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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> but it’s unclear about what. True. Looking back you hadn't really made any coherent enough arguments in your comments that could be agreed or disagreed with.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Both are based on anecdotes and vibes, not reality. To me, it's all narcissism of minor differences I think most are thinking about a higher proportion of adults living at the same household as their parents in some countries when
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Statistically the number of Latin American migrants that move to the US yearly is tiny compared to the internal migration and especially to the number of people in Latin America who didn't go anywhere, though. The fact the it's no
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> also young males leaving to seek opportunity isn't an exclusively modern phenomenon. True but as far as we can tell it was usually (if not entirely exclusively) done through the same social networks that existed locally [unless yo
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> their children to marry and have kids, so that there are grandchildren to fill those golden years Which seems to benefit everyone long-term, though (on average/societal scale anyway). I mean what alternatives are you suggesting? C
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Do you think Intel would have done better with him than without him? Because they were basically doing nothing for 5-10 years. How long do you think it would take to fix a company like that? I mean I'm not necessarily defending Gelsing
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> really ripped away the illusion that the adults of the world are in competent control In the context of this the GFC was much worse, though. It was entirely avoidable and a direct outcome of extreme greed and extreme incompetence. With
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> take a look at the 20th century a little harder Effectively unlimited content is huge, though. IMHO that pretty much overshadows everything. There were only so much records, magazines and other content you could consume before the int
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> prices to zero economic profit is a fairly basic result Yes and that's not necessarily a good thing in all markets. Very low profit margins can result in less innovations and would certainly discourage companies from taking risks
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
I'm not sure if everything turning into a commodity and no companies having any surpluses would be ideal either. That would probably significantly slow down innovation in some ways.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
So Nvidia's moat is mainly hardware and not software?
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
So company profit margins should be capped? At what level and how would that work exactly? What about all other stuff? i.e. maybe you or somebody else can "afford" to sell their labour at 10-80% of what they are paid?
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Is this specific card really something you would ever use in an enterprise/datacentre setting? It's just not its target market. IIRC Gaudi is almost entirely unrelated to ARC And even if we're talking about datacenter GPUs po
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> , but should at least make it believable. How is it physically possible? No person could survive working 20 hour per day for any at least slightly extended amount of time without some extreme consequences. I assume they weren't ac
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
B580 consumes quite a bit more when idle though (~35 vs ~10w) which can add up if you keep your PC on a lot of the time. IIRC even the 14900k is less than 20w when idle. So not great.. but yeah, still would need to run 24x365 to get to $50.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Also AFAIK drug prices are fixed nationally and negotiated by the government? Then the basic plan is around 300-400 CHF (regulated by the government) and the deductibles are capped at CHF 2,500. This seems to be covering the overwhelming
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
It does still show that Americans are buying significantly less cars per capita than they did back in e.g. mid to late 80s. So the market is only stagnant because of population growth. Add Tesla and other companies that are making EVs and
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
That's an entirely new market for them. They are struggling even in their core area of expertise and trying to compete against Waymo, Uber, Lyft etc. would be like flying to the moon for them.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
What Waymo is doing is very localized and really only suitable for self-driving taxis and not normal cars. Not clear if that would help GM to sell more cars in the short to medium term (and obviously their execs have no reason to care about
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Don't the Swiss also have very fancy stuff, though? But yeah, drug pricing might be a significant part. I'm not sure about the reduced incentives for pharmaceutical companies, though? From what I understand the system is very inef
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
I'm sure that poor people would love to have some cocaine too if they could afford it.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
It's not that straightforward, though. US is much better at attracting highly educated and highly productive workers because of considerable higher wages and demand for labour than in Europe. While Europe is more of a fallback options
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Why can't US pretty much just directly copy-paste the entirely private (more so than in the the US since there are no Medicare/Medicaid equivalents) Dutch or Swiss systems, though? If a government-run health system is such a cont
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> there is minimal waste in the system (jury is out on that one). How could that be? Unless that's sarcasm.. I mean the US government alone (so excluding all private spending and insurance companies) spends more on healthcare per ca
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> the stock part doesn't impact the company's profit margin It certainly does if you use GAAP. A lot of tech companies cheat by providing GAAP and non-GAPP figures (of course there are some other cases where it makes sense) to
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
They are required to spend 80% on actual medical care, add various administrative costs etc. and 6% sounds reasonable. Problem is that this incentivizes them to waste as much money as possible but the whole industry has to "agree"
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Aren't health insurance company margins capped? i.e. if they are required to spend 80% on medical care so effectively they can only make more money be bloating costs more and more. It's better to waste $4.75 by maximizing the inef
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
I'd be surprised if they NYPD and the FBI spent anything even remotely close to e.g. 10% of what they did in this cases to investigate any random average murder. If he just shot someone randomly in a poorer neighbourhood he likely woul
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> pro-Russian ones are considered pro-fascist If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck (even if that duck claims that it's an elephant and keeps saying that everyone else is a du
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> you can’t have a fair election where some people are registered to share their net worth. Didn't he do that? As for the election spending even if he's lying about the spending they can't prosecute and convict him without

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