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by shjake 4y ago
Across most of Europe farmers are probably one of the most privileged social groups due to all the subsidies, favorable tax treatment and other stuff, though. Of course there are some very rational reasons for that.
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by shjake 4y ago
> datacenter causes way more pollution per square meter so how is that more efficient How is that a sensible comparison? Are you suggesting that if they spread out servers over a large enough area that would improve this somehow? Like le
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by shjake 4y ago
Don’t make your laws more lax than even the ones in America then? We’re talking about Holland here not some poor and corrupt developing country.. It’s no great secret than corporations are generally profit seeking and will try to utilize an
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by shjake 4y ago
So offering them enough money so that it would be profitable for them to close their farms is bossing around? Using land for housing or (data center for that matter) is just more efficient most of the time.
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by shjake 4y ago
It an objectively free market capitalist view. I don’t know if that’s the same as woke..
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by shjake 4y ago
Wouldn’t most other places in Europe be much more suitable though just because of lower population density (and energy prices in some cases)?
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by shjake 4y ago
I doubt this would apply to Apple. Probably only to those who are actually using cores designed by ARM..
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by shjake 4y ago
They’d need an actual chip to run it on or is it just simulated? I mean isn’t RISC-V still 5-10 years behind M series? Also do you think the they still maintain macOS ports for PowerPC?
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by shjake 4y ago
They have been charging pennies until now, though..
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by shjake 4y ago
It also impossible to enforce. And is basically equivalent to “why don’t we just print more money and give it everyone?”. And anyway a terrible idea.. why do you want to penalize people who have low interest rate mortgages for instance? Any
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by shjake 4y ago
> This is as fair a mechanic as I have ever heard for a debt jubilee. Also not practically possible at least in the real world. Which is possibly why it sounds so great…
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by shjake 4y ago
> You mean more inflationary than an economy based on extraction and profiteering which has increasingly impoverished more and more of the population? Yes? I mean that’s sort of what happened during Covid (savings rates increased dramati
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by shjake 4y ago
What you’re suggesting doesn’t make much sense from a practical perspective? What is debt anyway? Let say I hold 100k in leveraged derivatives which are the equivalent of someone holding 400k worth of the underlying asset (they put down 100
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by shjake 4y ago
They are, though? I mean houses built several decades ago are cheaper than new ones. It’s just that overall growth in prices more than completely offsets that. Anyway unlike all of those things you mentioned there are usually no objective r
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by shjake 4y ago
The fact that the current system has huge flaws doesn’t mean that any random alternative is superior to it. IMHO the current monetary/financial system is superior to everything that has ever been tried. While it might be worth having a
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by shjake 4y ago
Is there though? I mean now all deposits seem to be covered 100% with no limit. That makes the less risky than they were 2 weeks ago, doesn’t it?
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by shjake 4y ago
1 Megabyte per second seems like extremely slow. You need 6/7x more to stream 4k properly and downloading modern games would take forever. If you have a couple of people using it simultaneously even HD might not be great..
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by shjake 4y ago
But it’s the state that needed the money. I mean under the Republic the corrupt magistrates defrauded both the people they were ruling over and the state. In the empire due to various reforms the state managed to get a much bigger share of
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by shjake 4y ago
Ceasar was a glory seeking political opportunist and a war criminal. You’re right the second part probably does not apply to Trump… > hard-fought stability and foundational reform that Caesar was in the process of providing. Yes just lik
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by shjake 4y ago
Or just cap them?
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by shjake 4y ago
You seem to lack some nuance. As demands for those goods on services increases while supply remains stagnant if not decreasing they’ll cost will grow. Making it hard for most Japanese people to sustain the QoL they are used to/expect w
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by shjake 4y ago
Well until we have robots which can fully replace many/most jobs people do, the only way solve that is by increasing the proportion of working age people to those who are retired. There are no other options. You can do that by either i
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by shjake 4y ago
Same as on Mars or any other place outside of Earth that we know of to be fair
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by shjake 4y ago
> 1814 I think it’s much older than that, though. The Swiss confederacy had been trying to be neutral since the 16th-17th centuries. Also Austria does have some significant pro-Russian tendencies for some reason..
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by shjake 4y ago
Resistive heating is very extremely inefficient compared to gas though
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by shjake 4y ago
So between £100 and £10000?
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by shjake 4y ago
And then other companies will start withdrawing their cash from a bunch of other regional banks crashing the whole banking system.. So no I don’t think they should take “some hit”.
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by shjake 4y ago
I think the main goal is to prevent a wider banking crisis and this spiraling out of control. That would surely affect everyone..
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by shjake 4y ago
Because the bank has more than enough assets to payback at least 70-80%. Are you suggesting that money should be appropriated by someone just to teach them a lesson?
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by shjake 4y ago
If they manage to somehow talk another bank into buying what’s left of SVB it might be the full 100%. It’s not yet clear that won’t happen.

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