bluecalm

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by bluecalm 2y ago
But it's always taxes on productive middle+ class. It's never land value tax so we can free up land and use it more efficiently or higher taxes on polluting businesses as that would hurt their owners or wealth tax so people who ac
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by bluecalm 2y ago
"Sorry just because older generation didn't have enough children you will now be forced to give up 50+% of your income to support them". That will surely encourage young people to have their own children. They will pay even m
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by bluecalm 2y ago
I think in general the deal in EU is terrible for young and not so young productive people. Taxes on income are high, real estate is very expensive as the land is already taken by others (who usually pay very little tax on it). There is reg
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by bluecalm 2y ago
That it slows things down significantly is a feature not a bug. Rural roads have a lot of accidents. In my country the most fatal ones. There are two main reasons for that: speeding and fail to yield. Often combination of the two. Roundabou
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Poland. For all the faults of my country healthcare is actually run pretty well. There is a public option where you have to wait but people are free to run private practices/labs/facilities. Because the public option exists they c
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Or maybe regulation is in fact a problem. In my country there is less regulation in healthcare services. I can walk into multiple private facilities in my town, get full blood panel with almost everything you can think of included (hormones
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Advertising state lottery on TV is just a way for politicians to funnel money to their buddies in the marketing agency and TV. I guess they get some positive coverage for that or w/e. It's one of the most obvious signs of corrupti
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Beatable games are even worse than unbeatable ones. They hook people who believe they can win. Maybe some can, it doesn't matter - they still ruin lives for no benefit. You just add some skilled gamblers to the group that runs the hous
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Drugs don't require electricity and a CPU and RAM though. People running those will use a lot power.
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Those are half measures. The obvious solution is to forbid bundling data/cell plans with phones. Those are separate businesses. Bundling can only be bad for competition and customers. That we don't even get this basic protection i
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Marketing section isn't helping. Some over the top claims mixed with some lies. You are not winning any favors with it. It's clear domain knowledge is lacking in this project. Things like not numbering moves in engine lines, not n
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by bluecalm 2y ago
But how giving 2B to Intel helps with that? Again you could send thousands of Polish engineers to work for free at major facilities around the world using a fraction of this money if you want them to get more experienced. We are not helping
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Idk how it's supposed to work. Do you think there are any chances for Polish chip companies arising? You could send 1000 of those guys to work for free in facilicties around the world using 5% of the money. I see it as a giant subsidy
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Poland's Intel plant gets EU green light for $1.9B in state support(reuters.com)
11 points by bluecalm 2y ago|13 comments
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by bluecalm 2y ago
As someone (still) living in Poland and paying taxes there I find it bizarre. We are giving 1.9b USD to Intel as a subsidy, not even a tax break as Intel won't pay any here (the factory is in a special economic zone) while our governme
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Or Ireland could just lower the tax for every company making it a level playing field. I am not a fan of EU economic ideas at all but I am happy they are starting to enforce this one. My country (Poland) has done such deals as well. Wanna s
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by bluecalm 2y ago
VAT is physically paid by businesses in EU. At the end of the day it's a tax on final business to customer transaction (like sale tax). It's levied on a transaction. Saying one party pays it but the other doesn't is meaningle
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by bluecalm 2y ago
If you want to tax sells in a given country charge VAT. Corporate income tax is just a fundamentally bad tax. It's hard to enforce, even with good will it's hard to calculate (is paying $X for a license a legit expense or not?), u
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Reading my code from some years ago I can see I was very frustrated by a similar problem when parsing .csv files from some financial institutions: # converts idiotic number format containing random junk into normal # represantion
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Intel still has 75% of data center market share (for CPUs). I think this is mainly momentum and they will lose most of it in coming years.
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Yeah but market cap is at least in theory about how much money a company is going to make in the future. Not this year, not the next year but decades is already pretty close (because of the discounting).
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Intel stock is as high as it was 15 years ago when they had total market domination. Now they are at the brink of collapse. The market is way bigger today but still, I would take a dominant player over a failing one every day. Another way t
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Considering that Sam Bankman-Fried raised more money at higher multiplier for a company to trade magic tokens and grand ideas such as that maybe one day you will be able to buy a banana with them I don't think Ilya impressed the invest
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by bluecalm 2y ago
From what I remember public companies have to disclose any customer responsible for more than 10%+ of their revenue on their 10-K so those won't be "mystery whales" for long.
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by bluecalm 2y ago
In EU choices like your jurisdiction, company structure and place you conduct business from will make a huge difference. I think it's the most important thing you should worry about. You can end up working for 25 years in Germany just
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by bluecalm 2y ago
I am in Europe so no Vanguard money funds for me (they need to publish KID and for tax reasons they need to be accumulating) but I have chosen one from Blackrock.
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by bluecalm 2y ago
One data point: IBKR pays you 4.83% right now so I think it's quite good. Not the full interest rate but it's a reasonable in my view payment for their service. They also pay you for every day the cash sits in the account. You can
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Whatever your views on free market if you want goods cheaper someone needs to make them cheaper. Splitting up Apple won't result in that. You still need someone else to make phones.
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by bluecalm 2y ago
In Poland you have a national ID card you carry with you if you don't have it with you won't get anything done anywhere. If you lose it/it gets stolen you have an obligation to report it. We have something like SSN number (pe
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by bluecalm 2y ago
Maybe but then where are those CPU fab experts working right now that offer them higher wage?

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