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by dgut 9y ago
Airbus is the epitome of crony capitalism. The company receives billions in "loans" from the EU, without any requirement to repay.
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by dgut 9y ago
They are the Wright 1899 kite. We have yet to build a Boeing 787. Most of the development is happening in "altcoins" anyways.
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by dgut 9y ago
Apples and oranges. Norway (a composite of smaller kingdoms) was a "nation" prior to that, Catalonia has never been a nation. Norway-Denmark were a voluntary real union, and Norway-Sweden a forced personal union. Barcelona did
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by dgut 9y ago
Catalonia has no better corruption track record than the rest of Spain. Basically what you are saying is that you don't like the majority party, and therefore want to form your own nation. That's not how democracy works. Catalonia
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by dgut 9y ago
With very likely negative consequences. The vote is unconstitutional and intended to disturb the Spanish state. Puigdemonte is a populist playing with the people of Catalonia, as he is well-aware of the impossibility of this project, but he
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by dgut 9y ago
No, it was not. It was a default French protectorate for a brief period of time.
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by dgut 9y ago
> Even if that were true - and I don't see any evidence from you. History is not your strong side then, I guess. > Because I know what rubber bullets are, and what they can do. Whereas you appear to have no idea. Rubber bullets a
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by dgut 9y ago
Separate armies, laws, currency, un-democratic state, considerably shorter time period, a national id (Catalonia has never been a state before).
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by dgut 9y ago
Afaik the Catalonian separatist movement is a lot larger than the Scottish one, fueled by the last financial crisis. I strongly doubt the UK can claim moral superiority above Spain.
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by dgut 9y ago
The nationalist narrative is tribal though, they do consider themselves a separate ethnicity.
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by dgut 9y ago
As mentioned before, completely different circumstances. Spain is a democracy, Norway-Sweden was not, and the foundations a lot shakier.
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by dgut 9y ago
It's proportional. What are they supposed to use, water balloons? The naive support for Catalonian nationalists on this site is not surprising, though.
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by dgut 9y ago
> Only if you believe "Europe" = "nation states" or an EU super state. Europe, as we know it, is a set of "large" nation-states that made enormous contributions to humankind. These contributions wouldn'
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by dgut 9y ago
That was eons ago under completely different circumstances. Spain is a democracy, Norway-Sweden was not.
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by dgut 9y ago
The referendum was ruled illegal by the courts. If we are going to allow all old tribes of Europe to become their own state, there wouldn't be much left of Europe. The nation-state and standardization is a European invention and a succ
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by dgut 9y ago
What do you mean by "hardcore bitoiner"? Just curious.
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by dgut 9y ago
Odd this explanation doesn't get more attention. I suppose the media wants to milk the story for as long as they can.
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by dgut 9y ago
It doesn't matter what your cynical side thinks. Let them be "entrenched in whatever they do believe" if that's the case. All cases of totalitarianism have been possible by "filtering", not the free flow of inf
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by dgut 9y ago
Why the downvotes? transverse is right. The medium of exchange doesn't have to recognised by the Government, only accepted by both ends.
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by dgut 9y ago
What we need is a fully decentralised and uncontrollable Internet. It can't be wireless, that's too slow (limits of physics), and jamming it too easy. We need to actually dig our own cables, those are untraceable, and they'd
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by dgut 9y ago
In my view, neither Voltaire nor Hegel are comparable to Pascal, or Gauss for that matter. The later are men of reason and belong to a different league altogether. The comparison is indeed silly. I have done the attempt to read some Hegel,
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by dgut 9y ago
The problem with Hegel is that his work not only doesn't resonate with modern audiences (as you would say), but it didn't back then either. He was incredibly wrong even for his time. Even Pascal's Wager is approachable today
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by dgut 9y ago
Hegel did directly support the Prussian state and in general like his "reincarnation" Marx, supported totalitarianism. He saw the strong state as some sort of representation of God in the contemporary world.
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by dgut 9y ago
There is a big difference between Knuth's algorithms and Hegel's dialectic method: The later is an un-scientific farce that led to nothing but irrationalism and authoritarian thought. It has no value whatsoever. But what could we
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by dgut 9y ago
Besides the moribund old "Soviet Intelligentsia", nobody takes Hegel seriously today for good reasons. Those at the philosophy department still doing the mental gymnastics required to engage in Hegelianism are evidence of the sad
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by dgut 9y ago
Meaningful/useful/valuable to humankind. Marxism is unscientific and led some societies close to barbarism. 225 words and you couldn't answer me. Let's practice: Donald Knuth created the KMP algorithm. Help me understand
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by dgut 9y ago
Let's narrow things down. What did Hegel produce of meaning? Can you answer that question concretely without the gaseous word bending that is typical of Hegelians?
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by dgut 9y ago
I've read some Adorno and his work appears to me as meaningless chewing around. After all, he was inspired by Marx and Hegel. E.g: > What philosophy once called life, has turned into the sphere of the private and then merely of cons
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by dgut 9y ago
Yep. There are a lot of HNers who abuse the voting system and leave no traces (no arguments, no reasons). It's quite a childish behavior. The only civic discussion forum I know of is the extropy chat email list.
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by dgut 9y ago
What makes you think ProtonMail employees couldn't do the same? Not a critique of PM (I'm a paying user myself), but this is not a reason to switch.

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