Udik

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by Udik 6y ago
> The definition of the state as the "monopoly on violence" only works if you think that states inherently have the right to their power. Not at all. The idea is that the state has a mandate from its citizens to exercise violen
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by Udik 6y ago
The problem is not "aligning the core systems". The problem is that each of those systems has its own independent government and tries to defend first and foremost its own interests against the other countries in the union. The fa
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by Udik 6y ago
Yes, I've heard of that. They closed 1 transaction with it, for a total, if I'm not mistaken, of a million dollars. It's a pathetic joke.
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by Udik 6y ago
> but NL is part of the EU so sit back, shut up, and play nice. ... And on the EU side we are making it happen slow and steady. Oh well, you're very optimistic. I see a EU that keeps failing again and again at being anything more th
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by Udik 6y ago
Sure, but the Netherlands is not as interdependent with China as it is with the US. The point is that the US is not convincing the Netherlands that blocking China is a smart move (because it isn't), it's forcing it with threats.
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by Udik 6y ago
Much more simply, because the US is a rich customer and military giant with a population of 330 million, and has the means to hurt the Netherlands, a country of only 17 million people. This is not moral suasion, this is pure and simple bull
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by Udik 6y ago
> I’m not saying that natural disaster will target poorer countries ... You seem to agree with this, so I don’t see your point My point is that while it's trivially true that poors are more exposed to natural disasters, it's al
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by Udik 6y ago
The example above is impressive because it actually makes sense, except for the last sentence of the first paragraph: "But this time, his publicist is saying he'll be wearing a tux no matter what." Remove that, and there is a
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by Udik 6y ago
> The thing shared by all mechanics of evolution is that they need a population with enough internal variation to be able to move the needle at all. A population that needs to evolve itself out of a corner... True. In a sense, your metap
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by Udik 6y ago
> You claim that the left is out of touch with reality while you think that we can somehow build a few hundred new nuclear plants ... and that alone will fix the climate crisis No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm say
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by Udik 6y ago
On the other hand, there must be a limit on the amount of "moderation" you're allowed to perform before becoming a publisher. If you start labelling content as misleading (but don't remove it) or even if you privilege ce
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by Udik 6y ago
> there is a sibling comment explaining the scientific reason for why he is wrong If you're referring to andrewla's comments, I don't agree, his 'scientific' argument is that 'variety is the fuel of evolutio
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by Udik 6y ago
Dawkins has always stressed the divide between the way things are and the way they should be from a moral or ethical standpoint. Describing reality for what it is doesn't imply endorsing it: murder is a natural human act, cancer is a n
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by Udik 6y ago
And why all of a sudden is everyone so concerned with what China has been doing for decades (something that, while definitely authoritarian, is not exceedingly nefarious either)? It's a serious question. We all knew how China works, an
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by Udik 6y ago
Yes, I suspect (as another commenter said) that these might be phrases that have been used in some 'political spamming' campaign flooding youtube with hundreds of thousands of OT comments on random videos. So they might have been
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by Udik 6y ago
Cool, I have that 1984 issue of National Geographic with the hologram on the cover! (At 0:53 in the video). I was fascinated by it as a kid.
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by Udik 6y ago
> where insiders have a lot of influence, and even harassing, uncivil behavior can go on for a long time if it's perceived as "defending" the community's precious "work" from new editors It definitely happen
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by Udik 6y ago
Then you need to establish strict(er) notability guidelines. The approach, tone, use of sources, etc. should be exactly the same when writing about design patterns and knitting patterns (actually, I have the feeling pages about knitting pat
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by Udik 6y ago
Forking Wikipedia is practically unfeasible without a huge organizational effort. And will probably result in loss of credibility of both branches. The public logs are there since ever, so does the censorship (some amount of it).
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by Udik 6y ago
BTW, did anyone hear anything more about those Israeli cellphone-spying devices that were discovered all around the White House? :) https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house...
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by Udik 6y ago
> I wonder if the word “masticate” zcomes from this ie vice versa It does, the plant's resin is named after the Greek verb meaning "to chew".
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by Udik 6y ago
Exactly. A more serious move would be "I'll cut everyone's pay by 20%, now go to live where you want instead of spending insane amounts in rent here".
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by Udik 6y ago
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by Udik 6y ago
I don't want to minimise the pandemic- I don't think there is any other way to manage it than the one every sensible government is taking. But- a but was coming- the count of the deaths is a really rough way to estimate its damage
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by Udik 6y ago
> It was only ever a few names at a time, and Even that not every day. Because Iraqis and Afghans, notoriously, have no names.
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by Udik 6y ago
Next: drones that can detect a laser source and point a mirror back to it.
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by Udik 6y ago
They've also made "very good progress" in AR for the past 5 years. I hope the deals won't turn out like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ7-F_vWUVE
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by Udik 6y ago
I picked the last 40 years up to the present. Seems a decent length of time to me.
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by Udik 6y ago
Sorry, but the GP's statement was declined in the present. In the present, and for the past 30/40 years, the CCP has done a great job for the people of China. So much so the US are freaking out because they're afraid of losin
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by Udik 6y ago
> Notwithstanding the fact that they are serving the interests and demands of the Communist Party, which often puts them in a lose-lose scenario Not sure what you mean by this. The quality of life of people in China improved in the past

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