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by orwin 9mo ago
To be fair, I understand why 'preventing balkanization' is a target, but I'm not sure it's a correct one. By de-federalizing a bit, even temporarily, for a few decades, India might have fared a bit better overall. But I
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by orwin 9mo ago
You mean, the US?
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by orwin 9mo ago
Sorry, I'm not a legal expert, it's mostly what I remember from classes. I'll do my best 1-2/ I'm pretty sure the procureur can be named from anywhere , to any court, an can be an ex-arttorney while I think the juge
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by orwin 9mo ago
Neoliberal economics is basically new school+Chicago school of economics, i'm not sure what it has to do with free trade. Free market, yes, which China isn't. [Edit] China's economy is so clearly Keynesian with Marxist charac
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by orwin 9mo ago
Participation in the global economy != free market. Unless you think China is a free market?
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by orwin 9mo ago
Ok, that's the second article on this that doesn't mention how it works in France. I will explain because I see a lot of post that could be better if their author understood that the French system isn't the US system. France
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by orwin 9mo ago
France prosecutors use police raids way more than other western countries. Banks, political parties, ex-presidents, corporate HQs, worksites... Here, while white-collar crimes are punished as much as in the US (i.e very little), we do at le
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by orwin 9mo ago
Yes. He went at least once in 2012, then asked to go again in 2013 and Epstein refused.
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by orwin 9mo ago
Moving half a ton metal boxes very fast in space shared with normal humans will always kill people, and making them not share the space with humans is too impractical and expensive. So cars are a technology that _will_ kill some of us, by d
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by orwin 9mo ago
They are culturally very close, and have the same theoricians. That's enough for 'very similar', just like US and UK have a very similar brand of capitalism, despite UK having a better Gini coefficient, a way better press fre
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by orwin 9mo ago
This isn't a good analogy though. It's not blaming a kitchen knife, it's blaming a voice activated auto turret. Or rather, blaming a car. Yes, a bad driver is way more dangerous than a good driver, but even the best driver ca
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by orwin 9mo ago
Do this math include the cost and weight of the radiators? Because it obviously can't work without big radiators, and I don't see them mentioned in the math?
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by orwin 9mo ago
It's not. But that the system we're currently under. In a better world, you'd have employees, local government, consumers as well as obligation owners on the companies boards.
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by orwin 9mo ago
But in this case this is not about politics, it's about local power and local control, and Laos government have very little of either of it. Laos communism and Vietnam communism are very similar, but you don't here the same about
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by orwin 9mo ago
No, capitalism is about capital owners having control about what is produced and how it is produced, and we have exactly that, especially since Friedman "shareholder primacy" theory, which, at least to me, looks like the ultimate
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by orwin 9mo ago
Yeah, my observation is that for my usual work, I can maybe get a 20% productivity boot, probably closer to 10% tbh, and for the whole team overall productivity it feels like it has done nothing, as senior use their small productivity gains
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by orwin 9mo ago
They make people on the main road slow down, which is a feature, not a bug. What you mean is that they're the most efficient at what they do when the traffic is comparable. They only reduce accident at the expense of a slightly lowered
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by orwin 9mo ago
Politicians decide wages private companies pay people?
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by orwin 9mo ago
Isn't the samaritain story ultimately just about that?
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by orwin 9mo ago
He compared to the estimated statistics for non-reported accident (typically your example, that involve only one vehicle and only result in scratched paint) to estimate the 3x. Else the title would have been 9x (which is in line with 10x a
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by orwin 9mo ago
17 mph is way too fast near a school if it's around the time children are getting out (or in).
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by orwin 9mo ago
In my country, most people do the oil change and the roadworthy test at the same time, but we do drive less than in the US.
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by orwin 9mo ago
They cost less to service on average, which is true (at least in my country, Americans are weird with their cars and dealerships).
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Penn researchers are helping address group violence in Baltimore (2024)(penntoday.upenn.edu)
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by orwin 9mo ago
> And if you want to read for information, you’re almost certainly going to get better information by reading a modern history of Rome than by reading Polybius. It's not 'almost certainly'. Modern history books written by
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by orwin 9mo ago
Is this sarcasm? I read it like sarcasm but reading your reaction it seems it's not? Do this person really believe what he wrote?
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by orwin 9mo ago
The environmental concern might lead to massive migrations hinder and diseases.
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by orwin 9mo ago
Human wave isn't a viable strategy for NK, so I'm not sure what they learned really. Maybe they learned how to parade and to die gracefully from the VDV?
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by orwin 9mo ago
Sorry, it wasn't a criticism of what you said, i wanted to add a caveat because what you said was true in 99.9999% of cases, but as China laws application are arbitrary (and their laws change all the time), you still ought to be carefu
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by orwin 9mo ago
I think i disagree? Socdems are mostly weird keynesians, and think of the economy from the demand side. For them, inequality is fundamentally bad because it reduce aggregate demand. You know the legend about Ford paying its employee more so

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