Ray20

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by Ray20 5mo ago
> or alternatively, we can add some tax to companies that are net negative to society Or alternatively, we can leave Ray20 alone and not force him to pay for the treatment of a 200 kg fatties with the illegal motorcycle racing and wingsu
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by Ray20 5mo ago
> taxed for their contribution to obesity It's always amazing how fatties can shift responsibility onto others. The calorie count for Cola is listed right on the bottle. Just don't drink it if you're to fat. And spend a fe
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by Ray20 5mo ago
> Post-2022 some of those families stopped talking to each other, the propaganda is stronger than the family ties. I don't think it's a matter of propaganda. We're talking about totalitarian dictatorships on both sides of
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by Ray20 5mo ago
> seems to miss the institutional knowledge, and experience Or the exact opposite. Not every institutional experience is good and useful. Some are quite the opposite. I mean, term limits are one of the most common democratic institutions
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by Ray20 5mo ago
> This is utterly disgusting This is effective. Therefore, normalization of this plays into the workers' hands, gives them information, and gives economic advantage to honest agents. I mean, you could compare it to any non-capitalis
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by Ray20 5mo ago
> In the meantime the renewables have failed to produce a noticeable change in my part of europe I don't know, but I've seen quite noticeable change. First, you spend 20 years paying several times more for fuel and electricity
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by Ray20 5mo ago
> nuclear causes something on the order of 10,000 times fewer deaths than coal per megawatt generated. If we demonstrate scientific honesty and begin to apply the same level of techniques that are used to obtain the result of "10,00
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by Ray20 5mo ago
> Both Chernobyl and Fukushima were caused by variables that can be easily controlled, though I mean, when we get Chernobyl 2.0 with hundreds of millions of victims, will the fact that it was caused by "variables that can be easily
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by Ray20 5mo ago
> measured harm/deaths adjusted by the amount of power generated In this case, we find that nuclear nuclear reactors are 2 orders of magnitude more dangerous than gas and coal power plants.
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by Ray20 5mo ago
> China shows that it can be built very cheap and fast with good supply chain I mean, thank you, the USSR already showed this, no more is needed.
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by Ray20 6mo ago
> Are these people also upset about safety and environmental standards for cars By the way, this is a good example of what happens when regulators lose to the market. By what year was initially planned the complete ban of internal combus
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by Ray20 6mo ago
> you thought that I was saying that it's OK for the government to coordinate assassinations Oh no, I think you misunderstood. I'm not saying you think this is acceptable. I'm saying the elites are ALREADY doing it. And yo
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by Ray20 6mo ago
So, the typical "It's only okay when the elites do it." Although, it's almost certain that such crowdfunding practices will lead to a radical democratization of society as a whole. Today, any bloody dictator, tyrant, or
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by Ray20 6mo ago
> That’s why you can’t simply assume that competition will lead to the product offerings converging on the best product. You also can't simply assume that an existing solution on the market is not the best already. I mean, who told
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by Ray20 6mo ago
It's not entirely clear what the connection is. We're not doing Electron because some popular software also using it. We're doing Electron because the ability to create truly cross-platform interfaces with the web stack is mo
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by Ray20 6mo ago
> as a pretext to punish political expression I sincerely don't understand why deportation is called a punishment in this discussion. As in any country in the world, US immigration law operates on the principle that a foreigner is g
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by Ray20 6mo ago
> a giant pedophile ring has been exposed that no one in power seems interested in doing anything about But that's not true. The European Union and many other countries are taking extreme measures to ensure that what happened in the
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by Ray20 6mo ago
Frankly, you sound like an Iranian bot. It's obvious that the Iranian government's approval ratings are, at best, around 20%. Measuring government approval ratings in a country where there's no freedom of speech, no political
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by Ray20 6mo ago
> depends on the infrastructure around you Yeah, and who is creating those infrastructure? Jesus? This is the same part of goods and services. > When that's all run by AIs for AIs, humans won't be able to compete. So what? T
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by Ray20 6mo ago
> AI is different Literally the same thing. > humans will be economically obsolete and worthless Only if we are talking about a socialist system (and they are making pretty small progress in the field of AI). A human's value unde
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by Ray20 6mo ago
Generalize "people with billions of dollars" to all Americans - and then this logic will start to work fully. "Until people with salaries of many dollars per hour behind them do something with that money to offset the financi
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by Ray20 6mo ago
> seems many protestors were simply calling for reform I mean, when you would have literally death penalty for attempt to overthrow the order, of course you will be "simply calling for reform".
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by Ray20 6mo ago
> if it spent more money on education and less on missiles Wait, isn't the US has literally the highest spending on education in the world? And it is precisely the highest spending in the world on missiles that make it possible. So
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by Ray20 6mo ago
> There are still poor people in rich-world countries that would find it painful to give up any part of what they have. Poverty is a relative concept. Even among billionaires, there are poor billionaires that would find it painful to giv
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by Ray20 6mo ago
Isn't that the whole point of all these pardon things? To reduce incentives to usurp power to avoid responsibility by providing less destructive for the political system ways to avoid responsibility.
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by Ray20 6mo ago
> for a working simple pen to take a note Well, I guess this means that they have successfully solved their smartphone availability problem. Otherwise, note taking tasks with a pen would be more important for them.
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by Ray20 6mo ago
> of lets say 200-300 USD for a somehow solid phone More like 30-50 USD, judging by the research I did in 5 minutes (or 20-30 USD if you agree to a used phone). No, I understand that Americans love to pay several times more for their hou
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by Ray20 6mo ago
> I don't get the point of banning specific pornography niches/fetishes that are otherwise legal. A typical practice for dictatorships to create a legal system capable of exerting pressure on any opponent. > Are there not mu
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by Ray20 6mo ago
I mean, it's hard to start wars when you don't get along with anyone and can't find a single ally.
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by Ray20 6mo ago
> It's so homogeneous that there are 4 national languages Perhaps he's talking about a different kind of homogeneity (one that conventionally falls under the "racism" category) > Moldova, poorest country in Europe

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