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by paganel 2y ago
> I don't expect Congress to start getting arrested until or if they ever do any significant pushback against Trump and his cronies They won't, or they would have done so already. Granted, I'm not an American so I might be
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by paganel 2y ago
Because "forced history lessons" doesn't help said kids understand what history really is about, it just helps them accumulate facts, if that. I'd say the same thing applies to math, where one can't really start und
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by paganel 2y ago
The world needs less Asian kids being forced to play piano since a very early age and it needs more kids (Asian and not only) that are left to explore the world. Without that exploration the kids won't make the world their world, at
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by paganel 2y ago
I find the world pretty chaotic as it is right now, and pretty split up, seeing and directly experimenting an international informal community that ignores borders somehow makes me more relaxed, gives purpose to a place/city I'm i
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by paganel 2y ago
Anyone care to recommend some specialty coffee-shops in Tehran? Or in Iran, more generally? That's the one thing I'm searching for when going to a new (big-ish) city, I've honestly stopped caring about museums, archaeological
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by paganel 2y ago
More generally, the financialization of the US economy (and of the Western economy more generally speaking) has a big part of the blame in this. Yes, more evolved financial markets provided easier access capital, but, as it so happens in th
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by paganel 2y ago
Agree, but it goes both ways, with technology (that many of us here have helped create and maintain) also reaching out into every facet of society and community, many times in close symbiosis with the political powers that be, to the detrim
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by paganel 2y ago
Truth be told, the status quo, with 5-dollar packages clogging the USPS, was a DoS on-going thing in real life/physical form, there had been many posts in here detailing that. Yes, it will most probably negatively affect a lot of peopl
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by paganel 2y ago
> But by any objective measure, the tools make Google's developers wildly productive, That’s the thing, they might be winning all the productivity battles there are (and I genuinely believe that they do, on top of great tools Google
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by paganel 2y ago
> What I'm saying that writers were clearly forbidden by the communist powers to look towards west. That's highly debatable, and it most certainly depended on the writers. I can speak for Romania (from where I'm from), whe
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by paganel 2y ago
> But this time, the trade war is against the whole world. Reminds me of this excellent Norm Macdonald sketch [1] on Germany of which I've learned only recently. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXdtafGdIVM
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by paganel 2y ago
> He's also planning a $100M military parade in DC, apparently on his birthday (although he denies that point). This would be straight Roman Emperor stuff.
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by paganel 2y ago
TIL that the Nikola guy got pardoned.
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by paganel 2y ago
That's how art is supposed to be, to raise something inside the one experiencing it. For those that want a more mundane experience from the same time-period there's also a Sargent and countless others like him. For reference, the
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by paganel 2y ago
They need to win any ideological battle that they can get in order to start the "assault" against Medicaid and Medicare, which I guess it's where most of the money goes to (that and the Military, but I don't think they&#
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by paganel 2y ago
Because that saying originated as a US bourgeois thing, people willing to liberate themselves from really caring for the other (much poorer) people living just besides them in exchange for writing some code. Just look at the streets of San
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by paganel 2y ago
Always interesting how the Anglo world never really got into Hegel, I guess it's their lack of real philosophical spirit that explains it. They never really got passed Hume's empiricist reflexes.
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by paganel 2y ago
Person of Interest was such a great TV show! Too bad many of the things in there came out to be true, or very close to true, in just a matter of 10-15 years.
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by paganel 2y ago
> LLM chat interface below the satellite imagery I subconsciously block anything LLM-chat related by default, just as I do with ads. I tried looking through a source of that photo in the text above, text which seemed less AI-coded, but
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by paganel 2y ago
For those curious/wondering, the last satellite image is of the Budapest International Airport [1], a reverse Google Lens image search was surprisingly good at finding it. [1] https://www.google.com/maps/@47.434333
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by paganel 2y ago
Probably because of easier access to qualified workforce.
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by paganel 2y ago
While I agree with you, this is a huge issue with the term "security" and what it means to "provide security" as a government, because at some point almost everything can be labeled as a "national security threat&qu
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by paganel 2y ago
> and lastly be enclosed in walls This is mostly a Western-centric view, as there were lots and lots of cities in the Muslim/Ottoman world (just to give an example) with no walls encompassing them whatsoever.
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by paganel 2y ago
By the 1890s both the US and Germany had surpassed Britain when it came to industrial output, I don’t think it was any consolation for the Brits that they had invented it (almost) all.
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by paganel 2y ago
There's no "green revolution" coming, just the powers that be taxing us, normal citizens, to the hell and the back if we'd still want to hang on to our gasoline-powered cars, which taxing policies will for sure bring abo
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by paganel 2y ago
Something like this [1]. I've singled out The Economist because I used to read them until not that long ago so that I can confirm first-hand that they also use that rhetoric (but can't be bothered to look for an online source righ
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by paganel 2y ago
> A factory of ten people and a few hundred robots is fine Don't think that that is true when it comes to the steel industry when you include all the verticals, i.e. mineral extraction + transportation of said minerals + energy prod
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by paganel 2y ago
> Why are manufacturing jobs special? Because you need manufacturing to win wars, or to be seen by outside great powers that you're in a position of winning wars. You're not winning wars based on git commit messages, but based
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by paganel 2y ago
Yes, China is winning, but at what cost? Leaving the stupid The Economist-list memes aside, the West has put itself all by itself in this position, for too long it had thought that it could still rule the world based on the services industr
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by paganel 2y ago
As I remember it HN was initially a “response” to Reddit written in Arc, as by that point Reddit had already become focused on politics and some other more general stuff and had left its programming focus behind. HN was meant to fill that g

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