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by qwytw 1y ago
> Against Russia/China or anyone else ... every fighter jet will do fine Will it though? Underestimating your (potential) enemies might not be the smartest idea. Of course as the war in Ukraine has shown jet fighters might not even
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by qwytw 1y ago
> I'd argue, for example, that Japan, that has been ruled Seems like a somewhat tangential point to make? The people in Japan did get a choice to vote for another party.
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by qwytw 1y ago
There were/are people who didn't personally see anything wrong with Stalin et al. > doesn't mean all other countries should do the same That's the great part right? If you were in place like that you wouldn't kno
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by qwytw 1y ago
Well Switzerland (being closer than most other countries to a direct democracy) would be the polar opposite of China though?
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by qwytw 1y ago
Also there are no early IPOs. Very few people can buy stocks in these companies which changes the dynamics significantly. Note sure what's the point of talking about the stock market this much when for almost everyone the only way to g
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by qwytw 1y ago
And yet it wasn't a very good asset to hold between 1980 and 2000, despite quite high inflation during the period. It's nominal value barely moved while real value of USD halved.
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by qwytw 1y ago
> It's value has stayed normal for thousands of years - although in times of inflation or crisis it might become a little overvalued temporarily as people flee to its safety That hasn't been the case after the Dollar and all ot
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by qwytw 1y ago
> Incredible timeline to a $3B exit dot-com vibes. Maybe not quite the same as Pets.com but still...
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by qwytw 1y ago
> Beer" had like 1% of alcohol content. How is that enough? A highly nutritious liquid made from grain is a quite perfect environment for all kind of bacteria and other stuff to grow and spread. Relatively clean water? Not so much.
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by qwytw 2y ago
> has never developed the tech Well... an European company controlled > 50% of the commercial orbital launch market back in the late 80s and 80s. That might have been tricky to achieve without developing the tech first.
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by qwytw 2y ago
> it's reasonable to discount EU as stagnated In this case it is. It peaked in the 1990s with resurgency after Ariane 5 came out but it hasn't been competitive for many years now. Arianespace was kind of the SpaceX of the 80s
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by qwytw 2y ago
Compared to having to choose between being murdered, enslaving or moving to Oklahoma (slightly different periods I know..) that's not necessarily that awful. e.g there were thousands and thousands of Native American refugees fleeing to
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by qwytw 2y ago
Emigration from Spain to their new world was relatively low. The estimate seems to be that only around 0.42 million people moved from Spain to the Americas between 1492 and 1820. Considering the massive amount of territory they controlled t
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by qwytw 2y ago
> It is absurd It's not if we base it on evidence that we have. It's silly to assume otherwise until any evidence at all is discovered. Why would Doggerland be fundamentally different to the surrounding areas which are at a hig
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by qwytw 2y ago
Because it's highly unlikely given the evidence we have? Is there any reason to believe that material culture in Doggerland could have been fundamentally different to that of other hunter gatherer societies in Europe at the time? There
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by qwytw 2y ago
And it's not like there is much to find, most of the things people in Doggerland made were out of wood, there are no ancient stone ruins or lost treasures.
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Athens's oldest coins reveal an ancient, widespread silver trade(science.org)
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by qwytw 2y ago
That's Russia, not China. Russia is a petrostate run owned by corrupt dictator and his oligarch cronies. It really has nothing going for it whatsoever besides its natural resources. China is in a very different spot. They did what the
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by qwytw 2y ago
> Are you aware that the US did this before No because it wasn't even remotely the same. In 2022 the average tariff on Chinese imports was 2.86%, 0.01% on Mexican goods and 0.12% on Canadian goods. Besides that the first term tariff
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by qwytw 2y ago
Technically this could be challenged in court? He can only enact these tariffs because he declared a national emergency. Otherwise he'd need the congress to confirm them. The illegal immigrants/fentanyl pretext seems absurd and fl
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by qwytw 2y ago
> allow drugs I do hope this is sarcasm? It's more than obvious that this was just a pretext since US government was not able to clearly formulate any specific coherent demands that they had from Canada. > sane leadership Well cl
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by qwytw 2y ago
> Tariffs are not extortion Except the way Trump imposed clearly seemed like an attempt at exhortation. Of course those demands to Canada and Mexico were so absurd and vague that they turned out to just be a pretext. Trump can't en
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by qwytw 2y ago
> Trump tariffs as of today stand around 90B/year Of course total revenue will decrease. Possibly very significantly so only a fraction of that estimated will be collected. > a weighted mean of 2.8%. Can you explain where are y
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by qwytw 2y ago
I had it extract the data from the page directly and actually calculate it: https://chatgpt.com/share/679aafa9-7ac8-800a-8f4c-3ba67f4502... It claims it's ~47 (only natural causes). I'm too lazy to verify it
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by qwytw 2y ago
You could check actual actuarial tables and population wide statistics from the 1700s and 1800s directly. You'll see that young people were many times more likely to die in their 20s and 30s than they are now. e.g. as late as mid 1800s
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by qwytw 2y ago
> life expectancy was just a few years below of where we are today. There I don't think that's really true. e.g. IIRC back in ~1900 mortality rates even for people in their 20s and 30s were more than twice as high as now. Life
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by qwytw 2y ago
> why is NVDA still down 15% premarket? Presumably because backorders will go down, production volume and revenue won't grow as fast, Nvidia will be forced to decrease their margins due to lower demand etc. etc. Selling everything y
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by qwytw 2y ago
I don't think it has been this low (~$126) since October?
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by qwytw 2y ago
But now (presumably) they don't need to spend 50 billion? e.g. 5 billion or whatever might be enough which makes it even easier for them to justify this.
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by qwytw 2y ago
Is it really related to China's tech sector as such, though? If this is true then Openai, Google or even many magnitudes smaller companies etc. can just easily replicate similar methods in their processes and provide models which are j

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