Emma_Goldman

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by Emma_Goldman 12d ago
OK, fair enough, Brexit generated a lot of political noise and was a bureaucratic headache. Not really the same thing as Trump's America though.
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by Emma_Goldman 12d ago
You write as if you have confabulated yourself into being Europe's official spokesperson. This is all a bit high-handed. I'm not really sure how you are comparing Trump's US - responsible for pulling out of the Paris climate
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by Emma_Goldman 13d ago
There's plenty of data on the clustering of high-functioning autistic workers in engineering and computer science, and the massively disproportionate share of autistic children with fathers and grandfathers in those fields. I work acro
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by Emma_Goldman 13d ago
The strong affinity between autism and intelligence seems strongest in technical fields, and engineering and computer science in particular. Autism does not seem to be over-represented to anywhere near the same degree in many other domains
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Could AI revive the socialist dream?(ft.com)
2 points by Emma_Goldman 18d ago|0 comments
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by Emma_Goldman 22d ago
It's true that all else being equal new power demand lowers the fixed cost per unit of marginal energy generated . But if the data centre requires new grid and storage capacity to handle its load and those fixed costs are charged to
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by Emma_Goldman 5mo ago
Why? Books are to be read, annotated, lived with and lent out, not treated as precious objects in a way that is completely orthogonal to their use-value.
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by Emma_Goldman 10mo ago
Is cacao production unsustainable? It seems the problem is the oligopolistic and exploitative price setting architecture for cacao. Pay farmers more, and supply will increase. One of the alt-chocolate alternatives mentioned here involve pal
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by Emma_Goldman 10mo ago
Lead and cadmium can stay in the body for decades, so it is a cumulative rather than an acute problem, I think.
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by Emma_Goldman 10mo ago
This is the main reason I don't frequently eat chocolate anymore. Dark chocolate is both the tastiest and lowest-sugar chocolate, but its cacao-intensity increases your intake of metals. If I recall correctly, however, the origin of th
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by Emma_Goldman 10mo ago
I use the app screenzen. It rations distracting apps and retrains you to use your phone as a functional device again. I now only use my phone for messaging, emails, maps and spotify, but can still access Chrome when I need. A perfect balanc
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by Emma_Goldman 10mo ago
It's reasoned conjecture on an internet message board. Yes, it is over-stated. But if one treats quality of diet as one variable among many in cognitive capacity, which is the only sane approach, then trying to match the diet of a popu
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by Emma_Goldman 1y ago
Why isn't that the current CfD / RAB models?
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by Emma_Goldman 1y ago
They approach environmental reporting like a campaign organisation, it's just not serious. Politically, I will never forgive the Guardian for the mendacious editorial campaign they waged against the Corbyn project. In general, the Gua
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by Emma_Goldman 1y ago
As a long-standing Guardian reader, I couldn't disagree more. It might be financially solvent, but the business model of the paper under the leadership of Katherine Viner has shifted to high throughput, low quality content vying for cl
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by Emma_Goldman 1y ago
Wikipedia is fairly reliable if our standard isn't a platonic ideal of truth but real-world comparators. Reminds me of Kant's famous line. "From the crooked timber of humankind, nothing entirely straight can be made".
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by Emma_Goldman 1y ago
Bizarre confabulation: the text you quote says nothing of the sort. They say the made one site, not to be confused with other, similar sites, and that the idea originates with someone else's tweet. Why jump to negative conclusions when
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by Emma_Goldman 2y ago
Ukraine's capital account has to offset its trade account or its currency tanks, and the state is in desperate for revenue, so however regrettable, this looks more like predictable economic arithmetic working itself out than a conspira
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by Emma_Goldman 2y ago
Less a scandal than the predictable outcome of a massive wartime trade account deficit, and faltering state revenues, that have to be made up via the sale of Ukrainian assets in the capital account paying out to the state? I am a socialist,
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by Emma_Goldman 2y ago
It's also the name of the most successful left-wing press in the English-speaking world: https://www.versobooks.com
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by Emma_Goldman 2y ago
The question of Palestine's admissibility to ICC proceedings was subject to a sophisticated legal review years ago, in relation to a former case. The gist of the argument can be gleaned from its sub-headings: Palestine is a State for t
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by Emma_Goldman 2y ago
I don't think this is right at all, a lot of intellectual forms of 'flow' necessarily involve incessant reflection, often through writing and re-writing, but also through conversation with self and others. Keep in mind that M
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by Emma_Goldman 2y ago
I'm curious if anyone could expand on the numbers here. Global data centres running at max capacity are estimated to require ~45GW of electricity. That's a lot, but not necessarily for the whole world, so it really depends on the
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by Emma_Goldman 2y ago
Well, that's the point in question. For its critics, the whole enterprise is a misguided sham. See Leif Wenar's stimulating recent piece, 'The Deaths of Effective Altruism', which sees SBF less as aberration, than sympto
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by Emma_Goldman 2y ago
The list of illustrative examples may be misleading you. It is a wide category. Look at the Nova classification, then look at the ingredients list of meat substitutes. There is no debate on this point. See also: https://www.thegu
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by Emma_Goldman 2y ago
Food, and therefore nutrition, is significantly more complicated than a ledger of macronutrients. In this particular case, I was getting at this: https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023-077310
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by Emma_Goldman 2y ago
How far is that from pre-existing products, like Quorn[1], which here in the UK is probably the main producer of vegan/vegetarian meat simulacra? The problem is that people don't like eating straight fungus, and so it is serially
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
"Criticism is no longer going to be practiced in the search for formal structures with universal value, but rather as a historical investigation into the events that have led us to constitute ourselves and to recognize ourselves as sub
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
> Cute Sorry, this is childish and you don't substantively respond to the core point. I am not going to waste my time.
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
I agree you should be paid properly. But I don't understand why, if the US has a privatised healthcare system, hospitals are not paying to train their own labour?

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