alephknoll

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by alephknoll 2y ago
> Democracy / constitutional republic is an option for highly intelligent and engaged population. Democracy works best when the population is dumb, scared and disengaged. > Without democracy, revolts just result in more revolts b
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by alephknoll 2y ago
> Those who wrote the characters of Noah and Manu probably had same ancestors or the story travelled between Levant and Indus region. They can't have the same ancestors because one is of aryan lineage and the other is of semitic lin
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by alephknoll 2y ago
It was just a simple observation. You are reading into things too much. There's no need to be so defensive. Your comment hasn't upset me in the slightest ( rationally or irrationally ) and I sincerely hope you weren't offende
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by alephknoll 2y ago
Do you have regret? Ever asked yourself why did I do drink coffee just before bed. Have you ever played a game and thought if I do this, then my opponent will do that, so maybe I shouldn't do that. Have you ever had a meeting or interv
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by alephknoll 2y ago
Google workers protest China contract. Sentiment of top comments : 'If you work at Google and you have participated in this protest: Thank you.' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17776276 Google workers protest
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by alephknoll 2y ago
By that criteria, everything is a failure. After all, it's the job of the proponent to oversell you on things.
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by alephknoll 2y ago
So does israel. Will politico write a hit piece about that as well?
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by alephknoll 2y ago
> After banning TikTok people will naturally start to wonder about regulating Facebook and other social media and this would be a good thing. It's not 'people' demanding anything. It's the elites. Why would the elites
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by alephknoll 2y ago
> Russia is a minor player compared to China, a distraction that was welcomed by China with open arms as it helps divide and weaken the West. How does that follow? The war united the west, not divide it. > China is the only one actual
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by alephknoll 2y ago
It's the same thing as banning. It's banning via a different method. It's more of a ban than china 'banning' US social media for refusing to follow chinese laws within their own country.
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by alephknoll 2y ago
Nothing has to push them. These countries want to go nuclear. The only thing preventing them is the threat of american intervention. Japan and South Korea had secret nuclear programs that we put a stop to. Canada, Brazil and Mexico will nev
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by alephknoll 2y ago
For the same reason this post was flagged. Israel. Did you really have to ask? Hard to imagine google workers protesting russia, china or saudi arabia being flagged.
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by alephknoll 2y ago
Or they could take the easier and less conspiratorial route and control government by controlling intelligence? Governments act based on intelligence. Intelligence determines who we go to war with, what surveillance measures we need and wha
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by alephknoll 2y ago
"Easiest" is probably entering illegally and signing up for the military.
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by alephknoll 2y ago
The point of H-1B is to lower wages. Not to stabilize them. It's a way to increase supply of labor which puts downward pressure on wages.
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by alephknoll 2y ago
You can have a 2-3-4 right triangle if you can find the right axioms for it.
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by alephknoll 2y ago
> I have sympathy for news publishers Why? They are the most spoiled, privileged and entitled group out there. Not only did they force google, facebook, etc to give them preferential treatment in search/algorithm/etc, now they
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by alephknoll 2y ago
> Which is why the south fielded close to a million man army What does this have to do with the fact that most south vietnamese wanted reunification? You mean governments are able to pay poor men to sign up for wars? Shocking. So we are
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by alephknoll 2y ago
> Do we need to rethink the idea of global social media platforms? Maybe even the idea of a global internet. Yes. > If countries like Brazil or India want to have everything censored They aren't even the worst. The biggest advoca
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by alephknoll 2y ago
Thats some deranged historical revisionism. The vietnamese won their war of independence against france ( aka first indochina war). Then the US stepped in to protect 'european colonial interests' gave the southern half of vietnam
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by alephknoll 2y ago
You forgot the best part. Satan has 3 faces and each face has a mouth. One mouth is continuously chewing judas, another mouth is chewing brutus and the third is chewing cassius. For eternity. It's a great book, but it really shows how
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by alephknoll 2y ago
> It's not like NATO did any major nation building in Afghanistan or Iraq, at least nowhere near close to post-WW2 Germany... so in that point he did keep his promise. What? So he carried out nation building in 2 countries rather th
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by alephknoll 2y ago
> The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality This is not true. The 'neutrals' were not even granted the honor of a place in one of the circles of hell. 'These so
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by alephknoll 2y ago
> Maybe because my introduction to him was Would've thought most would view it as dark and melancholy and resigned. You get optimism from those lines? Do you feel the following is optimistic? '... The woods are lovely, dark and
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by alephknoll 2y ago
> It is harder to get 1000 people to participate in an unethical military campaign than it is to get 10 people. No. It's easier to get 1000000 to participate than 1000. But that's not the point. We are talking about accountabil
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by alephknoll 2y ago
If norway or norwegians cared so much, they wouldn't be pumping out so much oil. Norway is a top oil producer on a per capita basis ( along with saudi arabia, qatar, etc ). If norwegians care so much about the environment or climate ch
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by alephknoll 2y ago
> No matter how bullish you are on the potential of AI, it's horrifying and categorically unethical to use them to decide who to kill. Is it any more horrifying or unethical to decide without AI? > It creates the possibility of a
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by alephknoll 2y ago
Don't know why you are getting downvoted. NYT and many publishers are notorious with their dark patterns to keep you around. The only company that I know of that makes it easier to 'unsubscribe' than to 'subscribe'
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by alephknoll 2y ago
> Citizens should be entitled to representation, but not over representation (which is what holds us back currently). But it's the climate change advocates like you who are overrepresented? You don't represent the majority. No
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by alephknoll 2y ago
Dupe [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852953 ]

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