Emma_Goldman

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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
I don't really find this convincing. Companies have been transitioning from paper for 20 years, and most have superseded it. WFH is hardly a step change.
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
It is trivially solvable in principle, not in practice. Political constraints are as real as technical constraints, and you cannot make sense of and intelligently affect the world without understanding that. Similarly, political constraints
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
Very cool. My first go was similar: "West Virginia" to "Austria-Hungary" Time: 50.962 Seconds Number of links visited: 8 The path you took: ["West Virginia", "United States", "North America"
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
This is just wildly exaggerated. Italian neo-realism, British kitchen sink dramas and the emergence (in France) of vérité cinema did just as much, if not more, to contribute to the refocusing of cinema on normal, working people.
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
I couldn't agree more, I think the production logistics are so good in Factorio that they're really running up against powerful diminishing returns. Better to strengthen a fascinating, secondary part of the game with a lot of spac
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
Even though it is many orders of magnitude simpler than the real-world equivalent, I find that there is no better way of grasping the logistics of modern civilization than playing Factorio. In fact, it's probably in the Goldilocks zone
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
>"Obviously, the burden of support isn't applied to people expressing warm thoughts about the queen, because virtually none of them are barbs. They're called "bromides" for a reason!" Let me just cut to the
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
I appreciate you taking the time to write this thoughtful response. I am sympathetic with some of it, and certainly I could have been more diplomatic. >"But also: you could have just put more effort into it. As it stands, the comm
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
I am not being mean but that is historically illiterate. Britain had over seventy overseas territories in 1952, including swathes of dependent colonies across Africa and the Middle East. The Labour government that had just left office had a
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
I never said anything about her lucre. The Queen willingly became head of a Commonwealth that included dependent colonies, and a British state that was actively repressing several independence movements. That the head of the Commonwealth is
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
Practice refers to what's done. I am really trying to have a good faith conversation here. PaulHoule posted that the Queen was a 'moral authority'. I replied setting out a few reasons why that might not be true. What did Dang
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
But it is what happened in practice. The Queen is controversial: whether you laud her reign or question it, that's true. The whole point is that praising the Queen as a 'moral authority' is not anodyne. As far as I can see,
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
>"It's true that there's an asymmetry in that it's much easier for the people making positive comments not to break the site guidelines. In a way that's not fair—but it applies to all threads equally, regardless
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
I appreciate the job you do and know it's hard. But I am not quite seeing this. How is a thread full of panegyrics to the Queen on the front page of HN curious and non-ideological, but me questioning whether - as one of many posters e
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
That was not my intended emphasis, but I think you could make a good case for it anyway. It involved the dispossession and genocide of native peoples in North America and Australasia. It was built on slave plantations in the Caribbean, and
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
The phrase 'free world' is ironically apt. It was developed in the Cold War to refer to the US-led anti-communist bloc, precisely because 'free' is equivocal enough to cover despots ruling over capitalist economies. Of c
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
I realise she has just died and it's unbecoming to do anything but laud the person, but this is just moral obsequiousness. She claims fealty by right of blood, reigned as the crown of an extraordinarily cruel empire, and frequently int
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
Far and away the best book on the material and energy constraints that defined Germany's warpath in WW2 - including why it recklessly struck out to open the eastern front - is Adam Tooze's Wages of Destruction. https:/&#x2F
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
>"And there was a housing crash in there and decent growth in population over that time." There was a slight slump in rentals after the financial crisis, not before. So if anything it would depress the subsequent growth. In Eng
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
>"Did they become silly rich? Or did they quit because it is a major problem to actually make it very profitable versus other uses of capital and time? I'm a decently saavy investor (in many things), and have watched multiple f
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
It's a whole subfield, 'population ethics'. A lot of effective altruists revere Derik Parfit, a rather staid Oxford philosopher who effectively founded the subject.
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
There are lots of conditions of the possibility of life - biological, physical, chemical - but the real point is that there is no incontestable reason to think that the conditions of the possibility of life are the pre-eminent source of mor
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
Every one of them also had kidneys, but that's not an objective argument for the pre-eminent moral value of kidneys. There is an inescapable choice in choosing the grounds from which to reason out to an ethical conclusion - there is no
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
>"But I'm not espousing my values, but values vital to the continuation of life." There are no self-grounding values. You cannot objectively justify why fertility is the overriding value here, rather than, say, fairness, l
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
A lovely idea, but it will not happen anytime soon because states consider energy independence to be of existential geopolitical importance.
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Click on the methodology, it adjusts for purchasing power.
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
It amazes me how utterly ignorant the most privileged people in the world are about the stupendous luxury in which they live. 60,000 USD is 58,000 Euros at current exchange rates, which equates to a post-tax annual income of 37500 Euros in
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
What about the compound effects of a sleep surplus? I sleep 9 hours a night, sometimes slightly more, and I often worry that I might have conditioned my body into accepting more sleep than it needs - with potentially negative long-term cons
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
The problem of climate change is not one of generic 'overconsumption and waste' but of bringing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero. Most of the electricity, transport and industry currently dependent on fossil fuels can be green
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by Emma_Goldman 4y ago
>"They are happy with is precisely the problem. Amazon has cranked out a lot of mediocre tv shows that don’t have any significant greatness." This - the fact that this is an Amazon production already tells us a great deal about

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