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by qwytw 3y ago
Also would force the platform into a death spiral. 95% of users leaving -> massive reduction in content -> more users leave -> no more content -> reddit is gone.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Ride sharing services are amenable to network affects Are they? Currently it's a low margin business with no real moat. It's hard to maintain high market share without continues subsidies. > make it easier and cheaper to s
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by qwytw 3y ago
> I'm not somebody who can say to what extent that comparison does or doesn't make sense It is unfortunate that you feel that way because it's not all ambiguous. I mean for instance a German person could say "that Bis
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by qwytw 3y ago
> I think the rest wouldn’t change much: the things you mention don’t have much to do with having moral scruples against Stalin’s mass murders. I don't agree ( if you also include Lenin's mass murders). Of course a lot of it ha
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by qwytw 3y ago
> They could have smashed any uprising - but they choose not to. Doubtful, unless you're talking about the soldiers choosing not to. The coup attempt in 1991 proved that the army in general had no interest in propping up the failing
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by qwytw 3y ago
I'm sorry, I wanted to quote: > And what if I need to evacuate the family in a natural disaster? When I said it's a corner case but pasted the wrong sentence. > You're really missing the point. It won't actually be
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Car sharing (short term rental) services I would expect self driving car to have much higher utilization most of the time. In addition you have people who can't/don't want to drive and would be able to use the service. &
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by qwytw 3y ago
To be fair a crook would most likely killed way less people, having a competent crook in charge is generally by far not the worst option.
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by qwytw 3y ago
I don't think equating Washington and Mao makes even the tiniest bit of sense. Washington never aspired be an absolute ruler or to fundamentally transform the American society into something else by force. But yeah I get your point, it
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by qwytw 3y ago
Weimar Germany was mostly dominated (to the extent that it could've been, being such a mess and of course they never had an outright majority) by the socialist party. They hated the bolsheviks as much as(if not more) anyone, even going
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by qwytw 3y ago
> They already had it. And they gave up on it voluntarily You can't say they they gave up eastern Europe voluntarily when they didn't have a choice. They could handle a revolution in a single Warsaw pact country not in all of t
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by qwytw 3y ago
Well Mercedes does supposedly offer a L2 system. Why do you say it doesn't?
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by qwytw 3y ago
Those millions (especially in developed countries where the per capita number of accidents is highest) won't be able to buy Teslas anyway. Statically you could decrease the number of deaths by 20-30% by just banning cars older than 10
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by qwytw 3y ago
> are banned from using FSD Do you get a refund?
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by qwytw 3y ago
> This seems like a marketing gimmick by Mercedes at best; the two technologies aren't even in the same league. You might be right or not but gave zero arguments in your comment. The fact that these safety/regulatory restrictio
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Also, they are really not happy about it. I think they are just inherently unhappy and miserable because they are Russians living in Russia.
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by qwytw 3y ago
Ukraine did not enter any military alliances with anyone they just wanted to stop being a puppet/client state of Russia. Also the only two things Russia has going for it are their energy resources and their nukes. It's a poor seco
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by qwytw 3y ago
> They feel cornered They put themselves in that corner. > And a smarter politics by the west, Like allowing Russia to take half of eastern Europe. If anything Europe was way to soft with Russia, they should started moving away from t
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by qwytw 3y ago
So you believe that the Ukrainian people are fundamentally incapable of making their own decisions. Clearly it was a very divided country with multiple swings back and forth without the assistance of NATO/EU/US. How was 2014 that
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by qwytw 3y ago
> also had a big trust issue Stalin spent the last few years murdering millions of people. Without the benefit of hindsight Hitler clearly seemed like the more benign options prior to 1939..
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Mao is looking after [..] China's interests Yes, just like during the "Great Leap Forward" and the cultural revolution. Sure...
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by qwytw 3y ago
Well some make might argue that 'cuts to social programs' might achieve just that in certain cases.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> I'm sorry, are you genuinely trying to argue for austerity ("hard but necessary reforms accompanied by significant spending cuts") in a thread that literally started with someone posting information I'm sorry, are y
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by qwytw 3y ago
> it was reasonable in a food shortage It's not like anyone was starving, there were of course shortages of certain products but the daily calorific from rations was 30-50% higher than what is recommended today. I don't think
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by qwytw 3y ago
Why? This way their new stuff get a year or two of free testing and time to mature before widespread adoption.
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by qwytw 3y ago
> didn’t have the metallurgy I wonder if in theory they could've made in bronze. It was still generally the superior metal compared to iron/steel in most ways till the middle ages (IIRC) and much easier to work. It's only
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by qwytw 3y ago
> Death spirals are fine if you can make sure you're not personally impacted by them Can also be prevented with hard to necessary reforms accompanied by significant spending cuts. Public spending alone can prop-up the economy and ou
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by qwytw 3y ago
Even if we assume 10-15 years a human brain is still astronomically more efficient at this. Unfortunately we can't yet copy-paste of our brain so everyone has to learn it from scratch...
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by qwytw 3y ago
When productivity is low and not growing much, disproportionally high public spending can possibly lead into a death spiral. Case in point Britain in the 70s. Or Venezuela nowadays. There is no need to swing into extremes, though austerity
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by qwytw 3y ago
Knowing Apple I would only be slightly surprised if there was some DRM chip which would lock a specific battery pack to the headset (and the other way around).

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