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> At least two of these countries have territorial disputes with China. And the extent of those disputes is shooting water cannons at each other from ships. The worst thing that happens is the circus that India and China mount at the bor
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The UK has been taking the US as an example for a long time - from its Reaganite economics to its deregulation. Greenfell is one result of that.
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> Comparing Twitter back when the "Arab Spring" occurred to TikTok feels somewhat unfair, in that the former was often a pathway for journalists and human rights activists, an the latter is a CCP propaganda outlet. Yeah, when s
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Subtlety, shcmutlety, its literally French and half-french colonizers repressing indigenous islanders. What the colonists vote for does not make democracy. > It reminds me of redditors criticising France for sending their army to Mali bu
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Keeping anybody alive is worth it. The human species became a civilization only because it kept its then-unproductive weaker members alive - which allowed it to develop learning, technology, and all the things that revolve around them. Even
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> The way VCs filter out potential investments seems fairly similar to the way Ivy League schools filter out potential students. (Probably because they are comprised of the same people.) It is not really about technical brilliance, or in
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Can you expose the names and/or the company name of those s**stains?
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What part of that is 'conspiracy'. Replace the swiss banks with derivatives or whatever 'investment tool' or concocted wealth that is sucking the planet dry if that example is not to your liking. The point still stands.
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> Swiss banks hold 8.8 trillion CHF ($9.7 trillion) in deposits [1], not enough to buy everything in Africa, not to mention the world That's what they tell us. In any case, you could just take derivatives if you would like a more de
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I may not remember the exact dates now as I didn't ever expect this to be something that would come up in any discussion. However: > Vaccines in my memory only become broadly available Yes, that makes a difference - the vaccines tha
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Its hard to understand your argument: Pfizer monopolized the US vaccine market until the end of the lockdown as I said: > In the beginning of the COVID-19 US epidemic in March 2020, sweeping lockdowns and other aggressive measures were p
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> But I also think that when you hire in other industries, you can get much more milage from looking at the candidate's formal degrees and certifications. > In our industry, you kinda have to start from scratch with every person.
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Extremely logical - after a certain point, wealth is just meaningless numbers in financial computers, only expressed as the control of major organizations like corporations. Its literal unbounded power. We limited the power of kings and duk
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> Could it be something about human nature that prevents utopias and good intentions from working as planned? Its not 'human nature'. The 'human nature' is cooperative, helpful and 'good' by instinct: scient
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By all means, not treating each vaccine as a product on its own merits and instead wholesale giving them a pass because they were all vaccines was a bad idea. Some corporations used it to rush to corner the market with rushed products that
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> How did WordPress get to this state? WordPress got into 'this' state because the modern frontend is in 'this' state itself. For a decade now people kept criticizing WordPress for 'not being modern' and pus
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> Now the roles inverted somehow: Spaniards/Mexicans don't like people immigrating to THEIR country. Even if they do it legally and inject money to the local economy. Its simply because that 'injecting money to the local e
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> And by thinking within the boundaries of our paradigm, we can conclude that this particular combination of technology and culture has not spread throughout our galaxy. Yep, its basically what the relevant xkcd comic explains: https:&#
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Nah. Its probably a case of 'you get what you pay for'. They pay for cheap teams, and those teams give them what they pay for. Good talent is expensive in all countries - even if it is relatively cheaper in India compared to SF. T
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> Modest progress in engineering and cultural adaptation, would produce generation ships large enough to sustain a human colony capable of traversing the galaxy on the scale of thousands of years This is an excellent example of 'thi
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Yes: Endless amounts of investments and inflated stock prices enabled by the zero-interest economy caused the cash-awash tech organizations to become more like research institutions, churning out interesting, promising, but esoteric and com
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> his knowledge of physics... ...of our contemporary civilization. If you think objectively about it, there is no reason for the technological level of any potential alien visitor to be in a range that we can understand - solely for the
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Their leadership is literally sh*tting on anyone by shutting down service after service in the faces of whoever made the mistake of building something on those services. They already lost their credibility it goes beyond that now - at this
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> Software Supply Chain Security could be a great opportunity for open source developers to get some money out of all the big corporations that benefit from their work Nah. It would be used by politicians as a safe way to push regulation
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> 0.7% is an absurdly low profit margin. It just is. The rest of your paragraph is basically true, but doesn't change that. At the same time, the U.S. spends a much higher percentage of GDP on healthcare than most developed nations.
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> The intersection between “poor countries” and “nice place to live” is limited. I think we’ve largely forgotten organized crime still exists Nah, the income of the average golden visaer or digital nomad is already a few multiples of eve
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> Aside: the US retirees I saw in Mexico a few years ago seemed to group together in a few locales that were a bit wealthier or touristy. e.g. Puerto Vallarta and Ajijic Yep. People in Spain started to label what is happening 'colon
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Even more: Verizon et al have built the backbones on public land with public subsidies. They didn't even pay for the costs of building the backbones. They didn't pay anything back to the government in 20 years. Now they want to cl
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Are you also a fan of beer barrels from the American Revolution era?
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The best and most rational answer to the problem that is being discussed in this thread. The solution to sociopathic profiteering that destroys the society is not 'downsizing' and making peace with it or moving to poor countries a

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