ivewonyoung

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by ivewonyoung 4mo ago
> You would be paying a similar amount, and the money would actually go to some use, as opposed to being blown on a political fight. What? No. You're off by more than 3 magnitudes. He spent about 45 million, his potential tax liabil
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by ivewonyoung 4mo ago
It's not just 5%. It's dependent on the controlling shares, so it's close to 25% of Sergey Brin's wealth, so almost 60 billion dollars.
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Full duration single-engine static fire test of Starship 40(twitter.com)
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Study: Australia's social media ban has made no 'meaningful difference' to teens(news.sky.com)
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Alphabet Shares Drop After Second AI Star Departs for a Rival(finance.yahoo.com)
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Iran threatens to attack Elon Musk's SpaceX and Starlink facilities(the-sun.com)
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Bran flakes to be classed as junk food under new health plan(telegraph.co.uk)
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by ivewonyoung 4mo ago
The underlying webpage: https://web.archive.org/web/20160325181748/http://adventureg...
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MPs and peers slam YouTube over tube ads blaming parents for kids' screen time(dailymail.com)
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by ivewonyoung 4mo ago
https://human.libretexts.org/Under_Construction/Clean_Up_(Pr... Search for "positive ad hominem".
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/taxes-on-the-rich...
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
Before capital investment it was coercion, slavery or community building that made big projects possible. The first two were outlawed as they weren't needed under capitalism but were common in non capitalism like the gulags and Uyghur
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
Capitalism creates wealth only when people are able to keep a decent amount of what they make. As a thought experiment, if you tax people at close to 100% under capitalism and "distribute" it to people that don't work, what d
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
State owned enterprises != private companies. Even in the US, govt salaries for higher ups are asymptotically low compared to private companies.
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
Reminds me of the adage - The successful have failed more times than the unsuccessful have tried.
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
They had "central control of wages, construction, and capital" to a much higher degree before they started becoming capitalistic in 1976 and the poverty levels were much much worse and not going down. They only started going down
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
> I read that it used to not be like this, that it used to be possible to renew the _visa_ itself from inside the US, but that got changed before my time. I can only imagine that the reason for that was that non-citizens inside the US ar
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
That makes no sense because labor needs capital to take risks so they get salaries. For example new drug discoveries cost a lot of money and a huge percentage fail with big losses that go to paying labor but not eventually benefiting from i
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
I listed the reforms upthread that you ignored. All the reforms fit a capitalistic model, not just a free commerce model. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231586 And of course, Mao's communism was very anti-capit
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
> Good riddance. If they want to act like parasites let them leech off the people some place else That's a reactionary emotional reaction that many countries started with and failed and led to people fleeing and the govts banning pe
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
The problem is that your proposed approach has been tried again and again and has failed every single time with disastrous consequences for several generations. Once people are given all the resources they want they are not motivated to wor
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
Those factors apply to non Americans wanting to move to the US but it's apparent that there is heavy demand to the extent of millions taking dangerous trips and breaking laws just to get a foot into the USA. You cant find such latent d
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
So why aren't those people lining up to try and emigrate to non-capitalistic countries for a allegedly better life? Instead for the past century we have almost everyone in the world wanting or not minding moving to the hypercapitalist
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
So not a single country out of ~200, not one, emulated the alleged great successes and utopias of historic non-capitalist economies for a century plus. Which is why you're unable to name one in the 20th century. Hmm I wonder why. Maybe
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
> A country where production, wages, and ownership are decided centrally can hardly be said to be unfettered capitalism. The reforms in China I listed heavily cut down on that. Are you claiming that China is somehow less capitalistic now
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
China is a great example of a counter point to the argument. They only started making things once they realized capitalism was better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_and_opening_up > The reforms [starting in 1
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
> Just because all modern states are capitalist does not mean that all states must be capitalist, as evidenced by the many erstwhile states that were not capitalist However, I doubt anyone else would instead want to live in current day N
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by ivewonyoung 5mo ago
Free Prime shipping which started in 2005 was the real killer. Before that it was more about the large variety that was simply not available in bookstores etc. so people were willing to pay extra for shipping.
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The Tech Stack in 2026 (pic)(i.imgur.com)
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by ivewonyoung 6mo ago
Diabetes has a similar issue, with type 1 and type 2 having very different causes and pathologies.

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