dh2022

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by dh2022 8d ago
I think Russia is more of a dictatorship than a feudal state. What you describe as feudalism- a czar/emperor/king/absolute ruler at the top with some people under him to carry on orders - applies to any dictatorship. Feudalis
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by dh2022 10d ago
Well, the article seems mostly theoretical. One of the premises of the article is that the capital owners (who thus own the economy, and the political system, and the legal system and the law enforcement) will give the rest of the people en
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by dh2022 12d ago
"the offshoring of manufacturing started in the 50s and 60s and accelerated in the 80s. " - not true. Manufacturing offshoring started in late 90s in small part due to NAFTA and then accelerated when China entered WTO in early 200
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by dh2022 12d ago
Plus one. My parents experience as well in Montreal. My dad could not understand why Canada bothered to move him and his family and the keep him on welfare. BTW - life on welfare in Canada was 5 times better than life as an electrical engin
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by dh2022 12d ago
The H1B coworkers I work with really go the entire spectrum. The laziest programmers I met are H1B. And there are also some pretty smart ones that I learned a lot from and I continue to learn from. To say that the H1B are all brilliant is h
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by dh2022 12d ago
How was the environment that enabled businesses to lower their cost by admitting China in WTO hostile to conducting business? BTW - with or without unions manufacturing was profitable in the US before NAFTA and China entering WTO. So your n
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by dh2022 15d ago
You moved the burden of proof from you to me. This looks like a disinformation tactic.
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by dh2022 16d ago
With this logic one cannot enjoy a drink with a restaurant meal and then drive back home. Seems excessive to me… [edit-typo]
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by dh2022 16d ago
The article you linked doesn’t mention that Saddam answered a call right before his execution… which is what you implied earlier
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by dh2022 16d ago
What if aliens and us have completely different requirements for life / entertainment? Fighting would be pointless if we do not compete for resources
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by dh2022 16d ago
Would you mind sharing some sources re: Saddam answering a call moments before being hanged? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence…
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by dh2022 16d ago
If we had President Gore we would have done a lot more and a lot earlier re: climate change. Probably the biggest missed opportunity in our lifetime.
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by dh2022 19d ago
Actually I am not logged on OneDrive (AFAIK I did not create any OneDrive accounts) Excel insists that I should save my spreadsheets on OneDrive. Thus the infuriation.
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by dh2022 19d ago
I think I can. In 2026 Excel is unusable for me (I cannot see the active cell at a glance, I cannot trace dependent cells to “debug” my formulas, I cannot save directly to my local hard disk with a keystroke combination- I have to click aro
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by dh2022 19d ago
Could you share some examples of Swiss being cozy with the Nazis? Wikipedia seems to make the counter case [0]. Switzerland did trade energy with Nazis - but they were dependent on Germany for their coal needs. Switzerland also kept the gol
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by dh2022 22d ago
Every time I run across yet another one of these “let me explain C++ move or copy semantics to you” I thank my lucky star that I am using C# in my day to day work.
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by dh2022 1mo ago
I agree with everything you said except for "Skiing has always has been the prototypal "rich person" vacation". At least in western WA from 2000 till 2010 I could ski for a day for less than the price of gas to get there
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by dh2022 1mo ago
FYI - I deleted my response after reading the post better. While as far as I can tell there has not been massive expansion in Western WA skiing inthe past 25 years, you were comparing with 1970s. I really have no idea how skiing was in West
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by dh2022 1mo ago
This would not work in Western WA. Snoqualmie (the shittiest snow in western WA) offers 4 day passes for $229 ( https://www.summitatsnoqualmie.com/tickets/flex-ticket-packs... ) or season pass for $759 ( https:/&#x2
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by dh2022 1mo ago
How are you avoiding full retail prices? Curious since where in western WA state where I live the only alternative to day prices are season passes (and I stopped buying season passes due to climate change. For example: last season at Snoqua
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by dh2022 1mo ago
I got more news for you: iPhones are made in China. And more astonishing news: US cannot manufacture iPhones. About Chinese oil imports from Middle East: US cannot stop its Middle East “vassals” from selling oil to China. Not sure what poin
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by dh2022 1mo ago
What features, besides macros which I haven;t used, are you finding worse in Libre Office than in MS Office? I am using Libre Office for me household budget, and keeping track of cooking recipes. It is much better than MS Office because: 1.
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by dh2022 1mo ago
I was a Financial Analyst at Amazon and Starbucks for about 15 years total. Excel was my favorite tool. I used to say that if my employer would not pay for Excel I would pay for it out of me own money. Almost 20 years later in 2026 I migrat
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by dh2022 1mo ago
the GP is not a reductive statement. 40% of Republicans think Trump is doing a great job - right now with all the Iran war, all the inflation. When you realize that 20% of American electorate are lunatics you will see the US political syste
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by dh2022 1mo ago
I got news for you: China has more and better consumer technology than the West combined. The new generation of Chinese are not dependent on the West for anything.
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by dh2022 2mo ago
I did not mean to be snarky. But still, the proposition that a railroad bankruptcy “led to world war” (direct quote from the article) 40 years later is ridiculous.
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by dh2022 2mo ago
I am assuming the rest of article is as well researched as the, rather long and incredibly incorrect, introduction. Bayesian inference and all....
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by dh2022 2mo ago
Re: "This looks to have gotten some dominoes rolling that may have contributed to WW1 " - people who believe this should read some history about beginning of WW1. I recommend starting with "The Guns of August".
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by dh2022 2mo ago
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by dh2022 2mo ago
AI is purely a virtual world play. It may (or may not) make it easier to write code, reply to emails or Slack messages or create PowerPoint presentations. In the real world what matters are energy, natural resources and making (manufactur

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