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by simonh 7mo ago
I'd say the analogy is a closed door. It's not that it's impossible to go through it, but you have to do something specific in order to do so beyond just trying to go through, or you're going to walk straight into gettin
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by simonh 7mo ago
As against the Economy Deluxe.
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by simonh 7mo ago
Isn’t the Neo 13” as well? Also the iPad is usually closer to your eyes in use, so is effectively larger in terms of visual field.
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by simonh 7mo ago
Right, that may well all be true, but the capabilities it brings to the table could still be worth it. I'm not saying I know the answer, but it's a lot more of an open question than I thought it would be a few years ago.
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by simonh 7mo ago
I think that may be insufficiently factoring in energy costs. If energy costs a n order of magnitude or two more for an extended period, you just get a whole lot less economy generally, and therefore a whole lot less of everything an econom
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by simonh 7mo ago
I've had to eat some humble pie and moderate my assessment of the F-35. It still does have a lot of issues, for sure, but it turns out if you divide an eye wateringly large number by another impressively large number, the result can be
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by simonh 7mo ago
It wasn't necessary for it to happen eventually, but if eventually is several generations further down the line because it would have been painfully slow that's an important factor to consider. Slower industrial and economic devel
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by simonh 7mo ago
That's fair, and I understand these sentiments, but there is a pretty big difference between mistakes and deliberate illegal activity, or just not caring if something is illegal or not.
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by simonh 7mo ago
You really think Trump is capable of learning such a lesson? This isn't a 'they' situation, it's a 'him' situation. The cronies enabling him may well be cap[able of learning such a lesson, but their noses are t
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by simonh 7mo ago
Well, the Democrat apparatchiks that supported her. And the person, and his henchmen and enablers, that implemented these tariffs in the first place. Plenty of blame to go around, but to be fair there's a significant difference between
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by simonh 7mo ago
I suspect it's that phone and iPad screens do get dirty that way, but they're very easy to regularly wipe clean compared to a laptop screen, to the extent that it's not as noticeable that we're doing it.
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by simonh 7mo ago
I think it's also worth considering that taxpayer funded US government spending on health care is about the same as in a typical single-payer European country. Then many tax payers still have to pay for private health care on top, to a
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by simonh 7mo ago
How is that tax going to be assessed and by who? What constitutes a novel or a book over a set of well written notes? This whole idea is ludicrous, are we going to raid people's homes and audit their computers and notebooks to see if t
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by simonh 7mo ago
So of I write a novel and never publish it, how should its value be calculated? If what matters is actually revenue, well, revenue is already taxed when it’s incurred. Suppose there is no future revenue, do I get the tax back eventually?
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by simonh 7mo ago
And I think that makes sense because residences impose costs on local services. However if I write a novel aged put it on my bookshelf, or if I paint a picture ad put it on my wall, I’m not imposing a cost on anyone just because these might
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by simonh 7mo ago
I'm in the UK. Simply owning land does not incur taxes here, we don't have land value taxes. You pay capital gains tax on profits selling land. There are annual taxes on buildings such as council taxes on houses, specifically to p
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by simonh 7mo ago
Creators pay tax on their income. We all get legal protections for our property.
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by simonh 7mo ago
That was a very different situation. The USSR was still catching up in industrialisation, and despite its huge losses still had vast reserves of labour in the countryside to tap. It was much more like the process of industrialisation in Chi
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by simonh 7mo ago
The Soviet Union helped them build some research reactors, but they got the weapon tech from Pakistan.
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by simonh 7mo ago
True. I really don't know enough about it, but it may well be these functions are still there, after all I expect the relevant neurological systems are still there, but the impact on social cognition from autism render their effects ba
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by simonh 7mo ago
The the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) both play roles in this. Not a neuroscientist, just going on my own reading.
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by simonh 7mo ago
It also means that people are voting for party lists, not individuals, and the lists are controlled by the parties. In a proper parliamentary system the parliamentarians directly represent their voters, and have a mandate from them. Parties
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by simonh 7mo ago
The whole way the Judicial system in the US is beholden to politicians, and is thoroughly politicised looks completely horrific to me in the UK. Even the election officials responsible for overseeing voting are politicians. Combined with th
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by simonh 7mo ago
The brain actually has specific neurological system that compartmentalise reasoning contexts in different social contexts, so we operate according to different sets of assumptions and rules of behaviour and reasoning in different kinds of s
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by simonh 8mo ago
Trump has already started talking about taking over Iceland. Where's next? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yZA7A1fy8yelNvDK2aVesx24jak...
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by simonh 8mo ago
Threatened Europe and Canada with war.
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by simonh 8mo ago
AWS Outpost might be a reasonable compromise in some situations.
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by simonh 8mo ago
Because if they were serious about it, they'd have replatformed completely in 5 minutes.
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by simonh 8mo ago
His father who oversaw his education and possibly both parents, and Bentham that played a role in his education as well, would have known either Greek, or Latin or both as they were considered essential to a rounded education at the time.
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by simonh 8mo ago
I think the same effects can be achieved using subsidies, and I do accept such interventions can have legitimate justifications.

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