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by ywvcbk 2y ago
This seems like an extremely high bar, that doesn’t seem to be practical in real world conditions (in the context of people like Meloni, not people who openly call themselves fascist/nazis and/or embrace their ideological beliefs)
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
This just seems to be tDCS stimulator with a bunch of bells and whistles and possibly better UX. Probably not technically a scam, there is plenty of research showing that it might be somewhat effective but nothing particularly innovative (y
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> Reducing tobacco usage makes more room for nicotine OTC and vaping to replace it. Among other stimulants. And? Nicotine itself is not particularly dangerous and might be even neuroprotective if consumed in moderation. Vaping as a cons
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> Our hospitals don't have shareholders that capture excess revenue as profit Aren’t most hospitals in the US technically non-profit, though?
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> But no, immigrants will not save demography I didn’t say that immigration is a longterm solution. It might delay the collapse of social security, healthcare etc. systems which is the main thing that matters to the people who hold the m
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Chinese companies can do the same thing Toyota and a bunch of other European and Japanese brands did. Open factories in NA and make their cars here. If the US companies are so incompetent they should still be able to outcompete them while p
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
To be fair you can’t really use this type of subsidy for price dumping in foreign markets like China is doing in Europe and would love to do as well in the US.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Your point being? I don’t care much for Meloni but how exactly is she fascist or anything like that, compared to most other conservative politicians (who I don’t care much for either..)? I’m not talking about parties like AfD or others fund
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
If you’re a born in a Welsh speaking household English is of course technically not your fist language. Yet by the time you’re an adult you’ll probably be indistinguishable from a native English speaker and likely use this as your primary l
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Well Americans keep voting in the successors to a a racist, segregationist openly pro KKK party (and I’m obviously not talking about the Republican party). I don’t see any fundamental problems with that, though. People and organizations cha
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> Nor do I see it as “cutting in line.” How? Them being allowed to stay will significantly reduce the chances of those who play by the rules and follow the standard process. Also you’re implicitly supporting a sort of “hunger games” and
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
The difference is that their approach might work (it most likely won’t achieve anything.. but still) just spending the same (or higher) amounts of money is less likely to achieve anything without significant policy changes (forced assimilat
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
I think you are ignoring the core issue. The problem is not so much the population decreasing but it getting older. If the average age goes up (and therefore average productivity goes down significantly) that will likely outweigh all of the
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> for ever-increasing GDP and next bonus for CEOs. Or healthcare and social systems not collapsing in a few decades? Europeans have three options: start having more children, start working well into your 70s or accept a lot of immigrants
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> Not be the lapdog of the United States. But that's unfathomable for many people Maybe. But just getting rid of “US influence” won’t achieve that. Europe will just fall under Chinese/Russian influence. Or don’t you remember Me
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
It’s very hard to deport someone legally against their will in some cases (i.e. they are refugees, don’t have any documents, are “underage” etc.) There are all sorts of technicalities and legal processes than can be appealed.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Well Indians and Chinese need all kinds of visas and permits. Probably not a thing in Sweden but in Italy there were a few scandals recently about illegal/semi legal Indian and other migrants working in sweatshops and farms. Poles on t
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Why? LLMs are generally much better at writing code than doing whatever English major are supposedly bringing to the table. > don't believe art can be taught in universities as a degree program what does that have to do with studyin
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
They did a great job, though.. From the perspective of other board members, upper management and the shareholders at the time.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Weren’t Kosygin’s reforms mostly reversed after a few years? Could consumers goods companies adapt to consumer demand by freely increasing/decreasing production? Production targets were still a thing, weren’t they? e.g. if the product
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Well, yes, they were effectively subsidiaries of that one big corporation. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if some divisions of a a company like Stellantis have significantly more autonomy than any of the car companies in the USSR.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> The smaller "Googles" would still be huge companies no ? Or they would be worthless if they are not self sufficient and are only there to funnel users to Google’s profitable products (Ads). Even something like GCP would strug
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> Safari for those on Apple devices, sure, but thats about it Webkit is open-source though. Wrapping a browser around it is not too hard (that’s how Chrome started after all). So it might not be a horrible situation. Just like Google now
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> Also we are talking about breakups not deregulation. In a way they were breakups, in the USSR at least, since all almost all sectors of the economy were fully controlled by government monopolies.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> most successful sectors of economy in ex-USSR. Banking sector in most former republics did effectively a greenfield start becoming the most technologically Wasn’t it mostly controlled by foreign banks, though?
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> Soviet Union [..] essential sectors in banking, agriculture, and energy and set society/customers back decades That was pretty much unavoidable though. The old Soviet system and institutions were unsustainable and couldn’t coexist
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
That almost everything you buy or do has a bigger impact than buying that camera would per same amount of $. btw how old is your phone? Car? MPG? Washing machine? Fridge? How many electronic devices have you bought in the last 5 years?
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
The environmental impact of a > $5000k camera is minimal compared to any type of more disposable electronic other consumer devices.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Well.. most people generally don’t like working with annoying, self-entitled know-it-alls. So I guess the question serves its purpose if it filters such people out. > effort to try and sound intelligent. Exactly who you want to steer cle
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
He’s probably a decent leader just not a very good CEO for a company that needs to develop new products and enter new markets to continue growing rather than to try and squeeze every remaining penny from their current customers.

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