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by jean_tta 5y ago
Including, of course, the defensive invasion of Afghanistan using article 5.
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by jean_tta 5y ago
I don't understand why major arm contracts suddenly went from having obvious geopolitical implications (e.g. Turkey S-400 procurement) to being "mere contracts".
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by jean_tta 5y ago
This assumes the demand for property stays the same. Is it likely, once it becomes obvious there's a chance your property will be destroyed by rising sea levels?
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by jean_tta 5y ago
How is it useful if it does not expand our understanding of the world? What use does it have?
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by jean_tta 5y ago
Sounds like it is not that simple in the end, doesn't it?
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by jean_tta 5y ago
> It's simple: born as a man? Sport like a man. Born as a women? Sport like women. Well, except for people born as women who take testosterone, then.
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by jean_tta 5y ago
Testosterone is a banned substance because it is a performance-enhancing drug.
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by jean_tta 5y ago
Should FtM people, taking testosterone, compete with cis-women?
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by jean_tta 5y ago
When? In 2012, when the top two candidates have ~50% of the votes & four candidates total are above 10%? In 2007, when the top two candidates have ~50% of the votes & four candidates total are above 10% (note: note the same parties)
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by jean_tta 5y ago
Is it "most" or is it UKUSA? France is not a two party theater and suffers from the same thing. Germany is not a two party theater and suffers from the same thing.
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by jean_tta 5y ago
> Then what prevents this from being just pure geopolitics? What is countries waging cyber operations against each other, if not politics?
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by jean_tta 5y ago
> I agree with your basic point though some students do freeze up with even relatively easy math. That's the opposite of my point, really. > And liberal arts courses are not necessarily easy today--especially at a good school. Y
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by jean_tta 5y ago
More generally some departments, including CS but not only, get away with picking above average students in a given college and letting other departments get the below average students, through things like "weed out courses" or no
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by jean_tta 5y ago
I think this would be mostly solved by reporting the life expectancy at some other age than birth - e.g. the life expectancy at 20, thereby cutting out the effects of child mortality - or reporting the median age of death.
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by jean_tta 5y ago
A very smart man, PG himself, once said [0]: > I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before. PG started writing essays about what he
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by jean_tta 5y ago
Note that I was not trying to make a statement on whether capitalism is great or which variety of capitalism is best. Rather I pointed out that the word "capitalism" is not a synonym for "free markets", both when used by
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by jean_tta 5y ago
Your definition seems closer to ordoliberalism [0]. If competition and free markets are a necessary components of capitalism, then you would conclude - for instance - that the US stopped being a capitalistic country in the late XIXth centur
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by jean_tta 5y ago
See "The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets", by Thomas Philippon [0] [0] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237544
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by jean_tta 5y ago
I am not arguing that the product naming is perfect, only that is not completely absurd as others claimed. Comparing the performance of laptop and desktop is a niche case. Most people know whether they want a laptop or a desktop and then ch
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by jean_tta 5y ago
Most people have no need to compare CPUs between mobile/non mobile or generation. They just need to know if the laptop they're looking at has the high end / middle end / low end CPU. You'd be comparing a new laptop
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by jean_tta 6y ago
Most custom-made clothes are made with machines in most operations. The solution to clothes that do no fit and are low quality is getting higher quality clothes that are either bespoke or tailored. This is a solved problem.
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by jean_tta 6y ago
% of applicants admitted is not super informative. Two more interesting metrics would be: * how many applicants admitted actually enroll (and not go to some other college) * related, bu what is the "rank" of the last admitted appl
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by jean_tta 6y ago
With this reasoning you would never forbid e.g. hard drugs for kids, or child labor. Kids will always bad things to do, after all.
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by jean_tta 6y ago
More broadly most applicants apply to several schools. If there are as many spots as applicants and each applicants apply to k schools, you could go as low as 1/k average admittance percentage (rates will be higher when colleges accept
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by jean_tta 6y ago
> It's what happens when you stay at home too much and don't get enough exercise and have a poor diet. Surely this means that "long covid" is not caused by the coronavirus infection itself, but by staying at home too
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by jean_tta 6y ago
I apologize for not being American and the press in my country costing money. I'll try to do better next time. I note that your link astablishes that long covid is the thing, which the parent comment denies.
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by jean_tta 6y ago
It is my understanding that many doctors have found "long covid" to 1. be a thing and 2. have specific, unexpected symptoms. Now it is possible that they are all wrong, but could you perhaps give a few arguments why you are right
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by jean_tta 6y ago
Which is quite ironic, because to locals the Champs Élysées is known to be a hang-out place for banlieusards, a place where companies have flashy flagship stores, and clueless tourists who do not expect either of those things. If there is a
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by jean_tta 6y ago
French tacos are only "tacos" in their name; the two foodstuff have basically nothing in common.
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by jean_tta 6y ago
I mean he was right (in that there was a decline of the West, or Europe in particular - I am not familiar with the content of his book beyond that). The West went from conquering & dominating almost every place of the planet despite bei

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