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by dbspin 6y ago
I'd strongly question the witch words 'heavily taxes'. The US federal government has some of the lowest income tax rates (both stated and effective) in the Western World [1]. And it's corporate tax rate is only slightly
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In the 90s Burger King had an incredible 'meat like' vege burger here in Europe. As a freshly vegetarian teenager at the time it was my go too 'faux flesh'. For some unknown reason they cut it from the menu in favour of
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Second this, Fall of Civilisations is outstanding, and easily the most beautifully produced and impeccably researched history / prehistory podcast that's out there. It's BBC radio quality. Just astonishing that it's free
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This is precisely backwards - especially in the US. Anyone with 'generational wealth' effectively guaranteed by investments and trust funds is in effect an aristocrat. However their income came - whether through their parents or t
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Fortunately such things eb and flow. We're in an era of copyright maximalism, but there are forces pushing strongly against that - from the balkanisation of the internet as authoritarianism spreads, to the ubiquitous prevalence of pira
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I trained as a therapist a decade ago, and even then it was written into my organisational code of ethics that patient notes be stored encrypted with identifying codes rather than names, and the list of name / numbers stored and encryp
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by dbspin 6y ago
USB-C depending on implementation has enormously greater throughput (USB 3.1 gen 2 is 10Gbps) than lightning (480Mbps/60MBps). This might not be relevant for your needs, but increasingly Apple are marketing the iPhone as a 'pro&#x
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As a former psychology student (lol) I have to point out that an epiphenominal mind is perhaps the least parsimonious thing imaginable. It's also been effectively disproven since the cognitive revolution at least. Since we can understa
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There is something subtler and more important concealed in sitcoms and dramas. Narrative has its own logic. By that I mean that there are kinds of things that are easy to describe in certain media and difficult or impossible to describe in
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Worth noting that not only was Spengler a key intellectual figure in promoting fascism (despite his later private opposition to Nazism), his 'Cesarian age' concept - predicting a dictatorship to succeed democracy - is at the root
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The linked laptop lacks a GPU.
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Rolling Stone's list, for all it's flaws, is a comparison of albums not artists. A meaningful comparison of artists isn't possible in the broad sense. It's literally a popularity contest. Stop pimping your website.
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You're describing specs, not market share. And comparing a 1000 dollar headset which requires a 1200 dollar computer to drive it, to a 300 dollar all in one unit. It's akin to suggesting that Toyota haven't done well in the c
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Your experience with our world being '2 dimensional' and entities observing you existing in a higher dimensional universe - almost as if they're reading (or writing) a two dimensional picture book, we inhabit - gells extremel
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You're making lots of questionable assumptions here. Primarily one being that the US (and indeed the EU) continue to exist in their current form on a 20 year timeline. Given the political climate in both, that seems unlikely. Given tha
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This conversation was deeply frustrating. I'm ordinarily a huge fan of Fridman's show, but he gave this guy an inch and he took a mile. Essentially using recourse to expertise (and constant references to military acronyms) to give
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Do you genuinely believe that whats holding back spending on social services in the US is the necessity of maintaining its military? That seems naive in the extreme.
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This appears to be incorrect - https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Google-stack-rank-its-employe... I think you may be confusing the stack ranking at google, that doesn't result in dismissal (Google were in fact, right up u
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by dbspin 6y ago
You're describing the Nth generation in a hopeless environment, not children in general. This is an encultured attitude, not an innate one. Illich's point, and one born out by learning research is that the desire to learn, to gain
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Pretty sure a community that can be disrupted by dancing avatars and a page redesign is no threat to the stability of the international community. 'Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.' Especi
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Of course it matters... If art has any utility at all, then its impact must be factored into utilitarian calculations about suffering / opportunity costs and so on. Whether the suffering that's alleged to have taken place in its p
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That's not true at all. Plenty of developers sell through the Epic Store (having development funded by Epic), or GOG, or the Humble store, or on Itch.io, or even via microsoft store. There are abundant ways to fund a project on PC prec
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by dbspin 6y ago
This is an... odd comment. The article is written by a company who Apple almost put out of business (as they have many others), not by acquihire, or take over but essentially by adopting Microsoft's old 'embrace, extend, extinguis
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The issue here is that the stated motivation, 'overqualification' is likely a justification to obscure the real motivation: ensuring obedience and conformity within the force, especially when it comes to the day to day reality of
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Actually it currently houses less than 3000 people, and is serviced by enormous green space. That's not remotely comparable to a 9000 seat cube in an urban setting. I can't speak to Croatia, but having travelled in the former Sovi
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I'm certainly not arguing against public housing. It can be an incredible good, and in almost all Western countries is considered a right. However, we've been down this road before. Cramming people - especially homeless people, fr
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You've just described a 560 foot tall prison cube. No cooking, toilets, corridors or walls apparently. Perhaps the inhabitants whose true crime was poverty, will be happy to inhabit your force walled thought experiment. Some would be r
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That's almost the opposite of their business model. They're 'disintermediating' by taking a moderately paid, low skilled, highly regulated form of self employment, and turning it into low paid, unregulated gig work. One
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None - the documentary is full of half truths, out of date information, pseudoscience and outright lies. It's been absolutely torn apart both by the research community and the environmental movement. Some examples: https://w
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Perhaps it's just a figure of speech, but I feel you should be challenged on the use of 'been conditioned to'. I see conditioning misused as an explanation all the time in tech discussions. This isn't an example of condi

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