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by makomk 5y ago
The trouble is that the people apparently at risk from this are not the people at risk from Covid-19. The risk to people between the ages of 12 and 24 from Covid is really, really small. Especially towards the lower end of that age range, m
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by makomk 5y ago
As far as I know, the only actual legal requirement is that SEPA transfers to other countries can't be more expensive than in-country bank transfers. It just happens that a lot of European countries don't generally have charges fo
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by makomk 5y ago
Also, I think it's quite common outside of the USA for property taxes not to be based on the current market price of the property and also not to be charged at a fixed percentage of the value, both of which make them rather different f
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by makomk 5y ago
No. The problem here isn't that Musk and Bezos are the only people you can buy stuff from, it's that in order to pay the real resource price of all that government spending using their factories and warehouses those factories and
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by makomk 5y ago
The way the US taxes physical property based on its current market value is pretty unusual these days, and I'm not sure it's a good idea. It seems to have all kinds of weird distortive effects on the market like encouraging train
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by makomk 5y ago
As others have pointed out, your cash in the bank is actual money in a sense that (say) Musk or Bezos' wealth isn't - you can actually buy things with it, whereas if they want to sell their shares to buy something else they need
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by makomk 5y ago
One of the worst hydroxychloroquine studies - the now-retracted one in the Lancet claiming that patients receiving the drug were dying at a higher rate, which appears to have used completely fake data and where there was no possible way the
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by makomk 5y ago
If this is process node dependent and has started turning up relatively frequently in places like Facebook and Google, I wonder if it's more common in current-gen AMD CPUs than others... the timing would seem to fit, and they're o
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by makomk 5y ago
One of the interesting things about wokeism is that the core beliefs - the things that you must uphold and recognise as absolute truth in order to be recognised as one of the tribe - are not actually codified anywhere. Not only that, they k
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by makomk 5y ago
The thing is, when the social justice left do things that are actively prejudiced against and intentionally hurt the minority groups they claim to be helping, you just don't hear about it because one of their core beliefs is that they&
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by makomk 5y ago
It's really obvious at this point that Taiwan got lucky and that the geographical luck of not being close to Europe or having lots of visitors from there helped a lot. The moment Covid-19 actually got a foothold in the country they rea
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by makomk 5y ago
Remember that Microsoft also benefit from more other businesses becoming software businesses, and it seems like more people in the workforce knowing at least the basics of computers would help with that.
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by makomk 5y ago
This seems like it's pretty directly tied to Big Tech's control of what's allowed to be said on their platforms - as I understand it Trump set this up after he was banned from Big Tech as a way to try to get the message out,
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by makomk 5y ago
The trouble is that there's a really obvious media bias - a report showing that Amazon warehouse injuries were 80% lower definitely wouldn't get this kind of credulous media treatment, if anyone bothered publishing it in the first
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by makomk 5y ago
> Everyone consumes, and rich people consume less than poor people relative to their wealth. Which, of course, means that all this talk about blaming the rich are a distraction from one unavoidable thing: since most of the consumption c
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by makomk 5y ago
Apple seem to have actively chosen to skimp on memory capacity, so this seems very much like something that's on them.
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by makomk 5y ago
Well, we know that AMD's chips - which use the next largest TSMC node compared to Apple's - have a lot of diminishing returns from increasing the available power envelope above M1-like ultraportable levels, at least in the kinds o
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by makomk 5y ago
Yeah, though apparently they have a tendency to slowly leak and cause the parts to fail - very limited lifespan.
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by makomk 5y ago
The problem with that argument is that $42 million is a lot, lot less than $200 billion dollars, especially when divided across even just the population of the USA. Not even enough for a dollar per person - in fact, when you consider that&#
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by makomk 5y ago
Jeff Bezos does not buy anything with every incremental thousand dollars. In some important sense, it's not even money that can be spent. When people talk about Bezos' wealth being $200 billion dollars, almost all of that is just
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by makomk 5y ago
Pretty sure they aggressively limit how many IR codes can be downloaded by one customer.
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by makomk 5y ago
Not really the same thing, I don't think. Most of the time, parish councils just do boring but necessary things like emptying the dog poo bins, maintaining the village hall, keeping the playing fields trimmed and clean, that kind of up
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by makomk 5y ago
I don't think the USA is particularly reliant on any external supplies of oil these days, whereas the same cannot be said for Europe and gas.
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The trouble is that journalists are a self-important and entitled bunch, and they really don't like people who don't help them out by speaking with them on demand. Often they even seem actively suspicious of anyone who doesn'
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by makomk 5y ago
Yeah, I think that's the thing that's missing from the narrative in this article - if certain goods on Amazon are really heavily marked up compared to other sites, it's better for Amazon's long-term reputation if people
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by makomk 5y ago
Yeah, and I suspect that often what employers really fear is that publications like the New York Times will join the pile-on and a lot of the really aggressive, fire first and ask questions later approaches are attempts to get ahead of the
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It's pretty obvious that the reason the NYT is doing this is that someone was fired who they saw as being on the same side as them, for online speech they were extremely sympathetic towards, due to stuff dug up by Republican supporters
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As far as I can tell from the outside, there were actually multiple overlapping cover-ups within China by different organisations with different interests that resulted in doctors, nurses and medical researchers being silenced - starting wi
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The "all" part is, from what I can tell, considerably less important than the "not just banning direct travel" part... the model assumed that only most of the travel from China was stopped, and that was still enough to c
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by makomk 5y ago
On paper they're directly under the command of the CCP, but Xi Jinping only has so many hours in his day like any other human and can't personally monitor everything that's happening in a billion-person country. That seems to

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