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by username332211 1y ago
I mean, yes. A country that maintains unnecessary employment in agriculture won't have the labor force to develop industry. Accumulated capital, will by necessity flow towards other countries, where factories can be built and staffed.
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by username332211 1y ago
So, the potato blight didn't have anything to do with the Great famine?
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by username332211 1y ago
Why does it make your skin crawl? By a mathematical necessity, half the people can say “Yes, most people are stupider than me." without lying.
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by username332211 1y ago
Ukraine is inflicting massively disproportionate losses. Meanwhile, Ukraine does very aggressive conscription while Russia mostly deploys volunteers and only resorted to reservists in 2022 in an emergency. It doesn't really add up, doe
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by username332211 1y ago
Never-mind that, there's every indication this one is in fact yet another bad one. The Taliban didn't return to power in Afghanistan, because the war was unjust according to international law, or morally repugnant or any of that.
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by username332211 1y ago
When it comes to rising fascism, the political mainstream that you so passionately defend and is currently having having apoplectic fits doesn't have the best record, does it? If you remember the 2000s, there was a great deal of conste
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by username332211 1y ago
Incentives have nothing to do with it. Until the community recognizes that other people have rights and that rights are rights precisely because you need no "community input" (which is an euphemism for "political interference
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by username332211 1y ago
Isn't the entire field of Islamic finance legal (moral?) loopholes that turn the haram into halal?
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by username332211 1y ago
> Based on the precedent at nuremburg, an international body can setup a tribunal to punish those crimes even against the will of the state in question. You do realize the precedent at Nuremberg (note the spelling), requires that the th
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by username332211 1y ago
That's a rather questionable interpretation of international law, I'm afraid. If a country A wages war on country B, A isn't normally bound by treaties signed by B. And in any case, even if the ICC's actions weren't
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by username332211 1y ago
Under international law, the United States is free to regulate it's commerce in any way they wish. If they declare it a crime to do business with the ICC, it's their right. The sanctions are completely legal. What's legally q
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by username332211 1y ago
How many billions would a major bank loose in a lawsuit, if they did the sensible thing and refused to deal with 3% of the population?
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by username332211 2y ago
It's all about the technical features of the platform. Twitter's design is less likely to encourage conformity, so you can find far more insane content in it, but it's also less likely to encourage people to pointlessly discu
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by username332211 2y ago
The feedback mechanism on Twitter allows you to find useful discussions of current affairs in less popular topics. Can you find a good discussion of current events in agribusiness on Reddit? No. On Facebook? No. But if you open up Twitter a
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by username332211 2y ago
Funny. The moral compass of most people on the internet tends to be disordered enough to make me think Something Awful must have been truly horrific. For far too many people "I have a moral compass" seems to mean "I don'
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by username332211 2y ago
It is precisely the opposite. A world where Karl Marx isn't responsible for millions of deaths is a world where the existence of intellectuals is ultimately pointless. There, a wise potentate could send philosophers into labor camps an
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by username332211 2y ago
England has 3 or 4 civil wars in it's history entirely focused on the matter of whether people should do as they're told and shut up. The usual result in those conflicts was a resounding victory for the "No" side. What&#
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by username332211 2y ago
Serfdom was fundamental to the Russian economy, but was abolished nonetheless. Alexander II forced the serfs to pay for their own freedom. The idea that no compromise was possible sounds somewhat absurd since America did end the civil war w
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by username332211 2y ago
They do have a point. If you look at history, Americans do seem to have a bizarre habit of turning everything into a great controversy. The British abolished slavery with a vote of parliament. The Russian emperor signed a decree, and freed
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by username332211 2y ago
Isn't it fairly obvious? The Spanish were conquering advanced urbanized civilizations. Seizing the cities and their people was the goal of the entire enterprise. The land was an afterthought. The British/Americans were settling
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by username332211 2y ago
Could you explain why the state railway of the Federal Republic of Germany uses dark UX patterns to annoy the user into agreeing or silently protests the perceived overbearing nature of the GDPR? Btw, I can dig up 3 dozen of other state ins
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by username332211 2y ago
So you think the GDPR isn't very complex. Let's put that to the test. I need to record names and address across the European Union. What character encodings are illegal for such fields in a database?
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by username332211 2y ago
Somehow, someway, I suspect basically every that operates in the EU has thought more about the requirements of EU regulations than the internet know it all's that insist the consent forms are unnecessary.
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by username332211 2y ago
Nevermind the bottle caps. The internet is borderline unusable without extensions like "I don't care about cookies". And in situations where you care about them, you can not , because something has to record that I've s
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by username332211 2y ago
> Metaphorically, farming can be far less life-sucking. Is it though? It's not like the repetitive work of milking cows or shoveling manure every day is any less of a drudgery than office work. And, if anything, farmers hereabouts s
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by username332211 2y ago
Deregulation is such a funny word. The California deregulation you are referring to, involved the powers that be pushing utility companies to sell their power plants. The current energy deregulation in the EU involves forcing utilities to t
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by username332211 2y ago
> So the major reason for studying it is coming up with a pattern that can be used in future work. Surely, reducing the infinite way in which polygons can be placed on a plane to a finite set, no matter how large, must involve some patte
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by username332211 2y ago
It's not even that bad of a system. The Roman Republic conquered the civilized world with a political system based on formalized clientelism. And anyone who's seen "honest" public procurement will see the benefit to a sy
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by username332211 2y ago
> Monopolies lead to no competition, leading to reduced innovation, economic stagnation That sounds smart, but is it actually true? How many of the things enabling the existence of this website are inventions made in the research institu
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by username332211 2y ago
Silly question, but how is the delivery of gold COMEX's problem? I was under the impression futures (and derivatives in general) represent an obligation of whomever sold the future contract. Why is the exchange responsible for deliveri

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