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by simonh 3y ago
I completely agree, the referendum was deeply misconceived from the start. I'm just pointing out that the electorate also have a responsibility to evaluate that and factor it into their decision. I certainly did. Blaming politicians, o
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Remainer here, but we lost fair and square. Politicians and campaigners definitely have a responsibility to be honest, but equally the electorate have a responsibility to inform themselves and make a reasonable judgement on the arguments ma
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The old meaning of liberal in the US has been superseded by neoliberal. I the UK we went from Whighs (economically liberal) versus Tories (land owning coservative), then Liberals versus Tories, then Labour (socialist) versus Conservatives&#
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by simonh 3y ago
They are. Apple Arcade is about at the point where it has enough great games that it might be worth it. Certainly it’s well worth paying for a few months to try them all out.
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by simonh 3y ago
It’s still a bit thin on top class games, but I still hold out hope for Apple Arcade.
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Thanks, that's great. After this amount of time I can't say what memories of seeing a plane impact is which tower. I suppose I must have seen footage of the second impact, I just know I didn't see it live.
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by simonh 3y ago
I didn’t see it live, it was on a news replay minutes after it happened. I remember thinking I have to tell my brother and my dad, but what will I say? It felt a bit like when you stub your toe and it doesn’t hurt yet, you know something ba
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It creates the impression that the tool can do something it actually can’t, or is good at something when it isn’t.
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You should see his marriage proposal. Joking aside, I worked for a big corporation once where our project manager's emails were literally blank, with the actual message in an attached powerpoint.
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Ive come across Zeihan and I know he talks about this stuff, but there are plenty of alternative sources for the same info. He's too absolutist for my tastes, he talks about China 'going away' due to demographics. That's
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by simonh 3y ago
I think what matters is generational experience, so there are always officers on duty that have combat experience. Since WW2 they've had the Korean and Vietnam wars, both Gulf wars and Afghanistan, plus numerous smaller operations. All
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I'm surprised they don't have them working yet. An Australian carrier was decommed a few decades ago and went to China for scrap. The Australians stripped most of it but left the steam catapults intact, and I know the Chinese were
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A few issues there. For an invasion of Taiwan numbers are important, sure, but it's a wide channel and amphibious assaults are absolutely the hardest kind of operation an army can attempt. Technical competence, and I would also argue o
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There’s no real way to evaluate the effectiveness of the Chinese military because they’ve not seen significant action in several generations. However that itself is not a good sign. As for their kit, Myanmar bought some of their planes but
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by simonh 3y ago
True, but being Catholic I can't help thinking that even though I don't think he cited it as an inspiration, the bible was a template on which his mythology is built. It's a monotheistic world with hinted fall from grace back
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by simonh 3y ago
All true, I think it’s important to bear in mind he was consciously writing mythology and fairy tales. I’m not a Catholic, but knowing his premise I’m quite happy to judge his work on its merits relative to his objectives. I’m reminded of t
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by simonh 3y ago
I don’t usually worry about misspellings, my spelling and typing isn’t great, but it seems like here particularly Site instead of Cite as in citing a source is painfully common.
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Whether a task is meaningful or meaningless depends on how we think about meaning. I tend to think about it in terms of correspondences between structures. Such structures are usually what we think of as information, so this comment has mea
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I don't have access to the article, but this sounds a bit like autocatalytic sets. Can anyone with access comment on that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocatalytic_set
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Do you think that all or most the crimes condemned prisoners in the US are currently convicted of actually rise to the level where you agree that it's appropriate? >The rest of the world is letting crime run rampant on their streets
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I have several reasons for opposing it. One is that being an irreversible punishment, it precludes any possibility of remediating injustices. There have been many cases where it seems highly likely or even proven that executed prisoners wer
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The problem was that a lot of the 'evidence' of a lab leak and genetic engineering of the virus was contrived, exaggerated misinformation. So if you want to exclude contrived exaggerated deliberate misinformation from your platfor
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>But China has now seen consistent and large outflows for the past 18 months, as investors grow wary of autocracies. Gosh, I wonder what happened 18 months ago to shake investor confidence in autocracies.
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In rich countries poverty is a moving target. Here in the UK the poverty rate now is about the same as it was in the 1980s, but the average purchasing power of people in poverty has doubled. That's about the same as it has for average
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This study takes into account home production and non-monetary income.
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This is a hardware emulator you can run the real Multics software on. However the hardware in question was built specifically for Multics, so in that sense it's emulating Multics hardware. This SO answer has a great take on the differe
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Evergrande sells apartments before they are built to fund construction, and the purchasers pay mortgages during the build. If the company has insufficient funds to complete ongoing construction, which gets delayed, purchasers stop paying th
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Since we’re off down a rabbit hole anyway, my favourite meetings of rival generals are those between Scipio Africanus and Hannibal. Once before the battle of Zama, and again years later in Ephesus when their military careers were behind the
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That’s basically arguing that the US has done bad things before, therefore this thing they are doing must be bad.
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The US has no interest in undermining the BAP, do you think they rather the Islamists get in power? Criticising and sanctioning brutal repression, and advocating democratic standards won’t undermine the BAP. As pointed out up thread, they’r

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