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by kwere 4y ago
most income for the state is from income tax, trust fund kids and oligarchs dont have high income tax[0] , and the wealth tax can be easily lowered by tax planning [0] https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-france.p
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by kwere 4y ago
that and eliminating the creation of money out of thin air to generate the famous healty 2% inflation, the money injected into the financial system tend to go to the connected and financial worthy aka already rich, creating bubbles and chea
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by kwere 4y ago
Or maybe the poorer parts of society should stop trying to be overeliant on the tax levied on a minority of skilled earners (so no trust fund kids) creating welfarism/populism, breaking the fabric of society (as in ancient Rome),incen
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by kwere 4y ago
>"A tired, irritable, unskilled player is not appealing, and probably shouldn’t be looking for a relationship". >much of this blog post is about winning the game of life in a western capitalist society Thats true for most hu
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by kwere 4y ago
Speculation: The Eden parable came "probably" from the mesopotamic delta which thousand of years ago was in the middle of persian gulf (average depth: 50m) as sea levels were lower and whatever civilization/population was the
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by kwere 4y ago
public education is tailored to the class-level and school-year not individual performance, using underperformer is correct and they should be grouped by level of teachability and put on separate lanes than other students while obviously li
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by kwere 4y ago
linearity in history will be seen in our future like newtonian phisics, good enough to describe what we see but "incomplete", the "relativity equivalent" would be outburst of (relatively isolated) civilizations that coll
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by kwere 4y ago
Opinion: government workers label things mass hysteria when they have to file reports but cant keep those blank. Tangentially, also in the "toxic lady" case where 5 people were hospitalixed (1 for 2 weeks in ICU), since reasonable
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by kwere 4y ago
from a social development standpoint it makes sense, a lot of "geniuses" had/could develop problems growing up with people emotionally/socially more mature, altough keeping gifted people with underperformers and lowering
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by kwere 4y ago
The Austronesian people (kinda) had ocean sailing tech before the foundation of Rome (753 BC), as they settled fiji and Samoa at that time. If i rember correctly they mapped the sea using weaved twigs and stones in correlation to the stars.
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by kwere 4y ago
the economy was designed to service the politburo elites, the army, and (maybe) the capital cities. It kinda worked for its intended purposes, a semi-artisanal system, squashed by bureaucracy and political hires dictacted by realpolitik.
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by kwere 4y ago
its inevitable, at least for massive (1M+) social networks companies. Also a development which could break some dark patterns (that make this industry financially sustainable) would be having user-data on third parties which have a governme
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by kwere 4y ago
tirrany of majority is a thing, Boomers are one of the majority groups in society thanks to their lower childbirth rate. Hoping their biasies die with them of old age is a meek statement. I'm personally really angry at the amount of de
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by kwere 4y ago
possibly having most of the political leadership made of landed gentry / old money isnt beneficial to the development of society, as changes could easily became a threat to the status quo, thats why finance became the national industr
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by kwere 4y ago
it could also easily be a chinese operation funded by triads (they are extremily huge and tolerated from the CCP) and/or "dark" chinese political factions operating from NK sharing loot with the Kims. Even if they take all th
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by kwere 4y ago
In Europe you own a property inside a building and the condo is represented only by its own hoa that manages common spaces and handle simpler stuffs, nobody can force on you something more serious than cutting noises at 10 pm
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by kwere 4y ago
value is the eye of the customer and in the marketing-skills of the seller
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it also says that Tesla didnt took full use of its lead position in the market compared to competitors, turning what could be a decade+ lead on everything to a few years leads in which established automakers can "quickly" catch up
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by kwere 4y ago
FSD is the closest thing on the market to a real self driving through marketing was misleading. Tik Tok sleeping people on the highways is a dystopic byproduct of its result. FSD seems safer than average human driver now[0], good enough one
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by kwere 4y ago
One can say embracing wokeism/extreme polarization has been really bad for media companies from Fox to Disney passing trough Netflix
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by kwere 4y ago
imperialism fucks up both the "colonizers" and "colonised" and only end up feeding an authoritarian and violent police state who doesnt care about anything that isnt "value extraction" and "keeping stabili
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by kwere 4y ago
ANC is literally a wannabe "CCP" and modeled similarly
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by kwere 4y ago
in this specific case, cities are easily in a conflict of interest with zoning, at least politically as Nymbism was/is popular with established residents. This empasse goes against freedom of movement of people or property "rights
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by kwere 4y ago
I'm italiano not Sammarinese, but we know a lot about them as we speak the same language! Its mostly known for its past as a tax haven, still is with some accounting tricks (like trust funds that can end paying 1.7% on income) and its
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by kwere 4y ago
San Marino is an easy place of doing business, a country with 34k citizens in wich you can really meet with the top brass to solve your problems. The problem is getting a clearance to start and reside in the country. They can get quite pick
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by kwere 4y ago
Giving away (economic) power and "trusting" some benevolent actor without having some other kind of enforcing power is rarely a good idea. I hope military uses of new technologies will not used on ever growing powerless citizens.
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>The top of the ladder is “the Dream.” >A man’s sense of well-being will depend on his own evaluation of how far and how fast he is moving toward his goals. Giacomo Leopardi, an italian poet, believed that happines was not reaching on
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by kwere 4y ago
This is unfortunately a populist trope (here in italy) hijacked by no-euro, no-europe, no-nato that need some data/debunking: Italy is economically coasting since the 1980s, basically since the termination of QE of Bank Of Italy toward
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by kwere 4y ago
realistically no one would move to italy from a career prospective. Specialized work is paid peanuts, more often than less of juniors of same trade in France or Germany while dead end jobs pay less than peanuts bcs unionized contracts ( eve
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by kwere 4y ago
Tradestation is a broker that has tools/languages/backtesting that are oriented for systematic traders, the retail version of algorithmic trading

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