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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
The Lord Mayor of the City of London, Nicholas Lyons, is a big lobbyist in favor of undoing the ring-fencing. I'm confident he'll try to get it done by the currently very friendly government of Sunak while he's in the yearly
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
I didn't mean just strikes, I said "massive strikes"! :P Burned vehicles, a few hands lost to a police grenade, maybe a death or two. Sure it's a low hanging fruit, but the French executive power has been bypassing parli
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Here is what I expect: 1, The Sunak Government will further undo the banking ring-fencing rules in England so large banks can play with British pension funds. Down the line (6-10 years), there will be a massive pension crisis in England. 2,
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Introduction to Homotopy Type Theory(arxiv.org)
2 points by hikingsimulator 4y ago|1 comments
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
As announced on his Twitter [1], Egbert Rijke has finished and published his introduction to the topic -- a work four years in the making. [1] https://twitter.com/EgbertRijke/status/1605798086462373888
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Chill there, Ayn Rand.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Is it? I can't see living in Europe without an IBAN for instance -- and the card that comes with one. And that's not something the government is enforcing. Same in the US, you can't not have a credit card because of the credi
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Surprisingly, a not so tiny portion of the friends I made in my teenage years/early 20s, and who went on to be financially successful, happen to be psychologically unfulfilled if not distraught. And they mostly subscribe to FIRE and so
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
The argument is about industrial espionnage and French ruthlessness in doing it. There are clear evidence that French neocolonialism has had terrible impacts on Sub-Saharan Africa for instance and beyond (The Ivory Coast crisis is a more re
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Asking someone to prove a negative is a terrible way to argue. The French government as we know it did not exist 300 years ago, neither did the modern industrial age.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
There is a lot of "could", "might", "reportedly", and "plausible" in this article. I.e. suppositions and assumptions. Nothing backed up. Now, it's a standard practice in security to not discuss s
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
That's not a sound argument, neither a sourced one. Let's take your example, Parrot, it's not because a company can do as good with less than it means it is stolen technology. Has the world over stolen the screw tech in the U
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Deleted my message to your og message because you posted this here, but you're basically basing your whole argument on one person in a cable leak. It's not much of a base.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
CSIS on YouTube is okay-ish, atlantist so to take with some grain of salt sometimes. Personally, I liked the podcast of the Chair of War Studies at King's College: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/warstudies/war-studies-podca
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
I somewhat answered your points with my two other answers in the thread, if you want to look them up first. I've also seen the video in the past. I've known Zeihan since 2016-2017(?) when Caspian Report started citing him. Trying
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
But that's the point in a sense. Zeihan sells a vision of geopolitics that is what popular science is to science. It is not bad, but it does shortcuts and simplifications to fit in a one-hour talk ala TedX where seats are sold for four
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
I disagree. These lines of reasoning have always been there. Logistic thinking, and thus geopolitics, has always [i.e. for at least the past century] taken terrain and climate into account. Selling the old as new is a basic marketing ploy.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
I knew that Zeihan would pop up before opening the article. Since the start of the 2022 Russian invasion, I've seen him and similar analysts rise in fame and it doesn't sit well with me. It isn't the Stratfor origin, or the b
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
I think you misunderstand what Wikimedia is and does. It's not just Wikipedia and hosting. It is also a lot of research into their Wikidata free knowledge database (look it up) for instance. It requires a lot of people and core knowled
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
Knowledge acquisition is not neutral per se. Wikipedia's goal is to be a peer-to-peer encyclopedia. It's not, and never will be perfect. The best thing you and I can do, instead or beyond donating, is to read Wikipedia and point o
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
It's a donation, not an investment. There is no obligation on Wikimedia's part to do specific actions on your behalf. You can expect money to be used in some ways, sure, but it's not like WM uses 50% of your donation on vanit
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
The thread you provide is overly alarmist. Wikipedia giving a few millions to social justice groups isn't "funneling" much first compared to political financing as a whole, and is not "culture war." I would urge peo
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
It echoes the shift from "Personnel" to "Human Resources " to "Talent Acquisitions."
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
This is a very common practice at French telecom companies, and beyond. A massive lawsuit occured when a string of suicides at Orange Telecom in France happened. Managers would systematically psychologically harass workers till they quit, o
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
You mention AI applications in Ukraine. Can you provide more information on that? Sounds like a rabbit hole.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
It is quite tragic to see him become the Bobby Fischer of music. Let's hope he finds and accepts help.
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This idea of remaining aristocraties/bourgeoisies isn't solely a Continental Europe thing, all things being considered. The US also has its dynasties in politics, culture/media, and industry -- Clintons, Rockefellers, Kennedy
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You don't care about bloatware when your first worry is whether you can end up homeless or malnourishing your kids at the end of the month.
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What are you refering to wrt France and Germany? I have never heard of those despite living there.
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by hikingsimulator 4y ago
> Lowering tax is inflationary It's not. At least not per se. Lowering taxes for the wealthiest does not impact the basket of goods that generally composes the inflation index. Markets reacted badly because the British debt and curr

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