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Gold is a safe haven against currency risk thats all.

Not sure why people call this Russian propaganda. India flew in lots of their gold too recently. Central banks have been increasing their exposure to gold a lot recently as well. If trust in the US is low then it makes sense to move your reserves. Countries are rightfully fearful of their reserves being frozen for whatever reason.

I love the phones Nothing makes. And they are offering five years of Android updates and seven years of security upgrades on their upcoming Nothing phone 3.

> Technically, the provider only really cares that the ads played, not that you were paying attention to them.

Advertisers do care about them. It's just that they don't have a way to track/measure it.

I believe the opposite happened. People found out that there are huge groups of people with wildly differing views on morality from them and that just encouraged more hate. I genuinely think old school facebook where people only interacted with their own private friend circles is better.

It's a great indicator. Just not a guarantee.

1. You do realise that not every house help is on some work visa where the employer takes away their passport right? That's illegal. These things happen a lot in arab countries not just for house helps but engineers too. Wanting to have a house help doesn't mean aspiring for "slavery" or taking away someones passport.

2. Work visa conditions if harsh enough are akin to slavery. You have Indians on H1B visas for over a decade with no chance of getting a green card. They have bought houses and raised families here. And can be kicked out in 3 months if they are out of a job. They are stuck.

> encourages it class divisions and abuses

Do you feel the same about a personal driver? A chef? A live-in nurse? What professions are socially ok in your opinion? If someone can pay good wages for a maid its absolutely ok. In fact its good that money flows into poorer communities. If you want real class equality ensure that every job gets paid similar amounts. A rich engineer not hiring a maid just makes wealth inequality worse. Its far better for the community than stuffing it in some index fund.

This is every job. The rich paying the poor to do something that will bring them value. Every work visa is slavery by your argument. The reason cleaning as a job icks people out is because they see it as a "lesser" job. I am fine with it as long as the pay is good.

I think its going to happen. We keep underestimating China. US manufacturing is in the gutter. And it certainly doesn't help that we keep deporting our best minds back to China. They already have 5x the US population. They have a lot of room to grow still.

True but its only a matter of this at this rate.

The selling point looks to be this: you get all the advantages of server side rendering but with the flexibility of react client side components as well. Being able to just use react components for composability on the server side is pretty nice.

Lets extend your logic then: VAT is another thing that mostly just hurts the country introducing them.

Is the United States trying to free Europeans from the tyranny of their government? Americans should also stop paying sales tax and income tax.

This is like saying income tax is a tariff because it stops people from buying more imported product.

You do realise that our debt comes from absurd govt spending and not the lack of nike sweatshops right?

The US could just tax the rich more and spread the extra wealth gained through offshoring. But no.

Politicians should just come out and say this to the people. Oh you can't afford a house? Oh you cant afford healthcare? But we are the richest country in the world. And the system is fair. It means you didn't earn it. Duh.

I know. There is no reason to believe in #2. Its an emotional response. And so you cant change it. Just like you cant use logic with a flat earther. And that's scary for the rest of the world. I just hope no wars happen.

America is the richest country in the world. That is the payback. Yet somehow the working class is screwed.

People don't want to admit wealth distribution is the problem because that would make them "communists". It's an emotional response. I'm scared how far they take it.

What happens when China offers more per person then?

> We, at least until Trump, got the US military keeping Russia out of Europe and dealing with a whole lot of other bullshit we were too frugal to deal with on our own on the global stage.

Well we have Trump now.

> Europe, that should be obvious from context.

There is no "we" if you threaten to invade land and treat us like enemies. I thought the sarcasm was obvious.

> CO2 is one thing, but the time that the Western world had smog events like China had up until their Olympic Games is decades in the past.

How many decades of pollution did the USA emit developing through the last century while Asia didn't because they were insanely poor because of war and colonisation?

> Besides, China's per-capita emissions are driven down by the fact that they still have a lot of utterly poor people that barely cause any emissions.

Germany has a per capita co2 emission rate of 8.01 so even lower than China. The USA is at 14.21.

> China systematically undercuts our industries with slave labor

By this argument isn't America undercutting Europe by taxing companies less and being ok with less worker rights?

> China is already at war with us

Who is us here? Because you are threatening a takeover of Greenland and giving up Ukraine to Russia. Not to mention tariffing and threatening your closest allies.

> and sharting on their environment

Per capita co2 emissions

USA: 14.21

China: 8.89

Money over ethics has been the norm for a long time now. A lot of us unfortunately work at companies that actively make the world a worse place.

So I think people just have different lines. In your case a threat is over the line even though no action has happened yet. I've worked with managers who made very racist jokes towards me all the time. It was bearable in the beginning but it just made work horrible over time.

We are all human beings not robots. We have emotions. You can understand why a colleague wishing you didn't exist as a person is a net negative to the company right? Even outside work people move away from abusive relationships. Not tolerate it saying that's part of living in the world.

I'm genuinely curious. You would be ok working with actual racists who would be happy to see you dead as long as they are capable? Because its just their opinion? I'm guessing you draw the line somewhere.

It's the banks fault for terrible investments not the customers. Any customer would withdraw their money if they knew their bank is on the brink of collapse.

Many banks have no problem taking on unnecessary risk because they believe the govt will bail them out anyway.

Ah yes the bureaucratic red tape of going through democratic institutions. Authoritarianism is always faster.

USDT is pretty shady :p

But yeah USDC is as good as it gets.

Thats the point. This is a usecase for people living in countries with shitty governments.

Do you feel the same way about SSR for non static websites vs an SPA?

India's AQI issues mostly stem from crop burning. AFAIK cars have to comply with BS6 which is pretty similar to Euro 6.