NoLinkToMe

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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
What are you talking about? Completely false and misleading. > The 'solution' explicitly allowed (by 2031) unlimited enrichment, burying centrifuges, and purchasing unlimited amounts of AD. Then no US admin could have possibly
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
idk what you think I said but I said it's a failed state after Ghadaffi fell.
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Hard to say. Netanyahu has been calling for Iranian regime change since the 90s, and Trump is his most successful lobbying effort yet. US wants regime change, they just never saw a possibility. So the objective isn't new or driven by E
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Yes it did give up the nuclear program with respect to it being a weapon's program, this is what every expert agrees with. Also the reason every country signed this deal. > Nuclear isn't the only issue either, but Iranian offic
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Iran is the 5th biggest oil producer in the world. Not only that, it can cut-off the strait of Hormuz which 5 of the top 10 oil producers ship their oil through, including Saudi Arabia which is the nr 1 exporter. In earlier strikes Iran sig
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
> doesn't make what I stated above any less true. Yes it does, it makes everything you said untrue. You stated Iran doesn't want to give up its nuclear programme, not true. Iran in fact already did agree to it, Trump then threw
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Not only that but it should be noted what the stated aim is of these strikes and earlier Trump strikes on Iran: take out the nuclear threat. That nuclear threat was contained under a plan backed by US, EU, Russia, China and Iran, in which I
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Yeah I watched this a week or so ago and had a similar issue. I'm super optimistic about green energy and in favor of expanding it. But also acutely aware it's barely putting a dent on energy use despite year-on-year record levels
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
No because in other similar countries like the example I gave of mine, that money is taxed and goes to another person. There is no opportunity cost. In Singapore it's 'taxed' and earmarked to you, and then generates a very mo
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
It is a mixture of the two. But my reading of various studies indicates that in this mixture, the majority was passed to consumers in the form of higher prices.
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
That's partially true. 37% contribution of pay, earmarked for personal welfare expenses (housing/healthcare/retirement), basically covers 60% of a typical state budget. But these funds aren't pooled like taxes. Typically
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
Firstly, nobody said 'the economy' so I don't know why you're even putting it in quotation marks. Secondly, GDP is the best measure of output / value-add we have, and it's significantly up, despite jobs being d
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
Actually job numbers are depressed (hiring recession) and GDP numbers are still way up, both precisely due to the AI investment. More output with fewer people. Wild take to cite a recession when last quarter growth was 4.4%.
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
The latest company I worked in had your typical fee-earners and fee-burners categories of employees. The fee-earners had KPIs tied to the sales pipeline, from leads to contracts to work completed on fixed contracts or hours billed on variab
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
Not necessarily. You could have 100 FTE on reports instead of 300 FTE in a large company like a bank. That means 200 people who'd normally go into reporting jobs over the next decade, will go into something else, producing something el
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
Will pay because these societies can afford it. If they had 10k they're not spending 200k, period. That's the whole point in these affordability discussions. Take homes, We often speak of homes being so expensive, $1m average in S
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
Sorry for the late reply. In principle I agree, in a darwinian sense the purpose is to pass on genetics. That's not really a matter of opinion I'd say, although perhaps I'd have chosen a different word than 'purpose&#x27
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
> If you say the culprit is hookup culture, then most people are into that culture and don't want kids. No, what I'm saying is that an app to hook up isn't representative. Neither me nor the women I've dated have ever
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
Sorry for the late reply. For me it's different. For one it's like you said: friends that never left the rural areas have kids more often. But also friends that I grew up with in urban environments, left to rural environments arou
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
I mean, rockets kill about 3 people per year in Israel. I wouldn't overestimate its effect. Comparatively about 400-500 die in traffic, similar for suicide, about 150-200 from homicide by their fellow countrymen, 1500 from falling, 10
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
Please don't post the same sentence 3 times in one thread.
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
There might be a confounder though, with the causality working backwards. Rural housing is way cheaper than urban housing. Urban cultural offering is way more lively than rural cultural offering. If you want kids you need space, and have no
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
In most countries it's 80% if your household salary is such to support it + household expenses, and approaching 0% if it's not. And it's intense just for the first few youngest years, when the ratio of daycare employee : baby
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
> Few women want to have kids. I'm using an app right now I'm on an app where you can discuss wedding dresses and most women are interested in having children! I'm joking of course. But a dating app embedded in hookup cult
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
Agreed. By just about every measure, we're much better off than the past, yet have fewer kids. Statistics have supported this correlation (richer -> fewer kids) for a century, across the board around the worldwide, yet people often
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by NoLinkToMe 8mo ago
Russia has become a vassal state of China.
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by NoLinkToMe 9mo ago
My bad!
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by NoLinkToMe 9mo ago
Yup. We also overestimate how much range we need. Average American driver drives 60km a day. The average Tesla has >500km range, meaning you need to charge fewer than once every 8 days. Rural tends to mean space, and space tends to mea
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by NoLinkToMe 9mo ago
I think OP has it right. Tesla with lowest range has 430km, highest range 650. Let's average it to 500km. The average American driver drives 60km per day. In other words you need to charge less than every 8 days. You can charge to 80
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by NoLinkToMe 9mo ago
Sure if you put a cash value on opportunity cost. In that way hiring a cleaner to come clean your house is cheaper than cleaning yourself, because they're professionals and take less time than you would yourself. But if you don't

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