dagenleg

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by dagenleg 1mo ago
How is USSR, a direct continuation of the Russian Empire, not an empire?
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by dagenleg 1mo ago
I think the parent is referring to heavy financialisation of the economy in the West. As we've recently seen, such economy can grow quite unconstrained by the material concerns such as factories, energy or workers.
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by dagenleg 1mo ago
Taiwan is liberal democratic china. It's doing quite okay.
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by dagenleg 1mo ago
It's not just large corporations, it's arguably most jobs, and it's getting worse. Wageslaves don't get to keep those proceeds either, not enough bargaining power.
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by dagenleg 2mo ago
The UX is horrendous, density of information is a fraction of what it was and the infinite scroll sucks
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by dagenleg 3mo ago
> not including geeks Sir, this is Hackernews edit: Sorry, I could not resist. Just does not feel like arguments to the tune of "my consumption habits do not require X, so who even needs X" really work well at the discussion fo
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by dagenleg 3mo ago
Not the best success story, granted, but socialist revolutions in China and Russian Empire had definitely hurt the rich as a class. Definitively even.
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by dagenleg 3mo ago
Why is everyone on social media talking about Midea? I never see any other brand mentioned. Is this a coordinated marketing campaign?
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by dagenleg 8mo ago
Why Cantonese?
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by dagenleg 1y ago
Are you familiar with the "proofster" concept? It's funny how poignantly on the nose some memes can be.
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by dagenleg 2y ago
Why? Because killing serial killers is good, and having war is bad? I think the person you were responding to had a more utilitarian view. When war happens, the death of conscripted young people is unavoidable. It's kill or be killed.
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by dagenleg 2y ago
I can't help but notice that your definition of "utopia" includes people never disagreeing with you. And no, you can't justify death penalty because some people "get out on a technicality". Innocent people end
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by dagenleg 2y ago
No, where are you getting this from? His value proposal was that he was a) an outsider in politics, b) russian speaking ukranian. He was elected on on the platform of reducing corruption and negotiating the end to the Donbas conflict.
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by dagenleg 2y ago
30% of the population protesting - that would be absolutely enormous! Revolutions are made by single digit numbers
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by dagenleg 2y ago
Second time? More like fourth time. First there was Crimea, then Donbas, then the current invasion.
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by dagenleg 2y ago
I suspect a large part of that 110K would be the government's cut. Again, coming back to the french system, an employee getting 40K after taxes costs ~80K to the institution there. I didn't think of the salary taxes as overheads,
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by dagenleg 2y ago
Well, no. That money is the total grant sum, to be spent over multiple years, and PhDs are usually funded in full - in Germany a PhD takes around 5 years. Moreover, the money a PhD student gets after tax, is not the same as the money spent
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by dagenleg 2y ago
This sounds like quite an outlandish figure, could you please elaborate? For example, an ERC grant would allow for a maximum of 25% of the so called "indirect costs", that is, one fourths of all the the direct costs (gross salarie
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by dagenleg 2y ago
These are gross overall costs for the full PhD, not yearly salary.
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by dagenleg 2y ago
At least in France, where they have PhDs which last only 3 years, a years of PhD would cost ~45K EUR in gross salary (granted the student gets around half of that after tax), then let's say ~10K travel and consumables costs, then add u
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by dagenleg 2y ago
Same. Feels like we exist in a very small bubble doesn't it?
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by dagenleg 2y ago
There are many good Chinese language films, not all of them Cantonese. You're forgetting about Taiwanese directors (Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien) and mainland sixth generation directors (Jia Zhangke, Lou Ye). There are
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by dagenleg 2y ago
"We have evidence but it's secret". Hey, we've seen this one before, it's a classic! At this point, the credibility of the trust-me-bro evidence can fall anywhere on the scale between "Iraqi WMDs" to &quot
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by dagenleg 2y ago
I think if you wanted to bring up meaningful words, those were not the best examples to give. In the recent years, somewhere amongst the endless nuclear threat screeching and the ignored ICC arrest warrants, they have lost a lot of meaning.
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by dagenleg 2y ago
Who cares? It's just words. It's better than getting attacked while being paralyzed with indecision.
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by dagenleg 2y ago
I think the poster refers to NATO countries. Considering you are a Russian citizen, it's safe to say you're not included in this "we". Although frankly I think you would also benefit in the end.
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by dagenleg 2y ago
I don't think there are many penalties for breaking the international law. Clearly, in the environment where Europe's adversaries are flagrantly breaking it on the daily basis, keeping to it meticulously would be foolish and dange
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by dagenleg 2y ago
A few months ago I had a long layover in Hong Kong, so I did a quick visit - it looked a bit emptyish, though there was still a bunch of budget hostels, food joints and some touting going on. The rats are pretty gigantic though.
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by dagenleg 2y ago
And I'm sure you see that there might me somewhat of a slight issue with calling Ukrainian cities in Russian, considering the political situation.
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by dagenleg 2y ago
You are purposely ignoring the point I am making - the suffering WILL NOT end if the war ends. It will become much worse in fact. The only outcome of the aid stopping is the complete conquest of the country, one has to be completely blind o

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