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by ztrww 4y ago
Nope. after this even more people would move into SF increasing the homeless population and the demand for low income housing. Or do you actually believe that the majority of homeless people in SF grew up there?
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by ztrww 4y ago
This will cause serious problems and many developed countries and also in China, especially when combined with increasing life expectancies.
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by ztrww 4y ago
> all the remaining tickets could cost $50. What makes you think there would be any remaining tickets? I mean I don’t see how this system could increase the availability, it would only allow the event organizers to get all the surplus th
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by ztrww 4y ago
> much much more than Russians were making in 1917 Which is true almost anywhere in the world. Obviously Russia was several decades behind western Europe in 1917. But I’d be very surprised in if the gap between Western Europe and Russia
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by ztrww 4y ago
Right, slave labor can be incredibly efficient in certain circumstances. Plantation owners in the southern states and the Caribbean had already proven that a hundred or more years before Stalin. It’s not particularly surprising that if you
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by ztrww 4y ago
dot-com occurred in an environment where bond yields were considerably higher than they are now. Yet SP500 P/E wasn’t that much lower and had risen to higher levels than in 2021 despite yields being 3x higher.
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by ztrww 4y ago
There were long periods were it barely beat inflation and some were it didn’t even do that. e.g. it took 30 years to recover to 1929 levels, then also 30 years to reach the 1960’s peak, in 2010 it fell to mid 90’s levels (all inflation adju
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by ztrww 4y ago
you probably meant to link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War
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by ztrww 4y ago
The Netherlands were the richest region in Europe since the late middle ages (at least). They were also the richest province of the Spanish empire during it’s height. So yes if California or NY declared independence and left the US would be
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by ztrww 4y ago
The Great Depression and (almost every financial crisis in the 19th century) would have also ended much sooner and been much less painful if governments had full control of their monetary policies. Hard currency/gold standard is usuall
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by ztrww 4y ago
Sweden invaded Norway in 1814 defeated it and force it to accept the king of Sweden as their king. While Norway had considerable independence compared to most other occupied countries it was nevertheless a junior partner in the union (initi
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by ztrww 4y ago
Well the USSR, one of the greatest “empires” of all times, collapsed with barely any violence (in relative terms) and very unexpectedly. I’m not sure having access to drones could have helped that much when nobody in a position of power rea
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by ztrww 4y ago
> Any attempt to go their own way was immediately, violently crushed. So dissolving the Warsaw Pact when the USSR disintegrated meant nothing. that’s not completely accurate. e.g. Romania even publicly condemned the invasion of Czechoslo
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by ztrww 4y ago
Well Britain allowed Scotland to have a vote, Czechoslovakia is another example, even back in 1905 Sweden allowed Norway to declare independence without a violent response. There are many other examples. So you’re wrong...
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by ztrww 4y ago
unilateral secession was not illegal according to the constitution of the USSR. I’m sure it (the constitution) was obviously a sham but history is a bit nuanced.
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by ztrww 4y ago
I assume that the number of people willing to pay $50-100 per month there is not that high, though
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by ztrww 4y ago
I’m pretty sure it $200 for the entire 3 year period..
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by ztrww 4y ago
> this historically important place on a geopolitical It’s not really that important, though. Never was, which might be the main reason it is the “world’s oldest republic”.
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by ztrww 4y ago
Yearly salary for a skilled worker in the US was around $700/£140 in the 1860s was in England it was around £100 or even less. So in that context £225 is not that bad.
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by ztrww 4y ago
> except they chose restraint No they chose to instigate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Iraqi_uprisings and then left the rebels out to dry. Thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands) of Iraqis were killed by Sa
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by ztrww 4y ago
While I don't want to justify the invasion (or rather the motivation behind it and it’s actual execution), Sadam’s regime was OBJECTIVELY worse than the Ukrainian government. They are not even on the same level, the Ukrainian governmen
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by ztrww 4y ago
It’s hard to export electricity from Finland due to it’s geographic location and it’s main connections are with Sweden where electricity is also much cheaper than in continental Europe.
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by ztrww 4y ago
There is no LNG terminal in Latvia the closest one is in Lithuania. Also AFAIK it doesn't even have enough capacity for the three baltic states let alone Finland. So chances are you most of the gas your buying through Estonia is Russia
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by ztrww 4y ago
based on the details of their offering Unity would actually end up the dominant partner. Even if just barely
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by ztrww 4y ago
It was warmer actually if we compare e.g. 0 AD to the 19th and early 20th centuries. Climate change you’re talking about resulted in a decrease in temperatures when the “Roman warm period” ended.
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by ztrww 4y ago
Apple provides no documentation or any other resources. Nvidia at least provides their closed source drivers and has put in some effort in open sourcing some parts of them. Obviously Nvidia is not great but it is still much, much better tha
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by ztrww 4y ago
That might be arguably true to a degree nowadays. But not having well defined copyright and patent laws stifled innovation for hundreds of years.
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by ztrww 4y ago
Or alternatively there is no more incentive to put any significant effort into creating anything new since anyone can just rehash something that someone else made for much cheaper…
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by ztrww 4y ago
Most of this occurred close 100 hundreds years later after the fall of Rome when the Eastern Roman Empire tried to reconquer Italy the inhabitants of which had really noticed that the empire had fallen in 476. And anyway the population of R
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by ztrww 4y ago
Historically the middle class in the past is the modern rich of today. It consisted of the bourgeoisie and the well educated elite who still had to work for their living (i.e. business owners, lawyers etc.) it wasn’t much more than a few pe

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