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by refurb 1y ago
If you’re optimistic then you don’t have negative emotions or at least fewer of them. Nobody is advocating denying negative things, optimism is not letting them grow in the first place.
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by refurb 1y ago
None of what i said isn't also said by the Chinese government.
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by refurb 1y ago
If you follow the economic news China has some severe structure problems that it’s going to have to solve. Huge debt overhang, much of it “hidden” that is dragging down growth The real estate problem still isn’t solved and a big reset of pr
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by refurb 1y ago
I've done LA-SF many times for work, and I was able to be in the rental car in LA only 2 hr after being dropped off at SFO. Luckily both airports are pretty easy to navigate.
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by refurb 1y ago
Why is a comment like this downvoted? I found value in it since I likely wouldn't have come across this information otherwise. The comment is simply sharing an article from someone directly affected. What happened to intellectual curi
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by refurb 1y ago
This is my issue. Go to any wikipedia page that is in the least bit topical and you'll find a heavily slanted view and a discussion page too long to read where people fight over minutia. The only pages that seem useful are the technic
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by refurb 1y ago
In terms of BYD dominance, one needs to keep in mind the subsidy that the Chinese government is providing, such that they can sell cars below cost. https://www.shs-conferences.org/articles/shsconf/pdf/2024&#x2
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by refurb 1y ago
The public sector is a job for most. They aren't working at the government because of some higher calling (though some might).
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by refurb 1y ago
For having zero knowledge of the interaction, you seem rather confident of how it went down.
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by refurb 1y ago
I think you’re all over the place and unfocused on the matter at hand. The original comment was that CEOs are pushing back. It’s just not done in the public sphere. At least at my company, the CEO is satisfied the administration understand
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by refurb 1y ago
> Trying to get favors for own company or industry is not the same as fighting the administration. Why would a company "fight the administration"? That sounds like a recipe for bankruptcy.
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by refurb 1y ago
While a low effort comment, it does touch on an important topic. Imagine if CA was run with the kind of efficiency that Singapore or South Korea was run. Clean, safe streets. Modern infrastructure. Instead we get a state government that i
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by refurb 1y ago
What makes you think the elites aren’t pushing back? Because they aren’t being public about it? “If it’s not on the internet it didn’t happen”? I know for a fact the CEO of my Fortune 100 company has talked with the administration to share
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by refurb 1y ago
Exactly. I don’t understand the emotional attachment to a specific job or organization. I could see if it’s something you built (but then hopefully you call the shots), but otherwise it’s a agreement between two parties and if it doesn’t w
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by refurb 2y ago
I would also argue that pedestrian friendly depends a lot on when the city was built. If you look at the US, the old (by American standards) cities like Boston, NYC, are pretty car-free friendly. Same with the cores of European cities whic
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by refurb 2y ago
Singapore is like this - 5 digit numeric postal code in a country where most people live in apartment buildings (HDB's). As a result, most towers (blocks) have their own post code. Even in complexes with 3 towers sharing a common main
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by refurb 2y ago
This misses a lot of nuance. Vietnam’s independence took a back seat after WW2 for the US because France made regaining its colony contingent upon playing along with NATO. France floated the idea of aligning with the USSR to scare its West
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by refurb 2y ago
Like most complex topics, it’s a little bit of both - anti-colonial and civil war. The communist side pushed the anti-colonial narrative because it benefited them - “the only true independent representative of the Vietnamese people.” which
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by refurb 2y ago
Your answer begs the question - why is the 1960’s the right target? And if the Gini coefficient is calculated pre-tax and pre-benefit distribution, it’s not going to change with high taxes and high redistribution (and yes you mentioned it m
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by refurb 2y ago
Worthwhile read! I’m a huge nerd when it come to the First and Second Indochina wars. It’s a super interesting mixture of Western colonialism (France), Eastern colonialism (Japan), Cold War (China, USSR, USA, South Korea, AUSNZ), civil war
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by refurb 2y ago
What is the right percentage for the 1% to pay? State a percent. I keep here this “the rich should pay more”, but rarely do I hear a number.
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by refurb 2y ago
It’s IRS data. You can download it from the IRS website and replicate the analysis and prove them wrong if you’d like.
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by refurb 2y ago
But lead pellets don’t leech lead?
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by refurb 2y ago
All over. There are multiple indoor ranges in almost every state. It’s hard to have an outdoor gun range in an urban environment!
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by refurb 2y ago
The French Revolution was against the establishment. I wouldn’t argue Trump represents the establishment.
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by refurb 2y ago
I'd be more interested to see the other side of this trade and how many options were purchase that didn't pay out . People buy options all the time, sometimes without any insider information, people buy options that happen to jus
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by refurb 2y ago
Let's not play that game please. We don't even know who made these trades. If we look at actual trades by politicians who actually sit on committees with tradable information, we know the biggest culprits are on both sides of th
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by refurb 2y ago
It's not mine boggling at all. Our ability to detect lead only gets better and better with new technologies. Whereas a few decades ago we could detect 1 part in 1 million (ppm) we can now routinely detect down to 1 part per 1 trillion
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by refurb 2y ago
Many of those uses of lead don't end up in the environment. Lead is actually quite inert when in metal form - it develops an oxide/carbonate layer and there is little erosion. Metal in bullets is pretty inert and shooting ranges
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by refurb 2y ago
How would you eliminate lead exposure by making your own pouches? Would you test the produce you use for led before using it? I ask because there is no source that guarantees 100% that it won't have harmful lead levels. Lead is often

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