johngladtj

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by johngladtj 3y ago
I've been pretty happy with my framework laptop so far, though it does run a bit hot particularly when trying to play games. Still for a coding/web browsing machine I've had a decent experience, though I do regret not waiting
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by johngladtj 3y ago
Do you genuinely believe that other governments don't already have that information? Most of it is publicly available, and what isn't can be estimated reliably via satellite imaging
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by johngladtj 3y ago
>The problem is more obvious in reverse: profit is money extracted from community wealth. On the contrary, profit is the part of the wealth generated by the company that remains with those who generated it!
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by johngladtj 3y ago
The seller, since them accounting for the algorithm allows them to undercut the competition and make a profit. The algo is a red herring, supply and demand conquers all.
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by johngladtj 3y ago
Guilty as charged. Sadly some software I use is so old that the only way to call Powershell scripts is via a batch script...
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by johngladtj 3y ago
That's not actually true
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by johngladtj 3y ago
The huns and Hungarians are not related.
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by johngladtj 3y ago
Same reason you would do anything else. Because regardless of whether you have a monopoly, you can still make money by solving people's problems
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by johngladtj 3y ago
All the ones that restrict freedom without good reason
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by johngladtj 3y ago
You're incorrect, if you get paid at the end of the month, you're an unsecured creditor against the company. Legally and economically speaking you're taking on more risk than most banks take on when they give you a mortgage.
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by johngladtj 3y ago
That should not be required either
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by johngladtj 3y ago
You misspelled "Human Right"
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by johngladtj 3y ago
Investments have risks. Should I be refunded by everyone else if the stock I purchased goes down?
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by johngladtj 3y ago
Sure, in the same way that you not donating your home to the state is money out of the public coffers as well.
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by johngladtj 3y ago
Electricity costs money
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by johngladtj 3y ago
So you agree with the widespread censorship in China, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, etc...?
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by johngladtj 3y ago
There is absolutely nothing today preventing workers from operating the way you want them to. If your system is so successful, why aren't most companies running like that?
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by johngladtj 3y ago
What a silly way to look at it. Are losses overpaid wages too?
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by johngladtj 3y ago
I'm not German, I just live here
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by johngladtj 3y ago
Number 2 is true here
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by johngladtj 3y ago
Close, their cost of debt was 2% a couple of years ago. The waac last I checked was around 3 or 4 %. Whatever the case once you account for costs they are not making money
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by johngladtj 3y ago
I'm an equity analyst on the side and my landlord is publicly traded. I know their numbers. Their cost of debt was under 2% when they purchased the property, but it's jumped significantly in the past year or so as their debt sched
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by johngladtj 3y ago
It makes very little sense to buy a home in major German cities. Say you put away 1% of the value in depreciation + 3% as cost of capital + 1% in running costs a year. That's around 5% of the homes value in costs that you're havin
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by johngladtj 3y ago
Induced demand does not exist, it is literally not a thing. The demand was there, the cost was just too high to satisfy it.
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by johngladtj 3y ago
If you offer to buy it for more than the tax benefit they would get otherwise, I'm sure they will accept
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by johngladtj 3y ago
That argument only works if you're actually measuring those effects and those are the only effects impacting the decision to make it mandatory or not, and those effects are more negatively impactful than other effects caused by other t
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by johngladtj 3y ago
A significant part of the expense here is to get away from the government that is looking for them. Take away the oppression and the expense is significantly reduced
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by johngladtj 3y ago
Providing shareholder value is the useful thing they are supposed to produce. Anything else is a side effect
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by johngladtj 3y ago
Sure you can, it just costs more than taking the loss
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by johngladtj 3y ago
You can also just say "yes, the call is being recorded"

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