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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Yes, and? It forms the government and can dismiss it.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Most countries don’t use the correct name of Deutschland. Quite a few don’t even use Germany. Let’s not even mention Netherlands… > but these folks should know better I’m 100% sure they know and I assume it was a conscious decision.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
No, of course not... In parliamentary democracies the parliament is elected directly and is generally sovereign (optionally constrained by a constitution or some set of basic laws and powers delegated to regional governments and such). In n
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
She was primarily nominated by the EU council. The parliament would have picked Weber, but nobody cared since its just there to rubber stamp predetermined decisions. He was the leader of the party which won the plurality in the elections an
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> The EU is a parliamentary democracy Except the are a couple degrees of separation between the democracy part and in the running the EU institutions. The EU parliament is also a very superficial imitation of a real parliament in a demo
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> implement half-baked "tactical" That’s easy, though. What if he’s actually “brilliant” and very productive but hard to get along with
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Somebody concealing or obfuscating various information a browser would send by standard for privacy or other reasons is also “lying” by that standard? Or someone using a VPN?
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
They certainly don’t see themselves that way. Maybe Lexus or Audi, but not even that. Those are very niche luxury brands, that sell impractical status products (there isn’t really and equivalent for them in the “computer world”) for the 1%
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
For companies revenue and especially profit margin share usually matters much more. If an iPhone user in the US etc. is worth >= 10x more than an user in a third world country (both for manufacturers and ad/service providers that’s
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
That’s not the only reason. Well to an extent it is, because the rich are much better at optimizing taxes, however you can close the “loopholes” and such, then there are wealth taxes. The problem is that the rich are ultra mobile, just like
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
A bit like Xerox, Bell, Kodak or IBM back in the day then?
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
That wouldn’t have necessarily been the best advice immediately after dot.com
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> somewhat toxic asset and motivates the hoarding of things. As opposed to hoarding money which is both bad for the economy and made you richer for doing absolutely nothing? e.g. prices halved between 1865 and ~1900. The rich got richer,
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> CPI levels since 1800 here. [1] In the 150 years from 1800 to 1950, the CPI never shifted more than 25 points from the starting base of 51. Yes and there were extreme swings in between. Predictable 2% inflation is better for the econom
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
It’s complicated. The gold standard in general is an awful system outside of stagnant economies (you end up with deflation + endless boom and bust cycles). Banning everyone domestically from owning gold and then Bretton Woods massively prop
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
IIRC it was mainly about the government giving the East India Company a monopoly on all tea imports sidelining local merchants in Boston. The tax was used to rile up the mobs by merchants/smugglers, because the monopoly tea was actuall
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Or a form of negotiation if done in plain sight.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
No. It’s if you were selling something in your house for $10. Somebody came in, crossed out the number on the tag, wrote down $1 and handed you a bill. Then you took their money and gave them the item without saying anything. Would seem lik
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> The EUR (if that is what you are going by) is unusually strong By what standards? It’s slightly above the trend (i.e. continuous decline since 2008 with an occasional up and down here and the) but not that substantially
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
How is that going for e.g. postmarketOS? Doesn’t seem to be that simple
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Products? I mean at the end of the day (as long as you consistently pick the right people/tools for the job) technical part is just an implementation detail.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Well Jobs repeated it ~3-4 times without Wozniak (and arguably being a part of making Apple II a huge success was not even his greatest achievement).
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
I’m hypothetically a self employed Twitch streamer who has 0.5 viewers. How is that different than being an “artist” whose art isn’t consumed by anyone willing to pay for it. I kind of see the reasoning to some extent but then also e.g. “fu
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Well.. yes it is indeed technically possible to count a large number of paper sheets by hand.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Because American ballots are massive? They vote for everything including the president and local school district board members and everything in between at the same time.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
They’d certainly be shocked at how many old people are there and how they managed to survive so long past their 60-70s
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> You think your ChatGPT queries are running on x86 servers What makes you think? Or are all non Nvidia GPUs x86?
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> that the software is the moat, not the hardware design. For inference that’s hardly relevant, though? For training its not exactly insurmountable either.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> zero pollutants In some cases it was pretty extreme by modern standards. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi Living in a longhouse full of smoke and no chimney might not be the healthiest thing.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> His predecessors were the senate, consuls, and the Also Sulla and his opponents in the preceding civil war. Who paved the way for Cesar.

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