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by unmole 3y ago
What was the data that Graeber used? Fan mail from people who didn't like their jobs?
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by unmole 3y ago
Graeber suggests that Iraq was invaded soon after it started selling oil for euros instead of dollars. In reality, the switch happened in late 2000 but Iraq wasn't invaded till March 2003. And it happened under the UN's Food for O
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by unmole 3y ago
Graeber claims Adam Smith's famous "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest" thesis is wrong because shopkeepers of t
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by unmole 3y ago
Like much of Graeber's output, it doesn't actually hold up to scrutiny: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170211015...
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by unmole 3y ago
> Stop actively breaking things that already work. The old versions will continue to work.
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by unmole 3y ago
> Visa and Mastercard get a 2% cut of any transaction. They don't. In the EU, the intercharge fees is capped at 0.3%. Even in the US they only keep a fraction of the fees, the rest goes to card issuers.
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by unmole 3y ago
> selling industrial products to willing customers Like opium.
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by unmole 3y ago
> Never accept the counter-offer. If you have gone as far as interviewing outside, you are already checked out, and you are already branded as disloyal. It's time to make your exit! If you ask for a counter-offer, it should be a mov
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by unmole 3y ago
> The fact it goes through India means India gets a significant cut on the profit and Russia gets smaller profit. Do you happen to have numbers?
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by unmole 3y ago
The operation is little more than a hobby with less than 200 orders a month. I tried to automate the boring stuff so I only need to spend 15-20 minutes a month on book keeping and GST filing.
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by unmole 3y ago
What do you mean? You can open an account with a US brokerage
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by unmole 3y ago
I think you misunderstood me. I meant Huawei is not an option for operators in the countries I listed.
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by unmole 3y ago
Or the UK, or Australia or India...
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by unmole 3y ago
> Please god no. I cant imagine how bad carrier routing will get if the options are HP and Cisco. There's always Arista.
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by unmole 3y ago
I use a locally hosted ERPNext instance. It's opensource, endlessly customizable, and has a workable API. It's also quirky and a bit annoying at times but it beats having to deal with the limitations, ever-changing quirks and anno
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by unmole 3y ago
> run it as a tightly regulated monopoly for maximum efficiency Name a real world monopoly that maximizes efficiency.
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by unmole 3y ago
> exclude non-Google customers. There are literally dozens of them! /s
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by unmole 3y ago
> Having many participants in a market simply means that nobody were able to consistently outcompete the other players. Yeah, no. The tiny bank in Arkansas isn't participating in the same market as the tiny bank in Alabama. But the
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by unmole 3y ago
> Well, the most and third most populous countries on Earth don't. WhatsApp is ubiquitous in India, the most populous country in the world.
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by unmole 3y ago
Looks like ham-fisted geoblocking. I'm blocked from accessing it using an Indian IP but works fine with a US VPN.
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by unmole 3y ago
So it worked until it didn't. The government needs to constrain supply to keep the voter base happy at the expense of younger folks. A private builder wouldn't find itself in a similar situation.
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by unmole 3y ago
> Remember that 80% of Singaporeans live in HDB flats This statistic includes the young people living with their parents. So, not exactly a refutation of my point. Young couples in the rest of the world typically rent for a few years bef
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by unmole 3y ago
Arista has fully remote positions globally.
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by unmole 3y ago
> Works great in Singapore. Heh. Where young people postpone marriage and continue to stay with their parents because of how long it takes to get a HDB flat?
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by unmole 3y ago
Polio vaccine can be administered orally.
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by unmole 3y ago
My sweet summer child.
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by unmole 3y ago
> more and more countries cut off ties economically Israel's biggest trade partners are the US, China, Germany, Switzerland and India. I can totally see how they are going to cut off ties. /s
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by unmole 3y ago
> They put the editors in a unique position of receiving a manuscript from known physicists, on a topic they did not know anything about. It doesn't seem right to extrapolate that the entire journal lacks intellectual rigour. The mo
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by unmole 3y ago
You could do the same with credit card and earn miles or reward points on top
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by unmole 3y ago
> barely a decade Yeah, no.

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