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by boelboel 4mo ago
Huawei, Foreign gambling sites were banned on dubious reasons in 2006 (in reality American companies weren't as competitive and las Vegas needed to be protected), Japanese electronic tariffs in the 80s/90s ... US never exactly bel
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Knew a professor statistics from a world renowned institution. He worked in nephrology for 10-20 years and would tell many stories about the worst practices he's seen and researchers pushed him to allow. Medicine was among the worst if
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by boelboel 4mo ago
He's right though beside the point about NYC (if it were awful why do people pay for it). Americans love the suburbs, i'd imagine most non Americans would like them . Americans are just rich enough and lucky with geography to be a
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by boelboel 4mo ago
The article acknowledges that rise in vehicle height is only part of it and might explain 10% of the rise. I'm not sure how exactly they measured things but there's no reason things could've gone down while car height simulta
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by boelboel 4mo ago
https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-cannabis-alcohol-use-di... Close to 18 million in 2022, not exactly 20 million.
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Legal weed has been a disaster in the US, 20 million addicted (almost daily use/daily use) versus a few million before it was banned.
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by boelboel 4mo ago
America banned international countries from winning the betting market to protect Vegas and casinos in general. Some sort of protectionism they said the war on Terror was the reason to ban it if I remember correctly(just after 9/11).
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by boelboel 4mo ago
You're right, what did happen around that time is that founders would be kept in charge of their companies instead of being replaced by CEOs (e.g. Founders Fund). The combination of the founders staying in power facilitated with dual c
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Google has bad governance, same with many other big businesses in the tech related sector partially because of the extremely generous position founders were in during the 00s and interest rates. In industries with lower margins like chemica
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Because he's a controlled opposition nepobaby with little actual intellectual merit, like many in the sector. Similar to Sam Harris, who's also on the list, with new atheism. Sometimes you just need some people to propagandize and
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by boelboel 4mo ago
It's been up and down for about 8-12 years. Problems get fixed and new ones get added without a particular direction, at least that's what it feels like as a regular user. Some come back years after they were first fixed.
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Being non-virtuous doesn't all of a sudden turn them into some kind of evil monster. It's just a job for most of them, one that pays well. Being professional and giving treatment like they should (basically following orders) is th
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Do people starting an 'airbnb' business help with the aging problem? Same thing with some of the other immigrants. They're not really creating economical value as much as they're competing with natives taking the 'e
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by boelboel 4mo ago
As someone who's been in both engineering school and medical school, I would say you're very wrong. Most doctors aren't in any way virtuous, most are in it for status or money and plenty don't care one bit about humans (
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Bill Gates was always a POS, reading about his behaviour earlier on doesn't make him seem in any way virtuous. The whole 'charity' persona he put on afterwards is just PR.
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Amazon itself used the extremely advantageous rates of USPS for book delivery in the 90s/early 2000s to be able to grow. Combined with the lack of sales tax it could undercut basically any bookstore in sale-tax free states. Part of the
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by boelboel 4mo ago
I've read before that a large portion of the warmest parts (Uttar Pradesh/Bihar) of India actually haven't had its temperature rise much because of coal power, farm burning and dust in general (a lot from construction) the pa
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Basically anything that could potentially make money besides software work seems to be banned. Software work has actual competitors, and the biggest hypemakers for Anthropic are part of this group so it makes sense to allow it despite them
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by boelboel 4mo ago
You're right, I should've been more accurate and said a significant portion of the enshitification of the internet would've happened regardless. The effects on education is probably a lot worse. I shouldn't have targeted
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by boelboel 4mo ago
A lot of low cost content generation would've come regardless with something like 50% of the developing world getting access to mobile internet between 2018-2026 and social media incentivizing certain types of content (monetizing). But
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Sometimes members are added just to prevent the EU from working better together, the reason why UK pushed hardest for expansion in 2004/2007. Funny how they'd leave the EU a few years later because of a vote that might've bee
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by boelboel 5mo ago
I think what's more interesting is that the odd opinions don't mean anything anymore. Before someone with odd opinions tended to be either really crazy or they were intelligent and thought a long time about something. Nowadays the
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by boelboel 5mo ago
"I am also an engineer, which means I have a healthy respect for the practical. All this made me a fine skeptic ..." is what did it for me.
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by boelboel 5mo ago
I only pay 25-30 a month though, wouldn't be worth it at 50.
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by boelboel 5mo ago
It's worth it for me with the physical paper. I don't think you'll get any valuable tips but the reporting is moderately better than other papers. Gives me something to do instead of immediately picking up my phone.
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by boelboel 5mo ago
China wasn't as poor as India, especially not until 1990s.
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by boelboel 5mo ago
Getting extreme wealth is more so about luck in various forms than competence/intelligence. If it were just about the latter everyone who's intelligent/competent would be rich. You don't hear about boring wealthy people
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by boelboel 5mo ago
Phone + PC/TV probably takes an hour or two of people their day on average. If they didn't have access to it I assume they'd be meeting up with other people out of boredom and that'd lead to sex, doesn't seem too st
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by boelboel 5mo ago
There's some evidence that mobile phone access is one of the biggest drivers in this. This talks about teen fertility but I'd imagine it's similar in other age categories as well. https://homepages.uc.edu/~mos
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by boelboel 5mo ago
Brazil is under 1.5 at this point and not nearly the worst off, thailand has a tfr of about 0.7 this year.

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