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by qwytw 3y ago
> imbued into some product Labor can be worthless if it's 'imbued' into a worthless product. I'm not sure what you're suggesting, supply and demand determines the price, if your good cost more in labor and materi
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by qwytw 3y ago
People who like classical music probably generally have more money then average so they are good customers to have since it might be easier for Apple to upsell them all kinds of other subscriptions and services etc. I assume recordings them
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by qwytw 3y ago
> because another competing doctors guild would do the surgery because they value saving lives over driving luxury cars No, because they can undercut they other doctors and get all their customers while still making a lot of money. That&
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by qwytw 3y ago
> People with complicated ideas tend to get upset when you do that. Presumably because they don't actually understand their 'ideas' themselves and not so much because they are complicated (I don't agree that most comp
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by qwytw 3y ago
The initial argument was about a time limit. Complex ideas certainly can be expressed in simple terms which might be sufficient for a presentation or a performative 'discussion' (like a debate). If you're having a good faith
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by qwytw 3y ago
Or those 'simple' arguments might only make sense in a vacuum when no real word implications are considered. Of course it depends on the discussion and the topic but actual problems (which are worth discussion) almost never have s
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by qwytw 3y ago
> You also reject the reasons they wrote to justify secession, because you think it did not make sense No, I never said that. > Remember, these are people who believed "the servitude of the African race, as existing in these Stat
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by qwytw 3y ago
> These aren't people thinking they can wait until the next election to see what happens, and perhaps they can decide to succeed then. These are people convinced that if they stay with the Union any longer then their entire way of l
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by qwytw 3y ago
So we can agree that imminent (during the next administration) abolition was not something most confederate politicians considered likely? That's the only thing I had when I wrote the word "believe". > Why then should the
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by qwytw 3y ago
>Are you really arguing that they didn't believe the position they presented in their declarations of succession? Depends on how do you define 'believe'. Politicians back then (just like now) certainly often said things th
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Yes, you're definitely right about what they said, I'm not sure they really believed it ,though. In the north and even in the Republican party itself immediate abolition without compensation was still certainly a 'fringe&#x27
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by qwytw 3y ago
The Lincoln administration wasn't actually trying to abolish slavery and Lincoln himself wasn't elected as an abolitionist (still a fringe view at that point). So it wasn't that clear what exactly their motivations were. Obvi
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by qwytw 3y ago
> that they were no longer That they might no longer be allowed to engage in chattel slavery at some indeterminate point in the future. Outright abolition was still a fringe policy at the beginning of the war.
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by qwytw 3y ago
I'm not sure about Word, I think it's not such a bad name and it's pretty much a synonym for 'text editor' at this point, not sure you can do much better than that. Certainly not a worse name than 'Writer'
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by qwytw 3y ago
Qualcomm has a list of all Windows laptops (I guess Chromebooks should work too?): https://www.qualcomm.com/products/mobile/snapdragon/pcs-and-... Though their latest CPU seems to be Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3? And
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by qwytw 3y ago
True (assuming the stock price doesen't crash immediately after the IPO) but still it's not really justifiable based on their current financial figures or future growth prospects. I'm not even sure what the valuation this val
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by qwytw 3y ago
Seems that they've pretty much just bought Xamarin to kill it (besides actually properly porting .NET itself to other platforms which they could've done anyway). It seemed like a pretty cool product showing some promise 7-8 years
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by qwytw 3y ago
Unless you oppose anti discrimination laws in general what possible reason could there be to not add caste to them? (not even a rhetorical there seem to be plenty of people who oppose this but I wasn't able to deduce their reasoning ju
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by qwytw 3y ago
They are discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac aka Xamarin Studio aka Monodevelop. Visual Studio Code is a completely different product (to be fair so is Visual Studio itself for that matter..)
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by qwytw 3y ago
> But Arm have made a decent business ARM is making peanuts compared pretty much all the companies that actually make high-end chips. Their IP seems to be worth much more than the business.
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by qwytw 3y ago
Or we might have a bunch of other streaming provider none of them in any way directly related to Blockbuster/Netflix.
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by qwytw 3y ago
I'm aware that an overwhelming majority of the global population use non IE languages. I just wouldn't expect that most research related to them would be published in English (and even if it was it would probably be much harder to
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by qwytw 3y ago
Yes of course (I would generally expect most European linguists and anthropologists to be more interested in studying European languages due to obvious reasons).
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The problem is that there is very little material to work with because all non-PIE languages besides Basque have been lost and what little we have of Tyrsenian (and to an even much lesser Tartessian and some others) is really insufficient t
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by qwytw 3y ago
> the closest you can get in Europe is by listening to Lithuanian (especially the older dialects of it) I'm not sure that's true. I mean Baltic languages are generally considered to be one of the last to diverge from PIE but th
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Theoretically to some extent it would depending on how he allocated his investments (it could also be the opposite).
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I did read it years ago and it's bad... I mean even ignoring what he did to Tolkien word and the whole premise it's still poorly written.
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How does that work? I mean technically he takes 200k from the economy without producing anything in return. In very basic terms the government printing an extra 200k adds about as much value (assuming he's not actively investing and no
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by qwytw 3y ago
From a purely utilitarian/dystopian/evil/etc. point of view: aren't most people suffering much older on average? e.g. in the median age at diagnosis is ~71. Most people at that age have very low productivity live on a pe
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Magnus Nicer than his other nickname 'adulescentulus carnifex ("teenage butcher") ' I guess.. But yeah, the cognomen seems weird/hard to understand e.g. Pompey's dad was called Strabo but he seems to have

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