klrefg

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by klrefg 5d ago
> I certainly would rather live places like Mallorca or Donostia than in many places that are ahead of Spain in the silly GDP game If I was making as much money as I would in those countries that are ahead I wouldn’t mind living in Spain
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by klrefg 5d ago
Also they continued blowing up people after the transition from fascism. Even before that they constantly murdered civilians. For instance the IRA was very mild and moderate by ETA standards.
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by klrefg 5d ago
Not much. Back then it constantly murdered civilians (of many magnitudes lesser importance than Blanco) and generally had no concerns about collateral damage. It continued this for years after Franco was gone..
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by klrefg 5d ago
PPP is a misunderstood, distorted and often semi meaningless metric
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by klrefg 5d ago
So a Chromebook?
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by klrefg 5d ago
Few countries rely more economically on global trade than China though.
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by klrefg 8d ago
You should only be comparing the working age population or maybe even the ratio between that and retirees since absolute population is a deceitful metric.
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by klrefg 8d ago
> haven't "done enough", The people who are over 100 probably had enough kids but in a few decades the generation that will start getting close to that age will only have themselves to blame since they didn’t have enough
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by klrefg 8d ago
> In comparison, China is the least You only know of two major countries in the world?
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by klrefg 8d ago
They obviously could start methodically destroying civilian infrastructure to cause a huge humanitarian crisis which might force the Iranian government to collapse. They have clearly chosen not to commit to that approach so far.
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by klrefg 8d ago
> would look like today that would take us back 200-400 years technologically. If those technologies were concentrated amongst the elite and only a handful of palace scribes could write most people would have no or little contact with wr
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by klrefg 8d ago
Not making any GPUs worth buying makes you immune to export restrictions.
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by klrefg 8d ago
Logically one would expect it to be relatively more expensive and less performant because it does not have to compete with Nvidia’s hardware.
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by klrefg 8d ago
Well yes in an imaginary world everything is possible. We are less close to what you’re describing than to having flying cars.
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by klrefg 11d ago
Transparency is obviously not the only change they added with this liquid glass thing.
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by klrefg 14d ago
2G -> 3G -> 4G were all massive jumps that all enabled new use cases. I doubt majority of phone users who have a decent 4G connection would notice the difference if they upgrade to 5G.
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by klrefg 14d ago
> build a compliant accessible browser from scratch Which is not something even Google ever succeeded. They had a significant head start due to Webkit being open source.
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by klrefg 14d ago
Wasn’t Chrome mostly a wrapper on Webkit, though? You had to add the engineers who worked on Safari and KHTML before to the count..
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by klrefg 14d ago
Twitter is an empty shell though. Yes it technically works, that’s about that.
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by klrefg 14d ago
And how many engineers does Google have? The people working on Chrome are a tiny, numerically insignificant fraction of Google’s employees. A much better comparison would be people working on Google ads and their other commercial products.
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by klrefg 14d ago
How are these traits inherited by descendants who don’t consume drugs that increase the plasticity of their brain themselves?
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by klrefg 14d ago
Look up how much the signatories of the constitutional convention drank the night before signing the constitution. Alcohol consumption remained massive during the 1800s by our standards, people just drank we more than we do and probably mor
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by klrefg 14d ago
> is probably the worst drug of all in terms of societal destruction. We are yet to observe a society where the overwhelming majority of the population regularly uses fentanyl, crack cocaine or meth-amphetamine. I bet that if we try comp
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by klrefg 16d ago
So.. you’d have both higher taxes and higher interchange fees? What’s the appeal of that?
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by klrefg 16d ago
How do any of they rent cars when they travel? I think that still requires a credit pretty much anywhere in Europe. I’s bet the proportion is way higher than 5% even if the overwhelming majority use their credit cards the same was as debit.
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by klrefg 17d ago
Carney is one of them few (if there are any) leaders of Western countries who is actually genuinely popular and has a very high approval so he does have a lot of leeway to do what he thinks is best.
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by klrefg 25d ago
It wasn’t “tens of thousands a month” outside of some exceptional months. IIRC usually it was in the single digits which is not fantastic for a two people in the US