ossobuco

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by ossobuco 2y ago
Wait, you voted the wrong way! Here, take a few days to think about it, and then let's try again, ok?
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by ossobuco 2y ago
Isn't it democracy when a candidate gets more votes than the rest? The only way to undermine democracy is to reject the results of the elections. If propaganda from the "enemy" really is that effective, then either it's
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by ossobuco 2y ago
So no evidence to show, except a "declassified document" allegedly proving that TikTok gave preferential treatment to Georgescu. I'd be curious to know what preferential treatment means, how preferential, and how it balances
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by ossobuco 2y ago
This doesn't make any sense to me. Wages have steadily raised at the same rate of productivity between the end of WWII and the 1970s. People started selling their labor centuries before that.
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by ossobuco 2y ago
> cheap Chinese plastic junk will continue to eat the world That's a thing of the past. Check the consumer electronics produced today in China. Mobile devices, EVs, infrastructure, newer products are simply incredible, and I'd
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by ossobuco 2y ago
Yet, if you look at real wages over time, they're stagnating in pretty much every developed country. Productivity has gone up consistently while wages lag far behind. Where is all that value going to? Because it isn't certainly be
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by ossobuco 2y ago
Where's the usual hardcore libertarian complaining about the "All This For Free!" nomenclature?
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by ossobuco 2y ago
Considering that capitalism has consistently led to monopolies since its inception, wouldn't it be reasonable to conclude that monopolies are inherent to the system?
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by ossobuco 2y ago
I believe that, in the future, prison labor in the USA will be recognized as one of the largest examples of modern slavery. On top of that, we could argue that the concept of people depending on the good will of a specific employer/mas
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by ossobuco 2y ago
There are no F-35 equivalents beside the Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20, afaik
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by ossobuco 2y ago
> What could explain this sales pipeline, if the F-35 was the boondoggle this article implies it to be? The overwhelming USA sphere of influence over its "allies". I don't really see a NATO member buying new fighter jets f
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by ossobuco 2y ago
That's not "ad hominem", it's noting how once your argument has been invalidated, you raise a new argument incompatible with the previous one. I'm not attacking your person based on the hypotetical side you are with
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by ossobuco 2y ago
I accept it the same way I accept when a dog feels threatened by me, even if I know I'm just trying to pet it. I'm not going to risk a bite by forcing my hand; I'll make it feel safe first. That will only work if I have good
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by ossobuco 2y ago
It's ad hominem time, meaning you have no actual arguments. We can consider the discussion resolved.
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by ossobuco 2y ago
There's always someone who doesn't get it. It's free to the user, that's always implicit when you read "free". We all know that money doesn't grow on trees, no need to treat us like children. > so that
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by ossobuco 2y ago
As I said, > and that's how they feel whether you think it's legitimate or not
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by ossobuco 2y ago
See how you're just escalating the discussion? Your claim was that Russia is losing because the territorial conquest progress is "slow". Now you're claiming that Russia is losing because they will exhaust their resources
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by ossobuco 2y ago
It's not "collective suicide" when they feel backed in a corner without alternatives, and that's how they feel whether you think it's legitimate or not. The Soviets didn't use nuclear weapons because they'
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by ossobuco 2y ago
> at their current rates of "winning" it will take them literally decades to reach Kyiv. This is a war of attrition. The progress is not linear, and it's not about how much territory is held by each side. The defender hold
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by ossobuco 2y ago
He's reporting a 23% drop in performance and seems to have invested quite some time in pinning down what's causing it, plus he's provided a repro repository with benchmarks. I honestly don't get your annoyed response; an
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by ossobuco 2y ago
China has built the best and largest high-speed rail system in the world, at a fraction of the time and cost it's taken other developed countries to build tiny (in comparison) systems....BUT AT WHAT COST???? > It's a trillion d
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by ossobuco 2y ago
> The rival would very likely proceed to "next steps" which would be considerably worse for Germany than the status quo. You presented this assumption almost as a fact, I simply asked you to elaborate. > Maybe read a bit abo
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by ossobuco 2y ago
> Try browsing with showdead. I regularly see comments which are just stupid I do, and yes, downvotes filter out noise but in the process also filter out unconforming opinions. Whether you prefer a "clean" but sterile environme
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by ossobuco 2y ago
I think downvotes shouldn't exist at all, since beside how easy it is to abuse them, they're redundant. The most correct/approved opinions will naturally float to the top thanks to upvotes, that's all that is needed for
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by ossobuco 2y ago
That is only a good investment if you believe that: - Said rival nation is 100% determined to invade and conquer Europe, basically triggering a WWIII - There is no diplomatic way to sort this out, moving from a rivalry to a friendship Appar
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by ossobuco 2y ago
There is something deeply wrong with the discourse on HN. I very often see comments like this one, politely expressing an opinion and bringing some reasoning to the table, get downvoted to oblivion or even flagged. Ironically, I see this ha
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by ossobuco 2y ago
So when China regulates the internet, it's a dictatorship; when a western-affiliated democracy does it, it's... good?
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by ossobuco 2y ago
The end of the war in Ukraine suddenly got much closer. I can't think of something more positive for me as an European.
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by ossobuco 2y ago
Giving big history ignorant energy.
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by ossobuco 2y ago
You mean the terrorist attack orchestrated by the same guy (Osama Bin Laden) the USA propped up in the 80s when he was fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan? The 11 September is the perfect example of the USA bringing instability to t

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