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If you think there is a constitutional crisis, a coup took place, that the threat of ethnic cleansing in Gaza is repugnant, the talk of robbing Canada of sovereignty is unconscionable, the idea of invading panama, greenland, or mexico to be
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Admiral Rickover, the father of the American nuclear navy, testified to congress that he thought we would probably destroy ourselves and hardly anyone is more expert than he was. Senator PROXMIRE. What do you think is the prospect, t
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I don't condone it, but the logic of: Make it hard to own a Tesla -> can't sell Teslas -> stock crashes -> collateral for twitter loan goes under water -> Assets have to be sold. At least makes sense. Change doesn&#x27
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It's the most important time in human history to protest/fight unchecked power because it's likely the last era of humanity that we are going to be able to. We are getting to the point where the technology that fuels oppressi
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This strikes at the core of the idea of solidarity. If you see injustice but do nothing, you invite the same injustice on yourself. Injustice at it's core is an arbitrary execution of power, so suffering injustice anywhere is to let po
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Timothy Snyder put his history of Ukraine class on YouTube. The lesson on the Maidan was done by a guest speaker. The presentation is mostly dry and the person isn't the best speaker, but the content was quality and very worth watching
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The problem is that moat is a defensive word and using it to describe competitive advantage implies that even anti-competitive tactics are defensive because that's the frame under which the conversation is taking place. Worse that &quo
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Based on your examples (which did genuinely make me question my assertion), it seems that patents and exclusivity deals are a major part of moat development, as are pricing games and rampant acquisitions. Apple's network effects are an
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Moat is an Orwellian word and we should reject words that contain a conceptual metaphor that is convenient for abusing power. "Building a moat" frames anti-competitive behavior as a defense rather than an assault on the free marke
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When your model is that he is a decapitation strike ( https://archive.is/1xkxK ) against the US, everything makes perfect sense. Blockcades are an act of war. They are strategically useful to disable a foreign military throug
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> Lobbying for exemptions Tariffs right now exist to as a way to favor particular businesses and choose winners and losers. Authoritarians reward loyalty and punish dissent. Under authoritarian regimes law is not a limit but a tool or a
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That's the constitution. The declaration of independence[1] was America's founding document, it laid down why the British colonizing the American continent felt they had a right to overthrow their government and secede. It was lik
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I've listened to congresspeople and others say "it feels like everything is upside down, it feels like he is trying to cause disaster." And he is. (1) remove safety nets (2) cause disaster (3) people will be forced
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Supply and demand. Wages are not proportional to skills or output. Wages are only proportional to power. So a low agency explanation is that supply exceeds demand and companies are either tacitly colluding (by flooding the workforce with
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Pay is proportional to power, not output, not skill. Pay being proportional to power is a profound truth to grasp, it has many implications, many of which are negative for engineers and society as a whole.
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Laudable goal, but there are many fundamental problems with it. (1) First and foremost, "bias" isn't a thing, it is a subjective idea not an objective idea. Pro-vaccine people think anything questioning whether they cause aut
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It's pretty easy to judge the US for what is happening right now, we certainly deserve it, but the decline of civic freedoms and liberalism is a global phenomenon. We are experiencing a global assault on truth because truth provides a
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That assumes that people exist within a shared reality influenced by facts, but people aren't connected to reality and aren't influenced by facts. We can see that with vaccinations. The system that divorces people from reality is
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While you are busy defending the status quo, people in positions of enforcement are being replaced by people who are more loyal to a man than to the law. Once the enforcers are loyalists, it hardly matters how the courts rule.
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This is a whole lot of pedantry to avoid questioning your own beliefs, which isn't surprising, because once you accept the cold hard reality that justice comes from the bottom up, not the top down, it means you have a personal responsi
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> But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards
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> No, this is mob rule. I understand why you would say that, but I don't think you've thought it through, understood the point I'm making, and tried to disarm the strongest version of it possible. Go and read the preamble
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That's also incorrect in a certain way. All societies exist on a "law" to "rule" spectrum, what determines whether you have law or rule is who the final arbiters of justice are. If citizens themselves are the final
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Vaccination rates embody the core political problem right now. There are two different realities people are living in, but only one of them is grounded in reality. What is the system that creates this schism and how do you resolve it?
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This is such an under-rated comment for this whole thread. This was my gut response to password vaults when they were first implemented. I still find the idea of password vaults spooky. Open source ones scare me because it seems easy to sli
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Almost no discussion matters as long as Google Analytics/fonts is embedded in almost every website you visit. EFF is looking at individual grains of sand on a beach of surveillance. Pornhub publishes insights on their blog where they i
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> Those are two different things. They are not orthogonal. Even if they were, you are wrong. Office of Inspector General (OIG) is a generic term for the oversight division of a federal or state agency aimed at preventing inefficient or
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Moat is an orwellian word. It is a conceptual metaphor explicitly chosen to facilitate anti-competitive behavior. "Building a moat" frames anti-competitive behavior as a defense rather than an assault on the free market by imply
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I am deep blue, but if you accept the premise that the government is spending money inefficiently, which is a rational thing to think (after all, the government doesn't pass audits which means no one really knows how DoD money is spent
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I think it loads slowly, scrolling down to start it is awkward and clunky, the first bullet for scrolling takes too much scrolling before it's responsive (maybe your scrolling sensitivity is greater than mine, so for you it's reas

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