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by roenxi 1y ago
And would you accept then that capitalism as an ideology is no longer implemented anywhere? Because there aren't many modern nations more capitalist than the Dutch. And those that arguably are are only marginally more capitalistic. Lik
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by roenxi 1y ago
The average person lives in a city where they don't interact with nature, aren't near nature and aren't particularly affected by nature. People aren't argumentative about it but their choices suggest that on balance, the
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by roenxi 1y ago
>> > And is the argument there that the Dutch no longer practice capitalism? > Who is saying that? Nobody. Well a few comments ago you had that throwaway that the social democrats were less blood-steeped than the capitalists. Th
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by roenxi 1y ago
During that time the number of new species will be approximately equal to the number dying out though. Otherwise the re-population would be rapid. The reason it takes millions of years in that case is because the two rates generally pretty
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by roenxi 1y ago
I dunno, my read on Ukraine is it looks like the Ukranians are feeling their way toward some sort of a collapse. They haven't been able to stabilise the frontline, there was that discussion of lowering the mobilisation age earlier this
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by roenxi 1y ago
My understanding based on the reports out of the military-industrial complex is that the decision over whether Taiwan falls sits pretty much entirely with the decision makers in Beijing. There isn't much the US can do about it. If they
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by roenxi 1y ago
Just to ask the obvious question - if China has the ability to threaten the US War [0] supply chain, would it make sense for the US to adopt a more peaceful strategy? The Chinese seem to be slowly building up a dominant position without the
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by roenxi 1y ago
And is the argument there that the Dutch no longer practice capitalism? They are one of the major names in the history of the limited-liability stock corporation, we've already had the VOC invoked in this thread. Pretty easy to see tha
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by roenxi 1y ago
Article says they're using coal to power the data centres. I've not yet heard of anyone going with coal for ideological reasons. Maybe we've entered an exciting new age for that, but the solar people have a long history of ba
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by roenxi 1y ago
There isn't any evidence that they could do what Keynes was suggesting they could. I thought he was making the comment after the war, but I just looked at the date again and realised they were in the middle of WWII at the time! They mo
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by roenxi 1y ago
> Species usually go extinct at a rate at which new diversity can take their place. That is just a mathematical truism. If all species died tomorrow and only humans were left we'd still hit an equilibrium where species were going ex
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by roenxi 1y ago
> I mean for every two tons of produce we produce today, we produce one ton in this scenario. What do you think that looks like for our country? Well, the ~33% of food that gets wasted in the US would probably need to be handled a lot mo
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by roenxi 1y ago
> We will be extinct a large number of species on the planet at this rate, likely 50% or more 99.9% of species are already extinct, the fossil record is huge. I get that people don't like change, but species going extinct doesn&#x27
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by roenxi 1y ago
If we look at a map of places where Socialist Democratic parties are active [0, 1] it actually looks like a map of people who generally have pretty terrible living conditions for the poorest in society. Mainly because it covers most of the
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by roenxi 1y ago
> ...So now a lot of us that were in that position are getting drawn in and being like, no actually the impoverishment that has always been the underbelly of capitalism... What, because we have this alternate system where the underbelly
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by roenxi 1y ago
It is a good quote, but the article you link actually undermines it slightly. Keynes' words are relying on a non-expert in construction being confident that construction is easy despite the fact that the systems we use to measure cost-
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by roenxi 1y ago
Oh sorry, if I'd registered the change of name I probably wouldn't have commented. But since I'm here anyway... It is the internet, some number of people are always going to misunderstand any comment. If you don't get it
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by roenxi 1y ago
Well that is progress because now you're attributing something to me that is close to what I do believe, which is poor people who gamble probably are poor because they make terrible financial decisions. I mean, you linked an article
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by roenxi 1y ago
Just putting it out there that I have a better grasp of my opinion than you do. Let me try this a different way. Which part of your comment do you think I don't know about/disagree with and, with reference to something I said, why
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by roenxi 1y ago
> Your opinion seems to be... I'd be impressed if you can link that back to something I said, I don't think my opinion is that at all. I haven't said anything about poor people, for example. If someone has enough money tha
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by roenxi 1y ago
Sure, seems likely in a lot of cases. But if the starting point is talking about someone who makes chronically irrational decisions then life is going to seem a bit hopeless. The issue isn't as much they're giving up as it is that
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by roenxi 1y ago
I think it is worth saying that those two impacts were smaller and the same size as 2024 YR4 (which is ~60m diameter) respectively. It is interesting to look at impact structures [0]. Note the highly suspicious correlation of impacts and pl
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by roenxi 1y ago
> It’s reflective of people losing hope in the system’s ability to make their lives better. Broadly speaking I probably agree with their conclusion. But they really should consider savings and investment before donating their money to a
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by roenxi 1y ago
Although we should notice the other side of that - managers that don't have an explicit onboarding where they lay that algorithm out for their reports are doing a terrible job. It is literally 3 lines. Lay it out at least once. Maybe
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by roenxi 1y ago
They haven't put ads in ChatGPT yet as far as I know. It doesn't really make sense to work off the raw revenue before they put the main revenue-raiser in. Search isn't a very impressive money maker either if we take AdWords o
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by roenxi 1y ago
Couple of years ago I'd look at those Chinese-text diagrams and feel sad and isolated because they represent knowledge that is too foreign for me to read. Nowadays it may as well just be another piece of well-written technical document
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by roenxi 1y ago
> Part of the problem of modern society is that statistical murder of thousands is treated as less of a crime than a normal murder of one person. Society is actually quite consistent on that point (unfortunately). The body doing the stat
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by roenxi 1y ago
I dunno, is it? In what sense are you comparing the centralisation of the two countries? The US is pretty centralised. Around 40% of its spending is via the government and of the balance a lot of the decision making is controlled by the gov
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by roenxi 1y ago
Nothing wrong with deliberation and listening to stakeholders. Great idea. The issue is the centre-left voters keep asking these institutions to take on more power, channel more funds and veto more projects [0]. I don't see how else th
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by roenxi 1y ago
> Concepts that have a strong theory behind them tend to last longer. The programming paradigms (functional, imperative, declarative) as implemented generally don't have strong theories behind them. We have no sharp line to detect w

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