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by nyokodo 3y ago
> We, as a civilization, are riding the razors edge of stability. This is massively overstating the impact on the west, and America specifically. Obviously it massively disrupted life and civilization in the Middle East and elsewhere, an
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> I don't think most people considered the WTC as a symbol of anything other than tall buildings The WTC clearly represents American economic might, but the Pentagon was attacked also and that represents American military power. The
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> We are still running scared. Not as compared to 9/11 through ~2017. America has largely returned to the geopolitical indifference it had in the 1990s but with much greater exhaustion for direct foreign military intervention and cy
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> so bent out of shape over mere terrorism 9/11 was an attack on the greatest symbols of American power on American soil. Suffice to say, Americans are not accustomed to that and they went mad with rage and fear. Cue a generation of
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> letting flowers blossom over long time periods can be rewarding There can be rewarding ways to live your life that don't allow this, e.g. serving your country, doctors without borders etc, but the nomadic life is a sacrifice so
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> Just so many jobs don't let you do this If the job you have genuinely doesn't allow you to do your real job (support a family etc) then you're definitely in the wrong job.
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> I personally feel that no amount of money is worth spending the best part of your youth doing mostly meaningless things It depends on why you’re doing it. Supporting a family, and contributing money and spare time to your community, ar
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> “too big to fail” required the public to think the banks were doing a good job in 2008 The analogy to the banking crisis doesn't quite work. For years the banks didn't have any major snafus, banking in general was working gre
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> when society has no choice but to start handing out bailouts "Too big to fail" works if they're making the right people rich but were otherwise being seen to do their job, then suddenly external factors seem to threaten
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> Perhaps the idea of a "fact" is something that needs revisiting as a concept The field of epistemology is ancient. The problem of what can be known and how we can know is even older. I don't think this conflict raises an
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> Do we have strong political will to create something like that here? I honestly don't think we do. We are not and cannot recreate the Chinese manufacturing sector in the USA. Firstly the scale is all wrong, in most cases we'r
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> India will become the next asian super power This is highly unlikely. India has a geography that more or less ensures that it's going to be a big player in its region, but it relies on imports too much for its industry and is hemm
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> A design problem probably would have shown up in an older one. Maybe, unless it required really specific conditions that have only occurred for this one or also required some maintenance snafu that also had nothing to do with Boeing a
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> Evidently not though Bolts can be loosened by the physical and thermal stresses of use if there is a design flaw. So it’s not evidently an assembly QA problem.
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> Can we say that ChatGPT passes the Turing test? For all intents and purposes I would say yes, under the rules of the bet[1] I’m not so sure. 1. https://longbets.org/1/
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> Nobody deserves anything. That implies some kind of cosmic force or entity that is keeping track of who does what and enforcing some kind of justice. You’re right that it relies on a divine judge which is why there is a moral argument
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> Britain and France had to steal chemical technology from Germany In context this makes it sound like Britain and France had little or no chemical industry before the end of WWI which is obvious nonsense. Germany had a significant edge
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> regulatory capture You don’t need a campaign finance problem to get regulatory capture. Only industry insiders have the context to regulate industries. They come from industry, they know and are known by all the players, and back to in
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> The US had one of these scandals too In 1850, we were in the buildup to the civil war and hadn’t even ended slavery, the political and legal environment were drastically different. I’m not suggesting there aren’t lessons to learn but t
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> So companies now own 24 hours of their employees' day? I’ll leave the specifics of the law and this case to the authorities, but in principle it’s not unreasonable for an employer to expect discretion in public about said employer
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> finding one should be like kicking down the door to a whole room of related possibilities You actually agree with the GP, you are just being more specific about what “one working” means, and providing more criteria for what getting “cl
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> arbitrary of a grouping Arbitrary? It’s the UK, and former UK colonies with historically majority UK settlers where English is the most common language spoken, their legal and political systems share a considerable amount in common, an
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> the vast amount of luck Intelligence and who your parents are, are certainly the luck of the draw. But, why are hard working and industrious people overrepresented amongst the “lucky”? There’s plenty of evidence that merely being lucky
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This would be a bit of fun if the locations of the reports were correctly attributed. I was reading a few of them anyway, and most of them sounded like reports of human aircraft at night while the juicier ones were vague memories from many
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> Not sure what nation's syllabus you refer to though There’s no need to bring gender ideology into this, the analogy is perfectly valid just referring to prophylaxis, hormonal medication, implants, and abortion. Those are commonly
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> the best results in studies only show something like a 20% loss after more than a year The health benefits of losing that amount are enormous. In fact, they may get ~80% of the health benefits of a healthy fat percentage. Their blood p
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> Until this is part of state education State sex education has been saturating youth in all the sex related artificial interventions while treating self-control as unrealistic at best and religious nonsense at worst. When do you think w
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> How come that the disease wasn't widespread earlier? The article makes reference to the Madonna on the Albrecht Dürer’s Dresden Altarpiece having an obvious goiter. That was produced in the late 15th to early 16th century. That’s
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> not exactly thrilled about fanged frogs Well, we had wisened up to them appearing as bats so…
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> Iran and Saudi Arabia restoring ties is likely very bad news for Israel While geopolitics creates the strangest bedfellows, this is probably an attempt to play China off against the USA/Japan as well as shake a few geopolitical tr

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