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> Russia already had several other ports on the Black Sea You're not wrong. I kind of glossed over the details for brevity. Sevastopol has historically been the home of the Russian Black Sea fleet and is a much larger port than othe
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Under control how? France has Macron siding with Le Pen to keep Melanchon out of power. The AfD's power is growing and we'll see if there exists a coalition that can form a government without them after the next election. Many exp
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I'm an historical materialist. That means I don't believe religion, ethnicity or political philosophy ever drives international conflict. It's always, always, always material interests. Those other things are just an excuse,
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I don't think you can compare pre-WWI Germany to the US for many reasons. In the colonial era, Germany as a fairly new state and unlike the UK, Spain, France, even Portugal or the Netherlands, they didn't have colonies to exploit.
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Predicting any stock will crash, be it from a technical analysis or from looking at fundamentals, is a fool's game. As Keynes allegedly said, the market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent. The poster child for this
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It's a fair question but the answer is fairly simple: the Russian military simply isn't strong. The only reason they haven't been bombed back into the Stone Age is because they have a nuclear arsenal. That has limited the Wes
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The most important thing to understand is where the value of the US dollar comes from. It's the US military. More generally speaking, it's US foreign policy. The US military is the force that enables foreign policy. Understand thi
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You're right. I don't think many HNers realize what a bubble HN is, within a bigger bubble of the SF tech scene. Your comment remind me of the ~15 year old hype around Q&A sites. You have VCs say things like "everyone I k
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I want to call out this part, which is just as relevant today as it was 60+ years ago: > I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling blo
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The most depressing thing about the tariff fiasco is how stupid and gullible many people are because a significant number of them thought that the other country was somehow going to pay the tariff. I don't mind people being ignorant. W
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This has been my prediction for the last year: the EU is going to be forced to take the China approach of creating their own version of all US tech companies. The current US administration has done more to destroy US soft power on the world
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Given the climate, I've been thinking about this issue a lot. I'd say that broadly there are two groups of inauthentic actors online: 1. People who live in poorer countries who simply know how to rage bait and are trying to earn a
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As a reminder, Machado: 1. promised to privatize various companies, particularly in the oil extraction business to the benefit of, primarily, American oil companies [1]; and 2. is very pro-israel and thinks it's important that Venezuel
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The charity question is easy to dispense with because it's been well-studied: the poor give more of their income to charitable causes than middle class or rich people. "Charity" for the wealthy is really nothing to do with ch
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The tech world as a whole thinks the American Dream dying is a good thing and they're actively making that happen. And the answer is quite simple: further wealth concentration and the resulting inequality. China is investing in infrast
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There is always going to be an adversarial relationship between landlords and renters. Make no mistake: that we allow this to happen is state violence. Why? Because we are allowing individuals and corporations to deny housing to people by r
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So John McCann did run on reducing fossil fuel usage and promoting a greater mix of energy technologies but I wouldn't say that changed by 2012 per se. McCain himself was the anomaly that didn't match earlier or later candidates.
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D&D is extraordinarily difficult to bootstrap. You ened 4-8 people to commit to being at a certain place at a certain time. If you play online instead, just the coordinated time alone is a monumental effort. There are a ton of reasons f
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The Constitutional authority of the Supreme Court was rather vague. There are several areas where the court has what's called "original jurisdiction", the most notable of which is where a state is a party. So when states sue
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You have too much faith in a 250 year old document. In the last ~5 years we've seen this Supreme Court, despite their alleged "textualist" or "originalist" philosophy, just completley invent things out of thin air.
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I don't think it's about recreating a world that doesn't exist anymore. It's about limiting exposure of stuff to minds that simply aren't ready for it. The implementation falls short in a number of ways but I kinda
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> The modern US pickup truck isn't built for utility. Not really true. Something like an F150/250/350 is absolutely built for utility. It's popular for a reason. It's just not used for utility by a large number
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That's not contradictory at all. The comment you are replying to quite intentionally said " legal immigration". Republicans love illegal immigration. Why? because it suppresses wages of both documented and undocumented wor
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> The US warned Europe of dependence on Russia all the while promoting policies that antagonized Russia in Europe (e.g. NATO expansion) I think there's a certain amount of historical revisionism going on with this. It is complicated
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Yeah, they don't really teach this part in history [1]: > At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like J. Edgar Hoover at the F.B.I. and Allen Dulles at the C.I.A. aggressively recruited
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Oh I couldn't disagree more. Europe is on the verge of full-blown fascism. Europe has Reform (UK), AfD (Germany) and National Front (France) as well as Hungary. Europe created the Russia-Ukraine problem by giving their energy security
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I say this without hyperbole: we are (IMHO) on the verge of total systemic collapse. We've had 50+ years of deteriotating worker conditions and a massive concentration of wealth to like 10,000 people. The 1980s crushed the labor moveme
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The promise of thorium is that it requires external energy to be added to maintain the reaction. The theory is that it is safer because of this as it's far less likely that you get a runaway or out-of-control reaction. The reality is m
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> Spent fuel is a solved problem, we just store it securely This is simply untrue. Depending on the type and enrichment of the fuel it will need to be actively cooled for some period, possibly decades. After that you can bury it. You nee
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China is a special case. In fact, it's the one country on Earth I'd actually trust to build, maintain and regulate nuclear power. I don't believe China is convinced (yet) of the long-term viability of nuclear power (fission o

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