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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> -2% Would be pretty awful though. Very slow or no GDP growth, if you have any significant amounts of debt you're basically permanently screwed (if you're rentier and can just live on interest from low-risk bonds without doing
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Still preferable to deflation. At least the working class has something that can be stolen..
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> no astrophysicist understands stellar reactions" because that is false Cyclists are not exactly the equivalent of "astrophysicists" in this situation though. There are of course physicists who are also cyclists, but basi
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> It has demolished countless sovereign states Now name one at least (besides maybe Serbia which isn't exactly demolished however you look at it). > The US - and its NATO allies, using NATO bases - murdered 5% of Iraqs population
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> economic survival of the USA and its western allies Don't be silly. Russia is a sidenote from the perspective of the west. Especially the US, they'd much rather focus on the pacific and their internal stuff. I know Russians t
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
The climate in Kyiv is relatively mild to what people would generally associate with the "Russian winter".
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> but "to avoid being defeated by evil we must become evil ourselves" is not really the point Well the world is not black and white. > For things like chemical weapons we have treaties banning it There was a treaty Russia si
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Japan was facing a superpower with unlimited resources. Ukraine is facing a second-rate region power which has nothing going for them besides nukes and a large pool of servile and suicidal recruits (so a bit like Japan in that sense). Not e
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Why would anyone want to listen to some nutjob propaganda podcast? Especially when it's long?
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> Whatever he arrived with, it changed the plans of the Ukrainian government So you're claiming that Ukrainian government was willing to give up all the annexed regions including the territories they still controlled? Because that&#
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Well... the probably was option for a "peace deal" Ukraine just had to renounce all the territories Russia had occupied (and also parts of the annexed regions which Ukraine still controlled). They probably wanted other concessions
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Right.. except that person is just describing actual facts. Also why do you feel the need to make such pointless contributions?
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Why would NATO want to antagonize or threaten Russia directly? That's a serious question because neither the US nor Western Europe had any desire to start any direct or indirect conflict with Russia since 1991.. > missiles close to
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> It's about Russian security It's not 1939 (as if their invasion of Poland was justifiable or is that not what you're claiming?). Nobody has been threatening Russian security for decades. Even back in the cold war does th
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Not uniquely but yes. > This is just propaganda for the rubes. Perhaps let's keep language like that on reddit?
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Because they think that some people are still dumb enough to trust Putin/Russia?
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> Nazi Germany did not invade Switzerland, USSR did not invade Finland To be fair these aren't exactly the most relevant examples. On paper the balance of power economically (and military to a somewhat lesser degree) is certainly on
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Is Italy threatening to nuke or invade Germany because the Germans won't let them annex Austria? I don't think so.. Or are you suggesting that people can just move to another place when their home country gets taken over by fascis
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Are you saying that the people building those parks in Colombia were only paid $0.2 per hour?
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Insurance companies can always hike premiums to compensate though. State run system could/would be a lot stricter with their funding and have less wiggle room.
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Nvidia's valuation is perfectly reasonable if you expect that they'll manage to grow at a similar pace for the next couple of years and will retain their obscenely high margins. Of course for that not only does the AI hype need to
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> Apple is honestly the biggest competitor in terms of hardware and software ecosystem Are they? It's not that obvious that they could necessarily scale up their low-power integrated GPUs (as fast as they are) to be competitive in t
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
To be fair their stock wasn't necessarily doing that great at all (relative to AMD , let alone Nvidia over the last few years) when they were completely dominated the market. Even with all dividends included their stock is worth about
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Their foundry business is a tiny fraction of their revenue at this point and I'm not sure their overall gross margin is particularly relevant here (also Intel has lower gross margins than AMD or TSMC these days?)
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
> in terms of GDP PPP, which takes into account the cost of living in the country You should be comparing PPP adjusted household income and not GDP if you want to make this argument.
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
On the whole income be significantly lower because the state couldn't afford to pay them as much (or at all) anymore.
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
The ruble was not convertible to foreign currencies prior to that though. If you lived there you could only exchange it for dollars/marks/etc. if you were travelling and only a very limited amount (and of course only well-connecte
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
70-80%+ of the population was already living in urban areas in the 60s though.
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
I'm sure most homeowners (especially those owning multiple properties but not even remotely close to being "super wealthy") would gladly vote against their interest as long as lobbyists stopped trying to influence public opi
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by Wytwwww 3y ago
Because most "normal" homeowners or those who own a couple of properties would be extremely happy to vote for policies which would potentially reduce their equity...

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