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by hnhg 1y ago
And neuter the influence of deep-pocketed lobbying entities - US entities in particular seem to spend a lot of money on influencing EU politics: https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/
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by hnhg 1y ago
Short answer is that the UK gave private companies to extract as much wealth as possible with minimal re-investment in infrastructure. The nation has since seen water rationing and raw sewage being pumped into rivers and beaches, but at lea
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by hnhg 1y ago
Your reply really does not need the offensive opening line.
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by hnhg 1y ago
I believe Hannah Arendt made the point that politicians lie not so much as to get away with the issue at hand but rather as a long term strategy to nullify any interest in politics overall in order to get away with absolute everything on th
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by hnhg 1y ago
Seems like India is shooting itself in the foot by making it more difficult to access knowledge for the benefit of overseas publishers. Countries that don't do this will be at an advantage.
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by hnhg 1y ago
I concede that but awareness is a better starting position for potential improvement rather than ignorance. I guess we are agreeing on the substance but I am taking an optimistic view rather than a pessimistic one. I accept that I might be
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by hnhg 1y ago
Look at the positives: now you are aware that every channel is full of misinformation and propaganda and treat it all as such. That gives you better media literacy than previous generations who tended to trust everything that was given to t
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by hnhg 1y ago
This feels like a crash course for people already very familiar with it all. For everyone else, Steve Brunton's courses cover a lot of the foundational stuff here on probability and stats and might be a lot more accessible: https:&#x2
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by hnhg 1y ago
I found this the most interesting part of the whole essay - "the ten largest companies in the S&P 500 have so dominated net income growth in the last six years that it’s becoming more useful to think about an S&P 10 vs an S&amp
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by hnhg 1y ago
You can also sign up to Curtis Yarvin's Substack and read the kind of thinking that Thiel likes to surround himself with: https://graymirror.substack.com/
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by hnhg 1y ago
Private equity is absolutely taking over the UK - so many stories like this: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/private-equity-boom-ne...
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by hnhg 1y ago
I feel across Europe at least companies are using data to optimise price by demand closely - large corporate suppliers almost definitely have the staff at hand to increase prices using data in the same way that "surge" pricing is
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by hnhg 1y ago
Don't forget the planned obsolescence in 2020s cars.
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by hnhg 1y ago
Plus lots of salad and olive oil. I believe the use of "Mediterranean" is to avoid strange expectations about Middle Eastern food, which many people seem to erroneously expect to be more like Indian.
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by hnhg 1y ago
It depends on where you are. There are parts of the USA where a 10 million net worth does not mean you are "yacht rich" (but certainly very comfortable).
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by hnhg 1y ago
Also the top 1% covers everything from the very affluent middle class to billionaires - the distance from the least rich part of the 1% to the richest part spans billions, much greater than the rest of the distribution's 99%.
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by hnhg 1y ago
I have a perfectly good machine that cannot be upgraded to Windows 11 for some arbitrary reason. Fortunately, I no longer specifically need Windows and can move on from it. I actually quite like Windows now that WSL2 is decent, but I don&#x
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by hnhg 1y ago
They still have JD Vance as a proxy for Thiel.
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by hnhg 1y ago
> they have gone to university, the only place where bad ideas can survive and be propogated out into the world Let's not leave out think-tanks and orgs like the WEF that seem to exist only to launder the opinions of billionaires. A
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by hnhg 1y ago
He carries the self-confidence that billions of dollars in wealth can give you.
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by hnhg 1y ago
There are some clear financial interests in Palantir within the UK government's top people: https://bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/peter-mandelsons-fixing-o...
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by hnhg 1y ago
Not to be pedantic, but Donald Trump received around 77 million votes in the 2024 presidential election, which would be around 23% of the then population, I think.
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by hnhg 1y ago
Which part of Europe? It really doesn't make sense to generalise such a diverse set of countries. Can you be more specific?
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by hnhg 2y ago
I think people get confused into thinking that democracy is about voting when it is should be about reducing prolonged concentrations of power, because of the innate tendency for it to be abused and hoarded. So to support your point, if you
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by hnhg 2y ago
Some of them, maybe. Some others are just not tolerant of LGBT lifestyles and equality at all. Also, I don't think someone who wants limited immigration is necessarily far right.
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by hnhg 2y ago
Some of those cultures that apparently celebrate gay people were also chemically castrating them not that long ago, and also have a lot of locals who still hate gay people and cannot wait to get back to the old ways. The rise of the far rig
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by hnhg 2y ago
Indeed she did.
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by hnhg 2y ago
You might be missing the point. They can be all of those things you say (and I very much agree with you) but they can still be very dangerous. In fact, perhaps their banality is a key part of what makes them so dangerous.
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by hnhg 2y ago
You bring up a good point in that at one point it is also about ensuring the quality of materials and construction processes so that everything lasts by default. On top of that, repairability is another factor. I have a fancy kettle that I
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by hnhg 2y ago
Perhaps he wants the budget reallocated to something he has more financial interest in and control over? Or something like that for Thiel or others?

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