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> The US is a net oil exporter, while China halved their oil imports [2]. This seems to be the opposite point you want. Everybody is going to have increased expenses for everything…

Everybody here is all so small minded. The government has spent centuries doing spycraft and has a budget in the billions.

> We have this notion of “retraining” but that’s not real. While I haven't been "retrained" my understanding was the real issue that it's lip-service. Like the Department of Labor …

Right, his popularity increased in the US election because people did not like the incumbent (Biden / Harris). Take a look at other world wide elections that happened in 2024. Like…

Idk maybe there is something nefarious but afaik Putin's always been cordial with Trump as well as let him do various investments in Russia. I'm not sure there's much reason for Tr…

Not just that but they voted significantly more against the incumbent in the rest of the world than the US. People really did not like Trump they just didn't like incumbents more. …

You should never need to pick between just two candidates though. The need for any sort of alternative system to first-past-the-post should've been plainly obvious in the '00 elect…

You don't think he tanked the company? Twitter used to be profitable. Now, it needed to be folded into xAI to survive. Then that combined mass needed to be folded into SpaceX to su…

Dunno about the Boq stuff but it regularly tries to run `git status` in a fig workspace ...

> Blended Exclusivity Score ... 17/4000 = 0.425% > In a gaggle of 100 suitors, it's actually unlikely that a single one will meet all three criteria. Perfection. We now have a trul…

> That paradigm is how Japan funds its entire public transit system as a profitable enterprise: allow the rail company to own and develop real estate in close proximity to the stat…

> while keeping ownership of the asset at the end. But they're not actually interest in owning 2 year old phones though right? They're just interest in you / 2ndary market not owni…

> There are a few countries that didn't do that (Sweden comes to mind) and they ended up not having a much worse outcome than anyone else. I have no doubt Sweden did better than sa…

The lack of mark to market has always kinda confused me. Like trivially if I go out and buy a plot of land for say $1M there's no way I can sell it tomorrow for $1M. So it's liquid…

Sure. I also liked the idea that some of the rules are to promote tribalism by making clear defining lines. A much weaker form compared to missions where people go out into the rea…

You can't leave anything on the ground for free either. Like what is your argument? A new technology is expensive? That's why you invest into bringing the costs down. Google invest…

Who do you pay rent to in space? Space is free; you don't even pay property taxes. Transportation costs are not but that's the whole reason you invest into (at the time) a space tr…

I guess I'm not sure on the purists take but to me I think they're going to eventually tank themselves over too many external hires into management that want to do things the same …

YouTube is probably one of the few companies that could benefit from data centers in space. Rather than co-locating media servers into ISPs you can stick them into space so they're…

Eh meh. If you're investing in an Elon company you better believe in the man because he's always ran them however he wants. Seems fine for the voting shares to reflect that since h…

Idk it makes sense to me. Like a lot of the rules are very fuzzy in their origin. The whole kosher business comes from a passage about "Not boiling a kid in it's mothers milk". I t…

You probably do have to make it plainer. Afaik, Europe is not in solidarity on no long range weapons and it's mostly driven by the US who is trying to get out of helping Ukraine. S…

Presumably they don't know where they are. It's not like something being civilian infrastructure is a problem - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_strikes_against_Ukrain... What…

Worst for whom? Lack of chargeback risk seems nice for businesses.

The 60 seats business needs to stop. Fillibuster is a senate procedure rule. That's about the weakest a thing could be. At any point Democrats could have gotten rid of the filibust…