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901.
by rnk 4y ago
Yes. Especially now that Taiwan is really a democratic country without it being tacitly controlled by the people and political parties left over from the early days (the KMT). And the destruction of the people of Hong Kong finishes the end
902.
by rnk 4y ago
There is little support for reunification in Taiwan and it gets smaller by the day based on China's actions in HK and in the area near Taiwan. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/02/
903.
by rnk 4y ago
More important than any sophistry or arguments about the nuances of the agreements around HK is that China has been crushing freedom in HK. That's the problem. Stop doing that. China won't stop because that's the way they rem
904.
by rnk 4y ago
Ukraine and HK are very different of course. But the outcome is the same, people who were previously free were invaded, put off into prison for things like saying they publicly disagreed and wearing the wrong color shirt in Hong Kong.
905.
by rnk 4y ago
The thing is that China defines the border territories around it as it wishes, and those definitions change over time to suit its current desires. So that turns out not to be an adequate description of why it behaves to protect its 'co
906.
by rnk 4y ago
That's not true from my perspective as an American. China didn't historically make the same kind of continuing and increasing bellicose actions and claims as they do today. They have grown slowly over time, perhaps as China's
907.
by rnk 4y ago
I'd put it differently. We know that the vaccine absolutely saved millions of lives. Covid directly killed millions of people plus the millions more who have life-long complications from it. The vaccine is like any substance that goes
908.
by rnk 4y ago
That's incredibly naive. I can already shop for health plans in the us, and it's a shitty result. The rest of the wealthy western world has national health insurance and it works really well. The US is the broken system with decli
909.
by rnk 4y ago
The innovation was primarily financial innovation in taking money unnecessarily from your customers, except for a very few cases. Lightning was a good cable in the early days, but but then became a financial windfall for apple of course.
910.
by rnk 4y ago
There are so many jobs out there, thousands of companies are now hiring remote. Your google resume entry will help you get good pay and jobs.
911.
by rnk 4y ago
China will attack Taiwan regardless of the existence of the US. The US should help Taiwan to survive.
912.
by rnk 4y ago
Yeah, I really disagree with the person above you, @treis. This saves people money. It's not stealing from them, it's saving them money. This is a valuable and good thing. This gives attention to the fact that they can pay much le
913.
by rnk 4y ago
They are probably referring to the $10k salt limit this is the total deductible state and local tax and interest deduction. In any big city your property taxes are probably 5k+, add state taxes, you don't have any room under the 10k li
914.
by rnk 4y ago
Same goes somewhat for home prices going up, but if you don't live in a booming tech city it might not hold true. I'm in one, my house is 4x in under 20 years. My payment was so huge when I got it, now it isn't so crazy.
915.
by rnk 4y ago
A lot of people can't afford the down payment to reduce the monthly payments. Plus the endless rumors of hedge funds buying up all the houses w cash to force renting, reduce supply.
916.
by rnk 4y ago
Why do you lose 10% selling? 6% for real estate cartel commission I guess. If you are in a hot market you can use redfin or similar low rate companies, don't pay the buyers agent. I'm trying to talk myself into it. No one is doing
917.
by rnk 4y ago
I don't think that's always true. If you are in that company, they almost certainly have exposure to the cost of those sales and the rate of sales growth, but also the cost to support more users. That gives you a good sense. If yo
918.
by rnk 4y ago
The us is far from the USSR - yet the USSR had so many nukes, the world treated them with kid gloves, for good or bad. Maybe after we in the US finish killing each other over imaginary grievances (is Tom Hanks really a pedophile who kills k
919.
by rnk 4y ago
Truman's presidency doesn't seem so terrible from today's viewpoint, look at the work he did to help rebuild western europe after the war. Making note that he had not enriched himself while president does not serve to make yo
920.
by rnk 4y ago
I'm glad it's working pretty well for you folks. The info on leafs was that charging with Chademo, higher power charging, was really hard on the batteries because they'd get hot and leafs don't have a battery management
921.
by rnk 4y ago
Why is it a fantasy? Millions of people in the us already have tesla power walls, there are hundreds at least of other solutions, and these things are sold out for a year or more. It works great, and people are using it. Your concern is tha
922.
by rnk 4y ago
Or unless you've lost money! Lots of people saying "the fed could make crypto losers whole without putting up a sweat" the last few days.
923.
by rnk 4y ago
I'd tend to agree with you. People with money and power will push for laws that protect them though. But this situation is why I'm skeptical of these kinds of contracts - too much potential for problems.
924.
by rnk 4y ago
Those kids are my cousins kind of, in a sense based on where I come from and the people that I go home to visit. I don't think I have any misperceptions about the good things that those people can do and the hard work that let's s
925.
by rnk 4y ago
Get a new job? That would be the us solution, but could that work there?
926.
by rnk 4y ago
Lab safety is important of course. Let's not forget there's little to no evidence where covid came from and it doesn't matter at this point. We still have to deal with it. The people who are fixated on China in the US for rac
927.
by rnk 4y ago
They will figure out how to distribute food better over time even with the shutdowns. They could then have economic shutdown longer. But the impact of that economic shutdown is unclear.
928.
by rnk 4y ago
That data needs to have a time dimension. I think vast reduction in elderly deaths, even though they are still susceptible they are less susceptible.
929.
by rnk 4y ago
Current variants of cv19 are surprisingly not killing many of us in the us who are vaccinated and boosted, even among older people. About 250 a day from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us#graph-d.
930.
by rnk 4y ago
For one thing, fuel burning vehicles make exhaust that is unnecessary. But the main reason is they are vastly more complicated and expensive to design, build, maintain than battery vehicles. bev have something like 90% fewer parts.

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