Ditto6687
1yr ago
since the TRF differential between advanced and non-advanced countries is the real problem that we as a global species need to deal with.
I wonder if there may be entire industries and ways of life whose realization depends on economies of scale.
In other words there may be a limiting number of people such that for any smaller amount, it becomes uneconomical for i.e. advanced microchip research to continue.
Ditto6687
1yr ago
You have none cus you're a lying liar who lied and got caught.
But in reality I have none because no one has any proof about cash tips, right?
Now they are looking at your bank statements for 3 years
To what end?
pay back the last 3 years of tip fraud you committed
So basically they just assume that I made the average tip amount in my area and calculate the fraud based on this?
It seems like the difference between my reported amount and the average must be very high for this method to be of any significance. If I work at an unpopular bar my tips might be 3x less than the average without any tip fraud whatsoever.
Ditto6687
1yr ago
and if they could get away with exponentially distributed prices they'd do it in a second.
Can you elaborate?
Ditto6687
1yr ago
I don't get this. Why can you freely change the probabilities? Don't they represent something about the real world?
Ditto6687
1yr ago
Wait a second. Audits mean the government gets to sift through all your communications???
I suppose they only have the right to see email accounts and phone records of your business, not you personally?
Ditto6687
1yr ago
check bank statements,
In my country tips are much smaller and they're left as cash. Would there be a way to audit those? Are US tips all credit card based or given as part of waiter's salary?
Ditto6687
1yr ago
and the dumber ones are just not recording the payment at all.
I don't know anything about taxes, why are they the dumber ones?
Ditto6687
1yr ago
Edit: It now occurs to me that this might be a novel contribution to game theor
Maybe to economics or betting but surely not game theory
Ditto6687
1yr ago
My theory is that women in general have a significantly lower sex drive, and that it might be a completely different kind of mechanism compared to the male one.
I've known plenty of women who've gone without sex for years and basically didn't really find any need to fix it. And the ones who have a lot of it often use it as a way to obtain in-group status, not for the physical act itself.
As an 16-25 year old man, all you need to connect the dots is to realize none of your female friends masturbate on a daily basis or have frequent sexual thoughts about their friends or classmates. Then it becomes completely obvious that something quite different is going on in their heads.
Bonus: women are almost universally unaware that any such difference exists. A real, visceral difference. Imagine a race of people who never went hungry, but still consumed food out of social pressure. They wouldn't be aware that others have different motivations for eating, and would think they're also just "doing it for vibes"
Ditto6687
1yr ago
Croatian (OK you caught me, South-Eastern European? But so are Serbs.)
Needless to say your nationality does not determine your stance, and I am sick and tired of these generalizations, as if we are all reducible to your average Redditor.
Ditto6687
1yr ago
The claim was literally "Russia is bad", so I felt that it could be countered by listing a few achievements of world-historic significance that benefited all of mankind off the top of my head
I beg the differ. Unironically, Russia is good and kills bad guys. Besides, quite a lot of Israelis have Russian ancestry, up to the point of having just changed their surnames, and Israel would not exist if it weren't for Russian support.
Russia is one of the great historic nations, it's never going anywhere. No amount of spite will change the fact that they launched the first man in space or erase their contributions to art and science.
Ditto6687
1yr ago
This is a weird rule formulation. Why not just plainly state that the President and Vice President shall not be residents of the same state?
Ditto6687
1yr ago
Can you remove the strikethroughs, at least after the first one? It's a bit jarring.
Ditto6687
1yr ago
I mean don't you know Reddit is a combination of willing echo-chamber and strong top-down ideological control by partisan mods? Expecting even-handedness in this case would be like expecting /r/europe or something to be balanced about the Ukraine war.
It's not just bots from team A fighting bots from team B. Team B doesn't even get to play.
Ditto6687
1yr ago
I certainly hope that it is, but can't know for sure. That said, I believe a country with one of the most advanced capitalist economies in history is functionally extremely different than the USSR, and I feel much more comfortable being bullish on it.
Ditto6687
1yr ago
enforces a rules-based international order
Up until the second that the rules come into conflict with US interests. "Rules-based international order" is a propaganda term that Western news outlets repeat like robots. I believe that it was chosen exactly because saying it is so ridiculous in face of reality, that it serves as an ultimate loyalty signal, like "the sky is green".
The US, like evey major power or hegemon, imposes its will, unconcerned with principles and consistency.
China would probably do something similar, but under pretty different rules.
I am sure they would exercise power. But I am not sure what the maximum extent of that power would look like.
Ones that I would argue are much less compatible with longstanding European traditions.
I am just unconvinced that Chinese dominance would mean a completely different political and cultural system in Europe. I can see many positives (countries I like no longer being bullied by the US), and can imagine outcomes where the Chinese mostly meddle less than the US.
Ditto6687
1yr ago
In Xinjiang the CPC executed a heavy-handed response to a real, substantial domestic terror threat. I doubt the CPC in the dominance scenario will ever have the capacity to do so in the Netherlands, nor that it would ever judge it necessary.
Netherlands, Germany, or Poland
That has little to do with the US, and a lot to do with the native population.
I don't know what CPC dominance would look like. But I am guessing that the intrusiveness would be much closer to US levels (cultural, geopol) than to the USSR. Why? I have acquaintances from China and access to the internet, it is nothing like the USSR.
Ditto6687
1yr ago
It was a hypothetical. I am trying to say that a city can provide worse career opportunities while still having better policing policies. Providing the best opportunities and being the most attractive city does not imply that all policies are the best.
Ditto6687
1yr ago
If you gave me equal income opportunities I would rather live in Moscow Sankt Petersburg. Your argument proves too much, just because New York provides better opportunities does not mean all local policies there are better than in Moscow. In fact, New York can probably get away with much worse given the income disparity.
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