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by hacknat 6y ago
Sure, but the Thirty Years War was no joke either. I'm not sure that you're making arguments any more. You may be right that borders cause more harm than good, but the bulk of historical evidence is against you. If you're goi
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by hacknat 6y ago
The historical results of the Treaty of Westphalia.
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by hacknat 6y ago
> The IRS is no longer receiving enough budget from Congress... Why do you think that is? Probably because capital controls Congress pretty effectively (the Senate did vote for this past leveraged corporate bail out 96-4 after all). Anyw
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by hacknat 6y ago
I'm going to ask you to defend this claim. I consider myself a reasonably astute leftist student of history, but I don't think history is on your side. To be sure, borders are not a guarantor of peace, but you can't really ar
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by hacknat 6y ago
First, I want to state that I agree with the premise of this article. While I do think the US is more than just a capitalist oligarchy, from a certain perspective you can see America as being the world's main laundry service for capit
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by hacknat 6y ago
No, this is about academic notation.
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by hacknat 6y ago
A lot comments are misunderstanding this article. This person is not complaining about differences in programming syntax across languages at all. He is making a very specific complaint about how PL Notation (i.e metasyntax not syntax) in
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by hacknat 6y ago
It may be more than a Western phenomena, I don't know. My experience is with Western culture though. I wasn't trying to implicitly compare Western culture to some idealized other culture, I was trying to limit the scope of my crit
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by hacknat 6y ago
> Often things go well at first. I’ll feel I can sketch the basic claims, paint the surface; but when someone asks a basic probing question, the edifice instantly collapse That to me doesn't sound like someone complaining about not
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by hacknat 6y ago
Western culture seems to suffer from collective ADHD. People expect small morsels of information/experience to give them much and people eschew deeper, longer, more meaningful experiences. I could go on.
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by hacknat 6y ago
The very premise of this article shows how demented Western culture has become. The attitude of, “I invested 15-20 hours reading this book and, boohoo, I’m not a subject matter expert on the book’s topic” is absolutely insane. It takes a de
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by hacknat 6y ago
I don’t know about under the Emperors, but during the Republic the Senate was actually the house that tried to prevent war and the plebs tended to be hawkish. Wars tend to be sought after by up-and-comers.
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by hacknat 6y ago
No part of the Universe is older than another.
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by hacknat 6y ago
The Universe can be infinite without being cyclic.
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by hacknat 6y ago
Time as implemented in our current universe (which has counter intuitive properties, such a universal speed limit, which math does not require). It is possible that there is a version of time “before” the emergence of our physical “implemen
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by hacknat 6y ago
We need infinity in mathematics for proofs, limits, etc. Even magnitudes of infinity have useful properties in game theory, signal theory. There is something “real” about infinity that “works” in our Universe. The axioms of infinity in math
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by hacknat 6y ago
It’s a pleasing cognitive answer, but doesn’t really fit well with math or physics. Time is an emergent property of the Universe that we can measure and compare with a more platonic mathematical model of time. Also, you could make the argum
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by hacknat 6y ago
I think discontinuity also doesn’t sit well with Math. What are the odds that we happen to be in a finite set? When you look at the axioms in first order logic the requirement of negation is suggestive of the idea that “nothingness” (i.e. s
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by hacknat 6y ago
Here's how money works on people: Step 1: They get an credible offer for a ton of money. Step 2: Their brain starts to spiral out of control and can't stop imagining all of the things they can do for themselves, their family, thei
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by hacknat 6y ago
It seems like eBPF is emerging as the de facto winner for K8s CNI.
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by hacknat 6y ago
The world doesn’t need anymore short-form opinion pieces, but here we are.
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by hacknat 6y ago
Don’t hot swap. Just don’t do it. 99.99% of us should never need to do it. Learn sound network topology and load balancer practices instead. Embedded? Your hardware documentation will tell you how to offload this problem to it. There’s no e
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by hacknat 6y ago
Consider that it’s a 6% change, which is crazy. That’s two years of “growth” wiped out in 3/4 of a year. That’s astonishing.
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by hacknat 6y ago
Outsourcing.
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by hacknat 6y ago
The point is that we outsourced everything. Being on the top of a hollowed out value chain, while efficient, is a precarious place to be, because the bottom of the chain can just flip you on your head. A good brand will allow you to release
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by hacknat 7y ago
South Korea tested almost everybody in the country. If we had been able to do the same then we wouldn’t be in this predicament. The US is such a hollowed out shell of an industrial nation that we didn’t have enough masks for our primary he
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by hacknat 7y ago
Mostly it’s boring. I love watching pie in the face accounts, but this one isn’t interesting unless you really know the VC world well.
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by hacknat 7y ago
Probably close to 90% lives in Iran/Iraq 4000 years ago.
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by hacknat 7y ago
Wages for public sector workers are legally defined and, at least, in this case, have very little to do with any measure of utility. Our society is horrendous at measuring utility in almost all long term cases.
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by hacknat 7y ago
You’re assuming they we a. Are accurately pricing teacher pay (if the upper bounds of private schools are any indication, we are not) b. The downstream effects wouldn’t be catastrophic. Certainly most American parents could not afford to pr

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