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by nickpp 3y ago
Loved this energy at the time. So inspiring, even for folks far far away from Joel’s world. Could credit it for quite a few people’s future success. So different from today's sentiment of "Only rich kids can play with startups, yo
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by nickpp 3y ago
This is pure baseless speculation.
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by nickpp 3y ago
If SpaceX failed all the money in the company would've been gone.
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by nickpp 3y ago
That is simply false. SpaceX's chances were widely estimated to be quite low at the time.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Well putting half your fortune in a venture is literally taking significant personal financial risk. Besides that, there are plenty of firms taking government money but Elon actually delivered.
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by nickpp 3y ago
So the government wanted the services and was willing to take some risk paying in advance that SpaceX couldn’t deliver? Smart and successful bet in this case, but I guess they tried that with other companies as well and those didn’t deliver
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by nickpp 3y ago
Any source for this? Wikipedia says: "Musk provided half of his $180 million from PayPal stocks to the newly founded company"
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by nickpp 3y ago
I think German themselves made that race to the bottom when they selected cheap Russian gas as their main competitive advantage - as you very well noticed. Do you think German manufacturing can compete with Chinese one once salaries grow?
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by nickpp 3y ago
And also to keep the low prices of German products which keeps German businesses competitive and thus Germans employed, taxes paid, etc.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Then German consumers should want immigrants as well, if they want the products created by said businesses, no?
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by nickpp 3y ago
Different worlds it is then. In mine, they are the great majority.
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by nickpp 3y ago
> That isn’t why people are poor So for you I guess lazy people don't exist? People who refuse to learn, change and adapt? People who just wanna smoke weed, play xbox, jerk off to pornhub and eat Nachos (not necessarily in that orde
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by nickpp 3y ago
I also lived in the US. My roommate with half my salary had a car twice as expensive as mine. He had house payments while I was renting. Restaurants and bar outings while I stayed home reading. No wonder he was always broke on salary day...
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by nickpp 3y ago
As a non-Swiss-resident who has to use the Swiss health-care system for anything less urgent than emergency services I can report that the private health-care in Switzerland is quite developed and quite expensive.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Actually, this should be expected: an inability to see beyond populist promises and to reason about the world and its immutable laws should often be correlated with staying poor. The same mentality is pushing people to play the lottery, joi
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by nickpp 3y ago
US health care is not a free market, it's heavily regulated. As a person living in the Eastern Block right now, I'd invite you to use the medical facilities in my town but I am not that cruel. Luckily free private health care is b
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by nickpp 3y ago
I grew up under the utter misery of communism. Even my illiterate grandmother working the earth knew to always have a valuable or two put aside to bribe the party representatives in case one of us got sick or in trouble.
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by nickpp 3y ago
> slightly lower material standard of living How slightly? Do you have a number? Because in certain places lowering the standard may very well people losing access to healthcare and education. I am afraid that "but inequality!"
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by nickpp 3y ago
An unwillingness to do whatever is necessary to improve one's station in life correlates with a lack of success in said life, I am afraid. Another easy thing to do to improve your "luck" is vote pro-free-market, pro-business
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by nickpp 3y ago
The vast majority of people in America has already succeeded: being "poor" there is better than being "average" in most countries on Earth.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Living paycheck-to-paycheck is quite often a lifestyle choice showing more lack of planning and of financial skills than poverty.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Most of "poor people" in USA would be considered above average in other countries and continents.
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by nickpp 3y ago
> trivial Quite the opposite of that, IMHO. I would regard my having children as both the most challenging and most fulfilling thing I ever did in my life - way above what I thought would take that spot for me (things like business ventu
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by nickpp 3y ago
> How is the current system unfair towards men? The marriage institution in most countries puts men at serious disadvantage in case of divorce - which is where a pretty large chunk of marriages end up. A (free) book on the subject: http
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by nickpp 3y ago
Every single human being alive today owes his/her very existence to an uninterrupted chain of such achievements going back to the beginning of life on this planet. Do we need to record these in encyclopedias? That would be silly. Are t
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by nickpp 3y ago
I wonder why we find life so painful that we find "chips and TikTok" as an acceptable default.
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by nickpp 3y ago
As a simple engineer who just wants to create and not spend time with lawyers, it is time to update my list of technologies made too dangerous to use by GDPR: 1. Analytics 2. Third-party resources 3. CDNs 4. DDOS protection services 5. reCA
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by nickpp 3y ago
They are also all more affordable and more readily available than they ever been in the history of this mankind. I couldn’t be happier with these deals… I don’t think you are making the argument you think you are.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Isn’t that the case every time one buys any life essentials like food, drinkable water, clothing, shelter and heating/cooling? Are all of those unfair deals? Because that seems to be what you are saying here.
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by nickpp 3y ago
Airalo app allows me to buy an eSIM for Japan in the comfort of my home. Starting at $5 for 1GB and 1 week.

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