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by leto_ii 5y ago
> Search the term "the working poor". Better yet, check out "working homeless" (take [1] for example). That things like this happen in the richest, most powerful country in history is beyond belief. [1] https:/&
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by leto_ii 5y ago
I don't really see any emergence [1] here. At most this could be some sort of inadvertent gradient descent like algorithm. ]1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
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by leto_ii 5y ago
like a koan. not the worst way to enter the new year.
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Working with others is definitely important for motivation and for technical progress. > I’ve tried teaming up with people on projects but it seems like if it’s not tied to a paycheck they flake out pretty quickly. Maybe something like c
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by leto_ii 5y ago
The problem, as far as I can make it, is that the thing(s) you love will probably not look like a corporate job. It's my strong feeling that people don't actually love jobs, they love kinds of work, but only as long as they have a
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by leto_ii 5y ago
>:D<
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> But perhaps even locals don't visit these areas much so they might not know what they're really like? It does certainly look like a place that would make most people turn around. I think that's mostly the case. Ferentari
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> As a Bucharest resident I must say this is so cool on so many levels Here here! I was really pleasantly surprised to see Pardon cafe mentioned, it's one of my favourite places.
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Al Jazeera is actually a really serious organisation. I find their coverage to be better than that of the BBC and waay better than that of CNN International. You just have to account for their biases (they're from Qatar etc.), but that
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> they'll annex Basarabia like they did in 1812 and again in 1940, to restore the 'glorious' Russian empire of the 19th century How far into Ukraine do you think they would manage/are likely to go? Odessa oblast has s
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Bauxite Liquefaction (Nov. 2021)(youtube.com)
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> It's a moral system just like how Big Judge in Sky is a moral system. You're only determining what's good and bad in accordance with this one moral system. And most of humanity does not. Well, at the very least "Big
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> Hilarious. Do you think there’s big judge in the sky that determines what’s good and bad? Mankind has reached a point where it realized that certain rights (natural rights [1]) are not really arbitrary cultural constructs, but more aki
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> right and wrong, good and evil are human judgments This is nonsense that opens up the possibility to justify pretty much any kind of abuse or atrocity. > The international rules-based order is safeguarded by powerful entities… becau
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> That might be relevant if Assange wasn't doing it at the behest of Russia [citation needed]
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Same in the Netherlands.
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A few of my takeaways: > We're in the middle of a very odd arms race at the moment. [...] The biggest shift that's happened over the last couple of decades is that the US has invested a lot in anti-ballistic missile technology.
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Personally I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. I strongly suspect less inequality is positively correlated with a host of beneficial outcomes (more access to education and healthcare, better quality if life etc.) which can in
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> More wealth, more wealth disparity... almost universally. How so? Why would you assume that the distribution of wealth is correlated to the total stock? In reality this actually doesn't have to be the case at all. Aside from direc
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The mall actually seems to be a superfund site [1]. Hard to believe retailers got out for predominantly commercial reasons. [1] https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0...
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by leto_ii 5y ago
> despite the story talking about the buildings "sinking", the photographs included in the article clearly show the opposite is happening, the buildings are rising/floating up out of the ground, and are now higher than the
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by leto_ii 5y ago
You should remember that whenever you see things people put out, you're usually seeing their best, most polished work. It's true that if you follow hn for example you'll see lots of impressive work done by really motivated an
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> I experienced more camaraderie while at the blue collar one. I've never had blue collar jobs, but I've always suspected that was the case. I think there's less of a "class" consciousness among office workers. W
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Being used to hear Stan Rogers' voice sing about privateers, whalers and other such things, at first this song felt odd. After a bit of thought though, I realize there's no reason why that should be the case. Ours is a real life e
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PEnnsylvania 6-5000(en.wikipedia.org)
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by leto_ii 5y ago
Between this post and the one about the Yugoslav art movement, calvertjournal is really getting the HN hug of death right now.
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> Instead of leading us Why should they be leading us? The only people who should be allowed to "lead" are democratically elected officials. And even then we should be very reluctant and very critical of any of their abuses. &g
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As a side note, to those interested in learning more about John Dee and occultism in the Renaissance I would like to recommend Frances Yates' "The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age". Yates is a very serious scholar in
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> that lack of conflict equates to lack of soul Yeah, I realize the attitude is a bit simplistic. It's certainly true that serious conflict is way worse than boring mild-dystopia. I'm thinking however of someplace like the &#x2
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> It sounds a lot like the Netherlands It's almost a relief to see I'm not the only one having this view. I've been living in NL for the better part of a decade now and to most of the people back home (one of those terribl

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