Ray20

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by Ray20 2mo ago
>anticipating danger and mitigating it and preparing for it becomes a full time job For most of humanity's history, these tasks weren't so labor-intensive. So, evolutionarily, perception of these tasks evolved as a form of rela
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by Ray20 2mo ago
> would be 10% of the total income, which at those income levels, would never be a priority. People vastly underestimate the subjective importance of the Internet for people. 10-20% of the total income seems like a very realistic figure,
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by Ray20 2mo ago
Look, I'm not suggesting we do anything bad to Americans and Europeans. Just let them pay their fair share to those they've driven into poverty. Or do you enjoy the suffering of billions of people working for less than 50 cents? A
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by Ray20 2mo ago
Isn't this natural for any "Social" ideologies? They imply a system of centralized redistribution, which implies a powerful repressive apparatus and an omnipresent surveillance system.
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by Ray20 2mo ago
> We should all just try to be like Denmark Wait, but doesn't Denmark have the strictest immigration policies in the entire EU? > they at the top or near the top of practially every metric. Happiness, corruption index, Gini, Qual
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by Ray20 2mo ago
They won't ignore it if Americans and Europeans agree to contribute their fair share to the well-being of all the people and stop hoarding all the world's wealth to themselves. A situation where the minimum wage in some regions of
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by Ray20 3mo ago
We have statistics on solar performance at the huge countries levels. And it shows that, in reality, we're talking about 20x overbuild. Not 3x and not even 10x. And there is no way around it. Wind and solar anti-correlation does not lo
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by Ray20 3mo ago
In fact, I think this is one of the main reasons that will make the widespread use of nuclear energy possible: once your neighbor have built a reactor, you begin to share with them all the risks associated with nuclear energy, but you recei
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by Ray20 3mo ago
> There just isn't $26T of money to buy this stuff. But there is. Like, it is less then GDP of US only
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by Ray20 3mo ago
I think it has something to do with the fact that the first company is better at spreading messages on the Internet than the other at building reactors.
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by Ray20 3mo ago
> We Europeans are very well aware that we need to strengthen our position in the world, both economically and militarily. It doesn't seems like this. It hasn't even been ten years since Europeans ridiculed Trump for making suc
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by Ray20 3mo ago
> this is absurd! Why? Сountries pass laws, companies that don't comply are fined, shut down, blocked, and their owners are prosecuted and imprisoned. That is how it works already, nothing new or absurd here.
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by Ray20 3mo ago
> How is it possible to make encrypted communication impossible? Illegal, not impossible
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by Ray20 3mo ago
Eh? Like in North Korea?
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by Ray20 3mo ago
> they are talking about the dangers of "chain migration" which is exactly what his family did to great success Where is the contradiction here?
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by Ray20 3mo ago
In fact, it's very easy to reason them to change their minds: 1. Take statistics from any of these excellent solar power plants for, say, five years time span 2. Find the worst week in terms of energy production in these statistics 3.
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by Ray20 3mo ago
> But is Yandex government owned? In fact, yes. Yandex is totally controlled by Putin's presidential administration. > What about Russians abroad that send money back home to their families It doesn't seem like a significant
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by Ray20 3mo ago
Our ability to do this is more of a fact. But the socialist distribution system completely destroys this ability.
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by Ray20 4mo ago
Yes, it's EXACTLY equivalent. If you read the works of the communists who implemented all of this, you'll find literally the same arguments about unjust wealth created by productivity gains of automation (mechanization).
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by Ray20 4mo ago
Do you think perhaps the totalitarian dictatorships perverted the communist aims of the proles perhaps just a little bit? No, I don't think so. From a historical point of view, everything is quite clear: after communists came to power,
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by Ray20 4mo ago
> it was far and away the broken incentives for reporting failures as successes to avoid immediate head chopping Actually, no. What you're describing is more of a part of the next stage, designed to solve the already existing proble
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by Ray20 4mo ago
This is a well-known affliction of democracy. Logically, it seems insane that people who live on other people's taxes have the right to vote. Officials, public sector employees, and anyone else who receives money from the government ra
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by Ray20 4mo ago
> unless automation taxes pay for it But this doesn't solve the problem in any way; it simply leads to production drop. I mean, this is literally the logic of every communist government in the 20th century. They had the same logic t
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by Ray20 4mo ago
Yeah, but they say it is because of weapons and climate change and not because of all of this
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by Ray20 4mo ago
I don't follow American politics very closely, but in the last election it was not Trump who came out with a racist platform, but his opponent.
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by Ray20 4mo ago
> it is fundamentally important that nobody has too much power > taking power away from the capitalist class An obvious and apparently irresolvable contradiction. Capitalist power is inherently anarchic and isn't power at all. It
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by Ray20 4mo ago
I don't understand the threat to the PC market. Prices haven't risen THAT much and are quite affordable. And if you look at the improved quality of upscalers (DLLS 4.5 for example), gaming is now more affordable than ever, despite
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by Ray20 4mo ago
It's much easier to steal from a small, weak, and inefficient economy. Therefore, the incentives are usually exactly the opposite: to make the economy worse so that it would be easier and safer to engage in corruption.
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by Ray20 4mo ago
> Hilariously the Ukrainians themselves saw the huge army on their border and told everyone it wasn’t going to happen and refused to build any defences. In terms of gaining political support, being a victim in the modern world is very ad
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by Ray20 4mo ago
> Climate change will accelerate that The climate is changing in a positive direction for farming. Farming is easier now than ever before. There's literally no chance of food shortages. Unless, of course, there's another attemp

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