severien

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[–] severien 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The point of the question is how much money does one need in a liquid form as opposed to less liquid investments.

[–] severien 0 points 1 year ago

Batteries were phone specific but it wasn't a big problem to find them. I bought several for my Note 3 and it allowed me to use the phone for a long time.

[–] severien 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't Samsung DEX exactly that?

[–] severien 0 points 1 year ago

You can get way more compact mirrorless, my Fuji X-E3 + 35mm f/2 is 550g and the difference in image quality is very clear.

[–] severien 0 points 1 year ago

That switch was more than 10 years ago.

[–] severien 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Something tells me everyone investing in this can afford to take the hit.

There are millions of ordinary Chinese taking an expensive mortgage now owning an unfinished apartment in a ghost town. It will hit the poorest the hardest - they still have to pay the mortgage, but can't even live in their apartments, because they are not finished.

[–] severien 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Forcing people to be responsible for more than their immediate actions

What you're saying is that children should carry the responsibility for the acts of their ancestors.

if I include an unjust status quo in my reasoning, then I might also use violence to free myself from the consequences of past violence, but that would not create a “cycle” wherein a stable, nonviolent state cannot be reached, since every “allowed” instance of violence would still only be associated one-to-one with an equivalent instance of “disallowed” violence.

Who's the judge of whether it's "allowed" violence? If we say that the status quo of Franco-German relationship is built on the past injustice, and that this should be fixed, who will count all the past centuries of wars and massacres and calculate the outstanding balance?

Because if you let it both sides do it for themselves, then they both will naturally come to the conclusion that they've been unjustly treated and that the other side has to pay for that. In the end it will be the stronger one, not the morally correct one, who wins. For a time, then the sides will switch => cycle of violence is IMHO unavoidable if you hold the opinion that past sins are never forgotten.

Now, if my family’s wealth was robbed long ago, I would have a right to recover it

History is basically never so nicely clear-cut. I mean, have you studied your family tree and made sure that all of that family wealth was gathered via perfectly moral means? What if it turns out that your grand grandfather was a soldier who brought home some gold of dubious origins?

[–] severien 18 points 1 year ago (14 children)

It's a problem for people who indebted themselves to buy those homes with a valuation based on scarcity. Also a problem for the real estate Chinese companies, sector which represents a quarter of Chinese economy.

[–] severien 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The problem is that it's all a huge "what if" amenable for any narrative you want. In the end it provides justification for the never ending cycle of violence on people having no personal guilt.

[–] severien 0 points 1 year ago

Sure, but a much smaller one.

[–] severien 1 points 1 year ago

It's not about the resolution which as you mention is already more than sufficient. But you can easily see bad optics, bad color rendition, oversharpening etc. on a 500px image.

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