BlameThePeacock

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[–] BlameThePeacock 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's not what I was taught or experienced firsthand while I was there.

[–] BlameThePeacock 1 points 2 weeks ago

It makes perfect sense, he's asking for positive examples.

[–] BlameThePeacock 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The vast majority of them are just fine, like with most tourists. The problem is there's just massively large number of them in many tourist destinations compared to other countries (at least where I live), which means you more frequently see one acting poorly too.

The Americans are somewhat the same, we also get a lot of them.

That being said, even though most of the issues are because of sheer numbers it doesn't mean there aren't a few key cultural differences which can play a role in western locations being offended by Chinese behaviour.

The big one with China is that culturally there's no expectation that you treat a stranger respectfully, the person you're dealing with needs to earn your respect rather than having it by default. This comes across as quite rude to many other countries when you only have a single interaction with this person.

This isn't a Chinese only issue though, Americans can also be quite rude depending on where they're from and how they were raised, a good chunk of them are entitled assholes who think the world revolves around them when they visit.

[–] BlameThePeacock 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It will not bring equality, it just reverts to might is right.

[–] BlameThePeacock 34 points 3 weeks ago

It's a good thing Trump didn't pay attention in high school then.

[–] BlameThePeacock 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You can not run enterprise business functions on a pi unless your "enterprise" is made up of a single user.

Even something like basic video steaming for internal training videos would kill it due to encoding issues. Let alone the impact from one service affecting others like a user file transfer affecting the speed of messaging or email, or a complex database activity momentarily taking out your task management application.

You would need a dozen of them for splitting services and redundancy, then a UPS and redundant internet connections. It would end up costing you a few thousand dollars just in hardware before you even started paying someone to set it up and keep it running.

[–] BlameThePeacock 94 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

He wants to expand US trade by joining as the 51st state.

Fuck you PP.

[–] BlameThePeacock 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yes and no, those rewards increase the prices charged by the retailer.

Then the credit card company's ban charging extra to cover that.

It's inherently a monopolistic exploit.

[–] BlameThePeacock 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

And runs the server required stuff on their own hardware.

I mentioned this in my comment.

[–] BlameThePeacock 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You asked what would it look like, and I gave you a realistic answer. There's no way that type of economy could exist in the real world, it's never been done, and there's plenty of evidence showing it failing even in small groups of people.

[–] BlameThePeacock 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Worked for millenia until the rise of capitalism

No it didn't, we've had states for literally six to eight thousand years or more and capitalism for about three hundred years.

States have existed essentially since the moment the population of specific area became large enough to become a city.

Because again, as I said earlier, you can't have completely stateless groups larger than hundreds of people, if just doesn't work.

[–] BlameThePeacock 8 points 3 weeks ago

If tariffs were good for an economy, everyone would use them all the time

The fact that so many countries have free trade agreements or very low tariffs are proof that they're good for economies in general.

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