bluecalm

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by bluecalm 1y ago
Politicians are cheap. You don't have to be super-rich to buy them. Corrupt undemocratic parliamentary systems we have in EU are a huge problem but getting rid of super rich won't solve them.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Instead of calling for more surveillance, government overreach, and other communist wet dream fantasies like a global registry of wealth they could have started by fixing things in their own countries. One good way would be to start taxing
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Do I "poach" a stock when I offer more money for it than the last transaction value? "Poaching" employees is just price discovery by market forces. Sounds healthy to me. Meta is being the good guys for once.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Most of the world doesn't have unconditional birth right citizenship. It somehow functions and is not fascist.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
That's a good point. I was under the impression that the current administration thinks it can win a case about 14th amendment in case both parents are not legally in US with current majority but if they are in fact not appealing it wou
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by bluecalm 1y ago
>>I think you're half right. But there are cultures in which people save money. (You can just run a web search for "savings rate".) Yes definitely. My whole point is that it's about culture/values you learn as
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by bluecalm 1y ago
I don't think class action lawsuit is needed here. It's enough for one case to get to SCOTUS and then we will hear their opinion about how 14th amendment should be interpreted. It will be an interesting case I think both 4-5 again
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by bluecalm 1y ago
My understanding is that the administration's position is that at least one of the parents needs to be a citizen or a legal resident. If that's the case the answer to your question is: yes - together with the parents.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
It has nothing to do with credit. The whole buy-now-pay-later, 0% rates or pay-day loans industry came much later here. The same goes for predatory marketing industry. When I went to elementary school everyone was poor as it was a year afte
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by bluecalm 1y ago
It would be easier to buy that argument if it wasn't happening in countries where healthcare is not fast track to debt and police is not out there to get you. I come from such a country and a lot of financially struggling people oversp
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by bluecalm 1y ago
From purely incentive based analysis I would bet on Ukraine/Poland as well. I am Polish and the news was received very warmly here by both citizens and government officials.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Poland also have around $50B in gold reserves. Is there some law or unwritten law that requires Central Banks to keep so much gold? It looks like waste of resources to me, especially so if it's kept abroad. Is there a scenario in which
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by bluecalm 1y ago
It's not about profit but efficiency. Publishers are arguing that "Google steals their money". My point is that if Google disappears things will be worse for them. You don't need to support anything.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Yeah but they are the best at it. If other players take the market it will be less profitable to advertise with them and thus there will be less money for publishers unless you believe somehow someone makes more efficient search/ad com
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by bluecalm 1y ago
>>This only affects multi-millionaires, and even then, your numbers are wrong. The national wealth tax only applies to net worth over €3M. The top rate of 3.5% is only for assets over €10.7M. And some regions like Madrid and Andalusia
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by bluecalm 1y ago
I considered coming to Mr. Pedro Sanchez' country to do business there. I would even come to one of the poorest regions not to contribute to the housing crisis as I like the weather, fresh food and emptiness of it. >>3% tax on my
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Ok, so they start on equal footing but how is that good for them? People will just watch their favorite influencers on Youtube/Insta/TikTok. They know how to find those already. I mean, how do you envision those businesses (tradit
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by bluecalm 1y ago
They keep mentioning Google ad monopoly and how it "unfairly sucks revenue from publishers, killing journalism and the news media, while forcing consumers to pay more through an “adtech tax” to industry middlemen.". Those publishe
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by bluecalm 1y ago
I am childless and intend to stay so. I think I am getting a great deal in comparison to my friends who had children. I have more time, more money and my life is significantly cheaper. I think it's only fair that save for my own retire
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by bluecalm 1y ago
You want incentives for both having children and raising them well. That's why imo your retirement should depend on % of your children's taxes not yours.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
>>Retirement is still dependent on children. Before it was your children. Now it’s a collective mass of children. Which messes up the incentive structure. People with many children are subsidizing those with fewer/none.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
1000kcal in an hour is around 277 Watts for an hour. There are very few people who can sustain that without serious dedication and long hours for months/years.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
"People" can - sure. What we have instead is a situation where people are not voting on those issues. On many issues there is no choice at all not matter what the majority thinks
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Imo the biggest problem in Western democracies is that in a lot of ideological cases we don't have democracy at all. It doesn't matter what majority thinks as no major party is going to implement it. I get why democracy has to be
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Walking 5km/h at 70kg is 350kcal/hour. If you are heavy and unfit then it will maybe be 3km/h at 90kg 270kcal/hour but then someone that unfit is not going to be able to burn 500kcal in an hour in a gym anyway. >>I
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Yeah but then they will not get close to what they can burn with 4 hours of walking by doing a 40 minutes gym session.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
You will not burn 3000 kcal in 40 minutes of gym effort. Even burning 1000kcal in an hour requires serious fitness and burning 1200 is elite athlete level max effort for a full hour. Calories burnt by walking, assuming flat surface are dece
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by bluecalm 1y ago
I tried to report a FB page of obvious car (campervan) thieves: no address, name, telephone numbers only visible on the photo (so it's more difficult to scrap/automatically detect). A lot of made up testimonials with hidden commen
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by bluecalm 1y ago
It's not like that because it's very easy to prevent cars from speeding. It's just matter of political will. With guns the only way to prevent most of gun violence of to take the guns away.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
It's not about being paternalistic. It's about protecting others, not you.

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