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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> wealth indescribable That’s kind of the problem.. even if we knew the amount of gold he actually had and multiplied it by its current market price the resulting figure would be entirely pointless. The question is how much stuff he coul
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Presumably his wealth would go down massively in PPP terms since if gold was so abundant in Mali back then its buying power couldn’t be that high. In a way it’s similar to the Spanish silver mines in the New World it resulted in a significa
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
That the opposite of how laws work..
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
In a way yes. Kamala lost because she was the ultimate DEI candidate (in how own words that the only reason he picked her to be VP). Regardless of her personal skills or qualities it’s very hard to move past that.. Had she had a chance to p
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
In a way yes. Kamala lost because she was the ultimate DEI candidate (in how own words that the only reason he picked her to be VP). Regardless of her personal skills or qualities it’s very hard to move past that..
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
It did help her to get on the ballot quite a bit. Of course it had the opposite effect in the general election.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> you can't bribe your way to a drivers license openly No but when it comes to local government contracts, building permits and similar stuff its quite different. Also a lot of (what sane people would consider) corruption is legal a
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
That’s all very nice but according to Trump this only suddenly became a problem only a few weeks ago due to some reason. So whatever you are saying has absolutely no relevance to this decision making. If Musk continued licking his boots he’
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Norway is not that cold, though. Temperatures in areas where most people live are rarely freezing
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
It’s not so much “subsidizing” as maximizing revenue by charging as much as each individual consumer is willing to pay instead of a flat price. Albeit the outcome is very similar.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Well sure, it comes down to price. If they continued charging $200 for 12GB of memory then I’m doubtful.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> around them with VATs That’s such an absurd and nonsensical thing to say. How did you come up with it?
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
In this specific case the congress is the one making trade policy (in non-emergency situations which obviously this is not..). The congress never gave Trump the power to do this. Of course they didn’t refuse it either..
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Yeah the much higher volume of fentanyl going FROM the US TO Canada is a huge issue. Other way around? Not so much in comparison.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Right. The average tariff on US goods applied by the EU is 4.1% IIRC Canada was significantly lower. So having “some sort of a tariff” isn’t that meaningful on its own.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Well the average tariff on US goods e.g. in the EU is 4.1%. So sure Trump could add a percentage point or two to make them equal. That wouldn’t exactly fit his goals though..
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Also the 48GB B60 for $1000. Of course it might be massively overhyped like some Intel things but if you don’t care about power usage, noise and heat a PC with 4 of those might blow the equivalent priced Mac out of the water.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> Apple is faster at single core and can match or exceed the 14900k Well yeah, if price is not a factor and you don’t care about gaming and such. That’s a perfectly reasonable use case. The original premise was that Apple’s M series chip
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
They are not a particularly good desktop chips, though. Or rather the market niche for them is rather small (low-power and relatively high performance) and generally filled by laptops anyway. For desktop use cases like gaming or performance
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
PPP on its own is a relatively poor metric and only covers a subset of the economy. Then when you have semi closed economy like Russia with unclear currency rates (due to external capital inflow/outflow barriers) and convert the figure
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> Zeiss Since when is Zeiss Swiss and not German? Also if ASML is partially US owned so are all major US tech companies partially “EU owned” in a similar way.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> GDP PPP That’s not a particularly meaningful metric.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
I meant that Apple doesn’t really design or make desktop CPUs. Only oversized laptop ones (even if they are very good). Their most performant chip, the M3 Ultra is only a bit faster than the 14900k which you can gee for $400 these days.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> where all available threads are active, the advantage in performance per watt of Apple becomes much lower Perhaps. But that’s an edge case, very few people run their laptop at 100% for any extended period of time.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
M4 still has >2x better performance per watt than either of those chips. Of course they are pretty much ignoring desktop so they can’t really compete with AMD/Intel when power is not an issue but that’s not exactly new
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Didn’t they just stop crewed space flights for (almost)decades instead?
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
It was more of a middle class thing. It kind of worked kind of relatively well for them. When the French Kingdom was reestablished after Napoleon it was run by bankers and not nobles..
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> that he believes he's doing something that's good That seems entirely irrelevant? Pretty sure Napoleon, Stalin etc. did too. > one out of many hundreds of millions That’s like saying that the president of the US is one out
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Probably not so much western parts. Also regardless of China’s national policy individual Chinese companies regularly get sanctioned and are effectively forced to chose between doing business in the West and Russia. Which obviously isn’t a
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
The perception index is flawed in many ways. It effectively entirely ignores high level corruption or institutionalized corruption. It’s a bit like using Big Mac index for estimating PPP.

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