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by Perceval 2y ago
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations , Chap. XI, Part III, "Rent of Land: Conclusion" Subtitle: "but the interest of those who live by profit has not the same connexion with the general interest of society" > "His
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by Perceval 3y ago
Before BLM, OWS was hamstrung by the introduction of the Progressive Stack, ensuring that they could not effectively organize or even remain coherent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_stack
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by Perceval 3y ago
Interesting that you begin your comment with Piketty and end with housing value. A Brookings study on Piketty's work indicates that most of the re-concentration of wealth that Piketty finds is actually driven by increases in housing pr
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by Perceval 3y ago
I had a similar experience. My initial stipend in grad school was $13,500/yr. My first job after defending was a VAP position for $55,000, also in my early 30s. After a year of that, I jumped to an FFRDC for twice as much.
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by Perceval 3y ago
Rats and cockroaches also co-evolved with humans. Is that a partnership that evokes similar sentimental feelings for you?
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by Perceval 3y ago
Is it clear that they do have more problems? The U.S. Government blew up a majority of its initial rockets. U.S. private sector companies almost always have a failed first launch. SpaceX's Falcon 1 failed in 3 of its first 5 launches.
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by Perceval 3y ago
You can't really test a rocket until you fly it. You can ground test subsystems and components all you want, but that's not a system-level test of a rocket. The only true system-level test of a rocket is to fly it. When you deal w
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by Perceval 3y ago
Nothing out there from foreign competitors compares to the F-35. And keep in mind that the F-35 isn't nearly as good as the F-22, B-2, or B-21. You'll have to keep your eyes out for the forthcoming 6th Gen fighter (literally, beca
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by Perceval 3y ago
I once worked at the Pentagon, and my co-workers noted that I wasn't really a Pentagon employee until I could string together a sequence of no less than five acronyms back-to-back in a sentence and still have it make sense. My five wer
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by Perceval 3y ago
It true that Astra took 7 tries to get to orbit, but they did so in record time from founding to achieving orbit. * Astra - 5 years * SpaceX - 7 years * Firefly - 8 years * RocketLab - 12 years * Virgin Orbit - 13 years ABL, Relativity, Blu
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by Perceval 3y ago
The existing providers were NASA and United Launch Alliance, the latter of which is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed. They merged their space launch businesses in 2006, because neither could individually sustain their launch serv
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by Perceval 3y ago
A good starting point would be Hans Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations . He was a German Jewish emigre to the United States, and it was with the help of the Rockefeller Foundation that his book was used to create International Relati
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by Perceval 3y ago
There was a lot of pro-Ron Paul content on reddit early on. Then there was a large and very active Donald Trump subreddit that reddit outright banned. I think one of the key reasons subreddits lean left is the very active use of banning. De
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by Perceval 3y ago
Can't wait for the next version of Clippy that polices whatever you're writing to make sure you capitalize 'Black' but not 'white,' and use only non-gendered xe/xir pronouns, and have footnotes/endnot
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by Perceval 3y ago
The "Great Awokening" began circa 2012: * https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/americas-wh... * https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2304/2304.01596.pdf
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by Perceval 3y ago
Locate and arrest individuals who have broken the laws that ICE is charged with enforcing?
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by Perceval 3y ago
Apple doesn't need to buy a weather app on the iPhone (when it offers its own pre-installed weather app anyway) in order to get your location. Apple can get your location directly from the iPhone itself.
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by Perceval 3y ago
There are huge lobbies supporting seasonal and temporary worker visas. For one area you mention – farming – there is a specific H-2A seasonal worker visa, and industrial agriculture is a huge lobby. Hotels, resorts, and other venues use the
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by Perceval 3y ago
Reminds me a bit of Heinlein's Time Enough for Love
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by Perceval 3y ago
Maybe it was drawing from the couple thousand North African troops that fought for the Wehrmacht: https://allthatsinteresting.com/free-arabian-legion
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by Perceval 3y ago
AI stands for Artificial Ideology
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by Perceval 3y ago
The media have done a number of stories, analyses, and editorials noting that white nationalist/white supremacy groups appear to be more diverse than one would otherwise expect: * https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work&
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by Perceval 3y ago
Are these "big strategic changes" or are they changes that have been obviously needed for a while and made quickly in order to stop the bleeding?
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by Perceval 3y ago
Notepad/TextEdit are my go-to HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP editors. When I got more serious at one point in my life I used BBEdit. I found Firefox's development tools very useful as well.
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by Perceval 3y ago
> Beware Marxist terms, but then he kinda coined the "capitalism" term too! The term "capitalism" (kapitalismus) does not appear even once in the entire corpus of Marx's writings. 'Kapitalismus' first a
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by Perceval 3y ago
Global sperm counts are also dropping, so eventually the physical ability to reproduce might be affected: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/human-sperm-counts...
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by Perceval 3y ago
The Early Medieval period, the immediate post-collapse centuries, are also referred to as the Dark Ages, distinct from the High Medieval Period and Renaissance Period.
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by Perceval 3y ago
He traveled to a foreign country and joined a militia to put his life on the line fighting fascism. Does that demonstrate more or less skin in the game against fascism than Stalinism?
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by Perceval 3y ago
Another recent review: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/15/the-rebels-cli...
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by Perceval 3y ago
This is precisely the category error the author is making: because the Middle Ages were an era of epic poetry, therefore all the descendant institutions from the Middle Ages belong to the methods/standards of epic poetry. It's non

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