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Knowing $125 price per gram of gold it's funny they need to convert to non-metric system to calculate price. One aureus is approximately $1000 of gold value. And as a collectible item it is worth $3k-10k.
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1y ago
I'm sure US is not part of it. As UAE and tax heavens like Cayman islands.
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Why should Nvidia pay any taxes except payroll for their local headcount? They could easily book all revenue overseas in tax heavens. They should pay more taxes to the places where chips are made, not to the US government.
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1y ago
But they can easily use more than one lane, why should they care about lane width?
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1y ago
People died in Boeing 737 mcas incidents and what? Hot fix and business as usual. Unless bug results in enormous direct financial loses like in Knight Capital, the result is the same: no one held responsible, continue business as usual.
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1y ago
It’s not drama. It’s attention-seeking dressed up as emotion. /s
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1y ago
If you use VPN then you'll get a login screen instead of the video content.
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1y ago
>> God himself only wanted 10% Wanted 10% but offered nothing real in return. At least you get some services from your taxes, like unlawful detention/extradition of suspicious people.
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1y ago
Can't you apply same workflow as there is for storage in data center: install, monitor and constantly replace degraded modules with new?
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1y ago
Or you could buy Nissan leaf, renault Zoe and other cars.
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>> They seem to be a prime example of tanks not working in the modern context Without proper strategy nothing works. Size of the russian army was too small for the task to fight and occupy such a huge county as Ukraine. Also russians
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Economy is so good that they have 20% interest rate. So good that they are cutting workweek, furloughing workers on the biggest car and truck factories. So good that they are limiting petrol sales to 20l per person.
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1y ago
How nuking Ukraine will help to occupy and control Ukraine? Imagine tomorrow Kyiv is nuked. Troops are still there and now have even more will to fight russians.
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1y ago
Signs of superpower: 1. Usage of arms introduced 70+ years ago. 2. Assault troops equiped with civil cars and motorcycles. 3. Logistics powered by donkeys. 4. Begging North Korea to help with troops and ammo.
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1y ago
By leading you mean writing tweets with scary threats and then following usual strategy TACO. Rolling red carpets for putin is actually undermining EU efforts to isolate Russia. Russian should be welcome only within their allies: Eritrea an
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They also are saying West should deescalate by stopping support of Ukraine. Basically to force then to surrender. Likely they missed modern history class, especially "peace for our lifetime" lesson. I'm not sure they are brai
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1y ago
According to your logic it's Canada fighting North Korea in Ukraine. Just a Russia Today style of whataboutism. Why you take any russian word as true? They can only lie. Whatever they say about Ukraine is a lie. If you want to believe
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Then USA shouldn't send arms and troops to Europe to fight Hitler. It also wasn't democratic decision. Not providing military support will actually bring a war to Europe much faster. If Ukraine surrenders Baltic states are next to
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>> Also very little the west could do imo Looking how west has little willpower to truly sanction russia, against China there will be even less sanctions.
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What makes people think we'll have AGI in the 21st century? LLM is not AI, and as far away from AGI as self-parking car.
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>> child will hear are explanations given with authority, which would probably be correct a very high percentage of the time (maybe even close to or above 99%), BUT the few incorrect answers and subtles misconceptions finding their wa
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>> Parul in Pune, Pavel in Prague, and Peter in PEI Nowadays they also have a push to RTO to local offshoring center. Managers are managers everywhere and want to see their slaves sitting in order behind their desks.
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1y ago
But also is paid less than a new joiner.
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>> India is a cool place. Lots of Americans would do well to live and work there. Would be interesting to see US people to live there on $30k salary.
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>> don’t try to convince me that a Java developer from India possesses skills that our university graduates don’t. You mentioned it, the skill your graduates don't have: willing to work for lower wages
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1y ago
Would you like to move to Bangalore? For local salary, of course!
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>>sending the money home is no better for Americans than having them working in their own countries I'm sure they are spending majority of their income locally, the same way as American citizens: buying chinese goods and mexican
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1y ago
I'm in the same situation: there is no way out unless I'm ok to cut my income to 20% of current IT job.
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>> We desperately need programmers with any sort of skills I doubt you are hiring people without education degree in biology.
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>> We're still supposed to practice longbow on Sundays Though no practice for Europeans.
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