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by bruce511 2y ago
Why not $21? Or $30? Or $100? Genuinely curious. I figure it's either worth $0, or hundreds of $. I mean, sooo much whining about privacy and telemetry and ad-blocking but ultimately it's worth the same as a couple cups of coffee?
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by bruce511 2y ago
I think there are a bunch of things about tax you don't quite understand yet - I recommend you find a financial planner who can help you navigate this. Firstly, it's trivial for a business not to pay tax; simply don't make a
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by bruce511 2y ago
There are two ways to look at art. First is for you personally to have something you enjoy to look at. Second is to have sonething that impresses others (perhaps a buyer.) Owning a beautiful Van Gough is a pleasure to look at. Frankly if it
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by bruce511 2y ago
It's interesting that you're embarrassed by the notion of "selling yourself". Shame from self-promotion is a very cultural thing, and I'm guessing deeply embedded in your upbringing. "Don't boast" is
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I've noticed something, and I don't know if it's too much of a generalization but I see it a fair bit, so maybe it's generally true. Generally speaking, non-religious people understand church to be a building. Whereas re
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>> Will we still have just three operating systems to choose from - of which only two are really suitable for a worker's desktop? Such an intriguing statement. Firstly there are at least 5 major operating systems in play (windows
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You're getting downvotes, but I'm not sure why. It's trivial to say something like "wean off Google" and it's another thing to suggest an alternative source. The truth is, there are no actual ideas on how to re
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Stock prices are one of the economic indicators people love to point to, but they're also a pretty bad indicator of how things are going. Firstly, only a small percentage of people are directly invested. A larger group is tangentially
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by bruce511 2y ago
You don't need to worry. MS and Meta both have very healthy revenue streams, and billions of cash lying around. Their current loans are easily covered. As much as the markets love to talk about investment values, and valuations, this r
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A benevolent dictator is the best form of government. Unfortunately though power corrupts and they have a habit of becoming self serving, and very much not benevolent. I'm not just talking at the nation-state level, but at community, c
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>> I love building product as soon as I stumble upon an interesting idea. This isn't a bad trait. It makes for an interesting hobby. I do the same with my hobbies. You don't really say why a lack of users is a problem, so I&
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I agree that the governments of both parties have underserved most people. Some of the reason for that is structural. The president has limited power, and congress has been too evenly balanced for decades to really get anything significant
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The point being that the health amount is already removed from the net salary. So when comparing net salaries it's important to understand what has already been paid for. Yes, some people top up with private health. That is a discretio
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>> But once they eat up all the market share, the story would start to change. You may be right. But at the moment this is just speculation. Just like happened from Japan and Korea, the quality ramped up quickly. And yes, companies ag
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So you mean like just about every other change ever?
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AI is a big change, which will permeate life. This kind of change can be scary. Stories trying to predict how things will change is both meaningless and also thought provoking. History is full of big changes. We've all grown up with gr
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by bruce511 2y ago
>> How do we slow down or control the flow of information ? There's no way that genie goes back into the bottle. And even if you could that's not the issue, people believe whatever they want to believe. Ultimately education
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Science is pretty global. The cutting edge of fusion is in France, CERN is in Switzerland, the SKA is in South Africa, and so on. On the other hand, VC money for nothing more than a good pitch is certainly easier in the US. Although even th
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by bruce511 2y ago
I'm old enough to have been around this bush twice already. In the 70s your argument was made against emerging Japanese makers. Unknowns like Toyota, Datsun (now Nissan), Honda etc. Then in the 90s it was Koreans entering the market. D
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>> that made a plumber in the US make $7k a month while in much of Europe that plumber would only make $3k a month. I'm not trying to derail the thread, but framing your point as "magnitude of salary" is meaningless and
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>> In general, the principles of democracy are that the people of the nation can steer the nation Yes. >> towards a better place. Weeelll, where the population steer it to isn't really determined by any principles. Rather
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I didn't say it was rigged, I said it wasn't fair.
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I know "fairness" is a virtue we teach to children, but honestly there is nothing fair about any part of life. Where you are born, what ethnicity you are, how rich your parents are, how healthy, athletic, brainy, beautiful you are
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This is not as crazy as it sounds at first glance. The % is less important than where they are spending that money. An "economy" is just a measure of the overall movement of money. If the bulk of that spending is internal, then
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>> especially Trump's tariff threats will do a number on us. There will be losers certainly, but I'm not 100% sure that tarrifs for Canada are bad in the long run. Firstly, there are already reports of Canadians buying local
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For Foxconn see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconn_Valley_Science_and_T... But it's very worth pointing this out. The Taiwanese announcement is just an announcement. When a chip, any chip, rolls off the line
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We had unlimited leave for dome senior employees for a while. Those employees ended up taking less leave than they did before and so we canned it. We have generous leave allowances (18 working days at a starting level.) We also have a flexi
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In one sense the more solar we install, the more energy is produced, the cheaper that energy gets. I'd suggest that's a feature not a bug. I'll start by noting that in my region variable pricing does not exist, so that effect
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When Mallory climbed on Everest (and possibly summited) it was a big deal because it had never been done. When Hilary and Tenzing did it, it pushed human achievement forward. Today people still do it, but it means nothing to anyone other th
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Oh, I agree, finances are going to be poor. But these departments cost a lot more than salaries, so firing everyone does save real coin. And it plays very well with an electorate who wants to see "big changes". That thr changes wi

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