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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Corporate taxes specifically were quite high by European standards until 2027 and are not relatively that low today either
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> People have been predicting the immediate collapse of Europe Have they? I thought most were predicting stagnation and slow decline? Which has been the cast for the past >15 years. Europe is just being left behind.. > trusts offic
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> do use and it’s easier for me to just block all European Making it harder for foreign companies to compete is actually great for European startups, though
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> they will be then we adjust the law. Bizarrely horrible approach. A lot of damage would already be done, most importantly changing the status quo is inherently much harder than doing nothing. So going back won’t necessarily be straight
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Supposedly Germany was spending around 80% of its tax revenue on interest payments alone. They pretty much had to finance the war through domestic bonds. So yes, pretty they didn’t have any money to spend on anything else. Of course bonds b
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
A lot of people prefer living in less dense environments and personal vehicles will always be more efficient there than public transport
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Inflation like that doesn’t just happen. It can only be the outcome of explicit government policy. Like in post WW1 Germany they wanted to wipe the value of all domestic government debt they accumulated during the war.
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> media feeds their people, that the rest of the world is 20 years behind and stuff Well western or pretty media having no access to the country pretty much guarantees that everything they might be reporting is a mix of speculation and o
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> This has nothing to do with “inflation” (which, by definition is the evolution of CPI). Housing is part of the CPI. And no, the “inflation” is not be definition equivalent to CPI inflation. > you'll see that there's no lin
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Yes, that’s not the point I was trying to make, though. But in a way Arianespace doesn’t really need to innovate or compete because because they’ll always have funding due to these legitimate strategic reasons
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> was insane too Not even remotely close to 2020-21 though. M2 supply increased by the same proportion between Feb and June 2020 as between 2009 and 2013. By 2021 it had increased by same % as 2009 to 2015. > and all to do with supply
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> France is being kept alive by paying itself? Makes no sense. Yes, by borrowing. Any meaningful reforms seems infeasible due to social and political reasons. > Also arianespace group has 60% of their revenue from the development of t
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Where did you get that from? ‘Annoyed’ and ‘offended’ have a rather different meaning..
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
The thing is that he isn’t behaving like actual nazis from the 30s. He and people like him are doing and trying to accomplish something quite different (although also horrible). What’s happening today and its causes is only superficially si
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
There is if you want to understand why 20-40% of the population across a multitude of countries support people like him. You can brand them all nazis and shut off the entire conversation. That might be the “morally righteous” thing to do (
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
I do see your point about how avoiding thinking hard leads to seeing virtually no difference between various somewhat nuanced topics. Oversimplifying everything, reducing complexity into simple catchphrases and extreme cognitive dissonance
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
So let’s focus on the specifics things he does and says. Instead of compressing everything into a single word (which unfortunately lost much of its meaning and has been massively devalued). Nazism is a specific, relatively, defined and extr
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
I do. You’re certainly right. I just don’t like reducing the entire political compass to “marxist/smth.” and “nazis”. That both devalues these words and and leaves out any nuance. Guys like Trump or Putin are not nazis (yet). They do r
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Yet if you go to the actual model’s page: https://openrouter.ai/x-ai/grok-code-fast-1 Cline and Kilo code are in the top 3. So how does that work? It’s considerably cheaper than competing models like 2.5 flash, though.
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> CEOs that seem incredibly shifty to me Yet the next level beyond “incredibly” somehow makes it alright again?
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Not to an even remotely same degree..
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> it isn't tuned much for political correctness It was tuned to be edgy and annoying though (I mean his general style of speech not necessarily the content).
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
That proves he’s an edgy, drugged out jerk. Raising your hand in a certain way is not sufficient to be a nazi..
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Well they had a good run in 80s and 90s now they are massively behind competition and being kept alive by government payouts (to be fair much like France itself..)
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Wasting massive amounts of money with no intel and (especially) no reason is the public policy of the current administration. So it’s not that hard to believe it also extends to the Department of Defense.
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
That’s a meaningless claim and statement unless they somehow compel their home countries to prosecute them
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
> Due process" has been perverted in recent years in the Anglosphere to mean "infinite process, with no end result Seems preferable to fascist thugs illegally assaulting or arresting random people on the streets. Extrajudicial
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by wqaatwt 11mo ago
Would you extend this to all other crimes that cause a lot of societal damage?
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Another reason is allowing American magacorps to take over the entire market and syphon massive amounts of money from the EU without providing anything in return at all. China went the opposite route and while far from ideal due to rather
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
IIRC Firefox (and I assume other browsers) when using privacy/no tracking mode does send fake data..

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