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by wait-a-minute 6y ago
Some people have nothing interesting or valuable to say, they just always talk about race. Somehow everything becomes about race, even things which have nothing to do with race.
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
You can definitely do bad things to earn money. But a doctor, an engineer, etc, would've already contributed to the common good even if they buy a tenth car that sits in their garage. So simply buying a tenth car that sits in your gara
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
With the insane property taxes the left wants to levy on personal dwellings, you never really own anything anyway. It's not a problem with just the elites - it's a problem with the leftists pretending to be on the side of the work
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
Seize the means of production comrade!!!
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
The problem with reddit is that you get downvoted simply for going against the hivemind, even if you supply evidence that you are right. It's impossible to have a meaningful conversation on the more popular subreddits, especially on po
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
Silly question, but how will your product survive if Google decides to just implement that type of view on the calendar?
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
Note that as savings pile up in banks and brokerages, they supply the world with more loans for starting new businesses or new ventures. The money in a bank doesn't just sit there. It is a basis for economic activity throughout the cou
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
This manifesto's website takes longer than 64 milliseconds to respond though.
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
The argument you made is that "it's hard to solve poverty due to wealth hoarding" and the response I provided is to show you that clearly that is not the case, given the rate at which poverty is being solved across the entire
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
Then why has poverty been going down drastically, even faster than anyone would've expected? https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty "In 1990, there were 1.9 billion people living in extreme poverty. With a red
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
To be fair the post also says, correctly, that what's better for the environment is also using the phone that you already have. IE keeping it longer.
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
You are very confused. A mortgage is definitely a cost. It's only meaningful equity if you ever sell it and get any of the money back, which is not guaranteed at all. And only public housing would collapse the entire economy. Plenty of
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
It's almost as if it hasn't even been 50 years since people were last dying because of the evil extremist ideologies from the 1900s! Tens of millions dead in the last hundred years.
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
Because communism is inherently a violent and paranoid ideology. It's blatantly obvious even in the foundational literature from Marx. Marx openly advocated violence and threatened violence against anyone who was opposed to the proleta
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
Deep analysis of the body for any visible signs of tumors or diseases. Stroke detection software. Home and car entry without needing to carry any keys. Much faster entry into airports, where we need passports or security checks anyway. Lots
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
But evolution does have a direction. Survival of the fittest! Those animals most fit to reproduce survive and reproduce. Humans have done that and taken over every other species with tools and general intelligence that no other animal can h
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
https://www.geek.com/tech/worlds-first-5g-powered-remote-bra... https://www.cnet.com/news/5g-could-make-self-driving-cars-sm... There's also the possibility of much faster speeds even in area
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
5G will probably bring in another wave of smartphone and IoT innovation. Imagine what can be done when sensors/cameras can transmit 10x the amount of data per second that they can now. I'm especially interested in how this might e
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
Or we could, you know, just go to school and work and interact with one another the way we already do. Rather than trying to force people to give up years of their short lives via a draft.
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
Or you can target the largest sources of pollution without punishing regular working people via carbon taxation.
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
How do you calculate the value of such an externality? Even if for argument's sake I were to just accept that it's double the climate impact on average, doubling a very small value is not really meaningful. The average American ca
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
And that is why researchers are proposing we bring back Zeppelins! Zeppelins that are 10x as long as the Empire State Tower is tall, to be exact. Way better for the environment, can be operated autonomously, and cheap to produce. https:&#x
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
There are much better solutions that target the actual large polluters. People living in suburbs is a small percentage of total global emissions, especially when you consider transportation of goods. Transporting goods across the oceans is
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
The amount of carbon emitted from people driving to and from suburbs is actually a small amount compared to the real big polluters. It makes no sense to target such a giant restructuring of society for so little gain.
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
The problem with this argument is that going from most of south America to any part of central America would be a large economic jump. And we know that people who come into the USA illegally tend to go towards major hubs with more economic
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by wait-a-minute 7y ago
The financial benefit to the end consumer is that their electricity bill goes down since the panels generate electricity on their own.