kingofmen

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by kingofmen 11d ago
Is there any infrastructure of which this is not true? Every country, not just the Great Powers, has a large amount of installed plant which is the result of decades, in some cases centuries, of capital accumulation. And which modern we
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by kingofmen 19d ago
We've got one. It's called impeachment. Unfortunately the system wasn't originally intended to have parties and party loyalties, and assumed that Congress would never have a majority to give a free pass to a corrupt President
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by kingofmen 19d ago
Even a fairly corrupt politician might believe that they are less corrupt than the other guy, and would be able to use the law as a weapon to get an even bigger slice of the cake. Or, still more likely, they would believe that "I get
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by kingofmen 2mo ago
To be fair the Antichrist, being a prophesied entity from several millennia ago, is probably not super up to date on twenty-first-century business best practices. They probably still use waterfall.
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by kingofmen 3mo ago
> If you can afford to pay an army you can afford to pay the opposing side instead. Aside from all questions about how such an agreement is to be enforced once you no longer have the money but the invaders still have their weapons, the a
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by kingofmen 3mo ago
Excellent work, very nice! One tiny UI nitpick: I found the squares' hitboxes to be unintuitively small, requiring more-than-expected precision to get Chazz to land in the square I wanted. (I was initially confused about whether I was
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by kingofmen 3mo ago
Points for effort, but this will do literal nothing to appease the opposition, since the "water use" thing is a myth anyway. It's probably good, it sounds like it will be more efficient and efficiency saves resources for othe
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by kingofmen 3mo ago
Indeed they do. And as a result they have rather more of it than European busybodies. :)
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by kingofmen 3mo ago
> the r>g observation (due to Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century) is that both historically and recently the returns to capital exceed the growth rate of the economy. They do if you cherry-pick your economies, starting points, defin
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by kingofmen 4mo ago
Not OP, but why draw a line for WiFi names at all? Do you think an actual terrorist goes around drawing attention like that?
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by kingofmen 4mo ago
Deliberate understatement is sometimes deployed for humorous intent.
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by kingofmen 4mo ago
This appears bugged: > A Minsky program that adds register A into register B looks like: > 1. DEC A; if A == 0 goto 3 else goto 2 > 2. INC B; goto 1 > 3. HALT If A initially equals 1 it will be decremented and hit zero; the cond
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by kingofmen 4mo ago
What are those artists successful at ? Making art, or marketing it? The New York art scene is a curious example in this context, because it is notoriously all about who you know rather than what you do, and that's not usually consider
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by kingofmen 4mo ago
That is why the writer specified "on average", which clearly remains true, at least in the case that the decisionmaker is part of the affected group. The optimistic part is in assuming that latter.
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by kingofmen 5mo ago
Human brains are also deterministic, though somewhat more difficult to reset to a starting state. So this seems to prove that humans aren't conscious either.
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by kingofmen 5mo ago
> He has represented [Oldham] ever since. > Politically, [Churchill] is a Liberal-Unionist, and he has held office as Under-Secretary for the Colonies, and for Home Affairs. This is a weird selection for a 1930s knowledge cutoff, if t
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by kingofmen 5mo ago
And call it AivotP*rkele?
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by kingofmen 5mo ago
> I have renamed the "endreleg" since the article release to "låst" and "open". I like that - much shorter and also the two keywords are the same length, which is always nice when you're making a list.
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by kingofmen 5mo ago
What the devil kind of "Nynorsk" allows "kalkuler" in place of "beregn"? And as the other poster pointed out, 'endre' does not actually take the '-leg' ending to make an adjective; not in th
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by kingofmen 5mo ago
> If people are getting what they want "If". It appears (from this article, I haven't done any exhaustive research) that when the Ghanaians have the option of hiding money from their families and from the funeral expenses,
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by kingofmen 5mo ago
A herd of goats and an apple orchard both exhibit exponential growth in production, to the limits of the supporting land (which admittedly may be reached rather quickly). Indeed this is the origin of interest: I lend you my goats for a seas
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by kingofmen 5mo ago
> China and its steep ascent, blowing past all European countries, and soon - the USA. China's GDP (PPP) is somewhere around $30k, depending on whose numbers you like, which does beat such lighthouses of Western capitalism as Albani
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by kingofmen 5mo ago
Additionally, this is pretty much the paradigmatic case of that criticism frequently heard on the left in any other context, that GDP is not the same as quality of life. Indeed in this case it's apparently measuring the quality of deat
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by kingofmen 5mo ago
> Consumer spending is not "wealth destruction" -- who makes the fantasy coffins? Who prints the banners? Local businesses! If the local businesses were instead being hired to dig holes and fill them up again... oh wait, they l
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by kingofmen 6mo ago
Or you missed the eye-rolling sarcasm in the answer they have to give on every goddam first date .
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by kingofmen 6mo ago
X% of net worth is still a bigger deal to someone with a net worth of $20 than to someone with a net worth of $20M, even though the latter may get some sticker shock. And it's possible (if rare) to have a reasonably middle-class lifest
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by kingofmen 6mo ago
That may have been bad for users, but you can hardly claim it was bad for the company - not even in the long run. Ten years is like 40% of Google's lifetime, that is the long run! And if indeed he went all-in on AI in 20 15 , that se
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by kingofmen 7mo ago
We already have a bad president.
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by kingofmen 7mo ago
> President Trump announced the Iranian leader's death on social media, saying Khamenei could not avoid U.S. intelligence and surveillance. A source briefed on the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran told NPR earlier Saturday that an Israe
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by kingofmen 7mo ago
Yes. "Relatively". We really need a fast-track process for genuinely insane nonsense to get shot down in a matter of days, not months.

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