NickC25

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by NickC25 3y ago
> you "a billion people" threshold makes it look like you want to shut down debate, rather than actually look at data. Not so - the threshold is there for a reason. It's inherently harder to corral more people than fewe
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by NickC25 3y ago
Please elaborate? 1 billion people+ being taken from poverty into an infinitely better standard of living within 1 generation. Care to name me a massive country of 1 billion+ under democratic rule that manged that sort of economic growth i
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by NickC25 3y ago
I don't disagree that China's got some serious issues - food security, skewed demographics, insane cost-of-living issues (that blow the USA's out of the water), a ticking time bomb of a real estate bubble, etc. I have stud
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by NickC25 3y ago
China's demographics are a problem, yeah. I'll give you that all day. Yes, they have a dependent economy, sure, but if you think about it, so does the US - nobody builds physical goods in the US, and American corporations are ju
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by NickC25 3y ago
Uh, yes, they are. They all sit on the board, and collectively own a majority of the company's stock IIRC. You're also not remembering that the company literally bears their family name. Multiple Walton family members are on th
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by NickC25 3y ago
> For US to be on the brink of any real crisis there would need to be a super power alternative. There is none and it does not look like any is going to be in the next 30 years. China would like a word. A developing country with a high
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by NickC25 3y ago
The whole colony drop scene in MSG just terrified me as a kid. It was the first time I saw large scale human-on-human violence expressed in such a medium, and I was not ready for it. Then I realized "oh, this is a metaphor for the US
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by NickC25 3y ago
Have you ever been to a small town in America? Outside of a few regions, Walmart is all they have...so that sort of nixes points 2 and 3. Regarding point 4, and your quoting of me - yes, people have. And some have been lucky in that they&
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by NickC25 3y ago
If a corporation donates heavily to anti-government think tanks, funds several union-busting operations, sponsors politicians that write laws that would exempt that corporation from having to pay tax.....then we're not criticizing the
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by NickC25 3y ago
none of the best Gundam series are particularly happy. The original MSG starts off with a blunt and incredibly depressing scene.
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by NickC25 3y ago
Walmart is able to provide cheap goods because it can strong-arm providers into taking a loss or operating at a break-even point just for the chance to sell at Walmart. It can also provide cheap goods because they pay their workers jack sh
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by NickC25 3y ago
ITT: people defending the actions of a corporation owned by a family worth over 230 billion USD. Businesses should expect that society protects them, sure. But those same businesses can't then go and bribe the government to cut worker
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by NickC25 3y ago
Honestly one of the best mecha anime ever, right up there with Neon Genesis and Gundam. Maybe even better in some regards.
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by NickC25 3y ago
They should be mandated to hire private security. If they are utilizing the majority of the resources available but aren't willing to pay the real costs of that, well, they need to suck it up and pay.
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by NickC25 3y ago
However, the prosecutor often is beholden to local police departments to prosecute other unrelated crime. Most DAs don't have the ability to bite the hand that feeds them. If a DA comes out and says "hey, I'm investigating a
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by NickC25 3y ago
IMO it depends - when you started this, did you have an idea of what you wanted from your customer? How much hand-holding, etc..., and how involved you were/are going to be after delivery of product. If you want to know how this affec
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by NickC25 3y ago
Adding ingredients like salt, which are a naturally occurring substance that can positively affect the taste of a food (as well as acting as a natural preservative in some cases) is completely different than adding an artificial chemical th
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by NickC25 3y ago
Nice pun. Jokes aside, that's a good point - but if you think about it, why should we want to ingest something that provides no health value and only exists to make the food product look more visually appealing? I don't know wha
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by NickC25 3y ago
While no quotas are mentioned, it does seem like this is the tip of a very slippery slope. This is clearly well-intentioned but at the same time feels like a bad idea. I have a startup. The team is 2 people including myself. If I have a fr
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by NickC25 3y ago
> Historically, we are at the point where there's a depression, war, and/or a new monetary system. Well, the talking heads on MSNBC, Bloomberg, et. all are saying a recession (if not a depression) in the near term is inevita
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by NickC25 3y ago
I wasn't alive for those, but I do too. I just don't understand why or how we as a society think it's a great idea to let defense contractors behave as if it's a public corporation that needs to increase revenue every qu
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by NickC25 3y ago
I used to be a product manager for an EdTech startup. I would always say something like "I help design and build software that's designed to teach people better foreign language conversation skills" Now that I'm out of
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by NickC25 3y ago
Not that I'm even remotely surprised at the depths of racist, disgusting, or outright hateful behavior exhibited by 4chan users, but still, this is terrifying. This is par the course, if not outright expected. Of course 4chan users
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by NickC25 3y ago
Fascinating, and thanks for the response! I did not know that, but it makes a lot of sense. India would be in a tough spot if China and Russia had a much closer relationship, especially as China and India don't really get along that
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by NickC25 3y ago
You might get a whole bunch of vague or outright BS answers for "reasons for being fired", especially from small or medium sized companies. The internet is a great sleuth, and if someone who was recently or at one point fired was
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by NickC25 3y ago
I get that, that was my whole point - why is India doing this, what is the geopolitical benefit they are getting by engaging in this?
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The US is still using Russian oil and India is just a middleman taking a 30% cut?
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This has been quietly going on for some time, at least since the West imposed limits and price caps on Russia's exportation due to the Ukrainian war. Now, I just don't understand why nobody has said anything yet. The delta is j
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And honestly, I see no problem with that. If I can in-house my customer service or have AI do it better, why would I spend time or money doing anything else? Not that I don't feel bad for people in developing economies, I absolutely d
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by NickC25 3y ago
It really doesn't. You don't believe me? You might have a relative who experienced hard times, and sure, that affects you, I get it. But you've or they have probably not seen what the Winklevoss twins have, or what I have.

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