This is one of the least informative discussions in HN front page that I remember.

This does NOT happen with Finnish tax rate. Your marginal tax rate can jump but that only for the euros after that bump. Your total tax rate goes up in more slowly. You’re always better off with the extra euro of income.

See graph here: https://www.veronmaksajat.fi/tutkimus-ja-tilastot/tuloverot/...

Iran letting ships through for too small price means that oil price will fall and their only leverage over USA goes away.

I think Israeli position is what a security researcher states in this FT article: https://www.ft.com/content/dd070ee7-7021-4f90-86ec-690fe6aa3...

> Summarising the Israeli government’s position, Citrinowicz said: “If we can have a coup, great. If we can have people on the streets, great. If we can have a civil war, great. Israel couldn’t care less about the future . . . [or] the stability of Iran. > > “That is a point of difference between us and the US. I think [Washington is] more concerned about nation-building and threats to their regional partners,” he added.

Looks very interesting!

In your pre-made Estonia-scenario, some of the attacks come from Finland. What's that about?

I understand the launches from the Baltic Sea, but launching Kalibr next to a Finnish garrison seems a bit far-fetched.

Out of the examples, aerospace engineering was helped by many government interventions such as war-time buying and development of titanium working.

On the other hand, it's also hindered by government regulations making all new development much more expensive than what it could be.

I'd think all the industry segments would exist as the do provide clear benefits to everyone but the development paths taken could be different from what they're now.

Could there be other explanations here? Like marginal cost of one taco when there might be less customers?

Also, higher labor prices, since labor is also a pretty big component of cost in the restaurant business.

That’s why SoCal has the highest land prices, but not the highest priced food at restaurants.

Wouldn't that also apply in places like NYC and LA? Where the enormous traffic volume offers lower marginal costs?

Interesting.

What do you see being disappointing about tweets on Israel? I've mostly seen him care about Palestine civilian deaths but I can't say I've read and remember 100% of his tweets.

Both landfills and incinerators are good places for waste as long as they're not next to water bodies.

They don't contribute to the waste in oceans that this sub-thread seemed to be about.

They do: landfill are surrounded by fence and/or buried but most (not all) plastics degrades due to heat, sun, rain, ph of other materials and micro organism. Then all of those little flakes

- fly away with the wind

- are carried down the groundwater by rain. This is called leachate Modern landfills are protected by liners but those have a lifespan and eventually any of them could leak.

On chat applications: In Finland no one used AIM and everyone used messenger.

I suspect this was the norm also elsewhere in Europe. I am talking about Messenger 4.6 that came built in with windows xp and its later versions, not the business version.

The most popular choice in Germany used to be ICQ, at least based on my own friend group and various conversations I've had over the years.

In the Netherlands, MSN Messenger (commonly abbreviated just 'MSN') was essentially a monopoly, although at that time it was only used by young people (older people still just called each other on the phone).

With the rise of smartphones though, it ended up being supplanted by WhatsApp, with the ill-conceived migration to Skype killing off most of the last stragglers.