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No it doesn't justify suing.

Just because you make a shitty phone and puts an apple on it doesn't mean people will be buying your shit hands over fists.

Quality speaks for itself.

I think companies should be less territorial about names. Unless it is a direct copy, I'm sure the average people will be able to figure out that "candy smash" is a ripoff. After all only it won't have 20billion downloads.

I don't think that 'lone dev' invented 'get things i a line then they explode' game

well you are wealthier. you have the option of selling your home and move to a village. the villager does not.

The additional option available to you is brought to you by your wealth

>I think it would get depressing real fast

Well people do pay for cuddles and companionship. It's like when you aren't really that hungry you won't eat that slightly off 1 week old chicken but if you are hungry and nothing else is available it doesn't seem like such a bad idea.

Hello World is not trivial if you are writing it in java.

Next somebody is going to be telling me their camera has 20 mega minecrafts.

>Definition of mental illness is relying on whether a condition conflicts with society.

This just sounds like a scientified social inquisition.

Well it's only a matter of time before being a 'homophobe' is considered a mental disorder and will make the person liable to be sent to a mental 'hospital' until he recants his viewpoint.

This was a favourite strategy of Stalin, by the way. If somebody didn't like communism enough then surely he must be a loon.

Basically anything that involves somebody from africa not being 100% happy with something from the west = colonialism to some people.

We live in a weird world where making $2B counts as a failure because somebody else did it faster than you?

That's just too vague to be useful.

What about modafinil?

If there is a demand for both high price housing and low price housing, there would be builders for both.

This is like saying "all the rich chinese are buying up all the expensive top end iphones and now all the poor people of the earth and the seas can not have smartphones for their enjoyment".

Again and again I see the same 'fixed size pie' argument when somebody argues for special privileges for the 'special class' that they conveniently belong to.

What about all the canadians who bought their house 4 years ago and now have their property price increased 200%? Nobody talks about those guys. You only hear the 'evil rich foreigner chinese taking up out houses' narrative. If you are a rich foreigner you are taking our houses and if you are poor then you are taking our jobs.

At the end of the day these narratives are just appeal to group-identity and nationalism. They are very thinly veiled attempt at enraging people to get more 'engagement' 'views' 'clicks' or whatever. And they are clearly working because people who are sensible otherwise start losing their minds.

Why does the perspective of the government of Canada matter?

Their perspective might as well be that canadian citizens are tax-cows to be milked until dry.

We should care about the people not the government.

>Ordinary middle class people and the young - make em rent! Why the sense of entitlement that people should be able to afford to buy a home

Why indeed?

If there is a shortage of housing, why not build more houses?

Otherwise, if a person wants to exclusively use a piece of land, why shouldn't he have to outbid everybody else?

Unless of course an 'ordinary middle class' and 'the young' are somehow more valued than 'rich chinese people' and so should be given special privileges?

>In fact put one giant price on the whole of Vancouver and sell it ALL in one big job lot.

Well not everybody wants to sell obviously but if everybody does want to sell, why shouldn't they sell to 'rich chinese people'? Why should they not be paid the most for what is rightfully their property?

There aren't any small businesses anymore and for good reasons. The mom and pop shops are inefficient. They do not employ the highly efficient operational system that big businesses can employ so all your coffee shops are now starbucks or some other franchises.

>Also these higher prices skew the economy.

Pricing is how an economy works. It is the messaging system communicating changes in demand/supply balance. If it is 'skewing' the economy in the sense that it causes changes, then it is working as intended.

>When people are tied up in these ever increasing loan/income ratios

There is only so much land to go around so if you want to use a particular piece of land that is highly desirable then you ought to outbid everybody else.

>I believe we should look to ensure affordable housing for owner occupiers.

the solution to this is georgian land value tax. There is no reason otherwise to ensure 'afforable housing for owner occupiers' except your personal belief that society should subsidise a particular class of property ownership whereby the owners use the property directly. What is going to happen is that people who cant afford to own a house (or dont want to borrow money from banks to buy one) is going to have to pay the tax for renting.

I feel like pharma companies will try to shut this down.

Why would people pay for meds when they can just get them for free?

It's the same reason bakery throws out their left-overs instead of giving them away.

Engine is generally optimised for max efficiency at a cruising speed. A airliner engine is optimised for transonic cruising, you can't just half the plane and double the speed.

to generate a lot of data to sell microprocessors to people who make internet bots

> but going after a company because you feel that they wronged you is as far from justice as revenge killing

But out desire for revenge i.e. a negative consequence to those who wronged you, is the fundamental source of our idea for justice, just formalised for a city life.

The guarantee of negative consequence of equal proportion represents a game theoretically optimal approach to discouraging others from harming you.

And if they kill one of yours, then to maintain said deterrence you have to kill one of theirs. As reflected by laws and customs for most of human societies throughout history.

This is satire btw.

You can't really say much until the specs are released.

Why would you lie about metrics?

That seems highly verifiable. You should only lie about things that will be hard to find out like how many women you ever slept with.

How do you know they are lie detectors unless you tried lying to them?

I have never heard of Andy Grove before today.

Perhaps that is working as intended.

To fly supersonic you need an engine that is very powerful at supersonic speed.

VTOL requires an engine that is powerful at low speed.

The harrier jump jet, a most famous VTOL aircraft, didn't have supersonic capability when all its contemporaries did and can only take off vertically with reduced payload or it would burn all its fuel just taking off.

While I don't have the numbers I think VTOL supersonic aircraft would be VERY hard indeed and it would be something that has to be seen to be believed.

Yeah but you are getting 50:1 difference in energy density between hydrocarbon fuel and battery. Also, vertical takeoff is extremely inefficient because a wing can generate a lot of lift compared to drag. this in addition to the fact that a vertical lift system is only used during take off and landing while being dead weight the rest of the trip.

even elon can't override physics

> but how is that fair?

Socialism is only meant to be fair if you are poor. And as you say you are rich by association.

The trick to copying and pasting is doing it when it won't be you paying back the debt.

Just like how the US economy works.

Will it use up 25% of its fuel taxiing to the runway like the concorde?

Cause fuel aint cheap like it used to be.