heraclius

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by heraclius 5y ago
> timely commutes Billions of people seem to have worked out how to do this on bicycles and public transport.
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by heraclius 5y ago
In that were the real concern, the DDR would have restricted travel from the West to the East by residents of the West, but not travel by its own residents to the West and return journeys—yet it prohibited the latter. Moreover the DDR canno
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by heraclius 5y ago
What’s an ‘official magazine’?
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by heraclius 5y ago
Bin Laden certainly has been to Oxford, but I’ve not heard of any connexion with the university.¹ I wouldn’t say that those attending language schools and similar tend to interact much with students of the university. With the exception of
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by heraclius 5y ago
One can note certain rhetorical similarities without holding that in every aspect China and India are doing the same thing.
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by heraclius 5y ago
It’s not that Malaysia isn’t a threat (there has been sabre-rattling too, e.g. in 1991 when the army was mobilised in response to a Malaysian exercise)—just that it’s not only or most important one. Merely geographically Indonesia is probab
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by heraclius 5y ago
The report mentioned in Haaretz ( https://www.haaretz.com/1.5053685 ) was plausible but by no means incontrovertible. Malaysia is not necessarily more threatening than Indonesia so it’s rather unclear why you mention it in pa
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by heraclius 5y ago
> These sorts of people are notorious for being unable to recognize that Nazi-ism was an ideology of the hard left, an ideology that the academic classes are extremely susceptible to. There is pretty substantial disagreement amongst hist
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by heraclius 5y ago
This seems to be a pretty thin rebuttal. There’s a perfectly sound case against calling Trump a Nazi—which is not what the article does. It’s not really very obvious what your objection to the actual content of the paragraph is. Then you se
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by heraclius 5y ago
> Voting isn't even that important. The wrong guy gets picked, what happens? Same bullshit as if the right guy got picked. If voting is unimportant, why do you care about racist requirements for physical ID cards? Perhaps there migh
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by heraclius 5y ago
Scotland’s Procurators Fiscal are fairly important and frequently referred to.
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by heraclius 5y ago
> When intellectuals talk about the death penalty, they talk about things like whether it's permissible for the state to take someone's life, whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent, and whether more death sentences are g
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by heraclius 5y ago
The whole thing may well be dystopian. That said, you don’t seem to have looked up what test to release actually is. It’s a scheme for travellers to get out of quarantine early. So no, we aren’t ‘all’ captive to ‘test to release’—we (inhabi
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by heraclius 5y ago
Narratives can be correct or incorrect (and this one is mostly correct insofar as it makes specific claims about the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.) Calling a set of claims a narrative for the purpose of pointing out some people don’t ag
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by heraclius 5y ago
There is no UK prohibition on exports. The UK is not blocking exports. The EU were free to conclude contracts with the (not very productive) UK manufacturers at the same time HM government was doing so.
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by heraclius 6y ago
I broadly agree but I usually trust one of the big ones (e.g. ‘recovery’ in the UK) since they have pretty big sample sizes and seem to be on top of stats.
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by heraclius 6y ago
I have a perfectly good one (Russell Hobbs, 3000W, no noises and so on, no lights, 1.7L, &c.)— https://www.amazon.co.uk/Russell-Hobbs-Colour-Plus-Kettle/dp... . I suppose it’s because in Britain kettles are essential
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by heraclius 6y ago
Well I suppose one could say we call the analogue of reparations the welfare state at which point that prospect doesn’t sound quite so ludicrous after all.
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by heraclius 6y ago
Well all sorts of things were taken offline due to the cold—anything can be made to work properly in cold weather.
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by heraclius 6y ago
Why not backup nuclear in place of backup gas? That combined with enough long-distance transmission obviates the need for gas.
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by heraclius 6y ago
One has the right to any other job. Compare soldiers: generally one probably ought to have the right to unionise, to sick leave, to certain health and safety standards and so on—there are substantial derogations for particular jobs though b
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by heraclius 6y ago
I find a compose key (see Wikipedia) quite helpful for diacritics, em dashes, &c.—once you get the hang of it, it’s really quite fast and intuitive. One can even add new combinations.
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by heraclius 6y ago
Given the HKHRDA passed the Senate unanimously and in the House by 417-1,⁰ bipartisan consensus even ignoring your entirely unsourced claim that Biden is a Chinese puppet means that there is some will to resist this prospect. The problem in
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by heraclius 6y ago
This is ludicrous. Guidance is not law, and unclear laws are not to be interpreted at the discretion of the police. The notion that merely going outside on a walk far from others contributes non-negligibly to the risk of transmission is mis
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by heraclius 6y ago
A High Court judgment would also bind lower courts, including the Magistrates’ Court.
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by heraclius 6y ago
It occurs to me that this: > Moreover the current strategy of forced labour mostly began in the 2010s, so all of China’s previous economic strategies managed to proceed without the use of forced labour. is rubbish interpreted in the natu
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by heraclius 6y ago
Uyghurs are important to a large part of the economy, but it’s presumably possible to discuss parts of it without discussing Uyghurs at every stage. Uyghur forced labour is certainly widespread and bad. I am not sure that it’s fundamental t
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by heraclius 6y ago
As much as it’s important to remember the plight of the Uyghurs especially in formulating a broad strategy towards China, it seems odd to extend this to ‘nobody may discuss any aspect of China without mentioning the camps’. Would you do thi
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by heraclius 6y ago
The assumption was that some of the vaccines weren’t going to work. If they all work, governments can indeed just resell them.
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by heraclius 6y ago
Many (ethnic) Chinese people take Western first names and go by them in the West and/or non-Chinese language environments, so yes, this is quite common. For example, Lee Kuan Yew was Harry Lee to many British acquaintances. (Note that

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