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by qwytw 3y ago
> middle age rural village in Germany Especially after the plague would have been a much nicer place to live for most people than an average ancient Roman city (or even Rome itself given that's its population was only sustainable be
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by qwytw 3y ago
Putting an emoji in every single sentence really makes it hard to read or take it seriously though.. I just got this response to a prompt telling it to stop using emojis after every third word: "I appreciate the effort you're putt
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John Thomson, the First Photographer to Travel Widely Through China (1870s)(dannydutch.com)
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by qwytw 3y ago
Because a 50 P/S ratio would be unusually high (I'm of course trying to say that IMHO Adobe is significantly overpaying) Figma is a private company, of course it depends on figures as well which are not publicly available but no c
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by qwytw 3y ago
Yes, but there is no way it would cost Adobe even close to $20 billion to develop an analogues product. Well you said: > This means Adobe might actually have to pay a little bit more for Figma if they acquired them now. Which is very unl
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Like I said, views are changing in light of events In some countries however has been the dominant view in Poland and the Baltic states at the very least for the several decades. Possibly in Czechia too?
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by qwytw 3y ago
But 20 billion is a huge amount, that's supposedly a 50 price to sales ratio if not more which is huge. Something like Snowflake which has an insane valuation is only half that... Only way Adobe could justify this is that it kills a da
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by qwytw 3y ago
> not have military bases overseas for any reason other than self-interest Which is fine as long as it's also in interest of the host country to have the American base in their territory.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> America [...] please stop continuously expanding NATO Many Eastern Europeans would probably have very different thoughts.
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by qwytw 3y ago
In certain countries, yes. Still not very affordable to a median Nigerian (one of the three African countries)
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Africans can have their satellite Well I'm not sure about that. There are 3 African countries where Starlink is available (unlike for instance every single country in the EU where both fiber and 4/5G coverage is quite decent
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by qwytw 3y ago
> No? Yes. There are more limitations on permissions, user data collection etc. on the iOS store. Additionally Apple actually reviews all the submitted apps to some extent...
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by qwytw 3y ago
> how does that benefit the platform Why would you care about Apple's profit margins?
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by qwytw 3y ago
Do they really do that on Android that much though? Of course the App Store seems to have significantly more stringent reviews and requirements than Google's store there might be more incentives. OTH Apple can bundle some inherent limi
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by qwytw 3y ago
> textbook example of "go woke, go broke" Yeah totally.. people no longer buying printed newspapers obviously had nothing to do with it.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> has some utility, whereas gambling has none at all. Different people have different preferences. It's like saying anything that provides only recreational/etc. value has not utility.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Either way, one-sided publications like the Guardian is hardly worth paying for regardless. There is hardly anything better left though and the Guardian is one of the very few independent major publications left which is something. &gt
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by qwytw 3y ago
You can have both? Regulated minimum insurance coverage, maximum premiums/deductibles and transparent prices and an option to shop around for non emergency cases. You still want providers competing either on price and service quality (
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by qwytw 3y ago
But that's objectively false. Unless you have supplementary (ussually employer provided) insurance you have to pay a portion of the fee for every visit or procedure. France is one of the worst countries you could have picked... lol.
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by qwytw 3y ago
The Swiss fully private system seems reasonable, Netherlands also to a degree. They are pretty efficient. Private but heavily regulated seems like a good balance.
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by qwytw 3y ago
Because prices are more or less regulated and controlled. e.g. the Swiss healthcare system is privatized to a much higher degree than the US one (no Medicare/Medicaid equivalents) but 'basic' insurance plan prices and deducti
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by qwytw 3y ago
> So I’m looking for a sponsor to host the database publicly. I need one mediocre VM for a Rails stack app and a semi-powerful hosted Postgres instance. Contact me if you’re interested The Oracle Cloud Free tier is a great deal. They giv
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by qwytw 3y ago
> that users have no recourse from moderation abuses Not participating in subreddits with crappy moderators seems like pretty good recourse?
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by qwytw 3y ago
10x Price/Sales ratio for a company like Reddit (i.e. with limited growth potentially) seems a bit too optimistic barring a 2020/21 style bubble.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> the Arab league, Syria's trading partners Not until quite recently and several years after the US et al. significantly toned down their involvement in Syria. I'm not sure if you remember but Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Jor
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Maybe start with punishing Europe then where the trade increased after the war Importing the same amount or even much lower amounts of oil/gas at much higher prices would result in higher overall imports yes. Also Russian a lot na
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by qwytw 3y ago
> ure, GE could stop selling the engine in the future but the engine that has been sold is Air India's property not G You do realize engines like this require continuous maintenance, access to parts etc? They couldn't safely op
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by qwytw 3y ago
> jeopardizing 100s of billions of dollars of trade Jeopardizing what? There are no real alternatives to Airbus and Boeing and won't be for years. Also at the end it's a signal aircraft which will be fixed and back in service e
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by qwytw 3y ago
> internationally recognized government of Syria It is in no way universally recognized as the sole legitimate government of Syria.
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by qwytw 3y ago
Would those users continue using Apollo after Reddit bought it and filled it with ads or would they start to slowly drift away to other clients over time?

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