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by adventured 4y ago
$800 billion is high for defense, it's nowhere close to outrageous given the responsibilities the US has as the world's only superpower (see: helping Ukraine defend itself with an inevitable $100+ billion in funding), along with h
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by adventured 4y ago
> there is only one way you will ever own what you purchase Other than the gigantic number of blu-ray and 4K discs available for movies and shows, which you can purchase to own.
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by adventured 4y ago
> Privatization of hospital systems in the US have lead to very warped incentives, where C sections are the norm because it’s faster and more money for the hospital and Drs. The US rate of c-sections was 32% in 2017 (and roughly the same
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by adventured 4y ago
And many normal cultural things in the US would be regarded as an egregious offense in Japan (which has a very rigid, conservative, homogenous culture). So what.
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by adventured 4y ago
> Inflation is sky high everywhere, that will eat up a lot of convenience in daily life. There is a small chance that this will reduce wealth inequality but it may be only temporary. High rates of inflation increases wealth inequality ov
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by adventured 4y ago
> My life is so good right now despite the world being terrible. The world is overwhelmingly amazing, not terrible. For the majority of people this is one of the best times to be alive in all of human history. Rivaled only by the years p
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by adventured 4y ago
It's a garbage premise entirely due to the fact that people - eg job applicants - can be so drastically different one to the next (whether amazing or horrible). The secretary problem fails to bake that in, because it can't handle
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by adventured 4y ago
I recently got one of these for $847 claiming I owed a payment for purchased Bitcoin. It was disconcerting for sure, because it appears to be a legitimate invoice that you owe a payment for (rather than an attempted fraud that PayPal is mak
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by adventured 4y ago
> The US government will never be permitted Then why don't corporations regulate the government, instead of it being the other way around? Why did the minimum corporate tax rate just go up to 15%? Why is there any corporate tax at a
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by adventured 4y ago
If you don't mind answering, what service are you using to manage the weekly job alerts email (if you're not self-hosting that)?
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by adventured 4y ago
Tokyo is routinely ranked among the ~5-10 most expensive cities in the world to live in: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/world-most-expensive-citi... https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonytel
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by adventured 4y ago
US soldiers during the post WW2 era are overwhelmingly deployed for non-directly aggressive purposes in fact. They're deployed as a standing deterrent to regimes looking to conquer other nations. That includes in Japan, South Korea and
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by adventured 4y ago
The US has the world's largest entitlement and social welfare programs, including its vast Social Security program (which is not actually paid for in full by its recipients, it's heavily subsidized, ie a welfare transfer) or eg it
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by adventured 4y ago
They can certainly give it their best shot if they want to deal with the consequences. That's how the world actually works. Institutions like the UN are almost entirely powerless when it comes down to it, while eg NATO or the various m
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by adventured 4y ago
Most of the mainstream chain supermarkets in the US don't sell guns (Kroger, Target, Whole Foods, Costco, Albertsons, Ahold, Publix, Sams, HEB, Meijer, Aldi, et al.). Walmart is the primary exception there. Overwhelmingly that's n
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by adventured 4y ago
Germany GDP per capita 1992: $26,000 Germany GDP per capita 2022 (IMF estimate): $51,000 BLS inflation adjustment calculator: $26,000 in 1992 = $55,000 in 2022. Germany has seen a net per capita contraction over 30 years. Germany's GDP
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by adventured 4y ago
Our system is highly beneficial to the top quarter roughly. The median of that group has gotten significantly richer over 20 or 50 years and is better off in the US than they would be anywhere else in terms of wealth and scale (scale as in
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by adventured 4y ago
The UX gets a big fat negative point for hijacking the scrollbar in a negative way; they make it very skinny, on Firefox it's particularly obnoxious.
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by adventured 4y ago
> I think only Americans believe in this absolute negative liberty view of speech. That's a wonderful compliment.
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by adventured 4y ago
The KKK was thoroughly defeated as a power in the US thanks entirely to the US system of freedom of speech; the KKK had a very large, potent base at one time. They were not outlawed as a group, sunlight-as-disinfectant overwhelmingly won ou
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by adventured 4y ago
> And if so, what level of fame does someone have to have before it's legal to say what you think about them in public? Obviously subjective and would be determined in a court of law (public figure vs not a public figure). And besid
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by adventured 4y ago
The many people posting Reddit-like spam comments (ie zero value, attack focused) in this thread are not attempting to have a dialogue. They're just here to attack.
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by adventured 4y ago
$97 million operating loss on $1.2b in sales. That one isn't an accounting quirk. Nor is the wall that their sales growth just ran into. The pandemic pulled future results forward by many years, Shopify will suffer near-term accordingl
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by adventured 4y ago
They're this era's Nortel (Canada has a primo bubble stock with each big run; during the housing bubble era it was Blackberry). There's very little that is special about their business. They have no great competitive moat. It
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by adventured 4y ago
That is the case. A lot more people have become obese since the 1980s for example. Boob sizes would naturally go with it. "The average Americans' weight change since the 1980s is startling" "The average woman, meanwhile,
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by adventured 4y ago
> our complete lack of socialized safety net The US spends a larger share of its GDP on its social safety net than Canada does. What you're confused about is the difference between what a nation spends and what it gets for that spen
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by adventured 4y ago
Along with small and or very high population density nations. India is going to end up with perhaps two billion people and will have extraordinary population density/spacing problems. They're going to desperately need huge numbers
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by adventured 4y ago
For anyone curious (2005): site still has a "we just opened" banner https://web.archive.org/web/20050714023957/http://www.etsy.c...
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by adventured 4y ago
That's approximately correct. Public criticism is very, very difficult to do safely in the UK and that's for the lighter fare. The same is also true in, for example, France. Public criticism of officials (eg police) is legitimatel
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by adventured 4y ago
> maybe we should think a bit selflessly when deciding to invest in science It's not selfless. Most people have children and or grandchildren. It's extraordinarily selfish to want to see such personal, long-term investments flo

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