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by roenxi 3mo ago
It can't be, because if that was the goal they'd just stop attacking. The strait was open until they sneak attacked Iran. Everyone seems to be in agreement that as part of a ceasefire the strait will open. Iran has shown no partic
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by roenxi 3mo ago
While I have no objection to long ranty posts - I write enough of them myself - as a matter of practicality I'm going to ignore most of it and stick to the questions to keep the walls of text under control. > You can look at that an
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by roenxi 3mo ago
> As in Quantitative Easing? I confess I don't understand it as well as I probably should, but I think it's cyclical? and inequality is increasing even when it is not happening? QE, inflation policy and the fairly regular bailo
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by roenxi 3mo ago
I'm still a bit lost on what the point of difference is. You seem to be saying that you've seen evidence that makes this "strawman argument" convincing to you, but you don't seem to accept that I've generally a
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by roenxi 3mo ago
> If wealth getting concentrated is so good, why not only allow one person to have everything? See how odd that seems? Isn't that fairly close to what we have now? I don't see any theoretical issues. Obviously if we literally m
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by roenxi 3mo ago
> Even your straw man version of this argument is pretty convincing to me... Wouldn't that make it not a straw man argument? It isn't an argument as pointing out an assumption that voting or committee can be better at allocat
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Although the argument does look fundamentally reasonable, I think its biggest weakness is it doesn't make an attempt to prioritise - yes taxes always make someone better off. So does wealth. A decision has to be made. Which is more val
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by roenxi 3mo ago
The major crime of media is misframing as opposed to being wrong. > The Economist was convinced by the false claim that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction The issue here is not whether or not the Iraqis had any weapons
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by roenxi 3mo ago
You're going to have to draw the meaning out a bit more for me, continuing with the assumption that "Americans" means the US then they score 69.8 vs a list top of 73.2. Given that the list sets out to compare the incomparable
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by roenxi 3mo ago
If you let yourself get taken advantage of by corporations the result is substantially higher median incomes [0]. I remain unconvinced that adopting an adversarial stance toward the people who are trying to give you real stuff is the best s
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Because it isn't very important and the more degrees of freedom the seller has the more likely they are to do something to make the whole process cheaper for customers. Although it does seem appropriate that everyone should know the pr
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by roenxi 3mo ago
They're sitting at the centre of a web of software services that coordinate some unreasonable amount of the internet. They've definitely done something right, California might be hosting one of the most impressive economic cluster
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Yes but ... knowing the answer to general knowledge questions isn't really an appropriate test of that. General knowledge sounds like it would be, by definition, things known to people of ordinary intelligence. So it could easily be th
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by roenxi 3mo ago
Well, no I think something subtly different. I think if you look at the quality of life in Czechia before and after Aero Vodochody went bankrupt it probably rose, all else equal. And the quality of the corporate governance would have been b
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by roenxi 4mo ago
> The free market fundamentally doesn't have a good response to this problem, excess capital is taken out of these companies during good times and then they run to governments seeking bailouts during bad times but governments don&#x
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by roenxi 4mo ago
It is getting to the point where I wouldn't trust experienced developers to merge code without AI review. The latest generation of models are getting pretty good.
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by roenxi 4mo ago
> If it were about truth alone, the person who is right could be content with being right... So... how would someone know if they're right? For starters, if we're going to be serious there are a lot of matters where there isn&#
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by roenxi 4mo ago
> Cost is not only relevant, it's paramount. Efficiency is only important insofar as it affects overall cost. Oh sorry, I thought you were talking about efficiency. Ok, what is the cost is for these plants? > A single full time e
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by roenxi 4mo ago
Is that relevant? The economics of nuclear plants doesn't have anything to do with efficiency as far as I'm aware, the fuel costs are relatively negligible. They can afford to be horribly inefficient if they can get economies of s
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by roenxi 4mo ago
Large scale production of commodity goods is generally more efficient. Which is why microreactors don't seem to have any inherent disadvantages. The efficiencies tend to kick in with the raw number of items produced.
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by roenxi 4mo ago
Why would microreactor concepts not be suitable for commercial use? History is overwhelmed with examples of large, rare and expensive tech being produced in small cheap packages and becoming massive commercial successes that make the old w
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by roenxi 4mo ago
In fairness, the evidence is that people already pretty firmly against things like chat control and the will to push it through tends to come from the political circles more than popular belief it is a good idea. I expect that if the measur
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by roenxi 4mo ago
> It can also reduce ambiguity when negotiating with an employer who is unwilling or unable to respect their liability. I'm don't think your comment supports your conclusion. Your comment explains that employers are capable of
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by roenxi 4mo ago
That seems to be a topic that isn't related to my comment or the legislation. Although I am happy to observe that if you sign something you are taking responsibility for signing it.
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by roenxi 4mo ago
Then there's something that they should actually legislate - before taking someone on as an employee there needs to be a written document outlining what the responsibilities of each side of the relationship are. And if the regulator wa
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by roenxi 4mo ago
I'm just going off the summary document [0], but the law doesn't seem to require any particular working hours. It just says people should stick to them once they've been agreed. That's already implied by having working h
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by roenxi 4mo ago
Our values are murderous, I wouldn't want to be visited by aliens that shared out values. A galactic version of human society would quite reasonably identify that earth couldn't fight back then special interests would have our pla
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by roenxi 4mo ago
I'm not seeing any predictions here that there is a problem with the ozone layer. The citation for the wiki quote you include seems to be saying that they still expect improvements in the ozone layer vs the present because we have made
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by roenxi 4mo ago
> The reason you never hear that is because waste and fraud are very low in reality. That’s why this made the news. It’s uncommon. Fraud might be relatively rare, but we hear about waste constantly and it isn't newsworthy because a
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by roenxi 4mo ago
I'm quite happy to read literature, typically what happens when I do is I come away with the impression everything is pretty good. If you've found something that is actually going to be a problem then you're the first person

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