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by enaaem 7mo ago
Defection within the regime is never going to happen. If there is one thing that will unite a bunch of egos and put their personal grievances aside is a war. Anyone who smells like a traitor is shot. They become more fanatical, not less. On
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by enaaem 7mo ago
They killed Taliban leaders all the time. Did not work. And that is with troops on the ground and a friendly regime.
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by enaaem 7mo ago
The issue is that no one is going to defect without protection. That is the reason you put troops there. Democracy building is nice, but that is not the real reason you sent troops.
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by enaaem 7mo ago
That’s because within cities, junctions are the bottleneck and not the max speed.
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by enaaem 7mo ago
Can you tell us about your experience driving in Helsinki?
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by enaaem 7mo ago
Amsterdam also reduced many roads from 50 to 30 kmph. Accidents have reduced by 11% and travel time has only increased 1-5%. That is less than one minute on a 20 minute trip. https://openresearch.amsterdam/nl/page/
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by enaaem 7mo ago
I don't see how this is going to work without troops on the ground? The US had air supremacy, troops on the ground and a friendly regime in Afghanistan and Vietnam, and it did not work. (I am not sure if Iraq was a success, but I am su
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by enaaem 8mo ago
From the Epstein files we know that these billionaires are exactly behind these conspiracy guys like Qanon. It is called controlled opposition.
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by enaaem 8mo ago
And people expect trains and metros to pay for themselves. Car infrastructure maintenance is bankrupting the government. And on top of that you have the opportunity cost of all the road and parking space.
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by enaaem 8mo ago
I have a 2020 Intel Mac (quad core, 16gb RAM) and it feels as slow as the Packard Bell from 2000 when I was a kid. The launchpad takes 1-2 seconds to show a bunch of icons. Absolutely insane!
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by enaaem 8mo ago
It also destroys the winner takes all market. Investors would count on the winner takes all market and give infinite VC money to a start up, so that they would make a product that is slightly better than the competitor and kill the competit
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by enaaem 8mo ago
When I had my first smartphone I had dataplan for 500mb per month and that was enough to read news sites. That’s impossible now.
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by enaaem 8mo ago
Maybe someday they will do half the things Hyundai is doing right now.
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by enaaem 8mo ago
America forced the sale of Tiktok and China doesn't even allow American social media companies. I would argue the EU is late to the game.
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by enaaem 8mo ago
Prices go down when overall demand is lower, but it also goes down for the rest of the world.
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Why Jony Ive put buttons in the electric Ferrari(youtube.com)
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by enaaem 8mo ago
Italy has a similar size economy as Russia and they also have their own payment network. Technically there is nothing special. Countries have to come together and decide on a solution together. On the other hand, if you step back a little b
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by enaaem 8mo ago
The whole issue with NIMBYism are: contradictory democratic wishes and disproportional power of home owners. This points to issues with the democratic process, and not democracy itself. Most people agree that more homes need to be built, bu
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by enaaem 8mo ago
Every country in the world already does tons of intervention combatting addiction. There are already bans and restrictions on gambling, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes etc… Wether we consider social media addiction to be harmful and how to do it
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by enaaem 8mo ago
Gambling mechanics are also banned for certain ages and in some countries for everyone. We don’t say that it’s just a game, and people should just control themselves. Without going into the specifics of this case, design pattern interventio
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by enaaem 8mo ago
They will come after “domestic terrorists”.
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by enaaem 8mo ago
It's better to over regulate than under regulate, if you look at it in terms of utility. The damage of under regulation can be catastrophic, like people getting cancer or irreversible loss of species. Based on examples I read here, ove
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by enaaem 8mo ago
Gas infrastructure is expensive to build and maintain. Often times with tax money. What tend to happen in Europe is that they phase out gas by not building gas lines for new development.
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by enaaem 8mo ago
The topic at hand was state propaganda and BBQ recipes are outside the scope of state propaganda. Perhaps I should have made that more clear that this is only applied to political topics. But you do point out something interesting. I still
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by enaaem 9mo ago
Content on social media nowadays isn’t organic. State level resources are being thrown to influence people. So you are being beamed some government propaganda anyway. I grew up in the forum days and internet discussions were very different
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by enaaem 9mo ago
Gambling doesn’t cause physical harm either, but it’s also banned for children. It’s similar to social media in that both are made to be as addictive as possible and they exploit human psychology. I think it’s telling that many people here
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by enaaem 9mo ago
I would normally consider myself to be center right, but I cannot identify myself at all with the current right wing populists.
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by enaaem 9mo ago
The EU was meant to pacify Germany. Also a lot of effort was done to denazify the country. Germany is now allowed to remilitarise again, and that’s going to be interesting. I believe we should never underestimate a remilitarised Germany.
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by enaaem 9mo ago
One example I can think of is armour. In movies armour don’t seem to do anything at all. You see fully cladded soldiers getting killed by single sword blows, but people in armour are actually really hard to kill. There is a lot of story pot
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by enaaem 9mo ago
There is also an animal welfare aspect to it. Imagine we had super efficient production method that is 100% guaranteed safe for consumption, but it is absolute hell on earth for the animals, then I don’t think we should do it.

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