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by lunar-whitey 6mo ago
The U.S. is currently in a similar position to the U.K. in the Suez in 1956 and is sprinting into the position the U.S.S.R. was in Afghanistan in 1979. Americans watching network TV news or reading the New York Times, however, would be hard
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by lunar-whitey 7mo ago
Likewise for school districts in wealthier areas of the United States.
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by lunar-whitey 7mo ago
What’s especially frightening about this comparison is that post-Glasnost figures clearly show the U.S. was never even close to being surpassed by the U.S.S.R. economically or militarily. We don’t need to speculate about production gaps bet
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by lunar-whitey 7mo ago
The existence of yet worse systems does not make the American system fair. It is not difficult to picture societies where it is not required to build wealth for 4 generations to achieve moderate economic security. Further, specific measures
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by lunar-whitey 7mo ago
This is why I question the article’s premise. There is no risk of liberal democracies implementing a UBI that supports anything beyond subsistence. Most people in developed countries will want more than that. The biggest issue I see with UB
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by lunar-whitey 7mo ago
I think the 10 U.S. metro number itself is somewhat arbitrary here. It’s impossible to say precisely without looking at all parties’ deployed warhead counts and operational plans, but I have seen estimates that put the number of direct casu
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by lunar-whitey 7mo ago
> Urban centers are not set up for large-scale rainwater collection. This is correct. Even in suburban areas, rainfall may be irregular and supplies to collect it (and render potable, depending on the manner of collection) also unavailab
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by lunar-whitey 7mo ago
You cannot sustain a population center of any size on rainfall. For that, you need electricity to operate municipal pumps (which will likely be absent, as above - if not immediately after generation and distribution is destroyed, then a few
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by lunar-whitey 7mo ago
A full scale exchange would be much, much worse than Europe in 1918. Against a peer adversary, ABM systems can protect 1 city at the very most. There will be people on both sides who know how many warheads are required, and in which locatio
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by lunar-whitey 8mo ago
It’s easier for the top 10% to blame the top 0.1% and absolve themselves, in spite of the knowledge that this changes nothing. Americans especially are averse to the idea that the middle class owes anything to anyone.
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by lunar-whitey 8mo ago
The civil rights movement broke the New Deal coalition and ended popular support for many of the policies that had maintained the socioeconomic status of working and lower middle class whites. Today, neither party seriously entertains exten
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by lunar-whitey 8mo ago
I honestly hope you are lying about your profession, rather than venting your personal frustrations with clients by arguing with people that you believe resemble them online.
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by lunar-whitey 8mo ago
> And there is another diagnosis that is blindingly obvious but i wont name it out here. I wonder why a self identified mental health professional would go to such lengths to deny the viewpoint many of autistic people, who frequently rep
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by lunar-whitey 8mo ago
“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.”
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by lunar-whitey 8mo ago
The current administration has established a pattern of making unsubstantiated fraud allegations against its political enemies. That is new.
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by lunar-whitey 8mo ago
The funnel for design is a little wider. Nevertheless, if you aren’t early in your career, I suspect you’ll find that most firms are not interested in people who do not have specific experience building something fairly close to their curre
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by lunar-whitey 8mo ago
If you are in the US, you probably already know who the players in your area are and can approach directly. Frankly though, the small number of firms and positions is a sign it’s time to change careers.
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by lunar-whitey 10mo ago
> There's no benefit to a brain that struggles in modern society. Would you say there’s no benefit to the genes associated with sickle cell anemia? How about homosexuality? Schizophrenia? The reality is that we cannot reliably predi
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by lunar-whitey 10mo ago
Equity remains a valid criticism of LCFF in California specifically. For one unremarkable observation in this area, see the following think tank report: > States often commission cost studies to establish the level of funding required to
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by lunar-whitey 10mo ago
The school system is downstream broader social issues here. It can be shockingly expensive to deal with the various behavioral problems that disproportionately impact students from lower income communities. Students from stable homes with a
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by lunar-whitey 10mo ago
Fear not - the American school system was built on and holds fast to the supposition that the affluent should be able to avoid any unwanted exposure to the problems of those less fortunate than themselves.
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by lunar-whitey 10mo ago
Illiterate incoming freshman are the product of the public middle and high school systems, not the university system. For reference: > Beginning in Fall 2022, the number of students placed into Math 2 began to grow rapidly. Math 2 was fi
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by lunar-whitey 10mo ago
Keller's early experience of the world differed from typical in dimensions beyond language recognition.
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by lunar-whitey 10mo ago
If BlueZ was compelling enough, Android would tolerate it for the same reasons it tolerates the kernel. Nobody really wants to be in the business of writing a BT stack, and yet Android has replaced theirs at least twice. I ask, why?
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by lunar-whitey 10mo ago
The United States from 1945 to about 1970 made a fair amount of noise about broadening the scope of the franchise. This certainly was not the norm historically, but contemporary ambivalence about that project is what leads us to this articl
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by lunar-whitey 10mo ago
It would help if BlueZ had any hope of being commercially relevant. The Linux Wi-Fi stack, in contrast, is quite usable.
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by lunar-whitey 11mo ago
The United States outsourced the bulk of its consumer production to China and the latter's emissions are still falling. You don't find that impressive?
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by lunar-whitey 11mo ago
Seems presence of U-232 is more manageable than I thought.
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by lunar-whitey 11mo ago
China has many capital controls but generally supports industrial activity in the state interest; the US does the opposite.
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by lunar-whitey 11mo ago
Theoretically, perhaps, but I don’t think anyone with a serious interest in weapons would pursue it. From a nonproliferation perspective, I’d guess the infrastructure necessary to remove contaminants from uranium bred through the thorium cy

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