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by wqaatwt 2y ago
On the other hand denying someone the right to express their opinion on your media platform etc. is also an expression of free speech.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Sure but when it comes to tech US currently (supposedly) has very high labor costs and weak labor laws. All other countries with a tiny number of exceptions have low to very low labor costs and more regulation. If US has both it might shift
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
What does VAT have to do with anything? What are you even trying to say? It applies both to domestically produced products and imports in the same way.. > Why forgive VAT what we can't stand in tariffs Now replace VAT in that senten
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
So what you are suggesting is a reverse tariff? Punish local producers for manufacturing goods that we’d rather import. Well.. that’s an idea.. I suppose..
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> We also have VAT on imports. Maybe you should not repeat these nonsensical talking points? VAT applies to everything, both imports and domestically produced goods. This reasoning makes even less sense than Trump’s ChatGPT tables… >
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Didn’t the global “reciprocal” tariffs exempt Canada and Mexico?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> And China has shown that agreement with them has no value Unfortunately they still have much more value than agreements with the US and Trump specifically. Which Canada and Mexico found out the hard way. Of course the probability that
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Like Germany? Which country do you think did better over the last 20 years and which had barely any growth?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> is still same No it’s not the same. But at this point I’m pretty sure you don’t understand the concept of nuance. Sure, 10 vs 0 years is obvious. Why even bring up such an example? What about 7 vs 10 or 3 vs 5? Maybe it’s technically l
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
The Habsburg dynasty technically became extinct in 1780. After that they were the house of Habsburg-Lorraine and they didn’t have much direct influence outside of Austria-Hungary. Dynastic politics were by and large dead in the 1800s with f
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
When the global economy was close to being a zero sum game and the concerns about too much of your silver/gold flowing to China/etc. were real (Great Bullion Famine) it wasn’t that absurd. These days.. yeah..
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> critical component of both medicine and rocket science Do you know a lot people who ended up having to write software for rockets or medical devices after applying for a generic web development job? > from someone who put in the wor
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Outright lies? Perhaps but even then it’s not clear if it meets the legal definition in all cases. Exaggerating, misinterpreting the requirements and not telling the full story with all the details? Well that’s entirely subjective. > un
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
And what happens when another candidate has the same skills and a bunch of other skills on top of those? Well maybe they don’t.. but if they manage to take your interview spot it hardly matters.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
And what happens when another candidate has the same skills and a bunch of other skills on top of those? Well maybe they don’t.. but of if they manage to take your interview spot it hardly matters.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> would flag you internally And how would they figure that out if you lie by exaggerating your experience and skills and not outright making up entirely false stuff?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Well if the idea is that the lying (to a sane degree) is only necessary to pass the “filter” and that it has limited impact on the candidate’s ability to perform the actual work its not necessarily that straightforward.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> Germany and Japan haven't focused super heavily on achieving a trade deficit They have. For Germany maximizing their trade surplus was one of their primary goals for many decades. Amongst other things that’s why they accepted the
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> We blew 3.1% of our GDP on debt service alone in 2024 As long as GDP growth outpaces (or is even) the increase in debt it’s not a big issue. Some spending cuts and mild tax increases (maybe not so mild for the higher brackets) would so
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
IMHO it’s pretty fungible at least outside the high-end stuff. Most people would hardly notice where the wine comes from (aside from specific types of grapes and such)
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> Trade deficit aside, we shouldn’t US has been very successfully exporting its debt (quite literally, almost no other country can run such high deficits for so long) and services. What do you think happens with all that money if America
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> It's no longer an all-benefit, no-risk strategy. Interesting when the US has benefited more from this system than almost anyone else. You have massive economic growth compared to almost all developed countries and (according to yo
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> and we lost Lost due to lack of redistribution not because of foreign companies outcompeting everyone. US won, its economy was basically built on exporting dollars and effectively buying “free” stuff with it. Almost any other country b
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> fact-free, ad hominem rejoinder At a certain point it becomes irrational to do anything else. When you know that the other side will entirely ignore all the facts that don’t fit their narrative and is inherently dishonest and hypocriti
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> always specifically anti-Trump A lot of newspapers in Europe are also explicitly pro-Ukraine for instance. How is that different? And politically being anti Trump is an extremely moderate position.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> extremely-polarized ragebait What’s not then? I’m genuinely curious since Guardian seems to be one of the most balanced major newspapers in their reporting that there is. Sure it’s slightly left leaning overall and there are some quit
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Aren’t there still some very significant barriers at least for food imports from the EU? They wouldn’t be possible with full membership. Of course the overwhelming majority of Norwegians might not mind lower prices that much..
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> myself don't know all the supplements I need. That certainly doesn’t mean that whoever decided to put extra iron into flour knows that you need it. IIRC iron deficiency is pretty rare in men. Also it might have made sense 100 year
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Nobody did any studies or experiments? Also you are not supposed to eat toothpaste… > don't think it's such a no brainer Well obviously only if the relationship actually exists and there is enough evidence for it. How else coul
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Russia was a centralized absolutist empire. The Tsar could more or less do whatever he wanted as long as the army and some other elements of the bureaucracy supported him. So it’s hardly applicable to the US (or Britain) > end the civil

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