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by rayiner 4mo ago
Eating meat. Changes in moral perception generally are downstream of changes in technology. E.g. the modern conception of women being equal participants in the economy arose alongside the growth of the knowledge economy, where your average
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It’s ironic that the civilizations that directly contributed to us sitting here believing in egalitarian democracy, get far more hate for it than the ones that never evolved into egalitarian democracy at all. We are standing on the shoulder
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The U.S. isn’t a counter example, it proves my point. People call the Trump GOP “far right.” But Trump abandoned the Bush GOP’s project of privatizing social security and promised not to touch Medicare. And Trump eliminated taxation of soci
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> The public’s life is getting worse while these companies consolidate power using data they stole from the public How can you “steal” public information?
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This is why I don’t understand the concerns about “our AI overlords” monopolizing all the gains from AI. It doesn’t seem like there’s much of a moat around the models themselves. So the race is mainly about compute. But compute is subject t
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Fox wasn’t! That’s what made the Times worth reading! It was center-left people being objective to the best of their ability. So you could use it as a neutral-ish default, the check out Fox for any stories or angles the Times had overlooked
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How can they make any money on this?
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No, too much emotion.
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Yes, i’m just elaborating on OP’s point. The US system is different and basically more optimistic on the front end.
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Isn’t this just a bet that I’ll have an AI data center in my iPhone within 10 years? Why is that a bad bet?
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The article gets six paragraphs in before starting to discuss the actual legal issue. No bueno! Better summary: https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/landor-v-louisiana-departme... Here’s the missing context. Congress has c
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Definitions must be consistent with each other. Conventionally, “right” means more capitalist and “left” means more socialist. To be consistent with that existing definition, the “far right” would be the folks trying to privatize social sec
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> This is obviously an issue that the far right continually talk about. That’s labeling. Neoliberals coined the term “far right” to refer to a group that to the left of the conventional right on economic issues. > increasing the salie
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In theory it’s based on whether the owner of the company intended to run it under capitalized in an effort to shirk liability.
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Not quite. In the US this condition is handled at the back end. Running a corporation or LLC without sufficient capitalization can be grounds for piercing the liability shield in a lawsuit.
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Try this one: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mgkd93r4yo What i’m describing is literally how the Danish left got back in power. In the UK you’d need someone in Labour at least as aggressive as Fredrickson: h
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It does work. It’s exactly what happened in Denmark: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mgkd93r4y . But you have to actually mean it and follow through on it. People need to believe the party has genuinely changed
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> Rather, hopefully, Iran will be to the US what Turks were to Byzantium The Turks conquered Byzantium (and India, etc)?
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The U.S. is simply one of the developed countries where right wing populism has grown in response to mass immigration. If center-left folks flipped on immigration, the current right wing populism would collapse, just like happened in Denmar
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The idea of a unified, secular India was an elite notion imported from the west that elides how much sectarian animosity there was and is among ordinary people. I’m a fan of this essay on India that addresses this disconnect: https:/&
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Yes, India is a rather artificial construct imposed by the British.
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In 2026, it’s a huge boon to India to not have Pakistan within its body politic. It’s like having broken up with a finance who ended up becoming a self destructive addict. Same for Bangladesh, even with all the people who died in the indepe
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No it wouldn’t. The empire sapped Rome and destroyed its democracy.
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“Failure to integrate” is one way to describe the Goths sacking Rome. But I agree the barbarians did them in at the end. My point was that the Iran fiasco is more like the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, where Rome backed off after taking a
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The two things are related because maintenance of the empire imposes demands on the domestic political and economic structure. Look at the domestic politics during Vietnam and the GWOT.
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The economist was a strong supporter of the Iraq War, and reiterated that in a retrospective 2003 article citing its earlier articles: https://home.uncg.edu/~jwjones/world/readings/economist.html “The threat
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Rome took some unexpected Ls against the barbarians too. Didn’t change the trajectory of the empire.
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It wasn’t just the GOTW. It was much of the 20th century from World War I onward. Each step led to further centralization of government, a larger and larger security apparatus, and more and more foreign entanglements. We are more or less re
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I seem to recall the Economist wholeheartedly supporting the Iraq War. Am I wrong?
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Calling it the “partition of India” makes it seem like it was imposed on India rather than being a product of the 1940 Lahore Resolution where Jinnah led calls for a separate Pakistan. And in retrospect, it was a huge boon to India and Bang

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