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by woooooo 2y ago
I was under the impression the US was in the drivers seat rather than reacting, Bretton Woods being in New Hampshire and all..
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by woooooo 2y ago
If we're going full Mao, we'd be remiss if we didn't note that their plan for industry during the cultural revolution was "the proletariat will own small smelting operations next to their house". It checks out ideo
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by woooooo 2y ago
Dead is dead but for how long? If you hunt, you know when the animal died and presumably cleaned it promptly. It didn't bake on the pavement with all its guts inside for hours or days.
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by woooooo 2y ago
RFK Jr brought roadkill home to cook and eat multiple times. Occam's Razor says he is a crank.
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by woooooo 2y ago
The early industrialization 5 year plans actually worked better for the Soviets than the Chinese, and I think it comes down to execution? Stalin being the more numerate psychopath? The last 30-40 years it's different, the Chinese have
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by woooooo 2y ago
If you're in a toxic environment where people will hear that and start looking for culprits.. then yes, accidentally.
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by woooooo 2y ago
I'm saying that the people who employ illegal immigrants tend to be republican small business owners. They're not a majority of republicans but they are the heart of the party in the way educated professionals are for the dems.
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by woooooo 2y ago
The republican core of exurban/rural ownership class benefits far more directly from immigrant labor than the liberal professional class. Professionals might have a housekeeper or get their lawns done, but they're not employing a
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by woooooo 2y ago
Counterpoint there would be Mao. Lots of fear and starvation, less impressive results until Deng started fixing things.
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by woooooo 2y ago
Not sure if you realize, but the federal budget is already public and anybody can FOIA additional details..
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by woooooo 2y ago
They're OK on civil liberties and foreign wars, typically, so at least they're consistent with an ideology over pure partisanship.
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by woooooo 2y ago
I mean, they got involved for United Fruit Company..
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by woooooo 2y ago
Not in the article, but I've read that the way C does pointers, a single address with length implicit, makes it hard for compilers to assert that 2 arrays don't overlap/alias and this is an obstacle for generating SIMD instru
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by woooooo 2y ago
The constitution applies to American users and to non-Americans on American soil. It's not like the cops can execute you for being here on a tourist visa.
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by woooooo 2y ago
I'm struck by the complete lack of confidence in statements like this. We've got the whole world wearing blue jeans and listening to our music, mostly communicating on our tech platforms. English is the default language for inter
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by woooooo 2y ago
Not denying any of your comment but there are also geographic features? Even with perfect funding and management, it would still be the northeast funding the rest of the country for amtrak, right?
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by woooooo 2y ago
You still have millions of people in Gaza and Lebanon who got bombed by Israel. Whether it's the existing groups or new groups going forward, the grievances are still there and bigger than ever. Let's wait a few before we decl
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by woooooo 2y ago
There's also the signaling and red meat factor for politicians. Easy headline to be "tough on china", requires less explanation than pacific trade deals.
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by woooooo 2y ago
And if you can't quickly find a racist comment to confront but you still really want the confrontation? That's when we get debates about blacklist or master vs mainline.
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by woooooo 2y ago
Also, conservative feature adoption works in the long term. Scala mainstreamed a bunch of concepts that java was slow to adopt, but the end result was java only took the good ideas and didn't take the bad ideas.
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by woooooo 2y ago
Worth noting also that dividends aren't uniquely taxed. Worst case, they're taxed the same as income, but they can also be capital gains which are taxed at a lower rate. So any talk of incentives should include a justification of
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by woooooo 2y ago
All of that self-dealing is still in the context of development projects, rather than military and paramilitary interference. Would you rather have imperfect, corrupt development projects or the CIA fucking your shit up and definitely not b
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by woooooo 2y ago
The UK at their peak and also Russia, twice, tried the "normal colonial route" in Afghanistan..
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by woooooo 2y ago
On Medicare's time horizon, losing money funding those residencies for 10-20 years actually could be a great deal if it bends the cost curve.
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by woooooo 2y ago
You don't think lack of liquidity, small number of transactions etc casts some doubt on the "true value" of those shares? Did they really go from some big number to some small number in an eyeblink with this latest transactio
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by woooooo 2y ago
For one important example, the battle of Midway was a close thing even with the intelligence they had. Execution matters.
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by woooooo 2y ago
The tweet that TFA was reacting to specifically called out soft social science citations, where it's often someone else's "vibes" being presented as incontrovertible fact because it's a citation.
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by woooooo 2y ago
I found a paper when I deepdived after reading "A deepness in the sky" but I couldn't find it just now, sorry. IIRC, it had to do with taking a velocity hit at like 0.9c and then the best you can do is send that atom out at 0
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by woooooo 2y ago
That makes it sound like they're slapping "AI" on preexisting codegen tools.
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by woooooo 2y ago
Most hard sci-fi breaks the rules too unless it's strictly near future on earth with no space stuff. Ramscoops don't actually work, you lose velocity collecting the mass. Everything else is subject to the tyranny of the rocket eq

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