OgsyedIE

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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
Present day scarcities of food, water, energy, useful land, etc
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
With the depletion of the coal and oil deposits the industrial revolution relied on the first time around, it is now locked in that this century is human civilization's only shot at reaching some kind of abstract technology escape velo
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
On the off chance they weren't a bot and were merely somebody sucked in to the culture war to the point of losing a lot of sanity, the answer is that the optimal amount of green tech for maximising oligarchic wealth extraction is somew
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
There's also a prisoner's dilemma situation. Suppose you're some wealthy media magnate promoting culture war distractions from your portfolio of asset strippers and polluters, thinking of defecting to team decency. That hypot
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
Half the comments here, for instance.
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
I think it could solve all of our problems so that we are never inconvenienced by having to do anything. To promote the success of sitting around waiting for a volcano to save us while our portfolios appreciate, I've started a Wiccan d
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
Krugman famously claimed that the CPI becomes more useful when you remove food, energy, cars and fuel from it. There seems to be some foundational philosophical issues with deciding what the field of economics is supposed to accomplish.
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
Is the bear case Citrini alleged credible again or not?
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
The thing you describe was perfectly addressed, as far as I can tell, in a piece of short fiction about AI that was written in 2021. https://m.fictionpress.com/s/3353977/1/The-End-of-Creative-S...
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
I'm not aware of any historical counterexamples, but I'd love to learn if you have any.
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
The electoral strength of the Trump base is their ability to identify with Trump, which makes the political component of open defiance a guaranteed loser. None of Trump's presumptive successors have his advanced age, imagery of an unre
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
Nobody has a magic wand to produce the best option and they instead have to make do with the least bad physically possible option. The constituency for the immiseration of the masses is unfortunately bipartisan. It predates Trump (and Biden
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
Your comment is entirely untrue. The video shows a stopped car at rest, and you know this, because you are intentionally spreading falsehoods for the purpose of "flooding the zone with shit".
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
I'm convinced that the patterns of the federal judiciary freely supporting egregious misconduct by multiple agencies will last until roughly one week after the funeral of the current POTUS. Old age, complications, whatever, the pendulu
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
Your comment is entirely untrue. The video shows a stopped car at rest, and you know this, because you are intentionally spreading falsehoods for the purpose of "flooding the zone with shit".
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
Separate to the concerns about privacy others have, I found some ear-splitting pitch errors with making very narrow asterisk-shaped drums with a number of spokes not divisible by 2 or 3. Good thing my volume was low.
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
(2023) should be added to the title.
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Manna (2003)(web.archive.org)
2 points by OgsyedIE 2mo ago|0 comments
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
The cost of planning the alternative route hasn't been published anywhere yet AFAIK, although it's non-trivial to estimate.
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
Why assume that the appearance of gullibility isn't the act of pretending to be gullible for gain?
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
The marginal differences in labor and environmental costs are not small at all even when it is strategically important. During the Cold War when this was last an immediate issue the National Defense Stockpile had to act as a subsidy program
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by OgsyedIE 2mo ago
A reverse would violate three red lines that the current oligarchy will not budge on: * More sharing of political power with ethnic, class or cultural outgroups * Less revenues for the oligarchy from land ownership, investment in healthcare
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by OgsyedIE 3mo ago
I'm not sure. It looks like 90% of the slide is due to SK Hynix having to face incrementally better international competition in the fight to sell shovels.
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Wildfires Overrun NASA Deep Space Communications Complex in Spain(newscord.org)
3 points by OgsyedIE 3mo ago|0 comments
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by OgsyedIE 3mo ago
After a few weeks of that app stores, search engines and possibly even payment processors would block Reddit because of the egregiously inadequate enforcement against links to malware, piracy, rightly illegal categories of pornography and s
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by OgsyedIE 3mo ago
There are to date no alternatives to the subreddit /r/redditalternatives, even merely as somebody's informal project hosted on GitHub. I don't think it would make enough ad revenue to be worth fending off scrapers, thoug
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by OgsyedIE 3mo ago
Bluetooth based messaging apps are naturally able to circumvent internet restrictions that inhibit protests, citizen journalism and other kinds of unapproved activities but there are several ways Bluetooth could be updated as a protocol to
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by OgsyedIE 3mo ago
It may be hard to parse the lists but if they're still available somewhere online under the current administration the past annual State Department, CIA bookshelf recommendation, Army Chief of Staff, Navy CNO and Marine Commandant read
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by OgsyedIE 3mo ago
Suggested additions: the Axiom Business Book Awards, Library Journal Best Books of the Year and Booklist Magazine's Editor's Choice Awards. There's also a few popular substacks that have big sideshows in regular book reviews,
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by OgsyedIE 3mo ago
The size of the core funding cuts to councils by HMG outweigh everything else the councils are facing according to the figures. Now, purely by memory, I recall commentary over the years that 1) David Cameron was cutting taxes on various cat

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