Youtube comments of looseycanon (@looseycanon).

  1. First in terms of gun violence? South America: "Allow us to introduce ourselves"
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  2. Yeah, Louis, I'm with VW on this one. Anyone, and I do mean anyone, can call and claim, they are someone eligible, to get the information, while only pretending. This time, it was the police, but who's saying, some whack ass won't commit a felony and impersonate an officer, so they can get off payment?
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  3. One thing Jeremy didn't mention, is that pulling down those trees would actually increase temperatures on that street by about eleven degrees C, so that's more ambulance deployments to people with heatstroke.
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  4. Yeah, not to mention his legal and ethical trouble for dislosing sensitive information from someone else's file to someone outside of family or medical proxy...
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  5. A friend of mine was interviewing for a position of a tram driver, after his latest position proved... disappointment. He had gone through psychotests, including an IQ test. When the interviewer came with results, she told him: "It would be a waste of your intelligence for this position" and rejected him. Friend was furious.
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  6. I'm sorry, no. We're not a country yet. We're a trade block with a lot of hobbies.
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  7. Technology Connections: "Imagine a 400v turn signal bulb" Me: Grows a beard, "Ready phasers!"
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  8.  @2511jeremy  Yeah, problem is, people, who oppose gun ownership, don't make the distinction.
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  9. "Self interest of people to accumulate wealth and resources for them selves would outwiegh the motivation to go to war, because the destruction caused by this would almost inevitably be a lose-lose" Laughs in assasinations
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  10. Laffer: "I don't se a reason, for the FED not being political" Me: clear throat "Look at that dumpster fire over there!" and point at Turkey
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  11. In South Moravia county in Czechia, there are serveral hunting grounds. One of them is called "Romanian" in rememberence of visit of Romanian king long in the past. Caucescu visited these hunting grounds three times. People who worked the hunting grounds at the time remembered him as full on myslivec (professional game keeper/ranger) on his first visit. Very respectful, very ethical, hunted well. When he came a few years later for his second and third visit, he turned into a butcher, that just wanted to kill, kill, kill and kill some more trophy animals. Not even interested in either meat or trophies, RDR2 would not have enough animals for him to skin! Insane change.
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  12. Remember, people, whenever government or government body claims, that something needs to be done to ensure safety or stability, never trust. Always seek to remove those pushing for this from office. These people have your wellbeing on their minds. You must protect it from them.
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  13.  @alextan4608  Not exactly... there is an old saying, that hold's true to this day. "Speak softly, and carry a big stick"
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  14. This is precisely, why I criticize anarcho ways in economics. It's the same principle. The moment there is no government, the one with greatest market power, and that person will eventually manifest, becomes the state and begins to behave as such very much including the use of force. The moment you ban guns, the first to break the law becomes the law, because there is nothing to stop them.
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  15. Yeah, it speaks volumes, when your country's spy agency recommends to you to use burner phones in a particular nation...
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  16. Ah, yess... we finally get to watch the repeat of Rwanda... and the UN is gonna do absolutely nothing.
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  17. Oh come on... those babushkas trhowing Molotovs are clearly voting for mister Molotov... an unannounced candidate :D
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  18. Good points, that being said, passports last a decade. Let's hope, he's got a fresh one.
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  19. Oh come, on... Sixteen coups is unstable? Look at the number of Italian prime ministers! :D
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  20. Fun fact, just today, I read about Saudi Arabia opening a LIQUOR store for foreign diplomats! Even planes flying to Saudi Arabia have to off load their liquor store at departing airport, when heading for Saudi Arabia and yet... a store. Now you have to be a diplomat and there are limits, but still!
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  21. And you know, what's the worst about it? All in all, he's just another brick in the wall.
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  22. Careful there... F150 Raptor is very cool and very useful offroader, but Lada Niva is the offroader, that drives through where anything else get's stuck and you repair it with a few zip ties and well shaped stone...
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  23. Fun fact about sugar productions. As late as 2010s, there were steam trains operated on some plantations to move the product. Why? Well, because they burned waste product of sugar production, making the plantations self sustaining in terms of fuel. And because it was a byproduct of agriculture, burning it as fuelwas actually considered "green", because there were no alternative way of disposal, than burning it.
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  24. In defense of "entiteled Zoomers", who's gonna birth the next generation? To have kids, you have to have sufficient income, to feed the family and you need to be able to do it, at least for a while, on single income and save up for retirement. If 60 000 USD is poverty wages these days (just try that in NYC, SF, or literally anywhere, where there are high paying jobs), then demanding 600 000 USD might still look ludicrous, but also reasonable, given you will have expenses just holding down the job! What are the expenses associated with holding down a job, that pays 600 000 USD? What's the net total take home pay, after you deduct taxes and job related expenses like gas, tools (ranging from literal wrenches and suits to software), car/household reparis, recommended 20% of income to be put into savings for retirement, etc.? I ran the numbers back in a day for the country of Czechia, where I live in, and I came to about 60 000 CZK a month (most incomes and expenses are on a monthly basis around here), while median wage at the time was around 30 000 CZK. That was before the pandemic, when we had some 18% inflation for a while! Today, that wouldn't even cover rent and utilities in a ghetto (I know, I live in one). Knowing all this, tell me, is this really entitelment? Who in their right mind would wife up (not taking divorce laws into consideration) and have kids, which are kind of necessary for the society exist going forward? It is true, that money is not the only reason for low birth rates, but it is a contributing factor. Hell, how is a man supposed to impress a woman, when he can't even afford a coffee in a nice coffee house? How is he supposed to find a job, when he can't afford even to buy and maintain scooter? Why would a woman have a kid in her best years from fertility standpoint (18-24 years old), when that is the time, when people have no, or below minimum economic wage income?! This has to change, if we're to survive as a species, hence, why there should be not just a minimum wage strictly linked to local cost of living, but also mandate to hire young people to ensure, that we at least procreate!
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  25. Yeah, that first one hit close to home. Bachelor's degree in the field, worked about two years as accountant. First job, less than minimum hourly wage, cut hours, so he could do that legally... And took subsidy from the government, cause I've had hard time getting into the field. Thank god, I didn't have student loans.
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  26. Yeah, this will eventually come to a breaking point and China will regret all of this. They are practically making the world hate them with basically every action they take, diplomatic or otherwise... To quote Londo Mollari from Babylon 5: "Only an idiot fight's a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots fights a war on twelve fronts!". All it would take, is for nations mentioned in this video to unite, invite Japan and Australia in. "You nick our water? Alright then, it's war with all of us.". Not even China would ever try and rattle two nuclear powers.
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  27. Appearance... get this. I recommended a suit and tie to a friend of mine, who was interviewing for a manager position in a company, where I had a mole. That mole then informed me, that he was rejected, because he came in a suit... not even kidding. The same friend tried to become a tram driver a while back. He got rejected for quote: "achieving too good a result in psyche tests" Not joking.
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  28. My friend, you said it yourself. Employer loyalty is dead and it's the employers, who killed it. We have to be always on the hunt anyway, because the only way to get proper promotions, is to hop jobs. So let us hunt and let us blacklist every company that ever laid us off, particularly if without notice.
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  29. Not to mention, it distorts the information about the market itself! How are you going to push through a policy to eleviate worker shortage, when there actually is none, or where is one in a different field, that get's obscured by this nonsense?!
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  30. Fun fact, Czechoslovakia donated not just trams, that are still in use in North Korea, but also a number of class 475.1 steam locomotives known as "The Noblewoman". At the time, this was one of the most advanced steam engines in the world
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  31. Careful about that eye contact thing! As autistic person, I too struggle with keeping it. I also know, from truly impressive amount of smalltalk with HR people from my failed hiring attempts, that employers know about it being a symptom. This has two ramifications: 1) companies are showing the door to absolutely brilliant analysts, that see errors where others will overlook them 2) they invite lawsuit, should an autistic person feels, it was autism, that disqualified them.
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  32. Now to reverse that gun law and revise the constitution, so that this regulatory BS can't be introduced ever again and make political review of research backing individuals and institutions a must, before it may be cited for policy.
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  33.  @tiagodagostini  Not really, he understands quite well. Selling or buying, if you fail to disclose something important or lie about it, you intentionally make someone make a mistake. That is very definition of fraud. Here companies are either lying about their intention to hire, or fail to disclose true purpose for which they're advertising.
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  34. Employees will win this one. Demographics speak for them selves. Not to mention, that some companies have been remote first since the beginning and some have shifted that way, meaning there are more companies now, that are willing to accept remote work. It's only a matter of time and it will change with changing of generations. Millenials are used to working on computers and know, that those can work from anywhere, meaning, even as managers, they will be more accepting of remote work. As Boomers die out, office will cease to be as important.
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  35. And that ending scene, where Cuddy instructs the personell to remove those building wide posters... There's no way, that the entire hospital wasn't in on this. House is a leader :D
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  36. Yeah, I feel the guy. Earned degree in accounting from a good school. Ended up going from interview to interview for two years, all the time hearing, "You don't have enough experience" or "You wouldn't fit culturally in" (all woman office), or "Very sorry, we've found someone, who fit's in better." (posted the same position the next week on the same job board). I swear, until legislation is put in place, that concrete, exhaustive and true reasons are mandatory to give, with allegation of contrary being considered true until proven otherwise, nothing will change.
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  37. What the FTC needs to do, is to investigate politicians, who pass law brought forward by thinktanks, which they believe hurt the consumer and then file corruption charges.
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  38. Gee... what happen's, when one part of society think's the other has, what it should belong to others... Civil war.
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  39. This vote buying is universal, when it comes to retired or old folks in general. In Czechia, what comes before every election? "We have to take care of our elderly. We have to increase retirement benefits!". Completely ignoring the fact, that the number of income tax payers (and thus social insurance payers, which cover these benefits) is shrinking every year. This is unsustainable economically, but it will sustain politicians in power indefinitely and the young pay the bill. It really is sad outlook, but we will have to pay for this one day.
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  40. That would do nothing. Someone like Orban would simply increase the number of terms one can serve...
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  41. No, just outlaw the resale of any personally identifiable data all together and impose business crippling fines for breaking this ban.
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  42. I have a few problems with this video here... 1) I have Bachelor's in accounting. Companies, even accounting firms, cry and whine around where I live, how they can't find qualified workers including accountants, yet, I can't find a job in my field. Even on rare occasion get refused and then see that same ad refreshed on the same job board the next day. It is as if companies refused to hire people that they needed. Furthermore, some companies, usually the bigger ones, run ads, that are never supposed to end up hiring people right away, rather they are meant to create a database, so question is, what is the actual demand for any particular job? This has persisted for years. The "lack of skilled workers" is discussed on TV all the time, yet youth unemployment is still double that of general unemployment! If there truly were no qualified workers, you'd expect companies to hire people and grow and train them them selves irrespective of education, meaning the requirement we'd see the companies drop would not be education alone. We'd also see the working experience requirement dropped, however, what I have seen across my nation is the opposite (I'm talking thousands of sent CVs and hundreds of interviews here. At this point, I am statistically significant). I'm talking junior level jobs demanding two, three, four, I've even seen once five years of working experience in the field for a junior and the working experience requirement is not being dropped, rather it's on the rise! Given it's the employers, who supposedly dictate the job requirements (I mean, you had a video on this yourselves), if they can't hire anyone, shouldn't they raise their own workforce? 2) No, the problem of housing is not workforce shortage. Look at, where lack of housing is the most acute! You'll get California, especially San Francisco, New York and other similar places. What do these have in common? Overbearing and overblown bureaucracy, that makes construction process start in an office and the in office stage takes 60% to 70% of the time spent on the whole construction from initial planning to sale of the finished house. The problem here is, the larger the city, the more economic opportunities but also more bureaucracy, meaning fewer new homes and therefore higher prices. 3) The video appears to me to ignore the influence of technology. Sticking to the world of construction, there are already prototypes of brick laying robots and construction materials techniques, that will not need to use mortar. First houses using these technologies have already been built too! Meaning we will not need so many laborers to actually build the house. We're being told AI will replace jobs being done (most visibly drivers, but also basically any entry level job in finance, coders...). If we look back in time, we'll see, that technologies have usually displaced the more vulnerable people, who tended to be blue collar. Wouldn't it be appropriate to assume, that the same is going to happen in the future and is happening now? 4) And on the count of trade, how many of these blue collar workers have university degrees? We usually think about electricians being only a trade, however, where I live, in order to become a freelancer in the field, you either need loads of working experience, or you need a university degree in the field and a few less years of experience. Forestry also has a degree in the field. The point is, there are university degrees, that produce blue collar jobs. How are these graduates counted? 5) Sticking with the degrees, what is it, that actually gets you a job? Because I'd argue it ain't the degree. It's the skills you were learning getting that degree (hence why it's so important to evade ATS and get straight to the recruiter). Which brings to mind the quality degrees them selves. What the hell is a Woman's studies degree for? I recall having a subject called "Leadership of diverse teams" in my failed attempt at Master's. I thought, that I'd learn, how to accommodate for different employee needs based on their cultural background. Result? Seventy percent of the course was about how women are "discriminated against". Meanwhile, women are absolutely killing it in the economy. My chosen field of accountancy is outright dominated by women! And any back office team you can bet has majority of women doing the job. The session was literal propaganda. Point being, assuming I'm right (which I'd argue I am, given employers are whining, that universities don't prepare workers to do their jobs, though there is a caveat, that unis have to be a bit delayed, given they don't work with the live process), shouldn't we scrutinize university programs more? That propaganda session I had been through could have been replaced with something different, for instance how customs are done, calling it "Regulatory aspects of international commerce". Why don't we ask ourselves the question, whether the quality of degrees had not fallen because of identity politics or bloatation of unnecessary knowledge in academia?
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  43. Forget bullet trains. Get reliable Wi-Fi and power outlets and youre done. Sure, you may take longer to reach your destination, but you can do stuff on a laptop or a phone, effectively losing time only when changing connections.
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  44. Problem is, we Europeans don't have a candle compared to US gear particularly in the air...
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  45. One advantage of VAT or sales tax, you didn't mention, is it taxes all production factors (land, labour and most importantly capital) indiscriminately. Meaning you can't weazle your self out ofthem and they can be simple to collect (especially the sales tax). As a result, you have a good base line taxation and you can use other taxes to regulate, which revenue streams should regulate final prices and provide contributions to, for instance offsetting systems, such as consumption tax on tabbacco, which can be funneled into healthcare to offset increased expenses caused by ilnesses caused by smoking.
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  46. I wonder, how would a lawsuit go, if employer didn't hire the woman, instead hired equally qualified man and cited, that him hiring a woman puts him at greater risk of litigation and it is because of this risk, they refused to hire...
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  47. Job market, that is horribly broken. I myself responded to over 3000 job postings and I know, that the job board I'm using has their CV creation tool certified, so that the HR systems accept them no problem. I am thoroughly convinced, that about 90% of those CVs never made it to a human, because the system was always checking for working experience, which I had 0 at the time. And automated rejection after rejection after rejection, all worded the same from different companies, but with the same spelling mistake... Talen acquisition process is so thoroughly broken by the "need" to cut costs, it costs companie the money, because they need to train new workers anyway and to make it even worse, they waste money on the employee hunting process on repeat, because they either don't hire anyone, or hire a guner, who mastered, how to do interviews, but not fundamentals of the job they were interviewing for... Not even the stuff taught in uni!
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  48. We Czechs have a saying: "Carps won't release all the water from their pond.". C-suite has the power to make decisions. They won't make sucha decision, which would cost them money.
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  49. me in that first story: "Alright boss, here are my cancellation fees, new ticket costs for the whole family, new hotel stays and if you try and evade this in any way, I'll sue, get you to pay attorney fees too, I'll make sure, that your name and company name make national news over this and if you really piss me off, you'll be testifying in front of the congress, Colbert style!"
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  50. Yep, same here in Czechia... We took in fairly decent number of muslims from former Yugoslavia, fleeing civil war there (the irony). They integrated perfectly. No problems at all. Now? A few attacks happened elsewhere and so far we've had like five parties, actively spreading fear about Islam, pop up and general population was in state of mass hysteria over fifteen children to be accepted... Man the country of Václav Havel... I haven't felt such shame in a long long time.
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  51. I wonder... Are the criteria really necessary these days. I'm Czech. I, unlike most people around here, want Euro and see, how we're effectively becoming dual-currency economy with businesses being given under certain conditions the right to have their books in Euros as primary currency, pay their obligation to the state in Euros and there is proposal for partial salary payments in Euros on the books right now, even businesses are starting to trade with each other in Euros, primarily using Crowns for salaries and taxes... but we don't fit the criteria. So, I wonder, would it be practical to demand adherence to the criteria, if say 60% of domestic trade were to be denominated in Euro? What if an economy shifts currencies by itself?
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  52. The bond option is nonsense. We need more farmers in the EU, because, already, larger farming conglomerates have way too much power over price of their products (on top of getting subsidies). If a farmer is permitted to leave his farm, who's gonna take over? Yes, the big firms. This is nonsense, really. No, what we need, are different kinds of subsidies, that target different aspects of farming and forestry (frankly, I believe, that it is inevitable, that these two will merge, given they both deal with land and current ecological bias in politics). We need subsidies for reforestation, land adaptation, machinery purchases and development of up the value chain projects (a farm growing cows for milk to be able to make milk products, or to tan the leather they get from their cows upon slaughter and process it all the way into shoes or car seats, etc.). All else needs to go. And then, we need to change the environment, that we operate in. Louis Rossmann has beaten the horse of right to repair to the death multiple times already, but we need to make machinery self repairable and simpler to operate (I'm looking at you John Deer, I'm looking at you!). We also need to end current system of patents on crops. Because of them, if you seed crops, you can't make your own new seed out of your own harvest, because some company holds the patent to that DNA! Crazy! And finally, if somebody decides to become a farmer, he/she needs assurances, that if things go sideways, they won't end up on the streets, as well, that when they need a loan for something, they won't get refused in the beginnings, because they have nothing to show for them selves for now. And finally, animal cruelty laws need to be revisited, for they have overreached into normal practices, sometimes, even because they were not particularly cruel, but they seemed as such.
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  53. Harmonizing VAT in accordance with each region? :D Let me tell you, if they did that, we'd actually need AI to handle invoices! Speaking as an accountant
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  54. um... I think you're missing cause for effect here... Why would a young person get out of family housing, when they can't afford rent on income they have, particularly if they can't get a stable job, that would pay enough to cover that rent? I'm in that boat currently. Live with my parents, because rents have skyrocketed and, even though I have just below median salary, I can't afford rent.
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  55. Caller: "Yeah, so I want to bring back the death penalty." Me: "Excellent idea, we have to determine the method. You'll be the test subject, dear caller. Hope you won't expire after the first test."
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  56. There is a problem with VAT and other consumption taxes, when you have large population centers near a border. Take map of Czech Republic. Cities like Cheb, Ústí nad Labem, Liberec, Opava or the entire Ostrava metropolitan area sit so close to border, that a trip accross can all expenses included be less costly than buying in the city itself, especially if there were common currency in both countries, as that would remove volatility of exchange rate from the calculation. As there are no international payment fees on cards in Europe, you can imagime, just how many people make occasional trips to Poland or even Germany for durables. Then there are property taxes, which have the problem of trickling down onto the tenants, which tend to be the poorer members of society, so it hit's them disproportionately more, because the landlord can move ideally to a border town of a country with high consumption tax and low property tax. This works even domestically in case of Czech Republic, because certain cities have tax multipliers associated with them (spa cities, the capitol and based on population), meaning a man can make this multiplier differential rather big, if he choses to live in a village near a city and doesn't need to make trips to the city too often, or if he makes them for other reasons (sunk costs). And then you have the overall tax burden, which is also a problem. on cards in Europe, you can imagime, just how many people make occasional trips to Poland or even Germany for durables and why there was a train service from.
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  57. Lavrov: "Enough, or we won't talk with you anymore!" The West: "Promise?""
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  58. Man, thank god, we have our own retirement funds here in Czechia. Some companies do offer a copay into the fund, but it's yours and yours alone, meaning you only need to change, who's your employer with the bank, when you change employers. That money is actually yours, once it lands in the account. None of this 401k fraud.
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  59. I really feel, that forcing people to stay at a job, when there is a disaster warning issued should be a federal crime with penalties severe indeed for both the manager and the owner. I'm not talking just some fines. I'm talking life in prison and loss of all possessions.
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  60.  @MusikCassette  That doesn't work either... People need to commute and will never chose public transport, that doesn't from their suburb/village all the way to their place of work directly. You need to create a dense network of places, where you can legally park cars for free, then you can impose sizable fines for parking on the streets. But it won't work one without the other. If you only impose fines, people, who park there regularly will simply consider it as a cost of running their business, whatever it may be, and attempt to reflect that in their demanded wage/prices and all you'll achieve is creating inflation... Having these parking network paid for will have similar effects. Only building these parking places doesn't incentivize people to park there and move a bit on foot either... Only by creating penalty and acceptable alternative will you solve this.
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  61. To be fair, you have some really good justifications from well before division of Poland, through Communist times... But I guess only those, who had similar experiences in their past understand that. I mean, we too remember 1968, neighbour.
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  62. That would bring it's own set of trouble with it, though. Say you wanted to make a lumbering big conglomerate more efficient, breaking it down into smaller chunks based on activity done by each individual chunk can help with that, because, for instance, what were mere support processes for manufacturing before can become revenue generating processes in them selves. Objection, that owned company owes debt would then arbitrarily prevent a company to reform into a more efficient version of itself. To ilustrate, take big manufacturing company from Texas, making some kind of industrial machine and selling it both on domestic market and for export. Breaking that company down into individual chunks department by department would allow that same company to market under different names more tailored for it's own market, while at the same time handling the same agenda for the now only manufacturer. From that one inflexible conglomerate, you can have accounting company, export-import business, IT business, logistics company, real estate developer... all runing more efficiently, because they are not tied to the primary business, and if the original manufacturing business folds, the other companies to can survive and preserve more jobs, than if the company didn't break up... And that's not even starting with the international aspect of the thing, because pooling multiple manufacturing companies and then creating foreign company to represent all these would also bring advantage to the whole group, for instance, accepting local currencies and engaging in biderictional trade with said foreign market. The problem is not, companies breaking up as they see fit. The problem is, companies holding bank debt paying out dividends and sometimes even being forced to do it by the court. Famously Henry Ford lost a case about this, when, instead of paying out dividend, he decided to pay out bonuses to his employees, and shareholders sued him over that decision. So, what I'd like to see, would be about 75% tax on dividends, if company owed any debt for longer than 30 days, except of debts steming from an invoice with longer pay period, in which case such invoice going overdue would be the criteria to trigger the tax. I would also want to see that ruling overturned with language in the court opinion speaking about long term financial sustainability of the business.
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  63. Which would get them booted from the alliance... US hegemony over seas is the reason, why no country got booted from NATO so far. Create a navy, that could rivel the US Navy and you've turned from ally to threat.
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  64. Time for Europe to step up? Europe followed the US into every war, it got called into from Korea to Iraq. It responded, when the US invoked article 5 after 9/11 and the EU is on parity in spending on support for Ukraine, despite being the poorer entity... I'd say, it's Americans, who need to step up!
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  65. Yeah, brain drain is not about the EU. Sure, moving may be simpler, but if you have wage differences in area of between 200 and 300% of what you'll earn in your country, people will move even over mined borders. I live in Czechia, our median wage 39685 CZK (according to our statistical bureau), while minimum economic wage (also known as living wage) is around 47000 a month. Minimum wage is 18900 CZK. And we're still wondering why are people leaving, when in Germany is 1584€. which is approximately 40000 CZK. We already have similar prices as Germans and our companies are some of the most profitable ones in the world. Our workers provide very similar value to the German ones. Why don't we raise the minimum wage to match Germans? And I am quite certain, that you'd find similar problems all over the EU. Hell, Romania and Austria had a timber based scandal fairly recently, with Austria exporting free lumber from Romania. Also, given what's happening now in Hungary and Slovakia, I'm pretty sure, you'd find people domestic politics as reason for them to leave. As to the single market, well... it's not unified. we Czechs pay far more for mobile data than Germans or French, and cellular providers are whining over us still monkey branching between WiFis... That one is likely a problem of the EU, because it doesn't force a rule, that would make same good/service sold in all countries to actually be the same for the same price... Hopefully, we'll get there one day. As to regional inequality, that would have happened regardless. Business is better done from a hub, for which capitals are predisposed. It is true, however, that the EU (and nimbyism) is throwing some stones under the wheels. Because of nonsensical environmental policies, manufacturing (particularly heavy manufacturing) has left Europe for China and other low wage nations, and major factories is the one thing, that will never be in a country's capitol. Just look at Mladá Boleslav, how some 60% of the city is just factories belonging to a single brand! That you won't find elsewhere. And then there is the issue of employers being able to force people into offices, which also forces internal migration from countryside to the capitol. But that's two out of three reasons not being even associated with the EU! Italy is not a good example to give for Euro being a problem. Italy has Japan levels of development and wealth creation in the North and damn near Sudan levels in the South, dragging it back. Their lack of growth is not because of Euro, rather, they don't have the Rhein and Elbe, they are in a choked sea, one one end with Suez, on the other with Gibraltar, they have to cross the Alps to get to the rest of the EU for trade. Furthermore, tourism, something they banked heavily on, doesn't generate enough wealth to sustain itself. Famously, Venice is literally falling apart due to overtourism and people don't spend there enough to fix the city. As to saying, that countries prefer their own currencies... well highlighting Bulgaria for it is disingenuous the least, given they are on track to have Euro by 2026 at the latest and Croatia literally adopted the Euro two or three years ago! Let us also not forget, that Russia still has contacts in post-communist countries and has incentive not to allow their former satellites to further integrate with the EU. Public discourse should therefore be taken with a pinch of salt.
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  66. They'll have a proper hangover, when tourism based shops close down and unemployment actually hits Amsterdam.
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  67. btw, if somebody thought, that railway could supplement Moldova's access to the sea via Romania, or even use port of Constanta in Romania, think again. Moldovan railways are 1520 mm broad gauge, while Romania is 1435 mm standard gauge, meaning you either have to re-load the cargo, or break gauge. Neither of which makes much economic sense, given the short distance the trains would travel in Moldova. If there ever was a country, which would benefit from massive mixed gauge system, it's Moldova. being uniquely situated on the border of gauges, having a massive single partner to trade with one one gauge, and broader economic incentive to have the other.
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  68. OK, this is second time you connected former Czechoslovakia and the great lakes... are you sudgesting something outside of the scope of the video? :D
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  69. Yeah, I keep policy myself, when it comes to posting. That being said, if company takes an issue with what you're posting, especially if you don't mention that company by name or give sufficient detail for third party to dig into background things (say describe processes or other actually sensitive stuff), it really speaks volumes about that company. In a tragic kind of way, doxing yourself like this can help you weed out employers, who don't respect boundaries, eg. one of the types of low quality employers. It will make your professional life harder, but I believe, that those, who will hire you will be better employers.
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  70.  @tsubadaikhan6332  because copy still have them. You didnt Ban them. You created a state monopoly on guns.
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  71. Not sure about that. Remember, Ukraine now has equally big border to man and so far, they've proven inferior in defense. Ridiculously good and efficient, but still inferior. And on top of that manpower shortage, there is a river to consider, which benefits the defender. I'd say, that if Ukraine managed to capture another state or two, they could then sue for white peace, but it is not enough just yet. I just don't see this ending purely militarily at this juncture.
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  72. I have never tied my CK to the cloud. Can't overstate, how proud am I about it.
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  73. Back in 1948, when Czechoslovak ministers submitted their resignations, our people cheered too. It took them twenty years to realize their error and try to fix it... and additional twenty odd years to actually fix it. Meanwhile Czechoslovakia came from 7th most advanced economy on Earth to developing status and down the line split down the half... This is mess, the US is in right now, is nothing new.
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  74. Well, we have seen, what happens, when resources get discovered in the Nordics... You folks just vote to not exploit it. Anything Northern Europe cannot be relied upon... or in the Western Europe, for that matter. Netherlands has the Groningen gas field and it's not being mined for gas, because "global warming"
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  75. Yeah, problem is, for that, you'd need to solve the state. These limitations on new construction and red tape stem state laws, which have protection of nature, not people, in mind. Add to this the mild weather California gets all year round, and you have perfect magnet for new homeless people to come in... In short, to solve San Francisco, you'd have to solve California first
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  76. You think that's hard to hear for you? I'm Czech, last time something like this happened to Germany, we nearly got anihilated...
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  77. That wouldn't work. I visited Romania last year. There's huge delta in prices between inland and coast, to the point of even Romanians going abroad to go to the sea. Even Croatia has this year finally reached it's price ceiling, by becoming too expensive even for Germans
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  78. It could still be. While the plane did not crash per se, this repport could still attract producers attention, because this is somewhat similar to "Titanic in the Sky"... only with completly feasable runways to land on, which were "overshot", serious CRM issues and blatant arrogance on captains part.
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  79. There is one factor, which would make going space faring good idea, if we managed to build a system of space elevators (something, that's a tall order currently, even if the towers were shifting cargo between multiple lifts). Pollution. These days, everybody's super worried about industrial pollution and buildup, most of which comes not from final product production, but from material processing as well as mining. If more and more stringent regulations were put in place, eventually this sector of economy could be forced off Earth and into orbit, or even into the asteroid belt (especially the mining)
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  80. Job hunting was a nightmare. If you don't have both on the job experience and university degree, you're crewed. I feel, that we need to demand more from companies, that are making the profits in our economies. Youth unemployment is fertile grounds for general unemployment down the line, so, what I'd like to see, would be a tax on unemployment. Say 5% of company turnover per each whole percentage point of difference between general unemployment and youth unemployment... But on a grander scale, Europe needs to reevaluate its goals. Environmentalism had taken away great many jobs in material refining and product manufacturing, which were typically fields, which could take anybody and paid reasonably well, because these are uggly and dirty industries.
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  81. Same here. Until I met my university teacher of mathematics, I hated math with a passion. Without him, I would have never found a way to learn what I needed to apply in advanced classes. All thanks to a bunch of BS teachers, who didn't care for their own knowledge in the field. It doesn't matter, whether you learn from a teacher in class or at home. Hell, I've learned here on youtube more about computer networking than at school!
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  82. Man you can't shoehorn IT in to this. That is a very young field of economy and is growing at break neck pace. If IT weren't hiring people in Spain, I'd be on a lookout for the four horseman of the Apocalypse. What about other sectors of economy? Not everyone can be a programmer or network engineer! And that's where it hit's you, all the other sectors of the economy.
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  83. Visual Politik: "Surely you know some facts about Mahatma Gandhi and his commitment to non violent protests..." Me a gamer: "Nuclear Gandhi!"
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  84. Even if I took this as true, that's Nigeria, look at nations like Egypt or Sudan and other east African nations! Not to mention the fact, that Nigeria is relatively next to another agricultural powerhouse, France!
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  85. Ok, this is British levels of repressed speech. I recall, back during Brexit days, that all the news media were trying to discern, what her majesty meant to say about Brexit, when she doned a brouche, that was last seen on her, when the UK joined the EU and was suspicously kind of like the stars in the EU flag, paired with all blue dress.
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  86. Yeah, I always thought, that employers need to look in to costs of living in their area and realize, that people won't work for them, if they can't afford a small creature comfort once in a while or even worse, just living. A lot of employers like this in my country, who then cry, that people aren't loyal.
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  87. Yeah, that sucks big time. Czechia is in similar straits. Basically only way to buy yourself a house is to hope you'll inherit something or win the lottery... All in the name of maintaining house prices for those, who already own, and the environment..
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  88. OP: "You can't be a king, if you're not a man!" History: Laughs in Polish
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  89. Yeah, I can't agree with you on VLAN management in EdgeOS. From my experience, it's the most intuitive solution out there.
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  90. Stop playing HoI4.
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  91. Strictly speaking, you do exhale CO2, the best you can do for the environment is to breathe less, and therefore evade activities, which make you breathe more, like exercise... Now, the effect of something like this is minuscule, when compared other sources of CO2, but it is a contributing factor. No, the real problem is this. We only keep about 3% more energy now due to all the greenhouse gasses, than before industrial revolution. It would literally be easier and cheaper to increase cloud cover somewhere over the ocean, so that we would cover 3% more of Earth's surface and stabilize the climate. Remember, it's not the CO2, that is the problem here, the problem is, we don't know how to extract that extra energy from our atmosphere and either utilize it, store it or radiate it back in to space. And that is what's actually causing global warming.
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  92. While I would agree with you on points (1) and (2) to be a problem, point (3) is not. Just look at the Internet, which has changed to the point, it is unrecognizable. Polish Railways had problems recently with some of their DMUs, because of a software update and the ability of their supplier to change contract post sale (Louis Rossmann had a video on this) and lock their property over the Internet. You have companies these days turning everything into subscriptions instead of innovating and creating products and new uses for their existing products to sell to customers. All they are trying to innovate, is the means of monetization, which doesn't provide new value. In current climate thinking first "how will this screw me over" is the right approach. Sure you don't adopt industry breaking technologies, but you also dodge bullets like Theranos and soon to be Tesla, which is clinically dead without subsidies. As for (4), highways are good. They're in better state than most places I've been to, and I've been to a lot of places. Those are not a problem. The railway though... Railway had caught a virus of bullshit ideas such as high speed rail and now, they're paying the price. Instead of focusing on volume of cargo moved by rail, building up marshaling yards and loading yards, all of Europe has decided, that rail can compete with air, which outside of overnight trains is truly idiotic idea, and focused on high speed interconnects of large cities. Instead of laying third of fourth rail, they've decided to increase speed, which is only usable by passenger trains and therefore the increase of maintenance costs have to be born by passengers alone, because freight doesn't need that speed. Instead of making the passenger trains longer by utilizing through coaches, they focused on speed. Therefore, I'd contend, that Germany, nay all of Europe, doesn't have a problem with the volume of investment, but rather, incorrect focusing of said investment.
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  93. Maybe review the order of events. Russia invaded Ukraine and started slaughtering civilian population. Israel has been invaded, suffered a number of casualties, and then started killing fairly indiscriminantly... These two scenarios are NOT the same and at some point, people are responsible, for what happens from in/from thier nations. Stuff that happens in actual retaliation is justified, as hard it is to swallow.
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  94. Czech here, I hope you mean lack of unemployment or frictional unemployment... or maybe just lazy employers. Even through covid, we had about 3% unemployment, still, our wages are depressingly low, basic necessities like rent, food, water and utilities are going up, just like in the South and West. How come that there may be discrepency in economy, yet outcomes re the same?
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  95. Cause Romanian is basically intelligible to Italian :D
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  96. Here is an alternative. As long as work can be done from a computer, make it mandatory home office? This way, people can move into the countryside, further away from the cities and commute not for work, but for leasure. Affordable housing? Well, countryside is more affordable than the city. You need a personal car anyway, if you want to hold down a job (your boss will not care, you missed the bus, or that you'll have to wait for an hour after the shift ends for the return trip. Furthermore, bosses will never pay you for the time spent on commuting to and from work, even though that could be considered work activity, as you are moving to the place, where you do what you do) even in a city, so you'll have to have it. The difference is, by working from home, you're no longer a daily driver, you're a weekly driver. Meaning you'd also cut CO2 emmissions without pissing off half the electorate... Win for the worker, win for the family, win for the environment and the only one, who looses out on this, are micromanaging managers, who'll lose their primary justification for existing, meaning the companies will come leaner.
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  97. One, never think, that people don't get jobs. They do eventually, you just don't see it. Two, maybe do something about hiring by companies. I live in Czechia, I'm sending out resume like crazy and can't get anyone to respond to me, all the while I hear, how there is general shortage of accountants, which is my field. I am responding even to racks from Austria and Slovakia too and I'm getting same old same old, so this is at very least regional, not national problem. For years now, I have seen companies whining about not being able to hire anyone and how the talent pool is small, but yet they refuse someone, who has a degree in relevant field and actually wants to do the job. Conclusion?
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  98. Tell it to them simply, once your trial period is over. "We've talked about it, during on boarding, nine months after end of my trial period, there will be evaluation. If you attempt to move or in any way delay or cancel the meeting, or I will not receive raise I will be happy with, we'll consider it you giving me two weeks notice." and as a little extra incentive, publish your resume on job boards. Companies killed employer loyalty, treat them with outright hostility.
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  99. Fun fact, when Russia embargoed Ukraine, we Czechs had to upgrade our gas distribution network, to allow for bidirectional flow between us and Slovakia. We really need more sources... or go less green.
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  100. Student loans is a trap, even with conditions presented. The way I see it, let the uni be free, paid for with taxes. Rather, boost it a bit more. Provide additional assistance to people, who are of low disposable income (eg. income after base necessities like housing or food and medicine are met) and provide them with laptops (Yes, for first half of first semester, I did not have a PC and then I bought a computer, that was literally falling apart) and alter tax system, so that it is more progressive. You see, this could be seen as problem of taxation. What taxes are collected, which demographics pay the most? If tax system is progressive and education system, through it's characteristics is regressive, these effects can be evened out. Education has become a necessity for a lot of fields, because there are not many alternatives to university degree or there are regulations, which bar entry in to particular fields. For instance, you could be forced to pass a school leaving exam in electronics or get a bachelor's degree, just to run a wire as a network engineer. The rest, you can learn by watching channels like Crosstalk Solutions or Willie Howe. And this is telling, because, while you'll learn the meat of the field on youtube, you can't do your job, without the ability to run a wire and that needs a degree and working experience either directly in the field or as electrician (at least that is the situation in Czechia), meaning you're locked in to education. The way, how job market is developing, degrees are becoming more and more of a necessity, because simple work is being replaced by machines and more complex work requires education. The trend seems to be only heading towards more and more education intense fields, at least for human work. And now add on top of that, that attending a uni would either get more expensive, or in order to get "free" education, you'd have to jump through bureaucratic hoops, at the end of which, nothing is guaranteed. No, making education paid for, in spite of presented evidence, is not a good idea. Further research is necessary, because, while some root causes were clearly identified, I don't think it's all of them.
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  101. "Are you not capable of taking the phone and plopping it on the stand, do you need it to snap in so bad, that it is worth people risking heartattacks?" Me looking at Apple: "You know, you could put those magnets in to the stand, instead of the phone, endangering tens of thousands of our customers, right?"
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  102. Louis: "He's been fed already, it's not about the food." Me a cat owner: "It's always the food"
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  103. Here is an idea, why I'd argue, you should evade dividend yielding shares. I firmly believe, that a company in current age can find a problem to solve and sell the solution to a buyer or turn it into a franchising opportunity. We live in an era of overabundance of problems to solve, which is further bloated by perception of how pressing some of the problems are. In such a climate, I read a company paying out dividend as a sign, that the company doesn't want to grow and diversify it's revenue sources, making it less stable. As an investor, I understand the necessity of cashflow from investments, but I also believe, that if ones income is sufficient to satisfy immediate needs and there is sufficient cash in reserve, longer term things should be the focus of investing, which brings to the question, what the company you invest in does. Since dividend payouts harm company's ability to grow, I would not want that kind of money in dividend stocks.
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  104. Let me add, that some places have specialized bins for batteries and other electronics.
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  105. A few years back, I have been in a very bad place, job seeking wise. I had a bit of business in a city known well for automotive industry. I was desperate, so I called HR, told them, that I am in the city and would be willing to talk to them about some jobs. I literally stood infront of their offices and the recruiter told me, to reply to a particular position on one well known portal, that they use it for pipe-lining! Yep, directly from the recruiter I wanted a job from.
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  106. Even as anti-brexiteer and someone, who'd actually welcome UK back in the EU, I think, that the trio would not have been noticeably affected by Brexit... At least as far as the specials went. Even going back to Top Gear, the boys did their best pieces in Africa. Be it crossing the salt flats of Maghadigadi (hope I spelled that right), looking for the source of the Nile, or smuggling silver. All done in Africa, countries of which were not EU members. Sure, there were some common rules with the EU, but these things still happened outside of it.
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  107. And remember weaponizing banks against protesting truckers!
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  108.  @claudiu8426  You're already heavily tied to Germany and Austria trade wise. You have the port of Constanta, but that gives you only direct access to trading with Georgia and maybe Turkey, Russia is non tradeable currently. Meaning, if something were to happen in Turkey, Constanta and other your Black sea ports would become largely useless. Most of the world trades in either USD or Euros... the way I see it, you'd only benefit from adopting Euro... Not to mention, that temptations stemming from currency manipulations would become impossible to enact.
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  109. Oh, forget a former NATO leader... His shenanigans raised Frau Merkel from the political grave!
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  110. Well, not sure about those bankruptcies and felonies, but a couple of years back, according to John Oliver, if each lawsuit he'd been a party to were transformed into scripts for TV shows about lawyers, there would have been more lawsuits than episodes of series in the entire genre. Just a reminder, those series count such long running shows as all Law & Order series, Jag, Aly McBeal, Suits, etc... At the time of airing, we'd still be missing one episode!
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  111. Owning multiple houses actually doesn't affect housing prices. Insufficient new construction, zoning and technical requirements are to blame. Especially zoning is important. Check out the cost of a field and a slab for home construction. The spread start's at 10 to 1
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  112. Not really, Europe is already mostly services. There are holdouts like Czechia or Germany, which still have heavily industrial economy, but those are exceptions
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  113. Careful with these toxic employers, mate. You'll turn into Joshua Fluke eventually!
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  114. Dude... 1) Everywhere in Europe it's better than in the US as far as the Internet goes. And 2) Romania is basically Montana of Europe and they get that kind of connection quality even in the smallest hamlets! Source: I have family in a small hamlet in central Romania, judet Alba
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  115.  @StLouis-yu9iz  Neither of which is true. Look at the statistics, where is higher per capita birth rate. People come to cities, not because it's better for the planet, but because, we need jobs, which are concentrated in cities. And even there, we commute by car, because using public transport is significantly less efficient time wise, when you measure the whole journey, eg. from front door to door of the factory/office the person works at! And why do we not have so many children in cities? On a farm, child is comparatively free labor. In a city, it's expensive mouthpiece, hence we have fewer of them, contributing to the upcoming societal aging crisis.
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  116. Screw it, let's just ban clothes :D
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  117. Me: Train? Oh, please... I'm a TTDL veteran. I'm downloading entire railroad!
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  118. There are three key ingredients for high speed train, to be successful. 1) High wages in economy, because to get the speeds necessary, maintenance of infrastucture and trains them selves is enormous. 2) High population density. You want the train to lose as little time on accelerating and decelerating, while picking up maximum amount of people along the route. 3) Restrictive geography, denying the populace the ability to disperse them selves. Here comes, what I believe kills high speed rail anywhere outside of Japan and possibly Italy. If you look at Japan, you see islands of elongated shape. Most people live along the cost in huge cities that are not that far away from each other. Italy has similar shape but not the same density. This is why there is chance for profitability in these places, but not elsewhere, that is more "round" like, like Germany or Poland, where people have more space to disperse. Planes don't need so much infrastructure and don't need to share it with others, hence, why they are the better choice for long distance travel... unless you're traveling overnight at regular speeds that is, but let's not get ahead of ourselves... If you want to see long haul trains in general, you need to look to Russia, which is underdeveloped, needs to bring in raw resources from distant places in Siberia to their demographic center in their European part of the country, where majority of them live and passanger trains are an afterthought (as far as civilian use is concerned), or India, which has very low incomes, is somewhat underdeveloped areas interlaced with highly developed centers (for reference, watch Chirs Tarrant's Extreme railways episode about Konkan Railway, somewhat dated, but shows the concept)
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  119. Make no mistake, I have always been using Lenovo laptops (specifically ThinkPads) and the tools they provided as part of ThinkVantage tools were quite useful to me... Even managed to get a stubborn Win10 machine (an Asus to be exact) connect to our university network, because Windows just wouldn't grab the certificate for WPA-enterprise setup our school used. So there was value to at least some of that bloat. Not that it excuses the spyware.
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  120. And lose their 2nd amendment rights, cause 1) Russia has no similar guarantee and 2) a few years back, they actually created a rule, that you have to complete military service with the army to become eligible... Insane, how little research these people put into where they could move to.
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  121. While there is some truth to having children, when you're secure, it is not all of it. I for one subscribe to Peter Zeihan's ideas, that in agricultural economy, children are "free" labor, whereas in an industrialized one, they are a very expansive mouthpieces, economically speaking. In only one economy, it makes economic sense to have many children above the replacement rate.
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  122. Ah forget about side hustles. Companies demand disclosure, non-competes, which basically bar you from working in your own as well as related industries are super common and companies demand all 40 weekly hours be given to them, while not providing sufficient income. No, you need to job hop from one job to another. You only have so much time in a week to work anyway!
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  123. Fun fact, years ago, I set my dad with a bank, and I specifically explained to the bank, they need to issue him a MasterCard, because he needed to pay in Germany a lot and Visa was basically unheard off in Germany at the time. Well, a year later, the bank switched and, what followed was five years of praying, whether locals accept Visa. Things are fortunately better now. These days, if you pay by credit card, you get charged an extra fee for it... (happened to me recently)
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  124. maybe go over your compensation package. Young people have student debt, they have to repay, so if you don't factor that in in the offer, you're setting yourself for abandonment.
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  125. Oh, I think otherwise, all be it related. Jobs are moving from blue states to red ones, particularly to evade unionized labor (just look at Boeing) and people follow.
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  126. Actually, Louis, Linus over from LTT mentioned zoning as a contributing factor on WAN show a few months ago.
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  127. Europe is not going more right-wing. More like, current ruling parties and, more importantly, the European Commission have gotten disjointed from general population. They do everything for green policies, which are inherently anti-industry and anti-growth. The right wing parties oppose this among other things, and thus it's feeding them voters, who would otherwise never vote for someone like them, particularly after Brexit. People simply vote to benefit their wallets, which are getting thinner and thinner with every new green or ESG policy pushed through.
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  128. That is not the case. China is the only nation that had One child policy, yet South Korea, Japan, the US, basically all of the EU, Russia... all have lower than replacement rate, some even dramatically so! I will admit, that China is aging much faster than the pack... except for South Korea, which didn't have that policy.
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  129. Ah, yess... The New Europeans... Have been making that joke for five years now :D
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  130. That is, because these laws are not draconian enough. Make it so, that mere well pleaded accusation of anti-consumer behaviour means total stop on sale of anything bearing that particular logo, no exceptions, and there'll be brown tsunami spreading from Apple HQ, if you do this in Europe and Africa
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  131. All I can say is this. End green initiatives. Or we will pay the price. Mine like there is no tomorow.
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  132. No kidding... And think about the balls someone had, when they too left and illegally crossed a guarded border, knowing they will be shot at. I remember a story about a guy, who crossed all of Czechia using what we call "rogalo" without it's wings, only to fit it with wings and fly it from South Bohemia county to Austria... Imagine the tension, when you see Czechoslovak Migs approach to a firing position, and the relief of them turning back, because you made it to Austria... And this was technically at peace time!
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  133. Yeah, what the hell was that about? What did they build that temple into? Solid piece of coal?
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  134. Everybody going green should remember, that Hydrogen is kind of flammable... I'm talking more flammable than current jet fuel... This reminder was brought to you by the Hindenburg gang.
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  135. there is consumption tax on fuel, so use of vehicle pays for itself in this regard. Not to mention, that even this tax is again taxed for VAT. We could discuss, just how much this tax should be and whether proceeds from that tax should be strictly allocated to car infrastructure projects, but to say, that street also needs maintenance, which needs to be paid is dumb, cause it is being already paid twice, in nations, where on street parking is allowed only for those, who've paid, three times.
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  136. No, my friend, it's not because China does it... Let me remind you, that we in the West said this THRICE already! Once after WW2, once after Rwanda and once after Yugoslavia... And that's just those, which I remember! It's really, because the west doesn't care anymore. :(
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  137. Guess what made the mindset of "eco friendly bike lanes" possible... It's the fact, that those nations are rich as F and flat as justice. Netherlands is crazy, when it comes to car regulation, btw. You can only have extremely small engine, if you want to pay reasonable mandatory insurance. I'm talking less than two liters (which causes accidents, cause you don't have the power you need to safely overtake, but let's move on, nothing to see here)... unless you go full hog and buy a proper muscle car, because at that point, your consumption is so high, you're exempt from the environmental part of that insurance, because you effectively pay it in fuel taxes. Insane.
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  138. hm... I think I would have wanted a 2U NVR... It would allow for power button and a pair of extra drives. What I miss here is the ability to do raid6... Especially if I deployed these to provide surveillance of high value storage. Sure, two drives failing is not exactly common, but expensive enough stuff in storage could make such precaution a neceseary. Or better yet, can you run two of these in high avaliability setup? Basically doing raid51 artifficially?
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  139. We need to introduce legislation, that any company engaging in this behavior anywhere on Earth can't access the EU market, nor can their suppliers supply to manufacturers producing for it... If the US regulators don't act, we have to... before this trend comes here through some kind of backdoor
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  140. That won't help. Landowners have the right to set their prices and the need for housing is extremely price inflexible. The landlords would simply forward that tax increase to tenants.
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  141. Yeah, We've got the same thing to the east too. In Slovakia, mr. Kotleba was recently sentenced as fascist and in my home country of Czech Republic, our premier's party won the county elections with a healthy headstart, couldn't form any coalitions. To make things worse for Ano, every two years a third of our senate changes. that's 27 posts. If I recall correctly, they won one, because in second round, everybody ganged up against them... not to say many of their candidates made it through the first. Still, nominal winners and where are they? Even the hallmarks are the same. Our minister of health (current) proposed a measure, which would track people in bars and restaurants, within hours the premier said that it wouldn't be so and forced the minister to rescind the measure... And I'm not even starting on Tomio Okamura and SPD and his approach to covid.
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  142. Yeah, all looks sunshine and rainbows untill you begin to utter the four letters, that kind of break this. G R I D. The energy grid need's certain ammount of charge, but since we don't have controll over weather, we can't rely on renewables alone. We don't have a way of storing this ammount of energy. That is scientifically impossible with materials known to us today, not to mention, that batteries degrade and only some are recyclable. Ideally, we would need highly energy dense and highly stable power storage, however, there is inverse relationship betwene these two characteristics in all energy storage mediums we know of. The only reason, why gas is safe to use in cars, is that, while increadably energy dense, it require's a catalyst to release that energy, eg. heat. the only way to safely store energy in large quantities are pumping powerplants, however, these can't be built everywhere and, since these are sisters to hydroelectric dams, change microclimate in the area... by going green, you might actually compell a species to extinction... protector of Earht. Further more, we don't have strategy on waste disosal of old solar panels, as materials they are made from can't be recycled. At this point, we just might be changing what waste we produce. That is why I would rather bet on a different strategy and different power source. A strategy which would ban utilisation of some applications of dirty energy sources, limiting them essentially only to applications, which require mobility (eg transport, some hobby activities), or to serve as backup (gas). Ultimately, I believe in coexistence of gas, solar, wind, hydro and nuclear, with the last mentioned serving the largest share. The idea is, that nuclear provide's what the grid need's 24/7, supplemented durring the day and when it's windy by by renewables, and hydroelectric dams and pumping powerplants dealing with spikes, and when those can't keep up, gas pick's up the pieces. The problem with renewables isn't ideology, it's not apareantly the money. It's engeneering. What is the problem with renewables, is they are unreliable and you can't store energy effectively over long periods of time in large enough quantities.
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  143. Oh, come on... Don't tell me Erdogan has Turan ambition... Somebody, buy him Hoi4 with Battle for Bosphorus, so we can pacify him...
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  144. He can't get reelected, his time is running short. Things like these are not a gas stove. You set something like strategic autonomy in motion, it won't be stopped any time soon. No matter, if you yourself stand in it's way
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  145. Nice video, but I have an alternative, how to approach this: 1) This video only works so long, you are expecting to sell the car. There's a lot of buzz about energy transition these days, so this strategy might not be entirely applicable (some green nutjob outlawing sale of fuel), but driving the car into it's grave and owning it longer can change the math drastically, especially if you expect heavy use of the car, which further increases depreciation. 2) When calculating a loan, it may be more prudent to spread the loan for longer, especially if you're close to threashold for purchasing the car, because you can put that difference in repayment towards immediate cash reserve, in case something happens, while you're repaying the debt with you or with the car (say you lose your job or car requires unexpected maintenance. That money put aside is the gas, that get's you to the next job interview). Therefore, I'd recommend calculating future value of the car (eg. what you'll pay with interest) and base your decision on that "future price" and decide, whether you're willing to pay that, rather than the on spot price. 3) Consider total cost of ownership of the car. Not just how much the car it self costs and fuel to run it. Consider whatever permits you'd need to get along with the car, be it parking at your destinations, paid lanes, congestion charging, highway fees and more. 4) Calculate maintenance reserve creation. I like to use tax depreciation of a car for this. According to Czech tax code, a car is fully written off in 5 years and depreciation should reflect ware and tear of depreciated property. So inflate the amount you pay for the car on loan or leasing by 1/60 of asking price of the car, so you have a reserve for maintenance and if the car end's up as a total writeoff in an accident, after a few years of ownership, you'd have a fund to dig into for a replacement, in case insurance company refuses to pay out. 5) When buying a car, consider the total delta it does to your finance. You can end up with a higher income if you own a car! The reasons for this are numerous, from moving to cheaper part of the country while maintaining current job, leveraging reimbursements from employer by driving with lower consumption, buying cheaper fuel, than the company will reimburse with, dodging already mentioned fees or finding a better paying job beyond the reach of your current car (will become relevant with EVs) or public transportation. All in all, when you're buying a car, first, open Excel
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  146. I sooo much hope, that there will be proper oil shock. The West had ostricized oil industry to the point of banks considering them too riskey to provide services to, because of BS CSR rules implemented for political purposes (polititians trying to get environmentalists to vote for them specifically). We've lost the Russian capacity due to the war, which we could forsee since occupation of Crimea would come eventually, yet, we refused to drill at scale under the "oil=bad" mantra (inspite of oil being in one form or another in some 40 000 products). Well now, it's coming back to bite us. Saudis know, that people will vote based on their wallets. US elections are steadily approaching one day at a time and they'd much rather have Trump than Biden in the White House, inspite of the fact, that Biden is essentially second Trump term, as far as economy is concerned. It is our environmental hubris, that we are this open to blackmail by groups like OPEC (which, fun fact, is actually headquartered in Vienna, Austria. One of the most staunch ecologist nations in the EU) or Russia. We need this slap in our faces, to wake up from the green dreams of children and into the black, liquid reality of the world.
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  147. So... Erdogan has Turanist ambition... Somebody, buy him HoI4, so he leaves politics.
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  148. Exactly! I bought Trainz back in a day. Installed the game, patched the files and... The game woudn't even run properly, until I applied a CRACK to it! To a purchased game! There's a reason, why I started buying games only recently and strictly through Steam! Steam gave me a better option!
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  149. yeah... We need to change the rules for fines to major coroporations... Let's make it X*EBITDA for T-1, where X stands for the number of fines received historically, T stands for current year and make it so, that thes fines go after OWNERS if not paid by the company.
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  150. Not necessarily. Look at China. They've overbuilt their housing by the factor fo two (I know, I know, Chinese housing quality), yet, housing prices are pretty high, especially in large cities. There are two factors, that you've overlooked. One slightly changes your hypothesis, the other makes it redundant. 1) Housing and jobs need to be colocated together or telecomuting needs to be the norm, not benefit. If they're not, you can run into that Chinese problem, where they have built entire ghost cities, that will never see significant inhabitance, while at the same time, new construction didn't make a dent in local housing prices. New housing has to be built, where major employers are. 2) Housing must be built for particular purpose, otherwise, you'll just build a number of villas, that nobody will live in long term. Meaning you'll spend money on buildings, that will only be used to generate more tourism profit. You need to create incentives, to force owners, to use their properties in certain ways and only in certain ways. If someone buys a house and intends to use it for family recreation and maybe retire in it down the line, then that person should pay property tax on that house as for family recreation building, which would be higher rate than primary residence rate, but significantly lower than commercial short term rent housing rate, which should in it self be significantly lower than if the house was not used in the last year (effectively empty homes tax) and hybrid use of a property must not be permitted outside of permanent residence (landlord living in a flat in the same house, in which case that unit would be taxed separately). Takes Spain for instance, if they implemented this kind of legislation, they could ease their housing bubble, which is not gone as of now, as far as i know.
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  151. Nope, it ain't... problem is, that in US, insurance companies are for profit and don't have fiduciary duty and thus, can get away with this sh*t. Ivo Jahelka, a singing lawyer from Czech Republic, say's, "read the f***ing contract. If there are not scenarios listed or there is anything unclear or hazy, define it properly, because when you sign it, it's done!". And if even after that they don't want to pay, sue and make sure, that the proceedings are streamed, so that their business opportunities are damaged beyond repair. And finally, make your own insurance policies. I pay for two Internet connections, because I can't afford to be offline for any reason whatsoever. My network is backed with UPS devices and I run VRRP with a pair of routers with multiple APs to ensure, that I will be online no matter what. People, when dealing with these nut jobs, you have to make sure, that not everything is on them. Don't put all your eggs in to one basket!
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  152. That is actually closer to the truth, than you think. There are businesses, that can be massively profitable, but currently lack cash flow, due to their field get denied loans (because different fields have different risks, which banks must take into consideration), and thus are forced to either declare bankruptcy in the end, or seek alternative sources of money, which make's them loss generators. In my experience, the field is the key here. Try and get a loan for a couple of laptops, few chairs, desks and a server. You'll have easy time, because accounting is considered safe field. Try something like that with a cafe or some capital intense field like fuel delivery... Good luck getting a loan.
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  153. Personally, I think that Europe needs to refocus not on Asia, but rather on Africa, and produce capital goods. The idea being, it is shorter supply chain even down to Capte Town (meaning there would be fewer risks involved), not so much of it get's messed up, when something happens (parking in the Suez, Houthis, pirates, the US going isolationist...), Europe already produces these goods, there are business centers here already, that have good connection to the continent (Paris, London, Frankfurt, Istanbul...) even the flights would be shorter. Top it all off with the fact, that Africa is the last continent, that doesn't have a problem with population shrinkage and you have a lot that can be done down there.
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  154. Gamer lawyers: "It is imperative that we sue the captain for crimes against gamerkind immediately."
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  155. To be fair, most nations that are part of the EU and use Euro don't follow the Maastricht criteria either... Given the UK used to be a member of the EU and it's people voted on claims, which had been since proven to be outright lies, I think the EU could be generous for once and let them back in under the same conditions as they had left (well, appart of new EU stuff) or at very least throw the UK a bone by admitting them into some sort of tarif & check free trade agreement.
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  156. Yeah, employee monitoring would have been the thing for me, which would have me break laws, to get out of the contract... I've seen this coming for a while, being interested in IT, specifically networking and watched a lot of Joshua Fluke videos... This, along with watching unhealthy amount of networking guides about Ubiquiti gear made me build my home network up to near (with one of my employers even surpassing) corporate level. All employer issued HW is on it's own subnet and, once I'll get a place of my own, will be in a separate office, completely separated from the rest of the network. My employer will not snoop around my private network, even if it were the freaking CIA!
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  157. You can't do that. If the practicalities are to work in concert, you need the same goals and values, because those inform the rules that are in particular nations. Just recall slavery and the US. What are you gonna do, if slaves begin to flee into places, where slavery had been banned? Cause that "dispute" ended up in a civil war. Or what about abortion? It's flat out illegal in Malta (last time I checked, it was), but it's on demand in most of the rest... Now, what if Malta made it a felony to seek abortion? How do you square that conflict within one system? This won't work.
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  158. Now this is a can of worms! If direct positive incentives aren't enough, what is? Do we explore, what's causing low fertility? Do we realize, we need to bar women access to higher education, because that is the strongest corellating factor?
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  159. Same here in Czechia, only for different reasons. Tax and mandatory insurance dodging. And of course, it's much easier to get rid of contractor than an employee.
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  160. Yeah, I've been thinking, since Russians and Ukrainians are so damn close culturally, this mess is effectively a civil war. At least from psychological point of view, this will be the same.
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  161. Don't burry that monster just yet. They're still polling around three percent. Until they're bellow one, I won't feel safe.
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  162. Actually, Romania is half in half out of Schengen. They no longer have checks on intra-EU flights and in ports, but have to maintain land checks. Saying they're out is therefore not entirely correct
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  163.  @minorcadence1  Well, he did become a tram driver in a different city, so no. This was not a "him" problem.
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  164. Quickly, we must ban the state! :D
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  165. To sum up, in about a decade or so, expect a repeat of Rwanda in currently Armenian teritories and Nagorno Karabakh and a couple of years later another war with Georgia... Assuming Ukrainian war will be over by then and Georgia doesn't simply join.
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  166.  @DillionMatt  no way. That is not possible. Hell, Russia is not sufficiently assimilated within itself! Just compare caucuses regions with areas around Baikal and Russian heartland around Moscow... Even if you took rural Bulgaria and compared it literally to central Madrid, you'd find less commonalities in Russia than in the EU.
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  167. That is wishful thinking. Remember, those technologies are a part of capital and capital owners will want to capture as much of the added value as possible from these technologies... by removing the workers from the equation.
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  168. I wonder why, he had it in there... We Czechs had this minister of healthcare Rath a while back... To give someone wine became slang for bribing somebody, cause cops found crapton of money in a wine carton (the one for six bottles)... I mean, let me be naive (for once), maybe he had too much money with his bank already and depositing more would result in bynk levying a fine :D (you may laugh, but some banks actually have them)
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  169. It's simple, incumbent elders are blocking wealth generation and artificially increasing rarity of such basic things as housing, food, they shun resource extraction and processing and they bet their bank on renewables, which are not competitive. Since older generations refuse to vote in their disfavor and in favor of the youth, the young are radicalizing and looking for alternative. Given that the parties responsible are on the center and to the left, the only alternative for the youth is on the right. What would stop this? 1) end to Green deal, reestablishing of European industries. 2) increase natality (which will require severe change in divorce laws and access to abortion and the pill), restoring sustainability of European population. 3) cancel retirement benefits for current retirees 4) ban employment of people born before 1975. The elderly must be called to responsibility for the world they created
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  170.  @therealnuggetball  From my point of view, Crown is in that regard useless, as majority of trade would be in Euro...
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  171. I wouldn't be talking about de-dollarization just yet. Look at how huge the USD is some 40% of all trade? That will take a while to fall from. A really long time and with Saudis abandoning the Petrodollar, I'd say, that de-dollarization may well be in it's initial stages. Assuming that true, there are two questions, neither good for China. 1) Is this irreversible? And two, assuming a new currency will indeed overtake USD,which will it be? I don't really think, it will be Yuan, given they don't have strong enough domestic market, to attract people willing to sell enough into it, especially since the CCP can arbitrarily change quotas and tariffs, and they don't really need to look at the economic effect on their country... they can't really be voted out over it. In my opinion, given in how many countries it is used or has other currencies pegged to it, the Euro is in the best position for this. But what ever the case, it will take decades for effects to become intelligible.
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  172. yeah, it looks as if the horshoe theory were correct... extremes on both sides being closer than the moderates...
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  173.  @ZTRCTGuy  That still doesn't address the fact, that companies are leaving talent on the table and are risking a lawsuit.
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  174. Nah, you need to find something, that can sustain you even in retirement age, but not as a worker. Folks do consulting, maybe try flipping some goods or make something yourself... It will be income, but it won't be as a worker. We'll have to become entrepreneurs to survive.
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  175.  @QwertyS3  Maybe true, but there are no viable alternatives. Cause eventually, even using friends will not get you jobs, because then cliquishness will become an issue... Hell, we already have Reddit full of stories, that could give corps reason to stop hiring friends of their employees. You still have greater control as an entrepreneur over yourself than as an employee. Plus, who can guarantee, that policy changes, that would stop this toxic behavior, actually get passed and enforced? It would be great, but as things stand, I don't really see it happening.
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  176. Allow me to couple up Czech pensions to the same gravy train of unsustainibility.
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  177.  Minimmalmythicist  You might want to doublecheck your sources. Czechia literally scraped ammo around the world for Ukraine, Bulgaria has pro Russia president, but pro-western government and covertly supported Ukraine even as their rhetoric were pro Russian and Slovakia is, sadly, always had been the most enamored nation with Russia on Earth and Hungary? Hungary has major populist for premier... populist and a weakling, that backs down as soon as he sees, that other nations had enough of him.
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  178.  @ThisApp  That still doesn't justify destroying someone's business. If you want people to not work, you have to fully compensate them as to make sure, they won't have to work.
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  179.  @ThisApp  Notice that those protests, that don't cause harship, don't change anything.
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  180. That is actually simple. The problem is mutation, which will occur in a large enough sample, guaranteed. The main problem with Delta is how quickly it spreads. The mutation, that caused this, made the virus less deadly, which was fortunate as hell. Problem is, mutations can not be predicted and thus these people have to think in the blackest possible scenarios out there (basically play plague inc on the lowest of difficulties). What they fear and what they mean by "this is not the last variant we're talking about", is that sooner or later a variant will come, that will be as quick to spread as the Delta, but as deadly as the Smallpox. That is why the aim is not to allow for people to work relatively safe. We are there already... minus the anti-vaxer movement. No, the aim is to completely eradicate the virus like we did with Smallpox, because only then can things return to normal.
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  181. I would be more optimistic about Euro. It is the second currency in the running world wide and Elon is pro destroying the FED, which is a major reason, why USD is so trusted. Now, if trust into US government (because of what happens to the government) and/or the central bank of said country were to cease to exist, what does that mean for adoption of USD for international trade?
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  182. And criminalize talking against nuclear!
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  183. Not exactly, it's good for any field, because of how people "work", specifically bosses. That's why everybody's buzz word in recent years have been soft skills. Bosses expect, that highly technical person, who can come up with the invention or improvement, will be able to sell it too, even to them... which result's in people, who have to learn the technical side of things, entering technical positions and people, who can actually come up with something, ending up on benefits and later without them. The problem is not the degrees, it's the employers. Even degrees listed here are solid ones with applications outside of their specific field. Problem is, everybody want's working experience these days, eg. employers have grown lazy. I've earned degree in accounting and financial management. I can't get a job. I get praised for my skill as an accountant by the interviewing manager, but can't get hired on the count of "people skills". And where are these people skills taught? Straight up marketing and to some degree in philosophy. Doing things on the side is worthless, I've gained sufficient knowledge base in computer networking, to build a very well designed network. But I don't have a degree in IT, so I'm shit out of luck. Doesn't matter, that my home resembles a data center. Ultimately, I feel that these days, double major is the only way out regardless of a degree. Obtain one major in either of these majors (or what ever floats your boat), and have complimentary or higher demand backup major.
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  184. That's called marriage
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  185. This reminds me of a ted talk by Ernest Sirolli... About how his helping and teaching of agriculture to Zambians ended up in bellies of hippos...
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  186.  @cliffdunlop8891  Exactly, There will always be need for cotton products, why? It's very much hyppoalergenic. So sensitive people and hospitals will remain customers of this commodity
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  187.  @ALifeAfterLayoff  Allow me to share my experience, because I firmly believe, fault is on "your" HR side of things. I've been looking for a job for two years in Czechia, we had at the time around 3% unemployment rate. When I finally found a job, I had over 1600 CVs sent out. My average number of interviews over those two years was about 0,8 to 1 per week. I stopped altering my CV and... there was no change in the frequency of interviews. Then covid hit. We had the toughest lockdown in Europe and... again, no change. So, I kept going on, hoping, I would get lucky somewhere. Our government announced, that in a week the lockdown would be terminated and in the next ten days after the announcement, I averaged 1,7 interviews per day, with 3 in one day being the most (with a healthy amount of travel time to boot that day). It was only in these ten days that I scored a job. So answer me this. How did I have so few interviews in two years of unprecedented economic growth, hunger for labor and literal employer whining, that they can't fill the positions throughout the economy, and then scored nearly twenty in span of ten days (including the one that earned me a job) in the middle of a freaking (and still ongoing) pandemic, which we'd expect to be the firing season, all the while making 0 changes to my CV? The way I see it, HR either doesn't understand basic principles of the market, eg. you can only buy, what is in there, or is failing to explain this to management. I say this, because throughout those two years, I didn't see any changes in employer's demands. I didn't see any change then and I don't see it now. All the time, entry positions, requiring two or more years of relevant working experience on top of at least a bachelor's degree and at least two (sometimes more) languages throughout the economy.
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  188. How do you not think of Alaska? It's got the space, eg, even if hit, the damage to the state will be minimal. It is in the US, meaning majority of people wealthy enough to prepare for something like this already live in nations, that have visa free access, be it through citizenship or friendly country. Alaska has vibrant wildlife and friendly gun culture, meaning you will learn and obtain resources needed for hunting fairly easily, so food is not an issue and Alaska has plenty of water as well in lakes and rivers!
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  189. Finnaly a sensible approach to climate change. A way, that doesn't cripple production chains!
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  190. This is cool. Forget just few long haul runs. This will be great for backbone connections accross long shots, saving us a signal repeater or extra distribution spot.
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  191.  @RōraKereopa  Gun laws protect no lives. Criminal will get a gun, law or no law. Guns protect lives... of their holders
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  192. Renewables don't work. They just can't produce as much power, when considered over their life-span. What should Germany do? Well, restart your nuclear program, rebuild your coal power plants to waste-to-power power plants and add solar and wind, to cover for specific needs (for instance, deploying solar on roof of an office building to offset air conditioning is a good idea, not so much on residence, unless you work from home)... oh and support Dukovany and Temelín. We Czechs will gladly sell you some of our nuclear power :D
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  193. Get this, at one of my former employers, the company came up with offer to pay salary in Euros aside of our local currency... At the time, no bank offered multicurrency accounts...
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  194. Man, I don't care much about the length. It's good, but if I were to bury, I'd bury fiber. I'm simply way too scared of lightning strikes... Copper unfortunately carries.
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  195. But why not? Loneliness is at epidemic levels and governments all over the world are doing nothing to address it, sometimes even push forward policies to make it worse. Now just add some hyperrealistic bodies to allow for physical activities and you could solve at least part of it.
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  196. damn, this is on the level of "lootboxes aren't gambling" BS... God damn it
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  197. Man, if you're in Novi Sad, you absolutely have to get a fan to take you on the ride on local combined rail-road bridge... Where you can end up in a head on collision with a train, if you don't obey the traffic lights.
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  198.  @darter9000  Rule one of marketing. There is no good or bad publicity.
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  199. Can't aggree with you there a bit. The way I see it... Are you a big corp? Yes. Then, is this for a branch office? Yes. Then, do you have IT guy on site? Yes, then Edge series and UniFi APs, if not UniFi gateway and mash your teeth. If not branch office, then PFSense Do you understand Mikrotik? Yes, then UniFi APs and Mikrotik gateway. Anything else, EdgeRouter and UniFi APs
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  200.  @innosam123  Most of us IT people think in these terms in peacetime. I live in Brno, Czech Republic. I don't experience power outages, yet I have core of my home network on battery backups. At home IT services can be done fairly easily even in uncertain conditions. Bigger problem are attacks against data infrastructure. I'm talking WISP and cellphone towers and targeting major network nodes.
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  201. No purring in the office? :D I'd so demand a contract for my cat!
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  202. I actually think, it's only the first reason. My opinion is, because green is showing itself as uncompetitive, and as result is failing to produce sufficient GDP. Some of the more visible policies of environmentalism and merkelism are shared, which causes merkelism to go down. Therefore, I'd say fall of merkelism is colinear to Germany's economic troubles.
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  203. "NVIDIA doesn't hate gamers and doesn't love miners." Me: "So, that's why they created cards made for mining and nothing else?"
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  204. So... we're going full China Uncensored territory... Folks, do advise us, when this video get's demonetized due to it's subject matter
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  205. This is nonsense. Outsourcing is only another way of paying more for less. As long as a company is for profit, you can't expect them to provide maximum service for minimum pay, which is the model you need here. How can this be achieved? Well, the answer is simple, through subsidies. Although not those, you might think of. So, what should actually be done? 1) Massive debts to fuel development of whole new construction at northern outskirts of the city. Subway system need's to be expanded there and, most importantly, this new area should be developed as a mixed area. No, sir, not just residences, but commercial buildings, offices, amenities and most importantly at outskirts of this new area, industrial buildings. The idea is, that industrial buildings and offices would be rent out and all surplus from renting them out, would be applied to lower residential rents. 2) Standing buildings need to be rebuilt and repaired in to top shape, but this time with less emphasis on housing. These buildings should be re made as mini version of step one, minus industry. 3) Actually abandoned buildings in the city owned by private persons or companies are one of major contributing factors to this whole mess. So any and all positive change in evaluation of a building need's to be taxed as income at 100% or higher rate, for as long as the building is unoccupied. The idea is, to force companies and individuals, who have unoccupied property in the city to occupy them with tenants, or their own operation. And finally, if they try to mislead or lie to the city, that building is then seized with no compensation to the owner.
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  206. I don't think so. Everything has it's financial aspect. If you'll chose to start a business of your own or chose to go freelance, you'll save money on extra guy or external company.
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  207. Ah, good old typing. True story. I attended school, where we had all ten fingers typing as a subject. I hated the teacher, because I was slow and prone to errors. Well, I fell for a girl and summer holiday came. We would chat all the time over Skype throughout that holiday. Come next year, and I still make the most errors typing... but am also the fastest typer in the school... That was a fun first class with the teach, who, ofcourse, wanted to claim responsebility for my typing speed, but nope, that was the girl I wanted to marry.
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  208. I do spot some problems. 1) Thinking, that housing can be fixed by high density is simply nonsense. We're dealing with population aging and that we can only solve it by having children (at least in the long term), which however needs housing to be of particular type, eg. single family homes with a large enough back yard, at least according to Peter Zeihan. I can say, that people around me indeed didn't start having kids until they've managed to live with their spouses in houses of their own. High density housing would not solve the island's issue, as it discourages childbearing rather, it would transform one problem inter intensity of another and that is no solution. You don't solve an issue by creating another one. The approach needs to be holistic 2) I recall Neil Degrase Tyson being interviewed (I believe by Joe Rogan) on desalinization deployment and according to him, prices of water and shipping are too low to make desalinization viable. It also explains, where we find the most of these plants. In petro-monarchies of the Gulf, which have both the need for water and income from natural resources to justify the investment. To them is desalinization question of water autonomy then. It's different, when you can't afford something and when you can, but don't need to. Also, desalinated water cannot be used for some applications without further treatment, such as in agriculture, which would either require this extra treatment or parallel infrastructure for this lower quality water, both of which ramp the costs up. 3) changing the islands into industrial economies wouldn't be easy, even if the nimby problem wasn't present here. Canarys are off the coast of Africa fair bit of distance from the Spanish mainland and more importantly, the rest of the EU. Shipping is very cheap these days, but that is thanks to scale of shipping done. Would each island be able to produce enough of industrial output and consume enough goods to justify at least a weekly visit by a Panamax to take advantage of the low shipping prices and thus be competitive on the market with the least barriers of entry? You could argue, that the islands could produce strictly for exports to African nations, but that has it's disadvantages too, not to mention that the goods in the other direction would also not be supplied that easily, hence lower incentive for shipping to the islands, hence higher prices, hence lower competitiveness... I am not convinced of viability of such measure. Taking everything into consideration, making the area into IT hub is likely the only sustainable way to go, because it doesn't need that much more inputs, but there we have that Nimby problem again...
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  209. Not really. We made a massive error during first immigration wave from Syria. We should have given them language training and started to force employers to increase output with the incoming workforce. But people voted and screamed otherwise. If you checked annual statistics and compared crime and GDP growth, you'd find that GDP growth is diminishing crime. It's as if not being able to feed yourself legally drives people to crime...
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  210. That won't happen. Most of these houses were never finished and actually can't be lived in. Meaning they are technically not supply and could be removed from the market entirely without changing property prices. The people who invested in them though... those, who actually invested in these house, will be sh*t out of luck, though.
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  211. I will admit, that it would be interesting, if the system were each 0,5% equals one seat in parliment, with non-allocated seats going to weaker parties... But then again... How would you create a coalition in that mess? I do fear, that this is hitting limits of practicality.
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  212. Sorry, that can't be done. I'm not even talking about the US Mexican border. I'm talking about LA, specifically about it's port. The volume of trade that goes through there alone is so damn big, it's impossible to inspect at sufficient rates.
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  213.  @abedmarachli7345  Not necessarily, we Czechs have pubs because of beer and thanks to pubs, we are, as Tomáš Sedláček put it a well pierced through society thanks to that. In that same pub, at that same table, I an executive (well former) sit with local mayor, a doctor from a nearby hospital, a garbage man, an entrepreneur, a prostitute (not currently with a client), a priest from a nearby church. We sit at one table and discuss stuff drinking half liters of beer. Thanks to this, we, even though we're from different socioeconomic layers of society, have understanding for one another, because that beer makes us come to the pub, meet and talk. Can it get sometimes heated sure. Can you drink too much and end up in a hospital? Oh absolutely, but in moderation... I like the name alcohol got in Westerns in Czech dub, the "Fire water". Because it's very much like fire. A good servant, when drunk responsibly, but a very bad master, if you lose control.
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  214. Frankly this is partially on the employers. I had been going from one closed doors to slammed ones left and right for two years twice... Always listening to the same lame excuses about working experience and/or not speaking language X. After hundreds of CVs ending up ghosted and dozens of interviews, where interviewer complimented me for how realistic I was, getting rejected... I would have blown up on someone too. At the time, I was beyond frustrated. I was turning communist for a while... Really, employers need to start looking ahead. Hire more people, if not for that one position, but for another, for which they'll train the new hiree. Stop looking at the next quarter, start looking at the next year. Babyboomers are leaving the labour market and those, who come to replace them are Millenials. the largest generation replaced by the smallest. I don't care, what AI get's invented. There won't be enough bodies to get stuff done and that's just the mass of people. There will be even fewer trained people on top of that!
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  215. Could have mentioned bombing of Vrbětice ammo dump in regard to Russian sabotage. From what I've seen, it was the largest attack, barring the attacks on those pipelines and cut undersea cables.
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  216. I literally made a comment like this on another video about the issue, fearing repeat of split of India in the case of a Palestinian state
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  217. Just a matter of time, my friend. A matter of time.
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  218.  @gooddogtrainingservices5351  Not exactly. The government, that would turn off the Internet, would cease to be government in days, at least in the West. Solar flares are ridiculously rare to hit Earth. There was like one in recorded history. Pandemics are more common these days, so insurance is to be considered, but that doesn't mean you should not make preparations for such event! Everyone need's to create their own plan for emergencies, even such as these and work on them, based on probability of them hitting. In terms of businesses, that means they need to have at least a part of company, that would be essential service and have flexible staff, so that they can reorient them selves to that production/service. I work part time in such place currently. When covid hit first, car manufacturing made a dead stop. Entire factory for cable production reoriented itself and started to sew cotton face masks. In terms of other stuff, one need's to be able to function even through such problems as covid, eg. have a job, that actually allows for savings to be made and to have some stored, have a job, that will power through no matter what, such as medical field, and if this is not available, at very least earn prerequisites for such jobs, such as learning to code, learn tax code or maybe getting a commercial driving license. And finally, where necessary, deploy technical insurance devices. I myself have to make arrangements for shifts at this factory very flexibly. That means, being without the Internet is completely unacceptable for me, as such, I have my network backed up on power and have secondary Internet connection. Paying money to insurance company is not the only way to be insured.
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  219. Not Libya, that was largely French mess, but yeah... Afghanistan alone is enough to call Vance & co on BS grounds
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  220. And for that second... human... would hear this "alright then, first class from Dubai with Emirates (year worth of salary where I live), otherwise, forget this and consider this my notice."
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  221. Nah, just make the employers pay wage to applicant for every day the selection process is going on... eg. if they don't send you email, you weren't hired, they'd be paying applicants indefinitely. There's ghosting solved. Also, this shortens the selection process, because employers suddenly have to bear very high hiring costs. That's end of pipeline racks too.
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  222. Lazy? No way. I worked in a company, where I had to come into the office THROUGH COVID! Imagine how motivated had I been to work for that company. But I was a trooper, I clenched my teeth and worked as hard as I could, but ended up delivering job I consider poor. Bonus? I had three metal breakdowns over there. Then I worked for another company. Bosses wanted us back in the office, but my team lead said "screw it, if you deliver, work from home. We're working for folks three countries away anyway". Result? I didn't have a breakdown, until I was put off that project and under a new team lead. I got into the zone so well and so quickly, I was done with most of my job in three hours and actually requested more work be handed to me multiple times. I delivered such a banger of a job, that I got recommended for employee of the month just before my tenure with the project ended. But guess what, according to the CEO, I was lazy Millenial, that didn't do anything... I just needed to not waste time on commuting and my cats by my side, to handle even the worst of clients, yet, because I don't want to come into the office, I am lazy... We need to change the labor laws to state, that work covers all activities in relation with a contract, whether these were requested by employer or not. Eg, make commuting on the clock activity! You'll see a drop in whining immediately.
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  223.  @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122  Let me explain. They have it on their minds. They want to take it away from you...
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  224.  @karl6458  Oh, there you are actually wrong. Construction lumber is still sought and there are other things, we use lumber for, other than heat and that's furnishings. But the reason, why these should merge is different. Different plants need different soils and can tolerate different plants and animals in their vicinity. Meaning a farm needs to be in forestry if for no other reasons, than to maintain control over how is their land affected by it's surroundings, affecting harvest. I'm talking game and pest control, soil nutrients, shade for livestock, that costs nothing...
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  225.  @wowJhil  nah dad is and at the time was a truck driver. This was nation wide at the time
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  226. Yeah, I've been told, that priests in Romania can get political in their sermons... My grandpa was Romanian and once told me, that dad had problem in school, because he told the teacher, that in 1968 Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Warsaw pact (which in itself was huuuuge nono at the time) and that he had learned it from a priest's sermon... that took place in Cugir. Another tradition I've been told about, was gift giving. One person is selected and begins to gather wedding gifts for the happy couple and he goes in order of value of the gift. Which can get awkward at times. For instance, at one wedding my dad decided to add to his initial gift 50 West German Marks and he was like tenth in the line. Worst of all, he didn't know about the exchange rate and so, some fifty people after him had to go home for a moment to bring extra gifts valued about two monthly salaries at the time. Yeah... dad was not welcome in Romania for over a year afterwards... where he'd repeat the stunt with a TV, though this time, everyone was expecting it. Edit: The two weddings my dad attended took three days of this each
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  227. Really this is problem of overspecialization. Just look at the list of papers in this video. Only one scientific something and the rest? Of the more well known ones, all CEO centric papers, that don't need to take care of what they publish from a scientific point of view, because the CEOs don't care, that they are being sold complete impossibility. They only care about the financial math, which is, sadly devoid of actual effects, because of how things like ESG is set up. Really, we need the media to stop pondering to sensationalism, particularly in science and give ideas time to mature... oh and proper safety nets, so that when a scientist makes this big of a mistake, they don't have to double down on it and effectively commit fraud, to keep their lights on.
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  228. BS. Just look at US, how diverse in terms of economic development their states are. You have Texas and Cali, both of which would be single digit rankings in international GDP comparisons, if they were to become independent nations, and then you have places like Alabama, Mississippi...
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  229.  @tirsden  Not sure if I would go as far, as saying he knew ahead of time, like Trump told him. More like, he expected sh*t to hit the fan, given how Trump behaved in the past. I mean, how poor loser Trump was was general knowlege, as well as his enfatuation with crowds and rallys. This wasn't outside of realm of possibility to predict.
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  230. It's not wealth. The best predictor of low fertility is access to higher education or education at all for women. Why? Because access to education increases one's earning potential, which it self is a contributing factor towards GDP. therefore, GDP is collinear with lower fertility rate, not cause and effect. The calculated GDP value is actually simply read wrong. It's the point, where women get enough education to not needing men to take care of them selves, because they become qualified to do specialized jobs. In a society, where women are not allowed access to education, women have fewer choices and the only way for them to be financially secure, is to find and tie to them selves a good man. And what does a woman do to tie a man to her? She gives birth to at least one kid and points to a man claiming fatherhood.
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  231. Advantages of cities are nice, but not infinite. Covid taught us, that we can, even with modest internet speed, learn equally well in the sticks as in cities. Same can be the case for work, if legislation get's put in place, that would empower the employee to chose, where he'll be working from, as long as it doesn't change his/her tax residency. The problem here is, that employers want employees back in the office, because employee with autonomy is dangerous one to them. With more and more digitalization coming, fewer and fewer jobs will need be done in person on site, which could erode this advantage of the city, which is even further compounded by increasing city hostility to cars, which are the bridges between relatively cheaper housing of the countryside and better wages of cities for in person jobs. I call into question two things. Willingness of employers to pay and actually compeet for employees and housing wage to cost of living ratio. I live in Czech Republic and here is something, that I have observed. Companies have been crying crocodile tears for years now, how low unemployment we have and that we need more immigration. While we certainly do need more incoming people given our birth rate, even before the pandemic, we've had prices for a lot of goods and services comparable with Germany and Austria, yet our minimal wage is among the lowest in the EU and very few companies offer actually livable wages (I have two cats, don't own a car, game on rather old PC and can't pay rent alone. Have to live with my parents, while earning nearly median salary and having close to no expenses) and I haven't seen much in terms of wage growth even before covid, when economists were warning of overheated markets (both labor and real estate). however, if that were the case, I'd expect double digit growths in salaries year on year without corresponding rise in consumer prices and more importantly, fewer and fewer jobs starting at minimum wage. That has failed to materialize. There is an interview (sadly only in Czech) here on youtube on Český Rozhlas plus youtube channel, which points to a fact, that even through five years of sustained meteoric growth of our GDP, emplooyers remained complaicant with wages and benefits (Analytik: Firmy nabízejí minimální mzdu a diví se nezájmu), particularly pointing out, how many companies offered minimum wage as starting jobs even for qualified positions like accountants. Really the only outliers there were IT jobs and those, professions, which were both in short supply and can be spun up into a business of their own relatively easily (especially electricians). Meanwhile, property and housing prices have been soaring, out growing wages in significatn measure. Really, the video has wibes of looking only at nominal data. I'd want to see comparison, where measurement unit wouldn't be a Dollar value, but rather number of time unites spent to secure equivalent goods and services in the city and in the countryside. I think, that assumption, that city is better, would get overturned.
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  232.  @magdak8513  Simple, back in a day, when women couldn't work, it was the job of the man to earn the money to sustain the family and then, when the man died, there was widow's benefits from the state. Meanwhile, the woman was home, runing the house and taking care of the kids. There was this division of labor, where the man provided for the woman's needs. Woman's wage was just in the man's provision for her needs, not money.
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  233. This has been explored in Japan. Surprise, people want to be taken care off by other people. there is something that robotics will never be able to provide and the big problem is, that the things genuine human provides, that robot can't, don't scale well. Robots will be valued helpers in the care industry, but they'll be doing the stuff, that is hard for particularly women to do. I'm talking lifting people up, helping to push beds, this kind of stuff. But stuff that particularly women can do and that carry responsibility will remain human work. I'm talking inserting a needle to draw blood or innoculate someone, talking to people being cared for, etc. That will still be done by humans.
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  234. But what about a lawyer specializing in consumer protection law, specifically going after hammer producers? Whats gonna be him? An axe?
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  235.  @msimon6808  gee, It is as if People used drugs, to get away from pain
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  236.  @evilds3261  It is literally the strongest correlating factor. That does imply causation. No, you can't have stance, that says, not having children cost's less money. Reason is economical. Children are those, who make money and provide care, when current generation becomes too elderly to work. Irrespective of gender, there should be at least two children per couple, better yet, three. Elderly care, which you don't need to pay for, when, when you're elderly! That is, how it work's in the third world! Elderly remain with their kids, provide childcare when able to and receive care from their kids, when necessary. The fact, that we don't have children, because women go into education and then persue career, is indisputable and must be resolved, or we're facing massive problems down some thirty years. If you have such a stance, correct it.
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  237.  @Listen2Concentr8  which are a pittance in the overall spending of people. It's not these luxury items that are expected to become major part of expenses of the elderly. Meaning we have a different problem (eg. greed in the care business) and your approach is not helpful.
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  238.  @markomak1  Yeah, prices are downward inflexible, so... question is not, whether the prices are rising. Question is, how high?
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  239. That's not a problem. If they could come up with gas capture and storage technology and unload the NOx and N2O mixture at port, the ships them selves could become generators. N2O has uses for it in medicine (that's laughing gas) and in let's say less legal motorsports (N2O is NOS). Meanwhile, NOx can be used to produce Nitric acid, which is precurser for production of nitrate based synthetic fertilizers, which we need for agriculture (can't feed the world without fertilizers anymore). Really, with right infrastructure put in place, this might not be a "problem", rather, it could become an opportunity.
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  240. The stock market is disjointed from real economy, in my opinion, because company value has disjointed completely from fundamentals and some indicators got flipped by business logic from assets to liabilities, even though not having them completely cripples the business. Even necessary equipment can be seen in the market as liabilities, even though they are by conventional knowledge assets. Really, what we need are more stringent reporting standards, so that nonsense like this doesn't happen.
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  241.  @QwoaX  You're wrong. Farmers don't profit from the first, they are only producers. The ones profitting from high food prices are distributors, particularly supermarkets, who keep purchase price low because of their market power and sale price high because of market concentration.
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  242.  @jenniferj6580  And can be ignored like there is no tomorrow. There is a reason, why in Czech Republic, elections are always Friday and Saturday, back to back. It is precisely for allowing participation of those, who had to work the first day of the election, and meetings like these, where polices are discussed, need to be made more accessible to general public, not just to "industry" professionals.
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  243. Yeah, same here. Give me those crimpers and I run you Ethernet to the moon... and file your taxes from there!"
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  244. Hey, Tfoot, why is this not an episode of "Why do people laugh at creatonists"? :D This fit's sooo well in line.
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  245. Get this, in banking, if you want to establish a bank account as an arms manufacturer or reseller, you're considered a high risk client and are likely to deny any service. And the banks go way beyond regulation here. Another problem is, how and who the banks are willing to lend money. I have a friend, who had a cat café a while back. She applied for a business loan. Sixty papers in and eight visits to the bank later, she was refused, citing her business was too risky... so, she asked for a consumer loan and she was approved in thirty minutes. We need regulation, that would force onto the banks structure of loans given, to steer money into business venture. Not personal consumption! That should be covered by wages, not debt.
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  246. I remember. I was going from one of the main squares to train station and, suddenly, this older man made a bow out of himself and fell on his back, hitting rear of his head upon fall. Immediately, crowd got to the guy, they put him in stable position, while I dialed up 155 to get ambulance, and stayed with the operator, until relieved by police. I found it astonishing, that, without talking to one another, in a crowd of complete strangers, twelve people including me managed to coordinate our actions without a word. Guy, who presumably knew CPR and was trained in handling these kinds of situations (you can take a course around here), started ordering people holding the man stable. Stronger men held on to the guy, and when ordered to, changed positions, and I was the only one on the phone with emergency dispatch, informing them about state of the man, address of the nearest building and relaying any instructions from dispatch to the crowd of helpers. At the time, I was thirteen. I have to say, I find it inconceivable, to let a person die on the ground.
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  247. Don't think like this, it's a trap. Housing these days is massively overpriced and a correction will come. Maybe a little bit later and a little bit less to in demand places, particularly like Texas, which is also going on the boom of US reindustrialization, but it will come. An argument can be made, to buy a house off the beaten path and try to come up with a career, that would accommodate for that lodging. As long as you can get somewhat decent Internet there, you're golden, because most of the stuff that's done these days is done on a computer (we'll see, what AI will do with this, though), if push comes to shove, you can provide some services as entrepreneur from your home. Ultimately, the only thing, which will completely solve this, will be global return to consumption and leaving environmentalism behind, because that will drive demand for capital goods meant for manufacturing of consumption goods and thus move money from non-productive part of economy back into the productive one. But that won't come back for at least fifty years, I'd reckon
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  248. This should be made mandatory. So simple, so cheap and so easy!
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  249. That's actually not true. You can also add consequence in terms of fines or add policies, which would motivate other producers in to the market. Now you may be thinking, that noone would enter, because price cap doesn't allow them to make profit, but you would be wrong. Nonfinancial hurdles to enter and operate in the market also exist, which you can remove. Things like environmental protections or patents can be rolled back to allow for more productive use of assets and thus for other players to make profit even under conditions of price caps, because you've just lowered entry and operating expenses of that particular market. Another case, where price caps would actually help, is field, where demand is highly inflexible. Take housing, for instance. You might think, that nobody would build new housing, if price caps were introduced, however, thanks to that same price cap, families now have more disposable income. Some of this translates into inflation in other fields (energy, foodstuff, construction materials), but the effect is net positive, allowing the families to finally put aside for down payment on mortgage and actually build new houses them selves. Meaning the caused effect is the kind of housing, that is built.
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  250. Then why is he in the government and not a very expensive, sought after consultant fine tuning inner workings of a couple of factories? :D
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  251. Yeah UniFi routers are a bit difficult to understand. They aren't useful that much for either homes or businesses. If I were to recommend a Ubiquiti router to someone who ran UniFi for his WiFi at home, I would recommend ER-X. The thing is dirt cheap, is stable like a stone and a lot cleverer than any USG. From business perspective UniFi routers don't make a whole lot of sence either, because there are features missing from it, which a company could need, like the timeframe or openVPN. Where do I see use for a USG? Well, only in isolated areas with relatively good infrastructure, where you don't need much from a router, and can't have technician on site or in reach. Say a hotel chain with HQ in a city and remote sites throughout countryside. I perfectly see a PfSense at HQ and a bunch of USGs connecting to it via VPN, but outside of that scenario? Not much. USGs and Dream Machines are overpriced for end user and insufficiently robust for general business. Oh and USGs vs Dream Machines? Well, you can't integrate a Dream Machine in to another controller and can't controll more sites from it...
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  252. You won't like the answer, but you have to create them. You can start with looking at other departments, find a way to reduce the need for people there and find those folk, who have IT as a hobby. Those would be your first recruits. Then you'll have to aggressively start hiring graduates and generally people with no working experience or knowledge and train them on your dime for as long as necessary. You know, the way it was done before "humans as a resource" approach. Your superiors won't like it one bit, because this will absolutely eat your profit, but at this point, especially in this field, that is the only way forward.
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  253. Yeah, dropping farming subsidies down to states would absolutely destroy agriculture in Europe, particularly because of French weight on the issue and the size of their budget. Really, what we need in Europe is a genuine discussion about the role of agriculture in our society and economy. Because, as Jeremy Clarkson said in a town meeting, "it is the farmers that maintain the land", to which I add, it would seem we don't value the land enough to truly care... because our incomes are not enough, particularly east and north of Vienna across our economies. And that is something the environmentalists need to come to terms with. That you can't have nice things, if you can't monetarily and fiscally afford them
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  254. This really is simple. "Okay, employer, you want me to come back to the office. I have invested in my home setup in VESA mounts, good office chair and desk, towards which you didn't contribute a single dollar, but which I use for your business. Thanks to home office I could take care of my kids and didn't have to put so many miles on my car, which I need, because you are unwilling to take into consideration, that public transport from my town/village runs once an hour, and don't want to give me flexi hours either, not to mention time lost commuting to work, all of which didn't costs me money, but now will in order to work for you... About that raise you promised me last year..."
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  255. Question is, whether that wouldn't end up outlawed due to "safety concerns". Just look at car industry, how often they fearmonger, whenever their hold over technology is threatened by things like right to repair.
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  256. The only way for Europe to become energy secure once more, is to give up on climate channge and address the real problems in society... Sure, we might lose Haag, Le Havre or Rijeka, but cities can be moved. Empoverished people and destroyed businesses can't
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  257. This is not so black and white, unfortunately. In Czechia, your home has to be declared as your place of work, which come's with it's own regulation in terms of work safety (that's literally in the law. The employer must provide a safe working environment). This doesn't cover just serious stuff like "a piece of machinery fell on me, now I' don't have a leg.", but also "I write on a crappy keyboard, now I need new carpal tunnels!". Therefore, most employers prefer to provide openspace or offices in commercial buildings instead. So it ain't as simple as you might think. I wish it were... As an accountant, I too could do 80% of what I daily do at home, only coming to work to deal with payment orders twice a week.
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  258. This happened to me once. We flew from Brno (BRQ) to Palma de Mallorca (PMI) via Prague (PRG). We arrived at Prague about half an hour late, but then we've managed to catch up so much, we've arrived hour early. There was no ground crew to greet us (because both airline and travel agency folded), I was too young to speak any English at the time, the only person, who spoke any foreign language refused to speak at all. Fortunately, we've managed to get in to a taxi with some Germans, who went to the same town we were supposed to go to and, luck would have it, our hotel wasn't far from theirs. Only the next day, our guide, who was supposed to meet us upon landing, showed up, saying, it never ever happened in twenty years of his experience, for a plane to arrive an hour early. It was adventureous night...
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  259. That's a solution for like Singapore. Europe in general doesn't have many and post-communist space has very few. Rather than billionaires, tax single women childless women into oblivion. You'll see childbirths surge like crazy.
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  260. No it's not. People are lonelier and lonelier and pets are the only reliable remedy for it, unfortunately. I live mostly alone, dad's a trucker, I never scored a girlfriend. I would have gone crazy without my two wonderful cats. But noone in their right mind would classify them as service animals. I am not a single dot. There is millions of people like me out there.
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  261. No... I'd rather see system of "You accuse someone falsely of something, they get to do it to you and walk free." approach
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  262. Yeah, hate to take wind out of your sails, but immigration is not a solution for demographics crisis. It helps in short term, but this is a generational problem. Without raising natality, this crisis will not change, it will only be postponed. So what needs to change? There are a few measures, which need to be implemented, some of which will be severly shuned. 1) Economy first. All ecological legislation needs tob e scraped, while labor protections need to be increased, as well as companies need to be incentivised to pay higher wages. 2) Change in laws regarding marriage, cohabitation and general interaction between sexes. Men are begining to evade women due to risks surrounding interacting with them. While this is more of a problem in the US, it is spreading and needs to be stopped, or men will stop dating women to the point, that population collapse becomes irreversible. Particularly sexual assault allegations need to be viewed with greater degree of scepticism. 3) Abortion must no longer be on demand. The standard needs to be, that pregnancy seriously threatens woman's health or life. Foster parenting needs to be strenghtened as counterbalance, but only in full, preferably multi generational families for financial reasons. 4) There is also the problem of too few kids being concieved. Since women are the ones, who determine, who they'll procreate with, we need to promote motherhood as greater societal value than carreer to women. This means reducing women's access to the job market. I'm listing these in order of implementation. Hopefully, the situation will get reversed, before we'll get to number four, although I highly doubt that.
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  263. No, what we actually need, is to ban redefining terms used in general commerce. The moment buy would actually mean buy, all of this would end. It's not only Redbox problem.
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  264. This shit needs to go to the FTC, class actions need to be passed and, ultimately, law needs to be introduced, that would introduce steeeeeep penalties for certain business decisions. There has to be a limit, to how an individual or a group can run a company. PS: We want Clinton!
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  265. Not really, countries are trying to push for taxation by citizenship, meaning you'd have to ditch that too to evade your home country's taxes.
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  266. Might want to check latest "Otázky Václava Moravce.". Can't remember the name right now, but the identity of the person was revealed there.
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  267. I see, you're a man of tradition then...
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  268. Depends seriously on writing. If you have a character, who doesn't fit typical mold for a role, you have to explain it properly, not using SJW BS. Are there female characters ripe for lead in action movie? Yes, why? They have reasonable justifications for it! Couple of samples: Sabine Wren (SW Rebels): "I helped enslave my people!", a quote from an episode. That would make pretty good motivation to fight regardless of characters gender. Ashoka Tano (SW Clone Wars and Rebels): Raised from early age as a warrior. Again, work's regardless of gender. Ellen Ripley (Alien): Put in to a life or death situation, no powers. Again, work's for both genders. Are they few and far betwene, yes. That doesn't mean it can't work. A character needs something extra, if mess it is put through is to be watchable, but going overboard like current SJW and no proper background is not it. Until those writer blokes in Hollywood realize this, we won't get good female leads in action again. Hell, we might actually get poor male characters too!
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  269. Not really. Even if automation displaces a lot of workers, there is no guarantee, they will go into social work. Social work doesn't scale well, that is why there are low wages in that field, irrespective of demand for the service, because care forthe elderly need's social touch of a human, perhaps assisted by robot with physically intense aspects of the job, but one care giver can only give care to so many people in a day, especially if we're talking about at home services, and not sanatorium style care.
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  270. Well, here in Czechia, it's a yearly event, kind of like tornadoes in tornado alley. There are two reasons for this really. 1) environmentalism forced out companies producing active ingredients for the drugs, because their production is rather messy affair. 2) we didn't require two or more production centers of the active ingredients.
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  271. This is likely not the case though... Idiotic policies do undermine leadership pushing for it, true, however, that is a long process. And long processes create gradually create people/parties, who get more and more known. Key is, it is a slow process. Something this fast is suspicious.
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  272. Ah, bringing up housing was a poor choice, to demonstrate problem capital inflow... There are other policy based restrictions on house building. Take zoning, unwillingness of employers to promote work from home, interest rates or even environmental policies and copyright (I'm not joking. Where I live, you need permission of the architect, who created the blueprints, to make changes to house you own). I'm not saying, that this inflow of money from people, who are able to command greater income is not to blame here, but I'd argue, there are many more intervening causes for this particular situation.
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  273. heh, welcome to European job market. This has been here for well over a decade now :D Also, only five hours for an interview? There's a reason I only schedule one per day.
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  274.  @psychodadandjfit3974  Not exactly... this is more complicated than you think. Thanks to new policies due to environmental impact (which policies are actually neceseary is a different debate), even the lowest cleaners essentially need master's degree in chemistry, to work safely with their cleaning supplies. Also, there is machinery on the horizon. For instance I read about a farm that uses very smartly designed cow sheds. Cows are tended to by a number of specialised robots, that even provide some individualised care! They clean stalls, distribute feed, milk the cows, check milk, if it's OK, and transport it for further processing, even masage the cows. Work around those animals could have been taught in weeks to months. Given the ammount of work and number of specialisations, you would need at very least nine to tweleve people to run this cow shed traditionally. With these machines (total of five), you need three. A mechanic, a vet and a clerk. The rest is gone, because of automation. Or garbage disposal. In my home town of Brno, garbage truck is usually crew of three. Two handlers and a driver. Now imagine that IoT expands in to this sector. Imagine battery and engine equiped trash bins, that only need to run them selves to the truck and back. Now you're down to the driver. And this mess is comming, young people see that and go to uni, hoping that education open's them gate to less automatable fields. Now, ask yourself a question. If you were in your late teens, early twenties. Would you rather flip burgers for minimum wage, or empty people's trash cans, or go and study anything, knowing that in your lifetime, your current job, or one you could get right now, will be discontinued? As for incompetent management... they are not. Did I meet someone who was utterly incompetent? Yes, he was my boss. Why was he incompetent? Nobody above him, he wasn't just a manager, he was the owner and simply didn't give a bird about anything. As a result, we had very simplistic, very easy to learn guidlines and nobody, who didn't work directly with him thought he was incompetent. Meanwhile, in my part time job, there was this manager (head of quality controll), who barrated us for assembling computers without ESD coats, gloves and horseshoes (metalic grounding for boots) on. I asked him, why was he such a prick about it, and he explained to me, that we have to do it this way, so that the company can renew a certificate, that their business partners demand for their suppliers to have, otherwise no business. Nobody else asked him why, he never had to explain and everyone thought, that he was over at quality controll, because he was too slow to assemble a PC. I worked with him on night shift one day, the guy kept pace with our production line alone. But because my esteemed collegues didn't know, what his job actually entailed and what were underlying reasons for his policies, they considered him incompetent, even though he was superior to all of them, both in position and in prowes. Don't mistake "book smart, but reality clueless" for more knowlegable than you. The fact, that some things can be done some way doesn't mean, it should be done that way. It may be just so, that the book is right and what is done is wrong. For instance, you definitely could carry a hundred kilograms heavy server alone, it would eventually result with you dropping the server on the ground or worse, on your or somebody else's leg, but it can be done. Resulting damages would have to be paid by someone eventually, because there is a "book", that say's so. If it end's with only a destroyed server, that book is the contract. If it end's up with injuries, it end's up with book of law regarding negligence. Or let's take real life case. Albert Einstein is considered to have been autistic. He was completely clueless about real life and society, however, without his book smarts and unique view point, there would never have been theory fo relativity and consequently no GPS, as theory of relativity is used to better sync satelites with ground devices, because, as crazy as it sound's, time run's slower up there in orbit. Think wider and deeper.
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  275.  @jakeroper1096  Possibly, but then again, costs of producing in the region at large are still lower than in most of the World...
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  276. I'm sorry, no, Tom, you are wrong on those reusable ties... they are indispensable! As someone, who actually has a cupboard for networking equipment, I can't stress enough how important these are even for very messy installs. Why? Simple, there is so much slack, especially coming from all the power bricks, that not tying them, make's it impossible to work in the lab itself! And since it's a lab, it has to be flexible. That was a lesson hard learned on my part.
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  277. Nah, more like lobby group, that would force down legal language mandating common communication standard for any and all IoT devices. This is why I like Loxone, btw. They may be proprietary, but you buy entire server from them, you run their software yourself, the server doesn't need to access the Internet for anything and you can even make it send packets of information via it's Ethernet, meaning, as long as the other system can be made to respond to being hit to packets on predefined ports, you can trigger functions of that device.
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  278. Legal eagle: "Obviously, for that you need trebuchet" Me: "And I took that personally" The jury: "Guilty your honor." The judge: "Defendants were found guilty for criminal conspiracy to commit murder..."
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  279. Not really, nuclear power plants can't be throttled as easily as gas power plants. And no, energy storage will never get done well, at least in battery form. What should really be done, is to give up on wind and solar in the grid. The reasons are their volatility and unpredictability, which necessitates presence of more regulating power plants, which can be quickly turned on or off. You're stuck with water and gas for that. Really energy mix of Europe should be trifecta of nuclear for base load, water up to the point, where other functions of water reservoirs are not hampered and gas for the rest. The key is lowering volatility in the grid. Getting rid of wind and solar removes day-by-day volatility. As for hour-hour volatility, there are other options. For instance, making every appliance at home smart would help (done properly with ethernet, not wifi). A simple centralized programmable timer could, for instance, run washing machine and dishwasher at preprogrammed hours. You just load devices, fill them with whatever consumables are needed for them, to do their job, and let start of the process to the timer, which is set to a time, when there is usually lowest drain on the grid.
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  280. question is, does it belong there? And if so, what about the downstream applications? Let me remind you, that refineries don't produce only gasoline! There are over 5000 products, which have crude oil as base resource, ranging from energy through plastics to medicine. Tell me, when you're virtue signalling so much. How should a child, cured with a drug made out of oil, wrapped in a plastic made from oil due to transportation and dosage concerns, transported to the hospital by ambulance using fuel made from oil at the refinery be punished for it's extraordinary carbon footprint, when pre-industrial methods, not reliant on, oil also exist? This is just one extreme case to better understand the demonization of oil. People (and more importantly governments, which peddle the green nonsense) only see the carbon released and forget, that basically everything around us has some kind of oil product in it, even if fuel were completely abandoned!
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  281.  EpyonX  That is not a valid argument. Unless you come up with a specific way of ensuring comparable safety to jet fuel, the gang's reminder stand's.
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  282. That's not a problem. There is Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, all have natural gas and mine it. What is the problem? France, who stays in the way of building a pipeline, which would link Spain and Germany and allow for cheap transportation of gas from these Southern sources with justification of "Gas is fuel of yesterday"... Oh and then there is the Groningen gas field, which had been killed off because it was causing some small scale earthquakes... so no further extraction, because some people would have to be moved a few kilometers away all the while pouring money into Russian war machine. Nope, the problem was cutting off Russia. The problem was buying from them to begin with.
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  283.  @innosam123  Then let's make commute time as paid work time. You'll see home office return in force.
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  284. Accountant here. You cannot end up with no tax residency! Even if you were to time your stay to the second into say 5 jurisdictions (cause then you'd stay for 73 days in each, save for leap years), you'd end up paying taxes to the one, which you have the strongest ties to. Furthermore, certain taxes don't apply to you as a person! You always pay taxes such as VAT (you pay it, the vendor just collect's it from you and forwards it to the state, as far as your interaction with them is concerned), car tax (typically follows where the car is registered), or Property tax (follows where the property is built) are all typically paid irrespective of your tax residency! Typically for income tax (except for US) your nationality is the last factor! If you stay fewer than 183 days in one country, it goes to your primary residence, where you have majority of your interests (family, primary source of income, etc.), where you typically stay, and only last one is citizenship. Furthermore, some nations can have it differently on peer-to-peer basis! Different tests and different order of tests taken to determine residency!
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  285. The very idea, that corporations are people, is ludicrous... Corporations are not people, they are embodiment of agreements between people. Owners and executives have to be held accountable with fines and those directly responsible for a decision and the very high top managment shoud face jail time on top of a fine and ban to work in industry.
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  286. Actually, calling our system or systems like ours as 2 round is a bit disingenuous. In case, where one candidate achieves over 50% majority in first round, the second round doesn't take place and president is elected from the first. Just to clarify
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  287. yeah, doesn't work that way. You're forgetting wear and tear due to use of anything, including a house. If rent doesn't cover the difference, between lower appreciation due to the building being in use, why rent it out? Sure, you'll have better cash flow position, but your earnings will be lower. Why do that, if your cash flow is sufficiently good already? You'd have to implement empty house tax and it would have to be excessively steep and linked with a lot of bureaucracy to motivate landlord, who didn't buy the property to rent it out in the first place, to do so, in order to evade said tax and bureaucracy.
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  288.  @nenasiek  This is artificially increasing your food costs! Remember, that under similar conditions, animals were kept for generations and we didn't see problems. It is only recently, with large parts of population moving into cities, losing touch with food production process and the land, that we see these animal wellfare laws getting passed. on your second point though. Yes, it's crazy sometimes. Why can't a cattle farm let their cows/goats/sheep graze in orchards and diversify their revenue streams from strictly milk and diary prodcuts by fruits? That's literally illegal, where I live.
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  289. When I established my dad's account, he specifically wanted MC, because of situation in Germany at the time. Very few retailers took Visa. A year into his contract, the bank switched from MasterCard to Visa and three years of "where do I get food?" became his daily game. Things are better these days, fortunately, but dad nearly changed bank because of that.
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  290. The problem here is, that it increases your costs. Unless you have bidirectional trade opportunities and this trade is about equal in both directions, you have to either buy or sell some of your currency, meaning you loose out on the value you held in multiple currencies. Another problem is that you might need specially trained people to handle payments in some currencies due to nation/block specific monetary/banking regulations (Russia was one such case). A common currency will always be necessary, resources or climate be damned, figuratively. The reason, why currencies were created, was NOT primarily to hold value long term, which would be effected by crises you mentioned. They were created as a common exchange medium. Imagine a world without currencies. You find your self in need of something, say an axe to chop down some wood. You find a guy who has an extra axe and is willing to part with one, but he only wants a handcart and won't sell for anything else (paying in multiple axes), meaning you have to find somebody, who would be willing to buy from you what ever you sell in a quantity large enough to justify selling you a handcart, which you would then trade in for about fifty axes, when you needed only one. Complicated, time consuming, expensive. And the same can happen with currencies. Say you need to buy something from Egypt and can't use exchange for what ever reason. You'd have to find something to easily and regularly sell on Egyptian market to be able to import from Egypt, or you'd have to find somebody, who'd be willing to accept your currency, shifting the problem on them, giving you less value, because your clients are effectively buying at a higher rate (price+handling foreign currency). Compare this with Europe or even countries using CFA Franks as common currencies. There's no need to exchange currencies. As Austrian company, you can buy resources you need in Italy and sell your products to Germany, never needing to exchange currencies, while at the same time, you use that currency domestically. Make no mistake. Foreign trade will never go down. Economies of the world are way too specialized for that. Not to mention, that certain resources can't be produced in reasonable quantities elsewhere and for some there are not reasonable, if at all, alternatives. These will trade no matter what. There is no going back from what we have today.
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  291. Oh you're laughing. Ever heard about Lawful Masses youtube channel? In one of his videos, Leonard French mentions, that it was cheaper to fly from the US to Glasgow, Scotland, to have a tooth pulled out! That is utterly insane!
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  292. TLDR Global: "There is no alternative for US Dollar" Me: Laughs in EURO
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  293. Yeah, we as mankind marvel over stories from times, when future is being written, not realizing, how much it sucks to live through them.
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  294. That's called personal income tax...
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  295. I think, that Vision 2030 was a mistake. Sure, the Saudi may be overdependent on oil, but I think, they should have doubled down on it. There is the argument of oil going down in price, hell, even being banned, but what is overlooked, is, that even completely banned substances are still in use, though not quite as extensively. When it comes to ban on oil, usually, that is not meant as complete ban on the entire substance, but rather on certain products from it or certain uses. The one most discussed recently is fuel and even further in the past had been and still are plastics. Here is the reason, why I think, they should have doubled down. Oil is source material for some 40 000 items ranging from fuel and plastics through fertilizers to medicaments. As the West keeps walking away from oil, the price will begin to fall and countries, that produce oil, but have higher production costs will begin to fold their operations. Saudi Arabia has the lowest extraction costs for crude oil on Earth. If they maintained their oil extraction plants and expanded properly into refining the oil into more advanced products (which they do to some extent), particularly eyeing the medical field, they could create virtual monopoly on production of some drugs and materials used in hospitals, greatly prolonging their revenues from oil and capturing greater share of money spent on these applications. You could argue, that nations on Earth would want to see lower emisions or impose carbon tax on these products, but let's face it. No politician would ever risk creating shortage of infusions and literal blood bags in their country by introducing carbon tax on the only practical container for life saving substances or the life saving substances them selves.
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  296. So I turn on my PC, go to youtube, see the recommendations a and am like "What'd I Miss"? I know it's been a while since we had "Hillary Defeated", and Obama gave us his "One Last Time". We saw some serious mismanagement on behalf of "The Trump Administration", especially durring the "Hurricane", leaving thousands of people "Helpless". Since Trump took office, we learned that he "Can't Say No To This", has rather poor judgement, when it comes to choosing his "Right Hand Man" and the guy sure like's campaigning "Non-Stop". I didn't expect anyone to take "His Shot" like this. Why do I think Bolton really write the book? Well, I'd say he realised, that "History Has It's Eyes on Him". I therefore must ask myself, "What Comes Next"? Now that we are steaming towards "The Election of 2020" to choose "Our Obedient Servant", we should set aside some time to think, perheaps ask ourselves the question: What would "Alexander Hamilton" do right now? Going with his younger self, he would likely remind us of the "Ten Duel Commandments", his older self would rather recommend us to tell the White House "That Would Be Enough". Ultimately we have to "Wait for it" and hope that comming days won't "Blow Us All Away". The year has already shown us it has teeth to the point that, we already have "Guns and Ships" on the agenda, it is getting increasingly frustrating to "Stay Alive" to the point, that some of us, the ones with poorer health inmsurrance, can only be sure, that "Tomorrow There'll Be More of Us" and I'm quite sure, that the main question on their minds these days is "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Their Story". And what the future holds? I beleive it to be grim. Trump definitely isn't "Satisfied" with his performance so far and will seek reelection. Fortunately, now that "We Know" what he's like, some of the other side might "Take a Break" from voting or outright vote the other way. I sincerely believe that for some republicans, "The World Turned Upside Down". It will be for naught however, until both democrats and republicans realise that "The Wrold Is Wide Enough" for both of them and begin to actually work together, even if only on dealing with fallout of "Cabinet Battle #1". Let us hope, that all of this mess becomes just "The Story of Tonight" one day.
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  297.  @mattabouttrails  Choices, which are informed, by what we're being told left and right! What was the mantra from our parents and greater society for the last forty years? Get a degree, you'll earn a better salary. How much has cost of education increased over that same period of time? Education, which is mandatory to enter certain fields, including trades! (you need a university degree and couple of years of working practice, or school leaving exam and more years of working experience, to become self employed electrician in Czechia. University degree and more years of working experience to become a safety inspector in said field) As for housing, not every employer is willing to let you work remote and earn a decent salary, so you can operate from home, meaning even that choice is note entirely in the hands of an employee and where self employed entrepreneur does not have much more space to work either.
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  298. This is actually simple: 1) because of influence of Feminism, women now have a choice between career and being a mother. This needs to be reversed, or at very least, career may only be made open to a woman after she had given birth to her third child with the same father. 2) cost of living must be lowered, particularly cost of housing, because you need sufficiently large home to raise a family, something, that has been forgotten by policy makers, who instead chose to go environmentalism route, wiping out jobs, that could actually provide sufficient income to raise these new families, that were never established as a result. 3) companies must be forced to colocate workplace with where employee is, whenever physically possible, not the other way around. If the job uses computers to get done, it needs to be done from home, not from the office. 4) staying with employers for a moment. Only jobs they actually currently intend to fill may be advertised. Failiure to fill a position needs to result in punishment for the company, except of hiring EU citizens (to maintain membership) or for positions intended for knowledge transfer, for which this would be defferred, if company can show, they've trained the specialist they needed in the end. Companies must be forced into being loyal again to their employees (you see, it used to be a two way street back in a day). Two new taxes need to be introduced. One on staff turnover rate and one on average employee age in company, the higher the average age the higher the tax.
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  299. You want to know, why China is so lauded as green? Because they indeed do the most for environmentalism. Problem is the scope. They do deploy in absolute terms huge amounts of wind and solar, but also do this coal plant shit. Institutions then ignore relative deployment in terms of new kWh, but only look at the green absolute amount, and say shit like this (basically selective blindness). There is also the fact, that China does almost all material processing for green stuff. You need magnets for wind farms? Yep, those magnets were manufactured in China, even though mined in Australia. Need copper wiring? Large scale smelting is done only in China. Need very simplistic microchips for a simple sensor or a smart fridge? Yep, that's done mostly in China as well. Why? Because to make this stuff efficiently enough for it to be cheap, you need the ability to pollute without limits. This material processing simply can't be done cleanly, if it's meant to also be cheap. As a result, they literally get green praise for literally polluting the planet.
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  300. Yeah, I really consider solar as off-set measure, not power generation measure. Say you install an air-conditioning unit, then a reasonably sized solar panel to offset say 50% of it's power consumption makes sense, but that fit's on a rooftop. No need for turning fields into power stations!
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  301. Who cares, that women don't get married and get get careers? Well, demographers... There is statistically significant inverse correlation (meaning likely causality) between female education level and birthrates.
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  302. Exactly, in Battlefleet Gothic Armada II Lord High Admiral Spire actually commented on the efforts to resettle Cadia, stating it would be effort one sector wouldn't suffice to carry out.
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  303. It's not actually that bad for rail. You could build very simply re-loading facilities in Slovakia, which has a branch of Broad gauge line, or maybe even better in Chop, which is at Hungarian, Slovak and Ukrainian border and ship via rail to Rijeka. It won't be easy, but it could be done. That being said... it would be very expensvive
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  304. aaah, this should not have been done this way... The "artists" should have just been locked out of their accounts, those, who wanted to listen to that shit should have been left to do so and any and all revenue from those songs should have been transfered to Ukrainian ministry of defense to contribute to the war effort.
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  305. To be fair, Moldova has less land and lower population. There is not that much to make the money with out there.
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  306. While I understand the sentiment... I wouldn't exactly call expenses for someone to draw breath overspending...
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  307. actually, gipsys did learn skills. In Romania, when they came, they were usually skilled craftsmen. Problem is, then came WW2, when the Nazis had them in the crosshairs right next to jews and after that came communism, which completely destroyed old cultural norms gipsy population followed, and nothing replaced it since. There is only so much an individual can be held responsible for and results of two catastrophic, civilization ending events is not one of them.
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  308.  @drhelenloney1426  Interesting. Here in Czechia a lot of foreign born language teachers are handled that way too. Easier to hire them that way.
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  309. Then you have extraordinrily good contract. Ours has inflation quotation in it with no upper limit. Guess how much it gone up this January.
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  310. Recommending people to adopt from a shelter is not being hypocritical. That is actually the only way to shut mills down, because that lowers the demand. You might not get the pet you've wanted, but you'll grow on each other eventually, barring extreme cases.
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  311. Presenter: talking about Czechia Artist: "Let's put in map of Czechoslovakia, what could go wrong?" Three days later on TV: "Slovakia declared war on Czech Republic over supposed Czech colonial ambitions. Polish based US F22 Raptor aircraft were seen particularly giddy over legal frinedly fire among NATO forces."
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  312. I left a toxic boss some time ago and became jobless. The economy was booming, so I thought, that I should find a job quickly. Result? Two years of joblessness. I've sent over thirty CVs a month and went to about one to two interviews a month. Then covid hit. What I find alarming, is that my rate of interviews never changed. I want from economy where employers were whining about not being able to fill roles in to one, where even decent sized employers were worried about their existence. And even though I didn't lower the number of sent CVs, my success ratio didn't change either. Then, in the middle of the epidemic, I had two weeks, where I averaged 1,6 interviews per day. I scored my current job then. All this in a country with unemployment under 4%. I feel, that HR is to blame for a lot of potential being left on the floor. Especially in the "nothing to put in" department. Young students with little to no working experience. Companies these days are using computers to screen out candidates, which don't fit, but as a result, they loose out. For instance, I'm an accountant. I also play around with networking gear. It's gone to the point, where I am the first line of tech support at our department, all the while processing invoices, and I have an enterprise grade network at home. Someone like me is likely to learn, how to deploy and maintain accounting systems both from tax and from technical perspectives. Whenever I called a company for feedback, I found out, that HR never saw my resume. Why? Because references to IT in interests section of my CV filtered me out at software level. You guys need to make your respective managements realize, that lowering expenses is not cheap, because you're loosing out on the flexible people, who can stick with you for decades, all be it in different roles, than you hired them for to begin with. And we know that is the actually cheaper option, because such employees don't achieve higher wages and you don't have to spend on recruiting and onboarding so much. There are synergies to be gained from such people. I myself don't have so much potential for this, because my skill sets don't combine so easily, but imagine someone with IT interest or background looking for a job in logistics or someone with background in the field of law looking for a job in accounting. Such candidates will be thrown out by software 8 out of 10 cases, while they are the ones, who can contribute the most to your companies. So stop wasting money on software and hire more manpower to process the huge amount of CVs that come your way. Sure, you'll have more expensive HR, but the other departments will get cheaper and more productive.
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  313. Not really, islands have higher costs of living due to higher costs to move goods to and from the island, meaning they are less competitive for vast majority of industries than mainland.
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  314. Imagine, what insufficient workforce will do to her by retirement age!
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  315.  @CoreyThompson73  Yeah, those are some installs, I would have been somewhat skeptical about copper too. On the other hand, it's simply Ethernet. think about a huge factory producing something using CNC mills. In this situation, you've been spared an entire distribution point using this cable instead of fiber. But you're quite right, electrical isolation is the key with fiber in my opinion too. That is why I would never bury copper. Too afraid of lightning strikes.
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  316. Absolutely have. Remember, the Dutch wanted to significantly reduce their total livestock. Imagine being a diary farmer under such conditions!
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  317.  @paudda6004  Not exactly, in some US states (think Alaska, Texas, basically all over Rockies), poorer families actually hunt for sustenance, because what they get in government support is not enough. Permit, ammo and gun can be cheaper in parts of the world, than equivalent amount of meat obtained at a butcher or in a supermarket.
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  318. Which will inevitably lead to even lower birth rates. Why? Old people begin to hold on to decent to high paying jobs even more than today, making the young postpone or outright abandon maternal plans on the count of not being able to maintain a home (eg either own through mortgage or pay rent). The only way out of this europe wide is to deny the elderly their pensions. As brutal as it is.
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  319.  @asambatyon  I see and raise counterpoints. 1) you still need cash. If not for other reasons, then because of your destination. Just try and visit Iran with just a credit card. I visited Netherlands a few years back. I wouldn't say, that the Netherlands are exactly lagging behind in terms of innovation. Hell, in certain fields, they're at the bleeding edge. You'd think, "I can pay with a card anywhere, right?". Well, guess what. I wanted to buy some icecream from a small shop and they refused my card, because it was a MasterCard, fortunately, I'm crazy enough to have bank with banks and one of them carried Visa, so I was able to pay, but that was my sole Visa card in a eight card setup! This is important, because most banks where I live only carry one card provider! Further more, about a decade earlier, my dad lived in Netherlands for a while. Back then, he told me the same thing about card acceptance. Either Maestro or Visa. A while later, he started trucking to Germany and at about the same time, his bank changed from MasterCard to Visa. Well, for a few years, he couldn't pay anywhere and only postal office ATMs took his card in Germany. This lasted about five years. And banking on banks, pun intended, is not as good of an idea either. Just recall the Trucker protests in Canada, where their prime minister had those protester's assets with banks frozen, to put pressure on them. It was an extreme, hopefully never to repeat again situation, but it showed the necessity of keeping some cash on hand at all times, even if everyone accept's cards. 2) while I'll admit, that pushing an update to someone over the Internet is convenient for both parties, there are problems here. What happens, when a company, that ran the servers for some kind of phone home feature, goes bankrupt and it's assets are sold off? Suddenly, your, in case of Tesla, is at best flying without updates, getting more and more vulnerlable to outside attackers, or worse, get's bricked and you'll have a very expensive paperweight. And that's just a decision by a company, what about errors? Say another Crowdstrike? Either way, you or me as customers get screwed over. We have seen this about a year ago with ANNO 2070, fortunately, the original team pushed an update and took over the server infrastrucutre, but where are guarantees, that others will follow suit? Nowhere. Another problem with pushing "update" to a device is EULA, fortunately, around here it's basically illegal to do, however, in the US, you can end up with update to EULA, forcing you into forced arbitration instead of seeking relief through the court system, and you can't decline it and continue to use a five years old TV for instance, or worse, as showed up with Disney recently, ending losing a family member in one of their parks, and Disney claiming, that because you've accepted a EULA for their subscription service, you can't sue, but have to arbitrate (this is like a year old case). The question really is not, whether software is relevant for a product, but whether it should be.The very concept of ownership is getting erroded away with these "smart" and IoT approaches. Is that worth the "convenience"? I'd argue not. Maybe those mechanical engineers see it from this angle? Maybe have a look at Louis Rossmann's channel. He's been doing videos about these "just push an update" shennaningans. Ultimately, until approach of providers changes, taking the skeptical, nay parranoid route towards new technology adoption is the safer (ei more reliable) bet in my opinion. We don't need to adopt top of the line technologies, if outdated ones still manage to handle the tasks, they were supposed to handle. If not for other reasons, then because doing so will leave you without a backup in case of that new technology failing in some aspect. This, after all, is why, when you're shopping for a backup connection for your home/business, you don't go with Fiber/copper, because that's usually your primary. You go with a WISP, cellular, or, in case of really deep pockets, satelite/Starlink. Or why an EV is never the first car in the family... that is the old reliable petrol car. Because if the nice new one fails, you're not left in a river without a paddle.
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  320. Well, if these threats were proven in front of court... they could get negligent homicide...
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  321. Not exaclty, this is still youtube... he makes that video, this channel is gone
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  322. Careful about judging "antiquated" technologies. Truth is, you don't need fiber to the premises. One, you can easily push 200 megs over telephone lines, depending on how far DSLAM is. Coax is dedicated data cable and can be superior in some applications. Hell, these days, you can buy MOCA adapters and push hundred megs at longer distances than with Ethernet. And here comes the question. Do we actually need those speeds? Get an ER-X, put it into your network, log into it and try to fully saturate your connection. You may achieve it, when installing a new game from Steam, but how often do you do that? The answer is, you don't. We don't need multigigabit to home and likely never will. Hence why these antiquated technologies persist. They are adequate to current and future needs and everybody already has the gear they need to connect to the system. Buying newer, simple cause it's newer, is waste of resources under such conditions.
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  323. There's another problem with new cars. In the EU, new private cars will have to have black boxes AND systems preventing people from speeding, by overriding driver's commands. More and more computer components, either limiting the driver or making it more riskey for them to drive it. And the worst thing? It can't be disabled. Why would anyone buy a new car, except companies for their fleets? Normal people will evade this, by buying only used cars before this shit came through.
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  324. Veto is necessary in the EU, because without it, France-Germany tandem could get stuff passed, that completely ignores majority of member states. Problem is not the veto, it's the fact, that Orban has been left unchecked like this for a very long time.
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  325.  @juriscervenaks8953  banks are. This was for business, it should have been a business loan. And then there is another point to consider. The This friend of mine could use the loophole, because she was self employed entrepreneur. Company can't do that! How many small companies remain small instead of growing, because banks refuse to lend to them, because those can't be made consumer loans?!
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  326. Mate, same field, similar company mindset. My first proper accounting job after school, meaning very unsure about accounts, no connection between what I had learned at school and actual invoices... Yeah, fun. I told the head of accounting, that I'll need guidance, in the interview, very much before I got hired. I never received any support, apart from the software we use. No training on the internal system, didn't receive account list to this day or anything regarding fixed assets... meanwhile, I'm on my third accounting role in the company. As a result, I am the one who's being approached by folks. Was an invoice paid on time? Yeah, I look that up and tell, even though I don't do payments anymore. A colleague forgot to attach payment details? No problem, here they are. Generated from the system. Oh AR didn't send over invoices? No problem. Anything about overhead invoices? Yeah, that used to be my position, so I can explain a thing or two, I might not be an expert, but, for some reason, I always managed to either point to the answer or to someone with it... Cause, you know, I've had to work out, what was what in my early days. Now, I got sick these few months back... meltdown from my bosses idiotic behavior, tooth ache (the teeth had to be extracted), covid, left one evening with a fever... Yeah those were interesting three months... and guess what. Our CFO berated me over how little I were at work, even though I've had doctor's notes, and in the same breath praised me over how helpful I was to everyone around me. Then, he tried to force a pay cut on me (very illegal, where I live), because I was not at a position, which demanded the salary I started with... The CFO even tried to throw my studies in my face... Yeah studies, I gave up on, because I was needed at the company for closing and didn't go for my exams. Meanwhile, I offered, that if I ever got sick, I'd work from home, right after I were hired. All I needed was a computer, but guess what. "No home office for you, drone.", was the CFO's answer. So I got my self a new job, so I'll be giving my notice shortly. Too bad it ain't accounting per se, but I can't stay at this company. I don't feel appreciated one bit. When I started my job, I was fine waking up early to get to the job. I was looking forward to learning from actual practice. Nowdays? I hate going to work. And the craziest thing about all this? So my company basically forced me out, yet when I started working there, HR was practically balling their eyes out, over how they can't retain talent. I wonder why is that.
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  327.  @Monaug5kid  you misunderstand. These nations don't have the land to engage in proper agriculture. Egypt only has one river, which can properly support it and it's population growth is outstripping their ability to grow food there. Basically everyone north of Sahel (included) needs to import, because they don't have the means to grow their own food, particularly in water department. Go into Sahel and South, and you encounter host of rare and endangered species, which mostly can't live on managed limited land (how the hell do you stop an elephant from destroying a fence?!). Some African countries can work things out, but those are NOT the main issue here. Really, you could limit countries affected to Northern Africa and East Africa up to Tanzania (not included). Open Google Earth, and look for sandy colors, those are the areas, which can't do agriculture at all or in such limited extent, it's better to be completely dependent on imports and produce cash crops, which either allow you better vertical integration for higher value added products, or can be sold for good price them selves (Egypt), in Africa.
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  328.  @kailee2166  There is something to it... Perhaps one gender (women) need to be taxed based on not having kids...
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  329. Man that "robot" hit really close to home... I was diagnosed as one of the first in my country. My mom compared me to Lt. Cmdr. Data all the time...
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  330. In one word? Demographics
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  331. When does damage outweigh benefits of oil? That is simple. Never. You need to understand, fuel is just one use for oil! The number of products that have oil as non-fuel component in them is 70000+ items long and counting! No oil means no antibiotics, no synthethic fertilizer, which by extension means no food (and electric tractors are a horrible idea, given we already have problem with compounding of soil under significantly lighter diesel ones!). No oil means slave labour for cotton (eg. more slave lavbour)... This is why we need to emmit more and find different solution to climate change, like low orbit seeding using something like stratospheric balloons. We have the components for this, just need to implement it.
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  332.  @timmeyer9191  In that case, why not go and study psychology, marketing, journalism... go directly for the more specific field in a better established study program?
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  333. Lecture halls on a space ship? That's doable... If you'll have in orbit space dock, in orbit material processing plants, in orbit fuel refineries... Do you see where I'm going... You'd literally have to be in Star Trek or at very least in the Expanse!
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  334. Which on the other hand caused major fall of fertility and we're, as a result, in front of cost of living crisis due to extremely high rents and property prices... Watch, what's happening currently in China. What will happen in Europe because of this will be similar
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  335. And things are not getting any better. In the European Union, there are already laws in place, denying driver's licenses to autistic people. Driver's licenses, which are a gateway to vast majority of jobs out there. We are being denied gun licenses, even though the training programs in the EU are designed in such a way, they accidentally screen out autistic people, who would actually prove dangerous with a firearm. Meanwhile, autism is NOT considered a cause for denial of pilot's license, even as a commercial pilot on A380! Worse yet, is that we can get employed by companies, that seek us out solely on the count of our disability, not to help us, or have us do something for them. Rather to boast about how helpful they are, while paying us minimum wage, even for highly skilled labor like network admin, programmer, accountant or HR representative. imagine the horror of every day life, knowing that you went to uni, finished it with no student debt, but are in the same boat as those, who have massive debts, because the only wage you can ask for, doesn't cover the rent. Only because your brain is wired a bit differently and everybody these days is far too willing to pay with other people's freedom and liberty for their perception of their safety.
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  336. 60 seconds in. Didn't the FTA point precisely to hospitals, when they showed their complete support for right to repair? I swear, lying in lobbying has to become criminal offense.
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  337.  @upperjohn117aka  I don't know, whether you saw that shirt, but it has all these calibers listed and below it one short sentence. "All faster than dialing 911.". The problem is, that this slogan is correct. The system can't be everywhere, even in a police state. At any moment, there are only two parties to an incident guranteeed to be present at all times. Victim and the felon. The victim must have the ability to effectively defend them selves, otherwise... you know. People need to have guns beforehand, to that point, you're right, but simply acquiring a gun or seeking to must not make one a "suspect" from people who seek to own a gun. Background checks and investigations go against this principle and don't actually help. If you look at numbers of deaths by gun in years, you'll find two things. One, that these incidents have been falling since the sixties till Trump took over, and two, that there are bumps in the trend, which correspond with national GDP... You wanna solve gun violence? Then solve violence, remove the need for being violent and you'll reap safety dividends. You can begin with higher wage, easier to find jobs and less demanding romantic partners. Loneliness is a major contributor to depression, which drives violent behavior. Stress is the other factor you need to tackle.
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  338. Switzerland is built on banking, not tourism. Dubai was literally built on Emirates Airlines, because of it's strategic position between Europe, India and Africa and range of aircraft at the time of inception, since, they pivoted to trade. This is not repeatable
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  339. Not sure, if I'd put any value to that referendum. Just look at Brexit. What arguments caused it? Well, today we know, they were mostly lies, so ask yourself two questions. 1) were arguments in your referendum valid and thruthful at the time? and 2) how long has it been since? Is it likely for the result to repeat itself?
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  340. That is just exposing you to civil asset forfeiture. Don't do that! distribute your money across as many banks and credit unions as possible. Bonus points, if a bank fails, you'll still have others to rely on, until the insurance kicks in.
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  341. I really see a different problem. In the EU, it has become fashionable to do two things. One, to force people into directions, that don't bring actual benefit to economy, which is what is feeding us as citizenry. The EU as a whole as well as it's institution (I'm looking at you commission, I'm looking at you) need to start taking more realistic goals, that even the poorest in the EU can achieve or actually contribute to. Make no mistake, there were initiatives which were spot on and ambitious. Problem comes, when the initiative pursues tackling way too big problems like climate change (which the EU is not a significant contributor to. Just look at India and more importantly China. Funny that these two nations are never really criticized over this). The second problem is that, there is no reprimand for lying, if you are a public person. Because of this, the Greens and AFD and their alternatives elsewhere could push through policies, which were built on shakey if not outright untrue arguments or empty rhethoric. Case and pont the whole Brexit debacle, where actual economic arguments and words of actual experts in their fields as well as celebrities ranging from Clarkson (who him self is critic of the EU) to Hawking. We need a more sober look at the problems. Take mass immigration, for instnance. What is it that AFD want's to do? Return checks on borders and ultimately dismantle Shengen, meanwhile, companies in Germany can't find enough workers to the point, that in Czech Republic, in the borderlands, banks started issuing mortgages in Euros, because so many people commute to Germany and Austria for work. meaning they'll actually make another problem worse along the way. There is also way too low birth rate in Germany. Where is AFDs recipe that? Where is AFD going to find new workers, to replace those, which will stop coming from accros the border? Technology so far has not created fewer jobs, than there were before in the long run. Really until cloning get's to the level of Kaminoans from Star Wars and get's it's moral implications sorted, immigration is the only quick way to get workforce, as, as we know, it takes some 20 years, until a newborn start's working. So is immigration really a problem, or a quick fix for another one? Does immigration really need to be sorted out? And that's not even taking germany's brain drain into account! Or what about climate change. There are things, which can't be done without sufficient enrgy. A steel mill can easily eat production of a big nuclear powerplant, if it were to go from coal to blue hydrogen! Not to mention, you'd need to deploy hundreds of wind mills to replace a single nuclear powerplant! And that is what the commission thinks, is going to make us more internationally compettitive... higher production costs at greater distance from main population center on Earh, wich is Southeast Asia! Support for solutions like this comes mostly from old member states, most importantly Germany!
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  342. True, on the other hand, hydrogen production and consumption, preferably at source of intermittent power source, might be our best bet to combat the main problem of renewables, their intermittency. At this point we may have created bigger problem going "green", than we're solving energy wise.
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  343.  @erickgomez7775  That won't work. Men will just begin to assume, and rightfully so, that it ain't their kid. Rather, make paternity fraud a crime, paternity tests mandatory and change divorce laws, so that they always benefit the non-moving party (idea being, setting one party free outweighs any losses on shared wealth).
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  344.  @robvett8584  Until Sri Lanka happens again and those South American and Middle Eastern nations will be forced to settle their accounts...
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  345.  @David_Granger  Key word, delayed it! It didn't solve it. What I said, stands.
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  346. Problem is, what supply chain issues are those issues. Most things these days are NOT made by hand, they are made with machines. Machines which rely on chips to operate. A bunch of machines failed, but due to chip shortage, there were no spare parts to fix the machines and thus those remained out of order, hence supply shortage in other fields. It works both ways really. The war is root cause for oil prices going up, because Russia is using that as a weapon and Europe is diversifying it's suppliers, which means less oil for domestic US consumption, and since oil/LNG are used for fuel, in turn for energy, in turn for everything, everything is going to the moon. And yes, even oil drilling, transport, refinement and further fabrication are all chip dependent, meaning the long term chip shortage and lockdowns, which even further constrained supply, are felt even here. So really, do you want to point to the single common denominator? Well, for most of the things it's covid... and ambition of one senile old KGB agent.
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  347. The problem with rent controls is precisely the problem of limited supply upon creation of such policy. Hence, ALONE, these measures don't work. It needs to go hand in hand with other measures, such as empty home tax so high, the owner will put the home on the market not for rent, but for sale. Another policy, that needs to come, is relaxed zoning and REMOVING ecological requirements on new construction (idea being lowering construction costs). Also, telecommuting needs to be encouraged along with personal car ownership. The idea being, that you try to spread demand over larger area, eg. larger market, to the point, where public transport cannot provide efficiently any services.
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  348. There is another way to look at this. And yes, wages, while not alone, are the key. Specifically, disposible income is the key. That is income after taxes and mandatory expenses, like expenses you have to run your business or expend to mantaining your job (think car expenses, public transport tickets, whatever courses are necessary for one to pass to maintain eligibility to work etc.), housing, including home tax, utilities (electricity, water, sewage, heating etc) and then you're supposed to save up to retirement, older folks would recommend about a third of your income. Well. These days, housing alone can cost over 60% of ones disposable income! To top it off, we all live in flats, not houses, meaning, we don't have enough space to live in and can't therefore indicate, that we are successful enough to safely raise a family. Current green idiocy is making it worse, because proponents of "green" see cars as inefficient and polluting, completely ignoring the fact, that they are necessary, because in order to have dwelling that's actually fit to raise children, we'd need to earn much more, because green policies are increasing costs of travel, which is causing us to pack ourselves even more in the cities, which in turn puts upward pressure on rents. There wil never be economic incentive to provide public services to areas sparsely populated, which are exactly areas, which have better birth rates. There's a reason, why, middle class meant own home, all be it with a mortgage, two cars, both on loans and two kids by age thirty all on one income back in the fifties. Today, young need to live with their parents well into forties to secure sufficient income just to cover rent, food and transportation, rent being chief expense, because we live in too desnely packed cities, because that is where all the jobs went to for reason of greater synergies between each other. That's not even taking into account certain specifics, like in the US and UK student loans. Add to this devastating effect of Feminism on women values and you have perfect storm for childless nations. Even same sex couples won't save this, because you still need man and woman to concieve, be it direct mother or a surrogate, because artificial insemination is too expensive to run at scale, not to mention, that women will prefer their career, if they won't get anything out of it.
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  349. Legal Eagle: "It's a mistake to treat pranks with any kind of seriousnes..." Me, living in the EU, in Samuel L. Jackson voice: "Motherf*cking Brexit!"
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  350.  @nikolajbdewadt9141  We can begin with the housing crisis, which, due to protection of areas of natural appeal (one of the reasons commonly used), have prevented construction of new housing.
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  351. more like 2025 ;)
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  352.  @jettjones9889  Yeah... you might want to recalculate those numbers with pre-referendum exchange rate. Pound Sterling is at the moment about 20% weaker than before... Also, look around a bit. Poland has caught up with UK economy wise, there are labor shortages in fields, that used to be done by Europeans from drivers through seasonal farm workers to nurses...
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  353. End of oil will never come. Even after the time we'll extract the last atom, we will find a way to manufacture oil, so we can refine it once more. Not for fuel, but rather, for well over 10000 products, that are further worked on to produce everything we have. It is simply too versatile resource to die.
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  354.  @StacksSats  You can't predict, it will actually go up, not to mention how much you can lose on any crypto... They are NOT money. They are much closer to commodities!
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  355. I think, this is a mistake... Yes, world is reening itself of oil, we have incentives, yada, yada... The world will never get off oil! Even if we stop using it for fuels, there are still plastics, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers... The list is well over 10000 entries long! over 10000 kinds of products have oil in them in one form or another and Saudi Arabia has the lowest costs to extract oil on Earth. What I'd do, would be to: 1) establish a university, that would train and research stuff related to oil extraction and processing. 2) I would double down on oil processing and industrial automation. Really these days, oil is seen primarily as an energy resource. I'd flip that. I'd see it first and foremost as a manufacturing material and only and what can't be processed further would be burned. That way, SA would have abundant and basically forever cheap and secure source of resources for their products. Even if the world abandoned vast majority of products made from oil, there would still be pharmaceuticals and fertilizer, wihtout which the system will not ever work and on which Saudis would have massive advantage, given low raw material costs and cheap electricity, because they wouldn't need to import anything and burn what's now used for fuel and cannot be processed further to have their own power source. I'm not worried about climate discourse derailing this, because particularly in democracies, parents will not tolerate their children dying of smallpox, measels or anything treatable, or famine, because the nation, which produces majority of fertilizer isn't green enough. Noone is going to put tolls or sanctions on a nation producing this basic stuff over something as meager as climate change. 3) bad image cannot be overcome with PR. That is the lesson SA needs to learn and actually implement reforms. That is one thing they can't speed up. Just look at major brands and what is their reputation in spite of in some cases downright excessive PR budgets! I'm talking EA (once mark of quality, now of garbage in gaming), Blizzard (same story and to think that SC2 nearly saved them!), Ubisoft (who once ran three different DRMs on one of their games and now are actively trying to deny us owning purchased games), HP (and their printers from hell). Only genuine change can do that.
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  356. So... they essentially use Star Trek Warp...
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  357. Who knows, maybe Truman has depression and wanted to go full Naiguatá about it.
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  358. Consumption taxes are actually a good thing. You see, only what you consume gets taxed, and the rest, things that you save or invest into some funds, bonds or stocks are not, but the money returns into economy anyway. And if you need to throttle your taxation for one reason or another, you can simply cut on spending to a point. This doesn't happen with income taxes, so I'd rather see them go and double the VAT if need be.
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  359. And Czechia. A lot of production of Temelín nuclear powerplant, one of two in the Czech Republic, goes to Germany. Germans and Austrians really need to shut up their green parties... Austria would have had nation wide blackout, had it not been for Dukovany, the other nuclear powerplant in Czechia, and "dirty" power sources in Hungary and Slovakia, which were called to up their production, to keep the grid stable.
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  360. yes... brotherly nations... Czechia, literally number 2 country on Russia's hostile countries list :D
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  361.  @eq2092  Yeah, don't have 10 years of working experience after 1 year of leaving full time studies...
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  362.  @LegalEagle  Are you refering to gen. Kegame from Shake hands with the devil?
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  363.  @farright118  I'd be rather reserved about a referendum. If Babiš's initial election tells anything, it's how easily the masses can be manipulated (or Brexit for that matter too). The reason, why I went with 0,5% is purely mechanical one, because there are 200 seats for grabs each election in the lower chamber.
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  364.  @zhye5588  If you feel that way, go to Ukraine. That's a big one right there. It doesn't feel like that, because the West has only so far dedicated economy to it.
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  365.  @duckdaniels7597  feminism does.
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  366.  「 Deadpoppin 」  Simple, economist Tomáš Sedláček call's us the "Bohemians" due to our long forgotten past... And who else but Bohemians would be lead by Captain Jack Sparrow?
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  367. That is simple. By job hopping and finding a company, which won't do that. I am leaving my company over this.
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  368. Question really is, how far are we willing to go with regulation. The fact, that the best way to get large amounts of money these days, requires you to dodge regulation, could be interpreted as regulation going way too far or being incorrect drawn. I am the first to call for criminal liability for C-suite executives and even owners of companies, if their employee dies at work during a natural disaster, as happened to Amazon a few years back, but that was a human choice, not the nature of the business.
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  369. VisualEkonomik: "He, who control"s the banking, control's the money. And he, who control's the money control's the economy!" Me: "Money must flow!"
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  370. Europe needs to wake up from it's environmental fever dreams and start playing to it's strengths. The capital that is in the EU, fertile farmland and agricultural technologies, and it's location near Africa, where all those resources Europe needs are located and where there is a growing population in need of increased food supply. If Europe were to ditch it's green agenda and focused on consumption based model instead instead of exports model, using exports strictly to feed it's own consumption, we'd be much better off. But not everything needs to be done, like they do in the US. Take unemployment, for instance. There are people, who want to work, and I do believe them to be vast majority, but companies don't hire them, because they'd need training. Well, make unemployment benefits infinite, but conditional on active job hunting, individualized, to cover job hunting expenses and rent/mortgage + basic expenses to maintain a living, and at the end of the year, bill it all to employers. The deal being, "look, you'll either hire them, or you won't either way, you'll pay for them.". That would finally put pressure on companies to hire people and to train them and down the line utilize them!
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  371.  @ZechsMerquise195  No consequences yet... we'll see what future brings, when he's out of office. I believe he could be sued, although don!t quote me on this.
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  372. I really don't understand why would anyone lagg to a router. Sure, betwene switches? Absolutely. From a switch to a storage or app server? Certainly. I did exactly that. But from a router to a switch? Usually link beyond the router has the least bandwidth avaliable to the network, so it would seem useless for most applications... Given that VRRP would serve as better solution (because you also plan for HW failiure).
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  373. Oh, you'd be surprised. There are degrees, that have stuff you wouldn't believe, but is not just necessary for that field, is actually in demand, out there. For instance, Mendel University has this bachelor's program called "forestry". There is a subject called "work with chainsaw". I'm not kidding. Precisely this program would actually benefit from a rock climbing wall, because of teaching safe approach to trees, which need to be fell, but are in very inaccessible locations, as well as safe use of climbing equipment. Hazardous logging is very expensive stuff and the last thing you need, is for your crew to not know, how to use a climbing harness. And there are other programs, which don't have this direct use case, but would benefit. The same gear is used by Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) for safety purposes, when installing WiFi dishes in high places (on factory chimneys mostly). So applied informatics would have use for that same wall. Another field would be sample collecting or deployment of monitoring stations (eg. research itself) for pretty much the same reasons. Don't underestimate expenses you can't fathom to understand.
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  374. Somebody tell that to Jon Stewart, when he starts talking about how often guns kill kids. Here's something worse.
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  375. This is precisely, why I went UniFi and not Cisco or any other WiFi system, that has a central controller (Omada wasn't a thing at the time). Self hosted controller on either manufacturer provided device or your own computer as weak as a NAS
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  376. Well... Technically Thunderf00t, owning a car does earn you money... In most places, you actually need a car to commute to work/clients to earn money. Meaning, while cash flow from a car ownership seem's negative, that, which you earn extra working somewhere you'd have to commute to by a car, is actually money generated by that car, because it allow's for that extra revenue.
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  377. need to refocus away from this trap. Europe has one highly profitable industry and it's killing it with green BS
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  378. Let me debunk the wage argument. What is the wage, that the owner actually has to shill out, to repeair product he owns, if he could buy the tools and replacement parts and were provided with easy to read schematic? The answer is 0. Yet production companies like Apple or John Deer lobby extensively to prevent repairability of goods they produced, or force their technicians be the only option and thus more expensive. It has gone so far, actually, that US farmers have been given exemption from DMCA to crack their tractors software, so they can service them them selves and EU had to mimplement regulation, to force Apple (and other phone manufacturers) to start making user replacable battery in new models. Just look at Louis Rossmann's channel, how hard it is to repair stuff with access to these restricted.
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  379. I disagree with you a bit, finding out, why it happened benefits you in two ways. One, if it were an actual problem and not an HR crotch, then you have to fix it to get more hireable. Two firings don't come completely out of the blue. Recognising a similar pattern can give you heads up to intensify your job hunting and be ahead of the curve.
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  380.  @seanmysel5823  But you need to know, it's just an opinion and it's unfounded. Because if that opinion is for instance, that "finance analyst can't use advanced functions in Excel.", then that is a genuine problem for you to fix, if you want to get hired as a finance analyst.
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  381. Law is much wider subject, than just litigation or representing people. Take an accountant for instance. There's whole code of law regarding tax and accounting principles. Isn't an accountant a specialist in accounting and tax law then? Or what about someone working in HR, doesn't he need to know, how much he must protect personal information of others? In the EU, we have entire set of laws about that subject. I kid you not, when I was getting my fishing license, I had to study our law, because there are some coded privileges (for instance, I can legally trespass, as long as I'm on my way to a shore or from it with my credentials as a fisherman and gear), obligations (most importantly banned methods of fishing) and rights of others when dealing with me (fishing guard can legitimize me and, if I'm found in breach, even seize my gear and papers). Doesn't that make every fisherman a specialist at law governing the practice of lake and river fishing? Sure, she might not become a lawyer. But she doesn't need to be one. She could become a clerk, if she's ever released, and she would have the advantage of knowing multiple fields of law, allowing her to get a job at wider range of employers and positions. All it would take, is an employer, who'd give her a chance.
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  382. And greedy middlemen will usher us back in :D
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  383. Trust me. In under a year since this get's signed into law, somebody will come up with a lawsuit, seeking psychological damages, claiming, that accidental misuse of a pronoun... It is only nonsense, until somebody sues over it. Remember that guy, who sued Pepsi over a harrier? You'd think it idiotic, nonsense or flat out lie, yet that lawsuit is on the books.
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  384. wouldn't work, then they'd move into other things, that we use to live. I'm talking utilities, garbage collection, Internet access... and on and on. No, we need to revitalize productive industries like mining, material refining and consumer goods production, that way, ROI will be better in that sector than in housing and these investors will start selling and move into them.
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  385. Russia: Bans Steam TV report 24 hours later: Breaking news at this hour. It appears that Russo-Ukrainian war is over, however, it also appears that a number of different threats have risen within Russian borders. We have reports of Russian and Ukrainian forces jointly invading Russian territories, carrying out sweeping operations against, according to one soldier, "animals bearing striking resemblance to Chrisalids from acclaimed strategy game series X-Com", killing anything that moves. The soldier also noted "I may have to disobey my orders, though. We've received orders to also kill those, whom these creatures attack!", bringing uncomfortable implications to the situation. Further, per Russian request, Swedish and Finnish forces have entered Carellia region to assess reports of local population in a state of religious frenzy. Soldiers confirmed these reports, stating that most citizens have armed themselves with chainsaws and have been attacking each other, claiming that "the Devil is real" and "their neighbors have been possessed". Surprisingly, no aggression was shown towards the foreign troops and beyond insistence of local population on addressing the foreign soldiers as "slayers" and refusing to disarm, are following instructions delivered with fervor. The city of Sankt Peterburg has gone dark and citizens living in the outskirts of the city have fled. They have reported appearance of strange green and blue crystals, that made them feel sick upon contact with skin, shortly after the ban on Steam game distribution and social media platform had been announced. A previously unknown cult of fanatics had also been mentioned in testimonies of the now internal refugee population. This cult appears to be completely unaffiliated with dominant christian orthodox church in the region or christian faith in general. It's practitioners have been allegedly seen carrying out rites glorifying "the technology of peace" near sites of crystal growth and showed outright irrational fear of mammoths and any tank over 62 tones total weight. Moscow is also reporting erratic behavior among it's inhabitants. Local policemen have over just last six hours seized over 300 rocket launchers, 200 miniguns, 4000 small arms and an undisclosed number of seemingly energy weapons and enough ammunition for said weapons to fully stock the Russian Army for the next decade. The chief of police urged the government to issue a stay-in-home order, as in his own words "the weapons are showing up out of thin air exactly in the places, where we seized them mere minutes after we have done so. The population is agitated and trying to get to these weapons, claiming they need to entertain the masses in some sort of tournament. Even my own men are beginning to lose their sanity and are requesting permissions to patrol the streets with these seized weapons.", later he added, "I'm having to actually approve of these requests for special weaponry, because denying them already threatened mutiny and I don't have enough men to keep both citizens of Moscow safe and keep my own men in check.". A local citizen commented upon seeing an officer with a minigun in one hand and a rocket launcher in the other, "This is unreal!". Trouble is also brewing along the span of the Transsiberian railroad. the Russian army is investigating reports of strange behavior among populace. For instance in Vladimir region population has been reported to done strange creatures on their heads, to self mutilate, mutilate others and allegedly have engaged in cannibalism. Those, who have managed to evade this gruesome disturbance of their psyche, have on the other hand succumbed to fascination with Greek Alphabet and forgot how to count beyond two. In unrelated case, the city of Vladimir, administrative capitol of the region, petitioned government to be renamed to "Ravenholm" hours after first incidents of self mutilations were first reported. Further down the track, city of Kirov has succumbed to fascination with lighter-than-air aviation and started producing airships. Currently, Kirov is reporting four airships built, but are anticipating delays on others due to shortage of maneuver props. Entire Chelyabinsk region has reported shortages of red, blue, pink and purple colors, as well as most metals. In a press conference to the shortage, the mayor of the city of Chelyabinsk declared that "the Emperor's Children require these materials, so that they may better serve the Four". Question "who are the Four?" never got it's answer, as the roles of participants seemingly shifted and the reporter had been repeatedly asked, whether "he served the Corpse Emperor?". After declaring himself member of the "Alpha Legion", the reporter along with the rest have been dismissed and ordered to leave the premises of "The Garden", as they need to prepare for the long march on the "Imperial Palace". Russian general staff is currently attempting to find clues, whether this means another march on Moscow or this time on Sankt Peterburg. Russian far eastern command has reported loss of their entire navy, as well as raising claims, that a number of Chinese ships being sunk by a single girl, who appeared to have been levitating over the surface of water. Seeing the situation, Russian far eastern command had ordered armored trains be pulled out of long term storage and deployed throughout Vladivostok region and are currently in talks with central government about their deployment throughout the Transsiberian railroad. The decision caused panic among commuters from nearby towns and villages. One villager stated "I don't know, when will I be able to return home! I need the job, but my parents are old and sick and need care, so I have to return home. The sooner the better! With those idiotic politicians in charge, who knows? This one might as well be my last train home.".
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  386. "... most safe and equal country on Earth". Laughs in Czech
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  387. OK, this dude knows absolutely nothing. If you want to see, what would have happened, look back to what happened in Prague in 1968! This war was inevitable.
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  388. I have one better for you. Gichin Funakoshi, basically the father of modern Karate, born on Okinawa, admitted in his book Karate-do: My life's journey, that he had never learned to swim, despite being an islander.
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  389.  @pipsplay  Which is why you need to make them understand, you don't tolerate shenanigans
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  390. Most EU nations are losing population left and right. We should be working towards greater integration of people from a many places as possible!
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  391. Louis, your "Scruge McDuck" is nothing compared to corporate America... Just remember, it's been what, two years? Since Amazon made their workers work through a tornado alert and workers died... Not all employers are good employers, Louis.
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  392. Folks, I know, white is not exactly the most visible collor, but going for yellow as standin for white in French tricolor was a very inappropriate... You made them look Romanian...
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  393. I'm sorry, US universities understood, that teaching job related stuff is necessary? That more engineers are needed, while fewer philosophers and artists are necessary? Dude two words: Women studies. The problem is NOT the universities, the problem is the students and the pressure these students are under! When deciding our majors, very few people actually care, what they're going to study. They chose based on course's perceived difficulty and, thanks to basolutely attrocious approach to teaching math in middleschools, very few people voluntarily chose math heavy fields, which are all STEM fields. Science? Think of a field, that doesn't need advacned math. Technology? Again, math squared. Engineering? Can you design and build an aircraft carrier without math? Mathematics? Have you ever tried mathematics without math (in which case, I want the stuff you're on)? Thanks to antiquated and, frankly, forceful approach in middleschool, mathematics heavy fields are viewed as hard ones and not chosen by the students, hence there are fewer and fewer actually net contributing workers in Europe, which in turn is the first factor, why there are so few high end businesses around here. Basically everyone with good brains in their heads goes to the US to get STEM education and stays there, or move to other countries, that have lower costs of living thanks to idiocy of enrgiewende and the rest of green BS (make no mistake, this was not the war. If the war didn't come, it would have been other reason, like a Central Europe wide blackout caused by too much or too little Wind in North Germany. The war merely accelerated the problem), that is sweeping through Europe. Because of this our energy costs have skyrocketed to the point, you can't have energy intense activities in Europe, be it steel mills, IT parks or FABs, or even start a family, because you can't afford basic necessities of housing, utilities and Internet opn one income! This is the second factor, that's killing legacy industries like steel, which have their equipment written off already and are therefore financially competitive with new stuff (which is why historically we've never replaced old energy sources in their entirety, rather, we added more modern ones into the mix), and preventing new high yeild fields from taking off, like server farms. instead, we're focusing on how to lower our footprint on the planet, ignoring the fact, that the necessary reduction of said footprint requires Europe to be driven into absolute poverty. Third factor is the fact, that if your business venture dies around here, you're on the hook for the debts taht you've picked up to get the business going, making European population far less entrepreneureal (well, that and the fact, you effectively can't have a side husstle because of how contracts are done around here), which reduces the number of businesses, that could have a part of them on cutting edge of their respective fields, hence have no real motivation to cooperate with universities on high yeild projects. As to the graph that you've shown, that is not sufficient granularity. Law falls under humanities and you could argue, that lawyers are the actual engine of US ecnonomy, given how it is them who craft license agreements and find ways, how to brick what you bought without breaking said agreement, thus creating recurring revenue streams for companies. Copyright is the same tale. Make no mistake, Europe has it's problems with beraucracy, but it is not in the academic field. We have picked up policies, that don't encourage studying more challanging fields like engineering and science, because one, these fields have certain impacts and needs, that are either shunned or can't be provided for anymore in Europe, making student far less likely to chose them, even in the rare cases when the student actually choses based on field perspective. It makes no sense for a student to chose a field, when its major employers will not maintain their operations in Europe. High costs of living and too high risks and devastating effects of running a business in Europe force people, who could create businesses, that would benefit from and to business-university cooperation, out to the US and Asia, which in turn limits universities ability to partake in cutting edge research, which in turn drops them in the rankings. We need to start from the students, change how mathemathics are taught in middle school and abandon implementation of the green transition in favour of returning of energy demanding, but actually productive industries and lowering of costs of living, maximizing real take home pay in the economy without touching taxes (to ensure predictability of tax law). The one thing I kind of agree with in the video, is rigidity of our majors. There is certainly something to be said about not being able to chose subjects that interest you and have them applied to your credit requirements to graduate, on the other hand, giving the students too much choice could also result in a problem. We can't permit an economist to evade all math in his field, tendency to which is precisely what I observed in my colleagues in my study days. What I'd like to see, would be a change in the structure of credits needed to attain. Currently, most places have class A credits, which are mandatory, class B, which are mandatorily chosen (basically subjects from a shortlist), class C credits, which tend to be chosen general studies subjects and class D, which don't earn you credit to current field, but should you chose to study at that uni another field for which the subject is relevant, can be applied there. The further into the alphabet you go in credit classes, the further you can substitute them (A can substitute both B and C, B can substitute class C). What I'd like to see, would be intoduction for four class applicable credit system, where substitutions would only be possible for the last class of credit and specifically have one of the higher credit classes be interdisciplinary thing or specific effect of studied field on other fields and I'd reduce the mandatory credits to absolutely essential knowledge necessary for the more specialised courses. (as economics major, I only learned the mathematical application of micro and macro economics on business in master's degree course, while the subject matter was taught in bachelor's course. The connection or where that subject knowledge was actively applied was never mentioned in that course, which I belive, to be a massive mistake). To illustrate, what I'd like to see, would be a business major student having to study specific field of business, like agri business or horti business. A agronomist would have to study some specific aspect of forestry (for instance, presence of forest has effect on soil, certain methods of raising cattle require knowledge from both fields). Multidisciplinarity is the dealbreaker for the future in my opinion.
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  394.  @Philafxs  Yeah, no kidding, Youtube tell's me, when I hover over Tf00t's video, that a lot of Leonard's audience is also watching Tf00t's videos.
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  395. The answer is simple. Employers being too demanding. I kid you not. One major employer in my country told me, that they don't hire for any position within one department, for which they are actively advertising! I'm getting in to interviews, where the boss praises my skills and modesty, yet say's, "yeah, I won't hire you, cause you don't communicate well."... Well, no shit. While he was in his youth honing his interpersonal skills in some bars, I was learning tax code and how to fill in incoterms! Employers are too spoiled these days. They don't pay a living wage, so why would anyone return to such jobs, state support or none?!
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  396. They said, that eventually, thanks to economic growth, ethics would become so cheap, we'd be able to afford them. Well, they were wrong.
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  397.  @massimookissed1023  Yeah, problem is, hydrogen has two... problematic characteristics, hence why it's not typically used as fuel. 1) it's ridiculously flamable and unstable. I'm talking Hyndenburg levels of flamable. You need to maintain very specific conditions not to end up barbeque and those are hard to maintain. 2) It's ridiculously corrossive, meaning whatever tanks you make, eventually, it will start to leak and same holds true for normal gass transporting pipes. You need special stuff for Hydrogen. Hence, in order to do it safely, you can only mix it with other gasses to burn, to transport it safely. It's better to think about hydrogen like about NOS for cars. You don't run your car on NOS alone, but when you need the boost, you punch it.
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  398. Not realizing, we're already in that situation. Companies already stomp on workers even here in Europe and Germany along with France were bullying smaller, poorer nations on the green front. Really the only reason, why Poland and Hungary got away with doing the same to the rest of the EU is, that nobody expected them to do so.
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  399. What they mean is, whether you can effectively tax people more. There's a law in economics, can't remember the name now, that says, that if you increase tax rate beyond certain point, you'll generate LESS revenue, because people will stop buying the stuff they originally consumed and, if they are able to, they'll substitute it with something else. Well, if you increase taxes that hit everything, people will start saving more money, because whatever they could spend it on would become too expensive to justify buying them and the economy slows down in general, which down the line could even lead to bankruptcies of companies, layoffs and further decrease in consumption caused by lower disposable income in the economy. Meaning you could start a deflationary spiral and there is no coming back from that without heads of minister of finance and governor of central bank (at minimum) rolling. Tax wise and by extension subsidies wise, this means, that you will lower the support you can pay out to the farmers, because you increased how aggressively you've been taking money from peoples purses. And it doesn't matter, whether you target income or consumption taxes. Real after taxes income will be the same and that is what will determine consumption in economy and by extension total tax revenue and redistributable portion of it into agro subsidies.
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  400. I for one believe, that the visit should go on as scheduled. In my ideal world, I'd insist on Vance accompanying the president. Why? There are a few ways this could go: 1) the King could actually talk some sense into Trump, and Trump would then rein down Vance, preferably in front of cameras. Trump loves the Royal family, so I'd argue, if there is someone, who's capable of influencing Trump to the point of sending US troops, it's the King. 2) Boeings have been falling from the sky lately...
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  401. Man am I glad, where I live, there is bit of a code. You never ever leave someone alone, if they came to fix something at your home. That being said, we need to redo our market protection laws... Companies will behave like this, unless they, at holding level, face bankruptcy over this general behavior.
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  402.  @abaddon1371  The problem is, sustainability, particularly in it's current itiration, is unsustainable. Just look at rise of far right across Europe.
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  403.  @pellehyltoft7771  If I recall correctly, Danish Krona is fix pegged to Euro with some 2% permissible float...I'm sorry, but that's just having Euro and calling it something else. Also, the referendum was 53,2 to 46,8. That's pretty close to me. On top of that, it's been 24 years. How has the sentiment changed since?
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  404. That won't help. There are people, who excel in tests, but are practically completely useless, even when it comes to their field.
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  405. Do you want to stop global warming? There are two ways, you can achieve it truly sustainably: a) phase out coal and oil for nuclear powerplants, give up on renewables and reduce the need to commute to work. b) give up.
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  406. There is another problem here. I think VisualPolitik EN did another video about this a few years ago, but look at what fields obtain their diplomas. Religion, literature... economics are the better ones. Very few people over there go into STEM, which denies them home grown workforce necessary for most economic activities. The university systems in Muslim world need reform and refocus them selves towards more practical fields, particularly engineering.
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  407. More like Europe would start being really annoying about them joining the War on Terror, when US got attacked and now, when the tables have turned, the US is betraying those very nations, that allied them selves with them.
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  408. This is not replicable. At least not indefinitely. Problem here is, as more and more places like this pop up, the competition between them becomes so intense, they will become unsustainable, between tax breaks, investment incentives and golden visas, much revenue will fall between the cracks and cause deterioration of public utilities, that keep these hubs running. Imagine Dubai go the way of Detroit, because it didn't have for one reason or another the money to inport or desalenate and treat water for it's inhabitants to drink. It is a kin to Dutch desease, only for Dubai the commodity that is overrelied on here is trade itself, while for Detroit it was automotive.
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  409. Holly shit! A letter of marque in this day and age? Oh things are gonna get spicy... :D
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  410. Yeah, it's similar here in Czechia. ČNB (our national bank) revoked Sberbank's license and now, my home bank has been tasked with paying out insured deposits...
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  411. Yeah... virtually no enviromental impact... Well, over the lifetime of such powerplant, more CO2 is produced per total ammount of Wh produced, when compared with an oil plant. This is because they produce comparably way too little power and need highly refined materials to be somewhat effective. Plus, big birds are not exactly freinds of these... you're not a friend of the thing that threatens your survival... And finally, since wind is not under human control, these powerplants can overload the network, or not provide enough power to the grid at any given moment. Solar has the same problems. No, you wan't relatively clean power source? Go with nuclear and add a couple of gas powerplants, to top up the network as needed. There will never be truely carbon free energy. Our engeneering simply isn't there and there is no cheating in laws of physics.
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  412. No, there is no such a thing as videogame addiction. The world is NOT a rewarding place to be in as a man. Interacting with a woman is not rewarding. Job doesn't provide us even with sustenance, much less actual purpose. In games, worst thing, that can happen, is you start over. You can't do that IRL. Until prospects for men improve IRL, we'll stick with the environment, that actually values our efforts, be it through ingame progress or some useless but fancy achievements on Steam. Those can actually be attained and have set and clear conditions to meet, unlike real world.
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  413.  @duanesmith5074  Yeah, we're already at four jobs, but keep talking...
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  414. Question is, how long will Stamer stay in power. From what I saw, he's been irritating farmers left and right and farmers could easily cause famine and point at his policies as a scapegoat.
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  415. This can't be done. It's not the Universities fault really, that BS like this gets published. It should be published and the kid should earn their degree for it, because real world plausibility with current technology is but one aspect of a scientific work. Even though these are, for the moment at least, completely impractical concepts, there may be a breakthrough somewhere else, that could make the original idea not quite so idiotic. That is the very premise behind EVs and why everybody's trying to find a more efficient battery chemistry right now. Science needs to explore even dead ends, so that it can eventually evaluate them as dead ends, or determine, what is missing. No, what really is the problem here, is that papers understanding nothing about science, like Forbes or Business Insider pick this up and sensationalize it. Papers, that don't have sufficient scientific understanding of the matter, which need sensationalist BS to get people's eyeballs to them.
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  416. I dare you to make your accounting for the last decade, including trade statistics per partner, public then. Prove your words!
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  417.  @tototrapsilo  Doesn't work for everyone and there are more logic "flavors" out there. For instance, you could say, that an RTS game is just a game, but I as an economist see logic system of rules, where perfectly balanced optimization of available resources, which results in destruction of enemy base. Sure, I could approach it mathematically and find certain optimum, but I could also describe rules of the game and find the same optimum without having to touch mathematics, plus, this way I can actually find exploits in the game logic it self. Another example would be crypto currencies, which have only one thing going for them, they are rare much like commodity money (think gold coins), however, since they don't have any alternative use (such as material for jeweler's art or in electronics production), they are closer to fiat money and thus by them selves worthless. There is no "set minimum" by alternative use for them and thus, I as an investor can lose more, than if I invested in any precious metal for instance, because there is a pre-set minimum, under which that metal won't go. And this is something someone, who only studied mathematics can't find, because calculations check out. Even we economists say, that there are two kinds of economists, mathematicians and philosophers. Mathematicians can calculate anything and everything, but can get lost in the concept, because they only work in the confines of numbers. philosophers may not tell you, how high GDP will be tomorrow, but they will find major structural problems with calculated numbers, eg. why, even though the numbers check out, something is a bad idea to invest in, or the other way around.
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  418. And yet, that happened to Farage, as well as to hunting clubs over in the UK. I also hear through the grape wine, that in Czechia, you basically can't get a terminal, if you do anything with guns...
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  419.  @CuriousCrow-mp4cx  Except, you're forgetting, that all production needs to be consumed by someone, otherwise it's worthles and its value is 0, but has born expenses. Vast majority of consumers are workers, hence why true capitalism would NEVER see them as mere input. Tomorrow's profit also count's (why would banks give businesses loans at the same times as businesses saught them, if it didn't) and the workers are the ones in whom the tomorrow's profit grows. The fact, that particularly in the US everybody's obsessed with weekly and monthly figures and doesn't care about a year and above, is not a flaw of capitalism, because capitalism thinks holistically. Hell, even things like the environment, which the Left claims is destroyed by capitalism for the sake of profit, has been better preserved in capitalist countries than in actually communist ones, which had protection of environment within their laws. Why? Because some functions of that environment gain such a value, that expending it to produce profit reduces profit even without external factors being involved (it would be nonsensical to destroy hotsprings to mine couple fo tons of coal. It makes sense to build hotels and other infrastructure for guests, provided there is not enough coal to mine). As to the three options you presented. I have some bad news... i) the situation I described is everywhere and thanks to legislation where I live and general employer attitude, I cannot transition easily into another field, hence why I need to ride this out. To illustrate, in order to beocme an electrician, I'd need to attend a highcshool for three years obtain the diploma (not even a proper degree), in order to become eligable for another set of education and experience to obtain a license, which is required by all the employers in the field. Even ignoring the impossibility of obtaining the experience without the possibility of getting hired, that's another five years of no income, all the while having normal living expenses. That's a non starter. Similar situation is in most fields, that are likely not going to get affected by AI. So retraining and transitioning is not viable option. ii) UBI is BS, because that money has to come from somewhere. The problem is even if you perfectly matched inflation with creation of new money and deposited it into bank acounts of actual people, base necessities like utilities (if they're not properly regulated), fuel (because you still need to hold down a job and it doesn't matter, how you commute, gas get's burned somehow somewhere), food & drinks, healthcare and most importantly rent and house prices would run faster than general inflation, because these things are very price inflexible, because these actually need to be expended for a person to live. Meaning if you introduced UBI, those who already don't earn enough to maintain a living wouldn't get help (they're in the red as it is) and those, who are right above them would get sucked in with them, because these base expenses would grow just slightly above what was actually distributed by UBI, because that can only be tied to either median or mean inflation, as to be socially acceptable. Mandatory employee ownership of employers could provide a better outcome (employee shares as a mandatory hiring bonus) iii) likely not Soilent green, but I do see use in Fertilizer (It's Spacer's Choice!)
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  420. And to make things worse for Disney, but also for streaming companies, people don't have strong enough Internet outside of large cities or countries, which heavily invested in to their internet infrastrucuture, whic in turn drive's the need to create family acrhives of multimedia, which has been given a big help, because NAS devices have become very clever and very avaliable in terms of price to end customers, hell, there are already specialised NAS boxes for multimedia storage and streaming. Names like Qnap, Synology or Asustor will become a major headache for these multimedia companies as long as archiving by it self remains legal (although that is in it self another can of worms to open). The only thing these companies can do is to make sure that content can't be easily transfered from their storage mediums to those of end users. And there lies the greatest threat. Younger generations have become far more tech savy than their predecesors and don't want constrains of copyright, some even don't want altered content for local markets. Content, that without these alterations, could be even illegal in some coutnries. For the younger generations, sharing is the norm, and there lies the greatest threat to all. That copyright will eventually follow the will of the young and that large ammounts of quality content will fall in to public domain through changes or abolishing of copyright altogether. The content monopoly will end and that will be the deathkneel of Diesney, unless they move in to completly different fields.
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  421. There will always be only a single currency in any single state. The case of Cuba, which had two parallel currencies is a cautionary one.
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  422.  @TheRuben_music  Point is, we're so out of leadership material here in Europe, even politically dead people are being drawn back to the forefront because of Trump
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  423. The field of study is the key. Sure, it's nice to learn just to learn (there are some universities, which will allow you to enroll in classes not related to your field), but if you can't apply it, it's worthless. Also, as someone who sent over 3000 resumes out while job hunting, I can tell, companies don't give a damn. Really, i feel, that these days, the best way is to go both. Learn a trade, come to an agreement with your employer and do school part time. Will also help you determine, whether the guy is worth working for.
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  424. cause until recently, Chrome was more pushed and for a while actually superior browser. These days, as a user, you won't notice difference between Chrome and Firefox... except for ad blocking.
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  425. Maaan... at this point, you need to give Shaman credit as writer of your show... The amount of content you've managed to milk out of the guy is absolutely astonishing :D
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  426.  @cosmicthespider7974  You might want to rethink that. Africa is full of ex-soviet stuff
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  427.  @chadbrad8100  Question is, how long can Ukraine maintain that? Two years is long already, as majority of wars had been shorter. And if the West cut's their support... they're screwed. Swedes did extremely well in Winter war, but they too eventually had to cede some land, all be it much less than otherwise would have. Mass is a quality of it's own and Russia, unfortunately, still has that advantage, not to mention how well Russians can suffer. How long it takes to break them to demand political change... I don't think, Ukrainians would have to walk all the way to Vladivostok, but I'm concerned, they wouldn't even reach Ural, behind which Putin can run, unfortunately.
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  428.  @ALifeAfterLayoff  Not to mention brach of contract. Companies like to put non-compeets with language, that would make your accounting job disappear, if you became a part time welder somewhere else...
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  429. Interesting. Here's how probation work's in Czechia. During up to first three months, six for senior leadership, either side can just walk, as if in at will employment. If not in this period, minimum notice is two months, but both sides can agree on a longer notice period in the contract, as long as it's equal. Eg. employer can't force employee to give them greater notice, than they have to give the employee. There are exceptions, though. If employee truly horribly breaks his duties (usually comes high/drunk, beats coworker...), these have to be agreed upon in advance as more serious derelictions of duty, or if the employee was sentenced for at least six months for a crime against the employer, or if his conduct was not connected to his work was sentenced for at least a year. If the employee proves legally incapable of carrying out his duties and the employer stated in writing in the last twelve months, that the employee must take action to fix this incapability and the employee doesn't act (licensing requirements stemming from law, for instance, to advise people on debt, you need a license from our central bank), or if while on sick leave the employee gets caught outside of permitted hours outside the dwelling the employee stated he would stay at during illness. An employee can immediately end his contract, if he can no longer carry out his duties due to health reasons and the employer didn't move the employee to a new position within 15 days of being made aware of the fact. This has to be done by a doctor's assessment. Or if the employer didn't dully pay in full all compensation due to the employee within 15 days of due date.
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  430. No. It's not. They'll eventually just rebrand and this whole shit starts over again. You guys need to legislate, what it means to sell, what it means to lease and that sell option be mandatory to be provided.
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  431.  @LegDayLas  Check your jurisdiction. This stuff can happen in places, unfortunately.
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  432. I'd understand a transponder on a drone. Flying one of these near an airport is riskey (illegal where I live), so I'd understand the drone broadcasting it's position, speed, height and registered identification... But location of the operator? BS!
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  433.  @callmekirkland8  I disagree, I got my job months after stopping writing cover letters. I will admit, that I'm from Europe and finance, so it might be either cultural, field specific or both, but when I stopped writing cover letters, I didn't notice change in potential employer responses.
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  434. Roman: "I don't know, why I forgot to include Turkey into Europe." Me, an intelectual: "probably cause the capitol is in Asia"
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  435.  @sergeydyumin4380  Dude, there is no brainwashing. What's stopping Russia as a nation and Putin in particular to do the same to Czechia via Germany, as he did to Ukraine couple of years back? Well, the answer, is nothing. Czechia is heavily dependent on Germany for most of it's output, so threatening Germany with a close down of the pipeline, if they don't make Czechia behave is a very easy way, to leverage far more power, than Russia actually has, and has shown, that it want's to utilize (as far as leadership is concerned). The indirect threat is actually larger than direct one (eg. the gas itself). And make no mistake, Merkel would absolutely do that, without batting an eye. Let me also remind you, that there are currently two nations listed on "hostile nations list", that being USA and Czech Republic. This list was created by Russian government. Not ours. As long as there is only a single source of gas, it matter's not, through which countries it passes. It wouldn't matter even if we shared a border (as we used to). Also, your argument, that more gas is not pumped in to Europe is moot, because in Germany, they are putting out of service not just coal power plants, but nuclear ones too. They want to bank on renewables with gas providing for production shortfalls. These are becoming more common as controllable energy sources are being replaced with uncontrollable ones, therefore there will be in short order sky high demand for gas in Germany, because renewables will show their full uselessness for powering a large grid. Why do you think, they're building a SECOND Nordstream pipeline? Of course more gas is to come to Europe! The only answer to that is gas source diversification (eg. mining and building other pipelines to other sources, like the ones in middle east). Not building a secondary pipeline to the same source. That redundancy lowers different risks, not the political or economic ones, which are the ones currently present. High levels of dependency can make even a weakling actor defeat a superpower. All it take's is to deny key resource and present conditions of service renewal. That can't be done, when there is another nation supplying the same resource at similar price, which due to transport costs can only be done by another pipeline from another nation.
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  436. As much as I hate Kennedy I think she actually did something good for once. Too much creative freedom can lead to underexplored or completely unexplored, but promoted in one fashion or another, story lines. Just to explain, section 31 had/has operatives in the open on the Discovery, as was shown in the first season of Discovery, but this was never explored further and could have been omitted outright, without affecting the series. I feel, that with the amount of episodes the Mandalorian had, going with a wider cast than three to four characters (Din, Cara, Grogu) there wouldn't leave enough space flesh out the characters and thus create similar "hey, what about that" feeling. It would have to be longer series, for that to work... So, Filony, if you're reading this, go ahead, make us proper Seven Samurai in space, but make sure it has at least 22 episodes per season!
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  437. There are problems in societies, that we have created. Take falling birth rates. Where do we live? In small flats, sometimes even in single rooms, that simply don't provide sufficient space to raise a family. Add to this laws, that favor women, who are the controlling parties to "bedroom fun" and the pill and you have perfect cocktail for low fertility, because men will evade risk stemming from knocking up a woman, because what they could earn is limited and further threatened by divorce/alimony and whatever pregnancies get would have gotten started are prevented. Add to this fairly good access to abortions and we are, where we are. The way I see it, at least two of these have to go, if this trend is to be reversed. Another case can be made for patents slowing down innovation, because you these days have to work around patents of others, meaning, that even if you'll find a revolutionary combination of preexisting technologies, you can't implement it, because everything you'd get out of it, would get sucked up by patent holders, who are behaving literally like the mythical trolls. Same holds true to copyright. Economically speaking, we have a problem with rent seeking behavior, which materialized in "You'll own nothing and love it!" mantra, which is preventing especially the younger people from increasing their wealth through ownership and ability to fix their broken things. (I'm looking at you Apple, Samsing and other technological companies, I'm looking). Then you have scammers, who manage to get outright cult like following and bring "revolutionary new idea", who suck in tremendous amounts of cash, sometimes even for idea, that outright doesn't even promise to solve a problem, which siphons money from solving actual problems like "stopping the climate change while maintaining our economic prosperity and industrial output", which would have actually provided some kind of outputs. Another problem lies in environmentalism it self, which has taken on mantra of "Saving the environment at all costs", and which has gone the path of economic output and raising the bar to entry for all kinds of activities, commercial or otherwise. Resources exploitation, one of two actual engines of economy (the other being population growth), because everything else is dependent on original resources, is being demonized as unenvironmental, polluting and unethical, and abandoned, which has caused us massive shortages connected to primarily oil and, thanks to war in Ukraine, also steel, aluminum, fertilizer and some components necessary for high tech innovation (mostly neon). All of this would need to be reversed, if economic growth were to return to the West.
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  438.  @anthonypolsinelli1179  I would still prefer this. Fiber has it's problems too, most importantly, it's fragile, so, not the best for industrial environment. Plus, this is ethernet. Simpler to manage, than two different cable standards. I usually use fiber between buildings for lightning protection, but if I can get away with ethernet or direct attatch copper, I prefer to go with them.
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  439.  @tonycatman  I'd bank on development of capital goods. It's a lot easier to grow crops when you have sickle. It's a lot easier to build a fishing ship, when you have a hammer, and it's a whole lot easier to fish in waters, that those without a ship can access.
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  440.  @timothymatthews1653  I'm sorry, New Zeland criminals respect the law and aren't in politics? :D Learn from foreign lands... Refusing to do so is first step towards fascism.
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  441. ehm... Joker, you might want to talk to Serpentza, about what is happening in China. According to him, attacks like these are fairly common there.
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  442. Maybe recalculate values for individual states by purchasing power parity. Hawai has one problem (well, two that interact, sadly). Hawai is an archipelago far away from US mainland and there is this law, don't recall the number and year, that states, that for domestic transportation of cargo, only US based companies may be used, ships must be built in US shipyards and must be crewed by US citizens... Well, US has all but stopped building ships outside of US Navy, Freighter production got gobbled up by Korea and Japan, Americans don't by in large engage in maritime life, let alone shipping, so vast majority of ships are not even crewed by Americans and there are fairly few shipping companies around as most of these typically prefer to use flag of convenience and both register their ships and their companies in these countries. That is why you see so many Panamanian flags on ships out there. All of this means, that the vastly cheaper shipping, that is actually used in international shipping, can't be used to transport goods between mainland and Hawai, making everything significantly more expensive. This, however would not show up in direct GDP comparison between states!
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  443. "you can't put a price on safety." Laughs in insurance
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  444. Joker about, what would happen, if we all became millionaire: "Women: I want a trillionaire!" Me: "Joker, give inflation a few more years like this and this too shall come to pass"
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  445. Yeah, I'd rather see a 4+1 work week, where 4 days would be worked and 1 day would be spent on development, and let the employee decide, whether that 1 day will be through employer provided courses, weekend courses at a university or acquiring a certification or license. Think there could be better results that way.
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  446. Peter: "Why run a rail line up a cliff, when you have flat land available?" Me: "To access the plateau behind it and facilitate exploitation of natural resources and trade...". Seriously, We have learned, how to get trains up and down a cliff. Sure, it may require rack rail at parts, or laying truly unreasonable amount of rail, climbing that cliff perpendicular to its slope, but it can be done. So long, there is any reason to reach an inflection point, it can be done.
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  447.  @romariowright9061  I'd say, it depends on what school you come from. But look at the route of the Empire Builder in the US, similar problem and yet, it was built. There is also this train line in Peru (I believe) that runs from a harbour to a mine, where they had to utilize this technique, simply, because they needed the ore (well they used switchbacks for inversion). The point is, there are always resources to exploit, if you want to. Would it be expensive? Sure, But well built railroad works for decades and centuries! Suddenly, discounted, that amount of money isn't so great.
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  448. Yeah, when I started ať my current job, I literally received condolences, because my direct boss And one od my coworkers were supposedly pain in the ass... Imagine, how I felt on my First day
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  449. What we in Europe must do is very different. There's a flip side to Silicon valley style of place. Scams, which promise something patently impossible, burn the money and provide no results. Just think about every so called "innovators" from last decade. No, the things we must do are these: 1) abandon wind and solar. These sources of power have replaced, most notably in Germany, nuclear and coal power plants. The problem is, you can't really regulate wind and solar and no, there will never be a battery for you to store that power. Hydro power promised to be such battery, however, given other intervening uses for water, most importantly in irrigation, have limited the ability to use hydro power in this regulatory regard. The only power plant, which can be spun up and down fast enough, to be able to respond to needs in the grid, introduced by both intermittency of wind and solar on supply side and day cycle of human life on the other. This must be removed and replaced with what we can procure from safe sources, or mine ourselves. There is place for wind and solar, but that is in island installations for individual homes. Not nation wide grid. When it comes to electricity, energy needs to be first and foremost dependable, only somewhere very far behind renewable. 2) Relax and remove environmental concerns from policy. Europe has not been continent of innovators since WW2. There are multiple reasons why, what happened to Jewish population being a major one among them. But simple truth is, we have always been engineers, not inventors. Most of engineering, however, is not "sustainable" from environmental standpoint, because it needs resources to be mined and put into the economy, all of which has it's environmental costs. We've collectively fallen for a lie, that there can be economic growth without ecological harm. This falsehood has been ingrained in to our policies and collective psyche, meaning those, who would want to return our legacy of industrial power, can't get in to position of power. 3) Employers need to be weakened, not strengthened. It is normal to find in contracts in Europe, that you won't have other jobs. You can't joggle two jobs, even if your workflow allowed it. Disclosure is mandatory, etc... In the mean time, companies are crying, that they can't hire people, and yet, there are folks, who can't get hired anywhere, even if they want to. Many job postings are either outdated or put up, only to mine data, on how desirable a company is. As a result, unemployment metrics overstate the number of available jobs! What need's to be done, is that employee must be given more freedom, companies must be severely punished for pressuring employees to quit and most importantly, companies need to be forced to maintain their postings up to date and to reflect actual need of the companies. Without reliable information about the market there can't be correct policies put in places.
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  450.  @RoScFan  Youtube has a bias. Most channels critical of pro-woman opinions get deleted, folks unsubscribed, demonetized, even when following guidelines to the letter... It's not unbiased platform anymore.
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  451. Assuming, there won't be much f*ckery with interest rates, or you won't lose a job for lengthy period of time. You took a massive gamble there. I wouldn't pay for housing, rent or mortgage, more than 30% of my take home pay. That is after taxes!
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  452. @TopHatLucario  everything has a price
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  453. Roman, I too have a nice flying experience... A friend of my friends had a motorized glider, the one with buggy hung under. Yeah, I tore off seat belts strapping in and then we took off to fly around. Fortunately, it was not windy.
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  454. Let me be evil for a moment... I think you've had your "I am your father" moment...
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  455. Man I have to say, if I were to work for you, I would have problems with the kitchen all the time. One, I don't like boss looking at me from work, as I'm eating, I find it demoralizing, but more importantly two... Damnit I'm not a Nazi to torture boss with food when he's working! And there is the added problem of the room being in use for rercording vidoes. So, what I would do, when time called for it and expansion happened. I would eventually buy that building and add a floor to it, move the contact person, studio and your office to the upper floor. Your current office would turn in to extra storage (as more stuff would need to be held on hand), kitchen would likely move up too and production stuff would be on first floor (maybe restored front office, if there were a shift in customer behaviour) and I would have the rest on the enxt floor... Just for inspiration. ;)
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  456. No, not on this. We need to make it mandatory for software to be multiplatform. This way, we could all simply migrate to Linux and leave Microsoft behind, all the while still using the actually good stuff like MS Office (cause that is industry standard, sadly)
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  457. As much as I despise women like these, I have to "defend" one aspect here. Universities sell these BS diplomas on how easily people get their first jobs after graduation. No wonder, that people then sign up for them. "Look, it guarantees a good paying job and is easier than STEM field!". I mean, who wouldn't use such an opportunity? Who would do actual research at the age, when you select your field? Vast majority of kids don't think in such way this early on in their lives. So, I really don't think its her, or any other student, who went to a school and finishied it, being the problem. It's sverely overblown advertising Unis put out to attract clueless students, who, frankly, aren't ready to make such decision this early.
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  458. It's not important, what the islanders say. When someone objects to something and give good reasons, that is one thing. But that doesn't happen all the time! If the same people start objecting against basically anything and everything, then you have to call their motivations into question, because even if their arguments are good, they might care more about the status quo than the arguments they bring forward, irrespective of their validity.
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  459. Ah, it wouldn't be a video about NYC houses being empty without your comment, Louis :D On all due seriousnesss, how about a bike ride along the Billionaire's Row? Might be good piece of content.
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  460.  @leafbelly  Sure he does... He bikes!
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  461. Louis Rossmann, June 2017: "Don't be so cute... I've got two of you already!" Louis Rossmann, March 2023: "I might afford ten kitties...."
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  462. Judge: "Holly molly! Who did that to you?" Steve: "Gravity, your honor"
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  463. Oh, this is absolutely cool. In South Moravia (very much wine country), we've also decided to name particular EMUs after different wines. First two of these EMUs are named Pálava and Fretava... The first of these was actually created around here.
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  464. Oh nonsense. Comapre US states against each other, comapre EU nations with each ohter. You'll find equally big differences in economic terms between the likes of New York and Alabama, and Germany and Romania... This can be worked around. Problems come from elsewhere... 1. We have the demographic issue 2. We've lost a lot of industry to other places, because we've overregulated them, particularly on the pollution front. 3. We've stopped our own extraction industries. 4. In Europe, if your business fails, debts can follow you beyond your grave, so nearly nobody start's a new business.
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  465. We did this to ourselves by going wind and solar! We turned off powerplants, that could be regulated and produce more energy and ones we could actually mine our own fuel for (Europe has coal in abundance). Because we fell for the green lie.
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  466.  @scottwarthin1528  That is not momentary. Effective storage of this large amounts of energy in batteries is contrary to the laws of physics. Those you don't break without consequences. The only other option is pumping power plant (essentially a water based battery), which uses gravity to help generate power, when it's necessary and other sources of production fail to provide power. However, these require very large area to be built in the freaking mountains. Sorry, that doesn't work. Fully ecological power grid is a dream of ecologists, but a nightmare for everyone else.
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  467. The thing is, EU was never meant to fight wars. It was a peace project, which had been thrown out the window just weeks ago. We don't have time for this.
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  468. Guess I'll try doing active directory ona Syonology NAS :D
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  469. That is precisely, why they can regulate AI. It's not here to influence politics. Europe has other strengths it needs to focus on.
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  470. you might want to research Greece, before talking austerity. It didn't work there, and it wouldn't work here. What really need's to be done, is Sri Lanka needs to be industrialized. First things first, they need to start producing their own fertilizer, they need to scale back tourism and focus on actually productive economy. Second, they need to attract people from abroad, mostly from the west, because that's where specialists are, not to visit, but to settle down there. Three, they need to implement English as lingua franka or better yet, their national language. 4 They need to get more children, so incentivizing parenthood needs to be on the agenda. That means tax incentive to have kids, easier access to home ownership, rent controls and down the line, investment in education. And 5, there was a little detail missed in the video. No country only wants US Dollar, unless they are the US, they will gladly accept their local currency, so Sri Lanka needs to learn, how to trade old ways and refocus it's economy on those nations, who's currency they need the most. The fact, that they are an island helps here greatly.
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  471.  @edi9892  I disagree. Nobody want's to listen to the other side and ignore's hard data, as soon as very ideological topic come's in to play. Take guns for instance (because here it's abundantly visible). Everybody talk's about essentialy saving lives. But if you look at causes of death in a particular area, be it country or county, you'll find that it's not the most prevelent cause of death in that region. If you intend to save lives, shouldn't you expend your resources on the localy most prevelent problem instead on of the most visible? They won't go after that problem and instead double down on guns... Meanwhile, poor driving and road rage kill orders of magnitude more people and there is little to nothing done about it, even though there is not a major ideological conflict in perception of this problem! (this is for nation wide US and whole of Europe). Ultimately, if more cool headed parties were to come in to politics, ones which wouldn't want to appeal so much their extremes, things could come around. Democrats... Stop going after guns and ease up on the environment and I promise you blue Texas. Republicans, stop pretending that everything can be done through market. Even it fails. And stop cataring so much to the religeous front and you will see purple if not red California! Stop making every elections the Kobayashi Maru test!
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  472.  @David-bi6lf  No, if we didn't have renewables, we wouldn't need gas. Gas is the source of power, that can be easily regulated (ie. can be easily and quickly turned on and off) to off set the times, when it doesn't shine enough or blow enough. Meanwhile, look at France, how their energy costs are lower, because they bet on nuclear energy.
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  473.  @Lee-pf2uv  Well, I believe, that simply demanding my money and not budging would be enough to make the guy go find someone else, but wouldn't endanger my job. I understand your point though. I really should ask for first class (if there are routes flying from that destination), if company need's me back in the office.
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  474. This is something I could not explain to my dad ever. That not just employers sometimes advertise on multiple sites, but also that sites are actually interconnected in some cases and are carbon copies of eachother! When job hunting, I'm job hunting on the largest portal around and, surprise surprise, all those other portals have job opportunities that are copy paste adverts of the same companies, sometimes with some specs added or retracted, but the same ads all the same... But dad was all, "And what about this site?", or "Look, they're advertizing over on that site!" and I'm like... "yes, they are. They have my CV for a week now... Found their advert on the site I use."... Or the lady at the labour office, "But you're only responding on one site! Try all those others!", to which I pulled out printed email, where one employer asked me, to stop responding on all the sites, because they received my CV eight times in one week... And of course, didn't hire me then. Two sets of two years of job hunting. Then, my tenure at my former employer ended, I wrote off another, cause the job was absolutely not for me (I'm not cold calling). I went dry for a month, then, a recruitment agency called, pushed me through to my current employer and a month after that, I'm starting my probationary period. It almost feels, like you're trying to get a mortgage out of a bank. Not for you as a person, but for you through an intermediary? "How low do you need your interest rates, sir?"
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  475. And remember the BS courses them selves! Like it or not, a course need's to have a clear cut and TRUE road to either employment or research. Stuff like women studies don't have either, regardless of what liberal arts colleges say.
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  476. but there are projectors ;)
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  477. Airline, "Please, take out your batteries from your electrical devices" me, owning a T540: "Ok, hand me back my Ifixit kit, have to disassemble my laptop."
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  478. Yeah, I don't really like that graph... I'd like to see more depth there. Take financial services for instance. That field covers everything from accounting, which depending on who's being served, can have massive impact on positive impact on society, because on one hand, invoices paid in full and on time all but guarantee repeat business, meaning the actual contributor will at all times have the tools they need to contribute to society, and on the other, the contributor will know, exactly, what he/she has to work with at every moment in time, but it also encompasses stuff like finance bros and asset management people, who don't really contribute to society, because their work is strictly geared towards lining pockets of their clients, while those clients contribute as little as possible... Really the problem is not even in the jobs, but rather, what's There are no BS jobs, there are, however, BS tasks, chief among them weekly meetings and town halls, that take the worker away from doing those tasks within his job, that actually contribute to society.
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  479. yeah... blue light had been literally disproven this year. Read more science journals.
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  480. Oh, we absolutely need to see Jarjar again... Let the hate flow through us all, so we may manifest the Darth Jarjar theory into canon
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  481.  @truemore75  Well, you have no other options here, though... Well, apart of going global and establishing a branch in like India or Czechia... And I really wouldn't bet on AI or electric cars... Lot of snake oil in tech these days.
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  482. Man, if you're running the problem, of not being covered by the usual insurance policy, your problem is not the banks. Your problem is overexposure to a single market. Holding that much money "cash", unless you actually need that for cash flow is bad business. You need to be in productive assets with that money and that means companies, houses (to rent out), metals... just not cash, because, contrary to mainstream economy, money is NOT a store of value. It's strictly facilitator of trade and therefore you treat it as supply, not an asset.
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  483. You want to know, if I could afford it, why I'd move to the US or at least owned a property there, particularly in Alaska? Guns and hunting. I'd absolutely love to hunt, but my countries legislation bars me from doing it.
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  484.  @JameBlack  That's just the start. Fertilizers are close second and whatever metals are third...
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  485.  @kreb7  Renewables can't be deployed everywhere. People don't live, where they can be deployed well. That's problem of basically all types of these, be it hydro, for which you need specific geography and you destroy the micro climate of that region, not to mention, that you need water for it, and that has other uses as well. Wind and solar are intermittent and they don't cancel each other out, meaning, you need to build batteries... for which we have currently only one relatively good and reliable chemistry, that being H2O and that needs specific geography... Meaning you'd need to add costs for these "buffers" to cost of building the power sources. Geothermal can only be deployed well in places, that are seismically active (why do you think, there's so much of it in Greenland?), which increases costs, because building and equipment within must survive earthquakes... All the while, you could simply burn something to run something to turn a generator and create electricity? Are you prepared for blackout mid operation on yourself or members of your family? Cause that is, what environmentalism fueled drive for green energy brings!
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  486.  @lazypioneer91  Nope, that wouldn't fit the legislation, because work can only be carried out at workplace.
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  487.  @lazypioneer91  It's not that messed up and since law in EU is harmonized, I'd expect something similar to be in all the EU member states and the UK, given how recently they left. That law actually causes employers to care about employee's health. They would gladly put the cheapest and worst chairs in the office, if they could get away with it. If this didn't apply, they cloud get away with that by shifting to full remote positions, where ever possible and since all of Europe is shifting towards services, opportunities for this are only growing. That law was written in an era, when work was done at a factory and to some extent in an office (very few people were doing office jobs), not on the Internet, but that doesn't mean, it doesn't cover aspect of work from home, which the employers would gladly begin to abuse to lower their headcount costs.
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  488. @Josiah Galicia That's not everything. As a cat owner, I can tell, that my productivity as an accountant would suffer a bit... Cats simply come, start studying the invoices and suddenly, I can't input them, cause kitty got exhausted and is now purring and sleeping and you dare not disturb a sleeping cat.
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  489. Imagine that crossover episode. They restore an ancient combine in Hammonds shop, use it to harvest some wheat from Clarksons fields and proceed to get wasted in James' pub :D
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  490. This is actually normal and reasonable. Technically speaking, your work is a service you provide to your company. There is a principle, that tax should be applied in accordance with local law, where the service was provided. For your work, like it or not, that is your office, because that is what's written in your contract (well, usually). And there's a simple solution to this. Simply create 50 branch offices, one in each state, they don't need to be brick and mortar ,simply virtual ones will do, move your employees between the branches in accordance with where they work from and invoice the center. Done. That's how we do it in the EU, when we need stuff done over the border for us.
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  491. You know, what would have absoutely trolled China? If they completed the rail all the way to Turkey and built a tunel in Istanbul to connect Turkish Asian and European networks... and then India built a standard gauge line off that railroad to it's own industrial centres. Literally using China's wapons against them.
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  492. Ok, when Thunderf00t called Trump's victory a Brexit on steroids, I thought he may have overexagerated a little, but this... :D Something tells me, if we compared the voters, we'd come to very similar profiles...
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  493. Make no mistake Louis, todays employers think them selves all high and mighty. They create internal bulletings. They claim company culture and see them selves as movements in some cases. Really, if you look deep enough, you'll see, that difference between particularly larger companies and cults are suprisingly miniscule. Just look at content Josh Fluke is making, roasting all these companies!
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  494. @Darcy And yet, it pulls through, where others get bogged. Really, that was poor choice for comparisons.
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  495. @Darcy Hey, big engines are fine. Would love myself a hemi, but that's not the problem. They picked literally the best off road, as far as passability through terrain is concerned, which is the most important characteristic for an off roader, and compared it to a car, that is not about off road anymore, though it retains some of it's capabilities, rather, it's about flexibility, which is most important characteristic of the workhorse. These cars can't be compared, because they are meant for different use case.
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  496. This smells a lot like Theranos, Brexit, or climate change... A cause made to create extreme emotional reaction and funnel money into accounts of those, who offer a solution. It may not be the typical emotion to do this with, as usually this is done with fear, but compassion can work too.
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  497. Oh I can't wait for the burn, when this blow's up, for what it is. It will be like watching Yellowstone go :D
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  498.  @davigurgel2040  Problem is, that if there is no central authority (you know, the government), you'll end up with parallel legal systems, which will breed instability. You'll essentially end up with current state of things.
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  499. All that would cause, is inflation! Rather, we need to give up the green bullshit.
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  500. Aaand this is why I'll never have an apple!
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  501. Destroying precious works of art to protest is Tower Bridge too far!
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  502. I actually think, if Europe were to restart it's own military industrial complex, USA is fucked. Why? A lot of big companies, particularly in terms of employed workforce, have Europe at the moment as their primary market. But weapons and military gear are specific goods. These are things, you never buy, from whom you don't trust. And that trust is slipping in the EU with every breath Vance and Trump take. Cherry on top? These employers tend to be in Red states, where MAGA thrives, so there would also be a payback motive for the EU to commit to it. The EU could simply stop buying American weapons and that's some 300 mil every year for as long as Europeans won't trust the US, which will be at least two back to back presidents to hold continually pro European stance. That's at least twenty years, so Trump II bill to the American tax payer is some 6-7 billion USD on defense sector alone.
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  503. Fun fact, Germans actually had domed cars. I believe, there were only four of them. They rode on TEE Rheingold and it's sister train along the river Rhein
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  504. Folks, you know, what I find baffling? I don't understand, how the bank didn't tell Louis, why he's not getting funding. What was the reason. My mom was supposed to pay my garbage collection fees in my hometown, she didn't and, me being of age and having a bank account, I ended up with a lean against me being raised by the city, to collect the bill and penalties. The bank contacted me, they didn't even know yet, how much and whether or not there will be a freeze on my account. It was the bank, that notified me, that I am arear on my garbage bills, not even the city. So if I were Louis, I'd make that enquiry and, maybe, just maybe, consider switching banks.
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  505. By snooping your network and comparing before and after change traffic.
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  506. Now, that would have been a game I'd actually join :D
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  507. or sarcasm
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  508. I recall, that Tom once talked smack about Zyxel in errata... And there was a major breach over at Zyxel a while back... So, I'd say, that they're really not usable...
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  509. As in Ireland simply annexing UK, you mean? :D
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  510. Not really, there are mentions in Czech chronicles, that during reign of Charles the 4th, we grew oranges around here in the outside. more like Africa did not adapt to the change, because it never bothered creating actual institutions, capable of handling situation like this.
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  511. Amen to that! I have a huge problem these days. I have to explain, whenever I'm applying somewhere, why is there two two year gaps in my resumé. Well, that woud be, because after finishing Bachelors, I was sending out CVs left and right, nobody would hire me, especially since I went for my master's for weekend school, so I could work. No employer was willing to accept me, except for a sweatshop mascarading as charitable employer. Well, boss was an ***** and I ended up at my therapist for months after that. The ***** even filled my position, while I was on sick leave (crazy illegal around here), over him causing a massive panic attack, and when I returned to my job, he fired me. And the worst thing? That entire episode came at the beginnig of my exam period, meaning I had to abandon four semesters of master's degree just before the state exam. And then it was another two years of doors slamming in my face. Of employers marveling, how cheap I'm willing to work, how eager I am to learn! Nobody accepted me in and then, when I finally managed to get to a real job, that did not pay less than minimum wage, I had another panic attack due to my fourth and final boss at that company (I survived three chief accountants)... Now I finally managed to find a job with a company, where I have home office, have a very good boss and truly helpful colleagues. It still took me six years to launch myself into carreer... had to sacrifice my master's to get here too. :( And the worst of all while job hunting? When I had to explain, that I'm autistic. That I have asperger's and I want a full time job to sustain myself... and had to see all those doors close every time. Some people even told me outright, that they won't hire someone on the spectrum (again, crazy illegal around here). unwillingness to give a chance to a graduate and nice piece of discrimination as a side in some cases... They always said, that I didn't have experience, didn't speak X or Y language, didn't know their heavily customized SAP... All the whining of HR and sudden embarrasment, when I blurted out salary requirement 10k CZK (about 400 Euro) a month lower than my peers... And all of this in the economic boom, that preceeded covid in times of record low unemployment and constant whining of companies, that they can't find anyone to fill in the listed jobs, all the while advertizing minimum wage for someone with 5 years of experience, a field specific master's degree and multiple certifications. Sometimes, they'd even drop the degree requirement, but demand the working experience, not realizing, that if you have 5 years, you're not looking for a minimum wage job... you're not looking for a job at all. You are starting a business of your own at that point.
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  512. Of course, they would. Who else would they have to turn to for grains? The US, who are an ocean away? Canada? Who's similarly far? France, who's a former colonizer for about a third of Africa? Aussies and French can't feed them all alone either and other African nations usually have problem feeding their own populations... Say Russia would conquer Odessa, who else is within range, to provide relatively cheap grains?
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  513. There is a problem here, called the Atlantic ocean. Shipping prices would make the produce so expensive, nobody could afford it. The distance is simply way too great and we don't have equivalent ships to container super carriers or oil supertankers for bulk loose cargo
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  514. Are ghosts legally real: Depends on the context. If they are causing property value to fall, yes. If you're calling them as witnesses, no.
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  515. snif snif I smell yet another man made economic crisis coming out of concern for the environment...
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  516.  @rizkyadiyanto7922  It really comes to what's needed to make stuff. First, I'd fix the macro, by removing environmental protections, ditching emission allowances and refocused energy grid towards reliable sources of energy like nuclear and coal (cause there's a lot of it around here). Then, I'd create incentive schemes, which would motivate companies to develop new ventures and to enter new fields by helping them finance these new ventures. Key being, that "zombie" companies would either refocus them selves over time entirely, or found new synergies with their "dead" business (for instance a dying farm would be able to receive financial aide to build a sales team focused on international trade, specifically north Africa to export cattle, or an electrician company would be able to get money to retrain their staff to also handle computer network design and implementation, bringing two types of wiring under one roof)
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  517. Nearly dropped it, talks about RGB... what is this, LTT colab?
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  518. Oh, and no confirmation data mining just few months ago. God damn it. Even NRA didn't blow up so many times in such a short amount of time!
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  519. Yeap, same here. I called medical emergency number a while back, this guy made a bow out of himself and fell back right on his head. So I get on the phone with an operator, I say what and where it happened (seriously, towns and cities, write street names under the house number! I had the name of to me unknown street in a second without google!). I was on the line for a while with the dispatcher, knowing, that there is a hospital like eight minutes away and ambulance garage ten minutes away. I waited fifteen minutes and who eventually showed up? Cops and on foot. Don't know, what happend next, I was dismissed by the cops, but daaamn... Those medics need to be faster!
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  520. So how to mitigate this. If deploying for a client or new office with good physical access, predeploy, setup and ship. If deploying without good access, use VPN tunel and use option 43 to point to internal IP address of a controller. And of course, don't use third-party hosted controller.
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  521.  @W1ldTangent  But what is a huge problem here, would be remote USG, which would have to be preadopted, as it can't set up a VPN connection before adoption. And another argument for Edge.
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  522. It's even worse in Europe. The commission came up a while back with demands for Euro7 for cars to snitch on their status to manufacturer, allowing the manufacturer to DISABLE THE CAR remotely... If third party can prevent first party from using tha item. Who is the owner?
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  523.  @WorldTravelerCooking  That doesn't happen on this scale. You only take stuff so long, before you act. Again, barring outside influence, gradual inputs produce gradual outcomes.
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  524. There is a problem with that logic, though... What if they'll call for subsidies from mainland for nothing? That is what would come from anyone, but would that solve the problem?
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  525. Really, the only currency I know of, which could overtake USD is Euro, why? Primary reason, to own money, is to facilitate trade. We economists like to talk about it, as about a way to safely store wealth.... but then have to explain, why some inflation is good, which is starkly in contrast with this second motivation to own it, which is why I prefer to see money strictly as medium of exchange. In this regard, Euro is an underestimated player. 20 nations already use it outright as part of the Union, we could say 21, because Czechia has effectively become bicurrencial nation, where companies can use Euros to pay everything including taxes and even decide, that their domestic currency is Euro.Then there are Kosovo and Montenegro, who aren't even part of Eurozone, yet use Euro as their currency and let's not forget the micro states, which run on Euros as well. Bulgaria is about to adopt Euro as their currency in two years and then comes the greatest potential for Euro as a reserve currency, because a lot of former colonies, Denmark and Bosna and Herzegovina have their currencies pegged to Euro. The most important of these pegged currencies is CFA Frank, because it is used in countries, which have and produce raw resources. Let's compare this to USD. Currently, 11 sovereign nations use USD as their currency for one reason or another and 5 special areas of the Netherlands and UK and some of the Gulf states have their currencies pegged to USD... That's a lot fewer players and most of them don't have that much in terms of raw materials to offer, nor do they process them (with notable exception of oil). Imagine if Euro were to rebrand and fully integrate currencies pegged to it into itself. If Europe were to stop tripping balls on environmentalism and embraced material refining again, the entire value chain from mining to final consumption would not need to use foreign exchange. Production chain would also be shorter, as Europe is much closer to most of Africa than USA are as well, meaning there is much more space for bidirectional trade than with US in actual physical goods, making stuff further cheaper on both continents.
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  526. Oh Boohoo. I can't find good enough people, to hit ground running. Surprise, you can't find those trained up people, because those work elsewhere. It's fairly rare to find skills, that aren't applicable elsewhere (I'll admit, that your field, might be an exception), but I see this attitude all over the economy! Take me for an instance. I hold bachelor's degree in accounting, from school, that is known to produce good accountants. I hold FCE certificate (I'm Czech). And for the past four years, I haven't found a job, that would pay for rent, food and second hand clothes! Everybody scoff's "you don't have working experience.", or "you don't know the tools we use." and passes me over. But how am I going to get working experience as an accountant or finance manager, when those are the working experience requirements? And no, lower tiered work, like assistant or invoice clerk, or part time jobs don't count! (that actually told me one of the recruiters I applied with). How am I supposed to know the tools they use, if I can't get to them, because they are paid software and don't have a mentor to catch my mistakes with the software? (Think SAP). Only the employer knows what skills he need's his staff to have and thus must train them, because people, especially in an economy, like the one before Covid. Schools can't provide the training needed, because they don't work with internal company processes and thus can't respond quickly enough! (putting aside that schools aren't worker mints). And still I hear, how few people enter field and how hard it is to find good people... Meanwhile, there are mobs of people lined up to take the job, they only need a year or so of training, and that's for a fairly complex field, that changes more than once per day and goes through a complete overhaul every four years! Or what about networking? I have seen ads, that required specifically WiFi6 experience no shorter than five years! First routers with this standard are younger than that requirement! Or what about International shipping clerk? A guy, that fill's in paperwork to send off with goods. Why the hell does he need a driver's license, when everything he does can be done and usually is done from a remote office, not to mention the fact, that pubic transportation and mobile broadband do exist? But no, employers just poach employees from each other, which raises their costs far beyond just increased wage, to poach someone else, and b*tch about taxes, which pay for benefits for the people, who those same employers just refused! Whenever I hear an employer talk like you are talking now (because they want to make people learn at home, instead of at work), I feel like reading r/choosingbeggars. PS: Do you want people, to come to you, and ask to be trained? Well fine, allocate one day worth their work hours to study and actually teach them!
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  527. 2 or 3 months aint that much silence... I had a potencial employer, a major corporation, respond with an update, that the selection process is still ongoing, after 6
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  528. I'm sorry, south of the country? They've been as far as Trenčín! that's basically in the middle of Slovakia North to South!
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  529. You should petition to work for Black Library. This is precisely, how Adeptus Mechanicus would approach the problem :D In all seriousness though, no. What we need, is to reestablish family as the institution that it once was. That means making women dependent on men again, so, maybe introduce a "singles" or "childless" tax? They levied it on men in late days of Soviet Union
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  530. Europe doesn't care about being dependent on others. If it were not, it would torpedo green initiatives world wide. It would destroy Wagner Group and begin their own operation in similar fashion all across Africa, turning it into Europe's puppet continent. Current polititians don't want to go down that route, however, question is, whether that is not the only way for Europe to exist in a couple of decades
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  531. Yeah, but base pay has to be enough to cover your expenses... Really easy to abuse that system from position of employer :(
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  532. Not profits, that can be changed by accounting... Revenue
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  533. With the amount of disinformation in Czechia regarding Euro, I have a feeling that Romania will adopt it before us... Even though, we should have had Euro well over a decade ago! And one more thing. Perhaps Maastricht criteria should be mandatory for other EU members. Just saying, it's kind of hipocritical to demand someone adhere to rules, when they're applying and then have legacy members in worse conditions
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  534. Try flying from anywhere in Europe and evade Germany. :D
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  535. Love to use this... though I try to create diagrams of global supply chains.
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  536. I was wondering, when you would show up, Tf00t. This sounded too good to be true. Too Hyperloopy
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  537. Yeah, in eight different languages in a month :D
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  538.  @RobotronSage  Problem is, they can have this stuff covered in EULA and then you're crewed. Really, the only way around this is to never permit it to be able to happen.
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  539.  @eq2092  I literally have studies supporting my point. Ask yourself another question. Why is it, that guys right after school have double the unemployment figures than average? If employers cry, about not being able to fill a positions, shouldn't they lean in and hire guy, who doesn't fit that well and train him? Shouldn't employers offer more than minimum wage? If there indeed was shortage of workers, you'd expect that to happen. They didn't even through pre-covid years. Look at houw employers behave and then judge.
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  540. Yeah, this doesn't hold water. Few observations: 1. Which of the countries, was the poorest, when we saw the map? Bulgaria, which is not your typical tourist destination. Sure, it has two major ones plus its capitol, but other than that? Bulgaria is not best known for it's beaches, but for it's rose oil, economically speaking. If there is strong correlation between how poor a country is and prevalence of tourism, why is not Bulgaria as well known for tourism as Italy or Spain? Why, also fairly poor country, is not Romania listed? They too have a touristy area between ports of Constanta and Mangalia, as well as Danube delta. A prime candidate for tourist heavy economy, if this correlation were so strong, yet they are probably best known for Dacia car company and gypsies. 2. Why would tourism take away people from jobs? People always go for those jobs, that earn them more money and financial security. How was tourism described in this video? Basically as a low paying seasonal job! The very antithesis of in demand job, like the ones in stem fields. You don't need a computer science degree to become a network admin or even a coder. It takes grit, willingness and experiment, but it doesn't need formal education. I spot a different problem. Among the regions mentioned were mostly islands. Meaning, there are very few mine-able resources in these areas (at least economically viable in comparison to other places) as well as lower population in comparison to a larger mainland, which in turn permits only for lower level of specialization an consumption. Why would you build a factory on Mallorca, if vast majority of your potential customers were on the mainland (even assuming strictly domestic trade)? Why would you build a material processing facility or even final goods assembly on Mallorca, unless source of said material was also on Mallorca and there were few other sources of said material? Everything would have to go by plane or ship. To transport something by plane, it needs to be of high enough value (say microchips), to justify the price for transporting a tun of cargo by air. You might be thinking, that building a processing plant could be a good idea, because you have a port, but wrong again. In order to get to the really efficient and therefore per tun cheap ships, you need aggregate production and consumption on the island to be on particular scale, which comparatively small island will never reach due to lack of population. You would also need storage facilities, because ships don't come as often as trucks, which also increase your expenses, further making you less competitive, than someone, who has their operation strictly on mainland and only export finished product to the island in necessary quantities. It seems to me, that geographic factors preclude creation of more innovative industries in places like these, because everything is more expensive to source from or procure for the island, than for equivalent operation on mainland. Even service jobs, which could be done over the Internet, would be more expensive due to relatively higher cost of living caused by these higher expenses. Meaning tourism is the only industry, which can be developed in areas like these, given the capital requirements to bridge this gap for other industries (I'm talking logistics hubs, better Internet connection, self sustaining agriculture using high tech solutions, harbor enlargement...) It is too big of an investment for a return, that will always be lower than equivalent operation on the mainland, due to better economies of scale, thanks to better access to customers as well as production factors (material, labor...) To sum up, higher cost of operating a business, which in part are caused by higher costs of living due to higher costs of logistics support for these places, are precluding other industries from operating in these areas, even though they may scale better than tourism (say accounting or IT services). Leaving tourism for these places as the only industry, which will develop part of its value chain, because there is some kind of attraction in the area, which draws people in, such as beaches or mountains (I'm looking at you ski resorts, I'm looking at you). The only way to turn this around, would be to find a mine-able resource, which would be refined on the island to the point, where value of the product would permit competitive edge over other producers.
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  541. Get your facts together. The EU never paid in Rubles, literally the only member, that even thought about that, is Hungary... and EU virtually stopped buying Russian oil, oil products and gas and is on course to cease trade with Russia all together. Indians wanted to trade in Rupees, it didn't work out, so they eventually settled on Chinese Yuan (renminbi)...
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  542. Which is why we don't need a recession at this time. What we actually need is left wing social policies combined with right wing business policies (except for labor law). For instance, housing. There are way too few houses on the market for people to get in to. There are literal bidding wars for flats. This must end. Scrap zoning, apart of flood zones, and allow people to build them selves houses and cottages. A family doesn't need gas. Electricity and wood will do for cooking and heating. They really don't need a sewer in the beginning, a cesspit will do. Sure it has to be emptied every once in a while, but that is still cheaper, than having to run a sewer line to a lone homestead. And if that lone homestead gives birth to a village or a street, then you can install the sewer, when it's ecnomically feasible. And for the love of god end the redtape! If a building has one underground level and up to three above ground (cellar, ground floor, first floor, attic), let them build, no strings attatched. You solve that, you've solved half of poverty in most places these days!
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  543. Really given what effect this has on the market, this practice needs to be severely penalized. I'm talking at least two years worth of total compensation of the highest paid employee or contractor in that company, if a position failed to fill within six months, was removed or became vacant within two years of filling and/or mass layoff happened (eg. affects concurring positions),. per position affected. I was unemployed for two years because of this, I visited half my country looking for a job.
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  544. "They're probably and hopefully on their way out, thanks to electrification.", As the great state of Texas has shown us, that is actually a very bad idea.
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  545.  @HyperScorpio8688  The question is, "just what would the US nationalize?". There is not much they could do with burned down factories and any and all IP in the direct hands of a foreign company. Also, don't take the US military industrial complex by it's Dollar value. Prices in that sector re extremely bloated. Furthermore, you're forgetting two things. One, the EU could go full Russia and just fine American companies for not providing service and supplies a decillion USD. Laws can be easily created to facilitate that and make them retroactive. And two, this would NOT be a war of guns, but one of trade. The EU has won one trade war with the US already, one lead by Trump no less! Never forget, that the source of American power is how much it's interconnected with the world. Ask yourself a question, who'll trade with the US, when they're doing this to their closest allies? India? Forget it. They are the only nation on Earth, that can pull off isolationism and they know it. China? Who's been declared a systemic rival and is on the verge of dying out of old age? The Americas? Sure, as long as the US accepts cocaine and heroin as payment... Russia? I'm sorry, if things keep going the way they are, East Poland? Nope, the United States are literally number 2 nation added to their hostile countries list...
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  546. Actually, in WH universe and i believe in our universe is one more reason to board a ship. Sabotage. Be it void shields, to allow lighter ships deal with a heavier one or engines to prevent escape.
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  547. And then you realize, Babiš is literally real owner of Agrofert, which is a massive agro-conglomorate. :D
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  548.  @alaeus2310  Nope. Fuel and energy aren't main uses of oil actually. If you read up a little on process of oil refining, you'd know, that oil is also used in plastics, pharmaceuticals, construction (particularly roads) as input material, not as fuel. Not to mention that going electric is highly impractical for agricultural machines, given the added weight of a battery. Already, environmentalists and pedologists are complaining over weight of tractors and haversters that go into the fields. Wait until you'll have electric units with double to triple the weight. It's 2023. Doesn't mean, that methods from 1973 are outdated, when the laternatives are snake oil.
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  549. I've been saying it for a while, that working from home doesn't work for everyone. There are problems with it. Big problems, to which there are solutions. However, companies must be willing to carry the expenses associated with them, not as legally as possible shift them on to their employees, which is the default mindset of managers these days. Be it actual monetary expense, or one more subtle, less likely to be noticed. What are some of these? 1) Internet costs. As much as people buy their Internet connection for other reasons, a single connection might not be enough to provide truly reliable access to the Internet, therefore, secondary backup connection need's to be established. Question now is, who is going to pay for that connection? One could argue, that it's only needed for work, so the company should pay for it, or at very least, reimburse the employee for establishing it. And that's just Internet access, what about employee's home network? It too, need's to be reliable, necessitating upgrade to prosumer or even enterprise gear, which can get expensive fast. 2) Control freak. There are bosses who demand absolute control over their employees, going as far as completely invading their privacy. A seemingly legitimate demand of the employer for maintaining security of his data accessed from either his or employee's computer could result in massive invasion of privacy. Home networks are typically not segmented in to VLANs, meaning a nosy employer could access private and incriminating data, which even the police would need a warrant for. 3) Housing costs. There is actual research out there, which suggests, that it is beneficial to have clearly divided work space from other spaces, most importantly those used for recreation. However, very few flats and houses are within reach of employees, who could benefit from working from home. Either housing costs must dramatically fall to allow people to save enough to buy a house, or wages need to go significantly up, or companies must provide assurances to banks for their employees, so that they will be able to get appropriate housing. Plus, new housing standards need to be put in place and landowner's position need's to be significantly weakened, because that is what's driving up costs partially. To sum up, there are three, potentially four things that need to happen, if telecommuting is to become a reality. 1) micromanagement and employee monitoring need's to be curtailed or outright banned. 2) Real wages need to rise 3) Housing need's to be made far more affordable And in case of hybrid options 4) Public transport need's to become truly available and reliable. Three buses in the morning, three in the afternoon and three in the evening and nothing else won't suffice for working from home partially. We're talking at least every thirty minutes a bus or train even to the smallest hamlet and it must connect it to public transport hub. From anywhere to any place of work, no more than three changes must be made possible and all on single fare and single ticket. Otherwise, there will not be any drive to go that route.
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  550. You want a solution? Constantly learn and keep your eyes and ears out. Look for jobs, that the government is talking the most about, that they are in short supply. You'll find currently, that plumbers and electricians are retiring and there's big problem finding replacements. So the best thing you can do, is to find an electrician or a plumber, who intends to retire, one that's a sole proprietor, and make a deal with him, that you'll go with him for a while (probably couple of years, check your legislation, when you can do that person's job on your own. What are the requirements) part time as an apprentice, getting whatever certifications are necessary, and then, when he retires, take over that man's business. You're on your own, you'll have to fight off increased taxes. You need to find a career, that actually can carry such a burden.
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  551. Louis: "you can't take away something from a population, because 0,5% of the population are idiots." 2nd amendment advocates: "First time?"
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  552. Good for algorithm, though.
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  553. yeah, from what I've seen in banks around the world, if you a have bill or contract stating, that you'll have recurring expense in a country, on you, you can usually open a bank account in retail banks.
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  554.  @marvel2315  Look at European budgets, how much we spend on healthcare to our GDP, and compare it to America's military spending.
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  555. Well, the anti woke argument is true. Simple thing is, people are NOT all that in the moment decision kind of thing. There's a good chunk of people, who do look at trends and how things had been going on for a while now. What have we seen over the last twenty years? Everything for women. Everything for LGBTQ+ people (or current accronym, as it is getting longer and longer). Everything for the black/native/asian/alien/predator/mimbari, while in the meantime men, particularly white men, were being demonized to the point, they have to prove their innocence in the court of law, instead of the society viewing them as not guilty until found by the court as guilty. And even the courts them selves don't approach men with the same rigor, sometimes outright ignoring evidence! (as seen in the real life mean girls scandal, where a boy had been depraved of his rights and liberties even AFTER evidence of collaboration on the side of the girls was made public). Why the hell would you vote for the party, that for the past twenty years has been promoting this and has shown no real intent to change?! Of course you wouldn't and because US politics are an effective duopoly, there is only one alternative. And there is one major demographic that won Trump the election. Men.
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  556.  @BEESANDTOASTY  what, don't like a dissenting opinion? How undemocratic of you.
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  557. Yeah, something like that "onboarding" happened to me recently. I, after 9 months of relentless and fruitless job hunting, finally managed to get hired by a company. Eight workdays worth of nonsensical clerical onboarding stuff, some showing of the tools... as in, so fast, I couldn't even see anything properly, three days of intense training and on the Friday the second week, a test for everything. I got on my test stuff I never saw during my training and my boss fired me and called it them giving me a chance! Three days of actual training, and she expected me to perform as well as if I were there for three months! And employers whine about people not being willing to put in the effort... When they put in less than none!
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  558. Hell, seriously, what is wrong with "normal" people? So that they need a freaking asperger, someone with damaged social intelect, to tell them what to do? Why can't they find out them selves?
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  559. Yeah, I wouldn't call microclimate altering dam lake as enviromentally friendly, but ok... What happens when electricity dropps? Damnit, you're from Canada, don't tell me, I have to remind you of need for redundant heat source!
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  560. Maps? Like seriously?! When you travel for a few days, you need to be independant on energy + electronic device is a lot more expansive, thus making a paper map the item of choice or a fall-back item atmost, but not dead!
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  561. Yeah that can't work for real life things. Red Hat is software, but here you also have HW to do... Although... they could croudsource extension of long term support...
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  562. maaan, didn't laugh so hard in a while... BRICS creating a common currency to replace USD? Good luck :D India and China are at each others throat, Russia has demographcis, that are completely unsustainable, meaning they won't be able to contribute much to whole deal for long... Meanwhile Euro is outright used as local currency in 22 nations, about to be 23 (Bulgaria), further more, Denmark, Bosna and Herzegovina, Saotome e Principe, Cabo Verde and the Commoros have their national currencies fixed against Euro. CFA and CFP Franks are also fixed against Euro. Barring the Maastricht criteria. That's 40 nations and 43 regions, that can use or can use Euro as thier currency, without having to have lengthy discussions about transition rate. Actually make it one more. The Czech Republic is effectively becoming biruccencial. If there is to be a new global reserve currency, the Euro has the upper hand, especially if the EU decides to offer the posibility of becoming Eurozone members to those, currently using CFA Frank, because that way, entire supply chains could use a single currency. From raw resources extraction and processing in Africa through final consumption in Europe to research of water retention and reclemation systems for Africa. Compare that to Brics, who are either resource extractors (Brazil, Russia), resource processors (China, India) and a failed state (South Africa). Answer me this, why would a company chose to use currency any currency of any BRICS nation, when it's income will likely be in Euros or US Dollars, given the amount of consupmtion in countries using these two currencies? The only way for any BRICS currency to surpass Euro or Dollar, would be to grow it's consupmtion base and complete the chain, which will not happen. Why? Russia would have to massively change, how it works internally and, somehow, reverse it's demographics situation, which is basically irreversable, thanks in part to war in Ukraine. China is in similar boat, thanks to their threats over Thaiwan and wolf warrior diplomacy, which had damaged their international relations beyond repair in the next twenty years. Add to that corruption and internal dysfunction of the CCP and you have completely unpredictable market and regulatory environment, both which are something companies loathe. Already, massive companies are shifting away from China for manufacturing for the world market... closing down factories, which were the base of economic growth in China. South Africa can't even keep it's lights on, so they're not growing into prosperity and consumption anytime soon. Brazil is the only wild card here, but they have only half the population of the EU, meaning they'll never have the same capacity to grow as Euro using or pegged against countries.
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  563. I'd argue not. Bear with me, there's a reason here. Canadians value greatly their sovereignty, to the the point of rejecting a union with the only nation, they have a land border with. As a European, I believe, that era of nation states in Europe is over, we'll either unite into a proper federation, much like the US, or we'll get either annexed outright or carved up into puppet states by nations like Turkey, Russia, China, or even the US. That means for us to unite a lot of things, like currency, meaning any exceptions from the past would have to cease to exist, which is a non-starter (I'm actually in the minority in my country, that wants Euro), there would have consensus on industrial and energy policy (I already see, how Germans, French and Austrians, who have largely given up on large scale industry, cave to the more reasonable Eastern nations, like Czechia, Slovakia or Poland, who still have proper industrial legacy alive), I already see French, Italians and Germans agreeing on debt sharing... Either way, Canada would have to be part of that transformation process as well, meaning it too would have to cede it's sovereignty in favor of a larger federation, which is a hard sell at best. My point is, this would be hard to pull off even without Canada in the mix. Then, there is the logistical issue, that Canada has no ports, that could take ships bigger than Panamax, which would be essential for cheap transportation of goods, and then there is the issue of Trump issuing letters of marque, meaning the US navy, or any privateer (which is a word I never thought would be used in current era outside of entertainment) could be tasked with preventing trade between current EU members and Canada... So no, I don't think, it's feasible, as much as I'd love to hold this over Trump's head. And then there's the issue of Europe needing space and resources. Yes, we do need resources, but a lot of us would want to go to Canada to work... Canada has the space, but, because they trade mostly with the US, they live mostly within a hundred miles from the border! As a result, Canada has the paradox of abundant land and a housing crisis and lacks infrastructure to the point, that Canadian territories trade more with the US than with them each other. There had to be trade treaties between the territories on a similar scale, that are usually reserved for full blown nations, how bad regulatory misalignment within Canada is. Make no mistake, the idea is grand, but no. I don't see it coming to fruition.
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  564. nope. You're forgetting stuff here. A wealthy person can always limit or lower their tax rate. Say that I create an ltd. put all my assets into it, move into a tax haven and simply bill my company as a private contractor the entire profit the company makes. That is what literally until minimum corporate taxation had been agreed a few years ago was being done on corporate level and which country was the tax haven they've used? Flipping Ireland! No, taxing the righ doesn't work for other reason. It is self defeating. It's because the rich can simply consider fines and taxes as costs of doing business, turn around and bill their clients for the same amount. Options only grow, as you own more cash flow producing assets. Make no mistake, you can't dodge taxes simply by moving to other tax jurisdictions. You still have to file and pay tax in country of origin of income and then you can apply, whatever you've paid on tax in the source country against whatever tax obligation from this foreign income you'd have up to what you'd have to pay for this foreign income in accordance with local tax law, eg if you now lived in a country, that had lower tax rate than the one you've earned the money in, you'd pay 0 tax locally on this part of your income, assuming you've paid your tax abroad, which is by law your duty, otherwise fines. Let's have a look at one scenario, that illustrates two problems with taxing what is owned or proceeds from using what is owned to generate income. Say there was a landlord in Czechia and outright owned a smaller commieblock or had it mortgaged. In small itterations of these buildings, you have up to four flats per floor and they come with two to four floors on the smaller size. Say it would be the four story one. That's 16 flats total. Rents vary greatly, they easily range 8000 to 20000 CZK a month. Let's say, that this building would rent at 224 000 CZK a month (four sizes of flats, each bigger flat by 4000 CZK more expensive than the next smaller one across four floors). I found a bigger house, that sold for 7,1 million CZK but needed some work done (the one I found had over 50 flats). Let us assume, that an investor would have to pay double that to get the house on the rental market. ČSOB (a Czech bank) currently offers 11,2 mil mortgage (maximum they'd lend for such a house, the rest would have to come from investor's pockets) at some 54 000 CZK per month. At this point, it would make sense for the investor to hire a guy at 30000 CZK for management and technical maintenance and give some lady a part time job of 20 000 CZK for cleaning common grounds, each per month and 34% of salary as mandatory insurance that's some 67 000 CZK in labor, 121 000 CZK in the big recurring expenses. Property tax for dwellings (including rentals) is 3,5 CZK per meter squared and year times coefficient based on city size. Let us assume the building is 60 meters squared and is situated in Prague, which has the highest base coefficient of 4,5. That is 3780 CZK per year, or about 315 CZK a month. Let us also assume, that 10% of gross income would have to be kept for any incidentals and communal services like electricity, that's 22 400 CZK. Finally, you can apply up to 30% of your income as cost up to 600 000 CZK (if you chose to be lazy about it and not go for actual expenses), which leaves you with some 30 960 CZK a year in income tax, or 2580 CZK per month. If we now subtract these expenses, this leaves 77 705 CZK net cash flow per month to landlord. If the landlord were not taxed locally to the point, that they'd feel it necessary to optimize their tax burden, they would reinvest the money locally and create new products or businesses and thus contribute to local economy in a greater amount than just by packing the money, selling it on FOREX market for currency of their desire or buying something locally, they can flip in the market of their chosing. Meaning the income generating economy, that decided to tax the rich more, loses out on secondary generation of wealth, because the rich, in our case landlord, dcided to reinvest obtained proceeds from Czechia, UK or other high tax economy into one, that will not tax them as much and thus lowered their overall tax burden. This is even worse for Britain than for Czechia, because GBP, unlike CZK, is a globally accepted currency and the transmission method is the same for both, meaning it's easier to do there! This loss of new productivity thanks to unrealized reinvestment is the first problem and it causes next periods tax revenue to be lower than it would have been, if the tax were lower. The second problem lies in possible reaction of wealthy people to new taxation in terms of asset allocation within the economy itself. They could simply treat any and all taxes and fines as costs of doing business and these costs are always forwarded to the customer. Meaning the asset structure of these people would change. That's mass buying of agricultural land, housing, utilities... anything that is highly inflexible in terms of demand. In this kind of environment, the überrich set their demanded ROI, add to it all expenses and taxes, list that as asking price (become price leaders) and those, who have lower tax burden thanks to owning less, simply match price (become price followers), basically irrespective of the asking price, all/nearly all supply get's realized, because people have to live somewhere/commute to job/have electricity to hold down a job and maintain their own income. They simply won't compeet, because they have the same interest and loss/gain of individual client doesn't tip the balance for them (eg, they'll behave like a cartel without ever establishing one, meaning you can't fine them for it and even if you'll do, they'll just forward it to the customer in the long term). The demand inflexibility is the key here. This is why the proper way to solve problem of shrinking middle class and overall loss of purchasing power is not taxation, but rather denying the ability to corner key markets. I'm talking abolishing zoning, denying objections to new development, canceling environmental regulation, generally making entry into markets easier for new players (as to prop up supply), improving access to credit, encouraging and helping young entrepreneurs to set up businesses of their own, shifting taxation from earning money (whatever the way, be it ownership of something or labor) towards consumption based taxation (because that taxes all production factors and rewards living frugally). Because you if you'll look at dynamics of price changes, it's precisely the prices of ESSENTIALS, that are driving the cost of living crisis and thus shrinking the middle class, not necessarily stagnant wages. I'm talking rent and housing (self explanatory), energ and fuel (the green transition), transportation (parking fees and schemes), keeping up with your field (copyright and licensing, frequent changes to legislation).
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  565. To be fair, I wouldn't have ghosting against her. Sure it's a scumbag thing to do, but the with rate of which I get ghosted by potential employers... Let's just say, that ghosting is normal method of communicating bad news these days...
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  566. You are never independent/sovereign. If you trade at all, you have to accept dictate of the stronger one in the trade. Alternative is to become North Korea. The difference between the EU and Russia is, that Russia doesn't care about anything. No questions asked, which benefits local corrupt authorities.
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  567. I'm not that worried about North Africa. I'm much more worried about countries just south of these. Why? One, trade breaks barriers. If Algerians won't be able to have a deal with the US, they will make deal with someone, who'd be willing to trade. Sure, you'd have to import all the way from New Zealand and Australia, but you can ship durable foods. It would likely take few years of really bad diet, but it would be survivable. And then there is the chance for Algerians to swallow the bitter pill, sell oil in Euros to Germany and buy foodstuffs from the French. Hell, down the line, if Ukraine enters the EU and eventually accepts the Euro, they'd be stable in the long term. Libya's the one I'd agree here the most with. I recall an opinion, as end to the crisis, being a East West split of the nation, but if that doesn't happen, somebody will have to go in and bring order. They won't like it, maybe they won't even survive it, but I don't really see that ending another way. Egypt's fine and will be fine. Sure, they have surging population and are dependent on trade, but that's not a problem. Sure, Turks and any nations down the Suez canal system can cause trouble, but even that can be overcome, particularly if Egypt invested in it's own merchant navy that strictly brought in goods for them selves or for them to process and export semi-products or finished goods. This would also help with local food problem, as these ships would not be at port all that often. I'm far more worried about water situation in Egypt. Specifically drinking water, given what's happening in Ethiopia and Sudan.
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  568.  @krox477  Sadly, with the technologies we currently have, it is the most feasible method to go with, assuming the limitation, that due to the climate agenda, any CO2 emmitting methods were banned.
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  569.  @EconomicsExplained  There are other problems, though. Where to place them? (something ANNO 2205 players have answered for them), who should build them? Who should determine, which countries would be allowed to use them, or benefit from them, simply by buying goods, that used the elevator? Just socio-economic implication of space elevator construction would be enough for an episode ;)
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  570.  @Arterexius  I woudl be concerned here. Hydrogen is actually orders of magnitude more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Not sure, whether we have logistics of that figured out.
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  571. Ah... yes... good old four o double whip... those were to days
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  572. sorry, but that can't be done for stuff like housing and food. Why do you think, those who controll access to them report so damn high profits, while everyone else is in poverty, including those who make the stuff?!
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  573. Well, Biden basically ran Trump's outbursts through a spellchecker and made them into policies... Biden ain't exactly win for Europe either. We followed the US into war on terror and this is what we get as thanks...
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  574. There is another problem specific to auto industry. Everything is on chips. Even things, like acoustic warning, that someone sitting in a seat is not strapped in, when this could could have been done with a single circuit. All you'd need, is a trigger, when car reaches certain speed, a weigh sensor in the seat (which could literally be spring based), contacts in the female side of the seat belt joint, a buzzer, some wiring and a pair of relays per seat (weight sensor triggers one relay, closed circuit through seat belt joint disengages the other)! Outdated? Sure. Does it get the job done and lower exposure to one particular component, which requires special resources? Yes. I for one believe, that Just In Time is BS, precisely, because shit happens. We are already at point, where transportation companies report hourly positions of their trucks and trains, because a manufacturing process doesn't have a day of materials on hand! Imagine, you have to change production, because the driver hit a deer. It's ridiculous! And it doesn't need to be of natural causes or coincidence, it could be man made by a speculation! Stockpiling doesn't solve that! The only thing, which does, is getting more involved in the supply chain. There's no way VolksWagen group didn't know, how reliant they are on particular commodities, yet they didn't build a FAB to cover some percentage of their demand, nor did they buy a copper mine and processing companies, which could provide them internally with necessary wiring (given the forced electrification)! Are you freaking kidding me?! There's no way, they didn't see situation like this coming. Maybe not due to natural reasons, but definitely because of political ones and they still did nothing! What I'd like to see, is approach, which eliminates strategic threats to manufacturing system. The most prevalent one these days, is that everything is done in China. Nothing against China (well, except basically everything they've done past decade), but the fact, that basically all manufacturing is done there at scale has become a bottleneck in the system, that is prone to clogging, due to political reasons. What I'd do, is I would find three locations on Earth with decent, all be it not perfect environment for manufacturing, preferably on different continents, and I'd build manufacturing hubs there. There wouldn't have been that big variety (at least within a model Octavia for European and Indian markets are on completely different base models), but there would be bigger interoperability. Say there were plants in the EU, mostly focused on European market and R&D, plants in Egypt, mostly exporting to Africa and plants in India handling local market and parts of Asia, China, if at the time there were a presence there, would be it's own system. All plants would buy from the nearest suppliers of required materials and run between 80 to 90% capacity. Why? Precisely because of shit like Covid or political meltdowns! This way, even if a entire continent went down, you'd have two thirds to a half of capacity secure and you could ramp up, if need presented itself, at cost of time spent on system optimization and short term reduction of maintenance at particular plants.
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  575. AI avatars... Way to remove human from HR.. Guess, we all need to stop being employees and go fund our own budinesses...
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  576. And four, the underlying causes are overzealous green agendas of western powers, mostly US and the EU, which don't take in to account the reality of energy storage, transport and production and who have reduced massively complex issue of climate to a single digit, that being of new emissions of greenhouse gasses, completely ignoring two facts. 1) Climate change is NOT caused by new emissions, but rather the old ones, which are, and will be for a number of centuries, already there! Meaning reducing current emissions even to a 0 is too little too late at too steep of a cost to society. 2) Energy storage is already hitting the limits set by laws of physics. There are no energy storage systems out there even in prototype phase, which could come even close to effective deployment in the grid, nor are there batteries safe and powerful enough, to allow green energy sources like wind and solar, to replace oil.
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  577. Let me play a devil's advocate right now. While I passionately hate Apple, I really don't think this is their mess to clean up. I happen to know, that Wistron doesn't just do Apple, as my former collegue now works at Wistron in a different country. He does more "normal" gear and he never mentioned this kind of abuse. In the mean time, this is not first and I'm quite certain not last case of unspeakable stuff happening in India. Also, is this isolated incident within the company, or is this widespread? Because, if there are multiple Wistron plants and this can be found in just one, then we're at a different case. Joshua Fluke had a spat with quite a few companies and actual full on confrontation with one company from India specifically over wages (and let's take difference in prices out of the question for a minute), but things quickly escalated in to slave labour conditions with a couple. Traditionally, it's not job of a company to police other companies beyond quality checks and probably checking certifications, because you really begin to blur boundaries of companies. If Apple has the responsebility for Wistron and has to make sure, that Wistron's employees get payed enough to comfortably live, where are the boundaries betwene the two companies? Aren't they then really one and the same? If so, what tax implications does that have? (and that's just one field!) And that's just situation of one brand/company being serviced by another. What if the service provider has multiple clients with same degree of responsebility for his employees' wage, do all these companies become essentially one through shared responsebility? I really don't think this has acceptable answers without state authority to enforce minimal standards, because companies won't do that beyond marketing potential at top end of effort. Therefore, I'd argue there is something wrong with laws and/or their enforcement in India.
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  578. Objection! While you can't use this judgement as precedential, you can always use it as persuasive.
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  579. If I were the senator and wanted to see this done right, I'd do it simply... I'd do the same as one major Czech spedition company did for us. The bank didn't want to give us loan back then, claiming, that we'd need a deposit be made, so that the bank would give us loan to start a trucking company and buy new trucks, by the spedition company, as our guarantor, since they were the ones, who were going to hire us to move their loads (yeah, they basically treated a loan in hundreds of thousands of USD back in the 90s as a secured credit card). Well, CEO of that spedition company heard abut this, ripped that bank a new one and the next day, we and that spedition company were with a compeeting bank. Ten million USD moved that day. To my knowledge, that spedition is still with this bank they moved to with us. That is, what the governor needs to threaten Chase with.
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  580. Remember that time, when the plane had a camera in cockpit, streaming what's in front of the aircraft to the passengers? Yeah these guys saw first hand, how they'll die... That feature then vanished for a few decades.
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  581. Sure did. He want's to restore former Soviet Union. We had that worked out for some 15 years here in Czechia...
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  582. We hear it all the time, that we need to abandon meat, because water and global warming... And here in this video one is of the best arguments against them... well apart of the fact that we are omnivores. However, this can be taken even further. I for one believe, that if water is to be preserved, it's consumption should not be reduced, rather, what need's to be reduced is it's loss from soil. One of the main problems in this area is, that use of heavy machinery compounds soil, making it effectively barrier for rain water, which then can't reach deep enough to be stored in underground waterbeds, therefore, what we need is less use of heavy machinery in the fields and, preferably, turn some of these fields in to small woods, primarily to provide shade in the area. Problem is, that vegetables can not be grown efficiently enough to feed a family, much less to maintain a farm, without the use of heavy machinery. Cattle can graze on land without the need for a tractor to go out. Only when there is no grass, one need's to use hay, which need's to be harvested with use of heavy machinery, but that is still less use of heavy machinery than before, not to mention, that hay can be obtained as a byproduct of other agricultural activities. What I would do, is I would move vegetable production in to hydroponics and vertical farms, saving up to 80% of used water and more importantly nearly 90% of land, which then can be transformed in to pastures and forests. The reason, why I would double down on cattle, is that we need manure. When manure is put in to the ground, as it decomposes, it releases gasses, breaking the compounded ground and allowing it to take in more water. With every cycle this effect gets stronger and soil can store more water, making it act like a sponge. The more water you can store in the ground the better.
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  583.  @univeropa3363  And why was it so much cheaper? Maybe because it could be piped in all the way from the fields through sixty years old already paid for infrastructure? Whereas, other sources needed liquefaction, because we lack major interconnects in our gas grid?
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  584. Bottom line is, what do people study for? School is not a mating ground, it is first and foremost a place of learning. The fact, that BS women centric stuff get's pooled together into whole degrees and pollutes actually good degrees and as a result, college degrees bring less useful, relatively up to date, in the field applicable knowledge knowledge to students, because that time was wasted on useless facts and factoids. I took accounting and financial management course. It opened the world of finance to me. There's course of proffessional game keeper/hunter at my college, there's woodworking as an actual degree. Now compare that to women studies. How is that applicable in the job market? And that's getting tax payer money!
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  585. Why not go simple with both sides play... simply add second read assembly to the arm itself.
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  586.  @TheNanoNinja  Note that I say, "As long as work can be done...", yes, there is work, that can't be done like this. However, we're being forced back into office even for roles, which don't interact with anything other than the computer. Things are worse, than what would allow to take your consideration into account.
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  587. never say, that social degrees are useless. They may have been somewhat infiltrated, but they are still valuable ones out there. Economics and it's underlying degrees are midway between humanities and natural sciences. Nobody would dare say, that an accountant, which is a part of economics field, is useless, yet, you need a degree in the field to get in. Medicine is another one, particularly with more and more focus on mental health. Law purely social degree, we hate lawyers, but nobody sane would ever claim, that we don't need them. Could you imagine hammering out a contract without them? Hell, what about judges, I opened up law?! Bullshit degree is bullshit degree, end of story. The fact, that STEM is by it's nature less susceptible to BS degrees, because the field actually can do experiments at scale without ruining the society, shouldn't be used as justification to throw all social fields into the bin.
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  588.  @CarlAlex2  You have a better way of making companies behave?
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  589. No, betting on electricity is the BS. Electric cars have and will always have shorter ranger than petrol cars. Please, realize finally, just how energy dilute a battery is. You cannot look only at efficiency! You also have to look at reliability and there comes one role of hydrogen. Because hydrogen generation and burning facility could serve as a buffer source, allowing the inconsistent energy sources like wind and light to work, plus creating fuel for automotive and material input for industries.
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  590.  @seanmysel5823  which is what I did... because I saw the writing on the wall, because I spent the time looking into this.
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  591.  @EngenheirUber  Nope, industries stick together, particularly, when they deal with physical materials, in order to increase efficiency. What you recommend would end up concentrating businesses in existing hubs, because everything is more reliably available there, including customers, and you've not removed that advantage from the equation. Take a city, that has mining towns around it. Let's say, they mine iron ore and coal. The city in that case developped steel mills and as it grew, but new sources of iron ore and coal lagged behind the demand, eventually, it made no sense to continue building new steel mills, so the city went up the chain and started to also refine the steel into other products and that is how you end up with companies bending steel sheets into different shapes and companies that make stuff from those shapes... So the city suddenly has a hand tool company and a car chassis company, if this is a coastal city, that's where you end up with drydocks and a shipbuilding company, etc. and it became a steel hub. Another example, say a village were very lucky and trans continental Internet cable had been proposed, to be laid in the ground in its immediate surroundings. Say it managed to get itself hooked in to it. Suddenly, local ISPs can offer massively fast Internet connection to datacenters and businesses, which get attracted by this critical resource, low parcel prices and lack of bureaucratic processes, which would slow new construction. that is how youtubers, IT people and businesses, which can easily provide a service over the Internet spring up, turning that village into a city, which becomes Internet services hub. Or another case. Say a place has a lot of oil. Somewhere in that place is a city, that has good access to the world market and builds a refinery. Well that refinery will eventually attract chimical plant and plastics molding plant and medicine producing company. All because a key input for that industrial process is readily available in a single location at minimal to none transportation costs. Lowering taxes, particularly ones, that are not hub or location specific, like VAT or income tax, doesn't have business distribution effect on sub-national level. In order to revitilize the countryside, you'd have to do one or more of three things. Either a) make home office the standard and invest in country's ISPs, which would allow for employees to move into cheaper housing in the countryside, dragging economic development with them. b) create a system of sector specific incentives, which would ommit all industries, which can be done from existing hubs. Problem is, that leaves you basically with agriculture and horticulture as the only feasible industries, which could operate effectively like this and even then, only parts of them. Even a massive diary company can have just farms producing milk in the countryside, but have it's processing facility in a strategically localised hub, for instance, because a university, which focuses on agriculture, is present there and thus, there's supply of people trained in the underlying processes of making chese and yoghurt (that's food chemistry). Alternatively, a logging company could have a sawmill or two the small villages in the countryside, producing different kinds of lumber, but further processing facilities would end up being placed in hubs, where certain lumber product types are in demand. For instance, there could be a furniture factory in a steel hub, because metal fittings are cheapily available there and there is greater supply of labour, so specialised production lines could be set up for processing of lumber supplied by the sawmills into semi-products needed by hub specific industries. An administrative or trade hub will require desks and office furniture. Automotive hub would need wooden decorative components for dashboards, Cultural hub would need wood for sculpting, etc. c) increase taxation of industries, which already form existing industrial hubs, which could make some of them relocate, problem is, they'd reloceate into another hub of the same type because of the efficiencies brought by the hub. Only one of these doesn't have excessive negative effects on economy as a whole.
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  592. "... And Court, don't give away the homeworld!" :D
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  593. I'm a simple politician... I see future mayor of New York, I click.
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  594. That's rent seeking behavior for you. There's a case to be made about taxes, though. Specifically what kinds of taxes are collected. I read somewhere a while back, that blue states on average collect more from income tax, while red states focus on property tax. The problem is not, that you're overtaxed, if you want to see high taxes, come to Europe. The problem is, that there a lot of real estate is empty, as you have shown it, but value of the building is propped up to completely out of proportion by expected foot traffic, which leads to other vehicles to get your money (loans, ponzi-scheme like fund and share structures)... Really, the problem is, that NYC is undertaxed for property tax! If property tax for certain types of floorspace were high enough, the owners would have no other choice, than to actually look for tenants, or rebuild their property into other types of property (heard there is a housing crisis in NYC). The best thing, however, would have been, to levy a huge vacant floorspace tax surcharge, specifically targeting those owners, who leave their property unoccupied.
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  595. Louis, I believe Clinton was calling for his lawyer, wanting to sue you for mistreatment, because he want's tuna :D
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  596. Individualism vs collectivism. BS. Everybody's talking about high speed rail. Well, my dear awe stricken tax payer, let me show you, what happened in Spain, where they wanted to get high speed rail to the last town in the country, because commuting. Now they have among the highest rates for travel on rail in Europe! High speed rail can only exist in two places in the US. The current Acela could be expanded a little and you could probably have something similar in California, but otherwise? Nope. For high speed rail you need high density of high revenue passengers. That is present in only one nation on Earth, and that is Japan. What should be done with the railway? It need's to integrate itself more. Extra tracks for slower going freight trains need to be put next to current high speed lines and current normal lines need to be properly maintained. High speed is a dream, but it will share the fate of Concorde. Keep the speed at 100 MPH and you're already going for overkill for freight. Repair the rest and the railroad will draw a breath of fresh air. As for roads, upgrade, upgrade and upgrade, but most importantly, make it so, that people don't have to sit in to their cars in the first place. Let them use them less often and keep their cars for longer. You will solve a two problems at once. Telecommuting is what will solve this matter. By removing the need for travel, not the ability, you will be able to lower the necessary repair bill for the roads in the future, while maintaining everybody's ability to travel long distances. That Internet investment should be even larger, but more importantly, a change in corporate culture need's to be spearheaded, to properly force companies from work from home as a benefit to standard MO, where ever physically possible, and deny them the option to improve their salary expenses. If a worker, who can telecommute from anywhere, want's to leave California and move to Montana on the count of taxes, he should not take a pay cut, because suddenly the company thinks, it can justify it. This also contributes to overuse of infrastructure and I really don't think extra tax will make them reconsider.
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  597. Yeah, something, all be it less crazy, happened to me once. I was in the back with my dad, my mom was in copilot's seat. So we were on a sightseeing flight and the pilot suddenly asks mom, "would you like to try it?" And mom said, "no, thank you.", and the pilot responded with "but now you'll have to.", released the yoke, put his feet of pedals and put his hands behind his seat... Yeah, we dropped about a hundred feet, but mom recovered the plane...
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  598. For system integration in a smart home. Back in a day, in Czechia, there were different rates for day and night electricity, so to save money on power, we'd run our washing machine (most energy hungry thing in the home) just past seven o'clock, when night rates started. With this you could simply load the washing machine/dishwasher/anything, have it tied to a central control unit, which could activate the device... Too bad, the Internet got abused like this.
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  599.  @RicardoSantos-oz3uj Not really. Timer can do some things, but you need timer of certain precision. A smarthome brain will have to the minute timer anyway shared for other appliances as well as itself. And if you need to hit particular hour, you're screwed. I lived for a long time in a commie block. Yes, you heard your neighbors do the dishes, let alone laundry. Our current washing machine takes 2 hours 45 minutes for a full cycle and doesn't really wash that well otherwise. Say evening power billing started at 7pm and night calm time begins at 10, I'd have a fifteen minute window to hit. Timer on my washing machine only allows me to put in twenty minute intervals and caps at two hours. Integrating that washing machine into a more advanced setup would have helped me evade fines for disturbing the peace.
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  600. Bees are fish... Are we sure, that any of the judges aren't known as Pines or Northwest? Because this is Gravity falls territory of weird.
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  601. Hey Briggs, could you redo this video real wages? You know, how long does it take for a median income family in a state to earn what local houses cost? I wonder how much would the order change.
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  602. You wanna know why? It's simple. People want to live their lives in luxury and feel good about them selves. It is way too easy, to say, that environment need's to be protected, but when it come's to what it would actually entail, those sensible enough, to comprehend it, back away, because they suddenly realize, what a spartan way of life that would have to be. I have observed this mess and I've noticed something, which trouble's me. Who is it mostly, that support's the environment? Usually, it's the people, who didn't have to truly earn their keep, are attempting to sell solutions to problems (and let's be fair, some of these people have actual problems to solve due to global warming), or have/earn so little, relatively speaking within their country of origin, they aren't the ones being touched by what would have to be done directly. The rich and the poor teaming up unknowingly against the middle class. Mostly because the rich already have enough resources to buy technologies, which to some extent could provide for their current lifestyle, while having lesser visible impact on the environment (think electric yachts or Teslas), and those, who have never earned enough, to afford to make a dent in the environment anyway, because they can't afford the greatest symbol of negative effect on climate, a car, or have never lived outside of a huge city like NY or LA. There are outliers, of course, but not so common. It seems to me, that this is not environmental question, rather, it's a class question. A real serious problem has been brought to the forefront, so that another battle, the more important one in my opinion, could happen in the background.
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  603. Nope. Then he would come up with the historical argument or claimed, that because, say Germany, didn't get there in real money spent, Poland, which did for, say years, will not be defended... Because that would shield Germany.
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  604. Actually the great state of Texas will always have oil in their pocket. Why? Moving oil in significant quantities is extraordinarily expensive, especially over sea. The problem with oil today is, that it's mostly used for fuel production, however, plastics are also a huge necesity in our lives. Anyone, who think'S, we can live without oil, is delusional. Without oil, there would be no laptops, no mobile phones, no plastic bottles... but more importantly, no carriers for medical stuff. Ever gave blood? Yep, straight in to a PVC. Recieved an infusion? Yep, from another one. Sure, you could use glass, but it's heavier and more fragile and if you think oil is valuable, look up what hospitals get for blood! And there is another problem. Ever had surgery? Gloves are made out of oil. Why? Because of latex alergies. The last thing you want as a surgeon, is for your patient to swell mid operation. It is for this reason that natural products were pretty much abandoned in medicine. Texas could leverage it's ability to produce oil and build up on top of it. This could shorten supply chains for a lot of stuff and could thus allow for utilization of even more expensive to drill oil. What's the catch? Oil companies would have to internally subsidize drilling from manufacturing of final products. They could no longer sell crude or refined oil products to manufacturers. They would have to become manufacturers them selves, catching maximum of added value in a product. Now, as an accountant with some interest in IT, this is feat I'd love to see done. The ERP alone would be extraordinary challange to create and implement. Not to mention complexity of supply chains. I know, I say, they would be shorter. That is true, howver, what would also happen, is that suddenly individual companies would have to handle lgistics operations on scale not seen before, on one that is larger alone than some industries. Yet another challange.
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  605. Something's telling me, the FTC needs to be involved in this...
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  606.  @fatmonkey4716  Because the employer has on right to dictate, where an employee lives, irrespective of means to do so (and wage the employer pays is one of them). The time spent on travel to a job site is time expended by employee on work and should be compensated for . As things stand, we're priced out of the cities employers are in and are thus forced to commute, sometimes even multiple hours round trips. I'm not asking for a handout, I work for my money, but I value my time and part of my time I spend on work is not paid. Not to mention the fact, that employers are bound by law to provide such working conditions, that allow employee to provide as good a job as possible as safely as possible, not to mention that employees, who have their needs catered to, are more productive (something that should have been obvious from my original posting), so companies have an incentive to let people work from where ever they want. Yet, companies opt to whine about nobody wanting to work and can't hire anyone, all the while firing large parts of their workforce year on year and force everyone back into the office. It's about the egos of the upper eshalons, nothing else. So get your head out of your ass and start thinking for once!
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  607.  @fatmonkey4716  Why should I pay more, to live where the employer is? Will the employer compensate me the difference in rent? Cause as employer, it is illegal to shift costs on to employees. Why should the employer pay me extra and provide me with such optimal working environment, which is NOT an open space? Because the employer want's maximum output out of thier employees, so and not providing them will neither motivate me nor allow me to deliver my best work! I have demonstrated the difference between me working in suboptimal conditions and in optimal ones. And finally, why should employer have to pay for commute time? Simple. Because that is time I have to spend on work, which I wouldn't have to, if I either didn't work or had an employer, who actually cares about their employee output! That is effectively me working and not being paid for it is wage theft!
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  608. Objection! Artifacts shown in doctor's possesion are not explicitly stated to be originals and can be argued, that they are likely replicas. We can, through Kingdom of Crystal Skull, see that he turns over artifacts to the authorities, at which point these end up in storage or presumably in museums, and that they stay there. this would sudgest, that keeping artifacts lies outside of his usual Modus Operandi.
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  609. Not sure which would be scarier, when trying to deal with copyright lawsuit possibly asociated with an attempted homicide... I mean... LegalEagle and Lenorad French... or Franziska Fon Karma and Simon Blackquil? Seriously, This is insine! This is Capcom level insane lawsuit! The only two things this lacks to qualify as fiction are testimony delivered through heavily armed helicopter drone and certain blue jacketed attorney!
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  610. Only as long as you won't have barriers to transfers of revenues and providing services to daughter companies and don't mind having to work out entire new tax code for two or more countries... And don't make a mistake placing the daughter company somewhere, where there is poor IT infrastructure... As an accountant who likes to poke around in IT, I can tell you, this is stomach ulcer territory levels of stress for someone who's small fry or doesn't model international supply chains as a hobby.
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  611. You should care. If not for other reasons, because all those people in banking, who'll lose jobs because of this bust, will be fed from your taxes
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  612. Oh, you think this is ridiculous. There was a case in Slovakia over rightful heritage. Father died and left two kids, only they didn't know about each other due to a divorce. However, according to Slovak law, both kids were supposed to inherit a portion of the estate. Lawsuit followed, where the moving party won the case. As a result, the two brothers now actually keep in contact and have a healthy family relationship, as if they grew together... Yes. A lawsuit, at which they saw each other eye to eye for the first time, made them a family. Not even kidding
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  613. Yeah... easy cure... round them up, put them in the middle of it all and tell both sides exactly what these idiots are saying... Probably for the first time in history of warfare, there would be common target for both sides of the conflict, that's not a threeway.
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  614. All this shows, that Wells Fargo doesn't understand, what the word productivity means :D These people should have been moved into internal research department, researching new products to offer! They clearly displayed the propencity to look into stuff!
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  615. Was wondering, when you'd show up. This would be interesting collaboration.
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  616. Louis, you should get less emotional when discussing complex stuff. I have economics degree, I have been through a subject on the financial market and I didn't understand your explenation, despite knowing, what shorting an instrument is. I know it's hard with mess of this scale, but still, you want us to learn somthing. You need to be understood perfectly. And yeah, I have to agree. This need's to be more regulated... I would actually go as far as putting a ban on shorting altogether, precisely because it can destroy completely healthy company, just like that. I believe this risk outweighs all benefits of shorting, even potential ones.
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  617. Hungary? You might want to check, which country outline you gave Hungarian flag to:D Kind of overshoot Slovakia there :D
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  618. Got to love Texas!
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  619. Here in Czechia, if I as a firesherman seek access to a bank for the purposes of fishing or returning from fishing, I am not trespassing. That's literally in the law. (all river banks are technically public property)
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  620. So, my phone doesn't have NFC. Czech banks came up with a service, that allows you to look up an account using a phone number, if the other party has it set up. If not, they can simply give me their bank details and I can set up a wire from my phone, if needed, or if it's a bigger amount, from my PC. You can already pay fines by card. All regular governmental money interactions I have are doable by wire (It's actually the prefferred method around here). Furthermore, there's the problem of getting debanked, as happened to Farage a while back. What will you do, if no bank touches you? There is clause about banks being able to do that for whatever reason they deem fit in every contract I have ever seen! The fact, that you can't change your bank account number, when you're with a bank, is redheairing. You can always have 50 bank accounts (I already am on 10) and simply wire money between them as needed. In most of Europe, SEPA payments are free for normal people and they can be accross borders, no problems whatsoever. Hell, when I was working as accountant, I was regularly returning money from Czechia to the Nordics, Baltics, France, Germany, Greece... there are publically available tools like ibanvalidator, which allows you to validate any IBAN or calculate IBAN from a domestic account number of that account. And it works for the whole world! Meaning so long, you actually know the account number, you can send the money over! Meaning, we'd rather need legislation otlawing the practice of IBAN discrimination and make it mandatory to accept cards! You can open up extra accounts to pool money for common purchases. I run such an account for our entire family! Conditional cash scares me to hell! Imagine this. You build yourself a PC and install Windows, because everything is still made for Windows... and Microsoft, heading for their service based business model, decided to charge you per minute in use?! There are payment providers with domestic technologies. It is also not entirely true, that payment providers are not based in the EU. SWIFT is in Belgium... In the Netherlands, they used to have (not sure whether still have) cards, that were not international standard, but carried the number of the account itself on it instead! There's nothing easier than mandating IBAN to also be printed on a card, perhaps even with a QR code for a machine to read it and request a payment over the Internet, simply, by asking the bank running the account, to transfer the money, which could be approved by the account holder from his phone or even (better) dedicated token. We already use multibanking (managing accounts from different banks through other banks), so communication between the banks is not an issue. The very fact, that somebody holds a record is a problem, particularly if part of that record was, what was bought. As for offline payments... we already have prepaid cards around here. They are very rare, true, but they exist. So offline Euro would be useless thing, that could cause more trouble than worth. All in all, as staunchly pro European guy am I, I see no use for this and costs associated with the system. :(
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  621. Nah, what people do in the clips, outside of actually crazy shit is... whatever. Hell, by that metric, we'd have to be very suspicious of prezident Petr Pavel of my homeland of Czechia... Cause he was also moving logs and choping firewood in his spots. Pretty sure Kremlin is not happy about at a time the top guy of NATO winning an election.
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  622. Well, it doesn't necessarily need to be more expensive, to use local currencies, under the condition, that there is a lot of bi-directional trade. Say there's a company in Romania that also has a daughter company in Egypt, which produces some semi-product for them and does assembly of final products for non-EU markets. For such a company, trading in RON, EGP or EUR, based on how much income they have in which currency would be benefitial. Say they also export secondary product to Egypt, which is consumed there, then, they'd have competetive advantage, if they accepted Egyptian Pounds and imported something that they need to completely evade conversion. Or they only had income in RON and, then, they would strictly trade withthis daughter company in RON and simply up the ante with each business cycle. Finally, if they traded heavily with the EU, they'd trade in EUR, because that is their primary income currency. The problem with this, is how companies get more and more specialized, there is less space for such trade constructs.
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  623. Wait a minute... you don't have a Portugese bank account? What about your Georgian account? I recall you had a bit of trouble with living ironically in Europe guy with banks... Couldn't you pay from Georgia? edit: Try getting a public transport card. Sometimes, the transportation companies use prepaid cards as carriers, then you'd only need to get the money on it, which should be doable with international wire, but it should be a Portugese card.
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  624. As someone, who's looking at no retirement due to unsustainability of demographic development and stunted wages, I say this. We will soon have to face a very, very ugly choice. The young, or the elderly. One of them is going to have to be removed from the ability to influence government, because resources for redistribution are not generated quickly enough, be it metals and oil due to green idiocy, or suspiciously hostile rules for new construction of housing. One has to be sacrificed, if the other is to live and unfortunately, it's the elderly, who have currently the upper hand.
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  625. There you're wrong, there's a lot of industrial and processing development along the Suez route. Egypt could completely abandon agriculture, if need be, and focus on processing of materials and manufacturing. I see very symbiotic relationship for Europe in this way. They could supply Germany and Czechia (assuming we'll ever accept Euro) with processed materials sourced in the rest of the African continent and particularly East Africa. Egypt has oil and LNG, so those are additional sources of Euros, that are not directly dependent on local food supply. For now, they'll be able to buy from the French and Romanians, who are in much better agricultural situation, and once things settle down in Ukraine, with them as well, especially if Ukrainian membership will be considered seriously and they pick up Euro. So I don't really see food security in Egypt a problem... No, I see water as a much bigger issue, which is, why I'd double down on trade with the EU and possibly even South America, assuming the EU-Mercosur deal doesn't fall through. The problem is water! There is a new dam in Ethiopia, which will, due to evaporation, lower the amount of water going through the Nile, rendering it far less useful, if not unusable, for agriculture. There may very well be multiple new dams down there down the line. So, what I'd do, would be to double down on this trade strategy, I would try to trade as much with Europe as a whole as possible to get Euros, using particularly European industrial nations and energy needs to my advantage. I would purchase foodstuffs for return cargo and preserve Nile strictly as fresh water source for drinking water and maybe some small scale sweet water fishing. I would then build a number of nuclear power plants around the Red sea to provide vast amounts of relatively clean and safe energy, which I'd then use for primarily industry and desalination plants providing water used in industry, which would be separate infrastructure from drinking water, ejecting brine as side product into suitable places deeper in the desert, letting it evaporate and mine resulting waste to be processed into either technical or, if possible, table salt.
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  626. How do you determine, how relegious someone is? Simple. You observe their activities. Take a truck driver. If he intends to visit a church as part of his relegious practices, then it is not in my right to prevent him from going there. But if he only prays at home, while chilling in his backyard, mowing lawn, then he can pray as he drives in his big rig, earning me and himself money. Given how bad certain other drivers are on the road, it might actually be recommendable practice to every driver. The person must actually practice his religion in sucha way, that it actually needs his participation outside of workplace. That being said, employees should have to chose, between work and their religious belives. Religion is not a disability, which limit's your ability to work NOT based on your choice, physical constitution or psychological firmness! Being religeous is not like being autistic. Being religeous is not like having Turrets syndrome. Being religeous is not like being wheelchair bound. These are ablebodied, ableminded people, who think, they deserve special treatment, based on particular flavour of idiocy they chose to observe and that deserves no special treatment. Hell, it's not even like having a child, which needs upbringing! It's sickening, that accomodating idiocy is given more space and more protection, than accomodating actually disadvantaged people. People, who actually need to be at home on certain days. If someone has to chose a different, less prosperous path in life to "accomodate" for something, that is beyond their controll or at least immediate controll, then the religious person needs give up their religious practices as well. Hell if a parrant has to chose, to leave their sick child at home and go to work, then that religious nutjob has no right to demand a Sunday off, cau'se he needs to religiously chill!
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  627. Doesn't work. For one, if you were to lower the spending budgets, you'd have to cut retirement benefits eventually. The government, which would do that, is the government no longer in power. We have simply way too many old people to make this feasible on the necessary scale. With entrepreneurship being made too easy, you gut out employment, because suddenly everyone is contractor, because companies refuse to hire normally and you've got gutted social security, because it's cheaper for the companies. Can't lower taxes, as reinvestment of revenues back into companies is ridiculously low already and, unfortunately, this would not motivate companies to reinvest or at very least increase wages. There is nothing that would make them do it. Really the only thing that I could agree with would be new energy regulation to remove subsidies and incentives from intermittent sources and ban even mere advocating against nuclear power. But what you write of as a whole would destroy Europe.
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  628. Make no mistake. Jumbos and superjumbos are not going anywhere anytime soon. Even if we move from hub and spoke model to peer to peer system, there will still be places, most importantly in Asia, where these huge jumbos will still fly. Airports can only have so many runways and by extension slots. Meaning eventually slot prices will go up as more and more planes will need to fly from those same airports and it is still cheaper to run these huge poppies than building a new airport. Think of routes to India and within India at the moment, runs between destinations like Delhi and Bangaluru or Mumbai. These megacities can fill even these behemoths on internal runs, much like Japan did the same with 747s back in a day.
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  629. Man, I love the example you gave here. Let me add another one. My father is long haul trucker. The company he work's with only uses Mercedes trucks. Because they buy six to eight trucks every year from Mercedes, the CEO get's a free lease of SLK class once every three years. That's he's got a at most three years old SLK Mercedes at his disposal for free, because he spends absolutely unreasonable amount of money on trucks. Now Linus' content is basically ads. Very well made, but still ads, be it disks, VPN, processors or graphics cards. We should not have to watch ads in order to watch other ads. He should talk to his benefactors and tell them, that they should pay him more. Well, that and enter other markets.
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  630. This is actually the better use than computers, but even better would be combination of Hydrogen tank tied to it and hydrogen eingine coupled to a power generator with the idea being, that the hydrogen tank would work as a buffer for additional power generation, while energy is expensive enough. But banking on intermittent computation is just plain stupid, because this way, you only moving the excesses to another field, that it self is either 24/7 or on demand by external clients, who them selves are not guaranteed to sync with your local weather, be it solar or wind!
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  631. Unlimited energy storage? Oh yeaahhhhh, :D Can't wait for those lawsuits.
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  632. You know, what I think happened? The market had changed. Back in the eighties, you could not get the amount of eyeballs on projects so easily and therefore, company actually had to show proper signs of success, if it wanted funding. That has changed. Just look at the train wrecks from the recent past, that got funded, but crashed and burned or are about to. Hyperloop, Tesla, Space X... actually, everything Elon touches... Waterseer, the Titan sub, Energy vault, self filling water bottle, food scanner, Theranos... All projects with basically perfect marketing, in some cases very charismatic CEO, but outright none or at very least questionable substance... And that's only what Thunderf00t busted! There are bad fundamentals. And here we have a guy, who doesn't even have a way to look at fundamentals of a business, because those fundamentals might not even exist yet, just showering these same companies with money. As a result, some of these companies survive, but never deliver on their promises, other times, they outright burn to nothing, because, as in some of the cases mentioned above, they didn't have the physics of what they were selling straight! Back then, if you wanted the attention of those, who had the money, you had to prove your case and give promise, because without it, that promise would not have been believable. The very fact, that you show small profit from what you were doing served as guarantee, that what you're doing is worth while and only needs capital to scale. After that, it's only a case of finding new uses for the things you produce at ever more efficient rates. Ultimately, I think, our guy had even been given the wrong advice and got seriously lucky. I'd say, you should actually look into who has the money, what are the problems, he's willing to pay and what are the implications for the greater society (because that changes the landscape) and you want as rich a guy as possible, with as big need to solve something, that will have minimum impact on society. To illustrate, you'd not want to solve global warming, because it increases water evaporation. No, you'd want to come up with water extraction or generation technologies and sell them to the petromonarchies of the Gulf. That way, you have something to sell, that wouldn't destroy the environment it needs to survive.
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  633. This guy need's to have the library thrown at him. And in presence of his children, told by the judge, that he's a terrible father. No one messes with internet access, no matter the reason.
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  634. It's not just that. Look at family law and how divorce is done. In the West, women are incentivized to divorce their husband and men, who never marry, but live with a woman for a while are considered as if married with all liabilities that come with it. Under these circumstances, portion of men are actively evading intercourse and relationships with women over fear of divorce!
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  635.  @arhambliss8606  This is not enough. The correct question is, "how much above economic minimum wage is your wage?". Economic minimum wage is individual and refletcts, how much you need to spend on food, drinks, housing, utilities, transportation to and from work and whatever expences you have to maintain the job (certifications, seminars, tools, etc.). Now let me break it to you, but basically every Millenial and latter generation is below this amount in Europe. Even if people wanted kids, why would they have them, if they couldn't feed them selves!
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  636. There you are very wrong. Famine in the Middle East, for which Ukraine had been no. 2 supplier of food stufs, means constant war in the area. Ukraine will either defeat Russia, or the US will bleed in the Middle East.
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  637.  @JosephSolisAlcaydeAlberici  Neither do Africans. However, even people like you should promote this. Reason is, if nations of origin of imigrants improve sufficiently, people will stop coming. They will not need to.
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  638. Hey, Tfoot, give us a proper show, what this would mean... Please, run the math. How many Gs would it have been, if cars were taking those 90 degrees turns at 60 mph :D
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  639. Economic activity is not the problem. Take a note, most if not all of the areas of Spain, which showed this problem were islands. Islands, which have everything more expensive to procure for the living and limited resources to export, including labor. It's more of, what can be developed in such areas.
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  640. There is easy fix. Never network. If you won't receive bumps in salary or promotions, that you want, just leave the company for a new one. Don't go to HR, what positions are open. Don't go above and beyond. Just keep an eye out and make your own promotions through lateral movement in the job market.
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  641. Can't be done. A pipeline can carry orders of magnitude more gas/oil/water than a fleet of tankers, and doesn't need expensive liquefaction technology to operate. It's called actual costs.
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  642. Interesting. So what would happen, if I stumbled upon abandoned piece of land somewhere out in the boonies, what would be the treshold for me to achieve adverse posession be, if my intention for that property actually was hunting? If going there for a week per month is not enough, would improving the property by permanently parking there a 5th wheel and building a couple of feeders, maybe some light logging (all hail tree law!) be enough given the nature of property? Would intensity of use over short intermittent periods of time be enough to quialify?
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  643. he who controlls davinci... "He who controll's the spice controll's the empire!"
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  644. Short answer? No. Long answer? The currency, that could take over for the USD is Euro, given it's already second most traded and has the capacity to grow to the volume needed, furthermore, it is backed by actually independent central bank. Question now is, what would happen to the trust in USD, if Trump actually destroys the FED and US debt will grow as high as anticipated, or trade using it will become restricted somehow (such as total ban on renumeration to Chinese entities and with china trading entities). Zeihan is right, that no currency can replace USD by it's own merit, but what if the Americans shoot the USD in the foot or worse? It will definitely not be any currency that BRICS is gonna come up with, unless they literally adopt Euro or a mirracle happens, and they'll make a clone of it.
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  645. Hold on... "Reproduction of this video by any method is an infringment of relevant copyright and will subject the infringer to severe civil and criminal prosecution as well as imprisonment with Joe Exotic for the remainder of his sentence." Well, one, in certain countries, copies for personal use are permited (Czechia), two "for the remainder of his sentence." That's cruel and unusual punishment if I ever saw one and three... "Imprisonment with Joe Exotic" Are you kidding me? You do realise that spending jail time with that tiger freak actually sounds like a really cool adventure? Are you going full bender with "You wouldn't steal.."? :D
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  646. Let us hope, that AirBus gets their mess together and begin producing a combi :)
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  647. My words. Why Windows won't ever leave, even in multiple versions? Simple. Legacy sotware. Want to play original TTDL? Need XP. Wanna play Atomic Bomberman? Either emulator, or, you've guessed it, XP. And that's just legacy games! Sure, I'm running my SW Rebellion on a Win7 machine, but I doubt it would run on my "work" driver, which is a Wn10 laptop. So I'm stuck like this. A lot of companies are technologically stuck too. My uncle works in Romania in a factory, they still have and use machines from 1930, because nothing more precise came to the market in their particular field of manufacturing (given what they make, I'll not provide further details). But the same works for us. Sure, upgrade, but that's useless waste of money, unless you actually need to upgrade, because you can pay for it. Say you have an old CNC being run by a Win95 machine, which is integrated in to a network and which is recieving it's tasks from a Linux server, which in turn recieves the work files from a work station running Win10... All you need to achieve, is for that legacy machine to be able to read properly output of more modern software. You can run that granny and keep your company afloat for tens of bucks, while a replacement could easily cost hundreds of thousands and that is exactly the mindset, which smal businesses as well as huge megacorps will gravitate to. You think this is not the case? Not feasable? Not normal? Well, In June of 2019 (those were the days...) Chip magazine came up with an article stating that banks and institutions were still running on COBOL based software in 2014...You know... programming language that saw the assasination of JFK. There is a looot of interoperability of young and old out there on the Internet.
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  648. @Codeman That's not always feasable. One, companies don't want to expend resources and milk already spent resources, preventing deployment of your recommendation. Two, there can be probles with access to resources. It is always better to have true direct access to HW rather than accessing them through layer of virtualisation.
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  649. They are going to... vote in politicians, who will promise and deliver on house confiscation at mere accusation of using that software and they'll ditch it very fast.
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  650. Problem is, how would they get ahead of google on phones? After all, Chrome is preinstalled on basically all devices but Apple, because Google makes the OS for them.
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  651.  @zzygyy  As Czech I take exception to that! We drink the most!
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  652. To be fair, your sun is weapon grade. If it were only a little bit stronger, it would be considered a laser source.
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  653. You know, what I think is also part of Russian war plan? The green deal. Think about what had been happening in Europe for past couple of decades. Emission limits, proven technologies being forced out. We have lost much of heavy industry, part of which is defense industry, but more importantly, the industries that feed the defense industry materials have almost all left for Asia and America and now, we're having major problems finding and manufacturing arms and ammunition to support a country, that got invaded by one of their guarantors, while another doesn't even mention their obligation to defend them (USA) and the last one would be unable to defend their shores from a platoon of determined swimmers (UK) (pointing to Budapest memorandum). We've made regulatory environment in Europe outright toxic to these now sorely missed industries. They even tried to push this environmental BS into NATO and generally security circles, which at one point seriously debated electric powered tanks and BFVs, pointing out their lower emissions and ecological impacts when compared to ones equiped with normal propulsion systems, completely neglecting their shortcomings, which are now coming to haunt those, who voted for these measures in normal civilian cars, as we have seen in a fairly recent blackout situation in Utrecht. Spare a moment, how would Ukrainian army have fought, if they had switched from normal to electric trucks, that take minutes and hours to recharge, when a normal combustion engine truck takes seconds to minutes. And that is assuming comparable ranges and capabilities to navigate terrain! (which they are not, given electric cars are about 1/3 heavier). We don't need to rethink our role in the world just because there is a war, that will draw us in eventually, on our doorsteps. That is the preverbial straw that broke the camel's back, yet politians in the EU comission as well as in European parlaiment, or even in some national parlaiments are refusing to abandon this mad green scheme, which had already cost Europe dearly.
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  654. Twice the cats, twice the dakka, twice the views :D
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  655. Interviewee: "Kids these days can't handle any stress..." Kids these days on heir fifth once in a generation stress event: "Yeah... riiiiight"
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  656. Briggs, one day, you will end up quoted in an actual scientific work :D
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  657. There's evidence suggesting otherwise. Remember, when Trudeau had protestor bank accounts frozen back during covid? That's more in line with Trump than the EU.
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  658. Oh, I can't wait, until MC Hammer joins the lawsuit... :D
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  659. Oh I can't wait for those slavery charges levied against basically everyone involved with that conservatorship, all under the collar of the law.
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  660. Not exactly. Those manufactured things still need to get sold, therefore, any and all hurdles to trade, such as customs checks, harm profitability, which in high salary country like the UK, will be disastrous for manufacturing jobs.
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  661. Most of which are artificial, such as carbon taxes. Green BS will destroy humanity. Not oil and consumption. We'll die of starvation long before the planet will not be able to sustain us, if we go green. Just look at Sri Lanka, when they tried to go "natural"
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  662.  @jitenderchoudhary5180  full of necromancers! :D
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  663. Lad, think in general... what an average person needs is an all-round car, with at least good total performance and for reasonable price (cheap). Now I know, things like these are crazy, even by Top Gear's standards, but it is good to know, you can do even this, that even under these circumstances, you can rely on it... for instance, the test with that Ferrari... Czech highways are in about the same shape as that race track, so yeah... there is something to those tests
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  664. Yeah, you guys need more regulation... and regulation on corporate speech, that would disallow companies to do damage control. However, the problem is bigger. Amazon delivers to all over the world! There are things you literally can't find in local markets anymore. For instance, I bought a passport wallet on Amazon, because nobody sells those where I live. My dad wanted to buy these special tongues for our kitchen to replace broken ones, which we bought years ago in Italy, guess what. He rode Italy from Venice to Catanzaro and no luck. He didn't find it anywhere in Europe. This lasted for eight years of fruitless searching ended by one hour search of Amazon... Make no mistake, I believe, that change must come here, but I don't believe that companies are even capable of changing from current state of the affairs. It's written in too deep in their DNA. And you can't cause them complete revenue meltdown, because there will always be markets, where something strange or unique will be missing and they'll be delivering to, because local customers have no alternatives.
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  665. oil will never cease to be used as much. Why As we are moving away from oil as an energy source, we're moving towards other uses. I'm talking plastics (which can't be made from recycled or alternative materials, particularly in medical application), medicine, synthetic fertilizers... As more and more people advance towards a Western life style, which those people want, demand in other uses of oil will rise and refining process will change, but crude is crude and has to be taken to the refinery! Currently, some 40000 kinds of product have some kind of non-energy dependency on oil. Getting that volume of stuff undone is not a matter of decades, that's centuries at very least!
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  666.  @gene-van  except those technologies don't exist, but nice try.
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  667. man... I can't wait for that class action... It will be glory made manifest.
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  668. Man, I envy the nerves the host has. If I were in his shoes, I would have shot myself, live on radio.
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  669. I really don't think we have seen the end of the battleship. Somebody will revive them one day. Why? There will always be need for long range artilery, even with methods used today. Will there be many of them? No. There are not as many roles for a battleship to fill, but the one she excells at, is irreplaceable. Sure, air force can do a lot of the stuff better than a battleship, but, pilot controlled aircraft, regardless of it being controlled from a cockpit or a room on the other side of the planet, has drawbacks. Remote controll? Jamming. On board pilot? Too great of a risk to lose the pilot due to heavy anti-air. There is nothing one can do against incoming shell, except get out of harm's way.
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  670. I disagree on the Beasts... There are many things to latch on to and follow, as they develop storywise. The one thing, that didn't sit with me, was the scene in Secrets, where Kowalski asks to keep the wand.. that reaction from Dumbledore was not in character. But even that was a decent scene and that was a lowlight. Compare that to entry just prior with absolutely wonderful portrail of self sacrifice. Something I haven't seen done well in cinema in years... I suppose, you'd need to look for the bigger picture to enjoy this type of storytelling, but it doesn't take away from it's overall quality.
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  671. My friend, it could always get worse... Like Putin screaming "Surprise, Ukraine was a diversion", followed by an inflow of tanks in to eastern Turkey...
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  672.  @hamzakasumovic8073  Which could have been addressed by moving the city... In the past, cities moved to cater to mining.
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  673.  @abaddon1371  That is simple. All environemntal policies carry costs, be it actual raise in costs due to new requirements on imputs or reduced availability of final goods thanks to environmental taxes and tarrifs. Costs, that somebody has to pay. People are noticing their lifestiles are getting more and more economically unsustainable as result of new taxes (such as cabron tax on dwellings, that is about to hit us in a yaear or two). This is a problem, because stuff most impacted by these polcies are non-negotiable. Things like having and using cars (because employers don't care, when a bus can and can't get you to work and you have to work to live), having reliable electricity (because wind and solar are completely unmanagable and hydro has other equally important objectives to take into consideration and the greens nearly pushed nuclear out of reenwables and that's not even talking about the Utrecht blackout because of too many EVs charging simultaneously). All these policies are pushed by center left or outright left wing parties, against which the right wing can and does push, the more to the right they are, the harder they push and worse, more easily they get new voters, because they target these polcies far more easily, which is pushing more and more electorate towards them. In short, the more the EU is pushing it's citizens towards "more sustainable" poorer lifestile, the more it fuels scepticism towards the EU itself and thus rise of the right wing parties, because they become the only alternative to economic suicide that is environmentalism, which is currently the ruling dogma.
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  674. Man that food... That had the "all your base are belong to us" wibes :D
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  675. You know, what I think happened, to make that A**hole of a boss cut all contact? HR came to him and told him to do so, before he caused enough psychological damage to warrant a lawsuit they'd lose.
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  676. Nononono. Customer is always right in matters of taste! Don't short it! The saying takes on a completely different meaning!
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  677.  @networkgeekstuff9090  I disagree here. Just look at US, how insanely diverse it is. Compare New York to Texas. Compare the Dakotas to Florida. Extremely different economically, politically, socially... You've got the Amish in the same country as porn stars. That's more diverse than here in Europe! Yet the US is a federation, while we're not. We are ready, it's only that some people preffer to be kings in small kingdoms, instead of dukes in a big one.
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  678.  @TrungNguyen-bh9ox  Well, nobody appareantly :D But with all seriousness. Euro is even with all that the second most used currency world wide. What if the USD loses the trust it currently has, thanks to independent FED and up to Trump I relatively sane policies? Euro taking over USD, if nothing happened to the Dollar is outlandish, but a self inflicted wound to the Dollar? Now that's a different story.
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  679.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  I don't think so. We have already shed our dependency on Russia and Russians them selves have stopped a lot of imports from the EU. And yet, we're still kicking as much as we are. Russia has been overcome. China has been becomming hostile state for Europe for about a decade now. They have been threatening tariffs all the time, or stealing our tech (Americans are not alone in this)... Not to mention, that China is some 10% to 11% of EU total exports. That's just half of what the US would have been, if there were a tariff war. Furthermore, they are not the only manufacturing hub. India could easily replace them as destination for any semiproducts still made in the EU. As for products and more importantly luxury stuff, China it self is schrinking for these markets, because the young proffessionals, who buy this stuff, are rarer and rarer find in China. they either flee to neighbouring countries and Singapore, or age out of the cohort. On top of that, China needs food so much, they are destroying ecosystems the world over, while Europe has multiple agricultural powerhouses. They can't tariff that, without causing serious domestic issues and given how stuff is going on in China right now... 1) nah, I don't really see them putting tariffs in before half of Trump's term is up and 2) even if they did, would Europe actually feel the effect in like six months? On top of that, there is a huge continent to the South of Europe, that needs capital goods, has the resources for the energy transition and young population, that want's luxury. And Europe is a lot closer to it than Russia, the US or China all are. That is, where growth is gonna be, and with whom Europe can rise with.
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  680.  @networkgeekstuff9090  Doesn't matter. The risks from possibility of bailing out a state are greatly outwighed by the possibility of just printing USD, if the FED ends up in tatters thanks to Elon's cost reduction measures and Trump's need to finance all kinds of projects without increasing debt, taxes and with no real assistance from tariffs. Cause that never ends. We have seen this in action, I believe in the Ottoman Empire back in a day. Didn't end well. And I'm not referring to what Erdogan had been doing, this is much older. My point, however, was, that even as diverse states as the US states across multiple different relevant scales can be, they are each a part of a single nation and it works, all be it with hiccups such as political polarization. If it can be made to work in the US, it can be done in Europe. Sure, Hungary will likely become European Alabama and Slovakia Mississippi, but we'll come to terms with that too.
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  681. Well... To make a company realize, they can't do something like this... Do you know someone over at Fox News and CNN? These throwing same shame their way would make anyone go whiter than white it self.
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  682.  @pabss3193  One, not all of us have twitter, and two, Ubiquiti need's to see, that they stand a lot more to lose, than just standing customers. The last thing they need is nation wide, heavily publicised controversy. The problem is, when things get big enough, only equally big things have effect on them. For instance, someone at a bank might see that report, and deny them loan as a result. That is why Ubiquiti and all businesses are so hush hush, when rolling out something, that could result in reduced revenue. Eg. something like this.
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  683. MEI is the same BS as DEI... Why? Who is the most disadvantaged in the job market, but needs to greatest return from it, because only these people can have enough children, to make sure, we won't die out as a species? Young people. Young people, who don't have enough experience to get hired these days in the first place, irrespective of their actual skills!
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  684. This calls for new standards in financial reporting. Ones that would deliberately ommit goodwill And would only implement forecasts if they lower company value. Only then wil This stuff be prevented.
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  685. and yet, Dubai was built on strategic position and an airline...
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  686.  @minecraftfox4384 And yet they sent troops and material anyway.
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  687. We need to change laws a bit... something along the lines of: 1) advertisments are binding in the language used in said advert (basically, adverts imply contract conditions). Eg. to illustrate on an actual case that had been to trial, Pepsi co. would have to find a way to deliver a harrier to a campaign participant, just as depicted in their ad and they'd be forced to expend all company resources to do it to the point of ceasing operation and releasing all their trade secrets to the public. 2) EULA is inammendable after signing up for services, unless law makes that mandatory and ammendment in such case must be strictly to explain provisions of the law, that are mandatory to introduce. If you sign a contract to date X, those are the terms and conditions by which that business relationship is governed. Ony new business, to the extent to which it is new, may be governed by new terms and conditions. 3) This kind of stuff was ripe for a class action and reminding ourselves, that class actions usually deliver 4 to 5 bucks to each participants, even though the pot was much, much bigger. The new rules for them need to be, that the amount paid out are based on the most damaged party and these damages are then multiplied by number of even remotely eligable participants in the class action, and only then this amount calculated amount is then considered for punitive damages, whcich can not be capped. Parent companies and individuals are then responsible with all of their equity for these judgements and they are not dischargable through bankruptcy. Once class action is filed, it can not be ended with agreement. 5) Contracts are, going forward, forced to use not legal clauses, but plain old English as defined by dictionary universally accepted by the court. EG, companies don't get to define the meaning of a word. That is for the courts. 6) Companies are mandated to provide non-lease like options to the market at such price, that the end consumer actually buys. Penalties for even single accidential incomplience will result in fines in tens of percent of highest company value in the past decade.
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  688. And export high value added goods and components as well as food. Remember, most of the soy beans and paste which China imports is grown and processed in the US. Fall of Detroit and manufacturing industry in the US was inevitable. Destruction of one smoke stack towns was not brought by globalization, rather, this was due to insufficient support for small businesses and little to no support for retraining of people.
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  689.  @wendythebaker  not necessarily. Retro sruff made using originál methods is a nieche in it self too. Thats question of marketing then.
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  690. Kudos to those, who took upon them selves the duties of first responders to the scene.
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  691. Well... I guess... "Two can be as bad as one, it's the loneliest number since the number one..."
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  692. Man, I don't know... I sincerely believe, that you need to take responsibility, even criminal one, even for unintended results. This should be considered in the penalty one is to receive... But on the other hand, you imprison Trump, you'll turn him in to a martyr. Which would even further spread the divide... No win scenario, really.
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  693. Hey, Briggs, do this again, but this time go with total ammount of life behind bars ordered life sentence being 30 years worth.
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  694. Objection: The fact, that the senator didn't disclose anything to a fund/investment managing party, doesn't preclude insider trading, as the fund/manager could have earned privileged information and carried out en bulk trades based off of them. Therefore, while this particular senator might be guilty, as no one may benefit from criminal activity.
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  695. Well, this gravy train is heading from indictment sidings to treason central real quick...
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  696. Can't be done. that would require solving water and fertilizer problem for Northern Africa (which maybe, Czechs got prize of Expo for one such technology in Dubai a while back) and wildlife everywhere South of Sahel, most of which is protected due to being endangered (eg. extinction for most), if agriculture were to take hold to the extent, where it could compete with Europe, even without subsidies, this would have to change. And it would be extremely expensive to boot. Ernesto Sirolli illustrates this very well. They brought seeds, found very fertile land, taught the locals how, even paid them, to grow crops... and then the hypos came...
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  697. I've read somewhere, that manufacturing companies, that actually do updates, don't swap their old stuff out. They create separate VLAN for these old machines, punch very few, very specific holes in the firewall with both source and destination rules and let the old stuff work with the new. Imagine working on a Win10 in something like AutoCAD and there is a XP machine behind a firewall in a position of server for a bunch of CNC mills. Sometimes, things get nuts in IT :D
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  698. You are counted, Joker. Yes, what you are doing is not traditional job, but it is actually a business. Definition of a business (as far as Czech law is concerned) is as follows: Business (entrepreneurship) is a stand alone effort, carried out continuously done in one's own name, at their own risk in order earn a profit. By this definition, you are self employed entrepreneur.
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  699. Or by building your own cloud, by purchasing a NAS... To be frank, though, there are other reasons, we are buying worse things than we had before. Take Windows for instance. Eversince the era of XP, things had been more and more locked down, the product has been getting worse and worse for the user, yet, we have to upgrade, or face threats and loss of support for the operating system from the software we need to run. Sadly, we can't recompile software in order to make it run on other systems, because that would be breach of copyright, not to mention the technical knowledge necessary, hence, we're on the hook. We need to criminalize these kinds of practices.
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  700. Here's a horrifying story for you. Track from Brno to Jihlava. A steam train derailed and rerailed itself three times separate times on switches, as result of which, three stations had to have one of their tracks replaced. It looked like you dropped a plow down in between the rails. Miraculously, neither the engine was damaged, nor anyone was injured that day.
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  701. I say, be authentic, never lie in an interview, but do keep a blacklist of companies, that ever lied to you and never EVER interview with them again, if they'll lie (already have two entries) and if you ever hear someone think up loud about joining the company, warn them not to and tell them what happened to you and exactly how. Do what you can and is legal, to deny such companies employees, because nothing else will secure change, given the fact that legislature, which should answer to you, is in the pocket of employers. And remember, employers have forgotten, what it means growing their workforce. I live in Czechia, even through covid and well before and after, we have had unemployment at that level and companies compeeting in crying over not being able to hire, that they need more flexible job market... Yet, our wages didn't keep up with inflation even before covid. We have some of the most profitable companies year-on-year, yet vast majority of them offer minimum wage even for as specialized positions as accountants, CNC programmers, IT admins, certified welders... Not one of them offered apprenticeships in their respective fields, let alone paid ones! And basically no company offers minimum economic wage (cost of living+maintaining the job) in the area they operate in.. And now they want the ability to lay off people without stating reason! They all behave like a cartel, only authorities are scared stating that!
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  702. As much as I feel, that Farage had it coming. He destroyed UK economy for decades to come, after all... But this is scary... I had a look over my banking contract and found there a ctach all clause for cancelling of services to myself for basically any concievable reason... Intenrational sanctions due to a war is one thing... But taking part in activities, that are not illegal (even worse, historically taking part in them, when they were not illegal) should never be able to get you de-banked... For now, people diversify as much as you can. If going East is out of your capabilities, at least go to other banks. Parent bank nation also has some effect on this.
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  703. Damn it... Indiegogo really needs to get their s**t togather. This will cause that platform to become joke of itself soon enough... well more of a joke than before.
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  704. I would be concerned about any agreement with the US these days. Not just because Trump could pull out again, but because we see, what is going on over there consumer protection wise. Louis Rossmann had recently had a video about forced arbitration agreements being forced onto consumers, because these terms were written on the packaging. This is the corporate BS we're trying to keep out, that America had embraced. Another situation is, when a company, say Roku, forces you to change the contract under which you had bought something, by denying you the service of the item you've bought.
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  705.  @foxmcld584  Wait, White House approval? I thought it was congres, which was meddling in DC's affairs.
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  706.  @killero00  Wouldn't call it that way. From what I've read, they the US is split pretty much fifty fifty these days. And there are worse things out there too... Look at election results for each state. Even places like NY, You've got the City blue, but outside of urban areas? Blood red. I am very worried, that US will turn from actual democracy in to dogmatic dictatorship of the majority, as slight a majority as it may be. Damn, being centrist must s**k these days over there...
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  707.  @idontgetthejoke4813  And that is the treshold for you? By how much? One vote, two? And even if by a thousand, does that mean, that rights of those, who didn't vote for the winner should be ignored, or worse, removed? There is a difference between democracy and dictatorship of the masses and it follow's one old quote. He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. Thomas Paine And frankly, what have we been seeing in the US for at very least past twenty years? Republicans attempting to overturn Roe vs Wade. Democrats besieging the second ammendment. And both? Gerrymandering voting districts to the point elections can be considered candidates selecting their voters. In a democracy, you have to respect other side's rights and the fact, that different rights have different weight for them. If you don't, you're not living in a democracy, rather in a dictatorship. You can't have democracy without that kind of respect and frankly. I don't see that respect on either side of the aisle.
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  708.  @arubial1229  Exactly, if you want a good gateway, you either go Netgate (PfSense) or if you absolutely have to go Ubiquiti, you go Edge. God, I wish I could adopt UniFi switches and APs in to UNMS!
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  709. Pretty sure, you could make this input non-discriminatory. Just have the TV itself do the analysis and grab a pre-loaded ad
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  710. Nope. That wouldn't help. Rather, we need to change rules for lending, so that only principle is interestable. My father has been going through bankruptcy currently. As result of this, all interest and most importantly fines are removed from the equation. This removed 70% of his total debt, about a third of which were from interest from unpaid interest. Furthermore, the fact, that debt can be sold off is a huge problem in my opinion, because it causes the debt to become perpetuity. We already have accounting standards for handling delinquent debt and it is written off, after a while of debts going arrear. It astonishes me, that a debt so bad, it is mandatory to write it off, can be sold off to a debt buyer instead.
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  711. Yeah, I do recall, that when Konkan railway had been built, I don't remember the name of that head honcho, didn't want it to have any government involvement. Result? Multiple engineering marvels, that experts said would take years to finish took significantly shorter, particularly one of the largest bridges on the rote took just over half the projected time to build. Meanwhile, where are the major governmental projects? I'd say, that you Indians have three problems. Gandhi wanted to tackle the first, but sadly, had been assassinated before he could properly begin. Second is really civilizational blight irrespective of the nation, so that is not really your fault and the third one one has to adapt to. I'm talking about the cast system, bureaucracy and geography. It seems to me, that particularly the cast system is a huge problem, given it affects access to education and that economic development... you guys need someone to step into Gandhi's shoes and walk the path he started to the finish.
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  712. Really, I think, that the main problem back then was how ideologically it was refused by house Republicans... Obamacare should have covered a few more things, a ban on lobbying in healthcare, total compensation guidelines for insurance companies and banning insurance companies from dispersing profit to any other causes than future healthcare costs. Make no mistake, I'm getting redder by the day and no, not in the communist way, but Republicans like to go on and on about moral hazard argument and commandments and how christian they are... not realizing, what they're doing, by letting insurance to be for profit business, is straight bankruptcy of morals. And where are the stories of great saints not forgiving debts and putting people into effective slavery? I skimmed the Bible in my studies, but something as abhorrent as this would immediately catch my eye!
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  713. "we have to return what we found to the country of origin." Do I hear "That belongs in a museum!"? :D
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  714. I actually think, you are wrong here. German dmography is a problem, no argument there, but that is in my opinion the sole problem, that cannot be overcome. The only continent that these days has proper demography is Africa and it is close, hungry, and Germans don't have as strong colonial footprint there, meaning they could replace the French in former French colonies. Furthermore, Africa needs machinery to grow itself, so Germans could replace China with Africa and shift back to industrial machinery construction. It would be more expensive, but it could be done long term, eventually, as demography get's worse and worse, transitioning to R&D role. Finally, Europe needs to start putting more emphasis on agriculture, particularly on integrating the supply chain into single entities, eg. a farm will grow the wheat, that same farm will mill it into flour. A ranch is making milk and beef, that same ranch also needs to butcher it itself, and refine the products as much as possible. The farm should tan the leather, sew something out of it and then, sell it them selves. As for energy, the whole of EU needs to have a very critical look at itself. It emmits laughably little CO2 and yet, is introducing more and more green, economy stifelling policies, that either complicate energy generation or make particularly electricity artificially more expensive. This needs to stop. We need to start our own mines and make them as efficient as possible, as well as scrap any and all emission penalties and taxes.
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  715. Try saying that in Austria :D
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  716. If that were the case, why does he not go into Ukraine properly? War with Iran, given the difference in power between them and the US would last twenty minutes...
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  717.  @google_is_annoying_me_lots3440  I wonder why... maybe cause there was somebody propping up their opposition? Or even better, maybe cause the US are great at fighting wars, but such at state building? Or even better, cause Trump wanted the "I brought the boys home" moment... No, the war had been over, won by the US. It's what happened after, that brought Afghanistan to where it started at.
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  718. Laughs in medicine.
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  719. Yeah, meantime, because of how poorly sanctions on Russia got implemented, receiving money from a Russian DISIDENT leads to you getting debanked, like happened to "living ironically in Europe" guy
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  720. I mean Dick Wolf literally had that premise in Law and Order SVU a few years back... nuts stuff... We have this in Europe too. Election results here in Czechia dictate ability of a Polish woman to access abortion... because she can cross borders and have it here, if the christian democrats can't influence stuff.
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  721. Hey man... I actually think, how this could have happened and in that wildly unlikely theory, Hertz is acutally innocent for once or at least only ignorant. Let me cast your attention to Wolt, as we all once in a while order food, we put in our card details, that are stored and waiting for us to use them again. Well Wolt keeps the information even beyond card's expiry so multiple cards can exist on an account for us to select from. As someone, who has multiple cards used for different purposes, I put purchases promised to be repaid by employer onto my travel card and then simply submit statement from that card for reimbursement. I'd argue, this man had similar situation, where he was sent on a business trip, had been given the company card and, since he was a loyal Hertz customer, he rented a car and paid for it with company card per instruction, but this way, the card ended up on his account on the count of his prior loyalty. Well, and then it is just the question of, "who picked the wrong card, when ordering a new rental?"
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  722. OH you think this is bad. Imagine the humiliation, if all the russian soldiers ended up dead, captured, deserted the army or outright joined ukrainian forces.
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  723. eh... technicaly... with GPON, you can end up with optical all the way to your home router....
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  724.  @tolazytothinkofanamd2351  Not really, The congress should really look at how banking and cards work in Europe. Around here, ATMs can charge you a pretty penny, but those, which do it are well known. ATMs of bank group usually behave as if it were one bank (at least within a nation) or are officially shared, meaning you pay the same from any of these for withdrawing money from your bank account. And then it's on the bank. Some bank account packages come with cards, which allow you most or all operations with the card for free as part of package, or for a flat monthly/yearly fee for the card as a whole, or as a reward for using the card (for instance I used to have one free withdrawal from any ATM per one payment in a shop). There are actually fees for withdrawals from your bank account at the branch, when you go to the bank to be serviced by an actual teller. The justification is, that since a teller, a person, is more expensive long term, a small fee is reasonable.
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  725. Oooooh, please, please, please. Let it be a lithium fire. That would finally open eyes to actuall problems with electric motion, which is being downplayed by proponents of electromobility. Oh please, let it be true
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  726. OK, Oh please... 1) make this a sovereign citizen case 2) do a collab on this with Leonard French
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  727. Stay at home mom in this day and age? I've got news for you... Your "capitalist" employers in the West have decided, they don't want to pay wage anymore, while they got used to employees going above and beyond the contract, now considering such behavior on employees part as standard. As result, wages and productivity have been disjointed for the last twenty years and your normal productive jobs can't pay for rent+energies+food for one person anymore, let alone two, irrespective of effort an employee puts in.
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  728. Louis you're making one major mistake in hiring. All of what you've described is only good for hiring people, who already did the stuff. Problem is, fewer and fewer people are available, because there are careers out there, that will pay better than board repair. Meanwhile, you have a bunch of young, agitated people in the market, who seek their first jobs and can't find any, so, they don't buy stuff. So by doing this "industry standard" hiring practices, all be it streamlined to the actually useful stuff, you're depleting your potential employee pool, while not helping it to refill, thus increasing the wages you have to pay for new hires, and at the same time, lowering the pool of your future customers, because nobody's gonna need repair, if they couldn't get a job to get the money to spend on a thing to repair. I'm quite certain, that your hiring procedure is a lot more effective and, frankly, better experience for the employee than most, but it fails to identify the guy, who actually want's to learn board repair. So what you should do, is watch his reactions and if he show's interest in to "why did my attempt fail?" or "what was wrong with the board then?", you should hire him and train him. Sure, he might not linger, but then we're talking about ineffective retention policies, not about hiring nor how expensive that employee is.
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  729. cock ring? Really, What are you gonna send next? Mr. Clinton's turds, claiming them celebrity turds, cause he is a celebrity here on youtube?
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  730. Louis, I dare you. Try watching at least four hours worth of Youtube without adblock on. I use youtube as background, when I'm working. It would be absolutely impossible to use in such a way without adblock. I'm here for the content, not the bloat. Youtube can have my money, when they stop pushing content I'm interested in off the platform.
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  731. holly shit! According to international law, space on board of a vessel or plane is considered sovereign territory of the nation under which flag they sail, or in which country they are registered for planes. So unless Trump went as far as hiring a foreign airline for this, the court has jurisdiction!
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  732. Louis, this is normal. In Czechia, you can end up getting sued for wrongful termination. When that happens, the court can outright annul the termination until such time, that the employer terminates the contract legally... meaning there is no upward limit to the amount of years, how long can the employee be paid. All it takes is one incompetent clerk at the courthouse, and you're paying a decade and have to fire that employee again. But, there is, fortunately a way around this: 1) maintain your records and don't take the idea of "now I don't need them anymore" to ever come into your mind. Put everything on paper. 2) have more employees on the same job for comparison and have a robust training program. 3) don't be an ass to your employees. 4) always try to end employment in an agreement, fire only in serious cases (alcohol, felonies, etc.)
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  733. I have to say, unless we are talking isolated remote sites, I don't find use cases for UniFi. Why? Companies are money hungry and, if they are clever, they use the cheapest, but reliable, gear. There are comparable switches out there, that are somewhat cheaper. Edge series is more easily integrateable, because it has fairly similar GUI logic to other manufacturers. UniFi being too different harms it in switching. There is a rule out there, that say's "Always use what you need, where you need it.". So when designing a network, one has to ask, "Do I need ES8-150, something larger, or will non-PoE switch suffice?". As long as less than half of the switch is populated by PoE, there is no need for it and thus no need to buy EdgeSwitch and say Netgear will suffice (well, if only one switch can be installed). But, if the switch get's populated with PoE over half the ports, one has to ask himself, "Do I actually need capabilities that make EdgeSwitches unique, specifically passive PoE?". If yes, it usually is better to go with EdgeSwitch, if not, Other manufacturer will likely be cheaper. There is little benefit of having all gear from one manufacturer.
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  734.  @colinsmith1288  Well, back in 2016, my money was on the UK being sane and staying in the EU. Wouldn't surprise me, if Farrage came back from the political graveyard, seized control of the Tories and won at least one major election. Just look at the US and them reelecting Trump! You'd say literal zombie could beat him after his first term, but here we are. I would not underestimate stupidity of people in large groups.
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  735.  @Meritumas  But it severely limits their ability to spy on you. This way, you at least control the environment. No putting spyware into my NAS, TV or anything ethernet connected
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  736.  @newagain9964  Sadly, window of opportunity for that is closing. It's becoming "industry standard".
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  737. Question, if OP sent a copy to the court as naturalborncitizen sudgests, wouldn't that be ex-parte communication? Not to mention breach of NDA, if signed?
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  738. Quick question, Louis, Do you have an accountant on hand, or do you do your accounting yourself? Because if latter is the case, I could understand that decision. It is a suicide decision, but understandable.
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  739. You want to make China behave? Place a carrier group in strait of Malaka and tell Xi, "Dude, you'll sned a single bullet to Russia and no ship carrying cargo will pass.".
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  740. Here is, what needs to happen now: 1) Europe must freeze all American assets until such time, that USA restores full support to Ukraine and Trump's capabilities to stop them is withdrawn by Congress. 2) Europe must immediately cancel any and all defense imports from USA and institute a ban on purchases on weapon systems with exposure to unreliable countries. 3) Europe must create it's own navigation and intelligence gathering satellite system. Starlink must be banned to use in Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa and the Middle East. GPS must be phased out. 4) The UK should use their invite for state visit extended to Trump earlier, to put Trump on sham trial Russia style, with treason charges.
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  741. So... you think, that everything has a price in trade? Let me put that to a test. I've got a surgeon ready to operate, how much would it take, for you to sell me your heart right now? The operation would begin upon signing the document, which must be done promptly. Give me a number!
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  742. There is no sympathy in my being for a woman being "abused" anymore. Have seen one too many cases, where these accusations were weaponized, years and decades old and in some of them even false. I very much see this way to resolve things between family members as ideal. But, even I have to say that I'm disturbed, that no one would call 911 or whatever the equivalent number for an ambulance or firefighters is, when someone present's with what is clearly acute medical problem.
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  743.  @mediolanumneminem1417  Yeah, pretty sure Chamiberlain thought that about Suddetenland too...
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  744. We've seen mining before... now, we're entering another mines... I'm calling it. We will see Thrawn by the end of the season.
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  745. How afraid should I be, because I have a complimentary membership with Hertz stemming from my travel credit card? :D
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  746. Sorry, no. High quality and high density are mutually exclusive, because you'll never have the budget to build them. Not to mention, you actually need back yard to have kids (or so Zeihan likes to say). Really, the only thing, which can secure affordable housing and recovery of population growth, is to go away from environmentalism (which drives up cost of life) and relax zoning laws, to allow family homes to be built anywhere with as few bells and whistles as possible
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  747. hm... How to put this... So, you're fixing things... fixing policy, and now you're fixing people... I'm seeing a pattern here!
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  748. ​ @maureenmckenna5220  riiight... And all those pro women schemes, to get women into higher education have nothing to do with it... I tell you what, remove any and all support from women attaining education and we'll see, just how many will still chose education followed by career over marriage and motherhood. You see, women take a risk, when bearing children and giving birth. Not a small one too. Two possibilities exist. Either women just can't compete with men and thus it should not be sexist to not hire them based on the fact, because they actually are worse employees, given they needed help even getting into uni or they can, in which case all those support programs are superfluous and therefore waste of money, which could have been expended on more/better resources.
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  749. Yeah, I used to love left wing comedians back in the day. John Oliver, Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert... And the more I watched them, the more I started turning red at some point. John Oliver went hard left, at some point, so I dropped him. Trev went, that only gun control works (it doesn't, because it doesn't address the underlying problems)... Really the only one of those I'd go and see live is Stephen, why? He can make me laugh even about gun control, despite being left wing on the topic. Absolute genius of comedy.
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  750. Hm... I guess hard drives are gonna become reaaaaal gold in Russia. There be pirates in Russia :D
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  751. Statistics would make people realize, just how much more dangerous is car ownership than gun ownership :D
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  752. So, you think, you have it bad... b*tch please. Look at Czech Republic. Compensations promised, never paid out. 1:1. Since covid started, we had three ministers of health. One resigned, after he was forced to rat out a source of information regarding office. 2:1, second resigned, after he was found in a pub, he ordered closed based on spreading of the infection. 3:1. To make things worse, he was minister for about a month, spawning all sorts of jokes, saying "minister is part time job.", so stop whining. You may have seen a lot. It's nothing compared to us. Oh and rumor has it, there will be fourth minister in like a month!
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  753. I don't think so. Most people have pretty vanilla needs and machines are so powerful, that even RAM demand Firefox has is not a problem. Why shop around, if your primary needs are met reasonably well? For most people, key is blocking of ads, so I think, that Firefox will go up, given it's the better known alternative to Chrome and Edge.
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  754. You want the naswer? Well it is feminism. The proper question is, why? Well, because of what feminism is pushing for. One of the core tenants of particularly early feminism was same access, be it bank accounts, voting rights or more importantly, access to higher education and the job market. As a result whole host of women centric programes were created, that pushed women into places they didn't chose to persue, at least in large numbers. Even now, there is concentrated effort to push women into STEM, because without incentives, women tend to chose CARE proffesions, which pay less and spend less time at work (as in per shift) than their male counterparts (hence gender absolute pay gap, but not per hour pay gap within statisticly reliability). Add to this errosion of family unit thanks to protections and benefits awarded to women in dovorce court and the law in general (for instance the Istanbul treaty). Meanwhile women are not faced with consequences of their behavior and can even strategically utilize litigation to cause maximum damage to a man. To illustrate, woman can bring allegation of rape any time from the time of alleged act. Feminism shuns maximum time spans from time of alleged crime taking place and promotes no proper evidence being presented in the court or even being gathered. How do you prove allegation of anything without credible witnesses (which are unreliable as it is, just ask Neil Degrasse Tyson), paper trail, dated audi-video evidence, rape kit record, etc. yet women leave men behind bars all the time. There was a case from UK a few years back, where a woman tried this six times and succeded five! Another way to look at this is through lense of domestic violence shelters. There are orders of magnitude more of these for women than for men, yet, women tend to be initial aggressors in confrontations! Thanks to feminism, women now have voting rights and are the more dependable and, thanks to greater longevity among women, more common voters, hence, they are key demographic for politicians, hence women rights are getting more and more entrenched, while men are being overlooked or straight up made to pay the price of women making mistakes. And here is the one thing Feminists are right about. It is reactionary. It took time, but men have picked up on, what had been going on for a while now and, thanks to the Internet, have begun to organize and inform oneanother. We talk on and on about women rights and descrimination of women. Well, what about men rigths? What about discrimination of men? We need a genuine discussion about work-life balance and position of men and women in society (because the two questions are intertwined), because as things are now heading, feminism has had a hand in creating a new problem. One of the things feminism advocates for is birth control, be it through pill or access to on-demand abortion. Both of these contribute to below replacement rate natality in developed world, which could, with enough political colouring lead to some massive problems. Let me quote Czech criminal code: §400 Genocide 1) Who intending to destroy completely or partially particular, racial, ethinc, national, religeous, class or other people group b) takes action to prevent childbirth in such people group will be punished with jail time of no less than 12 years and no more than 20 years. Preparation is punishable. Encouragement is punishable §403 Establishing, support and propagation of movement intended to quashing of human rigths and freedom of a human being 1) who estabilshes, proclaims support (etc)... that is intended to quash rights of a human, or spreads class, ethnic, racial, national, religeous or other similar people group based animosity will be punished with jail time of no less than 1 year and no more than 5 years. §404 Declaration of sympathy with movement intended to quashing of human rigths and freedom of a human beings. Who publically declares sympathy with movement intended to quashing of human rigths and freedom of a human beings will be punished with jail time of no less than six months and no more than three years. a reasonable jurror could find, that advocating for birth control through the means mentioned above for as long as feminism had been, even pushing for abortion to be a right (which to some degree could be seen as extension of right to healthcare, which is the other side of this coin), establishes intent to do as mentioned above, because they did so knowing that birth rates are below replacement rate and falling in the developed world and result of each successfull deployment of the pill, as well as each abortion carried out, prevents from child being born. Meaning feminism could be, given sufficiently conservative judge (because even the judge is a human. No judge will always perform their duties perfectly, which is why first instance judgements are not final), found in breach of three, maybe even four (§405 denial, questioning, approval of or justification for genocide, but that's mostly meant for events of nazi occupation and subsequent communist regime in Czechoslovakia) of crimes against humanity known to Czech criminal code. Just look at women, self declared feminists, who ON TV advocate for criminalizing even normal behavior, as long as man was on one end of an interaction and woman on the other (I'm talking even such a normal and, frankly necessary thing as spotting for a woman while on bench press. Somebody has to catch that barbell, if the person below it loses strength, because that could end in accidentally crushed trachea!), because that is sexist/predatory behavior. But, because of the influence of feminism, people, who advocate for this, which in my opinion clearly fits what is described in §403, and despite similarities between laws in different nations, these people roam free.
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  755. I have news for you. Unless you have birthrate over 2,1 you will, end up dissintegrating any nation due to ageing and attrition of infrastrcuture, which will inevitably come, because, eventually, there will not be enough money left, after retirement benefits are paid out. And retirement benefits will always be paid out, because, in a democracy, the largest population group has the most say and will never vote against their own interests. That is the retired. The only way out of this is higher birth rate, but that doesn't take effect immediately. It take's some 20 years, before a human able to work after he/she get's born. Now, how do you cover those 20 years, until these new "baby boomers" come of age to work? And that is one of the positive economic effects of immigration. You can buy yourself some time, to get that birth rate up. Now, where is basically all of Europe for birth rate? Cause until you get that above that 2,1, you have no right to talk about integration or assimilation. Those are luxuries, you can't afford, until your birth rate is high enough.
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  756.  @exquisitedoomlapointe185  Nope. So far, technology has alway created more jobs, than it destroyed. It took time, for economy to retool itself, but eventually, there were more jobs. The problem is, you don't have the time to wait neither for new children to grow, nor to wait for technology to get implemented (assuming there even is sufficient technology in the first place). You need that labor and you need it now the moment, the birth rate is below 2,1. Two ways to achieve that, Work longer (eg, no retirement benefits, while contributing to current retirees), which is virtually impossible to get through politically, meaning it's not an applicable solution, or immigration.
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  757. I actually think this could still work in Europe. The thing is, there are limits to what you can and cannot do in terms of transport. I have seen beef from South America and cangaroo meat from Australia. I have never seen anything green from beyond the continent. Romanian tomatoes? Absolutely. Spanish salads? Of course, but I have never seen anything green from South America or Asia and Africa has problem feeding itself right now. I think vertical farming was incorrectly applied. For me, key concern had been the land use issue. If a farm were to invest into a reasonably large vertical growing space, they could shift the use of the land to other production and thus diversify. The world is having problem with insect populations dying out and one of the problems there is, that fields have become more homogenous and larger to accomodate larger more productive equipment. This opens up an option to compensate the farmer the cost difference as long as he/she actually moves that production and uses the freed land better the environment, for instance by creating a meadow in place of a growing field. The question is, how much do we as a society value the environment? Because this would have actual calculable costs to it. Would have been a lot tougher sell than electric cars or pushing people into buses...
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  758. That is simple. The fault, actually lies with the left and their grip on mainstream media. A lot of people these days live in fear perpetuated by the media, that makes the other party villain and in some cases, and this is the dangerous part, proving certain stereotypes right. Take Alex Jones, for instance. We all know, about his lies, regarding certain events. The problem is, that the left had been pushing for tighter gun control for decades even then. Right leaning people saw this as a threat to their rights, so, when Jones showed up and started lying about, who's responsible for that mess, he gained quite a following and caused immeasurable anguish to survivors, their families and families of the victims, because he gave those, who suddenly felt, their rights are threatened, a banner to rally around. If the left didn't push to take away a right. If their media, didn't always portray the weapon user, as the "guilty party", there would not be quite so fertile land for a seed of radicalization through echo chambers to land on. Or take Gina Carano. She said straight up lie in support of Trump and got nearly immediately fired from everything Disney. Confirming a long standing rumor, that in Cali, if you speak your mind as a republican or straight up conservative, you'll find your self very suddenly unemployed and not for eligible for rehire and on your way, to be ran out of the state. Is what she did wrong? Yes. Was it a lie? Yes, that's why it were wrong. But the fact, that both sides can't even trust the court system, members of which, unlike actors, have to evade even the appearance of impropriety by field spanning code of conduct, is a huge red flag and a need for the politicians to seriously reconsider reconsider, what are they pushing for. Her job was not the right venue to deal with this. If she did indeed "cry fire in a crowded theater, and it were not true", than she should have stood trial, upon which her job may have gotten retracted, if she were found guilty. Not the other way around. What happened to the principle of innocent until proven guilty? Or what about Johny Depp, who had to go to the court twice to prove, if not straight innocence, that he were not as guilty as the media portrayed him to be, and again, lost his job, because his actual story of female abuser did not sit well with company image and message, that Disney had been trumpeting out for years. And what happens with the opposing side of the arguments, seeing this? They radicalize them selves, because they create echo chambers of their own, because they feel threatened and feel the need to organize them selves. The more and the heavier the massage from one party, the stronger the response from the other and the spiral's beginning to spin. You throw one Trump out the door, another, even more unhinged, flies in through the other, only this time from the other political side. Rince and repeat, until you're floundering between a police state and utter lawlessness.
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  759.  @epicmit9618  And what's the worst? Even if we'll be generous to Unis, they can't keep up with development, because they don't work with the live process and weven if they did the research, it takes time for the sylabus to update itself too. A process, that is too slow to take latest developments into account by it's very nature, mostly because noone can predict the future, least of all economists.
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  760. The problem is, a lot of this shit is hidden in other agendas, that people " actgually want". Take that emissions lock. That is now being legislated as part of Euro7 (or at least it was. Last time I heard, Euro7 had been somewhat watered down) and nobody's stopping to think for a moment, that five years down the line, the company will drop support for that car/model, and it will brick itself over it, because all commands to the car are done remotely by design and if you attempt to bypass it, it will brick again. And if you'll want to buy a car, that doesn have these technologies? Guess what, suddenly, you have to pay much, much higher tax or mandatory insurance...
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  761. plot twist. Somebody removes Erdogan from power (regardless of method). the Lira: "Stonks!"
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  762. There is a difference between puppet state (Donbas republics) and genuine sovereignity issue.
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  763. I for one believe, that the West made a mistake, when it chose to believe, that it can win wars without getting dirty. It failed, to deliver some very clear messages, like "if you want that system, we can show you, how that looks like. Bosporus and Belgian straits are hereby placed under blockade, no ship will be permitted under any circumstances passage. Any ship attempting to cross will be sunk with all hands. Since you've rejected the international order, the law goes with it too. I'm sorry, what are you talking about famine and this being a genoicde? Just go and visit Buča!".
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  764. Things need to change the other way around. Let me tell you, this refuse at all cost bullshit was here even before Covid! So, you're wrong on that one. No, what needs to happen, is, unemployment benefits need to be set at actual individual costs of living for each person, must be automatically granted to anyone not working and, at the end of the year, corporations need to be made to pay, for what had been paid in the year prior. Basically the game must change from "chose whom you want." to "You can chose to hire them, you can chose not to. Either way, you'll pay for them!". At which point, the companies will restart hiring, because that way, they'll get at least something out of it.
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  765. Problem here is, that this is well within reach of Russia and gives Turkey additional bargaining (extortion) chip. Really the only solution for this, is if natural gas were found somewhere west of Italy.
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  766. Prague is not a themepark for tourists like Amsterdam... There is genuine business to be done even in city center still. Our tourist theme park is Český Krumlov. And that's coming from someone, who's from Brno and won't call Prague other word than Cajzl!
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  767. No, it's not. Batteries are nonsense, when it comes to energy storage at the scale we'd need to store it and pumping power strations need very specific geography... not to mention, you'd need to put expenses to build these power stations into price of electricity from "renewables" better known as intermittent sources, because you wouldn't need quite as many of these, if you didn't build the BS wind and solar. What we need are old technologies given new life. Build new big nuclear powerplants for base, hydro and gas powerplants for peaks (cause those can be regulated easily). We simply don't have and will likely never have material science to allow for en mass battery storage of electricity. Ideology will never win against the laws of physics. Conservation is a problem. If you do it too quickly at too large a scale, you can disturb the labor market and cause your own downfall (as in any technological change) as a politician... maning the guy who comes after you will dismantle everything you've built, because there was not actual demand for it in the society. You'll create demand for your replacement. You can't make this kind of change without near universal agreement on it throughout society, particularly on the sacrifice needed to bring. We don't have such agreement.
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  768.  @nurseSean  One company... We'd have to severely increase our manufacturing and refining output for these materials for cars alone and those don't store that much power. Take that now to about two orders of magnitude more and you'll be about in the ballpark of how much would be needed. Never in the history of the Earth have we doubled our industrial output within a decade. That is what we'd need to do for electric cars alone. Now imagine the amount of lithium and other materials necessary for battery backing of the grid! Odds are, we'd sooner or later run out of easily maneable Lithium, Copper, Molybdenum and other necessary elements, most of which are deeply refined using processes, that majority of, because of how dirty they are, and how cheap Chinese coal based energy is, are done in China. So that's your energy capabilities being geopolitically exposed, not to mention the amount of dirt that'd have to be moved and all that dirty energy in the refining process... you're not just looking at economically and geopolitically non-starter, but also at ecological catastrophy. Maybe shift your focus from the micro of companies to macro of the whole economy.
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  769. Yeah, problem is, there is always something. Hell, you could even argue that the update itself is something provided to you. Remember, consideration means even a grain of rice would be considered as consideration in a deal, where it bought a car.
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  770. So, you basically recommend passive disobedience... basicaly going full Gandhi... Now, where did I leave my nukes?
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  771. Not the pandemic. At best, it was a catalyst and then Putin poured oil in to the fire. Pun intended. This really started with governments in the west going green for the political agenda, creating toxic environment for refineries to exist. This started years ago, when for instance banks were forced to drop oil from investment portfolios to get compliant with new regulations for banking (well, and to virtue signal to their customers). Add a number of years with little to no profit and business environment, which doesn't give good outlook for retooling an old plant, so competition dries up and those, who are left, rise prices. And since it takes years to change course in terms of policy and additional years to bring plants in to production status... Yeah We're screwed, because some of us wanted to "save the environment", while not realizing the costs.
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  772. I can't wait till someone will claim that Equestria at War is for children... You know... WW2 in happy unicorn-land.
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  773.  @smc9291  careful there. People go to jail over mischaracterization these days
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  774. Fun thing. In Czech Republic, a sale of a car is illegal, unless you drive it for certain amount of kilometers.
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  775.  @thecheesefactor  And what's the worst in all this, the pain will not come until years and decades after Trump is gone.
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  776. Actually, no. A Karen doesn't need PMS or any reason what so ever, to be an ahole
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  777. I wonder... could the flower owner sue, to enforce a prior cease-and-desist letter to the beekeeper, ordering him to prevent bees from pollinating his flowers, as he didn't enter in to contract with the beekeeper and thus is recieving unsolicitated service?
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  778. Ladies, don't bring colour and age in to the mix. As all things follow normal distribution, I am fairly convinced that there are a lot of young sexy black/asian/native girls, that act just like a Karen. You are what you behave as. In that the last part if this video is painfuly true defining factor. The "I'm better than you because <insert deviating factor>, now get me what I want/your manager!"
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  779. This is not a regression... geez. This shit is relatively normal. I live in Czechia. Yes, there are companies, that have 12 hour work days and yes, they are brutal. But I don't hear you talking about weekly work hours! How much is that? Cause 12 hour work day on 40 hour work week results in you as a worker ensuring a free business day and not having to take a day off to deal with the authorities, or to work towards a degree as a part time student. So, where is the weekly working hours number? Cause if that is 40, your entire argument is moot and idiotic. It is not as simple as daily work hours times the number of days! Not being paid in money? That is normal around here too. In fact, just over a half must be paid in actual money around here, the rest can come in other types of compensation, such as food tokens (they can be used for other stuff, just most commonly used on food, hence the name), goods and services from the company (produce you worked on). It's one of the most commonly offered benefits around here! The thing is, this would allow me, if my company and I agreed on it, to be paid in bitcoin, not CZK!
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  780. hm... Why do I smell another format war in the air... Well see, whether Heawei will go full Beta...
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  781. OK, couple of things. 1) No, they are not different people. If you looked at long term trends (and covid is mere accelerator, not structural change), you'd see, that usually same people move to same places. Eg. California republicans move to republican states, democrats to democratic states. Exceptions to this were major cities, like Dallas or Houston, which have gone somewhat purple to blue, in otherwise red states. That being said, I don't think jobs alone (although they are a factor) and by it caused immigration to these cities are core reasons for this change. That is a different debate though. Facts don't change. Statistics don't lie. Among the factors, which determine, where a person will relocate to, in top ten there are question of politics (red/blue states), guns (rights/control), taxes as well as costs of living... Exodus from New York and other big cities is not the source of gentrification in small towns, because there is actually none. Now, when you filter that thing out, what you are left with, is poor city planing and, frankly, unforeseeable natural catastrophe. If what you've said is true and everything were simple supply and demand with some market manipulation sprinkled in, my studies of macro economics would have been a lot simpler and less of a headache. 2) If you want to point a finger at entities responsible, you need to not point at FED. Why? Simple. FED, or any other central bank, can't take in to consideration only sectors of economy. Sure, we have a bit of hidden inflation problem world wide, because naturally and artificially limited resource of land has been drastically reduced in terms of usability, which has driven prices sky high. I'm in this pot too, thanks to meat prices going up in my country 25% (not kidding). But the fact, that inflation in certain segments of the economy hits low earners much, much more harshly than others is not a question for FED. That is question for the House of representatives, the Senate and the IRS! Make no mistake, those responsible here are the FTC, FCC, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Hughes Net and other ISPs, who have oligopoly and don't compete for new contracts, don't make serious attempts at reaching these small towns and don't cooperate with WISP providers, which could get fast enough Internet to the smallest hamlet, to the loneliest ranch. US midwest is not Australian outback. The distances are much, much shorter and yet, Internet availability is similar in both places. Your prices are evidence of this. I pay for 100/30+ public IPv4 address about twenty five bucks! My contract with my ISP is a cookie cutter contract + that IP (eg.I don't get double NATed)! Yet similar plans over in the US cost double to triple! In Germany, country far closer in terms of income to the US, they pay the same as I do here, where I live. Nowhere in Europe, there are as high prices for Internet access as in the US. You still have Internet over COAX cable, my ISP does new installs in fiber-to-premises only, yet, for the likes of you, out market is over regulated and taxes are waaay too high... If you had a bit more regulated market, higher taxes for more IRS agents, and, you know... enforced anti-trust laws, you'd have 100/100 to every household in the US by now and this mess of accelerated migration would not have ever happened, because there wouldn't be few and far in between places with cheap houses and serviceable Internet. Sure prices would have risen, but not as sharply, creating opportunity for real wage increase. 3) You might want to bash your employers for underpaying certain professions... cough Amazon cough tipped employees *cough*. It is as if you need 15 USD federal minimum wage and jail time for employers, who don't pay at least it... So to sum up. This is result of laisse faire economics of the US. And what is the worst on this? The only person, who's doing something about it, is a snake oil salesman with rockets and microstellites...
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  782.  @davidater9  sure it does. It is done in Europe all the time. There is the added benefit, that these reloading facilities can be built very cheaply, in comparison to some other transport methods. Simply one rail above the other and cover over them, to prevent things like rain from spoiling the crop, let gravity do the rest. As for lenght, you can make trains longer to increase their effective range. There are some problems due to regulation, but those can be worked around, or changed, given this would have been a war measure
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  783. You know... back in a day, when US political satire was still about comedy and not policy, Stephen Colbert made fun of "Make America great again". One of the satirical mutations he came up with was "Make America again"... well, I'm worried, he wasn't satirical at the time. He was prophetic. The amount of damage Trump and his cronies will do to the US... it will be staggering.
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  784. Let's go, tonny, you weapon freak, let's go break some laws... Let's take that 50mm cannon and break the weather law! :D
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  785. And would likely appreciate over time :D
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  786. Frankly, do you know, what Airbus needs to do? They need to come up with successor for A380, this time with flexibility in mind within the design, so the could build one frame, that could handle passengers, combi and cargo configurations. Fix the one major mistake of the A380.
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  787. I have to say, I had one hell of a headache when I was deciding betwene USG and ER-X... I so desperately wanted self-hosted Radius, which USG can do, but I'll most likely have to move to a place, which has rather unstable Internet access, so secondary Internet access based on different technology would also be great... I just need that freaking failover function of Edge series, which USG doesn't support! Man, it was agony! Went with ER-X in the end and I say and will always say, worth it. Personally I see USG these days best suited fo hotels. Just as was said in the video. Just need VLAN separation and no fine tuning for the rules, I do see this working perfectly, radius is a plus with USG, and captive portal, thanks to UniFi cnotroller being present, should also come very handy. And if you're a chain? No problem, IPsec site-to-site VPN and central controller got you covered.
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  788. ah, Louis... Don't buy Apple argument? Seriously? No, this doesn't float. Force through legislation right to modify bill, that would force companies to use off the shelf parts and utility compartmentalization. Why the hell should the same on board computer handle radio and HUD display with your speedometer and maybe last spotted sign/GPS system as well as the cars power steering and electric gas? That's a) just asking for trouble from hackers and b) decreases owner's autonomy over their vehicle. Not even the police should have the ability to remotely shut down my car. Why should my car collect and transmit information about me, or itself. This is currently being forced down on manufacturers from Bruxelless. No. The manufacturers will always go for these anti consumer practices, unless they are forced by strictly and through brutal fines enforced law to not do them.
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  789. This doesn't work. Problem lies elsewhere. What are the only costs everybody has in common? Housing, food, water, sewage, medical, gas (heating), electricity and access to the Internet. What do we see now? We're having to pay more and more for housing, because areas, where building a house for people is allowed, are artificially decreased. Food (eg. basic ingredients to make a meal) is also rising at an alarming rate, though that is after a period of little to no inflation in the field. Electricity is set up to rise thanks to green initiatives, which stemms from need for power "storage" facilities to cover differences in natural power generation (solar, wind, water) all the while wages don't keep up and I fear they can't keep up, and the Internet is under siege from content distributing companies as well as shareholders of ISPs. All essential costs are growing at a rate, with which wages or pensions don't keep up and I'm afraid that they can't keep up. What would I recommend? Promotion of actually sustainable lifestyle, where selfsupplying cover's part of cost. Hunting, growing crops and animals and telecommuting need to be promoted to the point, that extra taxing or creating payment differences or regulations based on the fact, that someone is working, hunting or doing any of mentioned activities at home is illegal on a global scale. Our infrastructure would also need to be updated. The most problematic field would be medical. Greater reliance on telemedicine and M*A*S*H style treatment might become necessary (eg. most common stuff as close as possible, with more trips further to specialized clinics for more rare treatments with over the Internet support from these clinics with diagnostics will become necessary). Care homes for the elderly will have to be made more readily available, as this is the demographic, that need's the most amount of highly specialized care. On carrier level, net neutrality will be paramount in such environment, as there are simply too many motivations for ISPs to charge extreme prices to some segments of the Internet. And finally, out of the most important things, environmental protections would have to be relaxed of stricken down completely. The young need to be able to make enough money to support it all and that doesn't just mean higher wages, it also mean's less choosing by employers. Already there is money not being made and spent, because unemployment among gruaduates and the young in general is twice the normal rate! It doesn't show in the statistics, because these graduates try their luck again at another field and go to study another field or further their education, if able to. There are other tweaks necessary, but these are the basics.
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  790. my friend, your recommendation is useless. The proper one would be: "If you value your life, be somewhere else!"
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  791. Oh come on, Johny.... Johny, Johny. Someone dropping something and you don't go for Linus Drop Things reference?
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  792. Yeah, they do that or force online mandatory connection for controller hosted on actual PC, I'm looking for new vendor for end device WiFi access APs.
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  793. ehm... having multiple checking accounts is a good thing, as long as the wires cost you nothing (so, basically only usable in Europe :D), because you may need specialized accounts to wire or have cheques drained for a particular purpose. For instance, I still live with my parents, but, being an accountant, I am the best suited to handle our monthly expenses. So I went to my account (yes, crazy, that I had to request an account, right? :D), opened a second checking account, deposited base amount, calculated the amount each of us needs to contribute and set up standing order. We haven't been late on bills since. So yeah, there is definitely a reason to have multiple accounts even with the same bank... if it's requested.
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  794. I wouldn't be so sure about that. Energy is still a major factor and if you want to do this renewable, you have trouble. 1) not all places are well suited for production of energy from renewable source. In Africa, there is problem with sand scratching solar panels, meaning you'd need some kind of engineering solution for that, or overbuild power generation or replace panels more frequently, than in other areas less exposed to sand. Abrasion is a problem for solar or anything involving moving parts, which make wind also problematic. 2) neither wind nor solar produce energy reliably, they are intermittent and don't cut against each other, meaning, you need some kind of energy storage, be it a huge water tower with a generator, which gets filled during the day and releases stored water over night (I have actually thought about water as a buffer for wind and solar a while back, or you need more batteries. Both solutions increase running costs of such production facility, hence why these are usually used for more of a cash crops like vegetables! The way I see it, vertical farming and other indoor applications are evolution of greenhouse technology and, therefore, will be more likely used to produce similar commodities, as are currently produced in greenhouses. Problem is, none of these are used to produce flour and from it basics like bread, pasta or tortillas... or any flatbread in general, and which is most efficient to transport of agricultural products!
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  795. ​ @tonysu8860  Technology is not there. Sure, you can have LEDs, that emit same light as our sun, but that is now decade or more old technology normally used in greenhouses. Spoiler alert, never used for production of produce like corn or wheat, which are used for feed and more importantly flour, which in turn is used make the basics like pasta and bread. What is grown in greenhouses, and indoor farming is nothing else than advanced version of greenhouse farming, are vegetables like pepper, tomatoes, cucumbers and leafy vegetables. What is never grown there, given how little each unit of yields, are grains. Density of seeding helps in this regard, but it is not sufficient to cover any significant population. And then, there are the problems with energy, where in the desert, both solar and wind suffer from greater wear and tear and are intermittent, meaning you have to create an energy storage system, which further increases cost of the investment and by extension of produce grown. The yields from grains are simply too low to effectively utilize indoor farming, especially if final price is of concern, given their use. And then there is the problem with specially designed, more expensive solar panels and more expensive maintenance on wind turbines, and shortened lifespan of both, costs of which, again, need to be covered by the cost of produce grown! Yeah, that is something that the Saudis can do, cause this is expensive like hell and Saudis are loaded like ships wit cash! But the problem of available food is not limited to the Gulf nations! Nations like Morocco, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Algeria can't afford this kind of food production, especially not at scale necessary. No, it would be better, to find a resource, which can be mined and refined within their own borders and import food from abroad, which is precisely, what Zimbabwe did with Lithium, when they introduced ban on raw lithium exports (which has it's own problems reminiscent of pre WW1 economic model, but that's a different discussion).
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  796. Tax exclusively women though, and don't support them afterwards, so they are forced into not breaking marriages! Women are the gatekeepers to child making activities, so putting this tax on men would be unjust. Men want to do. It's the women, who are evading, using the pill and seeking abortions, even when not necessary health wise... Not that these should be banned outright, but access to them should be, outside of genuine preservation of a person's health, tied to sufficient fertility in the population.
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  797. "This thing could qualify as a flail, if it were appropriate century" Me: Does that mean, that this cooler is protected by te second amendment and you need a concealed carry permit to use?"
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  798. Louis, this is comming for us in car segment thanks to Euro7. And guess what, companies will have the excuse of "We had to do it, because the EU". Not even kidding
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  799. I actually don't think we need room temperature superconductors. There was a project in Europe, that was supposed to use direct current to transport solar generated electricity from Southern Algeria to Poland through Germany, France and Spain. There is one line, I believe, between New York state and the state of Oregon, that uses the same approach. So maybe, we could use that, assuming we improve efficiency of power generation?
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  800. You want to return fertility rates high? Fine 1) since women are the gatekeepers to sex as prerequisit to childbirth, incentivise them to have children, while remove the risk of having children for males. That means the following. Quotas on women in management? gone. Discrinimation based on gender? Allowed. Divorce? Moving party loses everything, unless the parties agree otherwise. R allegations? Accuser is considered guilty of defamation until proven turthful in their allegation and if not, automatically criminally liable and sentenced. Abortion? Strictly for medical reasons only (eg. pregnancy seriosuly threatens healt or life of the mother). 2) relative costs of living must be curbed. That means a number of things. Rent controls need to be reintroduced. Massive empty house taxes need to be introduced, aiming to force property owners to either sell or rent the properties out. Minim wage newly calculated based off highest minimum living expenses (eg, highest rent for a 3+1 flat, longest commutes using the most expensive commonly used way to commute, most expensive energies... etc.). All green policies, that increase costs of building new homes (like passive house mandates, or pro-environmental zoning) must be terminated to increase supply of housing. Building a house for ones own living must be permissible on any type of land, as long as the builder or the one ordered the family home be built is the owner. Labor market needs to be reinvestigated. Comapnies these days use tactics, such us advertising without intent to hire (to create a database of resumés) or advertising catch all position to hire staff for other roles. These practices must be made illegal. All job advertising must show actual minimum salary intended to be paid for each position and must be truthful. Underreporting must be punished with liquidational fines. The idea being, to increase positive difference between wages and costs of living, as to allow women to return to maternity and housekeeping duties, which in current situation is financially impossible. Staying with the theme of economy, environmental concerns may only be taken into consideration, not being made final goal. Artificial cost increases (like emmission allowances) must be discontinuted. Global warming must be accepted as price for progress. The idea is, to make it ecnomically feasible, to return to the 1 parent working, 1 parent housekeeping model from the past.
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  801. Stuck on youtube :D He's working for Czech Academy of Science... you know... basically an equivalent of the Royal society... :D
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  802. hm... Seems that US congress needs to start reining in companies and their practices, or Louis is gonna turn greater demon of Khorne soon.
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  803.  @tsubadaikhan6332  government has effective tools to disarm people and you can't have a gun for self defense. Nope, your government is the hegemon. What the criminal would become, in a anarchistic system... The fact, that you can be denied guns shows, that the government is excersising it's monopolistic position. You don't have a competing authority, which could allow you to legally bypass the government to obtain a permit and without it, you'd be disarmed, if found out (and more). Hence monopoly on guns. There are more ways a monopoly may manifest itself.
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  804. Probably mistook Puerto Rico with Costa Rica :D
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  805. You still need easily regulateable power source to cover the dips and highs of the grid! Nuclear and coal power sources can't be easily regulated, wind and solar can't be regulated at all and throw their production, when it is not necessary, water has other uses, which severely limits the possibility to use them as a battery... Gas is the best fuel for this grid regulation, not to mention it's use in other fields, particularly in chemistry and fertilizer production!
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  806.  @kate8160  Yes, but not quickly enough. It takes hours for a nuclear or coal power plants to change their output. That is why they are used for base load and are the LAST power plants asked to alter their output, when something big happens. To illustrate, a while back Dukovany nuclear powerplant in Czechia had to intervene in the grid, because Austria didn't have wind, Hungary had their powerplants under maintenance and there was an accident in Slovenia, which destroyed their interconnect to Austria. It took inability of two NATIONS to have a nuclear powerplant ramp up production and stave off nation wide blackout! A gas powerplant can ramp up it's production or wind it down in as little as fifteen minutes, which is much better for grid regulation, given you need to maintain certain amount of power in the grid in every second! It is much easier to anticipate within acceptable margain of error, what consumption will be in an ever changing consumption model fifteen minutes ahead of time than eight hours ahead of time! That is why we need to get rid wind, where winds are not consistent, and solar completely and replace it with gas and nuclear. Because when placing in wind and solar, you're displacing coal and nuclear and increasing the need for natural or oil gas, because wind and solar are intermittent and worse, in case of solar selectively intermittent, because it only produces during the day, but most consumption comes in the evening as families come home and consumption spikes! (businesses that are high energy consumers usually work around the clock, so they don't produce a corresponding dip). And you need to cover that spike irrespective of other factors. When there is not enough wind, you need to provide power from gas. Hell, during the day, when there is not enough sun, you need to provide power from gas, because you can't have blackouts!
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  807. Yeah, this smells of retaliation. that being said, given what Farrage made UK do... He made his bed, now, let him lie in it.
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  808. that wouldn't work... they'd simply come up with a large enough piece of paper. If you can look up, how the Warrant of trade had been portrayed in WH40K Rogue trader. That¨s what we'd eventually have to carry home.
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  809. Yeah, the only thing, that youtube might pull off with this, will be network wide ad blocking on DNS level and raspbpi shortage... wink wink
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  810. Viva el Presidente?... Since when did Visual Politik become Pennultimos of Youtube? :D
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  811. James, you should look in to Andrej Babiš... The dude, who was at some time and effectively still is owner of Agrofert group, first serving as the minister of finance and then as the prime minister... Boris seems tame in comparison.
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  812. If you ask me, you'd have to make universities go more specialized and maybe, just maybe, completely eliminate prep schools. I earned a Bachelors in accounting. Why do I need to study micro and macro economics (all be it truly fascinating subjects I actually like). That's two semesters worth of time, which could be spent on IFRS or specifics of some big taxes, like VAT (which can have so many of these specifics, that they alone could cover a a whole degree), or handling of customs and their effect on accounting. Or why teach marketing to statisticians? These are also questions, which the education system needs to finally ask itself. And then, there are the employers, who demand absolutely impossible skills from fresh graduates, which uni can't teach!
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  813. This whole mess shows, what happens, when you have too anti-growth policy. This is not Italy, this is the whole of Europe. In the name of green policies and "the environment", we've forced out such companies, which could satisfy peoples actual needs. It really is simple. Peoples need for nice, "sustainable" environment simply comes looong after shelter, food, drink and entertainment. And what do we have here, thanks to what's sitting in the European parliament and more importantly European commission? Pro green, anti industry and manufacturing policies, which forced out companies, which could hire the people. Apart from allowing these green policies, there are some locally sourced problems too (too much care for elderly in Spain, political instability in Italy...), but the chief problem is common. That is why we see this not isolated to Italy alone, but rather, why this is in Poland, Hungary, hell, even in France. Hell, if you analyze war in Ukraine seriously, you need to come to conclusion, that the EU allowed it to happen! Why? Well, because of wind and solar! These power sources aren't reliable enough to produce power, under supplying the grid at one moment, over supplying it another time. This needs to be managed, so that there is always enough juice in those wires, which brings in gas power plants, which are the ONLY method of properly managing the grid. Why? Hydro power has problems with water. One, it's used for other purposes and two, even it is becoming less and less reliable due to global warming. Batteries are and forever will be a fairy-tale, given the scope of power needed on the grid at all times! And guess who installed the most wind and solar in Europe... That's right, Germany, which bought hook, line and sinker in to green idiocy, closed down their coal AND nuclear power plants and built two new pipes, so that Poland couldn't hold them back in this, pushing enormous amount of money in to Russia, which allowed them to go forward with occupation of Crimea and current offensive. Don't go green, you starve Russia of money, because the only alternative is nation wide blackouts. And the most frightening part of this? Those same bureaucrats, who caused all this green idiocy, don't see, that it is their doing. That it is them, who are feeding this political shift in the wrong direction. Make no mistake, there are problems on the left, there are problems on the right. That needs to change.
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  814.  @petermelang6695  I found the number I posted... isn't what you mention guaranteed wage? Cause those are two confusingly close to one another, but different things and guaranteed wage is typically higher
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  815.  @JanBruunAndersen  Yes, and we know, what fairy tale lands those two are. I can guarantee you, your wages are still undercut.
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  816.  @seabreeze4559  correct, they are a cost reduction plan. I read a few years ago about a guy from Italy, that crunched some numbers, sold abandoned his rented flat and started to live on board of sleeper trains in first class cabins, exploring Italy. Reason? The Monthly fare and sleeper accomodation surcharges were in total cheaper than his rent. That's how high rents have gone. It's not the luxuries, that are causing financial trouble for everyone. It's the basics.
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  817. And that's assuming the EU doesn't give up on the alliance and doesn't sink the Dollar... You'd go through the Thirties all over again, if that were to come to pass.
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  818. A special kind of red, that makes the car go faster? Now... who's Orc nut? Elon or Thunderf00t? Who of the two believe, that Dakka is real?!
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  819. This will piss you of Louis, but I say, this is actually on the customer. Why? 1. You don't buy HP, even if it's the only MFC you can buy. You smuggle in nearly anything else. 2. You buy the device you intend to use. If you expect heavy duty printing and some light scanning, then by all means. Buy yourself a ink printer. If it's the other way around, buy a laser and if you only expect to scan, you buy stand alone scanner. And finally, since the market clearly doesn't work, you need more legislation, specifically change patent and copyright law and change your taxation, to prevent companies from being able to raise these shinnanigans.
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  820. I'm not... there is a massive fertility crisis underway and it didn't even make the list, while climate change is actually not having much of an effect on people, because it's effects are being handled, and it's considered among the highest threats.
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  821. Man, it would have been great, if the state... I don't know... compared these public statements to their invester statements (better yet, make them public as well) and if conflicting statements were found in them, fine them their entire 5 year ROI+5% of the amount to each C-suite executive and 1% for each project lead related to siad statements, and make that shit non-dischargeable through bankruptcy.
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  822.  @DanskerneFraDanmark  Yeah, it'd be great if Germans leraned, how to make small mistakes.
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  823. that is the problem. Ceteris paribus is a strong requirement, which is almost never met. That same 15% VAT means something else in one year and the other, for instance, because of total yearly expanded discretionary income (income after taxes, housing, utilities and expenses to hold down a job). If this is higher, then you earn more on VAT, but if economy is not growing as fast, this discretionary income can even fall year on year despite economic growth, people start saving for worse times and you'll end up paradoxically with lower tax revenue year on year.
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  824. I do admit, what's bringing me to you are Blackberry and mr. Clinton :D Where are the slackers, anyway?
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  825. We'll see in a few years. There is the issue of Chinese construction quality to consider and Russia, due to the meat grinder that's happening in Ukraine will have its security capacity diminished. Just too few people. The real reason, why there are coups now in Africa is, that the EU is letting them be. Most of Northern Africa is dependent on food stuff imports from Russia and there are basically four breadbaskets, that feed the world. That being Europe, Russia and Ukraine, USA and South American continent. Imagine, what would happen, if Europe were to get enraged for one reason or another, and blockaded Denmark straits, Gibraltar and Istanbul Straits. That's a famine of biblical proportions just waiting to happen. And I am concerned, that as Europe is shifting right politically, it's only a matter of time, before that happens.
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  826. I would have prefered micro USB. It's more common in smartphones
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  827. Man at this point, I am red angry at Comcast! The way you describe it, they have direct line of sight at that junkction box! Get a pair of AirFiber 5Ghz midband APs and they can have gigabit for about 2000 USD upfront! But nah, that way, Comcast couldn't fleece these poor souls.
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  828. Yeah, let me give you a different perspective. Landlords have the ability (in some countries outright right) to work out your salary, meaning they can calculate rent so high, the effectively lock tenant in. Housing providers actually don't compeet, because it is against their individual and collective interest and utilize extra income to limit the ability of tenants to obtain housing of their own through lobbying, creating zoning laws and more importantly, technical requirements for new houses to be built and old houses to be renovated. This increases upfront investment needed to purchase a home. Down the line, these decrese running costs of the buildings, but if you can't get approved for a loan, you can't get on the ladder and the landlord just squeezes more. As for house shrinking, that has been happening actually, especially in Europe, but there is another problem. We actually don't need smaller housing, because of work from home. The kids room in a typical household has now become the office. This idea was apt in the 90s, when the Internet was not quite as widespread, but now it is so ubquitous, that cars are expected to report to a central server their trouble wherever on the road they are. This translates as far as housing is concerned, that as long as employers are willing to accept remote work, dedicated space for work related activities needs to be present in a dwelling. Meaning building or renovating into smaller dwelling units doesn't solve the problem. because there is not as much space to save, hence a new unit doesn't necessarily get created from the space made available. Furthermore, if I were to shoehorn Zeihan in to this mix, this would further amplify our natality crisis, because people have been shown to not want to establish families in cage sized flats, rather they need a suitably large house counting no less than 2+number of kids+bathroom sized house. With advent of work from home, make that 4+number of kids+bathroom, because both parents need to work to maintain a family these days and employers might not be willing to tollerate husband and wife working for different companies or even different departments to share an office. No the only thing, which can solve housing crysis, is encourage telecommuting, individual transportation and to remove new construction blockers like climate impact limitations and zoning beyond strictly safety concerns (flood plains, sea line etc.), while at the same time implementing and under penalty of seizure of property enforce rent controls and demand construction companies to build housing, whenever they build anything. For instance, you have eighteen story building, then you can mandate that at least six floors of the building will be flats, ohterwise, the building will not get a permit for the office space and shops it was initially envisioned as.
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  829. So, basically, they want to recreate Rhodesia, if Rhodes went for warfare instead of railroads...
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  830. There are a few differences here. The US may have given and carried out order to bomb a single Doctors without Borders hospital (happened under Obama, investigation was blocked), but, ordering or turning blind eye to attacks on critical infrastructure and clear targeting of hospitals, which is what the Russians are doing, is on a very different scale. There are atrocities in warfare. Those are normal. And then there's, what's happening in Ukraine. As for spending, forget about saving money. Member states have vowed to keep defense spending at two percent of their GDP as part of conditions for membership. Basically all of Europe is below that figure, leaving the US to foot the bill.
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  831. Just as @miller guy says. It's just not landlords. UBi would only drive up prices of highly desireable necesities of life, such as food, lodging, basic services (food, gas, electricity, transportation, Internet). The reason why we didn't see any negative effects on people employment, is that in comparison to economy at large, ammount of money payed out this way was miniscule, as big of payments these were, they weren't at critical value yet. Problem of current capitalist economy is not capitalism or insufficient earnings (outside of minimum wage or equivalent). The problem is scarcity of too many formely free consumables. As long as price will be at discresion of goods producer or service provider, there will always be scarcity, be it actual (like ammount of land avaliable, the ammount of drinking water on Earth, or the ammount of time in a day), or artifitial (imposed by licensing, aggreements etc.). The only thing, which can solve this is ensuring more supply is on the market from more suppliers. This however, will inevedably run foul of the environment. For instance, in Califronia, this would mean abolishment of many nature protecting ordnances to allow for tennaments and family homes to be built, to drive down housing prices. Even if UBI were implemented, house owners could simply rise their prices and bam. All that was created, would have been inflation. Finally, Let me say this. As someone, who lives in a country, that used to be socialist. We were 7th most advanced economy on Earth in 1940s. Now, we were declaered emerging economy a couple of years back. Such is price of socialism.
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  832. Yeah, at this point, I think, that corporate liability as if they were people is waranted in cases like these... C suite executives need to face actual jail time for permitting policies, that have this crazy results, to stay on the books.
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  833.  @markomak1  That would work for price flexible assets. Problem is, you need to live somewhere, that makes it inflexible, irrespective of supply. You pay the marginal price. Look at what's happening in China. Something similar will happen in Europe.
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  834. really the only way to solve declining population is to remove that choice for women to not have kids. It will have to happen eventually, because men can't give birth... unless you're Arnold Schwarzeneger. The reason why, is that migration is a bandaid. Assuming birth rate dynamics propagate as they did in the past, eg. correlation between economic development and number of child births remains the same, when Africa catches up with the rest of the world economically, there will not be where to take migrants from, because nobody will have people to maintain themselves. It is a sobering look, but math and biology don't lie.
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  835. That doesn't work. The reason is, the other side will be doing the same, meaning you have to intervene in third countries. Democracy doesn't mean for people, rather, it's by people.
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  836. You want to fix economy? Simple. Step one, end emmission quotas/taxation and end subsidies for "clean" sources of power outside of nuclear. That's cheap energy right there and cheap energy is foundation of all economy Step two, make right to vote exclusionory with retirement benefits, and lower them only to the amount, that was earned the year before specifically for them and make them egalitarian, while capping maximum amount of tax for this purpose at 5% Step three, undo any and all restrictions on building of residential buildings outside of floodplains. Step four, Limit the amount of shielding that corporate entities provide their owners from liabilities. Specifically taxes and state issued fines should always go after owners and should always be dealt with last in case of bankruptcies. Step five, staying with corporations. Fines and damages issued to corporations should always be calculated as a multiplier set by either judge or jury and the highest EBITDA of sued company from ten years back. Step six, In labor disputes, companies are always seen liable until proven otherwise
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  837. Here's an idea about UBI... So far, most if not all experiments that were carried out had positive outcomes, but we need to ask ourselves, why? Why is it, that these results were positive. I am worried, that it is precisely, because they were limited in scope, that they had this good results. What would have happened, if such experiment were done at scale, for instance, entire 500000 pople worth a city? What would happen to inflation, particularly in segments of goods and services, that we need just to live? Particularly rent, utilities and food? Since demand here is severely inelastic, I am worried, that these, particularly rent, would skyrocket, because there would have been localised increase in aggregate amount of income in that particular city and nearly everything would get gobbled up by lnadlords, because they can set their prices how ever they want. Meaning UBI would be worthless, because it wouldn't address the primary cause of insufficience of money in hands of citizenry and worse, it's not even problem of low wages, because increasing them would run into the same problem. The lnadlord, or provider of inevadeable goods or services responding to the amount of money on local economy by raising prices, essentially behaving like a cartel, without ever creating one! Simply by following their alligned interests.
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  838.  @IMGreg.. Simple. ROI caps on capital, cost based minimum wage and most importantly outlaw any and all zoning.
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  839. Can't free fish from water
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  840. There is no irony there. A lot of the policies are aimed at reducing production, however, prices farmers manage to get out of distributors are so small, they'd go bankrupt and the EU is creating such conditions, that farmers can't find more money for them selves from efficiencies. With green BS in place, there'd be no food production long before the climate made it economically unfeasible to grow it in Europe, simply, because the most efficient methods will be banned here.
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  841.  @David-gy6fv  There is a reason, why local "adapted" crops are abandoned for others. Not enough yields from the crop, when compared to another and not enough value of the crop, to become specialty crop. End of story. Self sufficiency has a cost.
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  842. They are not convenient and do not work. The most common use for a vehicle, is trip to work. I live in city center and worked in the outskirts. Two changes of trams and one bus. forty five minutes to hour and a half one way trip. From the house where I live at to the place I worked at. Car? Twenty minutes one way, even through the thickest traffic. No. If you intend to help the planet, you don't make EVs, which are more rare metals intense than normal cars or even hybrids, nor do you reduce access or increase costs of ownership of a car. No. You need to reduce the need to commute! Walkable cities for small shopping, car for big one once in a while and work from home. That way, you will lower the need to use car and even reduce the need to won two cars, because this way the chief reason for owning two cars falls off. The fact that both spouses work, each in different places, but have to be there at the same time.
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  843. This might rub the anti-gun people the wrong way, but I always disliked use of props... The reason is, that it leads you down the "this ain't a gun" path of thinking, most importantly when planning, how to do the stuff, in this case a scene. Gun owners say "Always treat it, as if it were loaded!" for a reason. How would the scene be made, with this mindset? Well, there would have been nobody in the direction of the "gun" to be aimed, there would have been a drone or crane used to capture the scene, and the worst, which could have happened, would have been destroyed piece of equipment. All in all, this reminds me of an episode, of Mayday, also know as Air Crash Investigations, of all things... S1E5. Alaska Airlines were struggling for a while, so, they created a plan, to keep their planes in the air, generating money. The problem was, that this created environment, where non-technical person could override a tech, when that tech called for maintenance and send the plane off to the sky. This practice had two effects, thanks to increased air time, Alaska went from bust to bang. Unfortunately, the other effect was one of their planes jackscrew broke mid-air and the plane dive-bombed an ocean, only because the captain recognized the mess he got in to and took the plane away from urban areas... The guy who called this out months earlier was fired weeks before the crash (or months, my memory is hazy on this). Simply to increase profit... I am convinced, if what was discussed here was as it were, something similar must have been happening on that set. And it should be those, who were pressuring or overriding those responsible, who need to go to jail. Not an actor, who thought his gun/prop was safe to use.
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  844. Louis, this is not QR code menus being bad idea. This is the company being idiots, for having QR code ad space instead of QR code menu. I was in Romania last year. You'd be surprised, just how few people our age (there is about ten year gap between us) actually speak English over there. Even in tourist towns like Oradea, which lies on the border with Hungary! I got saved by one such QR code menu, because the restaurant only had paper menu in Romanian, but one picture later, I had English menu from their mobile webpage in the palm of my hand and I could order for both me and mom.
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  845. And you've just increased pensions in Czechia by approximately a third... Not a great plan
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  846. Oh you're wrong, louis. Mistakes are absolutely going to be done on the billionaire level. There is a reason, why S&P or EY exist. That is, when you'll get large enough in terms of money, only they can make your audit and certify your accounting. At the billionaire level, you have so many transactions, you actually need the guy dedicated to it, because it actually take's a full day to sort it all out. Also, you don't have to spend x hours doing accounting your self. In my country, you can buy service on a per-value basis, meaning a typical invoice costs you about a Dollar, filing for taxes costs you like forty per quarter, plus there are packages which are even cheaper, and all you need to do, is to get your invoices to your accounting service provider as soon as possible, which is literally a scan and email or a fax away. At that point, what you say here are excuses, not arguments.
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  847. There's similar situation in software space. Case and point, EA. Say you want to buy older NFS title, like Underground 2, the original Most Wanted or Pro Street. EA will not sell you those games, there are no third party resellers, nor is any of these games on Steam or GOG, meaning, if you want to play, you have to find someone, who owns a copy and is willing to part with it, or you have to hoist the colors and Jolly Roger it with a crack, hoping that today's modern system didn't break anything, given, for instance NFS5 Porsche Unleashed, was desinged for 98/ME/XP generation of operating systems!
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  848. yeah, this is damned if you do, damned if you don't situation... Really, the only way to fight propaganda is through censorship, at least on responsive enough basis. Problem is, you can't censor, because it is either just undemocratic (ie. against not codified but held values) or outright unconstitutional as part of law. Meaning if you implement any measure to diminish spread of propaganda, you give your opponent genuine ammunition to use against you, damaging your legitimacy, because you've shown, that the values you declare to be at the very heart of your state/system mean and are worth nothing. Values like freedom of speech for instance and particularly political speech.
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  849. That is a currently known workaround. Only a matter of time, before that goes too, though.
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  850. And this is how you make your carpark suddenly thirty years older...
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  851. To be fair, to someone on the far left (I'm talking very deep socialist or outright communist), there wouldn't be much of a difference, and same hold's true if you flip the perspective... I have a friend, who thinks anything left of anarchocapitalism is communism.
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  852.  @dave_riots  pretty sure, what you describe as left-lib. Is actually anarchocommunism.
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  853. This will blow your minds... Czech Republic is landlocked, however. If a sea ship is outside of it's teritory and life of a person engaged is in clear danger, than a captain has the authority to officiate wedding and it's completely legal as long as the ship sailed under Czech flag. This applies planes to, just flag is replaced by registration in Czech Republic. § 667 fo Czech civics code (Občanský zákoník) So yeah, even landlocked countries can have sea captains marrying people :D
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  854. Yeah, problem is, Poland is a republic, while the US is a federation! There are limits, to what municipalities can do, because the state can override them without complications. Meanwhile, US federal government can do nearly nothing...
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  855.  @bonnieupton4114 If it means, I get some rifles, hell yeah!
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  856. ​ @belstar1128  That is highly unlikely. Sure, there would be a garrison around Fairbanks, but Alaska is the size of combined lower 48. Head North and you're safe.
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  857. As unfotunate as it is, it is true. We are spending way too little for the economy to run smoothly... Why? Well, where are all those $100k/month jobs, which would allow us to spend enough (and I do mean this globally)? Our generation is expected to earn enough money to support ourselves when we retire, while being overtaxed, because of mess made by our parents and grandparents and greatgrandparents in need of solving and their retirement benefits. Not to mention mandatory expances, like roof over our heads, electric energy, water, food and access to the Internet (where else would we get jobs, right?), with housing being the big one... All the while we are expected to have our first children by 26 (best age medically for a woman to give birth) and care for them, all of which is to be done on a single income. We were literarly given Kobayashi Maru of home ecnomics and are expected to find a solution! "Yeah, no biggie, just solve this unsolveable problem for me."
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  858. There are no free lunches in economy. That is, what the "green" idiocy needs to learn. Say you go zero waste and undo the amount of wrappings. Now you need to expend time and money, to get the same things in same quantity, you got before. It's too expensive to do. You abandon it, because you can't afford it. You want everyone to jump over into EVs, which have lower range and always will have lower range, which will further decrease as the vehicle ages and which will enver be as quickly recharged, as a tank be refilled, all the while, your carbon footprint is actually the same over the lifespan of the vehicle, because you need to process more volume and more types of resources, which is done in China, because of their lax environmental regulation, because doing it environmentally friendly would result in completely unaffordable cars even to C suite executives. And that's only the EVs by them selves, not taking into consideration the amount of power, that would need to be transmitted and generated on demand, meaning it can't be done by intermittent power sources without massive overbuilding of capacity, because there is no and never will be any battery based power storage system, which could provide the capacity necessary at scale of the grid, when it will be cloudy/snowy and/or not windy enough. Hydro doesn't help here much, because there are other uses for dams, such as drinking and fire water reservoirs, tourism, agriculture... Which power generation needs to be weighted against. Vegetarianism and veganism? Yeah, now you need to strictly adhere to a diet and take supplements for those nutrients, which you can only get from meat... If you actually look into all these politically devisive things hollistically, you'll discover, that most of them are actually sold on very unrealistic expectations. So tell me, is abandoning and criticizing green ideology really nihilism? Or just accepting reality for what it is?
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  859. Well... This guy needs to move east... This is Floridaman territory of stupid.
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  860.  @jon6309  Wait, Hawaii has rail?! :O
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  861. Really, I'm wondering... how much will this feed radicals in Israel or worse, make them palletable for the everyday citizen. Because then, we might actually get some solution to the situation. Just not the one we wanted, and very ironic one at that too.
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  862. No, that is not considered heartless, that is considered out of touch with reality. Not everyone can be an entrepreneur! And frankly, no one can be truly successful entrepreneur alone. There is set amount of time in a day. There is only so much, which can be done in those hours. What you're saying, by "Get an extra/better job", or "find something better", or "It's all your fault, you're not trying hard enough!", or "you just have too high expectations, compared to what you can provide."... All of these betray a disconnect between your thinking and reality of time being limited resource. You simply have to sleep for nine hours a day, just to make sure, you won't start dropping your act due to exhaustion a few months down the line. To advance, these days you actually need years, not weeks and months, especially in markets, which aren't as flexible as that of the US. Look at job postings in some fields. Especially in IT, you'll find absolutely unreasonable demands off people. Ads, seemingly targeting graduates and requiring proficiency and years of experience in multiple coding languages, aren't uncommon. Or take me for example, I, as I stated before elsewhere, am an accountant in search of a job. I happen to also be autistic, which mean's in Czechia, where I live, I can't hold a driver's license (it's outright illegal). Yet, over fifty percent of job listings for my field demand it, regardless of me being able to do literally everything from a PC at home. Where and when are we supposed to gain the documents/knowledge/experience, to fulfill such job requirements only to receive an interview invite. And then we have to impress someone, who doesn't know anything about our field, yet he/she is the gatekeeper. This is the way people get hired and this is a systemic problem, which conservatives tend to overlook, why? Simple, it plays in to their hand and thus they don't want things to change. How are we supposed to find something better, if the system is set to preserve those, who already have everything actually necessary and thus can justify ridiculous demands, sometimes completely disconnected with the work they demand be done. Simple, this has to fall apart eventually, it only gloriously s**ks to live in the interim, which can take decades to pass. In the eighties and nineties, a guy out of school could come to a factory, ask for a field relevant job and he would get it. Now? A year long selection process, resulting in nobody hired and lost contracts, and employers whining about the quality of workers in the market. They usually start with "it's your fault, you don't get paid enough as a full time janitor, to be able to go to even a free university. Get a degree in this ridiculously specific field and I might hire you. I won't give you a raise during your studies and I won't give you the time off for lectures.". Yes, people, who sound amazingly similarly to you. That's not heartless, that's just completely out of touch with reality.
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  863. Well, it ain't that easy. One. Medical stuff is handled in logistics to availability of 99,9%, which is crazy expensive, but necessary. Meaning that the starting line is pretty high as it is, and then there is the problem with complications mid during treatment. Should a hospital bear the burden of complications, which it did not cause? The answer, is a no and that is the impossible to predict moment. Doesn't matter, if you know everything, except for probability of something happening. The real question here should be, who should pay for these extras? Same holds true for emergencies. Sure, you can predict certain amount of injuries from car crashes based on statistics, but what do you do, when something outside of them happens? Say a 747 crashed on a highway at peak of rush hour. Unlikely? Yes. But given enough time, even almost impossible happens. I mean, nobody expected to Jumbos colliding on a runway, until Tenerife happened. That being said, hospitals should be focused on helping their patients, so maybe removal of profit as an incentive is in order.
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  864.  @marcbuisson2463  Not exactly. You've said it. Made in Europe. We don't need to do this on everything, we can trade with the world, but strategic stuff should be made here and regimes like Russia need to be excluded (not, because they are dictatorial, but because they do pose a credible threat to us). Microchips, water, in terms of electricity, yes, even the fuel for the power plants. There should be a degree of self sufficiency, which should not be barred by ideology. Problem is, the only things we can make, are not ecological. Well, except for wind turbines, but even those have unseen and not discussed ecological cost, specifically the declining big bird populations (they are a contributing factor). We only have coal in Europe, which we can mine in large enough quantities, to satisfy demand for energy. Everything else has to be imported, meaning we can either A: find other sources of gas and mine them our selves, thus accept higher costs for electricity (which, to be fair, is ridiculously low at the moment and higher energy costs would stimulate small scale solar, aiding decentralization of power sources and, ironically, development of "ecological" sources of power). B: Find a dictator, which could stand no chance under any circumstances in a confrontation with the EU and is outside of Russia's reach, close enough to Europe, to build a pipe line or liquefaction plant there. This country doesn't exist, as far as I know. C: Return to colonialism, conquer Northern Africa, install puppet governments, "annex" these countries in to the EU and use them, to generate power for from the sun and meanwhile, build massive pumping power plants, which effectively work as batteries (the only non-fairy tale way of storing energy in large enough quantities). This would in the long run, have huge human cost, though. or D: Give up on ecology, specifically CO2 emissions, accept, that there is no free lunch in economy, and do what we can, to mitigate damage from these power plants, such as carbon capture, not prevent it, because the only way to do that, is to lower our economic output and consumption, which in turn would increase unemployment, particularly among the young, because they are the more vulnerable in terms of labor questions, which in turn would eventually radicalize them, which in turn would lead to either a massive political shift in the country (as older generations die out and the oppressed young want a slice of pie for them selves), separatist movements, rise of domestic terrorism or outright civil war. There are really no good answers in questions like these, once you take up holistic approach. All ecological solutions to these questions have one thing in common. Poorly done or completely unexplored engineering side of the solution based on current, not theoretical future technologies. edit: a word
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  865.  @sergeydyumin4380  As long as that gas is Russian, it's a threat.
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  866. I actually understand a bit the position of finance... I am an accountant. I handle huge amounts of money on a daily basis. Money, that is not mine and that I am responsible for, if something bad happens. Now I have a bit of interest in computer networking and can tell you. Home networks are not safe. There's a whole lot of poorly configured devices on these networks as well as IoT devices with poor security and the networks are not partitioned, meaning any one of these could be used to attack the work issued laptop. If I were in CFO position, that would be a major argument for me, to want to not have my people work at home. Not that I don't trust them, I don't trust their network at home. To illustrate, I interviewed some time ago with a company, that was hacked a few years earlier. In spite of IT working around the clock, their accounting system was still not fully recovered from the attack and they had to do workarounds. The problem here from IT standpoint is, that if you're in remote-first environment, there's a much wider angle of attack on your infrastructure, meaning you're under greater threat. This is what the CEO or CFO will hear from the CIO, hence the resistance to work from home in these high-stakes positions. Work at home can work for some fields, but not in all. IT and anything having to do with PCs is a good example. Why? Because the people working there are aware of this and act accordingly at least most of the time, hence lower threat and they can work from home safely. A call center operator? There are ways to add layers of security to what he/she is doing (and I'm not talking just about VPN) and there is no direct way, these people could handle the company money, hence same risk, but less danger and thus they can work at home, making ti possible for these people to work from home. But finance? These people handle the money directly in at least some positions. in smaller firms maybe even in most if not all positions. These people are not computer savvy to the point of securing their network (because it's a completely different field from what they use computers for), hence massive danger of losing money due to a hack. Now what is the answer here? Well, there are four. 1. There's the hybrid model, where employees have two works stations, one being a laptop at home, one being a computer in the office, where the laptop is hard locked from the more sensitive agenda. Meaning that the accountant, for instance, can input invoices in to the system from home, but pay them in the office. 2. There's department structuring, where tasks, which can be safely done remotely are given to some employees to work from home and then there are few people, who have to come to the office, handling the more sensitive stuff. Again an accounting example. There are AP, AR specialists, who work from home, inputting/issuing invoices, and then there are treasurers, who are in the office and pay them. 3. buying the employees the equipment and training them, to use it properly. I have bought myself a router and switches, which can do VLANs and I have a specific network, firewalled completely from my core/home and IoT networks, so that I can work from home safely. Anyone, who's willing to put about four hours in to some learning can do that. 4. Combination of the above.
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  867.  @muadhnate  the problem ain't the ať company gear, it's the at home consumer grade stuff! Think the cheapest routers on the market. As for legacy stuff, not sure, if porting would work. Building And exposing a proxy and firewalling the legacy servers could be cheaper and with fewer risk of bricking key functionality in the process.
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  868. suit yourself Louis. I bought an MSI chair a few years back because of weight tollerance. Well I "outgrew" the chair, it collapsed beneath me. Bought new star and piston, took the original wheels and seat aaaand fixed. Actually looks better than new. Thanks for using standardized parts MSI
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  869. Dude, start thinking about geopolitical implications of going to China before you open your mouth. That's one way ticket to get arrested on fabricated charges! Also, why would the world open up more to the West? Looking at passport index, the world is basically open for business for the West already!
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  870. Czech Republic, up to three years per child with no pay, but guarantee to return to the job one was doing before + some time before birth
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  871. @@yourbrainwasmadebybiggovBecause of economy? How many people do you think earn a living through those jets? If you really intend to start banning anything, start with stuff that would hurt you!
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  872. Do you want to know why? Wages are not enough and even if you start working, your expenses shift. If you go full Gamer-Hermit mode, you can actually survive. That is why people are basically lying flat in the West as well as in China these days. I'm in that camp myself... well partially. I actually aggressively job hunt. But even then, In the last five years, I worked 28 months, because I either didn't receive proper training or my job was literally transferred overseas. So what am I to do? Cleaning? Who likes doing chores? Nobody, so do that at absolute minimum. going to interviews? Yeah, when I get invited, but conversion rates from sent CVs to invites is low and from invites to jobs even lower. So what rational option do I have other than gaming, particularly if I have a PC, that is no slouch, but didn't cost me arm and a leg? I can't job hunt more, because new positions for me to review and apply to don't pop up as often! I do a check once a week, reply to a couple dozen positions and spend some time in a week on actual interviews, but even then, I spend what twelve hours a week job hunting, because even a minute more would have been wasteful? (eg. I'd not send another CV due to the visible market being completely ran through). What am I to do otherwise in my spare time, than game? Really, the only reason, that I am still trying, is, that I have something to prove. I failed in getting laid or getting my significant other to reciprocate my feelings. I've managed to get a Bachelor's after five years of studies, but couldn't get to obtain a master's due to a combination of factors (primarily due to conflict with on site time, when working.) , so that was a failure too, because nobody cares about Bachelor's. The only field for me left, where I can prove myself, is work. But without that, I'd be just wasting away, nearly homeless doing just enough to survive too. Why try, when everything you do, is worthless to the society at large? The answer is simply, don't try. Waste away.
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  873. yeah, when I heard about it I was split... too bad that the family members thing didn't pass. You see, it would have included brothers and sisters as caregivers, which is absolutely a thing in larger families, siblings taking care of each other, as rare as they are... I know, what they wanted to use this rewording for but still... That small acknowledgment would have been nice.
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  874. I'm sorry, no. In Star Wars, Hutts come from Varl and they colonized and subjugated Nal Hutta, which was homeworld to Ewocaii!
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  875. no, the bail should have been 0... Hell, there should not be bail system at all! You see, if you're sitting in jail, even though you spilled the beans, are not a flight risk (eg. broke), are cooperating with the police, etc. you should be set free to handle your affairs until the trial. Going to jail, because you couldn't meet your money bond on the count of being broke, you're being punished for the offense you're in front of the judge for, while not having your guilt yet established by the court.
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  876. Right to repair need's to be expanded to universal level. My father is a truck driver. Some of the more modern trucks, he's driven, didn't allow him to continue driving after by the manual done light bulb change in the headlights. I kidd you not. He had thirty five kilometers of normal driving and after that another ten at eight kilometers per hour.
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  877. ehm... Romania is not in Eurozone... they have Romanina New Leu...
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  878. CCTV. Really? Really? Does it really have to be this much on the nose China?! :D For those not initiated in to technical jargon. CCTV stand's in the IT and security industries for Closed Circuit Television... That's security cameras. :D
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  879. I recall an episode of Cobra 11. Pedal stuck and couldn't be let free... Not sure, how much "fly by wire" Tesla is, but if it's full... Then this could be stuck pedal. Specifically, the computer handling motion systems froze on last known command. We're going the wrong direction in Europe, unfortunatelly. We already have to have a device in new cars, which override the driver and in three years, all cars equiped with this will actually be barred from turning this feature off.
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  880. Well, that is the problem of the course... odds are, that you weren't exactly engaged in the class either... at least compared to how much it was possible to engage you.
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  881. I have to say, this "scientist" got everything so wrong, she wanted to bring the most mundane thing about Star Trek in to current era. When I was six, I wanted to bring what made Star Trek awsome in to real world... Atleast we would finally get to learn about volcanos... on Vulcan :D
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  882. ... For in the grim darkness of vast Russia, there is only war...
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  883. Yeah, I was lucky, when I discovered the "credit card bros" over here on the Internet... They prompted me to research our banking market, so, now I have pretty good idea, whom to bank with... And one extra card that literally pays me in cash to hold it :D
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  884. And yet, through use of war economy and industrial concentration, in conventional warfare, the EU had been overtaken in the short and maybe even medium term. This is why Trump and MAGA are so damn dangerous... Because if Russia wins in Ukraine, eventually, all that will be between them and the Washington DC will be one small ocean.
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  885. That is unlikely. There is already investment in new terminal in Rijeka, Croatia going on. You'd have to interconnect many more systems, to get Greeks to be able to contribute anything significant. Building shorter interconnect is more prefferable, cause it is sadly cheaper.
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  886.  @tonycatman  I have to disagree with your assessment. Say you steal my sickle. Then I'm not building another one (ignoring the fact, that the sickle can be very easily used as a weapon, eg. an equalizer) I make a scythe and equip it with a mechanism, that would allow me to quickly flip the blade and turn it into a a warscythe (eg. I create dual use item). Or you steal it from me in my sleep? Then I'll wall off my house. You make a ladder to get over the wall, I'll dig a moat and fill it with water around my house to attract predators over night... etc. etc. escalating all the way to forming a state of my own and raising an army to crush you, provided my income permits such a development. What you describe will not prevent generation of capital, it will, however, inform what kind of capital get's created. I don't disupte, that some kind of "law" or equivalent system would eventually develop, but it would develop as result of creation of capital. The only reason, we have law instead of rule of the stronger, is because it creates more predictable environment, but you can only start creating predictible environment, when you have enough food and capital to ensure, that you can free up workforce to specialize for that purpose. Remember, as a species, we had spears, arrows and other weapons long long before we have codified laws and weapons are a type of capital.
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  887. Sorry, no. To get the Internet, to where it used to be, you'd also have to remove a crap tun of regulation, that's filtering out... let's just say less legal content... Because, and I guarantee you this, these companies would very quickly start expanding the definition of less legal content, so that it seems, they're forced to show some things... Just remember covid!
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  888. What we actually need to do, is to formally legislate, what junior position is and put taxes on capital investments within the company and make any outside services non-taxable expenses. That will at very least spoil companies milk. It's the companies, who are bringing all these changes, they should pay for them.
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  889. This is not so simple Dec. Thing is, technology doesn't discriminate. If you somehow take down spoofing, yes, you'll end this problem, but, at the same time, you'll take away one way a whistleblower can protect himself from harm... So, no, carriers can't be made, hell, even allowed to do this. You have to change laws regarding call initiator's behaviour. The fact, that you have to sign fifteen pages long documents serving as general user agreemment is just one of the problems, but I think it is the biggest one... These agreemments make you consent to a mountainrange of additional BS you don't actually need to get the service you need, but it give's them your "consent" to do this.
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  890. Louis, going all bow tie is BS. When dealing with insurance, you are only insured for what is stated in the contract. It's not there, or if there are exclusions, you're not insured against that. So yeah, read and understand the contract, as you should, because there is no other remedy for you. A contract is a contract and in words of the singing lawyer Ivo Jahelka, you sign it, you're on the hook for what ever is in that contract. When dealing with these insurance leeches, you need to play their game and you play it, by understanding your contractual relationship to the T. That's how you get money out of insurance agency.
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  891. Nah, he's wrong on this one. I bet my money on Mediterranean. There is Europe with it's money and though the market is not quite as healthy, there is enough consumption to be had, although nowhere near what the US has to offer... There is already Suez canal, so accessing Asia is easy. No Houthise wouldn't factor into this. They target nations allied with Israel and those are on the other side of Mediterranean and flag of convenience deals with the rest. Africa is getting it's infrastructure built these days, so that's not much of an issue anymore. Hell there are railways that are currently begging for cargo! (mostly built by China, though). More importantly, there is a growing population in Africa, that will want to consume and most African nations there have coastal access, so their markets are wide open (there's a reason, why the most economically advanced nations outside of Europe are coastal!
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  892. Two minutes in the robot... and then dispassionate voice asking you to become an organ donor. We've come to telephone hell! Actual adds for Apple would have been better!
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  893. Man, the way you described suggestion of death... That first option... I do believe, that most US states have stipulations against dueling... :D
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  894. And this, kids, is why you don't keep this big amount of money in a single bank...
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  895. Yeah, that wouldn't help much... There are two main reasons why: 1) Most of the fields, that you need to enter these days, are in their very early phase, meaning even companies them selves, don't really know, what skills they'll need in the future and thus can't communicate that need to universities, to create a study program, which would help with this. 2) A lot of societies needs are only perceived and can be outright disconnected with real needs in our economy, or be set up on poorly evaluated facts. Case and point, electromotive. You need a huge battery for an electric car, which has even greater impact on the planet, than petrol. And you have people, who claim it's not true, point to scientific studies, which don't take in to account consumer behavior and end up undercutting the need for battery size, because that supports their position and policies are built on that, which results in the picture, of what is needed in the economy for skills, being distorted, because under normal circumstances, in scenario like this one, more people would study fields surrounding internal combustion engines and would be looking for ways to make them even more efficient, and fewer people would go in to metallurgy and related fields, because there would not be such a demand for mining and refining more kinds of metals. Meaning, there would be a straight up mismatch between skills taught and skills demanded... Or in a different way, imagine industry standard being Ethernet and universities still teaching coax token ring.
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  896. Yeah, it's useless. All of those recordings are inadmissible, unless the very first thing said on the recording is, "I consent to being recorded.". You might be looking at a felony even, with that bedroom stuff due to unconsencual pornography laws. Stop screwing around and delete those videos. Cover all your bases.
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  897.  @Scion141  Then you're in luck, to live in a country that's usable at... I would still be on my guard about that kinky part of it...
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  898. Ok, Louis, if Mr. Clinton is bringing this much traffic, then you might as well dook it out with the IRS, claiming his food and litter as business expenses :D
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  899. Oh thank god! Tf00t, after the last video and you pointing to the 1940s, I was very worried you were recommending something youtube veeery unfriendly.
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  900. Leaving fosils for heating is nonsence. Why? Simple. Outages. Sure, you still release CO2 and other stuff, but, it's actually very efficient, just as you mentioned, but also allow's for microcogeneration of electricity, which can supplement other sources of power, such as wind and espcially solar in winter (you know, cause shorter days). Furthermore, you can add a tank for fuel, which you will have to maintain, but doesn't lose capacity unlike batteries, meaning you have more reliable stored supply of energy in case of an outage, which could take days. This vast battery supply even for a small, highly efficient house is comically big. Like extra barn full of batteries big. And even those can emmit pretty nasty stuff. Where do I think fossils need to be phased out? It's large scale electricity production and even there not entirely. I firmly believe in nulcear power for the long run, as it is the only known source of power, which could provide enough electricity to power entire cities with very low emmittions, if you consider all emmittions from obtaining of materials till decomitioning of a plant, which makes decades worth of efficient energy production, you'll find out that it has lower CO2 footprint per Watt of power produced than either wind and solar! The other sources should supplement nuclear powerplants and green power sources, when needed and heating should be done still through burning, centrally if at all possible and of stuff that was already used (unrecycleable waste) or wood (again, what can't be used otherwise and in individual homes), but also gas for individual homesteads and small towns. And why do I think only the grid should go green and not all green? Well, our current battery technology is not exactly any good. Make no mistake, even Tesla batteries, some of the best on Earth, aren't any good. Why? Batteries are not dense enough energy wise and we can see this in electric cars. Looking at them long term, they can't compete with petrol, because of the difference in energy density of their batteries and the fact, that these batteries degrade over time, which won't happen to a tank, and make no mistake, batteries won't get much better any time soon. The problem with power storage is stressed in cars, because of great need of mobility and mass of a vehicle need's to be fairly low, but even when there is not a need for mobility, storing large ammounts of electric energy in batteries can be prohibitive due to avaliable space.
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  901. Well you should not. You should move him to a higher paying, more demanding job. Or you can open up a new place near-ish to your old one, deck it out with the new stuff and let the old one die...
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  902.  @andrewyork3869  The problem is, how do you implement ban on such a practice? this is why I'd go with a big tax, when there are obligations to pay something. Remember, whne you buy on invoice with pay period, you're buying on loan, that should also be repaid. This is easy to track and you can legislate for it being disclosed. As to the 30 days. From my experience as accountant, it's the most common deadline from date of issue of the invoice, which is why I recommend that.
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  903. Nah, pretty sure everything East of California up to Tallahassee is just Texas :D
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  904. Big on history? Only if it suits them, I'd say. 1968 was not a logistical operation. It was an invasion and nobody will change that fact... But Russians still claim that it was just that... And that the Czechoslovak legion were war criminals, for which they don't have credible proof.
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  905.  @vinterskugge907  Not at all, the main problem with 5 days is not really the time spent in the office, it's the fact, that we're doing BS jobs. This would return some autonomy to workers and let them get actually marketable skills, which could get them from bad employers...
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  906.  @rossmanngroup  Oh no, we need to. So that we then can sue polititians, who allowed this as part of criminal conspiracy and use the jokes as evidence, that warnings about this mess had been given, they ignored them, didn't legislate autopilot override be present in the car, which then allowed to this to happen, and get them life without parole.
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  907. Louis, business appraisal is not that hard, as far as physical assets are concerned. Most businesses have some kind of solution, for their accounting needs, be it external accountant, which handles things, or having an ERP and spending some eight hours, learning how different parts of system work, how to automate ammortization, what categories of physical assets there are and marking that down for future use. Best part, this is part of tax/accounting law, that actually doesn't change every few years.
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  908. Oh, please, let is end as racketeering charges against Asus. That would have been so hillarious, they might create a mafia styled lineup :D
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  909. Same here. Though I am going for an upgrade. Bought old Fujitsu office PC and made some upgrades. Now running an I5 3330, a 1070TI, 16 gigs of RAM and a couple of hard drives (both classic and SSD) and until ANNO1800 I was happy as a clam. Now will have to build a new one, because of that game and OS support
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  910. No, we didn't have to buy anything. We'd just warez it! Be it music or software! :D Back then we had options!
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  911. Roman, you absolutely need to diversify. I am... concerned about you being able to keep up rent and life expences over in Portugal. I recall over on Dream Prague chanel, Jenn mentioned, she also tutors English (I believe it's actually her main source of income). You could try the same with Russian for Europeans or help Russian and Ukrainian expats learn English, as long as you can negotiate the time between tutoring and youtube.
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  912.  @antyspi4466  Simple, Internal questions. Putin need's people to suffer, before diminishing and ultimately disposing off of them. This ensures, that not many more people rise up against him in politics, ensuring his power base.
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  913.  @Lazy_Tim  Well, if you caught and stored all emissions, then it would have been clean... Question is, what can we refine these gasses in to, which wouldn't cost more energy than that coal produce's, which could then be used as consumer goods?
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  914.  @Lazy_Tim  I'm not so sure. I mean, there is a secondary resource there. The costs would be split between electricity and whatever gets produced. Question is, if such thing exists or will exist, will it be in such a demand, that this production alone could be profitable. If so, then there indeed is solution for actual clean coal.
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  915. I'm pretty glad Trump didn't see this... He would have most likely ditched the wall and gave some ludicrous funding to NASA... Bigger wall is bigger wall :D
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  916. "Too many eggs in one basket..."... Man no. You are thinking about it with strategies for one planet. What happens, when you encounter someone like the Orks, who can effectively field this huge units? One of the reasons, why we have abandoned really heavy stuff, wasn't because of all the things about them you have very correctly mentioned. No, it was because we have found a way how to pierce basically any kind of armor with much, much smaller weapons, because we have found an edge, how far can we take metallurgy. However, imagine for a moment fully functional energy shield. Such shield doesn't care, how long you fire all the small things you have, assuming power distribution system is up to the challenge, in theory, the only limit to your invulnerability is how much power you can feed that shield. This is the moment, when titans begin to emerge. Sure, they may be somewhat slow and lumbering, but they have range, they have awareness of the battlefield, so they can essentially behave as if self propelled artillery when dealing with smaller units and a tank at the same time. The only threat to it is something similar to it self or even bigger, because weaponry producible for something this big would deliver in one punch much more energy than all the smaller arms combined, possibly collapsing the shield for a short period of time, making the smaller weapons and swarm tactics effective again. It doesn't matter, that you have all the eggs in one basket, when that basket doesn't crack or let those eggs break. The second problem is the resources. Sure, on Earth, something like the Maus is likely the largest practically buildable. There is only so much in terms of resources, but in space... Once economy becomes large enough, you will find even these titanic units fairly commonly. It's even better visible among the fleets. Assuming same efficiency, bigger ship with less stuff to power passively and more weapons will always have an advantage over smaller ships. I don't care there is more of you, if I can snipe you one by one long before you enter range of your energy weapons. Assuming high level of automation, larger ship doesn't need to resupply that often, because it's crew requirements don't scale as quickly as with additional ships in the fleet. I would always favor Dragunov over RPD. Doesn't matter, you carry more bullets per second and more bullets in the magazine, if you can't get in to range... But my Dragunov does me no good, if I can't pierce tanks armor. And finally resources again. When there is a huge plenty to be had, like when the faction counts hundreds and thousands of planets, it doesn't matter, that these units are being built, because it's not that big of a drag on overall economy. Just look at how outdated are tanks as a concept these days, precisely, because they can be easily destroyed by much smaller weapons, and yet, they are still strategic assets in most modern armies, but how big economic impact they have on that military? This is even more important in case of Tyrranids. Those bio-titans are actually even more efficient than anything made of metal, because unless the Tyrranids get defeated, even felled bio-titans get reabsorbed in to the collective, meaning there is actually no economical loss other than time it took to grow the thing!
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  917. Or... you could buy cheaper switches and play a bit with your data flow. Know, that certain servers will be accessed only from certain locations? Build each "star" as independant as possible. Let the traffic only go through the network deeper when accessing internet... And one last thing. You won't have ideal enviroment at all times, so some crazy, even daizychained links are a necesity at some point, especially if you have mission critical applications decentralised.
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  918. Indeed, l oh, I don't know... weapons grade uranium based reactors... In all due seriousness, going all nuclear has it's drawback too. It's actually the same problem as with wind and solar, only from the other side. It's good for base load, but bad for peaks. You'd still need gas powerplants or water batteries to smooth out those peaks.
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  919.  @LoganChristianson  Question is, how big those dips are. If you have big deltas, for instance, because you have a lot of heavy industry, it limits, how much your base load should be. All I'm saying, is, that the grid needs to be built with local economy and to some degree unexpected occurances in mind. Some burning fosil base load should also be present. One that usually runs 24/7, but can be shut down quickly, in case of energy overproduction beyond normal peak-dip delta.
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  920.  @LoganChristianson  Not really. It's a very good power source, but it's not too easily controllable one. It's better than wind and solar, which you can't controll at all, but you still need easily controllable and adjustable power sources in the system and how much you need of these, depends on your industry. If you have steel mills, particularly, if they run on hydrogen, you need huge amount of fosil fuel burning stuff, because these eat up lots of energy, but don't run 24/7. Particularly in this case, you'd need equivalent of nuclear power plant in fosil fuel system, to cover the difference between, when the steel mill is working and when not. All I'm saying, is we should not put our bets one a single card and our energy mix should respect, what kind of industries are in local economy. The more variable the consumption, the smaller nuclear based base load can be.
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  921.  @jesan733  This is false. The problem is not the money side of things! Rather, it's the very technology of the powerplant. apart of wind and solar, nuclear is the least flexible. You can't turn it off, when it's not necessary, and you can't easily throttle it either. There's a reason, why nuclear powerplants are among the last, that are told, to modify thier production. Basically, it suffers from the same problem as wind and solar do, only for different reasons. Nuclear alone is not a solution.
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  922. Let me play a Devil's advocate for a moment. But, shouldn't the airline bear the responsibility, not Russian air defense? Shooting down passenger planes is not strictly Russian thing, all be it, they're the most frequent ones to do it. In 1988, USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air 655 due to miss-identification of the plane with a hostile fighter. Russia is at war (though they refuse to admit to it), and therefore very trigger happy. Shouldn't the airlines, given they know, which airspace their planes are scheduled to fly over, actively evade risks and even cut routes, if threat of something like this is heightened, for instance, during an armed conflict?
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  923.  @kingbooseph9538  Not an argument, when Ukrainians managed to hit Moscow multiple times. For this to be an argument, the shoot down would have to be outside of Ukrainian's theoretical range and that, given what we've seen so far, would be past the Ural mountains. Not to mention the fact, that Baku is a major oil field and there is interlink between it and Russia, through which Russians could try and smuggle their piped oil to the rest of the world, meaning there is potential target for Ukrainians at very least in that direction. And then again, Russia is at war. Russia is sanctioned. Why are there airlines still operating routes to Russia?
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  924. ​ @shockzlol8282  Why didn't Iran or Iraq do the same in USS Vincennes' case? And that was at sea! Besides, Russians can't do it, because that would give away locations of their assets. No, I'm convinced, that no nation at war would do that for strategic reasons.
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  925. Well... Let me put it this way... US Dollar is not threatened by the BRICS... it is threatened from the White House.
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  926. Imagine US military taking advantage of this and offer chrome plating as a service :D
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  927.  @HR-wd6cw  Well, to a degree. An IP address can be tied to you by accessing some app, that can identify you, but an IP alone or a public one won't Identify you. And these days, you can even set up your router to connect to a VPN cluster and route all traffic through an encrypted tunel, meaning your exit node is not only yours. Meaning that. Meaning if you could deal with that identifiable part, eg facebook or email client, to put a trackable token on a particular IP, you'd deal with what you're talking about as well. But I do understand your point. This is a problem too and we know, just about how much companies would attempt to dodge. That is why we need I speak of liquidation fines for breaches. The companies need to know, they will get destroyed once a breach occours and that both management, former management and current and former owners will be forced to pay for it.
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  928.  @markvincent5992  sorry, can't be done that way. Usually, the rule in law is, that what is not restricted is allowed. Meaning no law on the thing means open season on your personal information.
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  929. Oh come on! That cut off in Highlander was a huuuge wasted opportunity. The very next lines would have made a joke, the Joker would have been put to shame!
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  930. Somebody call a fire brigade to Fox News HQ. I think they may have plasma burns from this :D
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  931. Not at all. Ever heard about secondary sanctions? Issued for instance for facilitating evasion of sanctions? The moment a major member would get sanctioned, the entire group becomes endangered and they'll jump ship. The only reason, why it didn't happen yet, is that Russia is too small a member to allow for it, but if China were to do the same, or if Russia were an equal to China... Good bye BRICS, because collateral damage from denying the West trade with any other member would not even be felt.
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  932. Since where is US military using blasters, if they blast people? Hey, Navy, where is my CR90 Corvette?
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  933. I mean... what the city had done is not enough. There had to be some kind of planing. Did those houses need a permit? (where I live, if you meet criteria, you don't need a permit) If so, why were those permits given? If I were a home owner, I wouldn't exactly care, that downtime is now being threatened with flooding, cause a dry poulder got filled and house I bought was build on top of that. If I were the builder, it would have been my fault. I should have researched, but if a professional construction company built something, I rightfully can presume, that it was built legally. I should not have to bear ANY costs for clear failure of the city, eg. the only appropriate remedy is either the house being moved, if possible, to a new piece of land, or a replacement copy of the house should have bee built at liable parties' expense, which here are either the city or the builder, or even both. Not just giving people money (and at which rate, given how housing had developed in prices!)
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  934. Funny, we've seen studies, that pointed to improved productivity while at home.. So science can't be trusted either. Thanks corporate
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  935.  @LeGoog2008  Don't have to use armor. You can always bury a conduit and run normal fiber.
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  936. Yeah, not thrilled about this... I mean, sure, there is the problem of CCP basically feeding us propaganda, but, as was said, this is not just TikTok problem... add to this the disinformation aspect and you have a really toxic situation on your hands. Who decides, that something is disinformation and what is not? All of us, who were sane at the time, thought that theory about the source of covid being a lab leak, had been a conspiracy theory, but where are we now? And yet, those, who pointed at that possibility had been labeled and their reach curtailed. Things got to the point, that saying that, could have been seen as criminal activity with jail time strapped to it in some places. Imagine someone with political agenda infiltrating an institution responsible for determining this! (yep, we're in the same boat as we are with CCP right now, only with at home grown adversary). We're building a mallet here, when what we need is a small hammer, that can hit more precisely.
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  937.  @davidford3115  that wouldn't really be possible for Ukraine. Their network is orders of magnitude longer. At Best a line to Kyiv would make sense.
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  938. Do you know, why stopping oil is impossible? Just look at how many products have some kind of non-energy use of oil in them! The number is somewhere in the mid tens of thousands! We quit oil, we'll go extinct over fertilizer, plastics, medicament shortages... and the list goes on and on. Even if we invested whole of global GDP into material research, we'd still need oil by the time we'd have Warp drive!
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  939. There's whole host of reasons for this. 1) If you own a piece of land, you can't build a dwelling on it. It needs to be prezoned for residential purpose... which makes spread between farming land and construction slab some twenty to to forty to one... 2) Landlords don't have any incentive to lower their income by lowering rents, and have all the power to shift ANY increases in costs and taxes on to the tennant. Meaning that landlords essentially created a cartel, without ever meeting. We Czechs deregulated rents a while back with promisses of lower rates and better maintained buildings, because the market would force home owners to compete... But someone with microeconomics 101 course under their belts would tell, that doesn't happen to a service, that's this price inflexible as housing! 3) Environmental regulation for new construction forces all of us to invest more in unnecessary things like solar panels, or having to use thermal pumps instead of gas, coal or wood furnaces. The green ideology is coming home to roost. Only those, who don't support it, now have to pay the price of it in completely unaffordable housing, returning us to the effective status of serfs. Basically all other environmental regulation inteisifies this problem, because it increases other costs of living and holding down a job, while not providing corresponding increases in incomes, meaning, people have to save longer for down payment, which is all but preempted by points 2) and 4). Making life more expensive is not going to help and will not save the planet either. 4) Employers are not willing to hire and pay at rate of minimum economic wage (one that covers housing, food and drinks, clothing, expenses to hold down the job, transportation and some small past time activities). I take wage just below median. My wage would have to double, if it were to satisfy the above mentioned definition. As a result, I and others like me, have to stay with our parents in our childhood rooms, instead of setting up and raising families of our own and having children. Currently, even families earning median wage qualify for housing assistance from the state, how low wages are. So, what needs to change? 1) Land ownership needs to guarantee ability to build any housing for one self and their family, irrespective of parcel type. 2) Rent controls need to be brought back, along with huge empty homes tax. Accounting of landlords needs to be made public. The aim being, to force properties owned by investors to get activated, turning them from investment to rental properties, or get them on the market to be sold to actual families living in them. 3) All environmental regulation needs to be scrapped. 4) Employers need to be forced into hiring people, training them for their jobs and paying them a living wage. No more crying, that they can't find the talent, when those same companies are turning away graduates. Note that I didn't mention interest rates so far. That is, because they mean nothing for housing! Housing is one of basic necessities to maintain income, kind of like fuel for your car or a tram card, meaning, you always pay, what the last housing unit costs, irrespective of price! Interest rates work for consumer loans, not mortgages, because a drill or a fishing rod are not a freaking house! Those you can go without!
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  940. Don't forget the women and children too...
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  941. Thing is, you can do something about it. Just install more RAM. You won't make Google block ads for us.
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  942. OH come on... Such an opportunity, to show, just how big of a nerds you are, and you miss it. We have Rakdos, Dimir, Golgari and Orzhov in the play...
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  943. There is a fundamental problem with everything being connected to a third party, be it manufacturer or anyone other, than the person, who owns it. Imagine these kinds of shenanigans with pacemakers. You won't pay subscription, we'll turn it off. You're accused of being a racist (something which is actually not a crime, just acting on it for those reasons) and Amazon turning off your pacemaker (we all know, that Amazon will enter that field eventually). Or imagine you not being able to start your car, because it detected higher than permitted emissions of CO2... Yeah that's in Euro 7! The problem is, I really don't see many ways out of this. You'd have to reform copyright and patent laws to the extreme. You need to understand, when a company "dies", it's "corpse" doesn't just whither in the sun. Vultures come and tear it apart. That is why we never got FreeSpace 3 and what contributed to such a long hiatus in Star Trek. One company owned one part of the rights, second the other, but you need consent of both, to do anything. And these new owners will want exorbitant fees, if they were to let others use now their property, which encompasses any services being provided, that they bought from a dead company (like Nvidia did with 3dfx SLI), because this way, they can increase their revenue, while having little to no expenses. You'd essentially have to end trade of appreciable intangibles... which would wipe out a lot of worlds GDP, cause there is no way, you could do this in one state or coutnry, if desired effect were to be obtained. And that's before you'll get the "someone will kill you over WiFi attack ads"
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  944. I'm sorry, no. Europe is bleak, when it comes to technology, but not that bleak. We hav SAP :D
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  945. Man, that IRL is so damn true! Look at my network, My ER-X is my primary gateway, At first, I thought, that I would go from it to a wireless bridge to get internet in to our garage directly... Well, nope. Dad wouldn't let me run enough cables to the kitchen, which has direct line of sight and is the only such place, plus I needed to add second AP in the kitchen to cover surrounding rooms. Because of this, I had to go with UAP-AC-Pro for coverage (I know, hillarious overkill for five wireless stations at a time max), because it has passthrough port. So now, when I want to go on the Internet from the garage, say for some video tutorial, I have to go ER-X > Zyxel 1900-24E > PoE injector > UAP-AC-Pro > Zyxel 1200-5 > PoE injector > Ubiquiti NanoM5 > Ubiquiti NanoLocoM2 > Ubiquiti NanoLocoM2 > PoE injector > Zyxel 1200-5 > PoE injector > UAP-AC-Lite. That's three switches and five different APs in a row.
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  946. Author: What other options for sustainable solar do we have? Me, a realist: No solar
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  947. There's a bigger problem here. Not all goods have the same inflation as others and there are goods, which will always be bought. Take housing (which some nations don't bring in to account when measuring inflation), energy, transportation, Internet access, meat, vegetables, cooking oil, cheese... A lot of the things in your traditional CPI are consumer goods and services, like computers, cars, vacations... Really things, which only a small fraction of society buys on a regular basis. So what I'd do, is I'd create a CPI variant, which would measure the highest costs of basic necessities to ascertain basic costs of living. As for not taking technological innovation in to account, I think it should not be taken in to account. Why? Two reasons. One. Because, while there is the argument for including it to make the measure more precise, including it would shift the reported number to higher income bracket in the society, suddenly, you'd not be overestimating for people, who can afford to buy more efficient stuff outright or through help of reasonably interested loans, thus lowering one, sometimes very substantial part of CPI, you'd be underestimating inflation for those, who can't afford these capital expenses. That is the first problem. The second is unpredictability of technological change. Say a well off family would buy a new, more efficient fridge. That is demonstration of what was shown in the video. Consumption of electricity is lowered and inflation on that particular good/service should be lower. However, that assumes no other change had occurred! Say said family was family of gamers and graphics card in one of the gaming rigs owned by the family had died or gone so obsolete, it is no longer relevant for modern titles, so the family replaces this graphics card with a 3090 TI. Graphics cards are the most power hungry parts of a computer, meaning that due to effectively maintenance, whatever savings in terms of energy could be partially offset due to technological innovation, all be it in a different field. Now some might argue, that you need to measure taking only one change in to consideration, as to measure the effect. However, that argument falls on it's face, because of the time horizon that's measured by inflation, which typically is a year. What we really need is whole set of statistical information to evaluate the situation and take the right action. For instance, to take a more targeted action to reduce inflation in particular component of CPI, not just utilize the blunt instrument of monetary policy.
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  948. There had been an idea floated around, that suggested sending NATO nation troops to Ukraine to man their border with Belarus (if you watched Star Trek TNG, basically the Tachion blockade), freeing Ukrainian forces to go deal with Russia. It had been theorized, that France could man that border and if Russians or Belorussians attacked from there and engaged their forces, that France could try and invoke article 5 on the count of their troops being attacked.
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  949.  @fixpontt  I know, I'm just saying, that was the jist of, what had been discussed at the time
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  950. Come to think about it. You are socialist even in red states compared to Czech Republic. One, as unemployed, I have to go to interviews, which labor office set's me up with. One guy took my papers, filled them in as "rejected" and then started an interview, by the way. And yes, we actually have to get potential employers to sign us papers and have three business days to sort them out. Most employers don't really care for this, and refuse to see us in that window, meaning if you get a bad clerk, you could end up with nothing, even though you've been doing everything within your power, to get hired. Two, I have to submit my earnings from gig jobs and part time work, because I can earn up to half of minimum wage, to spur my living a little. I have to submit these, even if I earned a zero, simply because I have a contract somewhere. Three I have to submit my own activity to obtain a job. Four, I have to come once a month, after a while (baring covid) once every two weeks to the office to work out, what to do next. Five, Even with all this, unless I have 12 consecutive months of employment on actual employment contract, I don't qualify for anything, but my social and health insurance. No money for rent, no money for food, nothing. Six, I have to attend seminars every once in a while, where they tell us, how we need to want to work, completely ignoring, that it's usually not us not wanting to work, it's the employers, not wanting to train! Miss any of these, and I'm off the unemployment benefits, what ever they are, and because it's mandatory to pay at least social and health insurance, I'd have negative cash flow, even if I could live and dine for free!
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  951. Ladies and Gentlemen of ecology, I present to you the wonderfu, the magnicant, the wonderous... SCAM :D
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  952. Or, you could go full bizzaro like me. I'm currently in the process of building my new gaming/work station. I have a dock already, so I can attest they are a huuuge creature comfort, wrote my bechalor's thesses on a 4 monitor setup with only a laptop for computing power. No file transfering, no cloud neceseary and when I needed to go to the library, just picked up the laptop and off I went, while having a proper ergonomic keyboard and mouse. A while later, I got introduced to the wonders of KVM switching... and then some serious crossbreeding happened in my brain. "Why can't I share a single I/O betwene a docked laptop for work and a beast desktop for gaming?" I thought. The truth is, you absolutely can! Dock to KVM to periferals and your'e done. You're literarly three key strokes from either gaming or work duties.
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  953. Scrap Vienna, There were Brno (BRQ) and Bratislava (BTS) along the route, if passenger transportation were to be considered... And what about Beograd, Timissoara, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Zagreb... All either on or with a minor deviation from course and within one hour reach by plane from Prague. How many more feasable airports did this captain miss?!
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  954. Assuming the employers are not behaving like a cartel...
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  955. an animal being afraid of it's shadow... Are you sure, you don't want to invade Persia? :D
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  956. Europe basically sold it's foreign policy to the US for the protection it had. Europe followed the US into the war on terror, which was so far the only application of article 5 so far. Europe has pulled it's weight.
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  957. This is simple, really: 1) Europe has been taking in pro environmentalist policies for decades now, sinking money into anti-growth measures aimed at "saving the planet". 2) Europe has doesn't focus itself enough on Africa, which has a huge market and is expected to grow. Instead of securing itself as continetn's major supplier of foodstuffs and actually productive infrastructure (powerlines, non-green power generation, water management, road and rail transport, healthcare), it focuses on completely useless projects to attempt to stop climate change, which is fighting windmills. 3) Europe fails at anti-propaganda efforts. Instead of destroying Russian propaganda base in Africa and within it's own borders (for long time, this had been Russian embassy to Czech Republic and had since moved to Hungary). This has lead to dissolution of nuclear power in Germany, current problematic status of Hungary, creation of anti-EU parties in most of Europe and shakey 4) Europe has adopted (to some degree) woke culture coming in from the US, which leads to inept people being promoted, when competent people are forced out of their positions on grounds, that have nothing to do with actual job being done. What needs to happen, to stop this? 1) Repeal Paris aggreement and vast majority of environmental protections EU wide. 2) Reformulate CSR. This must cease to discriminate againt certain industries. Employee compensation in real values needs to be made much larger part of it, replacing environmental concerns. 3) Incentivise mining and processing industry in Europe by lowering their tax rate 4) Ensure as cheap energy as possible. Severe punshments for lobbying on behalf of large scale wind and solar. 5) Create it's own propaganda machine, to shape public opinion abroad. End apologies for colonial era. 6) Union wide strict requirements for surplus public budgets. Simplify tax law in general, with greater emphasis on consumption taxes and VAT.
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  958.  @LAWRENCESYSTEMS  Then you're lucky I don't work for you. When I cook, I hear neighbours sniffing at the door :D
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  959. Twenty houses worth of electricity from a breaking maneuver? What the hell is that electric loco towing and at what gradient? Train the the Big Boy wouldn't budge on Katoomba Scenic Railway?!
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  960.  @prophetzarquon  Then permit third party porting without given consent. Community or even Valve will handle the rest
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  961. Host: "That's still twelve miles off the coast. How do you intend to bring those containers to the port?" Me: "Kirov reporting!" Edit: Holly shit, they actually brought that up!"
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  962. My dear, dear remainers. Let the Brexiters have their way... there are countries in Europe, that will welcome your arrival.
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  963. Romania is diverse in this sense... I have family in judet Alba. When visiting Alba Iulia, I dropped my passport wallet, which holds my emergency card. Nobody called to me. A guy ran after me all the way to the train (which made me miss it) to return me the wallet. A few days later, family and I were returning home and in the middle of the mountains, some kids approached us hand extended, begging and then tried to pry them selves into our car and we had to flee. From what my uncle told me, things are going in the right direction, but it's taking it's sweet time.
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  964.  @munchkin0.o  Nah, it's more like it would have been worthless. My dad, back during Caucescu's reign went to a local exchange office to sell some 50 West German Marks. He received several trillion (old) Lei and had to go and buy two shopping bags for half a million each, to carry all that currency home... So what would fit in a full wallet in terms of bills? A loaf of bread, maybe?
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  965. The problem with capitalism is not, that the Earth is finite. No, the problem is, that all other methods have failed and we're out of options.
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  966.  @abelabel3664  And what exactly wasnt tried yet?
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  967.  @abelabel3664  points to nothig in particular is the same as points to nothig ať all.
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  968.  @abelabel3664  Excelent, and where would the money for that UBI come from? No kind of tax can produce that kind of money and you can't print without breaks. Just look at Zimbabwe! We have tried abolishing corporations. Just look at what "Communism" and collectivization did to Czechoslovakia. The problem with anarchy is, that sooner or later somebody with big enough stick will enforce his order... so that's back to feudalism eventually, if not all over again. Abolishing money is BS, because without them, trade would get ridiculously complicated and expensive. You'd literally have to barter stuff for stuff. Until matter replicators become reality, that is basically shooting yourself in to the head with a shotgun, nay a grenade launcher. Councils detaining power? Gee, that covers a lot. From representative democracy to oligarchy, depends on who the members are and what are the rules... and who writes those rules. So basically maintained status quo at best. But sortition takes the cake. based on what factors? Wealth? Yeah, that's feudalism. Religion? Yeah, that's basically the dark ages. Nationality/ethnicity/heritage? That's 3d reich dude! Get more realistic! Being creative, when what you create causes more problems than solves is not helpful!
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  969. Me: "Throw in 20 motherboard compatible midtowers and up those coolers to twenty and you've got yourself a deal:" A month later on craigslist: "Offering pre-built TrueNAS servers for the low price of 1999,99 USD"...
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  970. That is one way of looking at things, however, let me draw Chuck Norris in to this... a few years (decades) back, Chuck was called as expert witness in a case involving the use of firearm against someone unarmed but trained in martial arts. Whether in such circumstances the use was justified. The prossecutor requested a demonstration of effective use of martial arts against someone with a firearm. After four times, when the prossecutor couldn't aim an unloaded sidearm, courtesy of the bailif, at Chuck, before he had Chuck's foot in his chest, the case was decided in favor of the gun holder. So much legal anals There is a similarity here. Much like with martial arts. Unless the person in question show's signs of his condition (be it kimono with a black belt or unstoppable caugh), one can't tell, whether the other person is dangerous or not. There is a considerable portion of infected people, who are completely asymptomatic and thus may appear harmless, but can actually be harmful to be around. That combined with a standing order (if still enforced) could lead to exonoration. There is a major pandemic about. There are people on the fringes of the society, who refuse to wear masks/vaccinate, who actually do spread the desease. Not all of them, but they are the more common ones. If we take all of this in to consideration, Could a reasonable juror find, that it was someone could believe, he/she is in imminent mortal danger? Given the general coverage of the epidemic by the media, I'd say yes and therefore the use firearm of firearm should be considered legal and thus called for. (obligation to retreat aside, as that isn't really an option here, given the shooter's occupation.)
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  971. That metro design isn't all that nuts, actually, it's only incomplete. Public transit system can never take you, to where you're going in one go. Metro is great for rapid connection of two major points. Say you have an airport on one end, city center in the middle and say a harbor in at the other end. All three destinations attract a lot of people, but not from each other. That is why you have (usually) bus lines follow the metro, going zigzag along the route, bringing passengers to the rapid line, so they can continue to their destination, usually with a second change at another hub. Just look at Prague transit system, you'll see such lines, along with interconnecting lines between different methods of travel, be it tram, bus, metro, boat or train.
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  972. Ah yes... imigrants. The jews of the current era. We need to realize, everyone and I do mean everyone will turn to crime, if their conditions become desperate enough. The main problem has always been too low wages in general and employers not hiring and training people. So we need to start from them. Deny employers certain freedoms, like to refuse someone at all, fine them for firing people and for not recruiting and not growing enough, go after them, when they attempt to leave, and you will see a turn in crime rates.
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  973. heh... why do I think of Monty Python... "What did the Romans ever do for us?", "well, the rule of law..."
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  974. There is never a good or bad time to look for a new job. Maybe, just maybe you can take a breather fourth to twelveth month of your new employment. There are always opportunities out there to sieze. Take my case, for instance. I ended uni and started looking for a job in my field, with a degree in accounting. At the time, economy was booming, employers were crying their eyes out, that they can't find anybody to fill roles, unemployment was sitting at 3%. Two years of looking for a job, well over 1000 CVs sent out, very interviews, none of them returned an offer. I then took a less than minimum wage job with an idiot of an employer, just to get my experience up, then had a panic attack caused by said employer and off for another year of aggressive job seach, sending out CVs with no luck... then covid hit and, third minister of healthcare in (we had four total just during covid), I scored my first decent job... I found a job in my field for more than minimum wage, in the middle of a lockdown! When I could have been fined, for crossing county borders without proof of good cause. Even in bad times, there are people, who need job done and are willing to pay for it. It would be crazy, not to look. Maybe don't advertise on job boards, but do send CVs out and take calls from recruiters.
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  975. Yeah, there are problems with urban sprawl, but people, who advocate against use of cars are delusional. Sure, they may heat the planet a little. Well, there aren't really alternatives present, because you don't buy a car to get from A to B, you buy that car to get from A to B at your convenience. I live in the city of Brno. I can buy a single ticket and ride it in the city and out of it, even leaving my county and country. I can take a tram or a bus from basically anywhere in the city to anywhere in the city at any time of day, but I'm limited at some times of day, because the bus runs once in an hour or every thirty minutes (depends on the day). It is still not enough. Imagine you live somewhere in the city and you have to wait thirty minutes in cold, because you've missed your bus, when your teeth ache like there's no tomorrow. That is the reason people buy cars. So they don't have to deal with this shit and no amount of public transport refinement is going to change that. And believe me, there is no way that in my city, there aren't at least fifty people a day, who have to get in to their cars and drive to emergency dental facility every day. No my city has about 400k. Imagine how many people need to do the same in NYC.
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  976. you forgot the link
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  977.  @kailee2166  he who want's to save mankind maybe? :D
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  978. In Czech Republic, we have unique birth numbers. Something like this almost doesn't happen outside of identity theft.
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  979. Hm... avoiding eye contact, trembling or fidgeting... My friend, conduct assessment for autism. You may have an undercover health crisis out there!
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  980.  @Ricky_Baldy  then don't "buy" the feature :D Get something older, which is not a huge trap
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  981. Yeah, that has it's downsides too... ideally, you would want tax to be payed where revenue was generated, eg. where service or goods were sold, and labour is a service...
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  982. nah, you can beat this even as intended without excessive tuning... Put yourself more into the game! The way I did it, I'd buy my second car to be a project car for the stars until I unlocked the R34, which I saved for the unique upgrades, eventually having two 10 star cars, one of which I actually liked to drive and felt good in. Absolutely loved it that way
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  983.  @radekmojzis9829  Well, on the other hand, we have to pay conversion fees, whenever we're trading with our immediate neighbours, three of which have Euro already, in a pro export economy, that, like most economies in the world, trade's the most with their emediate neighbours. And can't take advantage of West African (CFA) Frank, which is linked on fixed rate to Euro... And until next jaunuary had to pay our income tax based of employer expences, not agreed wage and have effectively the highest taxation of labour in the world... Yeah, fun country the Czech Republic :D
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  984. "You know whats cool? Massively expanding a broken institution to score cheap political points and if you can do that while playing a saxophone, well, that just get's even cooler!" Did he seriously just compare Clinton to cpt. Willian "number one" Riker?! Will Johnny set up a petition to rename Riker's Island to "Will Riker's Island?"
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  985. Roman, I recall from the times of Iron curtain, families in Germany, that got torn apart by the split of Germany started coming to Hungary, specifically to Balaton to have family meetups, so maybe it would be worth looking at countries, that both Europeans and Russians can visit easily as tourists and where you'd be safe. Given how things are right now, I'd look into Turkey... And yes, I know, how much you "love" Atatürk airport.
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  986. So... San Francisco made Xi a hippie for one day.... If you're going...
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  987. Yes, it is. Others can't fight your internal fights! All that corruption, that allows Orban to rule, stands only because you people let it to stand and, sadly, we don't see much in terms of stopping him. Why are there not general strikes all over Hungary? Why is he not getting Caucescu treatment?
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  988. Yeah, this is insane... What we really need, is to move away from income based taxes towards consumption based taxes and property tax, because that shut's down any debate. The house stands in country A, it pays taxes to country A. The goods were bought in country A, their tax was paid in country A. That's it, end of story. I don't care, that the property owner lives on Mauritius, has Polish citizenship and rent's out office space in Tanzania, France (Réunion) and Madagascar... Let them calculate local taxes into their cost of ownership and therfore price for what ever goods and services they provide!
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  989. In Czech Republic, when there is a drought, all open fire use is actually banned by the authorities throughout the country. You can't even smoke in forests! So why the hell was this gender reveal paty carried out is beyond me. When I make a fireplace in such conditions, I make it on the river. Not next to it, on the river itself, precisely because of quick extinguishing! But with all seriousness, there are serious questions regarding damage compensations. There have to be limits on what people are liable in terms of their income lost to these compensations. While it is just to demand those, who have caused something, to fix it, it must not put those responsible in poverty... Looking at campfires going out of control or plane catching fire after a crash kind of things. There need's to be a deeper look in to causes of fires. California is notoriously dry and loosing water fast, therefore, looking in to forest composition is neceseary. There is a liability question on states hands, because the state knows about the status of their forests, why did they not take action and begin to change forest composition? If it did take such action, why did it fail? Also, what about the status of infrastructure in the country? Sure, it might be private, however, the state should be able to evaluate the status of infrastructure and, if neceseary, take corrective action and then recoup the expences from the owner, which in our powerline case, would have been some logging, presumably of dead pine trees just waiting to light up, and a short lawsuit! Not to mention a fine addition to Legal Eagle's collection. From this angle, it would seem that the tax payer has some liability on his hands regardless of who started the fire. There should have been technological, agricultural and forestry based precautions in place to prevent forest fires. Sure, I am going fairly deep in to proximate cause teritory, but I believe, that if proximate cause is cascading towards these kinds of damages, they need to be exhaustingly explored and strictly scrutinized. Note that I don't deal with conduct of those, who started that fire. I don't take them in to consideration, because human stupidity is infinite. There will always be someone stupid, spiteful or greedy enough to disobey any directive or ban.
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  990.  @Ean.oo7  well, judging by total lengh of our tax code, epics like LoTR would be considered light novels... so, yes. As far as legal world is concerned, it is.
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  991.  @ALifeAfterLayoff  That is rather hard to do these days. Have been through quite a lot and saw enough red flags to populate all of Beijing... I'm just worried, that this abyss of toxic employers start to look into you, as you're stealing a peek at them.
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  992.  @Account.for.Comment  Well, that would have to come from grass roots. Eg. the voters. If they wanted to work together and live next to each other, this wouldn't have happend, why? The other side wouldn't feel the need to create loopholes, or use undemocratic means to ensure, the other side can't take away rights, they deem uncrossable. Be it abortions, net neutrality, unrestricted access to guns, cars, alcohol or what ever come's to mind. We constantly see people's rights under siege, because the other group think's, those who exercise these rights, aren't really human and thus don't have rights... Untill this changes, stuff like this will be comming back to bite everybody. People must start respecting other people's rights, especially, if they disagree with them! Note, that I haven't mentioned either side of this mess, that is because they are both responsible for this.
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  993. That is your accidental pregnancy right there. Didn't have time, forgot or the bag ruptured...
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  994. Careful, Russians came up with a plane like appendage for tanks, not sure if it was WWII or Vietnam era, that were supposed to allow tanks to glide into a battlefield, land, drop the add on and then proceed in normal tank operations in the field. Since this existed, it's only a matter of building large enough helicopter without breaking the laws of physics, that could use these as ammunition... or just go old school and get some airships. KIROV REPORTING!
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  995. Ordinary citizens don't have more capacity to save and invest. Unless one already owns a home, they are subject to landlords, which can workout or even demand disclosure, how much money a person makes, and set their rent at such a level, that the tenant can't ever save for down payment on their own house. The idea here is, that if someone gets a house of their own, even on a fixed mortgage, they'll stabilize the largest expenditure they have month-on-month basis for a number of years, whereas their income should increase over same period of time. Rent on the other side, will increase every year without question (baring rent controls). Then there is transition from owning to operational leasing of goods, which producers, eg. companies are pushing down our throats, sometimes completely disallowing perpetual ownership of a product, or making it ineffective investment (as rule of thumb, investment in a tool should completely return in 5 years), forcing a normal Joe to "rent", what he otherwise could acquire for good year on year. Take MS Office as an example. The government also plays a part in this, forcing people into purchasing less effective and in the long run therefore more expensive services and/or goods. Take electric cars, which are more expensive than conventional ones and will always be more expensive (due to higher volume of refining of greater variety of materials, when compared to normal cars), which are currently pushed by governments, in order to battle climate change. In the past, thanks to relative simplicity of a car, one could fix them himself, lowering total cost of ownership of an asset (yes car is an asset, in spite of whatever financial gurus are saying. Car gives you greater range to access either net lower priced housing or higher paying job), when compared to modern cars and especially electric cars, allowing them to retain greater amount of wealth by "working on their own", which incentivized longer period of ownership of said asset. This has gotten less and less possible, due to increased complexity of cars, which culminated in EVs, where owner could prevented from even learning, how to fix their car under pretense of safety. To illustrate, my grandfather owned and drove the same car for twenty years and fixed everything on it himself. That is unthinkable with a modern car and impossible with an EV, because after twenty years, battery of that EV would be completely dead and that is the most expensive component of that car! Even modern cars with internal combustion engines have become so complex, an individual without very specialized and therefore expensive tools, can't touch anything on their own cars, forcing that person to seek out services of a certified mechanic, often times controlled by car manufacturer, who retains a part of mechanics profit through access to knowledge base and tools necessary to fix the car. (I'm looking at you John Deer, I'm looking at you!) These rent seeking practices lower a persons ability to retain wealth, hence contribute to greater economic inequality.
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  996.  @Fatallica  Population density doesn't really matter that much. Fiber is expensive as F. That's why it's used only for long range interconnects until recently Think central hubs like Frankfurt, London, Hamburg or New York. And Romania has fiber to the premises already. Particularly the part of Romania I am from and have seen this is literally end of the tracks with nothing but wilderness beyond it. Your argument, while reasonable, doesn't apply here.
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  997. There's a problem with raising interest rates, and that's that loan interest rates are NOT fixed at time of creation, eg. you get a loan of 15% for say eight years, but end up having 25% in year three, because the bank has to incorporate whatever FED is doing into existing loans. That's basically the problem of the whole of EU. If central interest rates only affected new loans, it would have been easier to deal with and these "assistance" loans would not be necessary.
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  998.  @bradhaines3142  No rate is fixed for the duration of the whole loan. Banks simply don't offer that. At least where I live. For instance, in case of mortgages, you won't get a bank to give you fix for more than ten years on 30 year long mortgage
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  999.  @Grazingoat  Get a grip man. Yes, there is SAP... But who else? What other software company is comparable anywhere in the EU? But look at US, and you'll have dozen of them! And we don't have anywhere near as many startups as the US. But those are the metrics we should be dominating!
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  1000.  @Beyonder1987  Simple answer? Communism
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  1001.  @chilloutcentral2097  Literally nonsense. Switzerland has some good lands for agriculture and forestry, but it also has barely productive mountains, on top of being lnadlocked. Both of which are serious hampers for trade, because you have to move everything by rail and road. Sure, rail is cheap, when talking vast amounts of goods. Boats are even cheaper, which gives Switzerland major competitive disadvantage. The answer lies in their adaptation to that geography. Banking.
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  1002. I for one always thought that vendor should be selected in accordance to expected deployment. PfSense? HQ and data center. Untangle? Why pay a fee, when you can have something very similar for free? EdgeRouter? Anywhere you have need for decent router with decent features. UniFi? Well, hotels, motels and places, where you can't have a tech on the count of their smallness. Not UDM lineup! Mikrotik? If your staff like's to suffer or you have some very niche use case, like LTE connection, that actually need's site-to-site VPN support TP-Link? If you need a breach. There is no shame in going multi-vendor. As long as it gets the job done within the budget
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  1003. I'm a simple guy, I see Blackberry, I like... Btw, where is Mr. Clinton missing a shift?!
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  1004. Really, this is a problem for all of Europe. Take language for example. Instead of seeking to properly become bilungual societies (most importantly laws in local language and common European language, preferably English). No nation state does that! Not even states, which really should, because German is easy. Try this with Czech! And then there is the problem with current green, socially liberal heading of Europe. Green is killing manufacturing and material refinement jobs, making us dependent on China, instead of doing these ourselves and socially liberal approach to women has killed off fertility rates... Europe needs some tweaks, if it is to survive.
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  1005. These eco-idiotic arguments about electric cars show, just how much they don't understand cars and how urban-centric they are. 1) a tank of a car wil never change, while battery of an EV degrades over time. And no, cheating with spare capacity doesn't change that fact. Most people can't afford a new car, especially in poorer countries, meaning they'll never buy an EV, however, they still need a car to get places, most importantly work! Your energy efficiency is NOT important factor, when buying and operating a car. That is, what allows you to work, do business, get your loved ones to a hospital, when they feel pain (you don't call an ambulance, cause the tooth needs to go out, but damn, you're not going to sit around a watch your kid in pain), meaning you'll pay whatever is necessary to maintain that car and use it at all times, while maintaining minimal impact on your budget. This translates to not spending large amounts of money upfront, which is precisely, what buying an EV is, when compared to similar petrol car with a reasonable 2 liter engine. That petrol car will be there for such emergencies, because it will not be discharged by the grid (something some ecos proposed to offset the need for energy storage due to abundance of wind and solar outside of consumption hours and nil generation in peak consumption hours, to use batteries of privately owned cars), because it has it's own fuel tank, which doesn't shrink every year or two, meaning a petrol car will largely have the same range throughout its lifespan. Furthermore, going EV doesn't address the underlying problem, the need to regularly commute because 2) Not everyone can work remotely, given the nature of their job, and not all employers are open to the idea of 100% remote. Better solution, than going for a costly energy transition in transportation industry, specifically with private transportation, would have been to reduce demand for commuting, by encouraging work from home, where possible, en bulk shopping and researching machinery to reduce the amount of man hours needed to work in jobs, which have to be done in person and retraining people towards remote friendly fields. This way, you've turned a daily driver into weekly+leisure driver, which would more than half the amount of CO2 and other emissions produced by privately owned automobiles and it wouldn't cause a slew of other environmental and geopolitical problems along the way (most of the necessary minerals are found in Russia, most of material refining is done in China in this field, precisely because it would not be feasible in the West due to environmental protections and emmission limits). That Lithium, that Cobalt, that Copper all have to be mined and refined! (well, not so much for copper, but can't recycle all that much) Which have their own environmental impacts. EVs are more metal intensive than normal petrol cars, that is undisputable fact. Funny how no environementalists are talking about this side of EVs. Energy storage and utilization systems simply need to work in concert with each other. Until a battery can be invented, that will not degrade over time (which is impossible thanks to laws of physics), cheif problem for an EV will remain. That is why I strongly believe in hybrid cars and synthetic and fossil fuels. Hybrid cars offer a solution to a problem, that cities have, which is air pollution. You can outlaw use of internal combustion engines in large cities under normal circumstances (ex exception when towing something, fine being forgiven, if driver presents repair bill from a shop, which shows battery swap or other repair, which removed problem rendering full electric unusable etc.). This would remove at very least half of all emmissions from private transport in big cities and it wouldn't force us down a technological path, that is simply inferior with no way back, all the while contributing to improving air quality in the cities. Solving an actual, solvable problem, while maintaining the key characteristics of the car, not to mention, that a hybrid is less resource intense than an EV.
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  1006. Don't dispose of that ER-X in any way! Reconfigure it. The thing can work in switch mode.
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  1007. uh... Steve, this can be done already with normal cars. How? Aimply. You equip a car with some kind of proximity sensor... such as those for parking and a black box (which will be mandatory in the EU in three years, if I recall correctly), then you just code a piece of software, that tells a car, to automatically keep a certain distance from a car ahead of it (which is basically cruise controll and dad has it in his car from early 2000s). And then you just match speed with the car ahead and save the value in the black box, once distance between the two cars had not changed significantly for about 10 seconds. Alternatively you could use the parking sensors by the side of a car, as long as they manage to catch car next to yours. You use those same sensors and known distance between sensors in the front and in the back, and measure how long each had seen a passing vehicle and use vehicle's own speed as base. Since you know the distance between the sensors and length of the passing car, you can calculate speed differential and simply add it to measuring vehicle speed. And there you are. It actually makes sense even from consumer side of things. Because it would be cheaper to not develop different sensors for packing and cruise control, so deploying this would not make a difference in car price, even if the cops didn't throw kickbacks to the car makers.
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  1008. You do realize, that eco-friendlyness is chief culprit for this mess, right? Where do you think, those regulations, which hit hydrocarbon sector come from? People fall en mass for a scam, that we don't need hydrocarbons, that we can live without them, that we'd be better off without them. You know, basic ecology talking points oversimplified. Polititians either fall for it too, and/or cinically use it to get reelected. Their electorate begins to demand an actual change, so they begin to move in terms of policy certain way, to appease their electorate, and banks either wait or begin to ditch oil ang gas in anticipation of further sector harming legislation... and we're, where we are. The whole problem with ecology, is that it has shrunk to one question alone. Global warming and refuses to see other solutions, then production equivalent of austerity, however, people who peddle this don't realize the reality of the situation. Say we'd stop using plastics at all. What would we displace them with? Could you imagine integrated circuits of computers with other carrier material than plastic? What about bottles? Imagine, how much would a your standard 2l bottle of your prefered bevarage weigh! How do you carry that on you at all times? In my travels, I used to carry on foot five leters of water just for my self. How much heavier would my backpack get, if I were to use glass instead of refilled pop bottles? And remember, glass is the only sensible alternative to plastic here! And what about lost merch as result of breakage? Who'd carry the losses from that? Companies would have to calculate that in to costs of final product too. There is this ted talk, you might want to watch: Why renewables can’t save the planet by Michael Shellenberger. I think, you'll find it illuminating.
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  1009. I mean, they could start small... First and foremost, there is potential for whatever Richard's doing and jeremy's farm to collaborate and have mutual cameo over rebuild of a tractor...
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  1010. There is, It is crime against humanity, through.
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  1011. Louis, Politicians never have actual solutions. The only people, who have solutions are engineers and specialists in their respective fields. What would I do? Well, step number one. Suspend the market. For the duration of the problem, which need's to be overcome, there must not be any changes to prices. In times of crisis volatility increases, and since revenues of ones are costs of others, and costs are much less downward flexible, what you get is increased inflation. It may look small, but in places like New York, that will be enough to cause such social breakup, as we see. For this reason, prices must be artificially frozen. The same would happen to Utilities and Internet access, with the added caveat, that the government would pay them directly. Right now, access to infrastructure and information is key, so the government would have to handle this. Step two. All loans are suspended. Their repayment is postponed and no interest is accrues on any loaned money for the duration of the crisis. As long as obtaining money is made artificially harder or impossible, any investor has no right to achieving any growth of his portfolio on those investments, that are in the affected sector. If real economy isn't growing, financial markets shouldn't either, because there is no source of that wealth, and we're back to inflation problem from before. Step three. Handouts. I know, how unpopular this would have been, especially in the US. Every person, who could prove he lives in a particular area would be given a set amount of money to suffice him for basic necessities, those being food, beverages (not just water) and clothing. Plus, any one would be able to ask for money for medicine, they require. Same would apply for any reasonable repairs. These two sets of money would be paid out backwards against receipts. Step four. slow start of local economy. Unemployed would be called upon to help out in hospitals and other places, which deal with increased volume of demands for their normally provided goods and services. University students would also be pulled in to service, most importantly medics, their studies extended by one to two years free of charge on all universities. This would never be compensated for. Step five. Distribution of firearms. These steps would eventually fail. They could deal with a smaller crisis, but ultimately, the only thing, that can keep people in check, is fear. Knowing, that every person around them is carrying, not that they just may carry, will provide a disincentive to violence, and will swiftly deal with violence, once it erupts. It's not nice, it's not a good solution, but at this point, you've run out of less painful options. Just as you said Louis, there is not a whole lot to do, once you're in the rapids in a canoe with a hole in the middle and no paddle. Step six. Restart of the economy and slow shift back to normal. When things begin to calm down, different activities would be gradually removed from restrictions, starting with those, which stabilize the most populous sectors, allowing them to build up some money, which then can move up the ladder and help restart the economy from the ground up. Just like when you're building a house, you begin with the foundations, not the roof. While this is phase is going on, tools are being made available to prevent some of the problems from occurring again. First of these, would be a multiplicator of taxes on any unoccupied property and a couple of thousands inspectors hired, to check this, including door busting gear. Any and all business real estate would be subject to inspection. The idea is, that increased costs of ownership of unoccupied space would incentivize leasing it out, because at this point, you're saving money even when leasing for a dollar. Otherwise, the building would show up on the market eventually, because nobody can maintain the those costs long term. The city would buy these abandoned buildings, if no one else did for a while, and repurpose it, in to what is needed in the city, such as more decent quality housing. Welcome, to the desert of real.
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  1012.  @middleagebrotips3454  to some degree, there are services, that allow companies to upload and download invoices as basically raw data and if both companies are tied into the system, even immediately enter the data in, just like a human would.
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  1013. eeh.. Thunderfoot, you do realise, that what you advise here is a pyramid scheme and well within two months, we would exceed population of the planet, forcing us to procreate to make more people watch this video...
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  1014. You know, what would have been crazy? If they went over the car and found four different VINs, on the count of the car being repaired after a major accident.
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  1015. Oh don't sweat it Louis... so what you've got a red pill video? Lying in dating about personal preferences is psychology 101. That is the foundation of marketing!
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  1016.  @taylorc2542  Takes about 20 years to do that that way. Sure it needs to get done, but there's a lot, that can go wrong in the meantime... So question is, whether we have that time.
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  1017. There is another problem with the EU. That fails to understand, that only while there is sufficient economic growth, euroskeptic voices don't have valid arguments. Yes, we're at war now with Russia, though not officialy declared, so now is not normal time and before, there was Covid, but even before Covid, the EU, specifically the Commission, had been pushing for anti-growth green agenda, claiming it's necessity for climate change. As a result Europe lost huge amount of manufacturing and material processing to China, and is now losing it to USA, thanks to no proper response to US Inflation Reduction Act. One more correction, Czechs are not against Euro.Companies are already trading with eachother in Euros and they preffer loans in Euros too (given interest rate differential). If you do a lot of export trade, you can run your books and even pay your obligations to the state in Euros and other major currencies (new thing I think from a year or two ago). Banks are already providing multi currency accounts and our parliment approved of exporters paying a part of sallary in foreign currencies, which suggests there is demand for income in Euros (this being first step to test the concept). I have also been to a townhall with one of my former employers, where request for partial sallary payments in Euros were discussed. The way I see it, there is a very vocal minority, that opposes Euro and anything related to the EU, that is mostly centered around SPD. Even ODS has its pro-Euro block, mostly people to do with export, as could be seen recently in the news. Their opposition to the EU stemms from claims of overregulation (argueably) and green idiocy (definitely), that is currently in power in Bruxelless. Then there is much quieter minority, admittably somewhat smaller, centered around the Pirates, that want Euro yesterday. The problem is, vast majority of people are indiferent and follow golden rule of IT, "When it's not broken, don't fix it.". However, even that is changing. We have effectively become bi-currencial economy already, so I see us accepting Euro eventually, maybe even in under a decade.
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  1018. hoho, careful there! The rich and yes, even the megarich are a part of society, they have to have a voice in a democracy and if the public puts their trust in them by voting them in, you cannot say, they are a threat to democracy, because at that point, they are legitimate. If you want to see actual rich man, who is much closer to being a threat to democracy, look at former premier and minister of finance of Czech Republic Andrej Babiš, who at the time of his first candidacy and until fairly recently owned initially directly and later through a trust Mladá Fronta Dnes newspaper and their publishing house along with a massive agro-chemical empire, which at the time was and I believe still is one of the most read newspapers in the Czech Republic. There a threat to democracy could be argued, given that he could have made the newspaper publish and more importantly not publish stuff about himself per his choice, hence mislead the electorate! Just owning so much you could buy Jamaica alone does not and can not disqualify someone from holding a public office and it is the duty of the electorate, to watch like a hawk, what their elected officials do and judge them on that merit. But this rhetoric here... That's just going full communism and for what that does to society, look up something by Serpentza, I promise, you'll have nightmares. ps: "Why not tax wealth?". Since these two are cowards enough to leave that question unaswered, let me answer it for you. Maybe because it was taxed once as income already? If you want to tax people more justly, scrap income tax, forget about wealth tax, double VAT and create additional consumption taxes on stuff, that actually has negative effects on society and tie them to countermeasures (junk food tax to help support the NHS, petrol tax along with tolls to be income of National Highway authority, etc.)
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  1019. Dude India is now. If you're looking for the future, you need to look west... There is a peculiar continent there, that has the potential to boom like there is no tomorrow.
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  1020. Patents ensure innovation is the greatest joke this decade. Damn it, people, look around you. Basically everything, that you use and is cheap is no loner patented. Those patents expired, that is why it's so inexpensive!
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  1021. This is insane. I'd understand, that a successful cash back should be born by the business. That's a punishment for error. But if that chargeback is a failed one?! Seriously? Charge the card holder, who raised a bogeous claim if anybody!
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  1022.  @PerryKobalt  Nah, that's Geneva convention... among other things, Unlawful wanton destruction or appropriation of property is a war crime.
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  1023.  @PerryKobalt  True, however, unless you intend to break Geneva, you have to wait until that happens. And you have to minimize unnecessary damage, meaning levelling of cities is definitely a warcrime.
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  1024. @deannal.newton9772 Unlikely to be hidden agenda. My friend never had any interaction with either of those companies at the time
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  1025.  @kieranrollinson8750  Not, if they end up facing a fine, which would make their electricity even more expensive to not produce. At this point, they begin to limit damages and increase or maintain production... Or if they could lower their AVERAGE price relatively quickly, by, for instance retooling one of their closed down powerplants, at which point, they make profit. All that needs to be done, is to allow that powerplant to work economically, for instance, by scrapping emmission allowances/carbon tax. Electricity, however, is a bad commodity show this on, due to the inner workings of the grid. Long story short, not all electricity can be bought equally, but at all times, there has to be certain amount of electricity in the grid to prevent blackouts. So electricity is bought in tiers first goes base load, then wind and solar, then more easily regulable sources like natural gas or petrol. Facemasks would have been better choice
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  1026.  @tannermurphree8247  It will, if you allow it to. There are other than monetary obstacles to entry into market for new, more efficient producers. Also, you might want to look in to scenarios, where suppliers intentionally don't provide adequate supply...
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  1027.  @boulderbash19700209  OK, I want to see continual records on inflation starting around reunification of upper and lower Egypt :D I want to see them signed off by Gilgamesh and Tutenchamon :D
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  1028. We need to make advertisements into legally binding contracts and ban diclaimers... On that note: "Hey Pepsi, where's that Harrier?!"
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  1029.  @islandwills2778  Not the same as a proper convention.
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  1030. Well, I guess, he lived long enough in his profession, to become a villain...
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  1031. Yeah, nope. Taxing the rich won't help. Let me explain on an example of a landlord. Because all landlords are the same, they all want the same thing, which is certain return on their investments in the homes they bought and now are renting out (if they're renting them out). If you increase taxation of the rich, from calculation standpoint, you'll only increase their necessary financial inputs, which they'll just turn around and pass to the tenant in the form of increased rent based on recalculated ROI on their investment in the housing stock they've procured earlier, to cover the change in available cash flow to them (tax becomes cash flow to the state). Because the owners can demand more, they will demand more, as prices are downward inflexible, so effectively, you've created inflation. No, the only way to achieve the desired outcome, would be to devalue the assets owned by the rich at fundamental level. That means reform copyright and patent laws, to make these assets within a lifetime (ideally no more than five years) worthless, thus removing the incentive to hoarding it. In terms of housing, any and all not safety caused zoning must be repealed to allow construction of new housing. Repeal mining limits and environmental protection laws (funny, how it's mostly the West, that's plagued by this... the rich west) to cut down price of materials produced by said mining. Certain things in the economy must be definancialized (education, housing, etc.) and made into public assets available to anybody at all times for free (or at least paid by taxes and actual donations). Particularly schools must be strictly made non-profit institutions and must be strictly prohibited from purchasing anything tailor made for them (either as individual schools or as a system member). Anything, that universities procure in terms of research must be public, free of charge accessible information (including without ads). etc. etc. This is not communism. This is no communism. It's only putting proper limits on capitalism, so it can't get off the leash like it had over the past twenty or so years.
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  1032. Narrator: "Does someone know about an invention made by a women?" Me an intellectual: "Not invention per se, but a scientific discovery. Marie Currie-Sklodowska, radiation and, by virtue of her death, radiation poisoning"
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  1033. Supersonic VTOL liner? I do wonder, how is he going to solve the Gs... :D
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  1034. oh yeah? And how do you park a ship diagonally through the canal? That was also unprecedented and now it's old news.
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  1035. no, maximum efficiency of anything electrical is NOT 100% That is literally only achieved, when burning stuff to produce heat. We even have over 100% efficient fuel burning boilers, because hot water for us to use as well as a side product, which can be utilized (read among other stuff on Thermoelectric effect). You need to subtract inefficiencies setemming from changes in voltage, losses due to conductor resistance over lenght used, storage due to storage solution efficiency and degradation from consumption efficiency of the device you want to consume that energy And that's not even mentioning the desired final form that energy needs to be delivered in! This is, why it may be more efficient to transport coal by train certain distance using a steam engine (somewhere in former Yugoslavia is a mine and a power station, that to this day run old Nazi Kreigsloko locomotives), than burning it on site and transporting it as electrical energy by wires (because, you have to build the power station, power lines, maintenance infrastructure and eventually even that fuel transportation infrastructure, because , you will mine out that one location at some point) There are things, which cannot be electrified and don't have equivalent alternative to them selves. Passenger planes come to mind, because the battery would be bigger than the plane itself and dragging a massive solar cell kite behind it is inpractical to the point of impossibility. just one small example. And then we get in to real grit of economics and discuss the reliance on the grid and power generation systems, which don't produce power at user's command, but rather at whim of weather in one case, and some greedy exec's in the other... Would be such a shame, if you got disconnected for not paying exorbetent electricity prices, because you have no alternative now, would it...
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  1036.  @uncomplicatedi  You may want to look up regulations for at home boilers in the EU...
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  1037. Yep, we typically get 5 weeks
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  1038. Not really. It depends on the titles you want to play. For instance, I want to play some ANNO 1800 and have I5 3330 processor paired with 1070TI I managed to score never used and 16 gigs of Kingston DDR3 memory. The game get's unplayable by midgame, because my computer just can't handle the title. I am fortunate, that it is the sole title that happens in, but I am still bottlenecked by that processor. Eventually, I will have to build a new machine from the scratch, because of how outdated my motherboard is (we're on DDR5 for RAM now). So check what you want to use that computer for. If we're talking light tasks, you're right. I wouldn't be worried about Excel spreadsheets on a Sempron either, but highger end stuff, that these companies want to push? Have to buy newer... And not buy laptops for gaming PERIOD! What I'm more wirried about, are operating system requirements and what happens, when Steam drops support for Win10.
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  1039.  @adamlarussa5243  Holly moly, share pcpartpicker build? Need some inspiration
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  1040. There is no overpopulation... We've banned building home for your own living, because of the kind of land it would stand on. Administrative kind. Add to this mandates for all new constructions being passive homes and you have additional expense on a house... I even read an article saying, that due to copyright, you can't alter your home without architect's explicit approval... It's the rules for new house construction and inflexibility of employers, that brought us here.
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  1041. This is laughable. Yeah, supply chains will likely shorten, but forget about massive ships not going multicontinental. What I think will most likely happen, is that some economies will further specialize on maritime endeavorus and provide their service globally. Why? Because of specialization (well, overspecialization) in manufacturing! There will always be only so many places, that have the raw resources, that need processing into proper products and there will only be so many, again, highly concentrated places, willing to buy those products, because they can afford them. Everybody in the production chain will want as much efficiency from transportation as possible, which gives rise to even bigger ships, than we have today, because that's fewer hands, more cargo... There will likely be more stops along the way for these huge ships, which will call for bigger ships and fleets as well as more sophisticated loading schemes, but that's doable. Unless somebody comes up with a way, to keep ridiculously rich and dirt poor people in one country together with the abundance of natural resources and lack of corruption (good luck finding that!) there will always be need for moving shit.
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  1042. Objection! Given what Joker did to Harley Quinn, there absolutely are psychological damages, including inflicting the Stockholm syndrome!
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  1043.  @justsomerandombirdwithinte5896  Never rely on common sense, because it's not at all common and doesn't explain much.
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  1044. Yeah, I'd say, that there is only one real reason, to make missile tanks, as we've seen them in some works of fiction. That being logistics. You build a single base and create then create assemblies, that you put in, that include turrets, fixed mounted howitzers, missile batteries... Idea being, that any all these different use vehicles have the same underlying chassis, meaning if one breaks down, you only need to teach your people on the motor side of things, how to repair that one type of chassis and order the same parts. Question is, whether this logistical advantage would prove sufficient to justify such approach.
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  1045. I do have a slightly different angle to it. Just look at what and how we consume! In much simpler economy dominated by agriculture products, hotter areas with large navigable rivers have an advantage. They can trade and reliably grow foodstuffs. The latter part is still very relevant but, because of advances in agricultural technology, the competitive advantage from good soil is lost and then you have to deal with other factors. A farm with worse soil, that knows, how to compensate for the problem by using fertilizers and procedures, that limit pests, will have similar outcomes to a farm in perfect conditions. The new factor that enters the room is iron and steel tools. Capital goods, that those in hotter climate would be harder to use, given until invent of a tractor, you had to use animals like cattle or hroses to power things like plows or carts so large, a human wouldn't even budge with them, and gain fertilizer in the form of manure. The advantage that rises from combination of these factors for colder climate then is, that harvests become equal in volume but more predictable as more and more factors enter the production chain, because each factor other than weather, which is tied to climate, is less and less volatile. In a hotter region, where particularly animals can't be used to power the tools used in agriculture, capital goods have lesser impact on farm productivity and therefore are not so widely adopted, because other options would provide better outcomes, including just not expending the effort. To make things worse, as economies become more complicated, because more kinds of stuff gets traded, the more basic goods become less and less valuable to trade, meaning to maintain income, more and more quantities have to be realized on the market. So here is my argument. Because of how hotter climates interact with capital (eg. how usable that capital is in these regions), these regions get hit by a double whammy. 1) They don't adopt capital based agriculture model until it becomes sustainable under local conditions, which gives them centuries to millennia worth of developmental delay when compared to colder, temperate regions, more suitable for that kind of agriculture. And 2) because they don't adopt the use of capital goods in agriculture, their agriculture sector cannot support a larger population, that could produce more capital and capital goods than otherwise comparatively weaker temperate regions, compounding the problem.
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  1046. The problem with looking at your log for IPs and what those IPs loaded runs into dead end. One, you can always claim, that you're on IPv4 behind your NAT and you don't know, which device was accessing your service and you can't prove, that it was one of my devices, only that my infrastructure was used somewhere along the lines. I could literally run a Pi, connected to no external interfaces, with no adblock, and on IPv4, you'd not catch me using ad block another device, because you'd not be able to see beyond my external IP address.
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  1047. I have to disagree a bit here. It's not automation, that's killing family farms. It's the subscription model and that is a problem not unique to agriculture. If you look at agri automation, you'll find that especially in Europe, small family farms focusing on diary are the most automated ones, because these small farms don't have the cash flow to hire extra hands. What is the difference between agri stuff and John Deere dystopia? The fact, that you own everything related to it.
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  1048. My friend, this is nothing. A few years back, a group of hackers detonated a fake nuke... on national TV on cameras, that were pointing at scenery... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgosdoL4skQ
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  1049. Somebody, give O'Brien a flamethrower, or atleast effects, because he's throwing burns around, like it's WW2!
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  1050. As much as I see Vance as an idiot, he had a point in saying, you can't shoot values and values can't be shot. The thing is, in Europe, due to our misguided extreme embracing of environmentalist agenda, we've lost and are still losing key industries, because they are dirty and doing them in a clean way is so expensive, they're incapable of competing with... less environmentally friendly methods. As a result, these industries have fled from Europe to Asia (guess why China is no. 1 for green transition key materials processing and on so many industrial products) and since introduction of Inflation Reduction Act also to the US. We're beginning to stop making stuff, which is a problem, given we're mostly export oriented economies. Our defense industry is maybe more efficient than American one, but we can't produce top of the line things, because industrial stuff, particularly heavy industry, basically can't get funding in Europe, again on the grounds of it being dirty and unecological. Where Europe stands on the right side of history, is the rules based international order. Where we stand on the side is environmentalism, because that is outright destroying our production capacity. We must be able to protect ourselves and we can only achieve that, if we'll have enough industrial capacity to produce both for exports, to feed military economies if need comes, and to be actually able to produce stuff, both of which are exclusive with preserving the environment.
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  1051. As someone with well over 1000 responses and only a handful of actual interveiws behind me, I can tell you this. If a company admits in a moment of weakness, they do this, blacklist them. I had reached out to this major car manufacturer, that I'd like to apply what I've learned and look at the practical side of accounting, working for them, they told me, to apply to this catch all position, that they have set up specifically for this. Back then I did this, but as soon as I got a new job, I have blacklisted this company for myself. One of the best employers around mind you, because they don't treat their potential colleagues with respect and dignity. If I were in shoes of that hiring manager and get a call from someone, stating, they're infront of my office, crossed two hundred kilometers for that job opportunity, I'd feel compelled to at very least sit down with that person for a short 10 minute introductory session and I'd actually look around all kinds of departments, whether they could use the guy, because that is the decent thing to do. point them to an application, where I'd full well know, they'd get ghosted.
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  1052. This is actually the correct thing to do You can always hire people, when you need them. You just put it in the contract, that it's for fixed term. Done. This can have limitations, but if you need to do this sixth time in a year with the same person, then this is on you buddy. Same goes, when someone's taking forever to do a job, that's failure to train and again on you. The answer is not to fire the guy, the answer is to train him and to motivate him. All in all, this all boils down to one question. What kind of business do you want to run? A one man show, which doesn't need to deal with this stuff, or you want to have employees, and then you need to go along with it all the way. And ultimately, you'll need to take a risk with this "maybe", employee, and if it blows up, find a way to make him productive in another way. Also, how long an email is unread is lame as a productivity measurement. One, employee might only marked as read emails, they are actively working on to be able to distinguish, what to chase and what wasn't touched yet. Better method would be to check someone's response rate. because only responded email were actually actioned. Or you can do a proper ticketting system (this is for a larger shops, but still) and hide the unnecessary data from the person, who's processing it. Customer gives ticket number, processor looks at how long it took to close down a ticket and doesn't see, who worked that ticket. Then, the person can decide on that discount and the employee is safe. Then there's your rant about employees doing more or less work than others and you, as the harder working employee see it. Well guess what, that's your sign, you should be looking for a new job, because you're the better employee, likely will get a new job, which is the only way you can advance your salary these days. Also, take some microeconomics courses... going for more is better, because then you have the room to cut back to, when things change. That's not an employer issue. Really, Louis. And I do mean this seriously. look at Joshua Fluke's videos on companies outside of the EU, such us USA or India, how these implemented surveillance of employees, including placing cameras in peoples residences! And this was in the UK! The company eventually backpeddelled but still. Technology is way too flexible, to disallow only certain abuse. It can circumvent precise bans, meaning, unfortunately, so you have to pour the baby with water, if you want set any boundries. It is you and other employers, who caused this. Legislation is usually not forward thinking. It is reactive. You might also want to look at statistics. Czechia is all the time chastised for how stringent our labor laws are... we're nowhere near France or Portugal in that regard and have 3% unemployment... and ketp that through covid. By your standards we're basically communism and we put the US in our pocket as far as our labor market's concerned.
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  1053. Couldn't it be argued, that because, they took every action to get Kevin supervision, including, but not limited to, contacting their local police department, they are off the hook? Sure, they left him, however, this wasn't intentional, by the time, they realised, what happened, they literarly coudln't return and in less than 24 hours, they called surrounding residences and the police, to arrange supervision for Kevin. They also couldn't have known about the Wet bandits targeting their home.
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  1054. Well, what damages? He could argue, assuming this happened, that he couldn't keep a job on the count of being detained so many times(which is reasonable assumption given the number of arrests), so that's lost wages. He's been fairly roughly treated, so that's doctor bills. If he's been psychologically scarred, that's at very least therapist fees and proscription drugs...
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  1055. While it is indeed utrageous, to be able to earn 5K an episode, even that can be starvation wage. Why? What expenses do people have with maintaining them selves, so that they are fit for the job. To take a more to the earth numbers, let me take a Czech chief accountant, that actually deals with external parties. This is based of a real job posting I saw some three years ago, for which I was not considered. 1) must maintain knowledge and be at all times appraised about newest legislation in the law. Given the position also encompased payroll, that's about 20K CZK a year for subscription to an accounting database. Also, the accountant was expected to attend yearly seminars, also to be paid from his pocket. That's 3K CZK 2) Had to maintain presentable wardrobe, which in my case means black suits. Due to my obesity, I destroy trousers fairly quickly with them, so that's one jacket at around 7K and four trousers at 3K each, and about 1K per shirt at about two shirts a year due to wear and tear. That's 18K CZK a year on wardrobe maintenance, simply, because the accountant was expected to maintain dress code, when dealing with anyone in the office. 3) This was in office only job, so you have to calculate 12K CZK for car maintenance + gas a year. That's 63 thousand CZK, just to hold the job. It paid 360K CZK a year. one sixth of which, the guy had to spend, just to hold down the job. I ask, these hollywood stars, how much do they have to spend per episode, to hold down the job? Cause that needs to be deducted, if we are indeed to be outraged, by how much these people earn.
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  1056. No kidding, depending on light conditions, Jelzin power gold can look like apple juice!
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  1057. Only a hundred-ish downvotes? Your audience is clearly of proletariat sort... Marx and Lenin would have been proud :D
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  1058. Come on... a girl doing cute stuff bordering on stupid is trigger for you? Who'se the snowflake now? :D
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  1059. Could somebody explain to me, how the hell is Alaska twice as bad as DC on "the crime that shall not be named"? And How the hell doe's DC rank up so high on so many bad stuff charts? It's your freaking capitol!
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  1060. Just to show you, just how morally bankrupt Ubisoft is, Anno 1404 is an old school title. It never needed any connection to Ubisoft. Even pirated versions (which is how I got into Anno series and subsequently purchased the game) allowed you to earn achievements. There was no need for an account with Ubisoft. Well, steam version of the game requires it! They added another DRM on a truly ancient game... We need legislation on this badly, because, to pirate another commenter, if buying doesn't guarantee ownership, then piracy is not theft!
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  1061. What? Overvalued and undervalued at the same time? Economics Explained, you need to stop snorting theoretical physics right now! Schrödinger's currency... Oh my...
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  1062. I think, you're reading it wrong. Defense spending is state spending and you know, how deep in debt Italy is. Your government got only recently put a handle on it and this threatens to start the mess all over again. Remember that high defense spending in Greece contributed to the Euro crisis, so trying not to become Greece II would be on any politician's mind. I actually think, they want to contribute without having to contribute, but that still leads to massive potential influx of money to Italy, particularly to companies that produce components. For instance I see no reason, why Brembo wouldn't produce breaks for Tatra, which in turn would produce truck chassis for for instance Rheinmetal to produce wheeled mobile artillery. I am sure, there are many more companies, that produce stuff for other industries at the moment, which could easily retool and refocus. Remember, when there is a gold rush, those who sell pickaxes get rich.
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  1063. Doesn't work. The moment gold becomes symbol of undesirable class, it plummets severely in value and takes the currency with it. If you really want to back a currency with resources, go with a basket of different ones.
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  1064. Non competes need not banning, they need reworking. Where I live, non compete clause only applies, where the worker quits and the worker has to be compensated for the inability to work in similar conditions, the penalty being the loss of the compensation. To illustrate, say you work as an accountant in accounting company, then you can't go doing accounting in another accounting company for two years per non compete agreement or start a business of your own doing accounting. For those two years, you receive salary as if you were employed by that employer and it doesn't bar you from doing accounting for say a manufacturing company, because in that space, you're not competing with your former employer. In that case, if you found job quickly enough after resigning, you'd effectively have double salary. If you moved to another accounting company, the only thing, that your former employer could get out of you, is the rest of the money they should have paid you for that agreement. But man the idea of being tied by a non compete after you get let go or fired is absolutely ridiculous! I mean, such agreement, if left alone, would be illegal on the grounds of lack of consideration!
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  1065. What do you nee D them for? To change your plates mid pursuit :D T
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  1066.  @Sebastiaanboot  From what I've read, adding a site should not be possible even if you had multiple sites before. However, you will be able to access them.
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  1067.  @laialbert  let's hope it stay's that way... But I... I'm beginning to look for backup... I dreaded this day, but I fear it has come. I'll have to learn Mikrotik.
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  1068.  @Sebastiaanboot  That's not within my budget. I can't afford to build a server to host a VM for the controller, but more importantly, we don't know for sure, whether controller hosted on home brew server will retain no cloud and multisite management for sure.
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  1069. oh I see an easy market based solution. Make it illegal for companies to be audited by the same auditing company or capitally or personally linked auditing company for ten years... There, more auditing companies on their way.
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  1070. Sorry to break it to you, but, president Peter Pavel is Czech president, as much as I'd like to see Czechoslovakia restored
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  1071. I think, he won't do it. 1) he knows, what Europe is capabale of doing to America and that Europe and China are fairly big business partners, particularly Western Europe. He's already showing the US as unreliable ally in Ukriane, where his allies can't be sure, whether he'll continue to support Ukraine, or feed it to Russia. Particularly if the latter happens, I believe Europe would reconsider it's approach to the US and a decoupeling would follow. If he then tried to block European trade with China via Panama, He'd burn all the bridges between the continents and Europe would do the same. It would ditch USD for international trade with the block and force Euro in it's stead. This would cause USD to plummet due to lower demand for the currency, which in turn would cause American importers to sh*t them selves as exporters still willing to export to US would demand more USD for their stuff, because the Dollar suddenly buys less than before. This lowering of trading volumes would in the short term cause pretty high inflation, if not outright hyperinflation. That is why Trump threatened BRICS to not do their own currency. He know's, what that would mean for his electorate, particularly if it were to get longer. 2) by middle investment outlook (1-3 years), he's looking at still present inflation, because USA doesn't have the machinery it needs for a lot of the stuff they consume, some of which is done in Europe (most importantly lithography mahinery that produces chips) and in China. So he's looking at a shock short term and higher than expected inflation leading up to midterms. There's potential, that he could live through what Obama had, when the Congress was split, be it through another split or just conflict with blue Congress and red President. 3) In the long term, the situation would stabilize (after about five years) and US economy would get stronger, because it would adapt and bring up production capacities to overcome the loss of imports. However, it's position in the world has diminished. It's best allies gone, it's currency relegated to trade between itself and other economies, not other economies between each other, as is now. It's institutions udnermined resulting in higher premiums demanded by international investors due to from said undermining stemming increased risks, so potentially underinvested economy and it's former ally rearming to the point of slowly becoming a credible threat to the USA. Trump needs to realize, what is America buying with it's actions and inactions. If he choses to go down this path, it will become clear, that the only deterrent against a nuclear armed enemy are your own nukes and then it's a matter of time, before somebody says "fuck it, there are too many humans on Earth anyway." and launches their nukes with explicit intent to cause retaliation. If anyone thinks, this is unhinged, let me remind you, what we've been through in the last decade! Nobody had over half of what happened on ther radar!
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  1072. Indian kid, talking to his dad: "Daddy, why did WW3 start?". Dad: "See, sonny, I punched a chinese soldier over in Kashmeer..." Kid: "But dad, why did..." Dad: "We'll get there, when we get there"
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  1073. Yeah, Youtube knows not, what they have done... Even if they'll completely win about browser based ad blocking... All they'll succeed in doing, is promoting DNS based ad blocking completely independent of the browser or alternative app to watch videos on youtube.
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  1074. You might want to look at it through income brackets. Remember, Europe and the US are NOT at parity on prices! Recalculate median wages into goods and services attainable in each market, before you'll make a statement like this.
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  1075. At one of my former jobs, they had a guy taking note of people, who stood up from their work places a lot and then written them up. I got written up for this... Walking too much, they said... Yeah, walking a lot to the copier, to other departments, to the toilet... as an accountant. I'm talking returning to the seat with printed/approved invoices, that the department heads were too lazy to bring in. Sometimes for a full quarter!
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  1076. Damn... Sabaton had better compose a song about these guys. This is crazier than Samurai uprising, which gave birth to their Shiroyama piece!
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  1077. How, well... these days it's easy to setup video surveillance of your home. So, if the other party get's recorded, youv'e been togather for a time and the system was there beforehand, or you two installed the system togather, then it should be proveable. That being said, this is probably the only way to do so
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  1078. Ah, yess... There are not "insert position". There are not enough smart guys, who would be willing to obtain education on par with a proper degree, have both mathematical and interpersonal skills to handle a plane in crisis, as planes are getting more and more complex and more and more gadgets make "safer" and more cost effective... There are very few people in the world, who can handle this level of job requirements. Plus, there is the little issue of money, as mentioned in the video. Something is gonna have to give, there is no other way about it. What can give? Safety in terms of equipment, training or Prices. Guess which will go first... The way I see it, there is only one thing, which can help get more pilots, is lowering requirements, not just paying the flight lessons and pilots moving from smaller to bigger planes needs to be accelerated. Yes, safety is gona tank. No, there are not enough eligable people out there, given current requirements.
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  1079. yeah, saying that DEI and ESG are both useless is straight moronic. Yes, DEI has it's problems, but they are more in implementation than in it itself. Different DEI approach are appropriate for certain departments within a company. There's a reason, why SAP hires autistic people for programming and financial positions. Folks with autism are better with systems and it is them, who help develop that piece of software. SAP is the leading ERP software for major corporations, btw. A diverse sales department can achieve better results, because as good as a salesman can be, if he also has better insight into te community he want's to sell into, he will have better results, because he'll evade cultural issues, that would offend potential customer and know, what cultural aspects of his client to exploit to sign the deal. Therefore, having highly diverse sales staff opens new markets and makes sales within them more efficient. high salary expenses in a company are also a good thing, because high slaries mean, that their employees can actually consume, thus driving demand for other companies goods and services, who them selves are in a certain fraction clients of the initial employer. Paying out high salaries accross the company is these days viewed as bad for the company, because in short term it increases costs, but in actuality, racing to the lowest salary possible and firing people is just hollowing out the market and undermining future sales. Everything produced has to be consumed eventually. That is the one law of markets that can't ever fall. That is the ecnomic fundamental, that has been forgotten by businessmen and politicians alike. Environmental stuff is bit of a double edged sword.The problem currently is, that companies can get outright fined or pay extra tax for what is perceived as envrionemntally unfriendly, again, lowering company profits. You have carbon tax, etcetera... It would appear, that the tide is changing on this particular thing electorally, but it will take time to throw all the environemntalist politicians out and there is the problem of pro environmentalist elites (who fly private jets). In the meantime, it's better for companies to preempt these fines and invest in themselves into production processes, that are ESG compliant.
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  1080. Wouldn't work for me. I don't need a TV for myself, but dad want's a classic TV with the ability to stream from a NAS... Have been trying to persuade him for years with no luck.
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  1081. Ofcourse not. And with going green being pushed, there is even less incentive to have kids, because you're being fed nonstop, that those kids have carbon footprint too... Really, the West has entrapped it self in hubris.
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  1082. I have to say, that facepalm at 5:57 is spot on. Not just it being possible to have that kind of change in temperature. I know of a place in Croatia, that has even bigger extreme! There is this highway tunel on Croatia's main highway, that connect's inland Croatia and cost. The tunel is about four kilometers long... and has temperature difference of about twenty degrees celsius! So not even is he wrong about how temperature changes affect metals, he would have been wrong, even if he was right, because there are places with even crazier jumps intemperature!
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  1083. ​ @suchendnachwahrheit9143  It's not. Why do you think Germany needed the electricity producing part of it's gas purchases in the first place? Well, precisely, because they bet on wind and solar, which are intermittent, but forgot, they have demand for energy, which is periodic on a daily basis and nearly constant on larger scales! They needed plants, which can be easily controlled, which are gas powered plants! Closing down nuclear was a colosally stupid too, but betting on wind and solar was worse. Just look at France, what they pay for power from their nuclear and hydro combo! Why is there a housing crisis? Isn't it so, that large scale buildings, like flats, need EIA? Or Environmental Impact Analysis? Which is a needless piece of paper from the construction standpoint, which only prolongs the approval process? No, this is all environmentalism. As to the migrants, be thankful, that you have them. With your fertility crisis they're a blessing. Without them, your retirement benefits would be in much worse state.
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  1084. hm... Like it or not, this will require federal intervention. Why? Until recently, work didn't cross state lines and until even more recently, it was in relatively small number of professions, like train drivers, train engeneers, pilots, stewards... But now, with Internet being so ubiquitus and companies realizing, everybody can work from anywhere, especially with Starlink in the ISP game, new rules need to be implemented, because states like Tennesseee, Arkansas or West Virginia are gonna become magnets for young people, wanting to root in, thanks to cheap land for residential development, but the largest companies will remain in NY or Texas. The way I see it, this mess can be solved in two ways. One, the higher tax has precedence, but lower tax has priority. The most, that would have been payed is the higher rate, which then would be split betwene the states. For example, let's take states of Colorado and North Carolina, as it is easier, because they have flat tax rates. If a guy lived in Colorado, but worked for a company that is based in North Carolina, he would pay 5,25% tax, which would then break in to 4,63% for Colorado and the difference of 0,62 for North Carolina. And it would boost demand for accountants, because other states don't have flat tax rates and things can become very confusing very fast, as US wide, there are more than one change in tax law per day and accountants in the US can't keep up, so some federal involvement would be necessary even on state and municipal level for the system to work (I'm not talking full on dictatorship, I'm talking US wide yearly deadline for changes in state and lower tax codes after which all further changes would apply to the next). There is a huge drawback in this, however, because, when the scenario is flipped, all tax goes to North Carolina and Colorado get's nothing, but still has administrative expences with the company based in the state. This could be solved by splitting the tax evenly, but that would create incentives in state's with higher taxes to create special taxes on companies, that employ remote workers, to supplement this loss of income, which would likely translate in to lower wages for remote workers, which in turn would unleash a tsunami of discrimination litigation. Alternatively, a rule could be established, that taxes follow the contract and a rule for this rule, that only those state laws, in which either entity reside's are applicable. Meaning, if a guy worked for a New York company in Texas, he would have a choice, betwene Texas and New York law systems in terms of work and tax, however, this create's problems of their own, as a Texas sherriff might have to administer New York law, which, jurisdictional questions aside (as this likely violate's states rights), he may lack training for, and he would have to be at least knowlegable about all 51 possible jurisdictions (50 + DC and teritories), which is unreasonable requirement at best. At this point, the sherriff might rather be called Waleker, Texan Federal Labour Ranger. Not to mention the fact, that the core problem remain's, one of the states get's nothing, even though it does have expences with either that worker or the company. And not to mention the option of unions! How they are hated in the South aside, one company could end up with two seperate unions with very different scopes of power in one state, because of how they are rooted in NY and Texas law is very different, plus either would likely lack jurisdiction over contracts signed under the other law. Furthermore, such system is less predictable, as our guy from Texas could move to Florida for a while (like, taking care of elderly family member came up), and if the contract was signed under Texas law, a new contract would have to be signed, as Texas jurisdiction is no longer available. I really don't like income tax. Not because it's a tax, but because it doesn't tax capital equally to labour. And it's actually harder to get the money out of people and corporations alike, when compared of sales tax, property tax or VAT. When you tax consumption, you tax all means of production and thus reduce inequality, while filling the state coffers. Plus, the little guy has greater controll over his taxation, as he can simply consume less, as long as he can survive.
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  1085.  @debasishraychawdhuri The problem is, wages only determine (in part) consumption. There are four factors in GDP and conversely four different customer basis a company can concentrate on. Consumption is the people and to some degree other businesses. Let's say that is dead, there are still investments, eg. pivot to businesses and produce capital goods and kick the can down the line. Then there is government, which could either print money or tax people more and finally, they could begin to produce strictly for exports...
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  1086. Yeah, I hate banning symbols. Sure, they "propagate", an idea to some extent. However, the problem is not the symbol, it's the idea. I believe, that symbols are reminding us of what was done in the past and of lessons to be learned, and if you remove the symbol, you'll only obscure the lesson. Make it harder to learn and learn the right, or at least right-ish meaning. That is why I disagree with banning nazi flag or, more recently, confederate battle flag. Hell, if I were US citizen, I would get my self both, the era appropriate union flag and the confederate battle flag and I would raise them side by side. As these symbols have a lesson to teach and I feel, like they can't do it one without the other.
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  1087. So... me on my Gen1 cloud key can still have multiple sites, but folks with gen2 can't... This is rich :D And it's not the first time, something this crazy happened to me. You see, I'm autistic, a few years ago, government here in Czechia decided, that all autistic people are menace behind the wheel, so, no driving licenses for us... But until last year (if it passed already), I still could hold a gun license and still can have A FREAKING COMMERCIAL PILOT LICENSE FOR A380!
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  1088. There are problems with employers these days... Think about it. Why would anyone start a family of their own, if there are annual layoffs, which can leave someone with little experience in one field, consequently, even a full year without work after being laid off. So no job stability, no income reliability. That is something prior generations didn't have to deal with. On the expenses side, companies have started artificially reduce supply of their products and services to boost prices, while ensuring no new player can enter the field. So costs of just about everything are up. Why would anyone leave under such circumstances?
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  1089. This is a really bad idea. At best you've created third chamber of the parliment, as every law will go in front of the supreme court based on which party controlls the house, at worst, you've destabilised the court to the point it is not recognised as an institution by the people. Funny how Democrats are becoming undemocratic in this way. When I remember the commentary back at tailend of Obama administration, how much flack they gave about their nominee and now? It's the same, only parties have changed. I do think that number of justices need's to be odd as to ensure a split is less likely to occour, it could be tied to the number court circuits, however, even that has it's problems, because he, who would get in to enough power due to political pendullum going from greater extreme to greater extreme, could simply increase the number of court circuits, thus diluting the supreme court. I really don't like the ability for the supreme court to not always work en-block. Issues that get in front of supreme court are meant to be the most important and controversial decisions, with the greatest reprecautions for the nation from individual level all the way to society as a whole. This create's two requirements off the supreme court. One, that it's decisions should not be easily overturnable and it's decisions should be extraordinarily throughly reasoned. This aim's to provide as much stability in the legal system as possible. Therefore, strict scrutiny should be the only standard appliable in the court and justices need to know, that they can't be replaced, if they begin to rule in favour of controversial rights, because the more controversial the right, the greater wish for it to be remobed by the opposing party. The fact, that there are relatively few justices for life on the supreme court mean's that there is much lower potential for changes in the supreme court and thus greater stability and predictability in terms of court rulings. Case and point, abortions and guns. The common denominator here is, that the side that seek's to deny these rights, is the party that doesn't lose anything, as they in vast majority don't exercise these rights. Guns for democrats, abortions for republicans. However, if democracy is to remain functional and if nation is to not get devided, one can't buy what he want's and pay for it with someone else's resources, eg. only gun owners should have final saying in gun rights and only women should have the final saying in abortin cases, as until the child is actually born, it doesn't have rights and I'd argue it can't have rights, as it biologically can't exercise them, therefore health questions stemming from right to life and pursuit of happines of the mother should be the bench for these qustions. What if in order to persue happines, guns are necessary? What if it's not happines, but life (eg. hunting as means of obtaining food)? The same thing can be said about abortions, only with limiting the number of mouths to feed being the argument there, if we stay on the practical side of the discussion. I firmly believe, that the more controversial a right is, the more protection it need's and, if right is to be repealed, it need's to be universally or nearly universally supoorted and suitable recompense need's to be present as well. However, that doesn't end with only paying a monetary value in terms of money spent to purchase an item increased by inflation. As to return real value of the means to exercise the right. Future exercise of that right also has extraordinary value, that need's to be compensated, otherwise democracy becomes dictatorship of the masses against the minority on any specific issue, be it details like guns, abortions, drinking age or age of consent, or something greater, like the right to vote or hold public office. This then create's motivation to rebel and reduces legitimacy of any regime.
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  1090. You made a mistake, likely, this cost you some money and you've actually earned nothing, as there is no difference betwene the state, banks and companies... either can go bust.
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  1091. It's not that simple. While you're right in terms of law power (remember, even the EULA is a technically a law with limited scope, because it govern's a relationship based on contract between two or more parties), there is also specificity point of view, that is in play. That is why you can have laws that contradict constitutions and lawyers claim, they explain it... For Instance, part of Czech constitution is the Bill of rights, whose section 2, article 17, number 3) states "Censorship is inpremissible" and yet, §184, 40/2009 Sb, Trestní zákoník (criminal code) states, that defemation is a crime and therefore punishable. But that is censorship of a particular experession, specifically one, that is not truthful and has harmful effect on someone, but it is censorship none the less and now what? Say I defame someone and they report me to the police. Should the constitution be taken as the law to adjudicate this under, because it's the stronger law? Under this theory, I should have the right to speak even lies, that harm others, because denying me that right would censor me. Or should the criminal code be the law to adjudicate this under, bacause it's the more specific one? Generally specificity wins. And this can go into even crazier situations, if you go through the laws.
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  1092.  @techied  Yeah, they could update that site a little. It's confusing.
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  1093. Hold on a sec... songs in courtroom? Forget Ivo Jahelka, This is Phoenix Wright territory of insanity! I thought, that cross examining a parrot was unusual, I thought burning evidence in the courtroom was crazy, but this... this make's questioning child through armed model helicopter seem normal!
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  1094. Get this, as this shit is being pushed to the point, that your car will not start if it fails self emissions check and report it to manufacturer's server. This is part of Euro 7 legislation, hence why I will never have a new car.
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  1095. Actually, Roman, about that tax... If the two lived for more than six months and a day in Belarus, they wouldn't pay Russian tax, because their tax domicile would have been Belarusian. They'd pay Belarusian taxes and, possibly tax of nation of residence, if they lived somewhere other than Russia or Belarus. Only one nation on Earth has income tax based on citizenship and that the US.
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  1096. twelve miles away, assuming through traffic, and all she caused was a mailbox collision? Forget charges, have the court declare her adult for the purposes of driving motor vehicles and enroll her into driving school! This is impressive indeed :D
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  1097. Louis, job elimination is in there likely due to abuse of that particular process by employers. Scenario goes like this. You hire someone, then decide to fire them for whatever reason, but because of pro labor laws need a good reason. So you eliminate the job instead, turn around, register a new job doing exactly the same work or strikingly similar work and start looking for new hire to effectively replace the employee you've just fired this way. This happened to me once. Explanation "material necessary for repair this employee was carrying out became impossible to acquire in any meaningful quantities. I've offered retraining and transfer to another position within the company, but this was refused, se email A" will not fail
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  1098.  @LiveFreeOrDie2A  You've clearly never worked in corporate. Let me explain. There is this thing called headcount, that every year needs to get "reviewed" in order for the company to look the best to potential investors. So, every year a proportionate amount of employees gets axed, irrespective of their job performance. There's your reason for firing the good guy and training a brand new employee. You are right on one thing, this process of job elimination now needs more stringent regulation, because it is hard to fire someone... because firing was abused before this as well, so regulation was put in place to stop it. Just look at that hospital Joshua Fluke was raging about a few months back! Where employer in at will state blocked for a while transition of his at the time former employees to their new employer! This is why you need tighter and tighter regulation! Because employer as the stronger party in the contract can make employee do damage to them selves, but not the other way around!
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  1099. Remember, one police department even bouthg a ZAMBONY with civil asset forfeiture money!
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  1100.  @DebT-s4k  At 103°F, eg. 39,4°C you're 0,6°C from boiling your brain alive. That is "Why the F*ck did you not come in sooner?" and "how the hell did you manage to walk in here?" territory! Yours was a real emergency, doesn't matter your bones weren't sticking out of you!
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  1101. This used to be big deal in Czechia. Debt collectors would take anything and everything in a house, if someone owed money. Yeah, one massive media scandal later, seizing animals, which could be classified as pets is illegal and debt collectors may still rage like the Black hand, but still have to commute via sewers.
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  1102. You might want to look up some videos by Thunderf00t on Hyperloop... It's kind of impossible to build. High speed rail can't help either. Trains are very good on mid range, but that is still shorter than short range flights (over ground). There will be a huge sobering up after reality set's in. Fuel is simply too energy dense to be ever replaced, regardless how efficient your engines get.
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  1103.  @infernowo7093  Interesting idea. Not sure it would be economically feasable, thoguh.
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  1104. Good, now just to teach Germans, that their lifestyle can't be maintained with eco-friendly policies, and we might actually fix the EU.
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  1105. Had been looking for a house some time ago... found a beautiful 5+1 just under 60000 USD (average price for the area)... special perks? A barn, number of animal shelters and a hundred head strong herd of cattle. What a steal!
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  1106. Louis, while I do agree, that ads for wife import is human trafficking and absolutely horrible practice, that should have gotten the entirety of Alphabet to Hague. Consider the flip side of the coin here. You're talking from war torn countries (though probably not just from there), is it really such a bad thing? Take Ukraine as an example. Russians were deliberately targeting power infrastructure in a country, that mostly heats electric (as far as I know). Wonder why. We have planting season and after that, harvest season. If what Peter Zeihan claims, as far as Russian strategy is, turns out to be true, Ukraine will not be able to feed itself, because Russians will target agricultural infrastructure next. In a situation like this, human trafficking saves lives, because you get people out of region, that cannot sustain them into one that can. Meaning, this was not to right time to call this out. Keep it on a back burner and bring it out, when there won't be a war/famine anywhere. I reckon, it will take a decade.
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  1107. Oh, there is potential. Make no mistake. If BRICS turned itself as a regulatory integrator, alligning bureaucracies for international trade and maybe coordination of tariffs between members, there's a lot it could do. Russia is a major energy hub (well, was, until they couldn't export Westwards and because they never built infrastructure to go the other way), plus it has a lot of lumber and lumber products to export. Russia is also the largest exporter of wheat (well, at least was before the war). South Africa is well positioned for copper mining and processing, which China and the rest of the world needs for the energy transition. Brazil has potential for agriproducts and lumber. India is becoming a major manufacturing hub, it's population is significantly younger than China, plus it's close to Arabian peninsula, so easy access to oil from there, which will not be thratened by any terrorist groups, given Iran is part of the pact right now. China is China. There's a lot of demand for some products there, thought his will be diminishing with aging population... There's a lot of potential there, that is being squandred, because the participants haven't properly committed to the idea.
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  1108. Yeah, all of this is confusing. And people don't use their own heads often enough too. For instance. When covid hit Czechia hard for the first time, I went to a shop to buy something. Small shops, two registers, only one of them had a worker on it, and the store owner was screaming at people, who didn't exactly queue at two meters apart... When she could have opened the other register and make the queue go faster, limiting exposure. But no. She screamed at us, for wanting to access goods, which were in the area, where the queue had formed.
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  1109. Louis: "Will there be no affordable place left in the US to move to, when I decide to move?" Laughs in Alaska Dude, rest easy, US has mere 35 people per kilometer squared density. That is among the lowest on Earth. This is something I really don't think will have a big effect on land prices, assuming ideal infrastructure and thus very even distribution.
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  1110.  @14margott  Thats the point. If there indeed is abuse involved, loss of property is acceptable cost to pay for freedom. If there is not, it's efficient detterent. Remember, it's always better to let felon go than punish innocent. By vast margin , men are the innocent vivtims Under current system.
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  1111. and you'll undercut your GDP by what? 8% netting 5% loss of tax revenue? No, you guys need to rein in the big tech and properly tax them and their leadership.
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  1112. First Waifu themed GPU, now full Gundam battlestation, what's gonna be next? Fully functional Macross case? Cowboy Bebop joystick? Where is Code Geass theme? And what about Initial D steering wheel and pedals? Come on, Asus, there are sooo many options in canon of average otaku to appeal to. Most of us don't have girlfriends, so we usually have the money... What's holding you back?
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  1113. Economy won't fix this. Rather, it is enabelism. What really needs to happen, is strict rule, that women only get, what they brought into a relationship and what they them selves contributed. Prenuptial agreements cannot get thrown out of court for whatever reason and children must stope being used as weapons against the mand. A decade later, we might actually get rebound in starting families, because at that point, risks get lowered, which are the thing keeping men out. But forget 25-35 something men starting families. Me too has made us way too risk averse to ever try dating again... at very least in the West.
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  1114.  @brutalvous  maaan. I turn of TV for one minute!
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  1115. Well, I guess I know now, what it's like to be high as a kite... I finally understood eighties!
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  1116.  @David_Granger  Delaying is not resolving stuff. What I said stands.
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  1117.  @IcecalGamer  That's why I've got an edgerouter in my network. And thinking about going with PFsnense... let's block everyone! And then it's about not using Apple, probably even Microsoft on mobile devices... Hello Ubuntu
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  1118.  @error404m  There are other problems with them. First, you need to seriously upgrade tracks to run them at their top speeds. Two, the process need's to be extraodrinarily precise. Botho of these increase costs of bullet trains when compared to a normal train and provide little to no tangible benefit... You spend a million dollars for fifteen minutes cut from your journey. Even when calculated across train capacity, this will not result in cheaper service and thus isn't as effective as providing Internet on normal routes. And then there is the notable problem of through coaches. Can't do that with EMUs, which most high speed rail trains are. What I mean, is that upgrading current rolling stock to work with the Internet, while not shortening travel time, is more cost effective per passenger for the company and can provide more flexibility to the passenger, be it commuter, who work's on his laptop traveling to/from work, student, working on an assignment, or a tourist listening to music.
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  1119.  @dmrr7739  1) customers don't care about the money, they wont the content. 2) customers don't care about licensing, they want their content.
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  1120. Geez, to even ask the question, whether private or public money should help Ukraine win the war... Newsflash, there are collective efforts in gathering funds all over! It was enought to buy couple of tanks from Czech Republic alone! Private individuals contributed and still contribute, sometimes eve with severe risks to them selves to Ukrainian war effort. I recall an interview by Czech Television a while back with one of the young Ukrainians, who got their draft papers. Someone came to the guy and gave him two bulletproof vests! (a felony to do so, btw. This falls under illegal arming around here). So do not tell me, that it should be public money, that should help Ukraine. There's already private money in the pot. Let the institutional leeches wait, until the war is over. Just make sure, they'll actually pour in the money for a few years, so that food production can be reestablished in Ukraine
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  1121. @@user-kx8vn6tm1d look for Clinton the cat. You'll understand
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  1122. James: "Shall why? You don't need to read this report to workout why. It's because they can't admit anything bad is happening, so they don't acknowlege that it's happening at all." Me after watching China cease publishing youth unemployment rates: "Wait, did Xi visit the UK?"
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  1123. My friend, how cynical do you need to be to joke about what's going on in Ukraine? Simple. Cynical level Czech... I swear, if Putin nukes Kyiv, we will be joking, how the city doesn't need streetlights anymore, cause everyone present has become one... Yeah, we have a dark and twisted sense of humor
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  1124. Yeah, no kidding, operate at a level not based in reality... I worked for this company a while back. They introduced automation for payment allocations and, I think, they never properly tested the thing. Many, many, many Pounds later, I'm staring down a list many many remnants of incorrect allocations, because somewhere down the chain, somewhen, there were some errors, and nobody thought, that it might be a good idea, to have same reference number and invoice number in intries, so that reference number could survive in the records, so that the other company could doublecheck their records, whether they paid in full... We eventually managed to find out, which invoices had these remnants on them and when done, myself, my dear team mates and client's representative had a sit down with the CFO. And the CFO was like, "How could have this happened?", so I explained, very respectfully (I assumed, it was his idea, to do it like this) and recommended what to do to the system for any future situations... but in my head I was like "Dude, a human NEVER would have made such a mistake!" So to sum up. I assume, because company wanted to "save money on payroll", they axed large part of their accounting team before I was hired, and in the end, they had to form a six member team to investigate, what was going on, which took months! The CFO's general attitude seemed to me, "who needs account auditing and proper reconciliation process anyway?". The best part? Given the turnaround on this account alone, they could have hired a single accountant, let him/her do the reconciliations (even in the this volume, it was work for an hour or so), let him/her twidle thumbs for the rest of the day, and the'd still pay less than our team racked up in those few months it took to sort this mess out... And we had multiple accounts to chew through! But the CFO asked... "How could this have happened?".
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  1125. Oh I actually thnink, this is not as bad a strategy as it might seem. This maybe region specific, so take this with a pinch of salt. I know a lot of these prestigeous occupation people because of my former job. I can tell you, large portion of these people work mentally (I'm talking, lawyers, judges, accountants, CFOs, doctors), so they usually have some kind of physical hobby. Here comes the region specific part. Czechia is huge on DYI. We even produce our own version of Mecano as a toy. From a very young age, we become little engineers. Around here, if a woman had woodworking knowledge and skills, she could successfully hunt for her future husband in a DYI store, because she'd have the initial "icebreaker" subject to talk about. Say a guy were wondering, what kind of wood he needed for a project and were discussing this with someone (say a family member), she could chime in with her expertise and, either score a potential client, if the guy happens to be married, or maybe even a husband (say a recent divorcee). The key, is something you talk a lot about here on the chanel, Joker. The woman brings value to the man, in this kind of situation and can leverage it into closer contact with the man. The scenario plays out like this: After discussing the right drillbit for the guy's table project, she asks him, whether he wants some help with it. Option A) he refuses and the girl lost some time. Option B) he accepts and the do the project together, giving her the ability to evaluate him (yep, that's a sneak 100 first date). This too has a number of outcomes. A) she finds out, they are incompatible or he is married, in which case, she may cut the romantic stick and either keep the guy as a genuine client, or leave him with no hard feelings, or B) she find's out, he's either available or that she can steal him, so she starts to get closer to him and, because she has the contact, she can initiate the entire dating process in earnest at this point, leading to some "drilling" late at night, possibley even "mutual project of larger scale". Since this is contingent on prior knowledge or proffessional training, I aggree this would usually fail, but not for the reason of men being distracted by the actual reason they came to the store for. Rather, it is the lack of area specific expertise on the womans part, which would allow for inconspicuous initial contact to take place, causing this to fail.
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  1126. In that case, gen1 still works. But then, we might have to build our own servers... Man I hope, that this is something, which was discussed some time ago. Integration of UniFi devices in to UNMS.
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  1127. I actually think the passport question is legit. You don't need to be national of a country to have that countrie's passport. For instance, if I were to lose my Czech passport, I could go to a consulate or embasy of any EU state and ask for temporary travel document that, that is a special type of passport with shortened validity, to be able to complete my journey and return home. Or I could have invested in a country and gained golden visa or even full passport as non-citizen. Assuming this were in the US, I could hold a green card, in which case my passport issuer (though this is a borderline case) might be legitimate question. A representative of a US company in the EU holding a EU passport would have legitimate advantage over someone, who hold's US passport. Since you can end up with a travel document that does not match your nationality, I'd say this is at least defendable question.
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  1128. "If right to repair get's passed, your mechanic could access your personal data stored in your car...", Me: "Why the hell is any personal data stored on my car's hard drive?"
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  1129. Which is how rare a combo exactly? Even if I were kind to you, and said, that each of these criteria had probability of existence 5%, that's 5% to the power of 3. That's 0,0125% of the job market!
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  1130. Questions are: 1) Is it legal to use those weapons to defend others? You could argue that yes, given the wording of article 5, but what about local laws? It doesn't take much to invalidate French nuclear arsenal, by changing a few words in the law. Brits already Brexited, so I wouldn't put it past them to leave NATO, particularly if the US withdrew them selves. 2) What about the delivery systems? Do French and British have missiles, which could not be intercepted by Russia to deliver that payload? And 3) Knowing what these weapons do, will the oversentivised nations in the West be able to look past the suffering these weapons will cause? I recall a trolly problem from a while back. There were very different results, when people actually had to do shit, to solve it.
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  1131. Here is the simple way of dealing with this kind of BS. Tell them, that in one year, when you are going to have this conversation again, or if you won't be having this conversation again within a year, they can consider that day the day of your notice and follow through on it, by starting job hunting say a quarter ahead of the meeting. You might lose the job over this, but staying with such an employer is worse in nearly all aspects. Bonus points, if you'll leave the company under such a circumstances, that it gets posted on R/prorevenge and R/antiwork
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  1132.  @Arya_amsha  Well, it would be for me... I'd lose a very powerful passport
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  1133.  @majorfallacy5926  Australia is currently in the process of implementation and I fear others will follow.
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  1134.  @Arya_amsha  Most EU nations have, but there are some, that are... extra... I don't need visa to Iraq, Iran AND Israel.
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  1135. Thinking of death of prominent figures bring's another scenario to play, one, that was in this election more likely than before, because of participants' age. What if Biden had died of natural causes and Trump recieved a fatal heart attack from joy/shock of surviving Biden? Or what if the two candidates were killed off simultaniously, say someone got an explosive, despite all the precautions, in to such a range, that both kandidates would be affected, say at a debate? Would this be just combination of what was told so far? Would that be completly uncharted waters?
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  1136. Hey, Briggs, here's an idea for never ending story. Take some interesting US city and talk about it's twin cities!
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  1137.  @xDarkSpotx  Not really. Just demand anually from owner to proof, that they are renting it out, by demanding copies of contracts and amendments. Sure, there are ways to circumvent even this, but, risk of losing the building as a whole, would be sufficient deterrent from lying. Truth is, taxes tied to properties are among the easiest to collect, hence why some states in the US prefer them to income tax.
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  1138. Yeah, I saw one tech. I read in Chip magazine about that technology about a year before the ad. That tech was out for about three years at the that time. They wanted five and offered about 3/4 of field median sallary for the position... Completely disconnected with reality, this company.
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  1139. Banks in Czechia offer similar service, only with cards being the payment method. That being said, I've never in my life seen anyone ctually make a withdrawal like this.
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  1140.  @AS-wp3hb  Oh no, you misunderstand. Sure, we have ATMs (will likely get rid of them) but they are not the only method for you to withdraw money. That part was what I had been referring to. Over here, you can request upon payment of your shopping cash from the register, as if you were making a withdrawal from your bank account. Amount withdrawn is then charged to your card along with any amount for the goods, and you'll pay some small fee (yes, this is a paid service), presumably to cover the card fees. And as I stated earlier, in my life, I have never seen anyone use that service, though it is technically available.
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  1141. Yeah, I can get behind commuting by bike, as long as you don't live too far away. Back in a day, I even bought bike rack and bags, and I started doing my shopping with my bike. One six pack of 1,5 liter water per side and a eight pack of milk cartons in to the basket, small things in to backpack and done. No tickets, no petrol and get to do some cardio once a week.
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  1142. It wouldn't work with android either. Banks have started disabling their apps, if you sideloaded anything, that's not in the appstore and given the banks are going mobile first these days... They'll make us have multiple phones at this point!
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  1143. I checked mutual agreement on prevention of double-taxation between US and Czechia and you could add it to the list too. Retirement benefits are only taxed in country of origin for this kind of income. But make sure, to retain US bank account. My aunt live's in the Netherlands, takes Czech pension. Because she doesn't have Czech bank account, she's being paid quarterly instead of monthly, but if she had one, she'd receive it monthly.
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  1144. And that is a reason, why they did something, that's a hallmark of low trust exclusionary societies... get a reality check!
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  1145. I'm very much in this boat. I want my laptop to have replaceable battery, not just because of servicing! Hell, Thinkpad x40 series had both hardwired and removable battery and user could swap on the go his batteries! Imagine, your main is getting exhausted, there are no outlets around, so you just take a new battery out, no need to shut down and turn on your computer. Sadly, that was the only generation, which had this feature. New laptops these days? All are ultrabooks! No replaceable batteries even on business models!
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  1146. Unless the EU realizes, that climate agenda and GDP growth are exclusive, and refocuses back on GDP, the EU will tear itself apart and fail in it's mission. It's the GDP, which keeps peace among member states!
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  1147. Yeeeeah... I like his stance on climate change and guns, but daaaamn, he needs to start watching more Louis Rossmann... What big companies are doing on supply side in the name of profits. Make no mistake, there will always be a need for the state to curb the power of ultra wealthy and nobody will ever pay their taxes of their own will, but we still need the services that the state is providing, be it courts, so that not every dispute needs to be settled by personal duel, military, so that other states can't endanger us, or healthcare, so that we don't end up like in USA, where massive debts stemming from healthcare services provided, non uncommonly at brink of death, are the greatest cause of personal bankruptcies. If society is to survive, some level of coercion is necessary and inevitable, because he/she, who gains enough power will become hegemon in the system and start to create and enforce rules as it fits them, because they don't feel the need to not infringe on others. Humans have simply not evolved to obide by the rules needed for this kind of approach to be sustainable for more than a generation. Has Argentina gone waaay too far left in the past? Yes. Is going this much right the appropriate answer? No.
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  1148. Holly moly! "I need to write this memo!"! That was literally an ad for IBM PS2 starring Garry Burghoff!
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  1149. It's not that crazy move really... Smaller force needs less logistics support, eg. what killed the first attempt. It would make sense for smaller group to secure route and have larger group follow, when supply lines are established. Is it a propagandist joke? Oh absolutely. Would it be surprising to hear, that Wagner troops crossed into Ukraine? No. Just look at what happened so far. Question is, what would follow.
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  1150. Get real, the moment, you'd be able to fly private anywhere on Earth, you'd stop caring about the planet. Anyone would... Hell, if we as humanity actually cared about the climate, we wouldn't be pushing limits and idiotic EVs. We'd be seeding clouds over oceans! Because if we managed to keep just 5% of Earth covered in clouds, we'd actually cause such a drop in average temperatures, some places on Earth would see famine over frozen crops!
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  1151. Enjoy your Spanish paradise, Roman
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  1152. That's one of the reason, why the West invested in a railroad link across the Arabian peninsula. If it only came a little sooner...
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  1153. NDA and noncompeets are clearly being abused in the US... They need to be outlawed at this point.
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  1154. And that's not even taking into consideration the parachute measuring contests between pilots on the runway!
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  1155.  @MeteorJunk  And then come the actual practicalities of such... cooperation.
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  1156. And there I was thinking Schwarz system is unique to Czechia...
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  1157.  @AsG_4_  I wouldn't be so... hopeful, about Egyptians.... I'd say, that the fact, they were caught red handed, played a role here too.
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  1158. Ah yess... The media's and our psychological love for pessimism... Can't wait to see ecology go the same route. I just hope, there will still be popcorn to chew on, you know... it doesn't get banned over it's ecological impact.
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  1159. I have a few things to say here... 1) Being contract worker ain't that bad. That is actually employers playing with fire, cause being a contractor is one step from giving up on the job market altogether and starting a business of your own and at that moment, the employers have lost. Cause entrepreneur can go multinational if need be. He/she can't be so easily controlled. And if there is little difference in monetary security between jobs and entrepreneurship, then going the route, that gives more options is the way people will take. 2) There is long term problem I think everywhere on Earth (except the Netherlands, they typically cover commuting expenses), that the commute is not considered work, yet, it is time spent by the employee on work. So you and your fellow HR professionals need to get political and push for commute to be considered on duty time. The moment, corporations will have to pay for all the time employee spends on tasks related to work, is the moment, when the employers shut up about working from the office. 3) We need employees to get more vengeful, when this happens. We need more "whistleblowers" out there, so that upon layoffs, the FTC, IRS, OHSA and other interesting accronyms get working these companies. Bonus points if the CEO then has to explain them selves to both FBI and the CIA.
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  1160. Non competes are not inherently bad. Problem is, the US has horrible legislation in this field. Where I live, you can have a noncompete aggreement as part of the job, so that you can't work in the same field and/or in the same role for a period of time. However, that comes witha B. That you are paid salary by that former employer, as if you were working for that employer and unless you breach it, you're fine, and the only way you breach it, is to breach it meaningfully (say you're an accountant and worked for accounting company, you can't go to another accounting company as an accountant, but can go work as accountant in a logistics company, or go work in a accounting company as an IT guy) and the only thing, that you can lose as a result of a breach, is the income, that you would have gained. That being said, even we don't see much in terms of income raises. Just before covid hit, we were running like a rocket ship, well beyond our long term economic capabilities. For literally decades, companies have been crying, how much we need more immigration and make the state smaller, because there are no people left in the market... And there probably really arent, given we're running around 3% unemployment long term and even covid didn't budge with it. After graduation, I couldn't find a job for two years and, after having a mental breakdown from my boss, another year. All the while employers were crying, how they can't find the people, promissing, how they'll teach everybody everything... while turning away first time job seekers... There is a video on youtube from 2017, it is in Czech by Český Rozhlas. Let me translate the headline, which I can assure you speaks of the content very descriptively and accurately. "Analyst: Companies offer minimum wage, and wonder about being ignored.". It is, as if companies didn't compete for the employees. If there is such a low unemployment, that company can't find an employee, it must take, who is available, pay them well and teach them on the job, everything that person needs. Yet that is universally not what we see.
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  1161. It would not be RMB, it would be Euro, if new reserve currency were to be established. Why? Already, a number of nations ditched their currencies in favor of Euro and there are currencies, which are fixed directly to it (such as CFA Frank, which it self is used by a number of African nations). What I think would cause this to happen, would be Ukrainian adoption of Euro. Ukraine was and likely will eventually again become breadbasket of Europe. A lot of African and Middleeastern nations were and will be dependent on them for food supply. With oil being still important for chemical sector and Europe being at forefront of this field (particularly Germany), it would make trading easier, not to mention, that there would be more nations to draw that currency from directly, because they use it as their home currency.
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  1162. OH I do. Because that would show, where male-female equality really lies.
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  1163. Yeah, this is heading in population reduction being the only method reeeeal quick...
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  1164. Holly molly... This guy either needs to start or stop drinking. Depending, whether he's getting absolutely sloshed before these interviews or not...
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  1165. Ah, yess... the problem of radicalization... Why don't we, I don't know... remove the underlying problem? You know, the dread for bare existence stemming from low/not paying jobs and no jobs at all? I do wonder, how would it look like, if everybody had a decently paying job and low mandatory expenses. Forget about islam, if this happened thirty years ago, we'd be talking "How the hell did those basques get a bomb to Paris", or "Why the hell did IRA attack a third party government?". Even if you managed to deal with this particular flavor of radicalization, there will be another around the corner. Ecologysts, nationalists, communists, buddhists... and the list of things to identify with goes on and on. It's the same as guns. You'll ban guns, it's bombs and machettes next. You continue as things evolve, and suddenly, we all have McDonalds and Burgerking as the only things to eat, because we've banned ownership of cuttlery over some prime minister stabbed fifty times with a fork. No you have to solve the underlying problem, which in this case is living conditions so hard, people look for a soothing touch everywhere they can! People flock to any leaders, who claim to have the solution, like there is no tomorow but do they have the answers? No. So do you want to solve the underbelly of this monstrosity? Fine. Begin with ban on companies, that don't disclose final owners (im' talking forced dissolution of such companies). Put an end to tax evasion and start putting serius demands from companies to hire en mass. And ultimately, and here I think Macron actually did the good thing, get everyone in to universal school with strictly secular programme (and gun use training). As for keeping tabs on religious organizations, why not? Sure, let them be tax exempt, but demand an audit from them. The only thing I would have done is, I would want this from all religious organizations. Not just islamic ones, because it is only a matter of time, before tide shift's, and we'll all be thinking, "why the hell are Hindi burning down flags and hanging diplomats?".
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  1166. And, kids and lawyers, is why you have the second...
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  1167. and cause ripple effects through the EU? No, thank you.
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  1168. Numbering systems can be crazy. Precisely because of this kind of mess, we have two sets of numbers on our homes in Czechia and, when writing an address, you need to be specific. Now, usually, the orientation number is the one you use and things will get delivered, but the correct way is like this: Street name 459/123, where the first number is descriptor number and the second is orientation number.
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  1169. Lads, if you want to see real election gore, cover Czech election in about two weeks. I promise you, If you think "What the hell just happen?" with Gemans, you'll be saying "Yeah, we ain't in Kansas anymore..." after Czechs...
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  1170. Yeah... let's compare that propulsion mass to total mass ratio for economically sustainable model with freaking airships of old :D
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  1171. Oh this is not double NATing. Onle WAN is used here as service port, essentially.
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  1172. What channel did I subscribe to? To a cat channel. Where are mr. Clinton, Blackberry and Oreo?
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  1173. Yeah, I love my brother too. Bought MFC-L2712DN and am happy like a clam.Best thing? My dad is not tech savvy. Even he managed to pick up their print and scanner tools.
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  1174.  @lb9gta307 real time emissions, any technical problems, current speed... Basically all the information they could use to fine you.
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  1175. Very interesting... So a balloon... or say an airship could fly high enough, as to be out of range for some airplanes... huh... Kirov Reporting!
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  1176. Oh I hope they do, it would finally show in no uncertain terms, that you don't deal with China and you don't let them have advanced stuff. I am very concerned about this, because I believe that nuclear is necessary if all the climate change reactions are to be actually belived to be what they claim to be and not just a powerplay between major players (I'm looking at you Germany, I'm looking at you!). A Chernobyl style failure would demand international investigation, lest Chinese government would face serious diplomatic trouble, which would result in either further loss of trust, not just on national representation level, but also on consumer level, lowering trust for Chinese goods and giving further incentive for companies to move to Vietnam or even to South America. The added pressure from consumers, as little as there would have been, combined with sudden realization, that Chinese infrastructure is nowhere near as robust and reliable would likely be enough, to make quite a few companies leave. And if they did allow actual international investigation, all of this noncompliance would be laid bare, showing it's not the nuclear energy, it's the human factor, which represents danger in this field, denying eco-idiots outright anti-nuclear argument, which in my opinion is even more important than humanitarian questions in China or, frankly, anywhere on Earth. Now I don't see the latter to be likely to occur, but even the other side has some benefits.
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  1177.  @WorldTravelerCooking  Infiltration of Russian wealth into UK society to the point, that London is called Londongrad east of Poland... Trump 2016 and 2024 twenty years of anti male propaganda and policies, that almost exclusively favored older generations... Make no mistake, Trump is just the name, Democrats in general have been abandoning their key voters for a while, Bernie Sanders called them out on it a decade ago! If McCain lived and ran in 2016, he'd have beaten Hillary even more decisively than Trump.
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  1178.  @stvdmc2011  Not everything can be solved through democracy and democratic measures... Just look at the damage caused by Brexit, which had been agreed upon by referendum...
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  1179. As Christoph sudgested, get an ER-X and get down and dirty. I would set up a bunch of 802.1Q VLANs separated them through firewall and have managed switches run individual VLANs out of their ports. There would, however, be one common network for management purposes, so that infrastructure works properly. VLAN structure could look like this: 0 = management 10 = Home network 20 = Home cameras 30 = Shed network 40 = Shed cameras (if neceseary) My network is separated in to seven different VLANs, each isolated, with exception of management VLAN, which has one way access to the others, in this fashion and it work's perfectly.
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  1180. Not even at home. I am an accountant and can be expected to work from home. I have to be able to rely on my network to not get bricked by intentional firmware update!
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  1181. An idiot: "WTF is to see in Russia" Me: clears throat "The lake Baikal, Transsiberian railroad, Hermitage, the Aurora..."
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  1182.  @deniseproxima2601  Not if you share the same currency
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  1183.  @deniseproxima2601  That doesn't matter. A tyrant 5 miles away is no better than a tyrant 500 miles away. He's still a tyrant. You lose sovereignity the moment you begin to trade, not the moment you lose your central bank, no matter what polititians say. That is, because your economy will begin to specialize, on what it does better. In which case, might as well make the trade as smooth as possible.
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  1184. Wait a minute. Are you suggesting, that had this not been consentual, the insurance company would have been on the hook? God damn, they need to review their contracts!
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  1185. yeah, I wouldn't look at all this enviro-idiocy reasons as valid ever. Why? The greatest reduction of biodiversity we've caused, was when we took a more realistic approach to calculating, just how many species there theoretically might be on Earth and thus removed one third of biodiversity in one fell swoop. We don't know, what the situation actually is, never knew. We only chose to look at our transformative behavior and decided to call it evil.
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  1186. You're flat wrong man... It's not a supply/demand mismatch. The situation had been going on for years, if it were so, the makret would have compensated. You can even apply with degree completely tailored for a particular position and still get thousands of refusals. I'm in that boat. Earned a Bacherlor's in accounting and financial management, and it took me two years to get hired for my first accounting job. I brought in less than minimum wage on that position and had abusive CEO, who'm I had to work with. Well after that, I was struggling again for a year to get hired in a sh*t show of a place, stayed there a year and then left with nothing lined up, because it was so unbearable. I had to pivot into the executive club and after that into banking to keep the lights on. Hopefully, I'll manage to carve my self a place in this field, while AI is still in it's dipers and pivot again, once things go unteneble. Bottom line is, when you have unfilled positions for long time, it's either never to be filled rack (something one major employer outright told me... guess the rep slipped), just to build up a database of people they could reach out to one day, or they have requirements that are completely insane given the state of the market, and they don't want to bring up people from within them selves.
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  1187. Mr. Clinton actually understands, what he needs to do in times of inflation! :D
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  1188. Yeah, Joker, I really don't think Starlink is a good idea for Internet access... read some papers, which make economics of the project questionable... You should learn a bit about WISP. As long as you can have clear line of sight to a town, you can shoot the Internet by WiFi over miles and miles.
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  1189. And that is why in Australia, there has been a university report, suggesting that those, who used to use firearms against people shifted to cars...
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  1190. It there's a currency, which can actually replace US Dollar, it's Euro. Why? Because it has similar advantages as US Dollar. It is reasonably strong currency, it is used in nations with good legal certainty, it is already used by multiple countries, cutting down on costs and some currencies are already tied to it, for instance the west african CFA Frank, if itself a currency used in a number of nations.
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  1191. Oh, I can't wait for HLC to take a look at this! USA is gonna lose it's shit! :D Anyway, Truman is lucky, that was not Heritage Adventurer, also known as RCGS Resolute... a cruise ship, that already sunk one military vessel.
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  1192. This would never happen, because of nuclear non-prolifiration treaties, that were signed by the West. Hell, when Czechia was buying the first Cisco router to connect the nation to the Internet, our minister of foreign affairs (I think that was the ministry) had to fly to Washington and sign a treaty, that said, that router would never be used to advance Czechia towards obtaining or use nukes! That is literally, why we don't have them on Eastern fringe!
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  1193. He think's JIT will survive this! :D That's cute!
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  1194.  @TakZ000  Youtube doesn't care
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  1195.  @grannyannie2948  I wouldn't say it's immigration. Look at where you Aussies live. That's basically five cities and Perth, all the while you have largely empty Outback, that could have been populated, if people could work from home as policy. So I'd look more into labor and housing construction laws.
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  1196.  @grannyannie2948  Yes... and the media would have no incentive to piss you off and direct that anger at someone other than them selves... right ;)
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  1197. In short, if large container vessels were to come to America, America would have to build completely new ports to reload containers to smaller ships, probably in Puerto Rico, for final mile. And we have seen, what this can do in Sri Lanka. Got it.
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  1198. Absolutely, Necessity is the mother of invention. There will absolutely be people, who invent their way out of it, problem is, to some of them, crime ranging from petty to capital, will be their method of choice! How the hell do you not see that? We've seen number of shootings statistic closely resembling inverse of GDP development over the years! Coincidence? I don't think so.
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  1199. Trump wanted to pull out of NATO even in his first term. I guarantee you, that if push comes to shove, he'll come up with historical non-payment, even if it were a single year, or with some nations using those, who did pay as shield.
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  1200. No shit, sensationalism is a problem. Somebody shots someone and it's on national news with as close footage of the corpse as possible and a narrative, that sounds as a drumhead, with shooter always being viewed as guilty, even if the corpse has a clearly visible machete in it's hand. But it's sensational and will draw in viewers, while fueling the erosion of individual rights, specifically gun ownership in this case. But, imagine if every fatal accident had the same amount coverage by the media! Within a month, nobody would have their drivers license, given the fact, that two orders of magnitude more people die as a result of car accident than in ANY connection with a firearm in the US... And I'm not even looking at abandoned McDonalds, KFC and Burger King restaurants, given that obesity is the most common contributing factor to death in the US... Come to think about it. No wonder, that so many people take their news from the likes of Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and Trevor Noah... News is no longer about reporting the important stuff (and important mean's the severity of effect on community as a whole in material manner, not emotional one), it's about very morbid entertainment.
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  1201.  @lightworker2956  While you describe the situation mostly correctly, there is a problem here. Soviet union did collapse, but it did not happen because of that tax. It was instituted shortly before the collapse, so it did not have effect on the political side of things, but you could see uptick in birthrates for the period it had been effective + 9 months. I happen to be a below average male, so I know the pains all too well. The thing is, so far, everything else we've tried either did not return positive effects, or they were so marginal and with costs so grand, those policies eventually had to be withdrawn. Just look at how little effect positive policies have in Hungary and how costly they are! We can't be without government. Small government is anarchocapitalist wet dream, that had been proven to not work. Not to mention, we need the kids to be properly raised. Just hammering down on single moms causes unintended consequences (such as when a single mom is a widow, not of her own choice). No the problem is, that women can be independent, and that means access to work.
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  1202. Not sure, if I can agree... The problem with audits is, that the politician then gets to spin it. They either cherry pick or twist the numbers, instead of just plain reporting it's findings and making holistic changes based on expert advice and said audit... If an audit is going to be used as politicians typically do, then it's a waste of money and a PR firm would have been cheaper. As to your comment about physical laborers... well, that is their problem. The market has changed drastically and we have to adapt, or be swept away. The guaranties and assurances of our parents and grandparents are gone, either by them not being sustainable (retirement) or being just abandoned, because it saves money (employer loyalty was killed by employers years ago), so thinking, you will only do one job in life is foolhardy these days. Even if the reason for leaving a job is health, a worker has to prepare for it and be ready to pivot into another field, as hard as it is.
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  1203.  @alpacacomentadora413  I wish I were. Live in Czechia, never had colonies :D
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  1204. So... we'd need to teleport (can't go through atmospheric entry) solid block of ice worth three Borg cubes each... OK
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  1205. You know, what I hate about current climate idiocy discord? Global warming, climate change, the big hot, the no winter years... call it what you want, is not simply a s physics or environmental problem. It's a socio-economic problem with key being economic part, all the while, all focus is on environmental concerns and even worse, only one segment of it. If Europe were to just meet it's climate goals, we'd have to work only for three hours a day, earning three hours worth of salary, which doesn't even cover food and lodging, forget cars (to get to the place of work, public transport is not the answer). We're being forced into vegetarianism and veganism, even though as species, we are omnivores ad face actual problems dealing with meatless diets, to the point of having to eat supplements, which someone with a wide food pallet containing meats and diary doesn't have to deal with. We are being artificially made poorer, as to prevent consumption. Problem is, the only true economic engine is consumption! Let's take GDP, for instance. It's Government consumption + individual consumption + investment (which is effectively deferred consumption, otherwise, why invest beyond a basic safety net) and net exports. Government can only spend as long, as it gets the money from it's tax residents, which only happens, when they are economically active. Meaning, slowing down individual consumption slows down government consumption with some delay (government debt is not infinite resource), there is no investment, because there is no need to produce more more efficiently at any time in the future, because the productivity boost from new gear is not enough to justify the expense (given the old stuff is already written off), hence no investment will take place and net exports won't save you, because only net exports contribute to your nation's GDP positively, meaning it is politically very hard to sell to become a net importer. Now, people always vote based on two factors. Their conviction and their current condition, with the latter being the more predominant one. Meaning you can't push it too far, the way the West had decided to go, because you either a) vote yourself out of power at some point, only being supported by the church of global warming (environmentalism is religion, given the amount of sacrifice being forced upon us to solve global warming), because people started to vote for those parties, which promised them economically better tomorrow or b) run out of resources as a state, because with every cut in production and on it dependent consumption to save the environment, you undermine your future efforts to save the environment, because even in spite of year on year increasing taxation, there is lower tax revenue. And that's assuming no scams get pulled in either environmental investments, nor in government spending aimed at preserving the environment! This is, why we need to selectively black out the sun, which is what Tf00t suggests.
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  1206. Not really, the only thing, that will chase money out of housing, will be something more lucrative. We'd have to redo our entire economic model, which at the moment is aimed at environmentalism, to make more interesting opportunities elsewhere.
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  1207. Maaan... this is mess. There needs to be ammendment for such scenarios. Sure, they are rare and not note worthy... until 2020 decide's it's not had enough fun and takes them both. Ultimately I believe there is a problem with democratic principles if current rules as layed out before us were to be utilised. All of them! One rule would result in being elected simply by the virtue of being alive or atleast undead, others could get under fire from angry voters in courts or from angry house, which could even be poised to act against it's own will. Again, because of single surviving candidate in a two way election. I don't like, what I'm about to write, but... The only way forward is to set what siting vice president can and can't do in the interim and call for new elections with all their glory and all their horror to elect a new president in at most one year time. There has been so much campaigning, so many promises made... People, at least some of them, have been swayed by all of that mess and knowing these thigns they were going to vote, or perheaps even have already voted, in a particular way because of those campaigns. What about a situation, where the vice president would get chosen on the count of his proffesionality, but had completly different world view? That is not what the electorate voted for! Nobody would ever consider such unlikely scenario when deciding their vote. Again, I don't like it at all, but I feel this is the only way.
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  1208. the problem with services, is that they are way too flexible. Comes economic downturn, everyone's easily ditching their suppliers and you've got a huuuuuge delta in employment, which in turn translates in to gigantic delta in consumption... and everything's flying up and down. What needs to happen, is we as Europeans need to realize, that everything has it's price. Be it overspecialization on one thing (cars, particular service, etc.), environmentalism... these are all things, that make it harder and more expensive to manufacture stuff. It is environmentalism, which is the main enemy of industry. What would happen, if Europe ditched emission allowances for CO2 to energy market? Coal would suddenly become unbeatable energy source on price, only threatened by nuclear! Forget wind parks and photovoltaics. They just don't create enough power reliably enough, to be even considered in an environment, that doesn't care about emissions. Why? Well that is simple. It is in abundant supply in Europe, can be mined locally and Europe has perfectly tuned transportation system for coal (railways). And yet, we are abandoning it in favor of vanity projects, like VRT or electromobility...
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  1209. They actually did that a few years back.
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  1210. holly molly. Sword and bow in world war 2? Well, why not... there was cavalry and camelry in Africa, in Austria, a castle was besieged... The diversity of it all...
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  1211. Or here is an idea, how about raising that car by about four centimeters and add a centimeter thick extra layer of plastic to protect the entire undercarrige! That is literally done by factories to gas guzzlers, so why not design the EVs with resiliency in mind?!
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  1212.  @Poctyk  If I recal correctly, that was NOT straight synthetic oil production. Rather, that was synthetic fuel production. While you're quite correct, that Nazis used synthetic fuel, we don't only use oil for fuel. Look into how many products are dependent on oil as non-fuel material. That is what I am far more worried about and why I say "we'll find", because for that we don't have alternatives just yet... or at least such alternatives, which would not cause even more harm.
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  1213. Ban internal combustion engines in Australia? Are those, who proposed that high? That is completely incompatible with geography of Australia! You can't go into the outback, where charging stations can be hundreds of miles apart, with an EV!
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  1214.  @someitguy2175  Believe it or not, you are closer to the truth, than you think. Only for the wrong reasons. The only batteries, which can power a car for locomotion, which are effective enough, to warrant their use, are lithium-ion batteries. These degrade over charging cycles and there is currently no effective way to recycle them. Meaning, with electric cars, you're only changing the form, which produced waste takes, immediately and progressively reduce effective range of cars, increase their costs, forcing people, to move to the cities for jobs, which drive's up rent... Oh and, as Richard Hammond can attest, you can much more easily burn to death, either as a result of accident, or faulty battery. So yeah, electric cars are actually no go. If there weren't certain snake-oil sales man, known as Elon Musk around, there would never have been hype for these vehicles and they would have remained, where they should have. On the fringe as another dead end in technological development.
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  1215.  @someitguy2175  Actually, what you write about will never come. We are reaching limits, of what can be stored in batteries, and there are currently no other feasible concepts to work with. It's simple, the more energy you try to store, the greater instability in storage medium (eg. that much easier to light up in flames over tiniest of oversights). That you won't ever overcome, if you want to go electric ever. Fact check need's to be put in place on nuclear power and, more specifically, the risks. Why Fukushima turned in to so much mess? Isn't it more with the placement of that power plant? Why the hell was it on flat lands, close to the coast in a seismically active country in the ring of fire! That was just waiting to happen. Now, contrast that with a similar power plant a hundred miles inland, nowhere near any fault lines! Absolutely safe from environmental hazards. Chernobyl? A runaway drill. You don't do safety checks on a production rig, as anyone from the IT industry would tell you. You build a simulation for that.
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  1216. Nobody, and I mean nobody, needs Chinese or Russian puppet government on their doorstep.
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  1217. How to fix birthrate? Well, I've got some news for you. These days, having a partner has become extremely riskey for men, just look at the divorce rate and who files! Changing unemployment will mean nothing, if women will have access to abortions outside of situation, where their health is in danger, or have the ability to use the child to drain men of resources, while providing them with nothing beyond that one night, then men will not seek them out in such numbers as to raise birthrate, because the men will begin to focus far more on risks of even meeting a woman, rather than on the pleasure. Rather, if you look into the numbers, you'll find, that higher birthrates are in countries, where women don't have access to education and by extension to career! Statistically, we don't talk about correlation, but rather about causation, how profound it is! It is that second part, that is the key. Without career, women are dependent on men and therefore they don't monkey branch as much, because if they did, they'd be on it all alone and without safety net of a job. That is the inconvenient truth all the nations, that have birth rate below 2,1.
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  1218. Duuude, you do not close bank accounts unless regulatorly have to! Take your business elsewhere, by all means, move your assets as you see fit, but do keep those cards and accounts open! Buy some kind of online accessible service from that country, that you'd actually use (like a newspaper subsciption or two. It's allways good to be kept informed about what's going on in the country, even if it's propaganda, so long that you know what it is), set up fixed transfers from a distribution account in that country with a bank, you actually trust and you're golden! Sure, it can be overwheling to keep tabs on what you buy and from where you pay it (I keep an Excel spreadsheet for this and I have banks in a single country), but there are benefits to this. One, you can access services and benefits of multiple banks, which can complement each other. For instance, my primary bank offer's the best travel insurance with their credit card in the country, but their non-SEPA international transfers are paid... My secondary bank allow's me a single such transfer free as a part of subscription, that costs one fourth of the minimum transfer fee. Another bank provide's me with rebate on my phone bill, which is substantial, given my backup Internet connection is on the same contract, best thing? This account is completely free for domestic use and I just need to run some money through it. So I put utilities on the account and it's automatic now. Don't even need to touch it beyond the couple of card payments I need to put on the debit card. I could even run the money through that account from one of my accounts with a second bank to another account with a third bank. Particularly if you're on the poorer side, things can get interesting, when dealing with multiple banks. And then there are the different investment products the banks offer, which are easier to get to throught that bank or even exclusive. Two, you never know, when your primary bank in a particular country goes bad. Hence, why it is good to have multiple banks set up in a "maintenance" mode. It eases transition. Three, there is deposit insurance to consider, depending on how much money you keep in a particular country. Four, if you have multiple streams of income, it helps keeping track of who paid you and who owes you money, as well as keeping track of expenses related to those earnings. Say you work for a company, but also rent out flats and land (very common where I live) and have a business in your name of some kind (say you spend your leasure time making and selling wine). In such a case, having three, maybe even four banks would be beneficial. You just use the bank, that receives your wage as your primary, pay your everyday expenses from there. Set up wire transfers for whatever expenses are to be paid in regards to your side hustles (utilities for rented out properties, taxes, whatever's needed for wine making), set up a recurring monthly wire for about half of net income on that account in a month to forward the money into the main, set up a maintainence order into a savings account with the other banks and once a year, you'll do reallocation of funds.
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  1219. Fun fact, we used to only use blue lights until fairly recently. Durring communist times, red lights were actually reserved for firefighters.
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  1220. oh, I have a better idea... create punnitive tax for vacant buildings and units and make it sky high. Done. All those empty office and business spaces get either occupied, providing jobs to people, including the at the time homeless, or new flats get put into these empty places, increasing accomodation supply, which should lower rents.
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  1221. Geez, This is a cash grab. If driving were such a pain for NYC, they'd incentiveze work from home or at least mandate flexible working hours. The main problem, why congestion happens, is not too many drivers out there. It's too many drivers at the same time!
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  1222. No, you can set your limits properly. If you do that, you can repay any credit card every month easy. It's the stupid ones paying for the vagrancies of the smart, because the smart ones didn't set them selves up for this and put in limits, which won't ruin them.
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  1223. The next morning at the Supreme court of New York: Judge: "What's next, Mat?" Court clerk: "Well, we have a surprise for you today. Some soon to be favorites are making a visit" Judge: "Do I get a hint?" Court clerk: "Well, let me see... The plaintiff meowed his way in to the right to repair situation and probably did more for it than it's owner.." Judge: "you mean..." Mr. Clinton from the plaintiffs stand: "Meeoow!"
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  1224. No, Roman... the good guys always win... the winners always paint them selves as good guys...
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  1225. You wish. Sure, India is a huge market, but how do you intend to compete with cards like Visa, MasterCard or Amex outside of India? For instance, in Czech Republic, Visa and Mastercard have almost the same offers, they are established and well received, local banks even combine these cards with other cards, such as Sphere, which bring other benefits. The only card, which almost isn't offered here, which is accepted though, is Amex and even that not everywhere. Why would someone go with RuPay, if they already have well established cards in their home currency or a foreign one, which work basically anywhere a person might travel to? How do you estabish a competitive network of services and bonusses across the world with such a weak market as India? Sure, it's vast, but very low buying power, meaning you need to have huge number of transactions to process to earn what others are earning. Case and point American Express! Their revenue year on year is higher than Visa, even though there are vastly fewer of these cards than MC or Visa. how do you compete with that, having much lower per-card revenue? You can't go with lower costs, because you're already in India and you have to provide services across the world, where there are much higher prices, costs to businesses are already very low with MC and Visa and customers are already set on those cards already present in the market? I have no doubt, that Rupay will attract a good base in India, maybe in exceptionally poor nations and probably in those nations, which have above standard relations with India. Bhutan and Nepal come to mind, but outside of that? I live in a pretty internatinal place. I have never seen a JCB, or UnionPay in my life and, as far as I know, none of the banks around offer these non-American cards. So no, I really don't think, that Rupay will be a true success. International cards will be one of the big three. "Why have a local card, limited in use outside of your borders, when you can have a global card?" will be the largest hurdle for Rupay to overcome and I really don't see a way for it to do so.
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  1226. Hm... When have I heard about the UN and it's daughter organizations not calling something as it is... Ah, yes... the Rwanda... We need to reform the UN.
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  1227. Man... Looking at this as Czech citizen, after witnessing pardon at the end of prsidency of Václav Klaus... I can only say... "hm... First time?". Also, murder doesn't have to be necessarily state issue. Since federal jurisdiction requires for the item in question to be crossing state lines, something that would happen directly on the state line, would likely be federal jurisdiction, even if it were a murder... Another option might be, if such act happened on federal land. I really don't see, how issuing a pardon could be a crime, atl least not ordinarily. That right is defined and, as long as the person issuing the pardon doesn't have tied hands, which you really REALLY don't want him/her to have... Really, the only way, that could happen, is if the president pardoned a spy, whose identity were confirmed by the hostile government. Otherwise, there is doubt and I feel that allegation like this would have to go through strict scrutiny (or whatever is equivalent in the institution, which would have jurisdiction)
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  1228. Oh it is even worse. In order to have children, people of child bearing age must have intercourse. However, thanks to pro women laws being passed, how the family court works and more awareness of it, men are beginning to check out of intimate relations. I read somewhere, that over 30% of men under thirty have not had sex at all. Why? Women can chose, whom they'll let inside of them and, because they're hypergamous and have been more successful than men on the job market, thanks to the vast majority of university support programes aimed at them, as well as having better predispositions to actually finish a degree, supply of men successful enough to attract a woman is plummeting. Things have gone so far, that telling a woman the clear fact, that her greatest asset is her fertility, is considered an insult. On factual basis, that statement is correct, however. A man can't give birth. That's just basic biology. Now, how to address this? There is a number of solutions. 1) Political system could be retuned, demanding exclusiveness between right to vote and drawing on state pnesion. No right to vote means no incentive for the politicians to push through policies, that would benefit the elderly at the cost of the young. Pension should also be strictly calculated not from costs of living or any bonuses to enjoy one's time. Only what had been gathered in previous year may be dispersed among the elderly. 2) Worker centric employment contracts. It must become strictly employee purview, from where he would work, if the nature of the work permits it on a physical level. Eg. no more office space. No more commuting. If it can be done from home, it must by law be done from home and it can not be the employer declaring, what can and can not be done from home. This must be either patently clear (eg, can't build a house from home. There needs to be extremely special, hard to transport, not connectable to the Internet equipment involved) or it must be short term (as in a business trip to a foreign country). This would have twofold effect. One, it will allow people to disperse, hence return to the villages, and two, it would equalize housing prices, making the market whole again. 3) Construction of new houses must not be interruptable by anything. No right to object, no environmental protections may stand in the way. 4) The relationship between men and women must be reballanced. For the last fifty years, women have been pushed through hard with no requirements being levied on them, to counterbalance newfound rights. Women should become subject to a "Singles" or "Childless" tax in order to motivate them to lock down a man to raise a child with. Divorce and domestic violence laws must change to shield men from women, be it fake accusations (of both fatherhood or violence), in order to allow men to let their guard down and try again in the dating pool. Some 30% of men under 30 have never had intercourse! This statistic must be turned around, if we are to have more kids. 5) Any and all environmental regulations must be toned down to allow for sufficient economic growth. Europe needs to restart it's coal, nuclear, oil and gas power plants and stop further expansion of intermittent power sources. Polluting to generate power or heat must be free. No emission allowances or carbon tax allowed. 6) Discourse about this matter must be put under review. Currently, there are people out there, claiming it would be benefficial for the planet to have fewer people. These people must be stopped. Spreading of pro-environemtalist standpoints must be made illegal or at very least, costs must be front and center. If we knew, how much this is gonna cost and that we'd pay for it, noone would vote any green party into opposition, much less power. It would be a harsh wake up, but it may be necessary for our survival.
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  1229. I'm not really sure, if this is feasible. I mean, you never could replace a faulty cell even in an old laptop battery. So what I'd do in Tesla's place, is, I'd still be adamant about replacing the battery as a whole, but offered a buyback of the old battery, so that it can be disassembled and OK components reused in refurbished batteries at a lower price. (not everybody will want a completely new battery). The added benefit would have been, that the car could be turned around faster, cause, you know, don't need to wait for component level repair, just take out the battery and put in an on hand new or a refurbished one.
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  1230. Oh, the government absolutely CAN lower grocery prices. 1) It can pass and enforce right to repair bills or better yet, force companies (cough John Deer cough) to make their machines user repairable with basic tools. Thus lowering repair costs, which have to be covered by prices. 2) It can pass price act, that would govern, how much can food stuffs rise in price at most (this is to prevent price gouging) over a period of time. Thus limiting price rises for a demand inflexible good to average inflation levels. 3) It can lower taxes on basic food stuffs and their production. Eg. lower sales tax/VAT (what's paid in a country), no carbon tax on meat and animal products, consumption tax refunds on fuel used in farming. 4) It can force women to return to the kitchen again and actually cook meals for their families. There's a reason, why obesity is such a problem these days! By forcing women to cater to their families, the content of a shopping cart for consumers would change, hyperprocessed foods would get replaced to a degree by raw stuff used for cooking at home, which tends to be cheaper on per kilo basis. Meaning both food expenditure fall for families and national health would improve, because there would be fall in consumption of fast food. 5) It could force big players to break up and zealously enforce anti trust laws. Returning competition to the field.
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  1231. Yeah, I think US companies will begin to value unions in a couple of years. For instance, Boeing had massive problem with their new site, I believe also in Alabama, where they are currently moving their production precisely because of unions... Well, their new plant has underpaid employees, who didn't give a damn, and as result, there were so many technical difficulties stemming from poor quality controls (you know, cause underpaid employees), airlines throughout the world refused to accept the plane, if it was built at this new site.
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  1232. Games on highest settings? 1070TI over here, smashing titles like WH40K Rogue trader, which is in beta, Frostpunk, Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2, The Guild 3, ANNO 1800 and Outer Worlds at 1920x1080 @ 60hz on max settings. These are pretty heavy games, and this years old GPU can handle them with some light breeze. It's like ZSSK class 350, ancient by modern standards, yet it's playing with the heaviest loads like King Kong! It will be decades, before we'll need quantum to run games!
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  1233. Chronic labor shortage at the same time of high unemployment CAN happen at the same time. You can have labour supply-demand mismatch. Let me give you one example, where this could happen, using Czech business law (cause I'm Czech, so I actually know that business law best). In order to start on your own as an accountant, you need either a number of years experience in accounting, or education in the field and less working experience, depending on the degree in the field you've gained. Now, if everybody were to pursue medicine for their university education, nobody would be allowed to become accountants and markets of medical professions would get oversaturated to the point, hospitals and clinics would eventually stop hiring, because they don't not need any more of these specialists. As a result, you'll have accounting positions sallaries going through the roof (assuming normal market conditions) as a result of labour shortage within that field, but also huge unemployment in medical sector and eventually medicine would be called "BS degree", because of how hard it would be to get a job down that route.
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  1234. Actually, calling Ukraine and EU well interconnected in context of high volume goods exports is incorrect. The best overland solution for such kinds of exports, especially over long distances, are trains. Most of Europe runs their rail at 1435 mm standard gauge, but entirety (well, except a line from Slovak and Hungarian border to border station Čop, another line to Užgorod, lines connecting to Romania and mixed gauge line to Mukačevo) of Ukrainian railway infrastructure is 1520 mm broad gauge. Meaning you have to transfer cargo between gauges at either Čop or Čierna nad Tisou (track leading to Michalovce steel plant, that's 1520 mm). You can't beat ocean blue, when it comes to efficiency of transport of such goods
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  1235. Hm... who knows, perhaps it will take us destroying the Earth to embrace multi-planetary future... Just saying.
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  1236.  @scbtripwire  That's typical airlines. Low cost carriers are a different sort. Sadly.
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  1237. Finally a video, which points out the problem with public transport! Yes, every change, every stop that the bus or train makes is a problem for everyday commuters! Take my case. I live in the center of the city of Brno, I used to commute to the outskirts for work. When my dad took me, even in peak traffic, where everyone is whining, about how bad cars are, as they sit in those cars, from my house to the office building I worked at took some 20 minutes, give or take 5 minutes, one way. Some 40 to 50 minutes both ways. Public transport? Had to walk to the tram. Then change to another tram and then to a bus, with final significant stretch of commute on foot again. It took me 45 to 60 minutes one way! That's hour and a half to two, if things got extra bad three hours through a city, that has probably the best public transport system on Earth! Really the solution for this is not public transport, nor banning cars in cities or even car ownership. No. The solution is, mandating those jobs, which can be made remote, remote. No more accountant going to the office every day of the week to handle invoices. Instead, once a week to deposit processed paper invoices, which he/she handled from home. No more comming to call center, to respond to clients. That can be done from home. It's the inflexibility of employers, who motivate vast majority of trips! It is, because you have to travel and be somewhere at fixed time frame, which doesn't confirm to public transport's schedule, which motivate's us to use the fastest possible private mode of transportation. And before anybody start's talking about bikes, I've got news for you. There will never be guarantee, that you'll live within reasonable commute time (say 30 minutes one way) from your working place by bike. That's simply utopia. There are two solutions, which help cities. Two solutions, which can go hand in hand to actually solve cities problems. They won't solve climate change, but they will solve smog. First. By mandating all positions, which don't require physical access (I'm talking manually swapping sheets of steel in a machine levels of physical access) to be strictly remote positions, you'll turn daily drivers into weekly+joy riders. That's cutting driven kilometers by at least half, at no costs to public coffers and potentially cutting cost to employers as well, not having to rent office space. Bigger homes, which will be required for people to work from home will likely increase in price. That is the only drawback Second. All new cars can be mandated to be plug-in hybrids with internal combustion engine and 20 to 30 kilometer battery. This way, cost of the battery is lowered, which is the most expensive part of an EV. Battery degradation doesn't affect the car that much, as on longer drives, or when hauling something, it would still use normal engine, and the base, from which the battery would degrade is lower and there can be a mandate, to use electric drive only, when in normal use, in particular zones or even entire cities, because those are not such long distances, that need to be taken. Price of batteries and their inherent properties (including their carbon footprint), is what's killing the EV market.
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  1238.  @mikatu  The problem is not the train. It is fast... if you're talking intecity travel. The problem is final mile, eg traveling in the city. I could cross half the republic in an hour and a half. The thing is you usually don't work or live next to the station, eg, spend the same amount of time or more, navigating the city in which you work, which you'd spend traveling between cities! I challenge you. You're not permitted to use car or taxi. How long will it take you to get from Grütstrasse in Zürich to Aldi in Embrach. I'm talking from house door in the middle of the street to the door of that supermarket.
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  1239. And that's how a fake incident warning from the prime minister turned prophetic and real incident happened :D
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  1240. Let me get this straight.. according to this article, the EU and the UN could be labeled as terrorist organisations, because they recommend use of digital protection on the Internet... I've used TOR, I've used TrueCrypt, I use uBlock Origin, I use public wifi, because I refuse to pay 30% of my salary for used data outside of the EU, I have a NAS, I run HTTPS everywhere... I've always been joking about going to jail for crimes against humanity, but I never thought, that my everyday practices could actually lend me there... especially on false charges no less, because my everyday routine is something "terrorists" do!
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  1241. Trust me, you don't want to commute to work by public transport. I live in Brno, Czechia, in the city center. I worked for a company, that had their office in the outskirts. I've spent something between hour and a half to three hours a day on public transport. When my dad drove me, because I don't have the license, it took twenty to thirty minutes both ways... No, the real answer here, is to make driver's license part of education and just giving people access to cheap second hand cars, that can get them places... Nobody needs a G wagon, but a Trabant would work just as well.
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  1242.  @xhonkeri4066  Not really, I do find, on occasion, places, that don't accept Visa... Hell, I've heard, that there are even stores in Netherlands, which are so cheap, they don't accept anything else but Maestro on the count of the fees! Really, having both in your wallet is the way to go. I for instance, intend to have Platinum Visa debit and MC World Elite credit cards in mine, when able (I travel a lot)
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  1243.  @ronald3836  Except you can export production, that doesn't get realized in the local market. The reason consumption taxes are better is, that you are in control of your taxation, so if you chose to save, for instance, because you're expecting a large unavoidable expense, you can actually use the financial market and use compound interest to help you earn the money you need.
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  1244. Funny thing is, decisions in one part of the company can completely destroy other part of it. Case and point Boeing. They've built a new production line down in Bible belt and planned on shutting down their west coast operation and move production, citing unionization caused labor costs. Well as soon as this got out, airlines started en mass cancelling orders and demanding assurances, that aircraft they received was from their west coast to be terminated branch... Citing that low paid workers in quality control department would put passengers in danger, as low paid employee is less motivated to keep their vigil.
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  1245. Rule of acquisition number 34: "War is good for business"
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  1246. Yeah... I have a feeling, that eventually, we'll be comparing Ukraine to Czechoslovakia... you know, cause repeat of Munich...
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  1247. yeah, transferring PTO is not alright at all. Where I live, it's outright illegal to do.
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  1248. Yeah, this happened to me once. I was in the Uni and had an assignment for my English class (foreign language), to write a short story or a script. So I wrote down this horror thing that I thought would be absolutely cringe and make everyone uncomfortable. Well, I had to explain, why am I ripping off eleven different movies, which I've never seen ever in my life. I'm more of a Sci-Fi guy, yet here I was.
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  1249. fun fact. My dad is a proffessional lorry driver. Whenever we entered Serbia, roads became slippier to the point, where he actually changed his driving style to accomodate the road.
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  1250. OK, so to sum up the Hyperloop experience in case of a crash. At best, you're making steamed human, at worst human soup. And come to think about it. UIC-Z standard railcars are 26,4 meters long and have capacity of betwene 66 to 72 people, based on internal layout. And even these can't corner too well. I'd like to see actual, physically sound Hyperloop take a corner at full speed! People, that track from LA to San Francisco would be a single corner, if those capsules were to be made!
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  1251. Love the project. Although, I'm not sure, if I were honky about running fuel in the same bundle with electricity. I'd probably run a second conduit for it.
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  1252. Well, what can I say... I'm the kind of guy, who doesn't care about Nike, I wear work shoes. I had no reason to know about this, now I do. So I am actually more (all be it marginally) likely to buy a pair of Nikes. So no, I'm not confused. On the other hand, a lot of other stuff has surfaced about Nike, painting them (thanks to their own behavior) as talking from both sides of their mouths. If somebody doesn't pursue one infringement, why should they be allowed to pursue another? So, what can I say to Nike? Well, you're harming your public image through your own actions. So congratulations, you've played yourselves! Better hope, that our artists don't try to turn this around and countersue for SLAPP!
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  1253. Taxing the rich won't work. The rich can just pack up their shit and leave. They have the money to rent a couple of containers put in their worldly possessions, buy a nice plot of land with cash... and have the house they lived in in the UK rebuilt on that property. No, this won't work, because that tax base will simply run. Hell, there are youtube channels these days, which serve as advertising for entrepreneurs and companies, that outright help the rich dodge taxes! I for one believe, that going green was BS to begin with. That it destroyed our industrial base (all over Europe), so I'd not cry, if we killed that off. That being said, I do see potential in changing taxes. I believe that Trump mentioned, while rambling, destination based cash flow tax. I read a tad about it and I like the idea. Assuming, after the war, an agreement were reached on implementing this globally or at least within the EU and UK, the UK could try to create economy based off services provided to the rich, which would be able to leverage the remains of UK's financial services from before Brexit. The idea is, as the rich buy services from the UK, income of local professionals would increase and they, given they are relatively poorer, would increase their consumption of goods and services within the UK, because these poorer people are not as mobile as the rich and therefore can't escape the tax, which makes them more reliable tax base. I spot one key problem with the scenario I presented. Corruption would absolutely skyrocket, if laws were not created, that would ensure, that people running the state, would not be swayed to follow their own interests instead those of the public, though they are in their service. I'm not entirely sure, how to guard against that.
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  1254. But you should have hired him. You should have helped and trained him and you should learn, to pay extremely well even in training. Why? Because perfect candidates are unicorns and going forward, you could say, they won't exist on the open market anymore. The population is aging all over the developed world, people are retiring and we have some of the smallest generations coming up to replace those retirees, meaning there will always be unsatisfied demand for people. HR needs to start telling other departments "you need to train people into the positions you want them filling 5 years from now" and tell the C-suite "you need to forget cutting headcount even exists, or this company is gonna crash and burn. Talent has become way too precious, to justify losing it over short term gains".
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  1255. Sure, let's spend even 8%, but make sure, that Americans don't see a dime from it! And actually boast and gloat about the jobs that prevented from being created in the US in American media!
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  1256.  @nocapproductions5471  It's not because of immigration man. You're forgetting the other side of the story, something that happened to me. I worked for this multinational, one day, the company had decided, they'd move the jobs to India and that's how I ended up unemployed as an accountant. Don't blame the immigration, blame corporate greed. They can afford to pay you and the immigrants enough, just don't want to.
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  1257. We actually do want the prices to crash, but, to also prevent banks from forcing refinancing of the houses. If you live in that house, your living expenses are basically set and so is your income. What is important about that crash, is will cause it. Really the only thing, which can solve this bubble, is new construction. Problem is, these days, everybody's weeping about climate change and how more housing will mean more CO2. Which lead to ridiculous prices of houses. Not because big projects can't happen, no. It's because new construction of small projects can't happen, due to overzealous zoning and the fact, that politicians need older vote, which is more likely to own a home, than the young one... which however the society need's, because of 2,1 birth ratio, to maintain itself. What are the solutions to this? Well, let me list them. First, I'll list the one, that is currently being handled already. 1) Internet access. In order for housing to become more affordable, people need to be able to work from home over very very vast distances, not needing to commute to an office at all. If Elon doesn't turn Starlink in to literal gold mine, this part will provide major relieve to the market, opening up new housing to an office work from basically anywhere. Second thing, that governments need to ensure in this, is that old 3G or LTE equipment is not put in to landfill, rather, providers need to be forced to deploy these legacy devices, where no service were before. Cities should "subsidize" rural communities by this "hand me down" gifts and service providers need to be forced in to building new towers. 2) Employers must get real. Currently, employers frown on anyone, who's not a unicorn employee. They'd rather turn down a contract, than hire extra accountant to handle the barrage of invoices new contracts require to get done, be it AP or AR. Employers need to return to old model, where a guy came, didn't have any education, but could at least exist. Now? An employer will say, "Oh, I fear, that I might not communicate with you well.", and say's that to an IT technician. The whole ecosystem must change in this matter. Employers must be willing to train people and accept people, who aren't perfect. They must pay them not based on the employee's experience, rather, that pay must come from his potential, because that is what he was hired for. Actual contribution based remuneration system should came later, only when potential is exhausted, because only then is the employee "finished". Remote work, where ever available, must become a standard, not benefit. 3) And this one has two options. States must either: a) relax construction code. Restriction on on what land a home can be built, must go away completely (price of field can be as low as one twentieth of same sized residential plot) and no regulation regarding the source of heating beyond basic safety standards (and even those reasonable) b) Current requirements on buildings, but all expenses paid to get the building up to code, compared to what only building the stuff as a "can physically live there". All those bells and whistles paid by the state. Mandatory insulation because passive homes? sure, state, but pay up for that insulation. I don't earn enough to get it, and let me remind you, the mortgage payment is lower than my studio apartment rent! ban on coal for heating? Well, hello there, tax payer, hope you've earned enough to build me 200 mile power line to my piece of forest in the Cascade Mountains, oh and don't worry, I have here calculation for a 72 hour battery pack to keep my high tech, low emission home online too. Cause, you know, trees fall. Oh you don't like it? Fair enough, here's the bill for expansion of my solar farm, so that I can heat my home in winter. State demand's it, state pay's for it. We have been talking for months and years about worsening wealth and income inequality in the west. Cost of housing and by extension cost of living is a major aspect of this crisis. Large enough, that it has grown in to a crisis of it's own. In former Czechoslovakia, second homes were so common, that you could be considered food stamp poor and socially excluded, if you didn't have one. Now? We've come to the point, that owning a home is a fleeting dream. Simply, because it is not as easy to build a house, because climate change. Such is reality of the young vs reality of the old.
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  1258. Objection: Apart of what you have said, cmdr. Riker is in conflict of interest, because he is a friend of Lt. Data and therefore unfit to prosecute. Regardless of trial's end, his performance would always be questionable.
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  1259.  @colbyross8365  sorry, doesn't work that way. Already, automation and ecological "adaptation" have taken so many jobs, and most importantly easy to learn entry level jobs, that there are lost generations. In order to obtain a job, which hires these days even without ridiculous amount of field specific working experience and pay's the rent, one has to study. But most employers aren't exactly forth coming in this regard. Most won't release the employee for Friday school, nor would they let him/her go for an exam. And virtually none would actually pay their employee, while he/she is learning new stuff at a boot camp or a uni. In five years of job hunting, willing to relocate to anywhere in my country, I have met one employer out of about one thousand, who actually allocated paid time to learn new stuff. And lastly, employers need to be willing to hire sub-optimal employees and teach them the ways of their trades. A lot of people end up unemployed simply, because employers aren't willing to hire. Forget about negotiations or willingness to work for less than minimum wage or in undesirable fields. In my country, companies were refusing incoming contracts, citing insufficient labor force, while at the same time, turning away potential new hires, who were willing to learn the ropes. I have received so, so many refusals, citing insufficient working experience as reason of refusal for junior positions, I have stopped counting them. So really, it's not, he who doesn't work, shouldn't eat. It's you shouldn't eat, if someone is trying to get a job, and can't get a reasonable one.
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  1260.  @colbyross8365  I did all of that (except the military, have a disability, which denies me service, but doesn't entitle me to disability benefits). Have a degree in accounting and financial management. I see hundreds of ads for accounting jobs. All demand working experience. Even junior ones! And what about entry level? Doesn't exist anymore. Employers didn't care and don't care, that I know our tax code better than them. I get, "oh, you don't have working experience" replies all the time. Hell, one time, I had reference from labor bureau, meaning they had to see me and confirm, that I went there. I came there, expecting they'd at very least talk with me, as all others before them have.They confirmed my paper, refused me and then asked me, what was the reason for not accepting me. First I got refused, and then had an "interview". Or another time, when potential employer praised my accounting skills at the interview, and then, when I called him, told me, "I have no time, to teach you, how it's done.". I know my ways around networking better than most users. I'm really good for self trained guy. Still can't get a job as a network admin, because I don't know AD and don't have the money, to build a rig, to run Windows Server, to learn it. Do you think, I ever got an invitation to interview from those network admin jobs? Nope, all the time replies state, "yeah you don't have x years of working experience.". Meanwhile, I've put together a freaking data center from scrap gear so old, all I can run on it is FreeBSD and some distros of Linux. Do you think, anybody looking for a "server guy" cared? Nope. They didn't care, I know VRRP, LACP or VPNs, nor about the custom NAS that I've built and implemented, even though those are technologies their companies rely on for operations. No, government won't provide training to me or anyone else. Corona has taken care of that and even if they did provide such training, it's not working experience, meaning it's worthless to the employers. I have seen people take degrees in engineering and math, who ended up flipping burgers, because employers weren't interested novice, all be it highly skilled workers, who were freaking artists with CNC machines, but didn't have working experience. No, I will receive no assistance from anyone, to keep a roof over my head and belly not empty. There are no such programs in my country. The only thing the state will do for me, is pay my mandatory health and retirement insurance. Oh, and all the time I was looking for job, replying to any and all relevant postings (eg. everything I felt qualified and overqualified for), getting refused left and right, employers were crying their eyes out, stating how they can't find workers to do a job, and how they have to turn customers away! This is reality of young professional these days. I don't talk from "academics" I talk from experience job hunting. So check your BS.
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  1261.  @ben5056  The main reason to hold a currency is to facilitate trade and Euro gives you access to Eurozone, Czechia (which is effectively dual currency state at this point), CFA Frank area (which is fixed to Euro), Denmark (which is fixed to Euro)... That's some thirty markets, where you don't need to care about exchange fluctuation risks with diverse economies (French agriculture heavy, Germans had heavy industry and chemicals, Romania has become IT hub and is a big player in lumber)... Only the US surpass Eurozone in terms of diversity of it's economy and comes close in the number of countries that use it. Like it or not, Euro has the fundamentals for becoming a world reserve currency, if anything were to happen to USD.
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  1262.  @bytesburst  Read up on microeconomics, specifically substitution. What availability of substitute does to price. Work's in reverse as well
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  1263.  @naapsuvaimne740  Not in case of war with the US... Not that I'd advocate for it, but with characters like Trump on the ballot, we can't be sure, they won't declare on us. If Trump gets reelected and delivers on his promises regarding Ukraine (eg. abandons them), then any and all trust between the US and Europe will be gone and what then, when you know, that you are completely defenseless in a critical field, because the other side has massive numbers advantage, quality advantage (Europeans don't get the best things the US have, for instance the F22) and can be literally turned off by a former ally? (for instance F35 requires wake up code from manufacturer every day, from what I've read. A wake up code, that US government could ban the manufacturer to give)
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  1264. Wait a minute. Nurgle? DC decides to do a WH ripoff and they don't bring out Slaanesh?! Seriously? The potential on themyscira alone would have been glorious!
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  1265. Uhm, actually, oil is not quite as fungible as stated. You can end up with either sour or sweet oil (if I recall the terms correctly) and it makes a spectrum from one to the other. The problem is, you need to buy oil of certain characteristics in order for refinery to be able to refine it. For this reason, East coast of the US exports crude and imports crude as well, because local refineries mostly can't process the crude they can get continent side. In order to be able to process that oil, they'd need to retool them selves.
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  1266. Louis, you don't understand it. Why are there people, who do nothing, hell even sabotage companies, and remain on payroll even at absolutely unimaginable salaries to most? It's simple. Another company doing the same shit could take customers away, causing loss of revenue greater than their collective salaries. Is that a problem as to limiting market and innovation? Yes, is that a bad thing? Not really... It depends market to market. Not to mention, that innovation is not always actual innovation. Cases like Elisabeth Holmes or Hyperloop are excellent examples, where "innovation", had already eaten huge amounts of money, not just from tax payers, that could have been routed to more effective, already existing solutions to actual or soon to be manifesting problems, such as coming electricity scarcity caused by inevitable phasing out of coal power plants due to perceived danger of climate crisis, which need replacing by nuclear plants, given similarities of output of these power generating methods and irresponsible drive towards electric mobility, which will put extreme strain on the grid. The problem with more people going out "innovating", means there are many more snake oil salesmen among genuine innovators and it's those snake oil salesmen, who manage to capture the most of the crowd. Not to mention, that innovation for innovations sake is also not good universally. Just look at differences in GUI between Windows 10 and 11. Does moving the start menu to the center of the bar improve efficiency when working with the machine, or simply confuse current users, who had been accustomed to start menu being in the lower left corner since Windows 95, some thirty years ago? Cause that's being sold as innovation too! Is it innovation, that user replaceable batteries were removed in favor of internal ones, for which you need precision tools to replace, not to mention replace on the fly? Is it innovation, to tie everything to the cloud, where local instance is possible, be it self hosting key software or completely contained instance? Does it make sense, to buy newer locomotive, that can run 230 KM/h and tow more, when everywhere you send it, track maximum speed is 160 KM/h and an older model with that top speed is significantly cheaper can already tow train, that completely fills longest tracks in marshaling yards in the country/on the continent? Is it really innovation for a farm, buying a tractor with better miles per gallon, that they can't fix them selves and have to rely on expensive authorized service center? Or is it innovation, buying robotic combines, when a man has to monitor, where the combine is going and, though in rare cases, use remote control to correct the combines heading? Is it innovation to go electric cars, when you're still burning coal to make electricity? Isn't that just steam power with extra steps? Well, given approach of companies, such as Microsoft or John Deer, that is innovation, but do we have higher value in the products they sell out of these innovation? I'd argue not, but their revenues sure seem to indicate they do... And now imagine some 20% of US workforce "innovating" to get by. How many rent-seeking and downright fraudulent "innovations" will there be on the market, that is hard to navigate as is? Odds are, companies would end up buying these "get money out of peoples pockets" "innovations", and we'd be left with worse than before we started. Innovation, so that you provide better value to your customers has been gone for some twenty years Louis, now it's all about building recurring income. And look at it from employee's point of view. There is an agreement between employee and employer, that certain type of work will be provided at certain salary paid on date X at purchasing power Y. Why would an employee do work of other roles in the company, when he/she doesn't get extra real value compensation from it? And why should that employee have to be exposed to risk of losing his/her job, when the job he/she agreed to do is being done to objectively satisfactory levels, as outlined in the contract/agreed upon? The answer, is neither should make change, because that's how both parties should be satisfied, per terms of contract.
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  1267. And what about the fact, that employees have right to privacy? What about the fact, that the computer used for this in their homes, is usually in the same network? I know, tin foil fool talking here, but I really don't think that the employer has the right to know, what's going on on the remote network, or what's going on in the employee's house. I really don't think that employer is entitled to this, even for as beneficial reasons as those, which you have stated. Rather, he should measure results categorize those and look for commonalities in them. There is another question to answer. Should the employer discipline and employee, who doesn't do anything, when at home or at work, for long periods of time, while all the assigned work is done? (happened to me once) I'd say not! One could try to funnel more work to that guy, but shouldn't the employee get higher salary then? He's providing more to the company, but he has no incentive to do so and no compensation for this extra work! So he'll likely quit. The core question here has to come from a different point. I'd say, that what need's to change is remuneration for jobs. What I'd like to see is a system, where there is a monthly "retainer" to establish basic cooperation between employer and employee and every task carried out to be awarded some amount of money. And let the employee do, what he want's, pay him, for what he did and if employer thinks it's not enough, end the relationship. Lawyers work this way.
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  1268.  @jascrandom9855  Reality disagrees with your assessment.
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  1269.  @leoprg5330  how high is your birth rate? If it's under 2,5 your argument is uninformed if it's under 2,1, it's straight BS
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  1270. Let's face it, the ones, who are absolutely going to rake buck will be Synology, Seagate and whoever provides the easiest to use video cutting software. People are just gonna download, what they'll want to view on repeat, cut the ads out and watch...
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  1271. Trust me, this is not just France. In most of Europe, youth unemployment is twice that of general unemployment. The jobs the young could take are gone, because those tend to be environmentally more damaging and all of the EU (well most of the west) currently has green high. Green policies can't work, however, in places that are significantly poorer. In this regard, the EU has failed so far. We already have basically German prices, but our wages remained nationally specific. This is what the EU need's to focus on now. How to raise wages throughout the EU and how to employ the youth (which will kill radicalism as a side effect). Yes, the environment will suffer. But such is the price of progress and social peace.
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  1272. Allow me to correct Megyn Kelly about something. It's not that the country watched. Thanks to youtube, the world watched! She's not getting a role anywhere in the western world ever again.
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  1273.  @arigornstrider  I mean... typical game release schedual these days. It's "refreshing" to see this in professional field as well :D
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  1274.  @greenaum  Oh yes you can. Take transportation with pre-paid tickets. Literally in bylaws of DPMB, there is quote, that by boarding the vehicle, you consent to terms and conditions. Even before you validate your ticket. As for EULA being declared meaningless, could you point to the ruling? I do recall something about it, but I thought that was binding only for one court district
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  1275. Lovely... And that's only January!
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  1276. Don't give him ideas!
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  1277.  @ДжейШмидт  neither should corporate... Simply put catch all clause into contract and done. Bank can debank you for what ever reason they can think of, if the activity you partake in becomes ever so slightly more unacceptable in "society".
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  1278. The problem is also the laws and general approach to disabilities in the West. I live in Czechia, suffer with autism. As autistic person, I can never hold a gun license anymore (could have until recently), so jobs like game keeper or policeman are closed to me completely. I have to go through extensive testing to be permitted to drive (something I'm working on at the moment), when about half the jobs posted on job boards require not just the license, but also for me to be active driver, eg, at least two years of daily driving. My diagnosis is actively used against me by the society. A diagnosis I got, so that I can be better educated to better contribute to the society. But do I have incentive to contribute to society, if I am being discriminated against by these laws?
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  1279. "In the end, we decided to make our own index..." Me: Ah, yess... the age old, there were three methods, we saught to unify them and now, there are four... :D
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  1280.  @MgelikaXevi  It's better to have no postings, than being turned away for BS reasons. We don't need employers, that don't play fair in economy.
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  1281.  @eq2092  Nope. Always got praises, how clear it was, that I wanted to work. How down to earth my requirements are... You might want to read a bit closer... particularly around the part, where they posted the same position the very next week... as in literally over the weekend of refusing me.
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  1282. America: "We're number 1 in police related deaths in the world!" France: "Hold my wine!"
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  1283. Peter, we have allies for now... There's election coming up in the US and if Trump manages to pull through abandoning of NATO... We're properly screwed
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  1284.  @gfys756  There is an issue of him getting elected and immunity. Believe it or not, the US has a precedent, where candidate ran for office of the President from da clink once already. That time, he wasn't elected, but he wasn't Donald Trump, who's attempting a reconquista of the title. Say he gets imprisoned, elections happen, he wins, because of hyperpartisanhip in US electorate and... He assumes office. He assumes office. What's stopping him from pardoning himself and pulling the US out of NATO then? Because the US doesn't have safeguards against this on federal level (most states do)
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  1285. Yeah, problem is, these effects did not come to pass just yet. You know, how things work around here... we try something and it always ends poorly...
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  1286. There is actually argument for MAINTAINING inefficient ships, which don't burn so well and burn lower quality fuel. The reason is, that these lower quality fuels when burned, contribute to planetary cooling by releasing aerosols into the atmosphere, which reflect solar rays , cooling the planet. Meaning, by going away from burning stuff and burning more efficiently, we could accelerate average temperature rise, rather than help the environment. These old ships could actually be the solution for global warming, if we found a substance, which wouldn't harm ocean life and made it mandatory to burn it along with fuel for ships, we could reverse global warming. We'd simply need to emmit enough to block off about 4% of the sky to reverse global warming and this way, since the artificially formed clouds would be over oceans, there would not be that much pushback against it, unlike other solutions, like limiting production and consumption, which will inevitable backfire due to social pressure this creates. Scrapping these old, inefficient ships is the most counterintiutive ecological blunder we could do.
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  1287.  @thothrax5621  That's not my framing. Key is, the scope of what is being attempted to accomplish. things like this don't just stop slowly. They take a lot of time and effort to get on the way. Hence why he's running out of time.
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  1288. We need consumer protection laws on a global basis, with presumption of liability on the manufacturer of the device and refundable fines... eg. they pay the astronomical fine first and then they can protest... otherwise, expropriation.
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  1289.  @brankoprosic5852  either start dropping stats or shut up.
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  1290. Well, Thunder, in this case, we simply all hope. The reason is, there are not many alternatives out there for people in rural areas... Nobody, and I do mean nobody, will willingly provide fiber to the premises of the smallest outback station or a cabin deep in the forest. Problem is, these kinds of places seem to be becoming the last places with affordable housing prices. :(
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  1291. Just make it mandatory for the dealerships to remove the interrupt device upon debt repayment. Problem solved
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  1292. Even accountants aren't exactly to blame for tax evasion. Sure, there are offices like that, but in accounting itself there are certain rules and aims, one of which is to give fair and true picture about the company. This is, when looking from the outside, mostly important for taxes, but, much more important is the inner point of view. How are the managers and owners decide, how to manage their companies, if their information is not right?! That is the principle, which vast majority of accountants, I know, follow. It's the coulture of the companies, that hire these accountants. If you want to end tax evasion, you have to make sure, that even successful evasion has unbearable and plainly visible costs to the companies and more importantly owners.
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  1293. Waht is sexual assault? The west has moved the pole to the point, where woman lying about it ten years later counts as one.
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  1294. Joker... get an economy degree... Gold standard? Really? Over 100% debt being high? Look at Japan! :D
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  1295. Credit cards are not scary. There are these things called limits, which you CAN request be lower than what's usually offered. I hold two credit cards, one for my daily spend, that provides me 1% cash back (sadly, that's the best offer you can get where I live), but that is capped at my income - monthly wired expenses - investments and savings. As such, I have never been overdue on this credit card since I got it. The other is my travel credit card, which I used only for such expenses, that will be refunded to me within a month, say mom needs to buy some seed for her garden or dad needs some tools, or if I ever am sent on a business trip. Know what you can afford people and act accordingly! Outside of truly unexpectable stuff, (and no, car repair is not unexpectable. That is inevitable, the only question is when), credit cards are not your enemy, so long you use them right.
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  1296. Yeah, posted a carefully worded letter in community. Hopefully they will at least give us a road map.
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  1297. Louis, fee credit cards are not a scam. You need to do some napkin math to determine, whether the card is worth it to you, but it is useful. I currently hold two credit cards. One gives me 1% towards retirement benefits (we don't have as advanced credit card market as the US has) and would cost me some 50 CZK a month, if I wouldn't use it every day, hence I qualify for the card being free, because I run well over triple of the requirement. My second card is about 200 USD a year, but it's a travel card, meaning it carries concierge service and more importantly, travel insurance. Meaning I can feel safe, while abroad, be it on vacation or on a business trip, for which a shitty boss doesn't buy me travel insurance (worked for such A-hole in the beginnings of my career), even though it's his duty according to the law, that if something happens to me and someone were to call me an ambulance over in the US, I won't end up member of medical indebtedness victims club. I'm eyeing a card that would give me 1% back on home depot-esque stores for when I'll have a house, because I know, that I will run at least 60k CZK a year on renovations and materials too, at which point the card would be net benefit for me, in spite of 600 CZK annual fee. You just have to run the numbers man.
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  1298. Well, Louis, you're not as bad at business as you imply here... You may be terrible at HR, but here I'm not surprised about your confusion. The problem is, there is a lot of psychology in trading. As a result marketing companies, that don't have actual working products, seek out the money and, since they are essentially only very effective sales and nothing else, they outcompeet you, who has actually built something, that work's, on the bid, securing funding for a company, which will inevitably fail, because it's either failing on or outright lacking the product/service to sell. Sometimes, it goes as far as denying the laws of physics. Look at Hyperloop, for instance, You get Elon's sales capabilities, so there is no problem getting the funding, but if you look at the science and realise, what Hyperloop is from engeneering standpoint, you'll understand, why it can't be done. And then you'll get fanboys of the project, who will defend the idea to the point of denying the laws of physics, because Elon told them, it will work, and people with same approach to stuff will support these ideas, be it with purchase of the product or service, or outright investing in the thing. Or electric planes, Elon him self admitted, that in order to get the range from such plane, to fly, he'd need the plane's wieght on takeoff to be 70% just batteries... which kind of make's landing such plane rather problematic. It is for precisely this weight reason, because planes are extraordinarily heavier on takeoff, that planes have to dump fuel, if they pass safe landing wieght limits. The gear might actually collapse, because of that extra weight. Meaning, an electric plane, that's majestically flying through the sky, would likely never be economically feasable, because it looses capacity on the count of being capable of safely landing. To ilustrate this. Imagine flying a 747 or an A380, with total passenger capacity of 30 due to weight constrictions. Yeah, and such ideas get the green light from investors and governments alike, because global warming has some damn good PR and is an actual major problem to solve. A bunch of marketing heavy guys, like Elon Musk, exploit the psychological component of the situation and simply profiteer from sale of '"solution", that is economically, or outright scientifically, impossible to implement. And yet, people, who have the ability to divert the money, sometimes even elected ones, don't do their math right on the subject, or outright join in on this, building political capital off support for these useless "solutions". If this remind's you of someone banned from youtube and other social media platforms, yep. It's Alex Jones all over again, the only difference is, that Elon doesn't create the threat, to which he's selling a solution. I use Elon, because he is probably the most visible person to point this stuff out, but there are scores of mobs of people like him. All of these people competing with you for money of people, who trade on the market, and governments alike, and who don't do extensive research of the ideas they support with their money. They aren't interested, in actual ROI, but rather on perceeved ROI, which, unfrotuantely, isn't based off real life context. As a result, the stock market doesn't represent real economy, the devide between it and real economy is only growing, and people, who actually have sensible, but not so bombastic or revolutionary ideas for solutions, don't get the money they need to fund their projects. Another idea, that is fortunately getting traction, but one that also make's the selection process even more difficult, is longer term ROI. It realizes one key idea, that while company is growing, it can't be proffitable, because everything earned is/should be reinvested in the company itself. Problem is, this combined with what I stated above, lead's to a motherlode of money being wasted on the market by people, who didn't properly think about the company they are investing in. About Uber. You are WRONG. While it is true, that the car was purchased by the driver and it's serviced and maintained by the driver and the car need's to be insured etc. etc.. Well, same hold's true, if you hire a car. It still need's to be insured (at least where I live, car owner's insurence is mandatory) and everything, because even the guy leasing the car, in this case with himself as a driver, need's to make a profit and therefore wouldn't (psychological influence excluded) be willing to lease for compensation, which wouldn't cover his costs. Therefore, if UBER get's fully autonomous cars, they could ditch the driver's sallary (or at least the portion for actual driving) and set up a maintenance facility to laverage economies of scale, making the maintenance costs low enough or even lower than what a driver would demand for maintaining his car. Therefore they could become profitable, because fewer people could tend to a larger fleet of vehicles in circulation, lowering the largest expense on most income and expenses statement. In theory, unless we're talking catastrophic vomiting escapades, which would render the car impossible to maintain, there is actually a way to make this massively profitable for the company, not so much for everyone else, because all the variables here can be influenced by the compnay. Silf driving car ban/demand for driver to be present, when car is in operation? Well, you could lobby against such legislation. Not enough money? Make an IPO or try to sell more shares. Yes, it is a gamble for both the investor and the company, but one that actually has a businessplan, which could work, if the idea hold's and is not dependent on something, that literally can't be controlled, like the ammount of materials needed to invest in the plane or the impossible task of maintaining near vaccume in a tube serveral hundred miles long, regardless of the number of sections.
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  1299. Well, Louis, it's settled. Next time you're not going anywhere. Those three are drug dependent on you. :)
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  1300.  @abedmarachli7345  Fortunately not, that would make me a smoker too (am the only non smoker in the family) :D I too happen to have a friend, who infront of me drank himself into liver failure (my vote was deciding to take him to the hospital). Furtantely, he's still young and we cought it early, so he managed to recover. I have seen a girl, who wasn't prepartying, to end up with alcohol poisoning after a single drink. I myself have ended up in the hospital after a night of very irresponsible drinking. There is indeed danger in alcohol, but that is why it is so important, to drink responsibly, not to evade it outright. I for one didn't touch hard alcohol for five years after that hospital incident (and still drink hard alcohol very rarely), shifted to wine and made it a rule to never drink alone and more than one bottle in a day (that's about two glasses each). That is how much I know I can handle safely, without endangering myself. The problem is, much like driving or riding a bike, you don't learn, without doing it. We as humans do dangerous things all the time, but we learn, how to do them safely with experience. Yes, there are bad outcomes, but that doesn't mean, we shouldn't do it at all, particularly if there is a reason to do it. Because everything can have a bad outcome.
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  1301. Geezes crhist, this needs to be stopped. Intelectual property rights have to be made far more specific, what can and cannot be protected.
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  1302. Peter Zeihan: "The Middle East is the calmest place on earth for once." Me: "Truly, the hell has frozen over."
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  1303. Yeah, i've seen that rout too. My dad used to have a trucking business. We were the best company in or field. The best. But then, a couple of errors on our part, Polish bringing in fuel subsidies for their companies and a change in management of our largest clients resulted in company going bankrupt. Fast forward to twenty years of indebtedness, because the company didn't take the debts with it, break up of the family... And to this day, my father is still paying interest on all those business debts.... Dad never went to college, he's effectively in student loan teritory.
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  1304. Never be swayed by the argument "he/she didn't have the weapon legally!". how was the shooting otherwise? What if the guy was a fellon and thus barred from holding firearms, but the shooting were clean (say the other guy drew first)? Are we really going to question, whether someone should have had means to defend him self, before wondering, whether the use of said means was appropriate given the SITUATION?! Should a felons life be forfeit, simply because he/she did something wrong in the past and did not get death penalty then? No, even a felon is a human in my eyes and should be extended the same courtesy as anyone else!
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  1305. OK, with what I've seen in this video, the only true communists in all of fiction, are the Borg...
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  1306.  @chrisfabbri9535  Well, not exactly. This work's as you say with sales tax or VAT, or consumption taxes, such as gas or would have been carbon tax, but doesn't work with estate tax or estate transfer tax... As estate tax effectively become's rent and estate transfer tax easily barr's purchase.
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  1307.  @HyperScorpio8688  Somebody already mentioned HK, but there are still other defense firms in the EU. There's a factory that makes small armas in Cugir, Romania, there is still CSG, which is now Czech company, that actually owns Colt, so moving that production line out of US would both help Europe and damage the US. There's Rheinmetal, who make tanks, there's Tatra, who make trucks which carry artillery pieces. Airbus has military wing, we've got Saab... Europe is not dead in terms of military industrial complex. It's dormant. And Donald will regret waking it up.
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  1308. They did, remember the oil crisis caused by OPEC?
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  1309. no. 1 traitor country, that is.
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  1310. If there were only polititians, who actually consedered long term effects of their policies... Naaah, that doesn't win elections
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  1311. Man, never say that when someone lashes out, he/she's a spoiled child or like a spoiled child. I'm in that boat. I did everything right, got my self a degree in finance, always dressed in suits for interviews, always on my best behavior, most of the times knew more about the company, then HR ladies interviewing me and where am I? Still living with my parents and no meaningful income. To make things worse because I'm autistic, I can't hold a driver's license anymore (can have commercial license for A380 though), which render's me basically unemployable in most fields. I've been feeling like avenging my self on the society at large quite a few times. I didn't only because I have some support from people and pets around me. How did I end up, where I am? Five years of job hunting with no success. Five years of hearing praise for my skills as an accountant, yet can't get hired. "Not enough working experience." is what I hear all the time and I feel I'm out of options. And even though I was always known for my stubbornness, when trying to achieve something, even I am beginning to falter. Now, most things I know about China come from history lessons and your videos. From these, I've come to the conclusion, that support for people who messed up or had dealt a bad hand in life ain't exactly common in China. Correct me, if I'm wrong here. But if I'm right, I understand why someone would do something as heinous as this. The feeling of hopelessness is a strong motivator, which breeds resentment. These are basically perfect storm for violent behavior. Now imagine what would after 5 years of these feelings do to a guy's psyche. Suddenly such actions look desperate, rather than simply "spoiled kid territory".
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  1312. I don't really think, that bringing back the military service would help. I for one would refuse vehemently to even touch a gun, if it meant protecting the politicians, who took away my ability as a civilian to own a gun and made me do psycho-tests to earn a driver's license, which is kind of necessary to hold down a job, even if you live in a city! Rather, I'd say, that what we need, is to finaly federalize Europe and merge our armies together... However, that would mean shutting down anyone, who'd talk about not getting embroiled in conflicts, that are not our own...
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  1313. Not sure which would be scarier, when trying to deal with copyright lawsuit possibly asociated with an attempted homicide... I mean... LegalEagle and Lenorad French... or Franziska Fon Karma and Simon Blackquil? Seriously, This is insine! This is Capcom level insane lawsuit! The only two things this lacks to qualify as fiction are testimony delivered through heavily armed helicopter drone and certain blue jacketed attorney!
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  1314.  @justinwhite2725  Im in a similar position, although I hate my employer. Just today, my trousers got torn. There wasnt a usable sewing kit ať work, so I told my boss And my collegue, that ill buy some new ones, cause policy on acceptable clothes. I got berrated over my attendence by my bosses boss. Meanwhile ive been pulling 9 and longer workdays on a 40 Hour workweek.
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  1315. As for, whether your system of hiring is exploitative, it can be. Key is, what is the job about? If you let a guy fix a board and he fixes it, hell even if he worked for you for one day, I'd say that's fine, as long as the work is not for only one day or one timer in a project. With you it's fine, because you have actual paying job (and you could pay for that one day at reduced or even full rate) lined up after the interview. If I were a director, hiring a cameraman, I'd go with him somewhere and let him film me, se how he handle's the gear. This is fine, because there is this movie, he's going to film when hired. But then there are cases such as those, Joshua Fluke point's to, where a company let's a junior developer build a database or a site, uses that site with little to no alterations and doesn't hire the guy. That is exploitative.
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  1316. Yep, get yourself a UniFi controller (either in the cloud, a cloudkey or setup on one of your devices), and any Ubiquiti UniFi AP. You'll be able to direct an AP to pair SSIDs with VLANs under "Wireless Networks" settings.
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  1317.  @michaeljaques77  Well, it depands. If you want to run captive portal for guests, then controller is required 24/7, otherwise, no. The controller is not just an interface, but APs, switches and gateways from UniFi family can work without it, once they're set up. I personaly believe that on premisis controller is the best choice, but, controller software has trouble with power outages, so unless you're willing to buy Gen2 cloud key, or go cloud, you would need UPS to make sure, that nothing bad happens to the controller, while it is running. The biggest benefit of controller running 24/7 is that you see your network performance and thus can better handle your network better. Another benefit lies in automated updates of your APs. But, you can run it only when configuring new equipment and then turning it off too, in which case, Raspberry Pi would be the best choice for platform for the controller.
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  1318.  @michaeljaques77  In that case, make sure you'll open/forward ports 80 and 8443 to that VM. Port 80 is to access the GUI, port 8443 is for managed devices
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  1319.  @michaeljaques77  on a router, yes, however, you still need to make sure that VMs firewall doesn't block it too. I don't know much about virtualisation, but if there is some kind of firewall involved on VM or as part of software running the virtual enviroment, you will need to make sure these ports are open. Again, I'm speaking about firewalls on the actual machine this is supposed to run on. edit: If you'll need to cross networks reaching the controller, use DHCP option 43
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  1320.  @michaeljaques77  Unless there are firewalls on the servers them selves. Anyway, if it doesn't work, you'll know where to look.
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  1321.  @owowowdhxbxgakwlcybwxsimcwx  Man, that is not likely to work, if his device is a newer one. EU regulatory body and US FCC demanded lock to be put in place a few years ago, so that firmware can only be of device manufacturers make. This was done to prevent people using illegal frequencies (here in Europe ch 14, for instance). Therefore, he might not be able to flash is Asus.
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  1322. Not sure, whether alienating someone, who's actually working the literal fields, creating food one one hand and ensuring, that the land can actually take in and store water, so that there are not floods, is the best idea...
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  1323.  @anasqader3851  well, we could start with wuigers, remind our selves of Tibet and Tiennanmen massacre, add the nonstop threats to Taiwan, inability to keep a promise regarding Hong Kong and unleashing covid on Earth by first keeping quiet, later lying about it and paralizing WHO... And prifitering from all of the above!
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  1324.  @personzorz  There is a very fine line between there. You see, there is only one place, where you are truly safe through regulation and that is prison. Do you want to live in prison? Let me remind you, we're using these facilities as punishment. Regulation should address abhorent excesses, not make doing business impossible, because we suffer as a result. Just look at zoning, which are also a form of regulation, or natural conservation zones or energy efficiency standards for new buildings. That land may be pretty, even well intentioned, but there could have been a lot of houses built, if there were no such regulation and we wouldn't pay 50%-60% of our gross income on roof over our heads!
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  1325.  @382u3uuej  Pretty sure, it's not just bias. You see, what you talk about is true to some extent, but there is a problem in your logic. If we accept this bias as true, why are companies not actively developing employee retention strategies? Why is it, that wages don't keep up with inflation and the best you can expect, even in companies posting record profits, is some 3% to 4% year on year nominal raise and no improvement to benefits? You'd expect, that if an employee can do more qualified job, the company would increase their salary more than just inflation and provide more enticing benefits, because that employee can do the lower job more efficiently (because of faster training) and/or advance within the company to appropriate position, when company growth demands it. Yet, we see yearly culling of headcount and twenty to thirty years of stagnant wages. If it's more expensive in the long run, to always hunt for new employees, why is it, that shifting companies every two or so years brings so much more income to the emplyoee? Shouldn't company remove this incentive by increasing it's wage growth above the inflation level or better yet, incorporate langugage into their contracts, that guarantees inflation raises every year and merit raises only being considered above that? After all, emplyoees don't work for nominal wage, they work for the real one, hence, if company isn't willing to increase wage sufficiently, they'll be forced out by costs of living. If it indeed is so much cheaper, to keep old employees, why don't we see retention effort beyond public relation stunts? Why do we see pipeline postings, that never have actual position to be filled behind them all the time? Why do we see so many sales positions marketed as something else, like consulting or even highly technical work like computer networking? Why do companies use this bait-and-switch? Why is it, that company creates a recreation room, as Bender would say it, with Blackjack and hookers, and then hold it against the employee for utilizing those facilities even once? If you're employed only to do the work, why invest in those facilities? Hence, why I think, you are wrong. And why you should look at employers with more critical eyes.
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  1326.  @mikaelantonkurki  You have no idea, how big of a task you just came up with. Absolutely no idea, how that would destroy the ecosystem.
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  1327.  @mikaelantonkurki  Let's take plastics for instance. We need them. Even tin/steel cans and paper containers have internal lining made from plastic. We need to produce them and no, they can't be recycled. It's not efficient enough due to how energy intense recycling is. The only other way, thto produce plastics is from biomass. Not all biomass can be used for this. One suitable plant is corn. Now, that's how much extra corn planted? How many acres of rainforests turned into fields? Because you need the land to be cheap to keep costs down and you still need fuel to harvest that corn, or you need to some kind of grid based energy to run the harvesters, because batteries are impractical due to vehicle weight as I mentioned already, further decreasing competitiveness of this method. And that's one product group, that's produced from oil! Even if I claimed it be 1000 different products, that's 1/40 of products made from oil! What about heating? Are you seriously going to endorse whaling, because not everywhere can have electricity as source of heating, because of no access to grid, not good location for wind and solar won't heat you enough in winter. Nobody wants to permit coal due to CO2 emissions and even wood is frowned upon. So what's the alternative? This is something "green people" don't like to hear, but it's a historical fact. Expansion of use of oil sourced fuels for heating saved whales from extinction, because before this shift, we used whale oil for lighting and heating! Without oil that would have to be walked back. Roadbuilding. How much more gravel would we have to refine and mine to replace asphalt, which is a petroleum product? The final fraction of oil. That's how much more land destroyed by mines for these resources? Where will you get sulphur and other chemicals, which are byproducts of oil industry (containted as contaminants in crude oil)? That would now have to be produced actively! Where will you get that? Let me remind you, that even wine needs to be sulfured to stop it's fermentation process (yep, even wine has oil industry product in it) 95% of all food is made with use of oil, mostly in fuel, packaging, but also in fertilizers and herbicides. Those would also have to be replaced or farms would have to be enlarged. That's how much more land cleared, so that we have same foodstuffs output? The option, of producing less or not producing doesn't work. You need to eat, no way around it. You need to have clothes and have stuff you need for your work, whatever that is. These also have some oil cost in them. And forget about redistribution. That also needs fuel, because you really can't have 100% renewable or electric power source for ships. Forget about sails too. Assuming one TEU (standard for container shipping), weighs 24 tones (limit for three axle trailer for road transport in Czech Republic) and I will be generous and say that's just cargo, to replace Emma Maersk, just one of the larger container ships, you'd need 66 clippers. The last sailship, that could compete with a steamer was a clipper. There are dozens of ships similar in size of Emma Maersk and hundreds and thousands of smaller ones. That's how large total crew and therefore how big a strain on marine wildlife feeding them, if you were to replace entirety of worlds merchant fleet with the best sail had given us? Electricity doesn't work either, because of the distances these ships travel. You'd have to tow a barge with sole cargo of batteries for the ship itself, and that's assuming you'd even be able to move that barge without external source of power! And forget about Lion batteris on a ship. Lithium fire on one would be guaranteed deaths for the entire crew!
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  1328.  @mikaelantonkurki :D And how do you get electricity to that place? Nope, doesn't work that way. You can't store it in necessary amounts. That is why actual grid specialists were warning against wind and solar. You need fossil fuels for base load, unless you've got nuclear, but look at Germany and even that has it's draw backs, given current prices of Uranium. There are very very few places, where you've got consistent enough winds to have green base. Furthermore, electric heating in any shape or form will always be more expensive than other methods, because electricity is a more refined product, meaning, unless you artificially make other heat sources more expensive (which is a problem, because if you do it in a targeted way, it will get overturned by the courts as illegal market manipulation), electricity will never be competitive with localized heat sources, partuclarly with wood, which is all around us outside of deserts! It is, because at some place, somewhere on the grid, you had to burn some kind of fuel, to have energy NOW. Not when it shines or blows somewhere sixty miles away! What you suggest, leaves you without source of heat in the middle of a winter, because someone wanted to save money on a powerline. However, your "response" didn't answer my other points. Where is your clipper fleet? Where are your alternatives to plastics, that have exactly the same characteristics like plastics? Where are your ecnomically comparable fertilizers and pesticides and where are the laws of physics denying tractors and harvesters to harvest crops on electricity?!
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  1329.  @mikaelantonkurki  Nope. While nuclear can provide base load, Europe doesn't have it's own nuclear fuel production capabilities, nor do we have uranium deposits, which could easily be mined (due to a number of factors, including greenness of today's population. Wink, wink Germany). Solar and wind are intermittent and there is no way of storing power to account for this intermittency on this scale. Consumption is also intermitent, but along a different curve. As for hydro. Nope. Hydro power has one major problem. Water is used for other purposes as well and with increased tamperatures, water storage for drinking and irrigation will become far more prominent uses of dams, meaning they can't be used to counterbalance this intermittency. And on top of that, there is the grid itself, which is already at capacity. Add more high energy consumption like EVs or large scale heating to it, you will cause nation wide blackouts. And that's still note addressing all the need for plastics I mentioned earlier.
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  1330. I disagree here. there are other things, that need to happen. Just look at Europe! We may not have quite as long trains as in the US, but we too did do some crazy shit. Here are the lessons from the most railroaded country on Earth. 1) expropriate the tracks from different railroads and create a group of federally owned companies, one in each state, that would be responsible for track maintenance and that would have the authority to order trains, irrespective of which company they belong to, to do shit, as well as blacklisting railroads from using the system for breaking the rules. 2) Get rid of railroad crossings on main coridor lines. In Czech Republic, we have two major rail lines between our capitol of Prague and Brno, the Coridor and Tišnovka. These days, Coridor is mostly used by long haul passenger trains, while Tišnovka is extensively used for freight. Why? Precisely because there are very few level railroad crossings on Tišnovka. There are bridges and overpasses instead. Really, crossings should only be on branch and tow lines. Eg. upgrade your infrastructure to accomodate these hyperefficient trains, or all that freight is back on the road. 3) Set up yearly maintenance checks for every traincar. This check should be performed by specialised companies, that would be paid not by the railroads, but by the railroad maintenance companies mentioned above, and if car doesn't pass, it doesn't leave the yard, until it's fixed at owner's expense. (similar to airtravel) 4) Curb power of employers. Retaliation by a company against an employee for effectively whistleblowing must lead to extensive fines, seizure of company stocks, if there are any, starting with the largest holders (eg, company owners need to be held responsible for this kind of behaviour) and, finally 5-7 years in prison and ban on working in industry for the emmideate superviser, who carried out said retaliation, 10 years for the executive, who ordered it. Furthermore, refusal to hire the whistleblower by other companies should carry similar punishment, because a reasonable juror could come to a conclusion, that the act of blowing the whistle in the employee's past, had been the actual reason for not hiring this employee.
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  1331. Hold up, old pal! Are you describing Johnson or Tzeentch? Doing crazy random things, cause he could...
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  1332. I'm sorry, my legal friend, but I really don't think first ammendment beats the second. The way I see it, second protects the first, but that is their only relation. I appreciate the difficulty of the choice of taking or not taking the guns out yet, however, at the same time I ask myself, "if not now, when, after all we've seen so far?". "Where is the line, which must not be crossed?". I am very much worried, that days of Gandhi a forever past and that no civilised means will suffice in the current crisis, for the opposition has become hardened, nonresponsive, perhaps even ignorant of the facts. Which is worse, even on our side, there are such people in great numbers. So, answer yourself this question, how far would this have to go for you to draw? I am very much worried, that in this case, with this person, a lot of people would to their horror discover they are way past this treshold. Would you act like this, if he ordered the army? would you take up arms when tanks will be rolling through DC, or would you take up arms only when the Air Force started bombing the Supreme court? While one certainly shouldn't act prematurely with this kind of action, acting too late will achieve nothing too. At that point, you went to bed in a free society and woke up in a totalitarian dictatorship. A line has to be drawn after which you step on to the next box and it must not move no matter what. If that box is to be of ammo... then there is no other way around. Words will only get you so far. When the other side can shut you up permanently, be it through non-lethal means, your words are useless. It is grim, but it is the truth none the less.
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  1333. Can't similar approach as NOS be used? Simply introduce just before the combustion?
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  1334. Back up. A thermometer shaped gun? Seriously? I have so many questions. Like, in the US, does the second ammendment protect these... items? If not, what are the conditions to carry one? Can you open carry? Do you need a gun license in Europe? Or is it an equivalent to class D weapon in Czech Republic? Are they in use on the USS Enterprise? If so, which one? A? B? or E? What's the total firepower of this item? Is there a phaser attatched to the measuring mechanism, which would activate and "pacify" the "victim", if he/she was determined to have a fever? Does the Senate have to aprove use of these items, or will Lord Vader's consent be sufficient? And how many universes must I jump with Rick & Morty to understand this level of missinformation? Do I have to make a bargain with Dormamu or Bill Cipher? Could either of these explain it to me? Or should I approach the Q for an explenation? Will the Prophets help? And do I need to seek a proffesional's help after watching this video?
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  1335. Forget aggregate inflation numbers. until such time, as those responsible pay the rest and stop undermining European industry (*caugh* Germany caugh All the pro green initiatives), inflation will rise. If Germans did not abandon nuclear power in favor of unreliable energy sources, we wouldn't have been here. Why? Because they wouldn't need so much gas to cover for the pits in unreliable energy production... Because of green insanity, wages in actually productive sectors are down, because local costs are artificially higher and green friendly fields don't have the efficiency of the normal ones, hence can't offer more. This all results in lowering of real wages across the board. Lowering standards of living across Europe. When I changed jobs last year, I got a fairly significant bump in salary. As result of inflation, that bump is gone now and I'm now somewhere on the level of my previous salary in terms of real income. Some basic goods have risen in prices not by fractions of price, even significant ones. No some basic needs have more than doubled!
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  1336. Louis, I feel you. Yeah censorship, simply because it's private is a problem, ont hte other hand, as companies, they need to evade litigation. Even if the government didn't act on this, there is a chance, that someone could sue for some kind of damages as a result of something similar. let's say, that someone would use Twitter to call a hit on a synagog and a bunch of people died. Shouldn't such communication be silenced? And since there is good likelyhood, that this person/group will continue on different media, shouldn't all these media be allowed to censor that person? They aren't obligated to provide public service, so that affirmative defence is out and the companies should have a way of dodging litigation, resulting from actions of effectively third parties, because, otherwise through allowing comunication to be carried out over their network, they could be considered complicit in the act and thus face the same charges as those, who carried out the act them selves. If what happened was criminal, They would actually be drawn in as coconspirators. ISPs could claim, that they don't track user traffic and thus couldn't know about the atttack and thus are off the hook, but what about companies, who's literal business model is centered around what people think, talk about and do together and selling that info to ad agencies? That defence is gone like that. Not to mention, there are litigation costs regardless of lawsuit outcome. So shouldn't companies have the right to do this, if they do so avoiding a lawsuit? There need's to be some kind of safe harbour provision even for this, because otherwise, companies could simply point to a threat of litigation and they would have a reasonable excuse, you can't argue much against. And before you say, "But nobody would sue over that!", think again, Pepsi, co. was sued over not delivering a harrier fighter jet they promised in an ad! In the US all kinds of litigation is possible! I realise, this is a devil's advocate argument, but this too is a thing to consider. Then there is infrastructure problem. Sure, you could get a bunch of friends together and create a mesh-esque style system, which would be accessed as a website, but that still need's to have decent speeds, where your individual servers will be placed. I have seen very few ISPs, that would provide symetric or even inverse data plans to consumers. So there may be other hurdles to overcome in real world too. And one more thing. Most people, who subscribe to people like you, Eli, Crosstalk Solutions or even LTT, are above average computer literate. We know how to block ads and do that with religious vigor. Keeping any ads in the video doesn't drop a cent in ad revenue from most of your subscribers.
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  1337. That's cute. Now try Czech
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  1338. Hm... so we "release sunlight" as we metabolise sugars... Geez, there is no wonder there is global warming, when there are so many suns on Earth :D Geezes, we need presidential candidates to pass hard science tests.
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  1339. So... a military coup in the US? Oh boy, didn't have that one on my bingo card. Better get some popcorn!
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  1340. Golden Kent cigarettes were the golden key from Romania up until the 90s
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  1341. Guess, a lot of us will be moving to Nebula or similar service then... Well, it's been fun while it lasted.
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  1342. nah, if you look at some techie sites, you'll see small icons about their systems. What browser you use can be extracted from site backend.
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  1343. OK, I never thought, I would ever see bigger scam than Hyperloop, but damn! This takes the cake and the crown!
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  1344. Another thing to look for are countries, where you intend to use your cards, debit or credit. For instance, in Germany, you're out of luck if you have a Visa... most vendors don't accept them, so you're stuck with ATMs
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  1345. so, Inflation Central is joining a militarily incompetent military superpower, a nation, that thinks, treaties are toilet paper and literal failed state... yeah, not sure if that is the club that you'd want to be a part of. Also, cut out European part of Turkey, Istanbul and immediate area around the city on Asian side, call them Byzantium and I promise you a new member state in under a year :D
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  1346. I have heard, that her majesty has some sick sense of humor so... "And, that's how I became a noble..."
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  1347.  @rossmanngroup  Can't agree with you there, Louis. There are entire companies built around Youtube. Just look at Linus Tech Tips and it's sister channels. The guy built a company around video production around Youtube videos. A company thirty people strong. So, I'd say, as I mentioned in another comment, that youtubers are entreprenauers, not just freelancers (I know, subtle difference, but still) or outright businessmen. No, we as audience are not the product. It may seem that way, however, product usually can't make the choice of not getting sold. Here you can make that choice, by going elsewhere. Sure, you'll lose the content, however, you can find different content available through different means. What you are suggesting, Louis, is actually illegal. When a group of companies or entrepreneurs start to work together, to achieve something, instead of competing with each other, that is called cartel. US has entire field of laws regarding anti-trust, so this wouldn't work. Google, a monopoly, would cite anti-monopoly laws to maintain it's position (que the Senate Ironic scene from Star Wars).
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  1348.  @koketsok1513  Sure, but that means, youtube doesn't have to be the only source of income for a person. Look at Crosstalk Solutions, who essentially use youtube instead of advertising, Chriss said some time ago, that youtube bring's him customers for the IT services he's providing. I don't know, whether Tom Lawrence from Lawrence Systems uses monetization, but if he did, he'd only have an extra revenue stream to his company, while (I presume) also increasing his business through improved visibility of his company. Or what about Stormware? This Czech company produces accounting software and uses youtube to get video tutorials on how to use it for those, who bought it, saving money on teaching operators on how to use the system. Sure, their customer could buy that service too, but everyone thinks, that the employees will simply learn by working and doesn't want to invest in them... well at least initially. As I mentioned elsewhere, youtubers aren't employees, they are businessmen and, unfortunately, such is the nature of the beast. In business, there are bigger and smaller, stronger and weaker players, and the stronger player, which youtube is, has the power to get what they want out of the deal. Question then arises, whether it's worth doing business with someone, who only gives you this kind of cooperation or service, or go to someone else, or maybe even completely change the heading of that business. All the concerns you wrote are legit, and perhaps need's some redressing, perhaps through changes in copyright or limiting the freedom to negotiate a contract for the stronger player, if their strength becomes too big, but that is a different discussion, however, for the case at hand, all of it is also irrelevant, because as a business, it is entirely up to you, what business ventures you'll pursue and what tools and other business ventures you'll utilize in that pursuit. And we know, that betting on one card isn't the smartest of decisions.
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  1349. You might want to sing about 40 hours into content from Serpentza. Just so you know, what you're getting yourselves into. Particualrly on Chinese racism
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  1350. So, you told me, that the car was fine, even sold me a car, which you claimed was fine, but then you won't cover a cracked engine block, which the insurance covers, because it had a preexisting condition, meaning you knew about the crack developing in my engine... You do know, that's fraud, right?
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  1351. You need more cats, Louis
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  1352. hm... 200 USD graphics card... Could you work out, what 200 USD graphics card should cost now, taking in to consideration inflation over the years? Changing the perspective from flat price to real value?
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  1353. so, they added tournikets.... Guess I'll swim, then.
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  1354. Here are some counterarguments. Bereaucracy: Czechia. Just look at our construction permit lead times. We're some of the worst on Earth. New Brno railway station has been in the plans for over a 120 years, and it's only now beginning to get build... European Union and other democracies are making doing business harder and harder, when it comes to The Dutch Curse: Sweden. I believe, it was your video, where "it is important, what was in the country before the discovery of oil.". Everybody marvels about local way of life and civil development, but that would have been impossible to achieve without inflow of currency for oil and natural gass exploited there. Trade as source of wealth: Historically, trade was with closest neighbours. Nowdays, we can do everything over much larger distances. Zetor earned itself such a recognition in arab world, that it became synonymous with the very idea of a tractor. Shoes and clothes we wear are seldom made outside of Southeast Asia. It was the momentary unionisation of the world in terms of trade, that allowed for greater specialization and sea access became paramount. Just look at any world wealth map. You'll find the wealthiest regions near coasts or on rivers navigable by big ships. Think Hamburg, Los Angels, New York City or Tokyo, which had basically eaten Yokohama and several other cities. Meanwhile, lnadlocked countries, or countries bordering seas with no access to the ocean, tend to be on the poorer side. No, it's lack of trade interdiction, brought up by USA's dominance on the seas and formation of the European project, which eventually culminated into European Union, which removed arbitrary trade barriers, which would be more common, if, say Germany were devided into it's historical constituent states. Exporting goods would have been near impossible for, for instance from France to Croatia, because, Italy with it's own interests would stand in the way. What you'll see, if larger countries begin to break apart, trade, thanks to individual national customs, inspections and bearaucracies. Trade would get interdicted. Democracy: Democracy is NOT the best kind of governance, when it comes to resource deveilopment, which is, what you need to trade. A single party government simply sais and does, no matter the human lives, it destroys. Meanwhile, a democracy, thanks to "not in my backyard" principle, will, majority of the time, refuse to develop the resource. Case and point, Czech Republic and Lithium. There is in Cínovec mountain, as well as waste material from the old mine there (tin was mined there back in a day). Introducing the Communist party, who completely derailed joint venture with Australians, causing the venture to collapse. Another example, Iceland. Minerals needed for energy transition were found in vast quantities. A referrendum was held, and mining had been rejected over local natural beauty... which has 0 intrensic value (no tourism is not viable counterpoint, just watch the video about different types fo tourism). Now, we're waiting on just how will the Nordics (can't remember now, which scored this one) decide about phosphate mining in their country, there has not been news, that would indicate large scale mining planned. Specialization: You can't overspecialize either. Look at economies, that are severely dependent on single resource, like Russia, for which it's energy resources, all of which had been sanctioned, the Gulf states, also heavily dependent on hydrocarbons, had to create cartel to ensure, that they won't get bankrupt and now are scrambling for all kinds of investments and diversification, because, due to ideological distaste for fossil fuels currently reigning in the West, their primary, in some cases near SOLE, pinacle of specialization, export is going the way of dynasaurs, pun intended. Specialization always needs to be wheighed against domestic price security and ability to produce things to some extent domestically. If not for other reasons, to preserve the technology.
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  1355. What the? No PTO for donating blood? Are you freaking kidding me? Where the hell do they have this crazy laws? Thank god Czechia, where I live, has this provision!
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  1356. Don't hold your breath. It ain't over yet.
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  1357. Linux is for everyone. You just have to pick the right one for you. Personally, I am too spoiled by Windows, so I need GUI, so Kubuntu is my first choice, when deploying a distro. As for files, there is a simple fix. Just use NAS and only have applications on your PC. A NAS, which might as well run on Linux or, even better, FreeBSD, raising your number of operating system families to three. For me, the reason I like Linux is, that I am not in hand of Microsoft, who claimed in the past, that Win 10 will be their final version. Now they announced Win 11. Will my legacy games work under that OS? The answer is not properly. New titles regularly get released for Linux too, so that's not that big of a problem for new adopters. Bottom line is, you paid for software once already, why should you be forced to buy it again, when your operating system changes? Why should you change your operating system at all, apart of security concerns? Linux provides that for free and that's how things should be. Ask your self a question. Who owns your PC, if a third party can remotely disable it or make it unsafe, for instance, on OS level? You, or the third party?
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  1358. Yeah, you know, things have gone too lax for big companies, when youtubers have to do PSAs!
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  1359. The housing crisis is just a part of it. Just look at what Commission is pushing for. Net zero, which means industry can't exist. Industry, which has the capacity to actually gainfully employ people. Which beautifully ties into wage shortage because employers behave like a cartel even in nations with below natural unemployment. Therefore, young people would need double to tripple the salaries, to afford ANY lodging, even in ghettos, whcih have lower rents! Furthermore, the Commission has pushed through regulation, which now has to be incorporated into the law, stating that fresh drivers can't drive between 12am and 6am tocurb drunk driving. Which is overlooks two major problems. 1) Fresh driver =/= young driver. A 30 something driver with a fresh license won't be driving to a bar... No he'll be driving from work home between 12am and 6am, because he was on afternoon shift! That is, assuming ESG won't kill that driver's employer. This is result of environmentalism!
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  1360.  @markusgorelli5278  Yeah, it depends... you could say, that money preserves value, just like stated in mainstream economics and you'd be mostly right the way you phrase it. Or you could diverge and argue,, that currency itself doesn't hold any value, only displays it, or that risks in all currencies other than your home currency are too great (I'm inclined to the former), in which case, you could argue, that Euro is actually even better currency to trade in, because it simplifies access to more markets, all be it somewhat harmonized and smaller ones, making it more flexible currency around. To illustrate, let's take Egyptian trading company, that wants to have EGP at the end of the trade, because it is it's home currency. This trade company could buy or even mine natural gas in Egypt and export it to Germany, who needs it for industrial applications and heating, while importing French heavily subsidized agriculture products to feed the growing population of a nation, that already had limited access to arable land and now on top of that their water nicked by Ethiopia. Because Euro is native currency for both Germans and French you don't undergo extra risk, stemming from third party currency fluctuating against both currencies involved in trading. The fact, that the Eurozone is not quite as homogeneous economically as the US, is in my opinion an advantage, because you can more easily integrate production steps of production chain. If you were to try this with any other currency (except CFA Frank, which is fix pegged to Euro), you'd fail, because you'd run into national currencies with not as diverse product base to trade export market currency for at home sellable goods. Bonus? Germany and France have very different view of natural gas, meaning, because the currency is shared between them, policy difference doesn't threaten this kind of deal as much, but would complicate if not prevent such trade from happening, because the one who has suitable return goods might not accept a third party currency, if the trade were to take place strictly in local currencies and Germans still had Marks and French Franks.
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  1361. uhm... last time I checked, New York was bleeding people across the wealth spectrum and so was California. Not exactly red states and numbers 1 and 3 in terms of GDP... And where are these people going? To freaking Texas, if they're leaving for work, or Florida, if the're retired! One is deep red, the other is light. Calling Texans poor is a stretch the length of an actual limusine!
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  1362. I can't wait till someone will claim that Equestria at War is for children... You know... WW2 in happy unicorn-land.
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  1363. Ah yess... That time, when the prime minister urged their retirees to "hurry up and die!"
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  1364. Yeah, road quality is different thorughout the Balkans, no kidding. My dad's a trucker, he always said, that he loved driving in Croatia, because the roads there are made from something, that makes them have a good grip... Cross over to Albania, and it feels like you're driving on ice... in the middle of a summer!
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  1365. So basically, market capitalization was wrong, because Corsair went public in the middle of a bubble and is now either at or getting to their fundamentals, they have poor software and their customer service sucks, which is not unique to them... Frankly, I feel we have a different problem. Back in a day, building a PC for gaming was a right of passage. You built it yourself or you left another gamer to build it for you, not some third party integrator, that used single brand parts or someone, who'd simply pick, what they could get the best pricing on directly from a vendor or two. I never trusted Corsair with anything but power supplies, Asus with their their motherboards and anyone other than Kingston for RAM. As result, my computer doesn't exactly look presentable, but I know it has parts I can rely on for years both in durability and performance. But I am old school. These days, gaming is not the nerdy stuff to do anymore and people want things done as simply as possible and don't build as much anymore, hence rise of system integrators, hence, when company creates one, push strictly their or as much as possible their stuff, hence companies don't do, what they do best and don't have the resources to acquire sufficient expertise in all the fields necessary to build a good product, not to mention they have outright incorrect incentive to follow, if the integrator is owned by a brand. So my two cents is this: Customers have changed, this changed the predominant computer building culture. We went from outright artisan crafts to mass produced goods, which are not always produced the right way, because of incorrect incentives for some types of system integrators.
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  1366. And to answer your question. What are youtubers? Alphabet is getting cash off youtubers, but they are not employees, I would argue they aren't contractor per se either. What I would argue, is that youtubers are entrepreneurs and businesses and, sadly, this kind of behavior is normal in business relationships. For example, from what I've heared, most french companies demand payment six months before they provide you service and won't pay any sooner, than six months after you provided them a service. And this is becoming a standard in companies, that trade with France, and are in weaker position, as either a nation or company. Such is the nature of the beast, that in (underregulated) free market capitalism, the stronger can dictate terms and conditions with no regard for every other stakeholder in business being forged. This happened to my father, who had transportation company. We were handling logistics for a number pumping station chains including the Royal Dutch Shell, who at the time had the strictest conditions to follow. However, our main and biggest contract got snatched by some Polish companies, when Poland started to subsidize fuel, and Shell could do little to nothing for us. One would expect, that well functioning partnership would be maintained, as quality service provided would justify some premium to be had, especially given that service was transportation of dangerous stuff like petrol, diesel and kerosene, but no. Partner demanded lower costs, we literally couldn't do that, lest facing bankruptcy and the rest is history. The company is gone and dad is facing lifetime of having no money, regardless of how much he'll make working in whatever field. The same can happen to every youtuber or company, that uses youtube or any big platform as their main source/intermediary of revenue. The platform owner could demand a bigger cut, that could become so big, a youtuber could be faced with very unpleasant probem. Chose one and only one: 1) return to days of youtube as a hobby... with a couple of millions subscribers. 2) Give up on new production, as he/she can't ever recoup the investments made to create new content, not to mention, that in some cases people might not make equivalent of minimal wage, which at least in theory, should cover basic necessities of living, meaning this person should in theory starve to death, if he doesn't change careers. 3) create meaningless content that draw's traffic (like cat or dog videos, which, to be fair, have recently gone up in terms of quality and meaning)... ps, comment sections under these videos are downright therapeutic. Or 4) find a niche audience and go full Alex Jones on them, catering to their specific points of view or, in less extreme cases interests. which has far reaching consequences, which might be unintended, but are destructive none the less (I mean 2016 elections stand testament. Never before in US history, were other party candidates so universally hated and the crack went and is still going down the middle, because certain media only cater to some world views). And there that youtuber could contribute to the crack spreading ever wider, because he has become his own media in a way. None of the four opitons benefit neither the creator, nor the end customer, in case of that last one, the society as a whole may suffer, and the platform will simply up the ante again, as more as possible, because as niche audiences leave for new places, where to place their old and new content. Where to find their content won't eventually be deemed "unsuitable" for the platform and measures will be made, so that this content is made unavailable. Be it shadow banning, demonetization, or outright censorship of certain topics, or simply misuse of copyright. It's certain pi project today, tomorrow, it just may be alcohol ads and the day after, computer guides, tutorials and arguments supporting the right to repair, and the day after, subliminal messages urging us to bey new eye phone from Momcorp.
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  1367. Riiight... Was she rejected by an arts school recently?
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  1368. Yeah, of all my friends, only one pulled that one off.
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  1369. Not in Europe. This is the first time I see this functionality.
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  1370. Well, you could squarely point this on China and Russia. China didn't catch the virus and lied to the rest of the world, to save face. And Russia went Reich and attacked a neighboring country. There are your causes, because, no mishandling of initial infection in Wuhan, you have much lower industry fall off, because it doesn't affect the rest of China and by extension, the rest of the world, which means higher production capacity, which in turn, means even stronger Ukraine in the war (because of stronger economic position of their allies) and closer to peace treaty, because Russia wouldn't be able to survive sustained shelling of their troops until winter (or at very least, it would cut the number of days the conflict took, viewed in retrospect, when over).
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  1371. This is not that bad. Why" This is solvable with proper integrated public transport system. In Czech Republic, we have a number of these. I can get on a bus in the tiniest hamlet in Sourh Moravian county, change to a train on the mainline and get to a city within two hours... From pretty much anywhere in an area twice as alrge as NYC and Long Island combined! Brno main train station is where most of offices are these days and I can change to a tram, bus trolley bus, or another train, to get where my job is. So, I'm at work in about two hours. And can work from train, because there is Internet (and even buses get it these days) as part of fare. Now it ain't perfect. There are dead spots and Internet service on board is slow, but it work's. We are a bit more expencive than most, but it work's and is still cheaper than using a car. Along the mainline, I can even commute to work betwene cities! All of this with a single ticket, single fare. Prague is even crazier in this, as there are buses, trams, trains, subway and even some boats integrated. Now, I think there is a reason to be slightly more optimistic (comming from a person, who's constantly been accused of being a pesimist), is New York's subway system. If New York City and neighbouring counties integrated their carriers in to a single system, extended the subway, so that one could access all of Long Island with it and Connect it to multiple railroad stations for changing transport, one could reduce commute time significantly, thus opening new land with good access to these jobs. Sure, some people would have to move and have longer commute, but integrated public transport system can offset these extra costs. The answer is interoperability and harmonised connections. I realise that New York City is huge and there is motherlode of other communities in greater NYC area, but, I beleive, that betwene rail, and subway, using both express and normal service, all of this system could be navigable in one hour. Even going from Montauk to Croton-Hampton. I realise, that this is a challange, but it can be done. Beyond this post, it's about politics.
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