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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Yes, after being forced out by the increased taxes they can move somewhere else and buy there I’d focus on the high vs low density part of the argument which you entirely ignored. > rant I’m not
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Some countries are fully private, like Switzerland and I think Netherlands.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> aka revenue that is weird and modern day serfdom. Not really, though. Businesses have inherent incentives to minimize their costs. Individuals don’t, in fact it’s closer to being the opposite. So the “revenue” tax approach is perfectl
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> We don't need to use psychological tricks to make people consume more. It’s not a psychological trick, when prices are increasing at a stable and predictable rate it’s perfectly rational to spend more instead of saving. Which is g
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> and even with the recent increases are still low vs the long term history I don’t think that’s true. Certainly not relative to inflation/nominal income growth.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> giant ladder pulling mechanisms against current residents. Wouldn’t metaphorically they’d be already on top of wherever they were climbing using ladder? Also even with readjusted taxes they’d still be in a significantly better position
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
What’s the difference? If housing prices all go up at the same pace you’re still pretty much were you started. Yes you can afford an X% higher deposit but prices have also increased by X%.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Except many European countries have significantly higher home ownership rates than the US. Belgium for instance which has been one of the most intensively economically developed areas over the last 700 years higher he ownership and interest
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> You haven't even answered my question. Why would I waste my time? A better question is why’d you’d try to waste other peoples time with your silly irrelevant responses? > Marx's analysis on the accumulation of capital has
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Both models are entirely outdated and only superficially relevant in the modern world?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Assuming you are American: how have you stopped the offensive in Iraq or Afghanistan? I’m not. However I do believe that the wars in Iraq and especially Afghanistan were morally ambiguous (one of them quite a but less than the other)
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
That not what we’re talking about though. I’m sure they might use their rockets but they wouldn’t support their manufacturer the way they do SpaceX. Even if there were superior foreign options NASA/etc. would rather work with an Americ
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I guess it depends on how you measure popularity. If we’re counting new apps published on App/Play Store? Perhaps, even if still quite surprising . By user numbers? Completely unbelievable.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Then it’s not bringing something particular new or useful to the table? Xamarin/mono already tried almost the same approach years ago and it clearly failed..
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Would they be as eager to work with a non American company which could offer the same price etc.? Even an European one? Highly unlikely..
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Ariane 4 and preceding versions? There was also the Tsyklon series (mix between Soviet and European tech). > should have been more specific Why? When someone says “America” without specifying anything it’s usually perfectly obvious they
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Since you got paid for it. Youtube pays you by serving you content for those ads. Is that technically true though? Legally it certainly wouldn’t be, there is no explicit agreement between you and Google. Even if some people feel that t
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> that is fraud. I don’t think that true. Users have no have signed no contract and/or have any obligations to watch those ads. Of course it would still be fraud if ad buyers were paying for ads which were never displaying it, excep
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Which is not something that could scale to Youtube’s levels. > nothing Except huge amounts of drive space and upload bandwidth. Considering most (to an overwhelming degree) people consume videos on phones, tablets or laptops with relativ
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
For physical products, which makes sense. I can’t imagine Apple TV+ was (or probably still is) at all profitable (especially considering how low the monthly fee was and all the promotions at the beginning).
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
And some people need to thinking about how inherently superior they are compared to most other people to feel good about themselves.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Visually, linux is excellent and very useable. On a superficial level maybe. But generally it’s still very unpolished, inconsistent and has poor UX design. Of course it’s matter of taste. Not sure why your comment is being downvoted th
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
>I find the linux community indeed very resourceful I do to. As a “power user”, however it feels that for people who don’t know how/fear/don’t want to use the command line and don’t know how to read documentation accomplishing
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
So the outcome of that is that you either destroy the company or you’re out? Either outcome is the same from your perspective, you chose to no longer have any say in what happens next
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Isn’t the 10 billion transferred in stages and tied to OpenAI meeting some predefined obligations? If so they’ll probably struggle meeting any obligations with no employees. > change towards commercialization was what put him off openAI.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Or they are just incompetent/ had ulterior motives. All of this is just speculation. However if their goal was indeed what you said they have failed miserably at it. They simply won’t have any say in what happens next because of this s
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Well chances are that because of this entire debacle they simply won’t have any say in it. So yeah if that was indeed their goal their hand will be “clean”. But that’s it. The world will move on and at best they just delayed those “existent
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Depends on what proportion of engineers/scientists follow the CEO to Microsoft. Also with a lack of direction (and by extension funding) even the best engineering team won’t be able to achieve that much (they might be able to hire bett
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
They won’t be able to accomplish their mission without external funding, though (longterm anyway). Seemingly what they did significantly compromised their ability to obtain it in the future. So I guess they’d prefer not accomplishing their
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Presumably they still have the deal with MS and will continue to receive funding as long as they meet their obligations? (Of course no clue what they are..)

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