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by fiblye 6y ago
When talking about war, the only measure more useless and irrelevant than GDP and economic strength is toenail length. Afghanistan is sitting at around $500/capita. Russia and the US have completely failed there despite four decades of
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Not really, when you factor in inflation, unless you're planning on living in abject poverty your whole life or not planning on living very long. e.g., Vietnam is a livable place and GDP per capita is ~$2600. That'd get you a very
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by fiblye 6y ago
The black death didn't discriminate and wiped out people of all social statuses equally. It upset power balances rapidly. Barring absolute chaos, people can generally plan for years and decades from now. Declining population is somethi
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by fiblye 6y ago
I never saw leaves on trees either until I finally got glasses at 18. I was told constantly as a kid that I needed glasses, but I just brushed it aside because I couldn't imagine things being better. If only a doctor would've told
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by fiblye 6y ago
> The demand for labor will go up, the supply will go down. Bad for the investor class looking for profits, good for reducing economic inequality. People will be able to profit from labor again. I'm not so sure about that. Loads of
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by fiblye 6y ago
There’s no shortage of media and news out there talking about the joys of being child free in your 40s, how much more fulfilling a good career and vacations are than being burdened with children who’ll impede promotions and take up your fre
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Replacing all money with copper-coated currency like pennies would probably be more hygienic, considering copper is one of the most effective anti-microbial things out there.
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>The US subsidiary runs tiktok and is managed by US employees and is not subject to the same law. Which leaves us with the question as to whether or not the government cares what the law says or whether they would back down if employees
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India is generally more culturally and politically similar to the west than China. Unless they decide to embark on some unexpected imperialist conquest, I don’t think they’ll have such an active movement to divest from them in the future.
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Oh man, so this is an actual problem? I've had this a lot as well, but I only have it with numbers and with multiple choice tests. For example, if I'm given a reading passage, I can accurately answer questions about it. But once t
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by fiblye 6y ago
It's not just Facebook. It's everywhere. If I'm feeling a little sick and decide to look up the symptoms, half the results are "alternative cures" that involve drinking olive oil, applying tea tree oil, drinking gre
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The 99% number so often paraded as a sign of failure wasn't a 99% chance of being president. It was a 99% chance of winning the popular vote. That prediction was correct, and by a decently large margin. But losers often become presiden
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Give Hong Kongers a piece of land and they wouldn’t even claim it’s an invasion. It’d be a piece of land given exclusively to people from China. In what world would China say that it isn’t theirs? They’ve claimed land with far shakier backi
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China would inevitably claim that it's part of China since it was granted to Hong Kongers exclusively, and Hong Kong is part of China. It'd be like Crimea all over again, except China could have a legal argument that it's the
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With humans, we can ask what went wrong and fix the problem. With black box algorithms, we throw in some new training data and just hope it's enough.
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>So, how well did the imposter do at her job? You're unlikely to find any accurate measure of that, since she likely has people propping her up well into her adult life.
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by fiblye 6y ago
The above comments are about people in Congress constantly pushing farther right. Congress could've legalized those at any time but didn't. Courts did.
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I don’t mean to offend, but looking at Saidit, seemingly every single item on the front page is political in nature. Unless that changes, I don’t see the average person migrating there.
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I joined HN right around the time I thought reddit had become a dump. Apparently that was 10 years ago. Early reddit was a really fun place. Not sure how to explain it, but it kind of felt like one of those movie/cartoon mad science la
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by fiblye 6y ago
Someone might notice, but will they care? Probably not. Reddit's goal is to make money. They sell flashy badges and other worthless items and make ridiculous cash from things with literally zero value in addition to their ad money. Any
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by fiblye 6y ago
My worry is that the definition of "Chinese users" will be expanded. Right now the assumption is that it's for Chinese citizens, but of course, anyone who registered an account while in China is also thrown in that pile. I ha
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Governments don't care. We've still had war and conflict even with the internet. Networks like Facebook have made it even easier to otherize and dehumanize people in the same country. I mean, ISIS actively used (and probably sti
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In the very next paragraph I mentioned that other countries have the right to respond to America the same way. Espionage isn't just uploading blueprints. That's 1950s comic book stuff. It's copying users' clipboards, rec
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I think the issue has nothing to do with it being Chinese, but with the extent at which it swallows up data on Americans. Why even bother sending spies to another country and making plans for infiltration when you can get them to download a
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How so? I don't know much about Argentina, but I figured it was doing pretty well compared to most Latin American countries.
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Because it's a small city with zero resources that acts as a gateway to the Chinese economy as a whole. If China didn't use HK as its economic entry, HK would be absolutely worthless with Singapore relatively nearby and in a much
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Skipping meals doesn't help you lose weight in most cases. Your body optimizes for the expectation of not having food and stores more energy. Eating smaller, filling meals helps more. I actually don't know of anyone who's los
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>If you look at actual statistics on crime petty theft isn't some rampant issue in these societies. How do you gather actual statistics when the locals don't pay attention or care, police see it but take no action, and some of
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by fiblye 6y ago
I’ve lived in some really crappy places in the US, but the only place I’ve often seen and experienced people committing obvious crimes in broad daylight was Europe. It was pretty weird having someone struggle to unzip my backpack while walk
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What's truly impressive is if you decide to creep a bit, you'll see that loads of users from that thread still post on HN pretty actively. HN has an insanely high retention rate for being just a little news sharing site. Most peop

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