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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Is not spying considered an attack on those you are spying on? It depends on the meaning of “attack.” Spying against a country inside their country is generally illegal in that country but is also not generally treated as an act of war
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> I was eating them right off the trees. Were you spending a lot of time outside to do that? UV light will beat back psoriasis.
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> If they want milk and chicken for example, it might be better to get that from Earth. If we have a self-sustaining Mars colony as a given then wouldn’t it be more likely they have at least artificial substitutes for such things? I find
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> Based on what I know about humans, the probability this happens approaches 1 as time moves forward. Wouldn’t it be far cheaper for a Mars civilization to exploit the resources of the asteroids rather than bother earth? It’d be enormous
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> But that doesn't necessarily make it a good deal if the customer isn't able to derive enough additional value from all that complexity. It’s simply obvious that it’s not a good deal if you’re not their target customer with a
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> The Silverado and the F-150 are the only 2 cars in the top 15 best-selling cars in the US which are particularly fuel inefficient. Sure, however the F-150 was by far the biggest selling vehicle at least up until 2019. Over 3 times as m
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> FPTP is a highly deficient system that results in the same two parties staying in power indefinitely New Zealand has used MMP for 25 years and yet it still dithers between two major parties. Minor parties do tend to have to be incorpor
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> Extinction is permanent. You never get quite the same thing but convergent evolution can mean extinction isn’t 100% permanent given enough time.
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> Move fast and break things doesn't work so well with things like the supply chain. What about when it’s already almost completely broken and getting worse? That’s precisely when you need creative out of the container thinking.
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> In Dec 2001 China was admitted to the WTO and a boom in exports followed which still holds The currency manipulation, still ongoing, which enables China to be artificially competitive to the point where it threatened US economic health
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> what are some of those headwinds? The one child policy was a resounding success and a total disaster as now they have the fastest aging population on the planet. This has lead to massively increasing labor costs and a hollowing out of
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> China appears to be a serious adversary now They’re an adversary and should be taken seriously however they are not the threat that the Soviet Union was. China has too many headwinds to reach true superpower status.
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> This is at least partially biological This is good context but isn’t a justification. You didn’t say it was but I wanted to emphasize that a biological reason isn’t a moral justification. > deception is of utmost value in a competit
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One of the most insidious and underrated evils in our society is lying. Lying comes in many forms such as: refusing to be honest about our true motivations; contriving justifications for double standards towards different groups; knowingly
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> Also runs afoul of the cobra effect And if it didn’t fall foul of that and if CO2 was over captured then most life on earth would die.
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> because they thought they were 20 That is a hard case, one that I originally explicitly called out as extremely difficult to handle. So your criticism is unfounded.
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> I take it you haven’t actually tried to do this? What is “this?” I’m talking about cheap and simple early interventions that delay or even avoid needing to put elders in a home by avoiding the negative effects of badly managed healthca
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> the extensive and expensive care of their elders. Granted cognitive decline and other conditions are extremely difficult to manage, however it’s remarkable how easy and cheap a disturbingly large chunk of elder care is. Just someone th
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> funny accounting, and statistical standards of America economists. China beats the US in funny accounting by orders of magnitude!! China’s economy is a massive works program so a large chunk of their manufacturing ends up being trash e
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> That both depends on how immediate "immediate" is and how the US will react. Broadly speaking if countries are able to feed their population, keep the lights on, and protect their borders, regardless of access to global marke
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> If we lose the lead in the things we export, what else do we have to sell the world? The US is a massive importer and exporter but as a percentage of the US economy it’s relatively small compared to export lead economies like China, Ja
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> is it that the trade war is so politically popular Biden has doubled down on Trumps trade policies to the extent that he appointed a Taiwanese-American trade lawyer, Katherine Tai, as US Trade Representative. She has no experience brok
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> especially when you consider how minimal the disruption had been until this most recent outbreak. Does your family live in Auckland? The on-again/off-again severe lockdowns there have been brutal to families and businesses alike.
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That’s a simple and lovely poem that speaks to me deeply. Thanks for teaching me it exists.
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> at the end of the day they felt to me like an accomplice. Precisely, it’s a racket. The financial institutions take other people’s money, create more out of thin air to lend to other people while not checking very much whether they are
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> it's only annoying and seems like hypocrisy if you are willfully ignoring that unusual heat waves and other climate volatility are a trend and cold snaps don't refute that? Except any given heat wave has just as much probabil
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> Ultimately, the problem lies in treating climate change as something that still needs to be proven. Proof, or as close as science ever comes to that, isn't the issue. It's science communication that's the issue. New peop
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> A consistent pattern of extremely hot weather year after year breaking established records at least suggests a trend. You're right. However, it is annoying when there's a cold snap that "weather isn't climate",
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> Why does it need to be confined to that group? Because they're the ones actually presenting the vaccines to the world, and being pro-vax doesn't mean being a deceitful natural immunity denier. I.e unless there is a significan
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> Suppressing something that is true makes someone untrustworthy. You don’t need a theory of their motives to explain this. That might be true if the people developing and testing the vaccine were the same people belittling natural immun

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