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by tharmas 3y ago
High Speed Rail is EXTREMELY expensive to build and maintain. It's one of the most impractical ideas to come along. Please put this to rest. Don't believe me? Read up on how it worked out for the Chinese.
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by tharmas 3y ago
Greed and Corruption! And blame Milton Friedman for the corrupt economic philosophy. He foolishly believed and preached that shareholders would never act irrationally such that they would harm the company. Alan Greenspan believed that too b
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by tharmas 3y ago
Not just spiritually healthy but physically too: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/fasting-benefits
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by tharmas 3y ago
So what happened to Berlin? It went to a nice cheap affordable city to an Anglo style neoliberal nightmare. I realize it got popular and people moved there but if there are such renter friendly laws in place how did Berlin end up like it di
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by tharmas 3y ago
In Canada's climate people are going to get out of their cars and walk and bicycle? In the majority of Canada Winter lasts for 6 months.
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by tharmas 3y ago
He was popular in Sicily during the time of his reign as well because his regime nullified the Mafia.
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by tharmas 3y ago
That was due to the Allied Military post-WW2 occupation of Italy. There are a couple of books on that very subject. These Mafioso presented themselves as anti-fascist and anti-communist to help their appointment into positions of power.
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by tharmas 3y ago
It's a slippery slope. Mussolini defeated the Mafia in southern Italy. However, his gov't did it in a brutal manner. Lots of innocent people rounded up too. "The hand of Vengeance found the bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled
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by tharmas 3y ago
Sure, but isn't the value of the Yen adversely affected. Most of the Japanese debt I believe is domestic. It used to be anyway. That might have changed recently.
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by tharmas 3y ago
Yes, but doesn't that currency then get devalued? My point was that the US is probably the only country that can print money without it adversely affecting the value of the US dollar. Isn't the value of the US currency partly base
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by tharmas 3y ago
And that's essentially the only place you can. So all the homeless make a trek to Vancouver?
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by tharmas 3y ago
Yes, but there's Canada's climate. If you try to live in a tent outdoors in Canada you will likely die.
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by tharmas 3y ago
Agreed. Non-productive money making should be taxed more heavily than productive money making. By productive I mean non-speculative activity. Also, sales tax is harder on lower income people. Sales tax should be scrapped except on luxury it
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by tharmas 3y ago
Agreed. As long as the US Dollar is the global currency the Govt can simply print more money to cover that debt. Other countries cant do this however.
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by tharmas 3y ago
Its one of the best movies of all time. That bomb ride is ICONIC!
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by tharmas 3y ago
Many thanks for the reference to GPT4All. I wasn't aware of it before.
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by tharmas 3y ago
The similarity is in not thinking about unintended consequences of govt policy. Solve one problem but create another (or more), which might even be worse. The cure being worse than the disease, as it were. The Canadian govt sought to solve
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by tharmas 3y ago
This high Immigration policy reminds me of China's campaign against the sparrow ( https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03064220188002... ) and its one child policy. Total disasters. The bureaucrat
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by tharmas 3y ago
But that's not how city economics works. And most immigrants are from India and China. They, quite rightly, prefer to settle in places were their are others who share the same language and culture. That's Toronto and Vancouver. Th
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by tharmas 3y ago
East Germany was stripped bare by the Soviets after WW2 and then by the Globalists after the fall of the Berlin wall, so its no wonder its poorer. Yes, Western Germany poured money into Eastern Germany post Berlin Wall but was that really g
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by tharmas 3y ago
Not only that, the RTX 4070 Ti Super gets near the same performance as the RTX 4080 non Super for $400 less. But that's MSRP. I have a feeling this card will be selling for a lot more than that.
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by tharmas 3y ago
Thanks. This should've been my first assumption. I should've realised there was no "for" after BS.
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by tharmas 3y ago
Thanks for taking the time to clear it up for me. I read it as Java for CRUD, but not for consultancies and body shops. I should have realized that the OP would've used the phrase "BS for" if he/she was referring to anot
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by tharmas 3y ago
My ASUS Radeon HD 5850 Cypress Pro is still going strong! Never any issue ever in the years I've had it.
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by tharmas 3y ago
>BS consultancy and body shops I've never heard of "BS". What language is this? Isn't Python the lingua franca of AI/ML? I would tend to agree with the cynicism regarding failure rate and expensive housing take,
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by tharmas 3y ago
>Canada as a nation benefits from all our parts being within a common business zone But there is no Free Trade between Provinces (Inter-Provincial Trade). Canadian Provinces have more Free Trade with the USA and Mexico than they do with
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by tharmas 3y ago
And politically its the classic excuse: "so many jobs we can't fill, therefore we need more immigration". Immigration is to keep the wages down. There is no shortage of workers. Its a lie.
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by tharmas 3y ago
Agreed. But it was Eastern European migration that turned the working class against the EU. And it could be that diktats from "one of own" is easier to swallow than coming from "that foreign lot"
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by tharmas 3y ago
That is so sad. Here in North America (with the odd exception) we don't even have a choice. Its the car only. The only good thing about a car is autonomy: you leave when you want to leave, and you have control of the environment =>
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by tharmas 3y ago
What about training local to do these jobs? Have you considered the fact that importing skilled labour from low income countries is a selfish act? The higher income country doesn't have to train these workers and the higher income coun

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