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by tenpies 4y ago
The alternative title for this is "Shopify decides to compete against Amazon - no, no, not in the super profitable AWS part, but the money-bleeding, never-profitable fulfilment part that's near-impossible to do without incurring b
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by tenpies 4y ago
> For what it's worth, the decline of trust in institutions is primarily among "Republican/lean Republican" respondents, who are a minority of American voters and likely a minority of American non-voters as well. The
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Canada is generally more expensive and taxes more (especially when you factor in sales taxes and such). To be honest, I am amazed that Canada has a healthcare system left. Decades of mismanagement and underinvestment aside, almost any Cana
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by tenpies 5y ago
The main reason isn't that they push responsibility to the owners, it's that they're risking getting the entire sector crushed just because Elon needs to prop his lies to keep the stock up. > “In the U.S., things are legal
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> I don't think this will help. You are exactly right, but this is by design. You're talking about the Canadian Federal Liberals. The Prime Minister is a trustafarian who got elected because his father was Prime Minister. Ev
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> Long shadows of Hitler and eugenics do certainly have a chilling effect on research of intelligence etc. Speaking solely about eugenics: it wasn't Hitler, eugenics were largely considered progressive at the time and the Right Thin
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If I may, my impression is also that the younger generations don't "get" war. Why would I, ever shoot someone just like me because his/her/xyr government has forced them to point a rifle at me? They've been ra
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by tenpies 5y ago
And it's not necessarily even forced either. The West underestimates the overlap between Chinese and Taiwanese families, professionals, and other ties. This is not like North and South Korea where there's been generations with no
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by tenpies 5y ago
> 1. The President of the United States does not control inflation, the price of oil, the price of CPUs, the price of new and used cars, or the ports that are backed up. People ask a glib question and get a glib answer. Except he does.
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Don't think so. Elon is quite public about hating the SEC and the SEC has been utterly spineless - paving the way for all sorts of frauds that we'll learn about in a couple of years/decades. Twitter GC also probably hated th
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by tenpies 5y ago
Sandy Munro has been a Tesla shareholder and may be at this time - he's not exactly the best at disclosure. For this reason, I think anyone who legitimately cares should be quite skeptical of any opinions he has about Tesla and EVs at
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by tenpies 5y ago
Wealth did have a very strong effect, just not the one we usually see. Poorer countries faired better against the disease itself: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-confirmed-deaths-of... And it's not popula
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They're still very much alive in the current generation. Keep in mind that a huge amount of millennial and younger vacation in order to work for Likes. They don't really care about anything as long as they can get that really goo
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No country can. It doesn't help that there is a backdrop of shortages of literally everything. From the people necessary to operate, to the metal used for pipes and casings. It's comical just how self-destructive ESG has been.
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This is not specific to Mao. Even in democracies, the people often vote against their own interests or often compromise on fundamentally important issues for the sake of luxury beliefs or in-group approval.
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by tenpies 5y ago
"Russia is in a bad way financially" is accurate, but from a Western perspective. Russia is obscenely rich in oil, gas, and almost every commodity. Russia is USD poor, gold reserve rich (even with the West stealing some of it), a
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by tenpies 5y ago
Governments can be learning organizations, especially when they have long time horizons and balance agenda with reality. If anything, I think China has shown that central planning can work and is even the envy of Western leaders (see: Cana
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by tenpies 5y ago
Some other top picks come to mind: > Vaccine Delivery Canceled to Country That Did Not Condemn Russia See: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/vaccine-delivery-cancel... > Cardiff Philharmonic replaces
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by tenpies 5y ago
The Man in the High Castle adaption by Amazon was fantastic in this. The Nazi cities were beautiful . They were orderly, clean, everyone was well dressed and nice. Infrastructure was top notch and there were only very small hints that s
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Probably zero. The WSB-types generally do not touch futures contract because the margin requirements can be quite high (a single contract is generally tens of thousands of dollars). Much of this is also fundamentals. ESG = energy stops gro
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I hope you're honourably on your way to Ukraine then. If you're willing to condemn them and their families to 15 years of prison for "honour", it's the least you could do. My point is that it's extremely easy t
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by tenpies 5y ago
Two thoughts come to mind: 1) The West has already weaponized the law. It is currently operating on the Latin American dictator model of "for my friends, anything; for my enemies: the law!". 2) The United States strongly opposes
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by tenpies 5y ago
I think the best stance is what we should all know by now: Ukraine is highly propagandistic because their victory scenario involves getting NATO directly involved and escalating a regional conflict into a World War. So let's treat any
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If it weren't for a moral consideration and a very long tail risk of an involuntary shareholder meet up at a prisoner camp as the West's decision-making is further compromised by emotion, there are company that everyone should be
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Yes, it's fascinating to watch the West impose its own culture into everything - even warfare. By this I mean the West's addiction to immediate gratification. If Putin hasn't conquered every last inch of Ukraine within 72 ho
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It's going to be very interesting to watch the gap between casualties / defections / surrenders / prisoners increase over time between pro-Ukraine and pro-Russia media accounts.
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I would add that taxes are now a higher proportion of fuel costs - and will probably continue to become so as more carbon and emissions taxes are passed. Of course, this is assuming oil prices don't go parabolic, which they may given
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Reddit is just Facebook with user names, and filled with older Millennials that don't realize they are now old, boring, and generally all think the same.
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Are you long Tesla? Because we can all play this game. It's a very silly one, and I'm honestly concerned that the SEC, FCC, and other regulators have the same issue - the people who are suppose to be regulating companies have sto
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by tenpies 5y ago
> - across the river, Uruguay just straight up abandoned their own peso and used American dollars instead. Same with Ecuador as I later found. Uruguay is actually extremely clever in that it long ago realized that Argentina just isn&#x27

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