lurk2

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1021.
by lurk2 2y ago
It was never implied that this mechanism was magical. If you reread the original post, the claim being made is: > The idea that an average person, working hard, can eventually own part of a nation's land and resources, [...] was nev
1022.
by lurk2 2y ago
Quite common in Mexico and South America more broadly. It's quite typical that a middle-aged rancher or corrupt police officer sees an opportunity to make some extra money, scales it, and then finds himself at the center of a criminal
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by lurk2 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHgc8Q6qTjc
1024.
by lurk2 2y ago
You've drawn this argument from Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. There are a few problems with the theory: 1) Diamond's argument rests on the idea that world historical developments are effectively determined by geogra
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by lurk2 2y ago
If the land had been the basis of North American prosperity there would have been civilizations there capable of resisting European colonialism.
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by lurk2 2y ago
America isn't overpopulated. The pyramid scheme you're describing is not a Malthusian constraint but the product of bad monetary policy privileging non-productive investments in real estate. There's still no better place on e
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by lurk2 2y ago
I am at the point where I would happily pay an annual subscription on the order of a few hundred dollars per year just to avoid the headaches of today's browsers. Don't add new features, don't change the look of anything, jus
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by lurk2 2y ago
The word retainer has an appealing mercenary quality to it. The dream is that your knowledge of an esoteric system set up in the 1980s gets you warehoused in a data closet at a mid-sized organization, where you can spend the rest of your da
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by lurk2 2y ago
I tried using Brave ages ago. I wanted to like it, but it crashed even more often than Firefox (which is a feat unto itself) and didn't have the option to tag bookmarks.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Got it. So you are just affirming the same kind of exogenous force your socialist interlocutors would, except its the colonial Spanish/Portuguese, not the United States? And when you spoke of attitude and preference above, you mea
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by lurk2 2y ago
>If the issue at the end of day is "attitude" than why even bring up socialism at all? It is the result of the Iberian approach to politics which is not cooperative but based on clientelism. They inherited it from the Romans. T
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by lurk2 2y ago
It's notable that the worst countries to live in are the ones where the socialists won (e.g. Venezuela). The excuse then becomes that these societies are dysfunctional because they have been impoverished by American embargoes, which is
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by lurk2 2y ago
I want to be optimistic, but I suspect what we'll end up with is a legal interpretation which allows LLMs to steal content from creators without the cool side benefit of being permitted to steal content ourselves. It will become legal
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by lurk2 2y ago
Sometimes we can give people the wrong impression about ourselves, even though there isn't anything fundamentally "wrong" with us. I understand that the idea of needing to manage perceptions to be loved can feel troubling - w
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by lurk2 2y ago
Often times when we feel vulnerable we can give too much of ourselves away to other people. This can sometimes lead to feelings of dissatisfaction or resentment in a relationship. Many people will perceive easily available affection as bein
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by lurk2 2y ago
Many of the concerns you've listed stem from a lack of self-esteem. You list lots of activities that are stereotypically associated with a full, worthwhile life, but then make indications that these things aren't bringing you the
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by lurk2 2y ago
Aren't most of the developments in this sector targeting labor costs rather than yield?
1038.
by lurk2 2y ago
Is this a joke about conventional mechanized farming working well enough as it is or has there been serious progress in the AgTech sector? The last time I read of it the big developments were hydroponics and tractors that burned weeds with
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by lurk2 2y ago
TL;DR: The top retraction rates based on 2014-2024 data show 7 of the top 10 are medical universities in China. #4 is an engineering institute in India, #7 is a university in Pakistan, #10 is a STEM university in Ethiopia. The highest had a
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by lurk2 2y ago
> In English and many other European languages, the principal means of distinguishing between multiple third-person referents is using gender or (lack of) reflexive. Thus, in "she saw him", it is clear that there are two third
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by lurk2 2y ago
I had always assumed from the amount of attention that was paid to them that the tribe adjacent to my city numbered in the tens of thousands spread out across the greater area. I found out last year that the tribe's population is only
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by lurk2 2y ago
Most strategy games are like this. If the game were simple enough to be amenable to the AI competing on an equal playing field, it wouldn't be marketable to strategy gamers. If it becomes more complex, it's dubious that AI could b
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by lurk2 2y ago
Since their populations, economies, and geographies are comparable, it seems like the play is to compare cost-to-effect ratios between the two cities on a service-for-service basis. I've done this with my own city before and was surpri
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by lurk2 2y ago
That was what I was getting at. I've read of a few (literal) witch hunting stories from India and Africa, and they all seem to start on WhatsApp groups. A similar phenomenon occurs in South America, as well, though in that case the kil
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by lurk2 2y ago
I've heard the social media landscape is a lot different in India because so much of it passes through the comparatively-opaque WhatsApp rumor mill.
1046.
by lurk2 2y ago
Some are better than others. About three months ago I started seeing channels that were clearly stealing content from other channels and splicing it over a text-to-speech narration. I knew they were doing this because I had seen the origina
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by lurk2 2y ago
I found this odd when I first read about it. Usually human trafficking involves isolating the victim, which is why it's so prevalent in the maritime industry - victims won't have many opportunities to escape or call attention to t
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by lurk2 2y ago
"King County provides local and regional services to nearly 2.4 million residents, with a 2025 Proposed Budget of $10.2 billion and nearly 17,700 employees."[1] Seattle's population is around 755,000. 755,000 / 2,400,000
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by lurk2 2y ago
15 billion is more than the respective budgets of Alabama, Oklahoma, New Mexico, North Dakota, Iowa, West Virginia, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Vermont, New Hampshire, and South Dakota. Of
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by lurk2 2y ago
One of the things I've noticed in the last several years is that I seem to have more interactions online that leave me without any doubt in my mind that the other party is experiencing some manner of psychosis. You'd occasionally

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