lina Khan breaki
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
You mean that Aardman film with Darwin the badguy who wants to eats the dodos is based on real life?
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
The aircraft carrier will hit the shallows, but that massive inertia can "carry" it for decades without any new thrust. Remember when Microsoft was able to fight off the Web with piss-poor Internet Explorer? Until it didn't.
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
https://twitter.com/AmbRusFrance/status/1827628382617481284 Well the embassy is complaining about this arrest, so maybe that's just counter-intelligence.
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
So he left Russia over political interference on his companies, but then he is arrested in France and the Russian state intervenes in his favour? What gives, does he want government interference or not? Just another guy to be traded to Russ
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Is that the same company whose CEO said Linux was a cancer?
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Paulo Portas still has his cushy prime-time pundit job to this day, he's in line for the presidency. His stack of photocopies protects him from any whistleblowing...
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
> you did something the government didn't like Like storming the US Capitol, or blocking Canadian roads, these kinds of "political views"?
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
The FTC monopoly team has fangs now, so behave or get broken up in the next few years.
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Enterprise Social (Honk3)(flak.tedunangst.com)
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Agreed, but regular immigrants would be a better fit I think, can you imagine the culture shock of some white collar laptop worker to live in Castelo Branco? I'm a laptop worker and wouldn't want to live in some rural area, I left
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
> Just income tax is capped at 20%. But why is it capped? Are they refugees? Do they need help? Do they have families? The income tax law is clear, we have progressive taxes. From each according to its ability. The party that proposed fl
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Yes, if the tax rate was 0, all Americans would move to Portugal. It's only economically efficent.
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Is the number of sallaried employees smaller than the number of companies? I bet it is. Every film is technically a company, it's easier to account for expenses that way.
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> you'll see that private capital formation always played a critical role Portugal's previous economic successes have always been state-adjacent, as every single other place on Earth: CUF had state monopolies, EDP, PT (state mo
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by JetSpiegel 2y ago
Do they? The point of digital nomads is to live anywhere, so they won't be attached to their location. It's the Danegeld, why should we want to attract those people?

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