I-M-S

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by I-M-S 1y ago
Ted Chiang is often regarded as the best sci-fi author of our times.
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by I-M-S 1y ago
Indulgence might be the most appropriate term.
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by I-M-S 1y ago
The US Constitution wasn't written with the wellbeing of random ordinary citizens in mind. You could argue it was the exact opposite in fact.
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by I-M-S 1y ago
Have you ever distributed vengeance so you can personally speak how you felt? Or are you mindlessly repeating strings of words that are supposed to go together like an LLM?
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by I-M-S 1y ago
A while ago I saw a photo of Nancy Pelosi on the Congress floor with a walker. I later learned the picture was deepfaked. But in a way it was more true than a real photograph.
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by I-M-S 1y ago
Worse still, you're perpetuating a debunked myth of a starving artist. 99% of the artists you've heard of were able to support themselves with their craft - those that weren't stopped producing and that's why you've
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by I-M-S 1y ago
Also, the fact power is distributed among three levels of government that are rarely in alignment translates into severe dysfunction. Just like the US, Canada has lost the ability to build.
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by I-M-S 1y ago
To say Canada could benefit from USA's descent is like saying one's arms benefit from the person becoming paraplegic.
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by I-M-S 1y ago
I think you might be mixing up how things are supposed to work with how they work in practice. I've seen HR from the inside - while I accept that my experience was just one data point, it made me personally actively avoid workplaces th
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by I-M-S 1y ago
Precisely. To quote the famous economic dictum: it works in practice, but does it work in theory?
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by I-M-S 1y ago
So like awarding a Nobel prize for religious studies then?
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by I-M-S 1y ago
I'd say the dogma is with the other side on this one. It's a bit like walking into a church in the 14th century and trying to persuade people god is a made up concept. No amount of persuasion will be convincing. Economics is simil
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by I-M-S 1y ago
Or maybe they stay small because big business made it impossible for new businesses to grow through consolidation, regulatory capture, and other contemporary business practices that decidedly do NOT make them a better place to work (the HR
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by I-M-S 1y ago
Aren't natural resources wealth? Isn't forced work wealth? "Stealing" seems like the best word to describe the situation without obfuscating the matter with grander narratives (the kind that might win you the "Nobel
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by I-M-S 1y ago
Both The Globe and Mail and The National Post serve the Capital, regardless of its provenance.
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by I-M-S 1y ago
That's like saying nothing that comes out of people's mouths is new or different because it's all been uttered before.
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by I-M-S 1y ago
A fish in an aquarium doesn't see water.
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by I-M-S 1y ago
Excellent question. Perhaps someone knowledgeable on that subject can tell us more.
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by I-M-S 1y ago
True, but it goes the other way around as well - the Taliban had absolutely no way to infiltrate the ranks and do damage to the military operations from within.
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by I-M-S 1y ago
I'm confused... How do young families coordinate where and when to buy a house with their cohort?
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by I-M-S 1y ago
In a lot of cases that reason is that the West has pillaged and/or coup-ed those countries in the past, and doesn't care if it scorches and/or submerges them underwater in the future.
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by I-M-S 1y ago
Democracy is the opium for the masses.
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by I-M-S 1y ago
Absolutely. Asocial behaviour in the West comes at far too low of a price. For example, here's how NIMBYs are dealt with in places like Serbia: https://n1info.rs/vesti/porodici-iz-kragujevca-investitor-za... If yo
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by I-M-S 1y ago
One should be careful not to conflate "worthless" with "things that hold no value to me personally".
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by I-M-S 1y ago
The inverse would be to use the monopoly on violence to punish those who wish to use property for their self-interest at the expense of the common good. Basically imagine police throwing in jail people who declare a plot of land as belongin
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by I-M-S 1y ago
The official doctrine of Israel is to nuke the whole region [1] rather than accept anything similar to what has been proposed above. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option
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by I-M-S 1y ago
That is precisely the point. OP cites "UN action in the Balkans" to soothe his wife, whereas UN's in action led to the first legally recognized genocide in Europe since the end of World War II.
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by I-M-S 1y ago
Apple was built around Steve Jobs - he didn't parachute in the company like your average bean-counting CEO does
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by I-M-S 1y ago
A country that sends men to the Moon but isn't able to guarantee the wellbeing of their families shouldn't be able to send men to the Moon.
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by I-M-S 1y ago
> It's almost impossible to imagine Netanyahu acting so emboldened under any previous US president Gaza happened under Biden's watch, and continued under Trump.

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