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by throw_pm23 2y ago
As another European it amuses me that Europe cannot give up this smug attitude and keeps looking at the US in such a condescending way. Meanwhile Europe has been in freefall for a decade and nobody here seems to notice.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Why do they need an IMF loan? (that's typically a sign of the economy not doing great)
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
It's sad that papers in this area are so standardized in format though. Some of the classic papers break every convention and are written in very idiosyncratic ways. I want to read papers that can be enjoyed slowly and that change my l
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Because it is not allowed to give the true answer, which is considered harmful by some.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
But did this beat the censorship though? It actually said what an Oxford student could plausible say. So it is not "his opinion", he does not "endorse it", etc. I find this to be different from saying it "with convi
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
It may be because there are rarely such simplistic rule-based lessons. To your example, nationalism could be a great emancipatory force in one century and an instrument of great suffering in another. If there is some takeaway, then it must
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
You are very wrong w.r. to communist block. Women's participation in medicine (and other intellectual professions) was generally high, possibly higher than in the west.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
OK, I'll bite. How is selling shitty coffee in large quantities a good example of either software or hardware excellence?
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Or when Kennedy said in Berlin "ich bin ein Berliner" reading from a cue card that said "bear-leaner" :)
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Software is unfortunately a side-project for most auto makers :)
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
> (That probably means don't have a fishing photo, even if you enjoy fishing!) not a good start to a relationship :)
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Indeed, you are right, but the analogy is not perfect. More like you first say it could have been terrorism and it turns out that it was one of the shopkeepers who did it and then it is not clear what to call it.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
I think you are strengthening the point of the parent poster. It was called hybrid walfare as long as someone else was suspected and was no longer called that after it became known who did it.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
And even from the last week being quite selective: omitting for example, the ending of a terrible war that killed 50k+ civilians with a negotiated ceasefire.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Who are Apple, Android, Samsung, etc. in this analogy?
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
To me that was his movie that made most sense. It seems a perfect allegorical depiction of what it means to have bad conscience.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
My favorite is Lost Highway. And here's what I think it is "about": unbearable remorse.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
It is a tradeoff though, crop yield is one thing, but most of the produce from the NL is bland, tasteless, full of chemicals, something that would have been considered unsuitable for human consumption earlier, and achieved at a cost of grea
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
one can describe the situation and its causes without prescribing solutions
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
The "surplus houses" are not just in Detroit but also around Central Park, NY, where people buy them as investment.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Joke aside, I've known many people throughout the years who ended up at one of the big tech companies. All very ambitious and smart people, very diverse. Only those that went to Facebook (Meta, whatever) all seem to have a certain pers
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Isn't Russian the native language of Zelensky as well? You may be reading too much into it.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
That's a great point -- in addition, some facts are less consequential than others. For example, if I go around believing that the Earth is five-thousand years old, it may not affect me negatively at all (unless I'm a geologist or
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
I almost always wish that in almost every regard :)
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
This is like saying that smoking and alcohol consumption is the future, so better get kids to start doing it as early as possible.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
The Gervais principle is one deep rabbithole on this topic: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
If you have seen the sound of music a few times, you will surely enjoy Slavoj Zizek's brief analysis of it :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiTum8eQ51E
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Sure, the more recent, the more I hate it.
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
No, he was the weirdo. The fact that something is common does not make it normal. If you walked around Hong Kong in the 1880s you'd think you are a weirdo for not smoking opium all day. There will be a similar rude awakening after the
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by throw_pm23 2y ago
Yes, I try to avoid tech to the extent possible. The joy I find in things is inversely proportional to the amount of tech they involve.

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