beloch

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by beloch 5y ago
1. This is a very American-centric piece of navel gazing. Much of the world was strongly opposed to several of the conflicts mentioned here, including the invasion of Iraq. This is what-about-ism. The fact that some of the countries no
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by beloch 5y ago
This is speculation, but it may be because oil production doesn't outstrip demand by much. The world uses a certain amount of fuel in a day. Oil batteries, refineries, pipelines, etc. are designed to supply that, but not much more.
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by beloch 5y ago
Putin has lied constantly during this conflict. He said his troops were not on Ukraine's border when they were. When called out on that, he said they weren't going to invade right up until they did invade. The latest is that
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The U.S. produces more oil than they consume and are sitting next to massive export capacity in Canada too. Biden has no excuses here. Build some damned infrastructure and get off Russian oil. Russia does vastly more trade with the EU tha
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With NATO unable to intervene militarily due to the threat of nuclear war, it initially looked like Ukraine was on its own. Once again, the Russian bear would do as it wills. However, coordinated sanctions backed by the crucial will to tak
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Ukraine is not a NATO member, but Poland is. If Russia attacks a member of NATO then all members of NATO are obligated to join in defence militarily . Russia can attack non-NATO countries and intimidate NATO into doing nothing, but to at
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by beloch 5y ago
The most concerning thing about Trudeau's use of the Emergencies Act is that it was both unnecessary and, despite the protests being quelled, ongoing . First, the police in Ottawa chose not to enforce even basic laws in the area of th
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One thing most Americans don't understand about Canadian politics how much effort is put into limiting the influence of money. Corporations cannot make political donations in several provinces. Even unions can't contribute in so
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Most people are fairly resistant to changing their behaviour because of annoyances. Take broadcast TV for example. From the 50's to the early aughts, TV's only competition was theatres, and its in-home convenience let it win that
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The whole "ends justify the means" thing stirred up a lot of controversy, both then and now, but Machiavelli meant it in a very limited and specific context. Namely, that the ethics we apply to individuals do not necessarily appl
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"NordicTrack says it supports right-to-repair rules. However, because of its equipment’s moving parts, the spokesperson says, it believes that restricting access to its operating system is important for safety. " The real reason t
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When half of the people responsible for regulating markets are, instead, using insider knowledge to make a killing at day-trading, it's hard to trust the system. So, the natural response is to build a new system that can be made to dan
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by beloch 5y ago
Control by a few anonymous individuals with totally unknown interests is not an improvement on control by state entities whose interests are widely known.
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The data presented in the article actually presents some pretty specific problems with management that don't boil down to managers needing to be "better people". For example, employees want predictable schedules. The sectors
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Governments could apply a carbon and electronic waste offset tax to declared cryptocurrency income. The people making money from cryptocurrencies should pay enough to fund projects that will fully offset their environmental costs. Of course
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Say you're in China's position. The base of your power is your economy, and that's predicated on your workforce. That workforce is now at it's peak, and will shrink as people retire faster than they graduate from schoo
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Russia has been doing it since the dawn of cinema. e.g. Battleship Potemkin. Mosfilm, soviet propaganda, and amazing advances in movie-making have all marched together from the very start. You'd be surprised at how many of the trope
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by beloch 5y ago
Site claims to be non-profit, but links to a site selling the flag they're advertising. Hmm... In the FAQ: "The creator and chief designer, Oskar Pernefeldt, holds the copyrights to the proposed The International Flag of Planet E
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Anybody living and working in China and writing about it has to conform to certain viewpoints, or they'll be unable to continue as they are. This letter is interesting in several ways, but you'd be wise to approach it from the
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Some concerns with this study: 1. 40 is not an adequate sample size. Not even close. 2. Continuous text entry in LaTeX and Word is very similar, so why are LaTeX users far behind Word users here? Did the researchers measure typing speed a
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by beloch 5y ago
It's interesting how the author of this piece uses "badverts" and "badvertisers" because it implies that there are "goodverts" and "goodvertisers" in the settings he's speaking of.
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There is some odd use of language in this article that might be a little misleading. "Social network", "population connectivity", and similar terms seem to be chosen to paint a very modern picture of one of the oldest t
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by beloch 5y ago
In one of his books, Jared Diamond recounted how, on a research trip to New Guinea's rain-forests, he found that his native guides would not, under any circumstances, make camp under a tree. They were afraid of being crushed by fallin
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by beloch 5y ago
"Our governments collect $2.81 billion in tobacco sales taxes federally (2), which is >1% of all federal government spending in 2013 (3) ... However, the direct and indirect cost of lung cancer, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmon
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Money is the root of the problem. Canadian universities depend heavily on tuition paid by foreign students. A huge proportion of those students are from China. If Canadian universities take too tough a stance against this kind of behaviou
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First, size matters. Google and Facebook probably do not have a "family" feeling because they're huge. Growing a company to that size almost always means losing that feeling, as well as adding a host of inefficiencies. Seco
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From another article[1] on the topic by an archaeologist: "Even worse, these public latrines were notorious for terrifying customers when flames exploded from their seat openings. These were caused by gas explosions of hydrogen sulphid
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Viewing this feels sort of like listening to speed metal for the first time. At first, it's jarring and off-putting, but you recognize that it's unique. You may decide you like it, but probably only after a fair bit of exposure.
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There is an inherent and not entirely unfounded bias evident in this article that external knowledge is inferior to internal knowledge. It is certainly true that reaching the point where you don't have to look something up usually mea
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by beloch 5y ago
Such a law would kill structural batteries [1] in their infancy. That may or may not be a good thing. -------- [1] https://scitechdaily.com/big-breakthrough-for-massless-energ...

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