VictorPath

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by VictorPath 4y ago
Can you tell me what country does not launch their rockets in this manner, other than in test flights?
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Speaking of Karl Marx, he made the exact same prediction as this paper does, only he did it a century and a half ago ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit... )
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Before looking at IME, let's review other topics. Printer machine identification codes were secretly inserted into printers some time between the 1980s and 2004. Our communications are being monitored in a host of ways. One last ref
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> It's not destabilizing in any way At the beginning of this year, the CFR's Foreign Policy magazine said it might be destabilizing. Russia invaded the Ukraine a few months later. So you say the US putting these military syste
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Yes. it is destabilizing. Trump pulled out of the Open Skies treaty in 2021, Obama opened the Aegis mentioned in the article in Romania in 2016. It's the restart of a nuclear arms race, which will mean a lot of money for military con
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> Taiwan's sovereign airspace Well, only 13 countries recognize Taiwan as a sovereign country - such as the 10,000 people of the 21 square kilometer island Naura. Also, Taiwan occupies Kinmen Island in the bay of Xiamen's harbo
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Steel workers were unionized, and there are less US steel workers now. Textile workers in the Carolinas were not unionized, and there are a lot less Carolina textile workers now. The difference is Larry Page's grandfather was at a uni
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by VictorPath 4y ago
The heirs who own the majority of Apple stock - the idle class which generation to generation does not work, but which expropriates surplus labor time from workers - they already know they are in an adversarial relationship with the workers
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by VictorPath 4y ago
The heirs who own the majority of Apple stock - the idle class which generation to generation does not work, but which expropriates surplus labor time from workers - they already know they are in an adversarial relationship with the workers
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> turning into an anti intellectual space where takes like "economics is not a science, it's a social science!" are the best we have to offer A bank taking an endowment awarding a prize and money to physicists, chemists an
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> who bombed buildings in Moscow to get elected Actually Yeltsin abolished the elected parliament in Russia in 1993, and then had the army bomb the parliament. This was done openly and celebrated by President Clinton, the US Congress an
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> a self-fulfilling profecy (sic) I think Powell jacking up the fed funds rate is going to have a much larger effect than some random HN post.
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> workers should own the means of production Or even believing a worker performing work and creating wealth should not have his surplus labor time expropriated by some idle class heir. The hunter-gatherer bands roaming the Amazon are com
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> lack of autonomy > I don't have any autonomy. I'm treated as a resource to be "used" > quitting or finding another job is NOT an option This is what Karl Marx called alienation of labor. Workers like yourself
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> It's ridiculously difficult to obtain a properly-balanced, nutritious diet when you've chosen to reject major components such as flesh meat The Brahmin in India seem to have managed it for thousands of years, as have other gr
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> Saudi Arabia murdered Khashoggi - one man - and it was a prominent story for years If your country dismembers a Washington Post reporter inside a consulate in Turkey, and Turkey releases audio of the murder, you're probably going
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> the central bank projected its benchmark rate hitting 4.4% by the end of the year > "There will very likely be some softening of labor market conditions," Powell said > The Fed forecasts the unemployment rate to rise to
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> Econ 101 time: value is subjective. Human beings merely use value as a description - it does not exist inside of any object or inside of any equation Econ 201 time: value is concrete, the definition of value is subjective. I can say t
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Social security was a higher percentage of gdp in the early 1980s than it is now. Even if it goes back up it is to a level it was at before. People can come to different estimates about what future gdp growth rates will be and have differ
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Also ignoring that social security payments as a percentage of GDP is not hitting some limit it has not over the past eight decades. The US was able to pay out social security in 1942 with a much smaller economy, there is no reason it shou
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> conversations that are deep about touchy issues are nowhere to be found on the internet anymore. Perhaps they have moved to late-night dinners with VCs or yacht rides with rich people? What are the touchy conversations on yacht rides w
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Many Cherokee lived freely not all that long ago. Now some are wage slaves for Uber. Some west Africans lived freely, then were slaves in the USA, and their descendants now out of Jim Crow are wage slaves for gig companies. For others gr
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Jean-Louis Gassée got his start as a bartender for PCF cadre at a casino in Deauville.
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> Chomsky passionately defending the Khmer Rouge The US began arming the Khmer Rouge in 1979 into the 1980s because the US wanted the Khmer Rouge to take over Cambodia again (well they didn't take over in 1975, the prince who the CI
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> World has lost a person of great decency and stability in a time of increasing nationalism Yaa it was real decent of her to pin medals on the parachute regiment who shot down unarmed men in Derry protesting about the internment of poli
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by VictorPath 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02D2T3wGCYg
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>... check on abuse of government power. The Queen's consent in forming government is routine but it can be withheld... > Australia had an example of this where the Governor General (the Queen's representative in the Austral
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Kissinger was saying more or less what Chomsky was saying at the beginning of the year. The hysterical hyperbole you mention is from the author of this thread.
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by VictorPath 4y ago
This is something which people like Kissinger and others were writing in Foreign Policy, the New York Times etc. prior to February of this year. Chomsky also is saying the same thing he has been saying about the Ukraine since 2013 and befor
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In the 1970s the nuclear power industry was bragging in US magazine ads about how Iran was becoming a nuclear power https://imgur.io/gallery/IzEWU8o The UK (and US) overthrew Mossadegh and Iran's parliament in the

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