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by monadINtop 2y ago
It's always so strange to see this kind of "rigorous" posturing as a reply to people pointing out the obvious declination in their own living standards in the current moment. The vague notion of "national wealth" ob
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Good luck
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by monadINtop 2y ago
If by 3d-calc you mean vector calculus then yeah I never actually understood any of it, I just moved on to differential forms and the tensor calculus and Riemannian geometry and then wondered why anyone bothered with 3d-calculus in the firs
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Yeah I'm pretty sure the Financial Times editorial board would probably enjoy sending me to an internment camp for ideological reasons but I find their coverage is great when you ignore the slant, which is obvious and tends not to obsc
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by monadINtop 2y ago
>operates a bit differently than your typical intelligence service - especially domestically Fair enough. But as wild speculation with no real insight, I'd guess that such a large mass organizational structure probably also preclude
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Uhh, none of my friends are spies as far as I'm aware? Or close friends with Xi Jinping, or thieves (!?)... What did they do to deserve being blacklisted from jobs in their industry? Side note, surely you understand how indefensible it
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Nice a Wikipedia article. Where can I find any indication of comparative scale compared to any other nation, like I asked? Just going by a blind guess and knowledge of the world, I guess it's pretty much correlated with economy and geo
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Yeah I also share this experience, pretty much every Chinese person I know will not hesitate to stress how much discrimination has affected everything about their lives abroad, especially education and careers. Its worth noting how little a
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Do you have any numbers that would verify that? Or even any other statement on that issue? Pretty sure determining the "scale" of any kind of intelligence activity is unbelievably murky, as you might be able to imagine.
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by monadINtop 2y ago
But he's not wrong, research really isn't just random playing (which I think is obviously still good and fun and should be done for it's own sake, of which this blog post is a great example though it probably wouldn't be
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Nah I think twitter is among the worst. It doesn't actually make you more informed of anything actionable you'd actually benefit from being aware of. It just broadcasts the most shallow rage-bait possible, from a constantly updati
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by monadINtop 2y ago
You probably haven't heard of any since you clearly don't know anything about history or politics
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Maybe one of the most ahistorical and abhorrently dishonest claims someone could make about the last century. In the UK we were taught a more accurate picture of history as a child studying for GCSEs - specifically how the German state hand
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by monadINtop 2y ago
>What are you trying to say? That every time a third world nation during the Cold War moved towards democratic rule (along with the land and resource re-distribution that will inevitably follow from politicians engaging with the interest
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Yeah I do agree with that.
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Apart from the fact that conspiracies also do exist. Before serious reporting was done, people would've called you a crackpot for talking about half the things that the CIA got up to under Allen Dulles, such as with Operation Gladio, M
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by monadINtop 2y ago
>That's why it's hard to judge past personalities with our modern standards This couldn't be more naive, you understand that these are not some default cultural norm of the time, shared by all, and we today are simply more
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Yeah, liberated. Algeria is no longer an explicit French colony, just an effective one (they now skip the middle man and exploit it directly through trade agreements). It turns out its quite difficult to magically create a prosperous libera
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by monadINtop 2y ago
> it’s not like the FLN were that much less brutal than the French both during and after the war Sure, I'm under no rose-tinted delusions about their methods - nor the methods of any other guerilla movement in a similar position - b
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by monadINtop 2y ago
It was a brutal occupation and while I obviously don't hold some kind of personal resentment to the decedents (whether institutionally or literally) of this colonial state, I think its hard for the well meaning public in these countrie
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Yep, I agree with all of this. It's pretty jarring to see the disconnect between one's own experience coming from these post-colonial countries with family members who lived through these conflicts, and the "public" atti
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Yeah it was so cool when he oversaw the torture and arbitrary detainment of Algerian civilians in a desperate attempt to crush the revolutionary movement.
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by monadINtop 2y ago
a theory of everything would have to have quantum mechanics as an emergent theory and quantum mechanics is fundamentally non-deterministic. and even if it was, a theory of everything is almost certainly not going to be practically computabl
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Oh my god I thought I was the only one that noticed this. People stereotype science and math people as being anti-humanist or unappreciative of the culture of art but in my experience people there are far more "rounded" compared t
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by monadINtop 2y ago
I have lived in Europe all my life. I cannot name a single person I know, nor anyone that they know, that has ever been remotely affected by Islamic terrorism. I can however name a hundred other things that affect most of their lives daily
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Yeah maybe if you abide by a god given ideology where you cannot question the distribution of resources with respect to one's relation to the productive organs of an economy on a microscopic level and instead only focus on re-distribut
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Not the person you're replying to but I would assume their point was to highlight the distinguishing feature of mathematics - the fact that it's not only possible to completely prove something to be true, but in fact is the only t
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by monadINtop 2y ago
In your mind ChatGPT is about the level of lesser academics? What papers do you think it could get published for example?
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by monadINtop 2y ago
And why would the employer or employee give two shits about prodividing value to the customer? You understand that employees and employers don't act out of a sense of compassion for customers? They both want to "provide value&quot
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Is it not forceful if I dangle you over a cliff and tell you to run your pockets, by virture of the natural origin of the gravitational potential that will accelerate your body into a jagged rock face at terminal velocity should I release m

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