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by wwtrv 5y ago
Is it? I’d love to believe you, but I doubt it’s the case. Almost every public company that had something to lose would act the same way under these circumstances..
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Arbitrary imprisoning or harming the employees of Google or Apple would likely result in many other western IT firms closing their offices and leaving, that would be a very stupid thing to do for the Russian government. So I don’t think su
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by wwtrv 5y ago
You do understand that icloud is a private storage platform which is fundamentally different from Facebook/Instagram which are used for publicly sharing photos?
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Simple as long as there is more than one power company for you to choose from and they are not colluding to fix their prices, the power company is free to ask for whatever they want. This is not a problem that can occur in a competitive mar
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Out of curiosity, do you think it’s fair that I have to pay a share of the the item price when selling items on Amazon? What right does Doordash have to tax my restaurant just because I want to accept order using their app? If, not at what
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by wwtrv 5y ago
No, if you add up all the people who died due to nuclear accidents it’s still insignificant compare to coal. Of course there are no hard numbers, but according to estimates over 30k people in Euorope & the US die because of coal (800k)
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by wwtrv 5y ago
‘..Baltics’ maybe in Estonia.. in Lithuania Uber (or rather companies that are competing with it) is quite popular and that prices were very low (due to competition between different apps) until quite recently (mass transit is not that grea
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Creating an autonomous car in the first place is the expensive part, the marginal cost can’t be significantly higher than the cost of a regular car.
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by wwtrv 5y ago
‘so they demand that employers provide them..’ Yes, that’s the situation in the US, yes, not sure how relevant it’s to this discussion, though. In many European countries healthcare is funded through a payroll tax and provided by the gover
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Not sure if France, whose government eradicated many local languages and dialects in geographical France throughout the 19th & 20th centuries and is not very eager to protect what survives of them now is the best example in this case, t
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by wwtrv 5y ago
They do offer 2 years in the EU (iirc 3 in the UK) and the prices for most of their products are pretty close to the ones in US (if you subtract VAT)
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by wwtrv 5y ago
> This was almost identical to what Roosevelt had done earlier Really? This is an insane claim. Sending people to be murdered in concentration camps is the same as relocating people to relatively well provisioned camps where they were tr
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Considering the islands were uninhabited when they settled, the people currently living there are the native population of the Falklands.
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by wwtrv 5y ago
It’s not 100% but not that far off https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=WV#tabs-4 and it exports enough energy to fully power Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey (just an example for scale, all of those states produce most of
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Thanks just wanted to make a rough approximation since a purely coal/petrol network is not realistic anyway. https://www.eia.gov/tools/glossary/index.php?id=Net%20genera... I believe it’s electricity generate
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by wwtrv 5y ago
It depends, if all of the energy you use to charge your car is produced in states like Wyoming or West Virginia (both of which export several times more electricity than they consume) driving a hybrid or any small/efficient IC car is d
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Internal combustion engines are actually very efficient. Burning gasoline in a power plant produces 2.13 pounds of CO2 per kWh, Model 3 LR consumes 16 kWh per 100km, so 34.08lb of CO2. A car consuming 7 liters of gas per 100km would emit 35
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Or rather economic reasons, the difference between the median income for Asian Americans is about the same as the difference between white people and African Americans.
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by wwtrv 5y ago
I’d assume that the likelihood that a passenger on a private jet would intend to hijack it or blow it up is rather low. Which is what the TSA cares about. Even if that happens it’s of lesser concern to the public than if it happened on a pa
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by wwtrv 5y ago
I don’t necessarily think there is a contradiction, “thou shall not kill” should be be translated as “thou shall not murder” in the context of the old testament. The word for “kill” used in the commandment was not used in any passages of t
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Yeah he turned out to be a fairly competent commander but it was main his diplomatic skill that allowed him to conquer Mexico. There is no way he would have won without the tens of thousands of native allies that fought alongside the Spanis
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by wwtrv 5y ago
I’m not saying that they would have defeated the Spanisn in the long-term but conquering and permanently occupying all the native states in Central America would have significantly more expensive for the Spanish. Without the diseases I thin
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Well it’s still better than it has ever been in the history of humanity: - While famines are still a thing, the number of deaths due to hunger has fallen considerably since the start of the 20th century. - The real median household income i
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by wwtrv 5y ago
While it’s true that the conquistadors had immense success in their initial encounters with the natives, the Aztecs would have adapted eventually to counter the Spanish had they not been crippled by the European diseases. This seems to have
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Cortes was an opportunistic lawyer/notary he had no military experience before the conquest of Mexico and I’m not sure there is any evidence that he had any military education.
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by wwtrv 5y ago
I think outright religious bans on murdering, raping or enslaving people outside of your community are fairly recent developments. Even the old testament is fairly ambiguous on this.
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by wwtrv 5y ago
It’s not really that simple to measure the ‘value’ extracted from a specific country. If we’re considering digital goods Amazon UK could just transfer the profits to Amazon Luxemburg by signing an IP licensing agreement etc. for the same am
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Generally it’s only illegal in countries which have unstable currencies and strict capital controls.
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by wwtrv 5y ago
I’m not sure this true in most countries which don’t have strict capital controls. In most (all?) European (and I assume other developed countries) you’re free to use any currency you want as long as both parties agree on. iirc in the UK t
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by wwtrv 5y ago
Poor people usually don’t have any wealth so if wages would be directly tied to inflation I don’t see how would this would benefit the wealthy more. Of course historically wages tend to lag behind inflation, often quite significantly.

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