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by wqaatwt 10mo ago
> People in EU don't have a culture of moving between cities or countries Southern and Eastern Europeans certainly do.
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by wqaatwt 10mo ago
By that standard any actual tax or other income source that’s not at least 1-2% is immaterial and should be removed?
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by wqaatwt 10mo ago
Yet plenty of companies are not doing that. Sony and MS amongst others..
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by wqaatwt 10mo ago
> Why was the terminology tolerated for years before being deemed unacceptable? Politics and/or incompetence. Nothing to do with conspiracy theories. Government agencies are very transparent (implicitly historically; these days were
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by wqaatwt 10mo ago
Multiple people being able to edit the same file simultaneously with no or minimal issues is pretty bug, though…
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by wqaatwt 10mo ago
Is it? The whole thing about replacing MS with OpenOffice and the LibreOffice or etc. has been going on for decades in Europe. Usually it’s just talk or a few municipalities that try it and then silently revert back to MS soon after.
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Singapore is a city state and a semi-dictatorship. I don’t feel any of their policies are that generalizable to most other places
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Yes, I meat profit margin which is what public investors care about (in addition to growth). And IIRC Valve and EA had almost exactly the same revenue figures last year, yet EA had 10x more employees. On paper it would seem extremely appeal
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> tight cost caps. Example: you get 100 millions The effect of that in F1 was a huge increase in team profits and significant decrease in real wages for ordinary employees of those teams.
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
But isn’t Valve extremely profitable compared to pretty much non private company in the industry? They have few employees and massive revenue.
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Which is not a lot at all compared to their cost and especially the valuation discussed here.
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
You’d have a massive influx of incompetent grifters who only get themselves elected for the salary. At the end of the day public service still has to a “sacrifice” (doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be compensated at e.g. top 5 percentile inco
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
That’s the best way of ensuring that bribes (legal or not) become the primary source of income for every representative who is not independently wealthy.
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> you know, who don't like free money. Yes but otherwise you’d get huge shortages and would be unlikely to be able to buy it at all. Also a significant proportion of the surplus currently going to manufacturers/etc. would go to
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Inefficiently (from society’s perspective) allocating massive amounts of resources? Why is he specifically being singled out I’m absolutely that certain..
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> time for computers and their components Seems it has been the opposite for some components like GPUs though for years (well before the AI boom)
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
In all “honest” how is that relevant when Ukraine never did that nor was US willing to deploy their troops there to begin with. To what end? Not a single US administration between 1990 and 2022 was particularly antagonistic or expansionist
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> military alliance with Mexico Ukraine never did that. > it would take approximately 0 seconds before the US invaded Very unlikely. Also Mexico wasn’t never exactly that aligned diplomatically and politically with the US to begin wit
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> Russia did not want NATO parked in their Achille's heel of the Ukrainian flatlands Russia (i.e. Putin but also Russians in general) wanted to rebuild their empire from the beginning. Anything else is just an excuse. > interests
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Vietnam had such massive population growth that there are very few people who even remember the war. On the other hand China was pretty much always ingrained into their “national consciousness” as a permanent massive threat.
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Probably not but it’s unlikely to be that massively different, Ukraine wasn’t that much less willing to engage in “meat grinder” style tactics earlier in the war. Even 1:1.5 rate would be pretty horrible given the demographic disparity.
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> You don't need to drag in people off the streets, close your borders, and continually lower the enlistment age As you said Ukraine’s demographic situation was quite horrible before the war. Very few people in their 20s. Hence the
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> China will probably win it unless the US gets a lot of help Sure they’d win a land war on the continent. An amphibious invasion of Taiwan opposed by the US navy and air force would be a but trickier. > undermined by the likes of Chi
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> They didn't go after any of the native peoples' cities Well they had zero issues going after the native peoples in all the places they conquered (or even their own country, the stuff they did in Okinawa…). They just didn’t ha
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
So it’s some sort of an application you install on your PC to make game runs smoother? And/or something like Moonlight/Remote Play?
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> EU law has supremacy over national laws Yes however EU has very limited capabilities to enforce that. They can bully smaller countries a bit more but Germany can do more or less whatever it wants
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> another emperor would usually reunite the empire Well he did, in the 530-550s to a significant extent. That of course didn’t work out because of the plague, climate change and other factors.
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> they provided a better quality of life to many of the subjugated people and provided a path to citizenship That varied. The taxation was very oppressive and there is some evidence that QoL (based on skeletal remains) did improve in qui
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> The Leave campaign were honest Regardless of the legitimacy of your other arguments this is a silly thing to say. Besides the lies and misinformation. Boris was driven purely by his political ambitions and saw Brexit as a great opportu
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
There were no limits on legal immigration from the EU. Of course the endless stream of East Europeans had mostly dried up by the time of the referendum and most immigrants (especially the type a lot of Reform/Brexit supporters don’t li

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