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by ywvcbk 2y ago
To be fair it’s not like the Chinese were unwilling to buy western goods (not just opium) it’s just that the ultra mercantilist Qing government didn’t allow them to..
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Well… by Western standards the patent on silk (tea is probably no even applicable) would have expired a couple of thousand year prior to the 1800s. Nobody is arguing in favor of perpetual patents.. Edit: the Romans first “stole” silk in the
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> So what it sounds like is copyright stifles societal growth to ensure the originator gets his rent If you’re ignoring copyright and IP rights while catching up? That’s just freeloading, you need someone to pay for all the research&#x2F
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> average Norwegian That’s the problem. You should comparing it only with states like Massachusetts, Connecticut etc. (and even then.. Norway is inflated by oil revenue, IMHO Denmark is a lot more impressive).
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> as most high tax countries Yet you listed two relatively tiny countries. Which don’t even have (relatively) very high taxes. France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece etc. all have higher taxes on labor https://www.oecd.org&
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
It’s not even remotely close to what Alexander did, almost the complete opposite in every conceivable way.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> much later that Greek society appropriated him as one of their own His father generally put in a lot more trying to “fit in” and be accepted by other Greeks. Alexander was a bit more ruthless and the whole “divine king” didn’t really f
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
High taxes and strict regulation do have a negative impact on job and income growth in much of Europe, though.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Almost entirely because of free movement of capital/people and not because the tax had a negative impact on productivity.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Yes, I think we might be talking about slightly different things. I don’t really see OS model working for higher-end / leading-edge chips. In segments where chips are almost an interchangeable commodity and the R&D cost might be in
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Seems a bit more like price segmentation. Basically everyone is socially forced to pay as much as they can regardless of the actual price.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Do costumers in Washington, California, New York etc. tip less, the same or even more than in those other states?
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> will bring them up to $7-8/hour Maybe 20 years ago? Almost nobody in the US is making that little these days regardless of the Federal minimum wage. And in nicer states you get $15-20 + tips.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Seattle is allegedly about on par with London CoL wise. Min wage for tipped workers is $17.25 per hour. London is ~$18. So with exorbitant tipping it should be considerably higher? Also taxes might be lower.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
I guess if you are talking about the customers then you technically might have a point… tipped workers would probably be making considerably less on average than now if tipping just disappeared. Especially in states like WA, CA, NY etc. whi
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Are there technically/legally any “tipped positions” in Washington? Since tipped minimum wage is not a thing.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
A mandatory fixed/clearly defined tip is effectively a service tax. Nothing wrong about that if it’s clearly advertised (e.g. you don’t have to pay it if you take out). Quite a few countries in Europe have stuff like that. Variable, ps
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> Baristas in Norway get paid far more than here Are they? Google claims the average is about NOK 200 per hours? That’s barely above the tipped minimum wage in Washington or California. So it would be considerably less with tips?
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> Any city built and or designed before So not most European cities? Unless you only count villages and old towns of larger cities. Europeans have been building and designing towns around cars almost since after the end of WW2. They just
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Ford has gone pretty much entirely native in Europe. though. Their line up for decades has been pretty indistinguishable from German or French carmakers. Their European division was a bit similar to what GM/Opel had going.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Presumably you have to draw a line somewhere, though? There is not liking someone's political views and there is not liking someone's attempts to undermine the whole country by (possibly purposefully) selling it to Russia etc.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Hardware is not software. Almost nothing alike. Surr it might happen for low-end/old chips with low margins but nothing cutting edge or competitive on the high-end
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> they can't advertise that it's RISC-V due to the branding guidelines Unless it’s a superset of RISC-V. They can still have proprietary extensions
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> No different than ARM Everyone has more or less the same access to relatively competitive Cortex and Neoverse cores. As ARM’s finances show that’s not a very good business model so it’s unlikely anyone would do that with RISC-V. You ca
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> RISC-V We’d just get a bunch of proprietary cores which might not even be compatible with each other due to extensions. Companies like Qualcomm would have zero incentives to share their designs with anyone. ARM is not perfect but it at
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> If ARM wins Qualcomm pays them. > Qualcomm moves to RISC-V That’s like chopping your foot off to save on shoes… It would take years for Qualcomm to develop a competitive RISC-V chip. Just look at how long it took them to design a co
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> hence not shipping Exynos in the US I thought it was primarily because of some patent/royalty dispute with Qualcomm? And/or it not having support for CDMA which was not relevant outside of the US. Now that it’s not an issue I
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
You might not technically need it but some of the things offered by those services might be ‘nice to have’ for your specific use case. If they are not available with just Posgres+etc out of the box the few hundred/thousand $ additi
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
But you are thinking and talking about that specific thing? Which means that you could care less. The moment you say “couldn’t care less” you’re already technically incorrect because you obviously could..
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> just criminal liability (go to jail). That just seems like a theoretical possibility (even if that). I don’t see how any engineer or even someone in management could go to jail unless intent or gross negligence can be proven. > driv

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