Aleksandr Novikov

[Aleksandr Novikov @AleksandrN79427]

@BenHart_Freedom There should be a general rule that someone who votes should be risking their own money they put on the table in case they vote for an idiot and he wins. So yes, something along these lines.

[Aleksandr Novikov @AleksandrN79427]

@BenHart_Freedom There is a strong argument that active duty military, just as any government employees, should not vote at all. Veterans sure, but voting while being on government payroll is a conflict of interest.

[Aleksandr Novikov @AleksandrN79427]

@MichaelAArouet Rent control eventually results in classic Soviet "free apartments from the state" system. Which were also not owned but technically rented for very cheap, only to people who were "registered" in a town and waited in the queue - sometimes for decades. It will be a form of owning.

[Aleksandr Novikov @AleksandrN79427]

@Owennfa Say tax rate on capital gains is 15%, so you found a company and you leave 15% of stock to the state, and pay nothing on it after. The stock can then have any valuation, rise or fall, state can sell it anytime it wants (and can). What's the problem here or how is this unfair?

[Aleksandr Novikov @AleksandrN79427]

@Jacksonsrule Because it's not possible. Fighting poverty requires fixing poor, not giving them money. It's virtually impossible.

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@PhilipProudfoot I am liberal and i understand why do they oppose it. They don't oppose transition itself, what they oppose is pouring public money on it. 30 years ago when tech was in infancy it made sense, but now it's ready to roll driven by market forces. They don't oppose if that happens.

[Aleksandr Novikov @AleksandrN79427]

@elchicanomarine Well they don't spend decades studying politics or economics, but a lot of unrelated fields.
They are left for natural reasons - academics effectively live under socialism and everyone tends to perceive their own observed reality as "natural". So they are left.

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@JamesTate121 What Sweden lacks however, is high-earning professional class. Their poor/working class are doing fine and so do the billionaires, but the class of people with ~$250K-$1M professional annual income basically does not exist there.

[Aleksandr Novikov @AleksandrN79427]

@JamesTate121 Weirdly enough, they also have plenty of billionaires and highest concentration of unicorn startups in the world (of course, California as a state beats Sweden easily, but not USA as a whole).

[Aleksandr Novikov @AleksandrN79427]

@JamesTate121 Well rich people don't hoard money actually, they invest it, which is another way to say "spend it, to buy productive capital". See what's going on today: there is an economic boom because of AI spending. This is the rich people spending/investing.

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@Shaun_Fosmark @shanaka86 It's not a copy. It's a much inferior knockoff. They cut the corner on the hardest but sexiest part of the job - guidance/control system and math that lets SpaceX land with speed and altitude coming to zero at same time on the engine that can't give it a way to hover.

[Aleksandr Novikov @AleksandrN79427]

@ricwe123 *western

[Aleksandr Novikov @AleksandrN79427]

@ricwe123 This video shows exactly what's wrong. Chinese are now pouring money into infrastructure that no one will use: extremely sparsely populated eastern regions that also quickly loses population. ROI of these "investments" will be 0. They'd rather bomb the shit out of Mongolia.

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@NOSTRFTW @ricwe123 @aruvinchan Well it's hard to argue with the obvious observation that cities that make using cars inconvenient and punish drivers, are more pleasant to live in. Everyone still owns a car. They just don't use it to drive within the city.

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@rinalu_ Well, we only need them to be unable to harm us, one way or another.

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@MichaelAArouet What you offer is called "austerity", it's been tried in early 2010s and results were ugly. Basically, no growth + rise of the far right.

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@MichaelAArouet Also glad to see Cyprus on the right side of it! People may complain but there are at least a few things we are doing right. Now for fuck's sake, bring in usable public transport!

[Aleksandr Novikov @AleksandrN79427]

@MichaelAArouet How do you achieve economic growth without spending? Who will be buying stuff businesses sell? Exports? EU already has a healthy export surplus, always had, if it was down to the trade balance we won't have any problems at all.

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@GFreiNews It probably smokes because thermal insulation caught fire when firing the engine while reentering, with the airstream carrying the flame up. They will fix it easily.
But it's a cheap and ugly way of recovery that greatly simplifies guidance at the cost of using a lot more fuel.

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@maximal_frei For fuck's sake why did you move as far away as Paraguay? You could do it in Cyprus paying 12.5% and that's it. Or in Malta, even 5% if you are in IT field. Both being much closer to civilisation, English speaking, and with almost no crime.