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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Also because the candidate who won the first round and was almost guaranteed to win (not the nut job TikTok guy who came second) didn’t belong to any of the major parties. So the government wasn’t particularly excited about that…
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> I don’t see the big difference here Well that implies that you are more or less economically illiterate. I’m not talking about property and even renting residential/commercial property (as relatively safe as it is) does provide an
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Yes, exactly. Why do you think I meant something else?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Well yes, Switzerland is pretty much the only place in Europe where income/wages are overall on par with those in the US (of course not in all sectors). Other countries are generally very poor in comparison. > Taxes are usually high
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Who has more to lose though? I mean any government that would do something as stupid as banning Apple because Apple didn’t allow it to spy on its citizens wouldn’t be very popular or last that long.. I mean this would be even more stupid th
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
The moral thing to do would be to resist obeying such laws as much as is feasible. If that fails close all your legal entities and continue offering services to the citizens of that country to the extent that is feasible. Of course it would
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Surely if the current government were dumb enough to try and ban Apple from the UK over something like this it would it would make even Truss look competent in comparison. Not so much because British people love their iPhones to such a ex
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
So if British voters get to chose between having access to iPhones or voting for a government that wants to spy on them at whatever the cost surely the choice must be clear?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Is it? Housing in Paris, London, Munich, Toronto, Vancouver etc. is extremely expensive relative to income of course other stuff varies.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Would you rather spend 10% of 50k on healthcare or 15% of 100k? Also taxes are generally much higher in these countries as well.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> might still It might. It would be significantly less likely. Basic economics. Unless you don’t think that most people are at least marginally rational.. > In that case, shouldn’t its price be relatively stable, and might actually e
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Yes. Linux can work well for people who need nothing besides a browser and maybe minimal doc. editing. Also for people on the opposite side of the scale. There is a huge gap in the middle though. Having to solve random problems you’ll have
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> They have an abundance of doctors and engineers They are usually paid several times less than people doing the same jobs in US.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
What about people who actually run out of space? Or want to backup their phones?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> barrier to entry for Win11 is much closer to the barrier to entry for Linux now in terms of program compatibility How so? Apart from a handful of edge cases that not even remotely true to being true.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> nuclear has failed economically, is completely unacceptable to you Surely you must be trolling? Or you just can’t read? How many times did I repeat that? > It's wishful denial of reality I mean you are literally looking and wha
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
That would be terrible for the economy and everyone not sitting on piles of bitcoin. It’s hard to imagine a financial instrument that’s less suited to be used as an actual currency than bitcoin. Even going back to the gold standard would be
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> Why getting richer and richer becomes something bad when we go crypto? Is that sarcasm? It discourages any type of economic activity. Why would someone invest into or try to start a business when you can become richer by just sitting o
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Why would the people who are getting richer and richer by hoarding btc and not engaging in anything productive ever agree to that? > Countries do redenominations all the time That’s not really the same, in several fundamental ways.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Like Carter deciding to not share his private opinion on Three Mile Island because it would had been very unpopular amongst his voter base? There was a period when being a pro nuclear liberal/central-left politician was politically sui
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> may be considered weird It may. I don’t think that’s the consensus view though and again something being well-known doesn’t make it the consensus. I’m not saying that WHO’s and IAEA‘s figures are perfect and flawless but they aren’t wi
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
I’m sorry but you are the one doing the spinning. You keep putting words into my mouth and then ignoring everything else I said.. I repeated that cost (of course only if externalities, that hardly anyone was fully aware of back in the 80s,
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Obviously I implied [mainstream/non-fringe] estimate.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Well yes, I did mention cost (of course only if we exclude most externalities) which was the primary longterm factor. But the mass psychosis after Three Mile Island and then Chernobyl made nuclear expansion very expensive politically and fi
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
I didn’t mean radiation specifically. Rather overall damage due to pollution compared to the casualties in Chernobyl and Fukushima. e.g. NIH estimates 460k excess deaths (just in the US alone) between 1999 and 2020 were caused by emission f
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Because my original comment was about the 80s? Nuclear was the only viable green option back then. It failed because of mass psychosis and because it was more expensive than coal and gas. Of course it’s too late now. But had nuclear plant c
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
What’s so special about DeepSeek, though? I mean anyone else can replicate their methods and catch up. They don’t have a moat anyway.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
We’re are just late by several decades…
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
To be fair people were fine with multiple Chernobyl’s amount of damage every years from burning coal. And other disasters like Three Miles Island very insignificant.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Had that continued we’d be halfway to solving climate change by now, though. Of course “environmentalists” and most others back in those days preferred cheaper coal and gas.

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