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by ta1243 1y ago
> Like in Sweden we pay ~50% income tax Sweden median income is 345,529 SEK, or $36k. 90%ile is 658,623 SEK or $69k. For 20-65 year olds it's a bit higher. (That's from "Total income from employment and business by deciles
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by ta1243 1y ago
Neither future is good. Sure the Australia one with chips in your brain to alter your thoughts might seem better, but it's still a dystopia.
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The resurgence seen so far has been for the populist right, ones led by the rich and powerful.
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OK, so I get selected at random. I haven't got the first clue about governing a country, so I'd rely on people telling me what to do. If they can convince me (which will be easy, trillion dollar companies and powerful billionaire
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by ta1243 1y ago
> Humphrey was found as a stray by a Cabinet Office civil servant and named in honour of Humphrey Appleby, the archetypal civil servant of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. Love it. Thatcher was famously a big fan of "Yes Minist
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Waves via Russia then across the Europe/Russia border which is very long. Russia and Belarus borders with the EU is longer than the US/Mexico border. You've then got the maritime border. There's then the political implic
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Great for people sitting out on their patios and having barbecues. Not great for food production. The UK is close enough to a wealthy nation that we should be able to import our food or make enough with high energy/resource requirement
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I think it was "pedo guy" which broke something in him.
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If there's demand, companies will fund new construction. The problem is that planning, zoning, nimby restrictions means you can't The invisible hand of the market certainly isn't all powerful, just like chickens aren't s
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An hour of work buys far less of a percentage of the value of US companies than it did 20 years ago. in 1983 a single "share" in the S&P, or a single unit of American business, cost $120, about 13 hours work at the median wage
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by ta1243 1y ago
Housing costs in the western world is the root cause of everything. Housing costs on a monthly basis increase to take all income, because the demand for housing is higher than the supply. You can't simply reduce your consumption, becau
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> Once you hit those rates, I feel like you should stop thinking about how you can pay less in taxes, and figure out how you can support everyone else around you, otherwise what's the point of earning all that money in the first pla
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That's about 3 times median income in Spain. In California someone on the median personal income of about $50k pays 18% income tax. In Spain (Madrid) someone on the median income of about €23k pays 19% income tax. Double the median inc
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by ta1243 1y ago
In the US, over the last 45 years, work has increased in value about 3.5% a year, and the S&P about 9.5% a year. Work is not valued, wealth is.
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> including every Democrat, still get to vote at it in multiple stages, so once it's actually implemented, it's by design kind of approved by both sides? If you have 51% republican and 49% democrat and every republican says yes
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by ta1243 1y ago
Nobody I know buys a new phone until the battery dies on the old one. Are you saying that modern airpods don't do bluetooth? And aren't supported on the iphone 11? People have used bluetooth headphones for 20 years. Why would appl
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by ta1243 1y ago
My ipad uses ligtning, my kindle uses usb-mini, as does almost every other rechargable thing I have, from torches to portable fans. My headphones are USB-C and by far the most unreliable. The switch uses USB-C too, but that sits in its dock
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The cables tend to cost the same, way more than the cost of manufacture. If you're buying them in bulk on amazon, usb-c is still more expensive than lightning, but the vast majority of people tend to buy cables when they have either lo
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by ta1243 1y ago
I was in my local store on Friday looking for a new torch and had a quick browse of the chargers. USB-C cables were more expensive than lightning.
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I have several USB-C chargers and cables, some of which work to charge my headphones, some of which don't. How they managed to convert the simplicity and reliability of 20 years of USB-A into this mess is anyones guess.
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Not sure why I'd want USB-C and then have to spend a fortune to replace all my existing charger leads with the highly unreliable USB-C ecosystem.
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Thinking about my previous iphones > Just to be clear your suggesting that your 6 year old iPhone runs a suit of social media apps No, I deleted them all - other than youtube (premium, no adverts). I used to have them 10 years ago though
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ssh -D for socks proxy
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I'd rather have old fibre cables and lithium batteries than old unexploded ordinance (If wishes were horses I'd rather Russia hadn't invaded a sovereign country in the first place, but we are where we are)
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by ta1243 1y ago
To quote Babylon 5 Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hund
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> There was literally nothing there No there wasn't. There was a whole continent of untapped resources. You can argue that the solar system is a lot of untapped resources too. Harder to extract than sailing a piece of wood across an
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by ta1243 1y ago
If you unfurl a solar sail after perihelion, presumably you get more energy while nearer the sun, giving more of a "kick", and lower in the gravity well (would oberth still apply for solar sail) Your speed once you get to 1AU woul
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It seems unlikely you'd be able to rent somewhere for less than the cost of * maintenence * taxes * return on capital Because otherwise your landlord is subsidising you, and why would they do that?
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> Gold is up 92% since 2012. And housing is up 125% since 2012, so the sucker who bought gold instead of a house has lost out. We can all be rich in hindsight. (There's also other benefits to owning - like being able to have pets, n
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If you buy a house for 500k on a 5% mortgage over 25 years when you are 25, and you plan to live until you are 85, you will live there for 60 years. It will cost you 35k a year for 25 years, or 875k a year After 25 years you have no more ex

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