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I love my OnePlus 9 pro phone. What would be a good replacement?

"War department" is the older name, not "Defense department". Also, is it really a defense department when you're starting wars of aggression every 15 years or so?

I still use perplexity. Which tool is better currently?

It's not capitalism that requires infinite growth, it's our current monetary system. New money is created by lending it into existence, with interest. That last bit is key. In orde…

The Austrian school does not dominate academia, not even close. Even the Wikipedia article you linked to says it's a heterodox school, meaning it's not mainstream. Academia is domi…

I used Lit components in a large FE project, enjoyed doing so and am happy with my choice. I don't use the shadow DOM at all. The project is Converse.js, an XMPP chat client. It's …

Being able to hold on to wealth is an underestimated and undervalued ability. It's actually pretty easy to lose money. Everybody is happy to help you part with yours.

Your website is very clever, I like it, but unfortunately Google has classified it as a dangerous site with a phishing risk, which I think is understandable because you're effectiv…

For junior developers in developing countries this can still be a worthwhile salary.

I'd also like to know, I love the look.

Taking a sabbatical and spending more time on an open source XMPP web client that I started 10 years ago already. https://conversejs.org The website is a bit old, but lots of excit…

South Africa does have wealth distribution policies in the form of requiring all companies that do business with the state or which need licences (like mines or telecoms) to have a…

The first vowel tells you from which country it comes. Grey is UK English, so think "e" for England. Gray is American English, so think "a" for America.

Yes, there was a spike in suicides after Goethe published his first novel Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther). https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/04/22/t…

I worked for two years full-time on a consumer-facing product that was canned less than 6 months after launch. Spending a month on a useless pipeline doesn't seem that bad to me.

The US gets paid by the "exorbitant privilege" of having the global reserve currency. That was the deal since the second world war.

> they all seem somewhat casually cruel to one another So you're saying it's the same as just about any other sitcom? Besides joking at one another's expense, a super common trope …

VAT isn't charged on goods exported outside of the EU, so it has nothing to do with the US except for the fact that the US isn't part of the EU.

> Go to low-income neighbourhoods, where incomes are closer to those in Europe, and you’ll find tax-inclusive pricing This is a pretty funny but largely ignorant dig at Europeans. …

It's possible to make record profits one year and a loss the next if you don't react early enough to trends.

"Defund the police" is a large attack on an institution that's not coming from the GOP. It's unfortunate that people immediately blame the other side in a knee-jerk reaction.

As a bank, you can't easily liquidate them without that showing up as a huge loss, thereby affecting your reserve requirements and potentially making you insolvent. If you don't ha…

> The rest by design is to be lent out, that's how banks offer loans, mortgages etc. When banks lend out money, they don't lend out existing deposits, they create new (debt-based) …

Every single man-made institution devolves into corruption. Capitalism isn't the outlier here.