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by hnbad 2y ago
The national myth of Germany actually obscures one of the biggest successful efforts in "restructuring" the Allies engaged in: the complete elimination of Prussia. Not only were parts of Eastern Prussia reassigned to other countri
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by hnbad 2y ago
Nationalism truly was the mindkiller that enabled WW1 and WW2. It's important to remember that although WW2 is rightfully remembered for the Holocaust, it was in essence an attempt at a European colonialism by Germany coupled with a Ge
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by hnbad 2y ago
And then also remember that Factorio is a game and thus makes this fun and easy compared to how grueling and boring the real deal would be.
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by hnbad 2y ago
In the field of AI, AGI has always been 20 years away since the '70s and that continues to hold true today.
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by hnbad 2y ago
You can send 50kg of garbage into orbit for $300k with SpaceX. I don't think sending it to the moon would be any more cost efficient (quite the opposite). Plus with the kind of garbage where you might find that cost acceptable (long-te
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by hnbad 2y ago
There's a big difference between simply shooting stuff at Earth (or even simply off the moon into space) and actually sending it back. Yes, SpaceX charges $300k for sending 50kg to SSO as a rideshare but that's with all the infras
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by hnbad 2y ago
Funny you'd say that, that's exactly the conclusion (the housing market, i.e. investment opportunities, being the cause of the housing crisis, i.e. lack of affordability) in this video essay from Philosophy Tube 5 years ago: http
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by hnbad 2y ago
Also frankly speculating about having hit a peak seems silly even when just looking at the addition of fossil power plants. Even if we ignore that all the manufacturing and mining that goes into producing the replacement technologies prod
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by hnbad 3y ago
I second this as I find that usually the solution that is the most mathematically pure is usually also the one completely inadequate at handling the complexities of real-world applications and end up having various extremely impure addition
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by hnbad 3y ago
From what I've read elsewhere on the topic of childhood myopia, the answer seems to be a combination of two factors: 1. spending a lot of times on screens means the eye only focusses at objects at a very close distance most of the time
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by hnbad 3y ago
FWIW most of the top charting music of the 90s, 80s and so on were also "worse" and have mostly been forgotten. Few songs remain popular or regain popularity. A lot of chart hits are really just springboarding off "you had to
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by hnbad 3y ago
IDK about that but you are correct that it is explicitly not communist. It's ruled by the "communist" party that wants to "establish communism" but it is very explicitly only on the path to communism even accordin
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by hnbad 3y ago
By saying "power structure of leaders" you're conflating leadership with power (and governance does not make us any more rational). For example, tribal "war chiefs" in indigenous groups were often seen as analogous
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by hnbad 3y ago
The difference is that in soviets (in the original sense) the workers held actual power. Bayer still wants full control over their workers, they just want to offload all the responsibility normally held by middle management to them as well.
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by hnbad 3y ago
It's literally the meme truck. That meme has sailed and died. People will still hoot and holler when they spot you driving one in the wild but that's different from people wanting to pay the steep sticker price for what the car ac
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by hnbad 3y ago
MKBHD literally said that the driver side door came off on his car so the parallels are striking. He did say that this was a good thing because it meant the panel gap wasn't due to poor tolerances but due to the door not being properly
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by hnbad 3y ago
I live in Germany, famous for having among the strictest privacy laws. I still get occasional scam calls a few times each month, often using mobile phone numbers or fraudulent VOIP numbers registered in Austria. They usually hang up as soon
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by hnbad 3y ago
I remember a time when Amazon was a first class reference example for facetted search. These days I find it hard to set any meaningful filters on most of my searches. Even common ones like color and size are often absent. I guess there is n
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by hnbad 3y ago
More specifically, it's not below market value if the market offers it for that amount. If a restaurant has a "buy one, get one free" deal, that's the market settings its market value. If a restaurant sells you specifi
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by hnbad 3y ago
What's this? Name calling for nerds?
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by hnbad 3y ago
When I say "from the left", I'm specifically referring to "to the left of the Soviet Union". There was a lot of active debate when the Bolsheviks took over in Russia on whether to support them or not because they we
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by hnbad 3y ago
That's literally what it's called and has nothing to do with being "inclusive". It refers to someone "outside of the established art scene" and if you study anything related to art, you'll usually encounte
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by hnbad 3y ago
It's really not subtle. Both 1984 and Animal Farm are critiques of the Soviet Union from the left. Orwell fought on the side of the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War and the betrayal by the Soviet Union soured him on the prospect
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by hnbad 3y ago
There's nothing wrong with wood frame construction, if it's done right. It sounds like they didn't do it right, though.
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by hnbad 3y ago
State theory and specifically the state theory relating to legal practice like "state treaties and processes" is a very small subset of political theory, let alone political philosophy. There is a broad range of political theory o
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by hnbad 3y ago
That's a website of the Swiss government calling its system of governance a direct democracy. I'm talking about political theory, not the Swiss government's publications about itself nor the Swiss curriculum for "Staatsk
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by hnbad 3y ago
Maggie Mae Fish did a very interesting long form video on this exact comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr65ZIWoD6c (Skip the first minute if you don't care for framing devices, it switches into a conventional
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by hnbad 3y ago
Yeah, the definition is one of several and I explained why it's not a good one, regardless of how widely it is used. That you prefer this definition over others does not invalidate them - that's literally just your own opinion.
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by hnbad 3y ago
Semantics aside, this is a red herring. Whether you call it a "direct" democracy or a "representative" democracy, it's a governance system based on majority votes, not consent. Going through the courts is the correc
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by hnbad 3y ago
You can call it what you want but even Wikipedia makes a clear distinction between a "direct democracy" without representatives and "instruments for direct democracy in an other representative system": https:/&#x2F

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