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by unmole 5mo ago
The UX and feature set of WhatsApp is much better than SMS. India has practically free SMS but WhatsApp remains pervasive.
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by unmole 6mo ago
You say "people tend to get cause and effect confused" and then unironically follow that up with: > What makes the dollar strong? The US military The US military and the dollar are strong because the US economy is strong.
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by unmole 6mo ago
I’ve developed a simple heuristic: If someone unironically invokes petrodollar as an explanation for anything in 2026, they’re probably not worth taking seriously.
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by unmole 6mo ago
I don't think NIMBY capture and restrictive zoning regulations are popular distopian SciFi tropes.
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by unmole 6mo ago
> lots of paperbacks with glossy covers etc. Glossy cover lamination is actually cheaper than matte lamination. If you meant more fancier finishing like spot UV or foil-stamping, ignore what I said.
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by unmole 6mo ago
I don't see how people using a work computer exclusively for work would lead to a shitty work culture , let alone lowered productivity.
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by unmole 6mo ago
> Most job offers now come with statements about how you don't have right to your likeness [citation needed]
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by unmole 6mo ago
> I presume other Commonwealth countries) default to paracetamol (acetaminophen) before ibuprofen Can confirm this is true in India. Paracetamol is widely used. Paracetamol + Ibuprofen is more common than Ibuprofen by itself.
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by unmole 6mo ago
> the stuff we do in this country is so much extra work/effort/cost and all of it comes at the worker's cost. The GP described tax optimizations for the highest earners. The idea that they would be better off in Europe is
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by unmole 6mo ago
Why does tax exemption matter if they are state-funded?
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by unmole 6mo ago
> US would then report financial activities of non-Americans to their home tax authorities. The answer was "lol, no, that would be too much effort". I know for a fact that the US reports financial information about non-US resid
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by unmole 6mo ago
> Isn't this the case of money going from left pocket to the right, since these companies are owned by the same investment funds? No.
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by unmole 6mo ago
Most people use Gmail because they want to, not because they have to. It's a free, superior product. Pretending voluntary preference is a monopoly is nonsense, but it is a very Mastodon-brained take.
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by unmole 6mo ago
So, Google built a superior product that is profitable and we are supposed to be mad about this?
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by unmole 6mo ago
Gmail is not a monopoly. When it comes to actual paying customers, it is not even the market leader > ridiculous assertion. What is ridiculous is the idea that running an email service a massive scale like Gmail is somehow free .
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by unmole 6mo ago
Nice circular reasoning you got there. How do they have market power? Did they get it for free?
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by unmole 6mo ago
> get money for free How do they get money for free? What is stopping everyone else from doing the same?
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by unmole 6mo ago
The Soviets did try to design their own chips in the beginning. But it was a lost cause because they simply couldn't keep up with the advances of the West.
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by unmole 6mo ago
I just want to point out how absurd this is. A Bulgarian says communist mind . People from the former Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, and other planned economies immediately understand what he means. But we have an American and a Brit compla
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by unmole 6mo ago
> We knew Serbs liked it I wouldn't have thought that was the perception given Yugoslavia was explicitly non-aligned and the economy was more market oriented.
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by unmole 6mo ago
You argument is just No true Scotsman with extra steps.
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by unmole 6mo ago
It may not have been the only reason, but cost was absolutely a major real reason. In a planned economy, cost does not disappear. Skilled engineers, specialized materials and equipment are all still scarce. Semiconductors are literally the
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by unmole 6mo ago
Tell me more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776635
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by unmole 6mo ago
> All "actual communist societies", have been run marxist-leninists or regimes supporting derivations of it, In other words, real communism has never been tried.
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by unmole 6mo ago
> But in the context of discussing the Eastern Bloc it does become psycho-mysticism The comment was made by a Bulgarian who actually lived under the regime and explained what he meant. The psycho-mysticism is entirely in your head. &gt
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by unmole 6mo ago
It's a variation of the same tired argument that's proffered up when communist praxis is criticised: That communist regimes they don't represent real communism unlike the all the other hippy versions.
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by unmole 6mo ago
You're eliding the more prosaic and direct explanation for why the Soviets were forced to clone chips instead of designing systems from scratch: cost. The American semiconductor industry had a vast civilian customer base that let it re
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by unmole 6mo ago
Yeah, real communism has never been tried. /s
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by unmole 6mo ago
Ponting out that communist regimes tried to implement planned economies with the help of computation is a statement of fact, not psycho-mysticism . Red Plenty features Leonid Kantorovich trying to build a computer powerful enough to mode
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by unmole 6mo ago
> Regarding communism and computing, deterministic systems where the entire state is knowable and predictible have certain appeal for the communist mind. Francis Spufford explores this idea in Red Plenty , which I highly recommend. More

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