chanakya

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by chanakya 4d ago
Exactly right. A slow down to enable deeper work on alignment is welcome, not matter what the motivations.
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by chanakya 6d ago
Among the list of countries which supply arms to Israel are UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, India, Italy, Taiwan, Romania and a few others. The US is not unique in this by any means.
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by chanakya 6d ago
Exactly. Decades of pax americana has lulled people into a view that the rest of the world are pacifists who will get along just fine but for the US.
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by chanakya 6d ago
There was more corporate and billionaire backing and donations to the Democrats than the Republicans. Also, studies have shown that the power of money in elections is overestimated. Money tends to go for the viable candidate, it's not
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by chanakya 6d ago
That may be partly true, but in recent times, most western countries participated in wars like Afganistan and Iraq, and provided logistical or other support during the current Iran war.
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by chanakya 6d ago
Serious question: should companies not participate in contracts from their country's defense department? Or is the argument that it's only US companies which shouldn't, because the US is uniquely evil?
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by chanakya 9d ago
The kind of problems you're describing certainly don't sound like things you should "pick up a weapon and give up your life" for, so this doesn't seem to add an argument in favour of "revolution".
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by chanakya 9d ago
I agree we should all be fighting to keep what we have, which is pretty good. But that sounds like the opposite of a revolution to me.
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by chanakya 10d ago
If everyone is so comfortable, what do we need a revolution for? Wasn't that the goal of civilization? If someone doesn't like civilization, why try to bring it down? There's plenty of places on earth you can go to live witho
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by chanakya 11d ago
The article is suggesting that there was an assumed dynamic in designing these mechanisms for petitions and claims - that there is a threshold of cost (time and effort, mostly) that the petitioner is willing to pay for petitioning the gover
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by chanakya 1mo ago
It's just that the universe is ordered, and math is the study of order.
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by chanakya 2mo ago
As you move up levels starting from physics (eg. physics-> chemistry-> biochemistry-> biology), each layer has several "laws" which are generally pretty established, but a causal connection between the layers is hard to p
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by chanakya 3mo ago
Even AOC doesn't believe what she said. She's saying it because she has a startup of her own which sells ideas, and gets paid in votes. It may not be 93%, but she's had a pretty good growth rate, and when you get to about 50
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by chanakya 7mo ago
I think he makes two points: - This change of what used be a functional object into a brand was done to appeal to one-upmanship (my watch is more expensive than yours) rather than the aesthetic urge which drives appreciation for art. He doe
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by chanakya 10mo ago
What are these contradictions and hypocrisies? Maybe I'm just old, but I've never understood the angst younger people seem to have these days.
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by chanakya 2y ago
> People feel hopeless, and powerless. Some people, I guess. Looks like more than half the people approve of what he's doing. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/politics/trump-approva...
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by chanakya 2y ago
The effect of the shifting is minor. China's exports (to all countries, not just the US) make only a small difference to their emissions growth. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/production-vs-consumption...
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by chanakya 3y ago
There were more wars and disasters before capitalism, not fewer. In recent times, both wars and fatal disasters have dropped drastically.
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by chanakya 3y ago
Whether or not degrowth can be made to work, what this guy is talking about is fantasy. For example: ...That creates some pressure on planetary boundaries. So that means that the Global North needs to consciously degrow because it is over-
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by chanakya 3y ago
A core element of socialism is that all industries and natural resources are state-owned. European countries are capitalist, not socialist, and got where they are by being so.
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by chanakya 3y ago
Sure, there are all sorts of problems with capitalism. But as Churchill said about democracy, it the worst form of economic organization except for all the others that have been tried from time to time.
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by chanakya 3y ago
There are several fundamental differences between a democracy in a nation and one at a workplace: - Someone owns the workplace. No citizen owns the nation. - If you don't like a workplace, you can switch to another, or start your own.
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by chanakya 3y ago
Just wanted to add to the many voices who felt they got way more than the $25 they paid for the content on the site. Wonderful videos, and your passion for cars got me to working on my own car, where I've made several changes since. Wi
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by chanakya 3y ago
Isn't that the same as not identifying it at all? A random guess would be just as good.
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by chanakya 4y ago
Yes, they actually run at near main-line speeds in the UK (60-80mph). Riding one of those at that speed (particularly at night) must be an awesome experience.
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by chanakya 4y ago
The point was that there was just the one legal case, and even that isn't decided. Before creating a law to fight an evil, shouldn't there be some examples of the evil in operation?
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by chanakya 4y ago
This may sound crude, but I think is pretty close to reality. This is Indian activists trying to muscle in on the massive DEI industry in the US, from which they are currently excluded. There is zero evidence that caste is a causal factor i
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by chanakya 4y ago
If it was "the slickest con artist of all time", that would be an achivement of Artificial General Intelligence that the AI community can only dream of.
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by chanakya 4y ago
That because of about 1500 years of strict endogamy. It's only in very recent times that inter-caste marriages have become more common.
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by chanakya 4y ago
The blockchain continues to be a solution looking for a problem.

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