hcurtiss

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by hcurtiss 2mo ago
Yes, and imagine if we doubled the USAID funding! Or even quintupled it! Why, if we borrowed a(nother) trillion dollars, imagine how many lives we'd save! My point is that it's all fake math. If we're killing people by not
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by hcurtiss 2mo ago
You are, of course, right. Unfortunately, I’m not very good at that.
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by hcurtiss 2mo ago
I don’t think the AfD is “literally fascists.” They certainly don’t claim to be.
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by hcurtiss 2mo ago
Those numbers always crack me up. If you do the math that way (US funding cuts kill people), imagine how many people we’ve killed by not confiscating all the wealth of our nation and shipping it to Africa!
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by hcurtiss 2mo ago
But there have been way higher atmospheric carbon dioxide levels historically, and those have largely coincided with plant and animal life climaxing. See the Jurassic.
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by hcurtiss 2mo ago
I'd like to use it for legal work too. Microsoft makes great hay about its ability to sandbox CoPilot's work and not train on or share company resources ("Look for the green checkmark."). It's largely for that rea
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by hcurtiss 3mo ago
Nah, dollars buy war machines. And for the first time in human history, we are on the precipice of projecting substantial ground force without the need for humans.
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
I can think of no capitalist society in the last thousand years that has produced feudalism.
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
I'm not so sure that global population growth tells the right story vis-à-vis declining birth rates in western countries.
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
I don't recall what arguments were made in favor of feudal lords. And one could hardly call that system "capitalism," which is the subject of this thread. I maintain that the relevant objective should be the best outcome fo
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
But, again, the gap between the poor and the wealthy is irrelevant. Income inequality doesn't describe what's best for the most. If more income inequality produces a better outcome for the majority, it becomes very difficult to
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
So also does the US. Trump had prominent cases against Google and Meta. Biden against Apple and Amazon. Prominent efforts on airlines and grocery stores. Honestly, I'm pretty sure the US and Chinese antitrust laws are pretty simila
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
It's not, but if the existence of billionaires correlates strongly with an increase in the median standard of living, I'm all for it. My politics are not driven by envy -- only what consistently produces the best outcome for the
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
And almost for the entirety of that period, humans lived in abject poverty. The rise of capitalism perfectly correlates with the most spectacular increase in human flourishing and prosperity in the history of our species. Even in the last
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
There absolutely are monopolies. There are, in fact, many state run enterprises. Where do you get these ideas?
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
You think Chinese businesses aren’t in it for the profits?
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
You are doing the left-wing, pretending not to understand meme. Those are the principal objections in the linked article. Data centers are not an environmental catastrophe. And AI isn’t coming to take all of our jobs. There will be change,
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
Is that your experience with AI? It’s made my work vastly more efficient and valuable. And have you been to modern Chinese cities? Prosperity is awesome. Stop listening to the Luddites and eco-nihilists. There’s a way to have all that AND c
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
Remember Delaware? Where he not only won on appeal but provoked an exodus of companies out of Delaware?
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
Tesla is falling to pieces? https://stocks.apple.com/symbol/TSLA
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
While the west clutches their pearls, China roars ahead on manufacturing, energy, and AI. Unqualified military supremacy will soon follow. I weep for my children.
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
Princeton is a strange place. What on earth could be the objection to proctoring? I'd much rather have a proctor than have to narc on a classmate. And even then, the proctor just reports the matter to a student-run body? Wild.
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by hcurtiss 4mo ago
They didn't do a 180 at all. Tusk basically shares Orban's entire platform, particularly vis-à-vis the EU. Orban just got caught in corruption scandals.
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by hcurtiss 5mo ago
I agree. And I am seeing it in a lot of venues, especially political discourse. Commenting is increasingly AI driven I fear the whole thing is going to collapse and nobody will be able to rely on online commentary to make decisions. At leas
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by hcurtiss 7mo ago
Is it possible that can be attributed to lagging effects of their predecessors’ policies?
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by hcurtiss 8mo ago
The allegation at the time was that he turned off Starlink. That was not true. He did not turn it on at Ukraine’s request because US law prohibited it.
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by hcurtiss 8mo ago
Why not? Has Musk shut off Starlink? The reporting out of Ukraine was almost entirely wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russian-Ukrain...
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by hcurtiss 8mo ago
Literally nobody believes he won the last election. Biden said this repeatedly.
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by hcurtiss 9mo ago
Who is “they”? Maduro is not the elected leader of Venezuela.
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by hcurtiss 9mo ago
Yeah, the difference is the Powerboost hybrid electric motor is only like 50 hp. I want 350 hp of electric motor that can be powered by either the battery or an onboard ICE.

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