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by tsotha 11y ago
Those are people who live in countries that will be gone in a few generations.
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by tsotha 11y ago
You could make almost exactly the same argument for Napoleon's sale to the US of French territories in North America.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I considered editing the post to include the caveat "Where that strategy could make sense for an executive is when he's able to hide (or at least obfuscate) what he's doing." >And I wonder whether the price of current
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by tsotha 11y ago
There used to be government restrictions in the US regarding how many minutes per hour broadcasters could show commercials, since TV stations were using "the public airwaves", and in most places you only had three or four channels
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Planned obsolescence is when you artificially shorten the lifespan of something in order to increase the sales of the product or the next generation of the product in order to generate more revenue. The strategy, as originally articulat
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by tsotha 11y ago
That doesn't really add up, though. The expected future performance of a company is baked into the stock price. When companies do short-term things often the price of their stock falls even as profits rise. Investors aren't stu
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by tsotha 11y ago
I don't believe that for a second.
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by tsotha 11y ago
They knew they were losing and would have been happy to conclude a peace treaty. That's not the same thing as surrender, though.
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by tsotha 11y ago
How long do you think it would have taken them to develop an sub-born aircraft powerful enough for a one-way trip with a bomb? More than a few months?
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by tsotha 11y ago
Countries don't capitulate in the face of strategic bombing. They certainly would have been willing to negotiate a peace (as most losing combatants are), but sans nuclear weapons there would be no unconditional surrender.
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by tsotha 11y ago
The Japanese could certainly have delivered the bomb to US targets. They had aircraft carrying submarines. Near the end of the war an operation to attack on the Panama Canal was in the works before the subs were recalled to the home islan
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by tsotha 11y ago
>It's not about animal death, it's about killing an iconic animal (a lion) which we're already in danger of losing entirely. Lions are not endangered. There are 20,000 of them in Zimbabwe alone.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>A documentary that shows nude boobs can’t be uploaded by our state television to YouTube because Google forbids that. So upload it somewhere else. Google is a private company and as such is perfectly within its rights to allow or not a
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yep. The problem with schools in poor neighborhoods is the students have to go to school with other poor kids. If money were the problem, D.C. public schools would be the best in the nation.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Come on. Really? All the young indian and chinese talent I meet is way above average. Not in my experience. Most of them are chair warmers. There are certainly exceptions, but "way above average" is far from the rule.
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by tsotha 11y ago
You may be putting the cart before the horse on heart attacks. They may have retired because they weren't healthy enough to continue working.
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by tsotha 11y ago
That's the way I feel too. I understand why extroverts want to have people around to chat with, but for me all that interaction just exhausting. I don't go to the theater any more and do all my shopping online. I'm happier
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by tsotha 11y ago
I agree with this 100%. There are a lot of previously useful words that mean almost nothing today. "Slavery" is one. "Rape" is another. I know people think they're doing good when they try to expand the definiti
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by tsotha 11y ago
>If I represent a creditor, I'm not going to care if your chickenshit small business is incorporated or not, particularly if it's just a professional services business like a consultant. I'll just sue you AND your corporat
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by tsotha 11y ago
Doesn't matter. You'd still have to feed the bills, individually, into some kind of scanner.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! You know that's just a poe
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by tsotha 11y ago
>The use of the word "illegals" to describe human beings is dehumanizing at best, outright xenophobic at worst. Nope. It's just descriptive.
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by tsotha 11y ago
If I buy coffee at Starbucks with a $5 bill, and you come in later, pay with a $20 and get my $5 in change, in order for the government to follow the money like that Starbucks would have to scan every bill and correlate the scans with indiv
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by tsotha 11y ago
In most US states you need a business license. People incorporate for a reason, though. If you don't your personal assets aren't protected if the business gets sued or becomes insolvent. There's a reason Donald Trump still h
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by tsotha 11y ago
They used to ignore cash transactions for the same reason. The advance of technology makes everything cheaper, and sometimes that's bad.
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by tsotha 11y ago
That's the real reason they want to get rid of cash. They want to make it impossible for any economic activity to occur without the government approving and getting a cut. I don't think it will actually work. Were the US to get
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by tsotha 11y ago
There's no actual evidence the drought has anything to do with global warming.
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That was my impression as a tourist. I loved the German train system, but I couldn't afford to travel like that on a regular basis.
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by tsotha 11y ago
The American rail network is optimized for freight. Outside of a few lines in the Northeast it's not really an option for intercity travel. If you want to take a train from Los Angeles to San Francisco (a 6-7 hour drive) there's
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by tsotha 11y ago
It's meaningless because if "widely considered a war crime" is the standard than it's more of a popularity contest than a crime. The whole concept of criminality relies on objective criteria in place at the time of the

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