ericmay

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by ericmay 7mo ago
> That's a weird statement. What do you find weird about it? > The current system, which you don't think is worth caring about, has been exceptionally good for the US. I'm not against the current system, generally speak
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by ericmay 7mo ago
Sure if $37k is a lot for a car I’ll agree with you. Then I think Tesla is now just joining Rivian and Lucid by being too expensive. The infrastructure would be besides the point then because you don’t care about that if you can’t even affo
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by ericmay 7mo ago
> That's an opinion, not a fact. It’s not an opinion. You’re welcome to go read China’s own self-published strategic plans on this or a litany of news and policy journals discussing this. > This is way too expensive for something
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by ericmay 7mo ago
My post was poorly worded I meant to say Tesla wasn’t too high of a price but it has political problems (we won’t buy another one for example). Lucid and Rivian don’t have those problems but they are quite expensive relatively speaking.
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by ericmay 7mo ago
> And I don't buy the "but China fuels money into their EV industry" either. Well, you’re wrong. There’s not much else to say bout that. > And why would I care if Chinese taxpayers subsidize my car? I really don't.
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by ericmay 7mo ago
And Lucid. I’m not sure it’s the infrastructure so much as the cost for these vehicles. Well, Tesla has political problems but Rivian and Lucid don’t - but they are priced quite high.
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by ericmay 8mo ago
It's also, frankly, very unimportant in the context of the geopolitical and geostrategic "USA has lost soft power" discussion that's being had.
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by ericmay 8mo ago
Sorry that's not how that works. First and foremost, Apple is still an American company and even if it isn't repatriating some amount of income because it doesn't want to pay taxes on it American shareholders still get the be
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by ericmay 8mo ago
You're indulging in catastrophe fantasy. If AWS gets "turned off" (the implication being the US is doing some big mean thing against all of Europe) for European countries then something absolutely catastrophic has happened an
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by ericmay 8mo ago
> Ikea (Denmark) desk I was just going off what you wrote. I buy locally handmade furniture and haven't bought anything from Ikea since college. Anyway, Sweden doesn't build all of this stuff either. > ARM comes from a long
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by ericmay 8mo ago
Sure if the US decides it would like to leave Greenland? It's just depending on who wants what with what influence factors. But if both blocks just decided to put all of their might and resources and politics capital into this the US c
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by ericmay 8mo ago
> That would be so funny if it wasn't clear that you are serious. Sure ok - tell me what I'm missing. > Why don't you tell us? Are you unaware that Apple designs the MacBook and A/M series chips?
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by ericmay 8mo ago
How will the EU get this arctic warfare equipment to Greenland? If the EU is so ready and willing to use this equipment, maybe they should deploy it to Ukraine instead. The US literally has bases in Alaska and Greenland and deals with these
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by ericmay 8mo ago
I guess it's global supply chains when it's convenient for your argument, but not when it's inconvenient? Does Denmark build all the Ikea furniture? Who do you think designs the MacBook, chipsets, and more? Who designs and bu
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by ericmay 8mo ago
> You live in a multi-polar world, there are three major power blocks and Europe isn't one of them, though that may change now (we're sick of war, but we're also sick of the threat of war, which one of the two will win out
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by ericmay 8mo ago
No it would be a point of no return. But the "non-kinetic" consequences would go both ways. It's not an exercise we should entertain, though the EU needs to step up in a very serious way and spend billions of Euros adding new
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by ericmay 8mo ago
> Economic power (US will no longer be the world reserve currency). As a reminder, reserve currencies are just currencies that are held in large amounts by national banks and other important institutions. The USD, like the Euro, Yen, Pou
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by ericmay 8mo ago
It’s interesting how these conversations always start and end with “my company isn’t buying XYZ American cloud provider services” while ignoring other incredibly important products and services that you can’t or are unwilling to boycott. Ar
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by ericmay 8mo ago
This kind of stuff masked you feel good to say but the UK isn’t going to stop the US if it (somewhat foolishly in my opinion) decided that it was going to take Greenland. Neither is the EU.
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by ericmay 8mo ago
The US wouldn’t even need to “attack” Greenland. What is there to even attack? 50 Danish soldiers? They could just say “that’s ours”, ignore whatever Europe says, and start doing whatever they wanted to do and instead force the EU to attack
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by ericmay 8mo ago
In the American context, life is pretty great. Been all over the world. It could get better here but it's still by and large pretty great. My point wasn't to suggest the options were "hell for no reason" or "continu
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by ericmay 8mo ago
> If its a revolution you probably aren't hitting them 40k in the air, your hitting them when they park similar to how Ukraine sent drones after bombers behind enemy lines. Right, and you don't need to conjure up anti-tank miss
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by ericmay 8mo ago
In the American context, hopefully it never comes to an actual revolution, because life for everyone will be much, much worse with little prospect of anything being better afterward. We should do what we can to avoid one, especially because
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by ericmay 8mo ago
The oil market is global and the US is a big part of that but it’s not the only one. You can always make changes to energy sources later and as new technologies are unlocked perhaps we can even skip some headaches now. Obviously there’s the
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by ericmay 8mo ago
It's actually less productive for dishwasher-safe dishes, there's simply no question about that. Hand-washing dishes also, from what I understand, uses more energy and water than the dishwasher does.
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by ericmay 8mo ago
Atomic bombs, probably. Drones? I’m not so sure I’ve heard that specific discussion point before. Why would drones be any different than machine guns or fighter jets?
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by ericmay 8mo ago
> What a wildly capitalist take on the loss of confidentiality for personnel data. As opposed to what exactly? A "communist" take on the loss of confidentiality? How might that go? "There's no problem comrade, what ar
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by ericmay 8mo ago
What makes you think that if this was the case that the US wouldn’t also take action there to secure those oil exports?
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by ericmay 8mo ago
> My PC has had a scanner connected to it for over 20 years You're basically the only person in America doing this. Tens of millions of folks are just scanning it with the app on their phone and it's objectively a much better e
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by ericmay 8mo ago
How do you scan a check on your PC? Generally yes the apps tend to be easier to use for most things, especially with a high-speed internet connection. Customers prefer them, banks build them since customers prefer them.

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