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by thriftwy 3y ago
> when he recently read that, in Moscow, they have shot a major film, in which the world is trampled underfoot by mechanical robots, driven by electromagnetic waves I wonder what's the IMDB id of that...
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I'm not sure why a back redistribution of wealth between Boomers and their children does not happen. In Russia you would be set for an absolute boomer domination, since they could privatize the apartments they rented from state after 1
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The big question is whether the antifragility described will actually apply to those kinds of anarchism. It is likely that non-violent anarchism will be actually so fragile that any disturbance will turn it to the regular, tried, violent ki
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by thriftwy 3y ago
They can use non-violent methods all right when both sides are armed, but when one is not, anarchy says that it will do what the armed one wants.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Anarchy also has much lower baseline density. You can have anarchy between tribes in the Amazon or Far North, but not in a metropolis. Be wary that many proponents of Anarchy may be the criminally inclined types, so they don't actually
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Why is that a problem? A great number of Russian mainlines are 25K AC, including Transsib branches. That does seem like a world standard for rail.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Is it not an airline? Thorougly confused .
578.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Cities do not, but city states do. Compare Venice with Monaco in that respect. Or Hong Kong, which is waning because of that lost sovereignity but is still very rich. Or Luxembourg. Or Qatar. It's just great to be a small self-containe
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by thriftwy 3y ago
No, it did not. What makes you think it did? > Its contemporary era began in 1819, when Stamford Raffles established Singapore as an entrepôt trading post of the British Empire. In 1867, the colonies in Southeast Asia were reorganised, a
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I believe that you are super wrong and Europeans were always present in Singapore in large numbers, even if they do not show up in citizenship numbers. They did before WWII and they certainly do now. Whereas these 20% non-Chinese cannot tur
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The hard part about a city-state is retaining its independence. Venice and Genoa got claimed by Italy, Athens became a capital.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
This is not moving the goalposts. The goalposts were the unsurpassed wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew. It is still a hipster bullshit if you ask me. Taiwan was 1.5x worse GDP-wise in 1960 and now the difference is 2.0x. That's not that much. Esp
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Would Singapore be a genuinely worse place to live if its GDP per capita would be "just" $35,000 instead of $70,000? It would probably have slighly smaller population, less economic regulation and more sustainability. So the diffe
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I would say the opposite - most of countries are more or less on the development level that their culture and geographic location permits, few countries are significantly below this level and fewer still are significantly above this level.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Even in this table, you see Taiwan and South Korea with same impressive growth as Singapore, and then you see Thailand and Malaysia that fare very well. And they all have the handicap of not consisting out of a metropolis entirely , since
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Singapore as a British port city on a small island was never a third world country. Before WWII it was already known as a major leisure, high life spot (as evident by Verinsky's 1931 "Magnolia"). It was surrounded by 3rd worl
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Singapore's population was mostly Chinese with some europeans, so it was way closer to South Korea culturally than to Cambodia.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The whole region was undergoing transition from developing to highly developed, Singapore just leads the way because it is a) very small and have nothing holding it back, and 2) has a great location and legacy. South Korea is way more impre
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The one before Yew's times was still a British colony port overlooking a critical shipping route. I'm not sure how such arrangement may not result in significant economic development. Hong Kong didn't have Yew but it had sign
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Then again, I don't think Malta has as many low paid temp workers as these ones Singapore imports from India, etc. Also the residences are likely not that tiny.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The issue for Ukraine that even it gets the same capacity, it will not exactly be able to bomb the Lancet factory in Elabuga. Russia can keep essential stuff out of range. That's also what it did in WWII.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I believe this is implemented in Russia: I did not check that but when I sign up for some streaming service, after some time they start begging me to watch something and then stop charging me. I guess they may only charge on the months when
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I thought that was the stealing of the Amber Room from Leningrad outskirts by Nazis. Needless to say it was never recovered. Perhaps it has burned in transit or in 1945, perhaps somebody else is enjoying it to that day.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The people of the ocean coasts has caused Holocene to end then promptly sunk themselves. Where's the revenge here? Just mind your own business.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Why would Iranians care abour other areas? When was the last time the rest of the world cared about them in a good way? Weather will become tropical all over planet, including Iran, which is likely too arid currently.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It is higly likely that end of Holocene will eventually make climate in Iran better in terms of arability.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Holocene is very important for countries with harge coastal cities, since these may submerge. Iran and North Korea would likely not care much.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Here's a short story AI wrote for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37055388
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by thriftwy 3y ago
When we still had Visa I did donate them here and there. And then they have decided to cancel my country, with editors bragging about "eradricating fascist media". Lost some money but got important life takeway. I also like how ev
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by thriftwy 3y ago
https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2009/10/29/fr... "Friedman space" is a short story by Viktor Pelevin describing more or less that. The gist of it is > in a parallel to the exi

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