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by nickff 1y ago
My point was simply just that the USA was behaving democratically, but more like a parliamentary democracy (with a majority) than a republic. I agree that parliamentary coalitions are possible, they just don't seem very popular or stab
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by nickff 1y ago
Many parliamentary governments tend only to be stable when there is a majority, see Canada and the UK (arguably) for examples of this. There are definitely counter-examples, but they're generally less similar to the US (culturally and
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by nickff 1y ago
I have no idea what the administration’s plan or thoughts might be, but I suspect that one part of it is that they’ve seen how many governments (including their own, as well as allies like the EU) delay and defer as negotiation strategies.
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by nickff 1y ago
Rare earth metals aren’t very rare, they’re just messy to extract and refine. There are reasons that the Chinese (government) want so many dollars, and the external funds are not easy to replace (or they would have done it already). This is
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by nickff 1y ago
The US seems to be behaving more like a parliamentary system than the Republic intended by the founders. Prime ministers in parliaments usually have control of the (effectively single) legislative branch, as well as the executive branch, so
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by nickff 1y ago
Please don’t respond with a fake quote; double quotation marks are for direct quotes (which are assumed to be from the parent unless otherwise attributed). If you’re going to make something up, please use single quotes, and make it clear th
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by nickff 1y ago
Why are you changing the subject? The “War on Terror” was never intended to spread democracy as far as I know; democracy was a means by which to achieve the objective of safety from terrorism.
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by nickff 1y ago
> "If your tax dollars are funding research, you should be entitled to reading the results." This statement begs the question, though I understand why it seemingly 'makes sense'. Your tax money also funds lots of thi
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by nickff 1y ago
Biden had the bureaucracy on his side (it’s well known that government employees are largely left-Democrats), so he was able to collaborate with it. In his first term, Trump learned that insiders were good at preventing him from accomplishi
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by nickff 1y ago
I think the parent is trying to say that the tariffs are levied based on the importer's cost, not on their price, so its impact could be smaller on goods with higher retail markup.
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by nickff 1y ago
Prosecutorial discretion hasn’t meant much to me since the Bond got prosecuted for violating a chemical weapons treaty, and Yates got prosecuted for fish-shredding. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_v._United_States_
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Or else they might rebel like the North Koreans, Cubans, and Eritreans do?
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by nickff 1y ago
The US auto industry got hurt because the 'big three' operated like an oligopoly, with the United Auto Workers (UAW) acting as the coordinating organization (and reaping most of the 'monopoly rents'). The Japanese were a
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by nickff 1y ago
There are plenty of EU companies that buy into new markets or opportunities, they just fall outside of these laws; Siemens is a good example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens
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by nickff 1y ago
I am of the opinion that the licenses for fonts in software are too expensive, but why is the pricing ‘backwards’? Book publishers don’t make a lot of profit, while software developers do.
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by nickff 1y ago
This seems like a very strange reading of "express aiming"; instead of those words meaning that a person has done something to 'target', it means that the person did not 'expressly avoid'? I am not sure that &q
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by nickff 2y ago
It's quite presumptuous of someone without detailed knowledge of what's going on to second-guess someone who made a hard choice like this. Sabotaging one's employer is also an ethically problematic choice to make. Imagine som
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by nickff 2y ago
Not parent, but there are many examples of this; they’re often (but not always) unsympathetic cases due to the business model of the business which has been destroyed.
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by nickff 2y ago
What you’re describing is monstrously expensive, and doesn’t actually prevent IP violations, it just allows you to recover some of your losses, which is also expensive, and is unrealistic if the violators are fly-by-night operations.
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by nickff 2y ago
If you want to restrict imports from China, it is somewhat necessary to restrict trade from Western countries as well, in order to prevent evasion by trans-shipping (until and unless they restrict Chinese imports as well). Canada has been l
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by nickff 2y ago
You're asserting a dog-whistle for anti-arab racism, or anti-islam discrimination? Those references seem more like whataboutism than some sort of dog-whistle.
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by nickff 2y ago
Not previously involved in this discussion, but what exactly is the 'dog-whistle' you're calling out here? It seems that you're engaging in whataboutism; is that what you believe the parent is doing as well? https:&#x2F
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by nickff 2y ago
I never used an average.
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Window area also adds a lot of weight, which decreases fuel economy.
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by nickff 2y ago
Much more in most areas; fire department employees are now the best-paid government employees in many (if not most) jurisdictions.
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by nickff 2y ago
For reference, the table is on this page: https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/?ref=404media.co Todd Weaver is vastly exaggerating how special, innovative, and skilled Librem is. Their components are largely sou
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by nickff 2y ago
Most of the federal budget is wealth transfers from income earners to the poor and elderly; these were not federal functions until the 20th century. The US federal government spends didn’t have a standing army until well after the founding.
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by nickff 2y ago
SRED is a waste of time for companies actually doing R&D, and a profit center for consultancies getting 50% of a pizza joint's write-off of a ski-doo.
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by nickff 2y ago
From the implementation and enforcement, it seems like GDPR was an attempt to make tracking visitors so expensive and difficult that it would eliminate targeted marketing, without negatively impacting consumer choices. The 'do not trac
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I don’t know much about NYC, much less its transit issues, but it seems like congestion pricing is only marginally popular inside the city, and unpopular in the rest of the state: https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/t

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