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by piva00 1y ago
That would be, in my opinion, an orthogonal issue, and not clear from your "and eat you anyway" remark. The only good thing coming out of both Trump's terms is the diminishing influence of the US, I can see your point on how
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by piva00 1y ago
I have a few acquaintances who grew in consulting to become partners who have never, ever, ever worked in the field they consult for. They've only done consulting, only looked through the lenses they were required to for the job they w
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by piva00 1y ago
Isn't that part of the job of being in top management? Being paid millions of bucks for your skills that should tell what your business need? If the signs are showing that you might need to fire people, you need to think and work for t
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by piva00 1y ago
Median wages while prices are higher doesn't mean much, Americans earn more but also pay quite a bit more in most products and services needed for living: housing, healthy food, transportation, healthcare, etc. After experiencing the A
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by piva00 1y ago
Let them get richer, the same people who talk with these threatening remarks also talk how capitalism isn't a zero-sum game, someone else becoming richer doesn't mean someone else getting poorer, right? Just means getting richer a
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by piva00 1y ago
It's not convenient, it's quite sad to be honest. I'm not American nor live in the USA so seeing it from the outside makes me quite sad that Americans believe to be under a democratic system where choosing their representativ
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by piva00 1y ago
Would you say the same about cigarettes? Billions of people used to smoke it as well, it was (and still is) quite popular, is it arrogant and patronising to tell them: this is unhealthy for you, and affects society in harmful ways?
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by piva00 1y ago
It might take a couple more generations, a lot more misery, and maybe even a complete breakdown of democracy in the USA, for its population to finally learn that Democrats or Republicans are bound to the same higher power in the USA: money.
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by piva00 1y ago
It also happened in the dotcom bubble, telecom companies were providing leasing/loans to their customers to purchase more networking equipment. Very similar to the circular funding happening between Nvidia, and their customers, Nvidia
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by piva00 1y ago
One can also progress from 1. to 2. after living long enough, and realising how much luck has played into their fate. It took me 10 years of career to realise how lucky I had been, even though I had put work and effort, in no way that alone
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by piva00 1y ago
No, I didn't miss the point, I know they were talking about electricity prices. My counterpoint is that France is not seeing balcony solar not only because electricity prices are lower but due to policies which limit it. It's a bo
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by piva00 1y ago
France has changed permitting laws to allow small-scale solar, i.e.: balcony solar, the difference is that the nominal output is much lower (350W vs 800W for Germany) which, by policy, makes it less attractive. So it isn't that France
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by piva00 1y ago
We both lived through an era where there was a sense of community, even online, I would also spend boatloads of time learning how to program in my youth some 20+ years ago but that was around the same IRC channels, the same forums, with peo
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by piva00 1y ago
You should know at least about Dieter Rams if you know Ive.
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by piva00 1y ago
It happened during the rise of Nazism, in "They Thought They Were Free" you can read quite candid interviews with everyday Germans from a small town on how they perceived it. It becomes normalised, the window shifts, and it has al
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by piva00 1y ago
Isn't the problem the creditors exposed to the SPVs though? Meta, and others might be shielded from it but there's someone on the other end of these debts, if the SPVs are accruing massive amounts of debt and go bankrupt there are
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by piva00 1y ago
Germany still has a very large industrial base, things don't just disappear into the ether because they aren't profitable. Factories are still there, they can be retooled in case of need such as in a war. Perhaps you should be a b
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by piva00 1y ago
It shouldn't be a referendum. Representative democracies are supposed to work this way, a government is elected, and they represent their electorate. If the electorate disagrees with the actions the government took they will be voted o
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by piva00 1y ago
It's hybrid warfare, disrupting the economy by shutting down airports, increasing fear in the population to pressure us to not escalate it further "or else..."; I don't believe it's an attempt to break NATO, they wa
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by piva00 1y ago
The Turkish pilot who shot down was persecuted by Erdogan: > Erdoğan announced in an interview that the two Turkish pilots who downed Russian aircraft were arrested on suspicion that they have links to the Gülen movement, and that a cour
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by piva00 1y ago
Was that a music streaming company by any chance?
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by piva00 1y ago
They are... People. Dehumanising people is never a good sign about someone's psyche.
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by piva00 1y ago
Is this satire? Really hard to tell in this year of 2025...
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by piva00 1y ago
You are basically saying "it's different this time" with a lot of words.
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by piva00 1y ago
The question is: is that value worth the US$400bi per year of investment sucking out all the money from other ventures? It's a damn good tool, I use it, I've learned the pitfalls, it has value but the inflation of potential value
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by piva00 1y ago
> It is on each individual to inform themselves, and to decide what to believe and what to disregard. That's where the conundrum lies, requiring individual responsibility for protecting a whole society of potential bad actors using
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by piva00 1y ago
Because, supposedly, you are better than that, no? Or perhaps not, from the discourse being spewed the past year even here on HN I feel like the USA is definitely on a long, winding, dark path, you guys are firmly sitting on two opposing ca
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by piva00 1y ago
Gosh, your kind of people really needs a hobby where you can de-stress and take your aggressiveness out. Try jiu-jitsu or some other martial arts, might help to vent a little that weird energy.
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by piva00 1y ago
Smaller cars don't give them the feeling of power they lack in their life. Yearning for feeling bigger, more powerful, and scarier correlates quite well with some folks driving big trucks, it's a purchase to fill a void.
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by piva00 1y ago
Sure, bud. Go look into the mirror, repeat the words you say on the internet, and think deeply if what you are saying are the words of someone who seems reasonable and kind, or of someone ugly, bitter, and bigoted. Best of luck on your jour

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