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by garte 12d ago
> This is because Europe, and everyone else in the western world, is obsessed with the United States and obsessed with Americans. Either you're an American which would prove the "most Americans are ignorant about their imperial
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by garte 12d ago
it takes at least 20 years to build a nuclear power plant and it takes another 20 to build it back. it costs a multitude of resources and money to build, maintain and tear down compared to renewables. nuclear has its role currently but it&#
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by garte 12d ago
What I'm wondering these last few years is whether American "politics" has anything actually political to discuss like ensuring the pension system is still intact in 30 years, improving access to a solid education (and even m
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by garte 1mo ago
you know: you're the work horse of this conversation right now. you add nothing of value to it.
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by garte 2mo ago
there are other factors at play like AMOC halting and breakdown of habitats that are codependent with other habitats. you dont get to pick and choose regions since earth is a huge interconnected system itself. stop drinking the tech kool ai
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by garte 2mo ago
the question is how europe and the us will manage degrowth. atm europe is ahead while the us is acting like a spoilt child calling for more cars and ac.
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by garte 3mo ago
This polemic is quite sad. Wars are only cool in movies. And - apparently - in US politics. The reason the EU shirks talking about war is because it actually lived through it. And it wasn't cool. The US is waging wars far from their bo
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by garte 3mo ago
It is often hard to put an economic value on research in general. That makes the whole "labor market" highly different from the rest of the world.
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by garte 3mo ago
LLMs conduct strikes on children which a human may not have done. so wow, you got a frontier model but you lost something there in the process.
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by garte 3mo ago
> Even if it were true it's not the taxpayers responsibility to import all the degenerate murderers and rapists from all over the world in the hopes of civilizing them. That's just not how any of this works and I think you know
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by garte 3mo ago
1. As long as these are measured they are not a problem: Switzerland - and most of the EU countries - do simply not have a problem with poor people leeching the welfare systems, but rich people not paying their share: tax evasion by the ric
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by garte 3mo ago
From a logical standpoint there really is only one rational step you can take: you have to leave because you are a migrant. And that's exactly where all of this thinking falls apart: in an equal, democratic society no group should be a
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by garte 3mo ago
This does not make sense. How can you differentiate between "good" migrants (apparently you yourself) and "bad" ones? Shouldn't you remove yourself because you're a migrant to increase the quality of life for t
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by garte 3mo ago
^-- This! There are so many other leavers to pull than this weird and random initiative: stop urban sprawl, extend public transport, curb automobile traffic, extend public spaces, reduce private property rights (Stichwort "Seeanschluss
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by garte 4mo ago
Technology is not onthological. Meaning it's not a means for itself but it's given meaning and power by shaping and using it. We do not have to tame technologies, we have to tame rich people who only want to get richer.
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by garte 5mo ago
Europe is a lot more diversified than the US (subtract the whole AI / internet tech sector and US treasure bonds and you get a lot less volume than Europe) and spends more in social security which is good for the economy as a whole. Th
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by garte 5mo ago
As I said below: Cozy small time agriculture in the west is a small part of your general food supply. The rest is in places you do not want to live and is called monoculture. A huge part of your food supply is not produced "in the coun
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by garte 5mo ago
Cozy small time agriculture in the west is a small part of your general food supply. The rest is in places you do not want to live and is called monoculture. All "raw materials" you mentioned are not produced "in the countrys
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by garte 5mo ago
Thanks for your thorough response, I appreciate it. My point was less that "everything comes from the city" but that living in the countryside has massive externalities that get deposited elsewhere as I mentioned. So it would be k
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by garte 5mo ago
You know that all that "nature" you desire is synthetic? Living in rural areas without actually working there is as far from a natural state as it can be: the whole lifestyle is based on subsidies by cities and technology: your co
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by garte 5mo ago
Great article, most of all the latter parts about what autopoiesis means regarding computers.
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by garte 5mo ago
I mostly agree. In a technological society jobs and money are kind of virtual. The productivity gained by technology in the last 150 years made lots of work redundant and we've been managed by economists to still organise around wage l
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by garte 6mo ago
Look up on fish and the consequences of microplastics on water animals. From starvation to sex change, microplastics wreak havoc there. Just because you as a single consumer may not seem impacted by microplastics does not mean it's ala
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by garte 6mo ago
> This MSN "article" seems oddly out of place on HN. Maybe there's something sinister going on: I suspect the shoe sole industry what with these huge foots and all. It'd make sense since Covid people are walking less.
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by garte 6mo ago
Maybe it's like that. But they're drunk. Which means they are very supportive but quite unreliable and have a short memory. I've caught Claude making the gravest anti pattern mistakes using Elixir and trying to get it to corr
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by garte 7mo ago
This is how you start something and get progress. More lanes on the highway are not progress.
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by garte 7mo ago
so fossil fuel is too fucking cheap. this is arbitrage with our environment, it fucks me up.
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by garte 7mo ago
what the poster mentioned did not sound like a balanced exchange of ideas was about to happen...
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by garte 7mo ago
thats a wild take... isnt this exactly the purpose of a dictionary: to reflect the words used in general language usage?
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by garte 8mo ago
It gives you more things to buy, doesn't it? That does not necessarily translate to a better life.

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