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by pasabagi 4y ago
Interesting: why are they bad, and why are they so expensive? I would have thought it would be the one or the other. GPS guided drones, for example, are like under a hundred bucks, so I don't get why a GPS guided shell should be litera
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Lets say you want to contribute to military theory, you feel like you have some good ideas, but you think tactics means the broad goals you mean to obtain with your 'strategy', which is your low-level techniques you used to achiev
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I guess contemporary history of philosophy is kind of a modern product, so it makes sense that it might have been used in a different way back in the day. A lot of historical rationalists considered themselves empiricists, and vice versa. I
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Rationalism != Rational. Putting an ism on the end of the word makes it a new word. Also, computation is still used in the sense you described. PS: I'm not sure if it's gatekeeping to expect people who are interested in something
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Wait, I'm getting confused between the two senses of 'rationalism' here. My guess is that contemporary 'rationalism' doesn't actually descend from any explicit philosophical tradition, just because if you read
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Rationalism is an important term in exactly the field they are supposed to be interested in. And they're using it in more or less the opposite of its conventional sense. I guess it could be just really perverse usage, but I figure it&#
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I guess 'rationalism', as a name, calls a certain kind of person out of the ether: 1. They like rationality, and feel it's opposed by 'irrationality'. 2. They want to be part of some 'rational group'. 3. T
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by pasabagi 4y ago
It's also the same the other way around: a lot of male anti-racism activists / communists / etc were very sexist. Some still are. I still think it's nice that feminists are, today and historically, generally ahead of the
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by pasabagi 4y ago
> But pro-BLM is not the same thing as anti-racism, as I noted. I guess for me the BLM movement goes back to the roots of the struggle for civil rights in the west. The west has always had this tension between a strong history of formal
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by pasabagi 4y ago
My guess is the only reason why Europe has a more sophisticated discussion about race and racism now than it did in the 50's is because of American influence. I say this as a European. There simply are not the sizeable minorities in
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by pasabagi 4y ago
A commercial company founded by pirates! The incident seems actually pretty typical to me. There's often an element of provocation, a degree of legal ambiguity, often a degree of moral ambiguity about the laws themselves (extraterritor
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I guess the level of public knowledge about the British Empire is really very low. I just found out the other day that British gunboats shelled Wanzou district in the 1920s, killing anywhere between a handful to about a thousand people (dep
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by pasabagi 4y ago
> new cases and deaths were at some of the highest levels. Cases are high, deaths are not. Please go look at some graphs. If you print them off, then mark with pencil the dates when lockdowns occurred in your region, you will probably no
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by pasabagi 4y ago
As a long-time Musk hater, I can tell you, I don't hate the player, I hate the game. I hate that, for a while, the most powerful man in the world (Trump) and the richest man in the world (Musk), were both essentially Twitter trolls wit
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I think the goal of Russia (or more specifically Putin's inner circle) is basically great power roleplay, and as a part of that roleplay, they have to have some kind of grandiose geopolitical objective. When it comes to actual real pow
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Well, the october revolution, even if it was a coup, was a coup against mostly other marxists (actually, the mensheviks were more orthodox). I think there are two dimensions in which marxism, whatever your politics, will never be useless. F
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I guess there's a traditional division between 'really existing socialism', which is often messy, and marxism as a body of work for understanding society. One observation I would make is that, for a social revolution to occur
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I've heard the general-in-the-front thing is just Russian military culture. They lead from the front. That has advantages and disadvantages: one of the disadvantages is that generals get killed. For instance, they lost a fair few high-
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Is this surprising? The standard marxist account of nationalist revolution is that they are an attempt by local elites (the national bourgeois) to outmaneuver foreign elites. You see the same thing all over the place (even, perhaps, Ukraine
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by pasabagi 4y ago
> nobody in the world cares about US seizing Russian USD It's a sovereignty issue. Countries don't like to give other countries substantial leverage over them if it's possible to avoid it. That said, I think the seizures a
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by pasabagi 4y ago
The liberalism / leftism divide is actually a return to traditional terminology that dates back to post-revolutionary French politics. Leftists essentially want answers to the 'social question' (welfare) while liberals essent
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I guess the thing that weirds me out about this is not that 'special rules' are applying: if you look at history, they often do. Rather, it's just such a mistake. We're moving in a multipolar world where the US's pr
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by pasabagi 4y ago
You don't believe, and in fact nobody believes, that the exclusive reason for charging Assange with the hacking charges is that he's a hacker. It's obvious to everybody that he is being charged because of legitimate political
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by pasabagi 4y ago
> I've read the allegations. If the allegations are true, he's guilty of hacking. This is kind of interesting. To me, it seems convenient to the point of being totally unbelievable that the person who leaked evidence of US war
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Are all weapons by necessity a bad thing? One weapon that comes to mind is the anti-tank missile. Without these weapons, tanks would be essentially invulnerable to light infantry. That has implications for anybody fighting a war of resistan
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by pasabagi 4y ago
> its not like we're getting 2012 US Midwest levels of drought in back-to-back years (now THAT would be a crunch). I got a shiver down my spine just reading that sentence. Please do not tempt fate. We just had the hottest year on
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Isn't that more mechanization, not less? Aside from the no-till/permaculture stuff (which has been around for decades now, and has never seemed to take off), what you are talking about is ultra-automated, extremely centralized far
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Does he go on to discuss Hindenburg? The problem for his argument, obviously, is that Hindenburg was the president of the Wiemar republic for the ten or so years that were the meat of the Nazi's rise to power, and he was far more of a
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Do you know if there's a board out there with two hdmi outs? If you want to make anything with two screens, it seems like the RPi4 is the only option.
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I used to be sympathetic to this line of argument, but I'm no longer so sure. Organic farming has lower yields, so to feed the same number of people, you'd have to bring more land under cultivation. That would presumably outweigh

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