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Indonesia's ballistic missile deployment, a first in Southeast Asia(channelnewsasia.com)
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by _t9ow 1y ago
> Hyper-capitalist societies need some counterbalance with social safety programs, e.g., as seen in the Nordic states and the blue states in the U.S., otherwise people choose not to reproduce if their children won't get anything out
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The Drone and AI Delusion(secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com)
14 points by _t9ow 1y ago|12 comments
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South Korea's military has shrunk by 20% in six years as male population drops(channelnewsasia.com)
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by _t9ow 1y ago
The original title "ChatGPT users are not happy with GPT-5 launch as thousands take to Reddit claiming the new upgrade ‘is horrible’" exceeds the Hacker News "Title" field limit by 32 characters.
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ChatGPT users are not happy with GPT-5 launch(techradar.com)
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by _t9ow 1y ago
You were downvoted, but you were right in pointing out that the quote was taken out of context. Here's the full context: "Nixon should be told," Kissinger said, "that it is probably an objective of [Clark M. Clifford, t
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China state media says Nvidia must provide 'security proofs' to regain trust(reuters.com)
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Trump, EU chief strike trade deal in transatlantic standoff(channelnewsasia.com)
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by _t9ow 1y ago
> Whether they do so with labeled accounts or not seems more of an implementation detail. I think this is an implementation detail of huge significance. In the CPF system, your current contributions pay for your own future retirement. In
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by _t9ow 1y ago
> only Singaporeans wouldn't consider that a tax Both forced savings and taxes are legally mandated by the government, but that does not mean that forced savings are taxes. Implementation details matter. Your money in your own CPF a
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by _t9ow 1y ago
> force foreign manufacturers Is it accurate to say that these companies are "forced"? Shareholders make cold, unfeeling, selfish calculations all the time. The shareholders of these companies could simply elect not to do busin
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by _t9ow 1y ago
Seems like U.S. healthcare spending is 17.5%-19.5% of its GDP: "Overall, health spending was 17.6% of GDP in 2023, similar to pre-pandemic shares (17.5% in 2019) after an uptick in 2020 (19.5%) and 2021 (18.3%)." ( https:/&#x
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My Work at Unity(runevision.com)
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by _t9ow 1y ago
Yes, they do. They accept Monero too.
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by _t9ow 1y ago
> The real movement is the mfg flocking out of China and into our allies countries. If Trump cared so much about America's allies, why has he also imposed tariffs on Canada and repeatedly threatened to annex it? Why has he repeatedl
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by _t9ow 1y ago
Well, as I mentioned, many (or most) Europeans believe that they have arrived at the end of history, the peak of enlightenment. So according to their belief, Europeans are absolutely qualified to be the arbiter.
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> We should all watch and criticize other countries so humanity can improve. Many (if not most) Europeans think it is perfectly fine when they criticise other countries; but when people from other countries criticise Europe, these very s
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I wouldn't call it a dictatorship -- no label neatly applies to Singapore, but calling it a dictatorship (even if benevolent) is quite incorrect. Describing it as a soft authoritarian country is much more appropriate.
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I never understood why libertarians/free market proponents think that Singapore is the paragon of laissez-faire economics. Try studying the country's housing market policies, for example, and you'll quickly realise that the g
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by _t9ow 1y ago
> point to the region inhabited by only pengins and suggest they should bomb them back into the stone age Or levy tariffs on the penguins.
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by _t9ow 1y ago
> can’t find anything that agrees That's because many people allow their (completely warranted) distrust of the CCP to justify all sorts of other spurious, baseless accusations of the CCP. The CCP has done many things that deserve c
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by _t9ow 1y ago
> 卖血记 by 许三观 The book is called 《许三观卖血记》, and its author is 余华. 许三观 is not the author's name.
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by _t9ow 1y ago
> if I lived in a society that never had such a norm, I imagine I would regard the advocates for introducing such a norm into my society to have the burden of proof that doing so would be worth it. Thank you for being open-minded and for
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by _t9ow 1y ago
I stopped reading him ~10 years ago, so I didn't keep up with what he wrote about ivermectin. Thanks for sharing that blog post. I think it illustrates very well what I meant by employing argumentative sleights of hand to hide hollow i
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by _t9ow 1y ago
Personally I think Scott Alexander is overrated. His writing style is extraordinarily verbose, which lends itself well to argumentative sleights of hand that make his ideas come across as much more substantive than they really are.
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> President Biden (or rather, someone with control of President Biden’s autopen) issued Dr. Fauci a blanket pardon backdated to 2014. This merely proved that President Biden believed that President Trump will prosecute and imprison Dr Fa
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by _t9ow 1y ago
> NPR was wrong Maybe they were wrong, or maybe they weren't. Trump changes his mind every single day. What was true yesterday might no longer be true today.
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by _t9ow 1y ago
> 17% ... When we ran a surplus during Clinton's admin, we were at 20%. Where did you get these figures from? According to OECD, the US' tax revenue-to-GDP ratio was 27.6% in 2022 and 25.2% in 2023: https://www.oecd
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by _t9ow 1y ago
> cares much about democracy anymore Anymore? Arguably, the US never did. Ask, for example, the people living in Caribbean or Latin American countries what happened when they elected leaders that the US disliked. Or Iran. Or Italy. Or Co

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