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by paganel 3y ago
> That's just Another Day in Feudalism for you. I usually tend to forget that most of the people here have not read their history, comments like this one remind me of that. I recommend La société féodale [1] by Bloch, or the relev
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by paganel 3y ago
Nothing edgy about it, I think about this subject quite often, as a matter of fact. And I'll ignore the "no knowledge of the past" thing, even though a discussion around Marc Bloch's La Société féodale could be interes
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by paganel 3y ago
> She is the widow of U.S. Senator John McCain from Arizona, who was the 2008 Republican presidential nominee. Nepo-wife. And they were saying the Soviets were a decrepit society at the top, the US from today is not much better.
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by paganel 3y ago
At this point I'd take the feudal Lord a hundred times over any democracy, at least the feudal lord had the obligation to provide housing and a piece of land for his people/peasants, unlike democracy, which by this point is just a
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by paganel 3y ago
Let these Westerners drive directly into a ditch, they deserve it. It's like they've learned nothing from the current war in Ukraine. Some people are even mentioning dog-fights, like this is a freaking Top Gun movie or some such
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by paganel 3y ago
That's the thing, I don't think that batteries will ever be free, or close to free. > we're already seeing solar beat gas on pricing in some cases. That's why I also added the condensed/storage part, which with c
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by paganel 3y ago
Which is why I mentioned Georgescu-Roegen [1], this is an economics + physics thing.
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by paganel 3y ago
Maybe not fundamental, but something similar to that, yes. I think that when coupled with economics (i.e., basically, price) there's nothing that can surpass carbon-based energy. Carbon-based energy is basically condensed and stored so
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by paganel 3y ago
> until EVs were clearly cheaper than gas/hybrids. That's never going to happen, I'm not that good at physics but there must be some deep thermodynamically principle involved or similar to that. Something on the lines of w
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by paganel 3y ago
So you're more connected to YC than 99% of the people commenting in here, I don't think that your viewpoint can be seen as objective.
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by paganel 3y ago
The guy from the linked TikToks does mention that he also hosed the inside of the trunk after returning from the beach, that might have been it. That's always a risky thing to do, even on "conventional" cars (or maybe it&#x27
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by paganel 3y ago
I wouldn't have expected pro-US government propaganda coming from lettersofnote.com, but it is what is, this New Cold War demands sacrifices.
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by paganel 3y ago
> It's a transactional and professional relation where you offer a service No-one was driving those trains to Auschwitz for free, lots of "transactional and professional relation" there, too.
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by paganel 3y ago
Yes, at the end of the 1400s Spain and Portugal were regarded as the "periphery" of Western Europe, they had just gotten "in" more or less as a result of La Reconquista and of the Aragon kings having started doing their
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by paganel 3y ago
I did include the caveat "starting with the 1200-1300s", and I did have the expulsion of the Jewish population from England in mind when writing that down. After that I wouldn't say that there were"repeated" violenc
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by paganel 3y ago
I didn't count the current territory of Spain up until the late 1400s as "proper" Western European, in fact most of the histories of Spain do not dwell on the history of Al-Andalus in the 14th century for too long, if at all.
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by paganel 3y ago
Anti-semitism wasn't a major factor in European history until the (second-ish part) of the 19th century, for the simple reason that the European Jewish population wasn't that big of a presence for hundreds of years. Once the Enlig
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by paganel 3y ago
In a way, yes. That's why repressive governments here in Eastern Europe had started using psychology as a tool/weapon in order to institutionalise dissidents, because it was seen as a mental illness not to be on the same page as t
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by paganel 3y ago
China is already very advanced, I’d say that when it comes to reasonably large countries (so ignoring city-states) it is one of the most tech/industrially advanced countries out there, if not the most advanced. For example the US might
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by paganel 3y ago
Ignoring the 10k-20k years part, which I agree it's a little iffy, by definition the first languages of North America originated in Siberia and in the present Russian Far-East, for the simple reason that there's from where the fi
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by paganel 3y ago
> The only thing the Gulf states have going for them is oil money and a good hub location on the Europe–Southeast Asia Do they need anything more? And you mentioned airplanes, but you failed to mention logistics more generally and contai
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by paganel 3y ago
Not the OP, but I do consider the cashier people from the groceries store nearby as part of the community.
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by paganel 3y ago
The Baumol effect [1] all over again, I'm thinking about it more and more lately. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
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A closer look at a Russian tank with a full anti-drone shell(old.reddit.com)
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by paganel 3y ago
I think that by now most of the people have started putting the blame on the US aviation and air-transportation industry as a whole, it's not just Boeing anymore. That includes the FTC, the carriers, yes, Boeing, and a ton of other sub
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by paganel 3y ago
> In one chapter of the book, he provides a template for how to construct an effective targets machine drawing on “big data” that a human brain could not process. “The machine needs enough data regarding the battlefield, the population,
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by paganel 3y ago
It's interesting because "selfdriving" cars themselves were seen as a form of "AI" at the height of that related goldrush, I'd say 2017-2018 or so.
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by paganel 3y ago
> Step back from the Internet, unsubscribe from non essential creators, close tabs without verifying if still needed Pretty much, yes, that's the answer, at least for me. I've stopped keeping tabs on much of what's conside
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by paganel 3y ago
Alienating art has been a staple of many past social revolutions, the “made up of steel” thing (like in this case) is just a secondary issue. But I get this guy’s appeal and I also get why his audience wouldn’t want to see it that way, it i
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by paganel 3y ago
Not contemptuous , but this guy’s “art” is the type of thing that has helped alienate the common man and drove him into whichever political hands rejected these neoliberal-inspired creations. Also, props to Serra for doing some “art” stuff

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