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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
Slovakia has a gdp per capita of around $21k and has stagnated with low growth since 2008. It has relatively high hdi ratings but these have also begun to decline. Both of those things are really not good for a country that hasn’t climbed o
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
No system, just stop using force to protect the interests of capitalists.
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
Exactly this. It’s not even a secret, quite a few intelligence and defense agencies have published reports in this issue. These agencies even intentionally using this process to destabilize target countries first. Based on what I’ve read th
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
Just because fascism works by its own definitions does not mean that fascism is good. Neither Hungary nor Slovakia are great places to live by most metrics, even for native born citizens.
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
This is a story about how a yet another state is failing to provide security, so private actors - gangs - are filling the role the state is not. Yet instead of blaming the security monopoly for the lack of security, the interviewees are bla
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
The supply for labor depends on the marginal benefits versus the marginal costs. If leisure gets cheaper, taxes go up, or jobs get worse, people on the margin will choose to work fewer hours or exit the workforce. There’s nothing wrong abou
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
Emergency situations. For instance someone has a stroke, no ambulance, and driving to hospital. Happens frequently in rural areas.
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
No, you shouldn’t. When someone sounds smart, that means they are an effective communicator and have good media presence. Those are valuable skills but don’t indicate whether the underlying ideas are accurate. Eliezer is filling the traditi
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
Why is Biden opposing the warrant requirement? Shouldn’t he be careful regarding 2024? Or is the hope that the alternative is so bad people will still come out to vote for someone who supports warrantless searches? Maybe most people don’t c
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
What a fun exploration of algorithmic procedural generation with using simple algorithms to produce outstanding effects. It’s inspirational to my own work; how to find straightforward algorithms that are easy to think about but can produce
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
Its dangerous to think that committing crimes and violating rights is ok as long as the other side loses. A healthy response would have been internal reforms to the party and the abolishment of secret police. Punishing free speech just incr
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
The campaign against Wikileaks and Assange comes to mind in particular.
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
The price of crypto isn’t the same in every jurisdiction due to restrictions on capital flows. If the price of crypto is lower in a jurisdiction, then crypto generating activities such as mining or freelancing become more profitable. If the
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
The term capitalism was invented as a prejorative, and in its original meaning had nothing to do with free markets. Instead it referred to a system of oppression where industrialists partnered with the state to create an underclass of cheap
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
Generally speaking, defense prefers older, reliable, and well understood technology rather than the cutting edge stuff. It’s cheaper, easier to mass produce, and less likely to fail under extreme conditions.
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
It’s quite unlikely for the state enterprises to prove profitable, because political motivations will supersede profits when handling managerial decisions.
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
I cannot get into specifics because I don’t want to get banned on hacker news. I will generally wave in the direction of authorities that are violating human rights.
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
Many different areas and topics. The most concerning to me is bans and shutdowns of public forums where there is discussion of how authorities are disregarding human rights as defined by the UN in the UDHR.
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
If that’s the case, then why did these platforms exist in the past and don’t exist now? I’m not just talking about virtual platforms, but also physical public forums and meetups. I agree with what you’re saying about admins, but the “who” t
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
And where exactly is free speech left? Every public platform I’ve used over the last 20 years that had freedom of speech was shut down. Currently if you want to discuss ideas or issues that are outside of the publicly approved consensus, th
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
You’re right, the President isn’t in charge the attorney general is. So Merrick B. Garland is the person allowing this injustice to go unpunished. Can’t he be impeached for violating his oath to the constitution or something like that? htt
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
The US President is in charge of the executive branch, isn’t he? So why doesn’t he order the justice department to arrest the criminals? There’s enough evidence to get a warrant surely.
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
Why aren’t the people responsible in prison? Surely this is more serious than possession of weed.
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
He is saying don’t build anything. I am aware I cannot think of every bad way a service could be misused . I also am aware that there is always a way to misuse a service. Therefore, in order to prevent a service I use from being misused, I
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
What makes you think the universe bends towards justice? For the last 10 years, every metric of personal and economic freedom has declined. Most countries peaked in 2007. Its starting to look like personal freedom was an anomaly and we’re n
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
States have been actively shutting down p2p fiat to crypto trades, but they cannot shut down all of them. Currently if you don’t have an exchange account, the most popular platform is Bisq for secure p2p fiat/crypto trades. And if you’
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
Just a reminder- modern democracies are a set of democratic institutions such as civil service, independent courts, free media, and some elected representatives. Rule by the people has not meant democracy for over a hundred years.
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
No, I’m contrasting utilitarianism with deontology and explaining why deontological ethics are preferable. Utilitarianism is concerned with effects while deontology is concerned with actions and/or intents. That said there are several
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
For most utilitarians, refusal to do good is evil because they view actions as having a certain number of positive or negative utils based on their outcomes. For many other ethical systems, good and evil aren’t weighed against each other. I
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by injeolmi_love 3y ago
Because humans have a natural right to movement, helping slaves is not theft even if an evil social institution falsely claims it is theft. Similarly regarding eugenics, humans have a natural right to reproduce and to live, so someone assis

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