many more people say the same thing about cocaine... funny thing: cocaine is the better environmental choice among the two. in its basic form it also naturally grows on planet Earth factor in how much energy you burnt…
On the other hand Apple (to name one) piled an enormous amount of money thanks to slave labor in China. Paying peanuts in taxes How Apple avoided paying $40 billion in taxes…
Do dollars really melt over time?
They definitely did not escape any recent war. The WWII in Scandinavia was particularly bad, including the occupation of Norway and Denmark. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Weserübung They did escape the…
> I find it hard to take sweeping statements like this seriously. They are hard to take seriously because they are not earnest, it's cherry picking to prove a point, based on false premises. Scandinavia is not even a…
Why is dang allowing this person to bully everyone? Is this the new normal on HN?
Have you ever heard of anger management? Can you disprove the data without spewing all that bile? I'm honestly worried about your health. Here's a WSJ article about the topic…
On the other hand, people using cheap devices usually don't rely on them so much, so the higher consumption is compensated by the lower overall usage, or have made the real environmental savy choice. I've never…
If that was even possible, you would have to wait at least 10 years. At that point who knows if tablets as a form factor survived. To be clear, I think that a tablet (not specifically iPads which are expensive in their…
@modeeators so it is now ok to offend people and blame the poor? Even if I was poor, which is not a shame outside of the US, I live near the Colosseum in an historical buildings older than the USA, so I think I'm ok. I…
What does this have to do with the fact that the majority of old people in USA live alone because they are left alone? Are you saying that most elderly have no family or kids? And why people with no family or kids…
Coming from a family where I am the first generation who could afford going to college, I disagree. OP was talking about Vietnam, my experience is in rural Italy and matches the idea of people helping each other, not of…
China is the largest producer of cultural products in the World right now, Hollywood itself made blockbusters there, financed and co produced by China. It has already changed, before Brexit was even a thing. From 2013…
Yes and no. First of all, I'm European. Use of English as a second language, it might surprise you, dropped in the past 10 years, it was spoken by 52% of the population in 2012, now it dropped to 44%. Not native…
> Groan. Alright buddy. I'm probably too old to be your buddy. Keep calm and read stats. > Those three combined have a GDP almost double India's Italy alone has the same GDP of India. And it's only one of 27 countries…
> This is so intensely boring and stupid. It's reality though. > Secondly, Apple is selling as many or more iPhones than ever in Europe Again: it's simply reality The iPhone's market share in Europe fell 17%…
> Apple -- at 20% or so in most of the world's economies Apple has 17% (and dropping) of the mobile market share in Europe and around 9% in computing. There aren't many other richer economies in the World. Ferrari is…
> English is not about moving to another place but doing business beyond local. There are "only" 379 million people speaking English as a native language. But there are 1.2 billion people speaking English as a second…
Welfare plays a big role as well.
> they want to get the f--- out the EU as soon as they can. Not in the EU I was born and raised.
English isn't an official EU language anymore, the only country that chose it was UK. https://www.politico.eu/article/english-will-not-be-an-offic...
Thanks for the question. I'm saying it should be easy to solve for the richest country in the World given the sheer amount of resources it possess. It looks impossible for the same exact country, because the society…
Homelessness as "a problem to deal with" means society is selfish, means exactly what you wrote. A society where people refuse to see it as a social issue, like sickness, and one that requires a lot of thought because…
Wow. I didn't know the homeless were to blame for making the World much worse for others. Thanks for opening my eyes.
I think you meant Muwekma Ohlone. If we are trying to be precise it was the Spanish who stole their land. Not all Europeans are made equal.
many more people say the same thing about cocaine... funny thing: cocaine is the better environmental choice among the two. in its basic form it also naturally grows on planet Earth factor in how much energy you burnt…
On the other hand Apple (to name one) piled an enormous amount of money thanks to slave labor in China. Paying peanuts in taxes How Apple avoided paying $40 billion in taxes…
Do dollars really melt over time?
They definitely did not escape any recent war. The WWII in Scandinavia was particularly bad, including the occupation of Norway and Denmark. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Weserübung They did escape the…
> I find it hard to take sweeping statements like this seriously. They are hard to take seriously because they are not earnest, it's cherry picking to prove a point, based on false premises. Scandinavia is not even a…
Why is dang allowing this person to bully everyone? Is this the new normal on HN?
Have you ever heard of anger management? Can you disprove the data without spewing all that bile? I'm honestly worried about your health. Here's a WSJ article about the topic…
On the other hand, people using cheap devices usually don't rely on them so much, so the higher consumption is compensated by the lower overall usage, or have made the real environmental savy choice. I've never…
If that was even possible, you would have to wait at least 10 years. At that point who knows if tablets as a form factor survived. To be clear, I think that a tablet (not specifically iPads which are expensive in their…
@modeeators so it is now ok to offend people and blame the poor? Even if I was poor, which is not a shame outside of the US, I live near the Colosseum in an historical buildings older than the USA, so I think I'm ok. I…
What does this have to do with the fact that the majority of old people in USA live alone because they are left alone? Are you saying that most elderly have no family or kids? And why people with no family or kids…
Coming from a family where I am the first generation who could afford going to college, I disagree. OP was talking about Vietnam, my experience is in rural Italy and matches the idea of people helping each other, not of…
China is the largest producer of cultural products in the World right now, Hollywood itself made blockbusters there, financed and co produced by China. It has already changed, before Brexit was even a thing. From 2013…
Yes and no. First of all, I'm European. Use of English as a second language, it might surprise you, dropped in the past 10 years, it was spoken by 52% of the population in 2012, now it dropped to 44%. Not native…
> Groan. Alright buddy. I'm probably too old to be your buddy. Keep calm and read stats. > Those three combined have a GDP almost double India's Italy alone has the same GDP of India. And it's only one of 27 countries…
> This is so intensely boring and stupid. It's reality though. > Secondly, Apple is selling as many or more iPhones than ever in Europe Again: it's simply reality The iPhone's market share in Europe fell 17%…
> Apple -- at 20% or so in most of the world's economies Apple has 17% (and dropping) of the mobile market share in Europe and around 9% in computing. There aren't many other richer economies in the World. Ferrari is…
> English is not about moving to another place but doing business beyond local. There are "only" 379 million people speaking English as a native language. But there are 1.2 billion people speaking English as a second…
Welfare plays a big role as well.
> they want to get the f--- out the EU as soon as they can. Not in the EU I was born and raised.
English isn't an official EU language anymore, the only country that chose it was UK. https://www.politico.eu/article/english-will-not-be-an-offic...
Thanks for the question. I'm saying it should be easy to solve for the richest country in the World given the sheer amount of resources it possess. It looks impossible for the same exact country, because the society…
Homelessness as "a problem to deal with" means society is selfish, means exactly what you wrote. A society where people refuse to see it as a social issue, like sickness, and one that requires a lot of thought because…
Wow. I didn't know the homeless were to blame for making the World much worse for others. Thanks for opening my eyes.
I think you meant Muwekma Ohlone. If we are trying to be precise it was the Spanish who stole their land. Not all Europeans are made equal.