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by yks 2y ago
Pro-reserve argument such as it is, is that the day will come when the trading partners of the US government won't accept dollars BUT accept bitcoins/cardano/solana/whatever? The former is definitely coming on accelerate
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by yks 2y ago
One can hope. So far it seems that when it's about Ukraine, Putin/Trump supporters are all about "peace whatever the cost (to Ukraine and the US' soft power)", but when it's about Canada/Greenland/Pan
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by yks 2y ago
Against internal dissent and against the enemy of the day in the Western hemisphere (seems to be the plan).
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by yks 2y ago
I thought you guys were for free speech
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by yks 2y ago
> Any speech criticizing Trump You mean any wrong thoughts detected by the DOGE-issued mandatory Neuralink.
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by yks 2y ago
If the nation survives this insanity, the software will have to be rewritten from scratch, otherwise it is impossible to know which actors, both foreign and domestic, have the knowledge of the systems.
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by yks 2y ago
In the last few decades workers got the impression that there is some sort of a utilitarian reason or rationale behind the workplace practices or management approaches. After all there is research! Business schools! This facade has started
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by yks 2y ago
I thought so too until the invasion of Ukraine, but it's been increasingly hard to apply this narrow motivation to the world events of late. At least with regards to Putin and his inner circle — the outer oligarchy of Russia is of cour
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by yks 2y ago
Neither Russian elites nor masses care about “Russia doing better”, the fall of the West is the end in itself, presumably it will assert the greatness of Russia and their version of the end of history will ensue, while wealth of the masses
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by yks 2y ago
Russian nationalism/imperialism is a powerful drug that is hard for Russians to unchain their minds from. So even if the intellectuals don't like Putin, Russia becoming a client state of China or wars as such, most of them dislike
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by yks 2y ago
The premise is correct, but the trust in the executors is misplaced. One made money via government so there is a certain conflict of interest, another one is an ordinary American businessman with a questionable track record on the edge of e
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by yks 2y ago
It didn't even cross my mind until the very late teens that it might be possible for me to own a flat one day, the sums involved sounded not much different than a "gazillion dollars", but that particular future outlook defini
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by yks 2y ago
Ukrainian state of 1917-1921 is unfortunately missing on the map
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by yks 2y ago
One funeral at a time is true but “standing on the shoulders of giants” is also true and there is absolutely good science done without redoing all experiments since Newton, like there is a bad science standing on the sand hill of the other
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by yks 2y ago
Yes, therefore trusting or distrusting authorities is irrelevant. One can distrust authorities and do bad science, one can trust authorities and do good science, and other combinations.
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by yks 2y ago
> The essence of science is to distrust authority and received wisdom. This is not "the essence of science" by any means.
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by yks 2y ago
> can pay for childcare for every child in the US easily. It can also pay for unicorns and rainbows, what makes you believe "paying for childcare" has ever been a part of Trump/Republican agenda?
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by yks 2y ago
We have a potential future president who, putting it very charitably, espouses the ideology of "For my friends — everything, for my enemies — the law", and in the least surprising development ever, billionaires suddenly warm up to
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by yks 2y ago
> the US government clearly does not have their citizens interests first and foremost I disagree, Americans just vote for that. Yes, we can talk all day long about the two party system, winner takes all, the electoral college and unfairn
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by yks 2y ago
I am partial to that argument, at least in the interwar period the US masses and intelligentsia were enamored with the USSR for it was new and the atrocities were not widely known, so we got the New Deal. I don't think that applies to
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by yks 2y ago
> We saw in the cold war how the US system had to prove itself and that led to a strong taxation on the wealthy, good institutions, positive movement for the middle class, all to show the Russians that the US led system is the best. I do
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by yks 2y ago
If you believe that the progress is achieved when the masses have it the worst, then the deteriorating condition of the American middle class will naturally help it. What's the point in this accelerationism with allies as casualties th
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by yks 2y ago
Stepping back from enforcing post-WW2 world order means letting China, Russia, Iran to freely install their satellite and unfriendly-to-the-US regimes around the world, by force if needed. Which means access to the foreign markets will be c
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by yks 2y ago
> Americans get to be the suckers propping up the decent lifestyles of the rest of the western world and much of Asia and the ME America benefited greatly from this position though, it's just the gains have not been equally distribu
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by yks 2y ago
Fascists are lesser faction but if the society is bitterly splintered, they maneuver their way to power. For example, if a certain country has 2 major parties each supported by ~50% of population and no voter of one party can ever muster to
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by yks 2y ago
If your system is not getting replaced after your departure, it is likely your domain within the organization is just not attracting ambitious people.
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by yks 2y ago
I've been observing that coworkers hired through the modern formulaic leetcode/sd/behavioral loop are homogeneously competent in a specific way — if there is an agreement (aka "alignment") on what needs to be actual
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by yks 2y ago
It generally feels that the modern Western nations are ready to drop democracy for more or less trivial reasons, like moderately higher inflation (I'd go out on a limb and posit that it's inflation and its downstream effects that
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by yks 2y ago
Medical debt in the US is unlike other debt. Amounts are declared post-factum and a patient doesn't have total control over the process in reality. The most important and visible choice is whether the provider/facility is in-netwo
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by yks 2y ago
Last part is a trope but human societies around the world use different things as money, including counterfeit notes in Somali http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2013/03/orphaned-currency-odd-c... In fact I doubt gold&#

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