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by pqtyw 8mo ago
> They're employer _contributions_ to the system No, they are the taxes you pay that are not shown on your payslip. > They're the price you pay for a healthy, well educated working population Yes, you as a worker pay it. &gt
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by pqtyw 8mo ago
> even should you want to operate in incredibly bad faith and add employer contributions, How is that bad faith? It's basic common sense to count that together. Total cost is what matters to employers. You can't compare differe
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by pqtyw 8mo ago
> until models can 1-shot solutions without the repeated "No, wait..." / "Actually..." thinking loops That would imply they'd have to be actually smarter than humans, not just faster and be able to scale inf
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
> with the 2nd largest army By what metric?
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
How would you explain the price of gold between 1980 and 2000, then? It's price collapsed, was there no inflation back then?
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
Gold was worth about as much in nominal(!) terms ~2006 as it was in back in 1980 then doubled in a couple of years. Doesn't seem like a very good hedge but rather a very volatile speculatory asset...
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
Trumps tariffs are also entirely unconstitutional. An open and shut case, yet nothing has happened yet...
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
>Why do you think the government no longer issues gold coins? Because it became self evident in the 1800s and first half of the 20th century that a commodity backed currently is not a good idea in any non static economy with a reasonably
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
None of this changes the fact that there is an independent country on the island of Taiwan. It really doesn't matter who you or someone else is calling it, that's just an observable fact.
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
Existence of an independent and effectively sovereign state on the island of Taiwan (however one calls it) is a fact. Whatever doublespeak governments of other countries or international organizations engage in due to political reasons does
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
Well it's for profit company and a closed code app. How cares about "hurting their feeling" or whatever? Harsh criticism seems perfectly appropriate here...
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
Presumably they had no clue how to fix it and just ignored it and pretended everything works fine because they didn't want to admit it?
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
> and only ~1/3 of sessions see at least a flicker Sounds like only is a bit misplaced. IMHO such bugs that take forever to fix make Anthropic seem very unprofessional.
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
> below the market price Adjusting prices daily or weekly (in both directions) wouldn't have necessarily been that helpful for maximizing their long-term profits, though (as you said).
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
This seems like an entirely different and hardly relevant argument when discussing the capabilities of the US military.
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
Well he did... just a few years later. To be fair in 1938 Britain hardly had a land army so France would have had to do all the fighting anyway. So whatever Chamberlain wanted to do didn't really matter that much.
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
Well be the same definition Russia was at war with the US in Korea and Vietnam (or Afghanistan). To a much bigger extent to be fair since there were actual Russian pilotes deploying to both countries. I'm not sure whether Johnson or Ni
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
To be fair precision strikes on bridges are not that easy. Of course the Kerch bridge is especially resilient due to the way it was build but still actually hitting a 60-100 meter length bridge from 700-1000 km away is tricky. Not that it m
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
That's not really very fair. Besides the "draw" in Korea all the other defeats were political rather than military. Second Iraq war is more of a pyrrhic victory as well.
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
Why? Nvidia is already charging as much as they possibly can. Unlike most other components its almost unrelated to manufacturing costs
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
> liquidity in swap lines is China In Yuan? Which is certainly a more of a global reserve currency than the Euro and is certainly widely used for international trade? The same Yuan with the massive amount of liquidity outside of China? T
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
That's a tiny barely significant amount, though. However the amount of US treasuries Denmark holds but privately and publicly did decrease by 20% or so over the last yea which I guess is something..
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
> unlike Canadians. Who did what? Symbolically threaten to tax electricity exports to some cities close to the border and stopped importing American booze? Canada is still the top 5 holder of US bounds..
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
> or the EU to fully switch out of USA/USD into China/BRICS but Russia TO solve > need the swap lines by the Fed to stay afloat ? This is about as nonsensical as it gets.
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
Perhaps there is no need to actually understand assembly, but if you don't understand certain basic concepts actually deploying any software you wrote to production would be a lottery with some rather poor prizes. Regardless of how &qu
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US, for first time in 50 years, experienced negative net migration in 2025(abcnews.go.com)
88 points by pqtyw 9mo ago|87 comments
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
Not really, though? Most polls going almost as fat back as September were within the margin of error. Clinton won the popular vote by 2% and she was on average 3-4% ahead in the polls.. In fact she she got more votes than predicted in earl
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
To be fair they had kind of started implementing the Morgenthau Plan until they realized that maybe it wasn't the best idea (and the British played a significant role in convincing the US government about that...) 1945 to ~1947 were ve
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
> separation with the mainland. Which is somehow inherently wrong due to what reason exactly? But yes, the South Korean regime in the 50s (and the RoC one in Taiwan to a lesser extent) was extremely brutal and oppressive and hardly much
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
> from the moment of its inception Also saved millions of people from starvation in the early 20s by ending a devasting famine while the Soviets were busy blowing up their economy. It's not exactly obvious that the Bolshevik regime

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