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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Why would less competition and more market concentration be good for the US semiconductor industry? It's not like Qualcomm has been the most innovative company ever, they make ARM/Cortex based chips (which is almost a commodity) a
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
It's pretty easy to design the best 5G modems when you're are almost (effectively) the only company that's legally allowed to make them. They are basically a monopoly... Intel would be doing much better as well if they didn&#
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> I guess I didn't put it out clearly, Replying just because you said since it's still not clear at all: > but the current definitions of corporate taxation are highly flawed. I assumed that you meant that the government cou
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> what happens to tax revenue when corporate taxes are cut? The tax revenue goes down. Sure? I'm talking specifically about significantly cutting income taxes in combination with raising corporate taxes and expecting to end up with
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Raise corporate taxes and reduce income taxes. I'm not sure you can generate much if any extra money from that. Total revenue from income tax was $4.47 trillion in 2023, while only 0.42$ came from corporate tax. If you raise corp
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> And now there is really absolutely zero reason to have as high as possible productivity. Why? Redistribution is a problem and of course there are negative externalities (environmental and other) associated with the high growth over the
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Depends on the country probably. In some places, at least reasonably high English fluency is near universal. It wouldn't be surprising if these countries eventually became effectively bilingual.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> education that lends us to believe that capitalism is the only way things can be. It seems to be the only stable system that has allowed relatively stable and continuous growth to occur long-term. > capitalism is the only way things
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> that it is the natural state of affairs and everything leading up to it was a proto-captialist society (see the myth of a barter society, which never existed). Wasn't that one of Marx's ideas? Certainly the part about everyth
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Why do they do this? Is it to share all the CPUs across manyVMs and squeeze more profit out rather than dedicate cores to VMs? It's a choice you made, though. You can pay a little bit more of an dedicated CPU.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Is this company not actually making the market more efficient and transparent No, not at all. Unless applicants/employees get full access to the same information.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Which would be perfectly fine if you made this completely transparent and made the same information available to your applicants. Them not knowing the market rates (at least not even remotely as accurately) puts them at a significant disadv
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
IIRC in Norway at least everyone (who lives there) can check it but your name will be recorded and visible to that person.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Any evidence that a significant proportion of people (compared to other countries) who died of cancer in the US were never diagnosed?
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> MNCs in Europe? Why would you expect them to pay corporate taxes on all the income they make outside of the US? Would hardly make much sense...
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Well after this ruling it's finally "fair" (well kind of) just still somewhat uncertain.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Isn't having children at an older age associated with a significantly higher rate of genetic mutations? Wouldn't that "speed up" evolution (for better or for worse)?
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Presumably they did other things besides what's described in the article?
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Yes? And your point is? Also: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/sites/default/files/wp-conte...
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Show us where it’s “cut” please The chart on the right. Year is the bottom axis and the vertical axis shows the budget. When the curve goes down it means that the budget has decreased from a higher amount to a lower one (before you say
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
So? Your point is what exactly? They were charged for money loundering...
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> I would like to see numbers factoring in things like public transportation, health insurance, etc If that's worth more than $50k or so anyone living in the US that's not making significantly more than the median wage or would
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Are you using a time machine to post your comments from 2031? Because they are only supposed to get that much over the following 10 years. And they already lost 25% of that: https://www.grantthornton.com/insights/newslet
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Didn't the IRS get $80 billion No, I think it was $5667 billion. Where do people come up with this nonsense? Did you even check what their annual budget was? Also the IRS budget was still lower in 2023 than it was back in 2009 (in
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> I kind of was expecting a lot more ROI, by like an order of magnitude Have you looked at any other data besides this article? I haven't which is why I'm not jumping to wild conclusions. Also their budget has been declining c
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> SteamDeck runs a minimally modified Arch Linux, with a full KDE desktop > Tens of thousands of Windows games, more like I'm certainly aware of that and not arguing about it, just saying that it's not really relevant for mo
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
To some extent building and running a business is a zero sum game, you don't have to be good at it you [just] have have to better at it than other people. Tech is also special in that it's often a winner takes all (to varying exte
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> businesses that fail is a testament to how thoroughly misallocated capital is. So much capital goes to people who end up demonstrating they are incapable of deploying it. Doesn't that disprove you previous hypothesis? Unless you t
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> businesses that fail is a testament to how thoroughly misallocated capital is. So much capital goes to people who end up demonstrating they are incapable of deploying it. Doesn't that disprove you previous hypothesis? Unless you t
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His pseudo-fascist political views, love of eugenics and other fringe stuff might have played a part. Also you can't really expect a person narcissistic/unhinged enough to name his child "X AE A-XII" to be even remotely

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