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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Was there any point when you could get a 30 year fixed loan at 3% in the UK? It makes sense that some banks might be offering them now at 7% since they have little to lose but I don’t think low interest longterm fixed mortgages are really p
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> I imagine There isn’t much else to it there though, is it? While they initially claimed that they were only targeting Israeli ships they quickly switched to attacking any ship crossing the strait regardless of flag, ownership, source o
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> I think this quote illustrates > Apple users spend more on software because they're just so dumb and don't know how to compile their apps and set up a self-hosted solution Never meant anything even remotely close to that.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> While selling less devices than their biggest competitor That doesn’t matter that much (when taking about app developers) compared to how much money they are spending. A single iPhone user in the US and other rich countries is worth a
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
It’s one of the few benefits of EU being a complete backwater when it comes to software and consumer tech products. There will be very little harm to EU’s economy since almost all of the profits are being sent to the US anyway. Also this&#x
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> I can fully understand Apple's position They want to maximize their revenue, just like any other company and there is absolutely nothing else to it. > Anybody who is buying or using an iPhone today knows what they're getti
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> paying the payment processing fees Was that ever an option? I thought you always had to pay 30% when selling digital goods
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
How would that be helpful if you want to cancel the subscription using a third party payment processor from the app store/settings(current workflow)? Apple would still have to call a third party API, otherwise it doesn’t seem particula
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Not German so correct me if I’m wrong but I had the impression that the mainstream parties (SPD & CSU) are mostly pro or neutral universal surveillance but the Social Democrats wouldn’t risk the coalition with the Greens and FDP over
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Why does it matter which Americans are dying? Because they are dying due to different reasons which can’t be solved all at once using the same methods. > averages are still applicable. For what? What do you think is the purpose of a
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Well it’s not something that happens regularly or even at all outside of very exceptional circumstances, so I’m not sure how can you claim that..
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> In countries with public health care, setting the price that high will typically result in near-zero sales, I’m not sure that’s strictly true at least when it comes to the most expensive/newly developed drugs: https://w
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Yeah, but just unimportant people from flyover states That’s not what I said at all..
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Aren’t wars (in the traditional sense) effectively banned by the UN? If war is illegal under modern intentions law what’s the point of declaring one besides self-incrimination? If you invade a country and just call that a “special operation
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Not particularly? Considering that they had this same name for > 30 years..
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Cancel the patent on the only Anthrax medicine available due to "national security". Wouldn’t that discourage these companies from spending money to develop new drugs on their own in the future?
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> The average life expectancy in the US is about 78. In other first world nations it's almost unilaterally closer to 84. It doesn’t help that (at least when it comes to healthcare) US is a dozen of different countries in a trench co
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
If you adjust by factors like obesity, state and drug use US is quite close or more or less on the same level as Western European countries. Even if you don’t do that there is a higher variance in life expectancy between different US states
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> In the US I’m certain that the US is in no way unique in that. Countries with universal public healthcare care systems do cost-benefit analysis all the time and access to the newest effective treatment options outside of the richest&#x
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Slavery was a “state rights” issue from the beginning. In what way was it part of the core founding principles of the US? Also having “core founding principles” doesn’t mean that they are valid or that you got them right from the beginning.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
So democratically abolishing democracy? > respect the will of its citizenry, whatever it is How do you define that? Is it always what the majority decides? What if the liberal secular government knows that going along with the will of th
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Not really? Islamists in secular Muslim states are trying to overturn the secular legal all the time (and have succeeded on numerous occasions). Often they end up compromising and end up with a mixed system which is also far from ideal.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
What other options are there though when the other side has zero interest in secularism and will do whatever they can to institute a theocratic government when given the opportunity? Some (most?) forms of Islam are just not compatible with
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> allowing civil society and institutions to form To be fair if they tried that Islamists would have just taken over. Those things don’t tend to just form on their own when you let people do whatever they want without supervision (you ne
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
They want to democratically abolish democracy. What’s undemocratic about that?
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> extremism in the form of salafi Wahhabism isn’t common in the country It’s not like the SA government (as a whole) was ever particularly that keen about the extremism part. Fundamentally they are not that different from Iran in most wa
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> But there is more than that Sure, there are more details. Fundamentally that doesn’t change anything at all that much. At no point in the conflict Russia had any interest in a peaceful solution or actually protecting the Russian speaki
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Regardless, his movies/tv shows always involved massive amounts of editing and manipulation. Like the time they portrayed some random (Christian) Palestinian as a leader of a Islamist terrorist brigade which supposedly had a huge negat
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> re-organizing into worker ownership and control What makes you think such a system would work better than private or state ownership? > attempts to thwart socialism. Nobody is better at that than the (so called) socialists themselve
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
How exactly do bottle caps in the EU end up in marine environments? And if they do that should be pretty easy to fix. These regulations won’t do anything to stop countries in Asia, Africa and other places from pumping their garbage into riv

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