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by Retric 9mo ago
What’s the point of attacking a straw man while ignoring the actual points being brought up? The water usage by data centers is fairly trivial in most places. The water use manufacturing the physical infrastructure + electricity generation
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by Retric 9mo ago
> Add more or less value to the government than functions the government has chosen Talking about average government spending isn’t a reasonable argument because you can only spend money once. If these people cost ~1B/year you aren
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by Retric 9mo ago
The US government operates with such a huge debt that we aren’t paying for these things. Instead we are paying for the long term effects of such spending. Cutting 10k scientists could therefore result in increased taxes without anyone ever
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by Retric 9mo ago
It’s a separate question not arbitrary. How many PHD’s the government should employ is debatable, but saying we should have fewer such people says nothing about who was let go. It’s always tempting to say ‘This was a good decision therefor
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by Retric 9mo ago
That’s a straw man argument. Losing 10 people becomes a question of their individual qualifications, losing 10,000 people and this is no longer about individuals. Some of the people who left where underperforming but a significant percentag
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by Retric 9mo ago
There’s many ways that people can fail where they aren’t the root cause. These failures aren’t on that list because they require active intent.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Never means the specifics are irrelevant, you’re making the sad argument on the worst possible case and the best one. So why should customers entrust their data to the company? It’s a transactional relationship and the less you do the less
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by Retric 9mo ago
You’ve overly simplified the degree to which a company must accept a court order without pushback. First they are capable of fulfilling the request in the first place which means their approach or encryption is inherently flawed. Second com
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by Retric 9mo ago
They likely want to use the device without looking at it, thus the requirement is physical buttons not a specific OS. It’s the same issue with touch screens in cars. Anything that’s a touchscreen simply fails a core MP3 player requirement
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by Retric 9mo ago
“basically” is doing some heavy lifting here as they aren’t good enough to let you ignore the road without taking serious risks. So you’re stuck in the drivers seat paying attention to traffic, but you get to mostly avoid turning the steer
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by Retric 9mo ago
Women and children very much participate in farming back then, harvest was a “all hands on deck” situation. Similarly by adding ‘and clothe bodies’ that captures well over half of a typical woman’s labor back then. Drop spindles sucked up
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by Retric 9mo ago
Having grandchildren “coast through life” is based on copyright lasting 70 years past the death of the author. But seriously having the rights disappear in 10 years is hardly an incentive for murder. Honestly, I find it difficult to unders
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by Retric 9mo ago
At best dams let you draw down water based on average rainfall. They cost water via evaporation if you don’t have excess rainfall to store. Thus removing dams was actually useful amid a 25 year drought.
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by Retric 9mo ago
The post WWII economic boom outgrew the debt thus dramatically decreased the debt to GDP ratio. The US is unlikely to find itself the only industrialized nation without massively damaged infrastructure again anytime soon.
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by Retric 9mo ago
“There's no chance US will default on its debts, all it has to do is to print more money.” Trying to inflate away 40+ Trillion in debt would directly result in hyperinflation. > they debased the Yen to garbage levels Look at Yen to
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by Retric 9mo ago
If that was actually being considered you don’t need to default in the first place.
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by Retric 9mo ago
The US has never dealt with hyperinflation.
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by Retric 9mo ago
> 1979 is when the Fed began collecting median wage data. Making it at best absolutely worthless for your argument which I used to think was accurate. Congrats you helped change my mind. > just give people a 2% 'raise' and
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by Retric 9mo ago
Wow, being that deceptive implies your argument is false. You imply there some something different around that date, but only show data prior to that date for one of those lines. WTF. Dig a little deeper and the median wage is calculated by
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by Retric 9mo ago
The economy is finite. You can’t infinity add new participants with infinite product to sell. Instead in an efficient market everyone is already occupied making X ROI and gives as much up by entering a new market as they gain. Put another
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by Retric 9mo ago
You misunderstood a basic principle here. In a perfectly efficient market all entries can make the same profit on a given investment at the same level of risk and time horizon. There’s nothing inefficient about a market having a risk pre
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by Retric 9mo ago
You can argue about all the many secondary reasons for each of the different groups (retirees, prisoners, etc), but only one thing is required for every group.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Literally across the full spectrum. A surprising number of communities exist outside the US road network.
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by Retric 9mo ago
A luxury car manufacturer could tip the scale of someone buying their product vs someone else’s product via an arbitrarily small wage increase. The degree to which this is generalizable is of course a different story, but it’s at least theo
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by Retric 9mo ago
I’ve been on plenty of teams where meetings didn’t actually require any meaningful participation from most people.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Your logic is flawed. 8.8% of total wages vs 0% of some lesser number isn’t 8.8% of the difference. If hypothetically you are paying 99x a year and bumping that to 100x means someone buys an 8.8x product that could be a win.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Yes it is, if we still needed 90+% of the population to work or people starved that’s a self correcting system. Less than that work and you have less people.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Millions of working Americans don’t have cars. Also, you can make the median wage in the US without any collage education. Poverty still exists, but vast inflation of what is considered’a basic standard of living’ hides a great deal of pr
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by Retric 9mo ago
Neither of those things are needs, it’s just wants and preferring your own wants over others is completely normal. Imagine trying to live your life where other people’s desires by default overrode you own.
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by Retric 9mo ago
Only the relatively tiny homeless population is poor by historic standards. And that’s almost exclusively mental health issues and addiction. Now we can set arbitrary thresholds for what standard of living every American should have but eve

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