genman

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by genman 3y ago
This is a little too hard core anthropomorphism for me.
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by genman 3y ago
Their practices have not changed much. For example they are using death squads against farmers.
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by genman 3y ago
You have to know the history to understand why this argument is communist.
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by genman 3y ago
Lets also not forget the slavery and slave trade that was practiced in Western and Northern Africa.
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by genman 3y ago
I bought my current car only because I was able to block the car maker being stupid and force me to watch their ads on Youtube. I didn't use ad-blocker before but interruptive video ads were the last straw for me.
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by genman 3y ago
No, I don't think that I provided a counter argument but rather a supplementary one. Population growth rate is a huge problem that hinders capacity to provide enough aid. Russia certainly used the risk of hunger as a weapon to increase
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by genman 3y ago
Yes and no. This is my argument indeed that if the population growth stayed lower then a lot more people would have been able to rise above the poverty level (or even much higher). UN prediction for Africa is that they fall close to the rep
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by genman 3y ago
Current problem in Africa is that their capacity to produce food, while it is increasing relatively fast, doesn't increase enough to keep up with the population growth. This is why Russia can play with the grain shortage to begin with.
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by genman 3y ago
Yes, the communist argument - everybody else is at fault but not myself. Yet the communist paradise, the 1/6 of all the land with incredible riches stayed poor and finally collapsed.
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by genman 3y ago
I can't agree with this unfortunately. While getting rich further lowers the fertility rate then there is a certain threshold that must be first exceeded to get rich (relatively speaking of course). There must be a feedback loop that i
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by genman 3y ago
Emphasis on "are believed". This actually puts clients into risk of having breaking changes out of their control.
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by genman 3y ago
We must collectively understand the reason why some countries stay "developing". The reason is very simple - the rate of population growth exceeds the rate of infrastructure development by large margin. You can make large investme
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by genman 3y ago
I have seen claimed that the system with battery powered electric engine would become practically maintenance free. Can you comment on this based on your experience? How would fuel cell based system compare to this?
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by genman 3y ago
I have read that battery based aircraft would start to make sense if batteries were 2-3 times less heavy - do you think that this wouldn't be feasible for some type of aircraft?
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by genman 3y ago
How is the noise difference between electric and combustion engine?
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by genman 3y ago
Interesting. So you are saying that this power might come from contracts that were biased in favor to Microsoft by someone that might be or might be not hired by Microsoft? People should have learned more carefully from the Nokia case if th
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by genman 3y ago
Well, it still doesn't give him authority to dictate what the non profit should do or do not.
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by genman 3y ago
And? They don't own the non profit part of Open AI, they have not invested anything into it. Why he thinks that he has authority to dictate how the non profit should be structured? I don't think he has.
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by genman 3y ago
And? They don't own the non profit part of Open AI, they have not invested anything into it. Why he thinks that he has authority to dictate how the non profit should be structured? I don't think he has.
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by genman 3y ago
Why he thinks that he has any authority to say this? Because of money and power he has?
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by genman 3y ago
Yes, in the world outside of the so called developed world and USSR or China (what applied their own 1 child policy). Africa is just an example here. India for example grew from 360 million to 1.4 billion today.
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by genman 3y ago
I afraid that Telegram has the same risk as TikTok from security point of view.
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by genman 3y ago
This is also why most of the world policy makers don't understand why overpopulation is so huge problem as it too is an exponential process. If we take Africa as an example then in 1950s there were around 200 million people in Africa.
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Ask HN: What Udemy courses would you suggest to learn about language models?
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by genman 3y ago
Wrong: https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/denmark/individual/other-taxes
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by genman 3y ago
European countries differentiate between income tax and social tax. Health insurance is a social tax. There are other social taxes: pension tax, unemployment tax etc. Mostly these are fixed rate taxes (i.e. the tax rate is not income depend
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by genman 3y ago
I don't think that also humans in general have this concept of "best". But humans are able to build certain routines within their own system to help them to rationalize.
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by genman 3y ago
No actually, at least by the idea of Gesell. His idea was to put a kind of tax on money and the responsible to pay this tax is on the holder of the money. As such you could still put your money into a bank and free yourself of this respons
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by genman 3y ago
Actually no. Expiration of money and inflation can exist simultaneously. Expiration of money is an end of life cycle event of individual bills - it affects certain lump sum of money that will become void in corpore. The nominal value of the
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by genman 3y ago
The question then becomes - when is the money created? Is it created when it is issued by a (central) bank or is created when an exchange (for value) takes place? (the later has an interesting side effect as it would incentive to make trans

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