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by pasabagi 5y ago
I don't understand your comment. The whole reason why most nightmarish historical moments are considered nightmarish is because they give certain groups drastically elevated rights, and others none. Talking about an apartheid society w
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> We need shared values and deep understanding of the principles that govern our countries. This is the mainstream prescription since there has been bellyaching about the woes of the age (i.e. forever, or provably, since the invention of
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I always got the feeling that asians of that generation (at least at the leadership level) understood that the Japanese were just playing by the rules of the game established by the europeans. That's why both sides of the chinese civil
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Kitchens also don't appreciate in value. However, if you're trying to rent a flat in berlin, you'll probably find yourself paying brand-new+ prices for the previous tenant's kitchen.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Seems like semantics to me: you can't buy a house without essentially buying land. If you could, I absolutely would. The fundamental problem here is not one of economics, but of politics. You can't live in a stable, dignified mann
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I wish it was just consumption! If houses always depreciated in value, then they would cost about as much as it costs to build them. Unfortunately, because a bunch of political factors, they endlessly balloon in price.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I mean the rights of tenants are such that if you want to live in decent conditions / a stable domicile, you have to buy a house, thus becoming a property investor.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
It is also the case that professional traders make a lot of money out of retail investors. The percentage of retail investors that actually make money are, iirc, quite small. It doesn't make sense to do something when you don't ha
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> When did Germany ever use a nuclear weapon against another nation? A war crime that Germany has not committed! Although, for lack of technical capacity, not lack of will. Seriously though: I don't think he was attacking you- it wa
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Sure: they're not very loud. That's the whole point. They are about half as loud as a road. I don't know what people find particularly terrible about the timbre, but personally, it seems OK. Another nice thing about quiet noi
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Which is which, though? I mainly wanted to do a dB comparison so there's a reference to how this 'torture' compares to other, normal experiences. If they had made this point of fact explicit in the article, then maybe they wo
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by pasabagi 5y ago
Seems so? This[0] paper was a bit above my head, but seemed to be premised on the notion that the EU had stricter noise regulations (although that could be counterbalanced by the relative population density of the EU). [0]: https:/&#x
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by pasabagi 5y ago
'Personal' is probably too far, 'private', as in, not the business of the state, is more where I was going with it. I think in general, for antique societies, they don't have detectives - if a crime is committed, th
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by pasabagi 5y ago
It's long before my time: it's still floating around (even for millennials like me) as a turning point in the UK's history, but I always thought of it as a bit like the US-Spain war, or a less-grimy opium war, the marker of a
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by pasabagi 5y ago
> hugely embarrassing incident Is this a normal way of looking at state-state relations? I understood the Suez canal thing as a loss of prestige (obviously, the UK was no longer able to 'walk the walk', of being an empire), but
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by pasabagi 5y ago
One thing people don't really have an intuition for is just how chaotic the ancient world generally was. Banditry was basically normal, murder was a 'personal matter', civic infrastructure investment was generally not a thing
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On the other hand, roads are dirty, polluting, and occasionally kill your cat.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
How does that compare in dB to a road? PS: checked it out myself, from some light googling: Road decibel levels are about 55 dB (averaged over a day) for about 30% of the EU population. Wind turbines are supposedly 43 decibels if they are w
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by pasabagi 5y ago
To an extent, I agree: Hegel is subject to the normal waxing and waning of intellectual trends. On the other hand, I think really seismic shifts in faculty are generally driven by outside pressure - and the largest source of pressure, histo
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by pasabagi 5y ago
It was worse than that: in Doctor Strangelove, General Buck Turgidson was at least waiting for Truman's say-so before doing anything irrevocable. In real life, there's this anecdote about Curtis Lemay: SAC had reconnaissance airc
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by pasabagi 5y ago
My feeling is that before the Russian revolution, Marx was just the last of a long line of luminaries in the socialist tradition, a tradition that had almost never been a part of a government, had never commanded a great deal of support, an
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by pasabagi 5y ago
The analogy in my mind was somebody like Mark Fisher. In hard left circles, he's a common reference point, and terms like 'capitalist realism' creep into the left mainstream. Outside of those circles, he's an absolute un
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The way to square this particular circle is to note that the Russian revolution happened in 1917, and Marx went from being the bitchy jewish writer of an incredibly boring tome of economics called Capital (so boring that many countries didn
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I guess 'art' and 'techne' have had a great deal of semantic drift in the last few centuries. I think many contemporary artists live in a post-Beuys world where art is what artists do, and everybody is an artist. In this
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by pasabagi 5y ago
I don't think you're reading the question correctly: an 'art' can be any kind of creative activity, so obviously, programming is an art independently of whether anybody ever makes 'art' with it.
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by pasabagi 5y ago
1. It is, and has been for as long as computers have been available. My mum used an arts grant to buy a computer in like, 93', and taught herself programming. That's a pretty normal story for that generation. Earlier, many artists
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by pasabagi 5y ago
They had deep enough trade links that some refugee sassanid princes ended up being absorbed into the chinese nobility after the muslim consquest of persia.
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One troubling analogy would be occasionalism. Occasionalists believe that in order for cause and effect to work, God has to intercede. This rather elegantly deals with a whole load of theoretical problems around causal realism. If you were
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> We could never have closed our borders in a meaningful sense for any meaningful length of time I've been traveling in and out of the UK throughout the pandemic, and my observation is: - You don't have to close borders to
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Across the spectrum, too. Ian Bank's Culture series is a great big apologia for liberal interventionism, and he's literally a communist.

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