lores

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by lores 8d ago
PPP the EU is also about 30 trillions, which is probably the better measure since we're comparing production for domestic purposes.
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by lores 8d ago
There's really very little you can do bar booking an alternative flight at great expense. If you're lucky and you know the delay in advance, at least you may have a chance to take the Elizabeth Line into town and go for a stroll.
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by lores 8d ago
Or it would be gone. Or it would be in the hands of psychopaths. Europe trades off the extremes for a better middle. It doesn't produce quite as many big names, but US and EU economies are roughly the same size.
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by lores 17d ago
Yes, you're entirely right. One further, I was at a talk from a law professor at a big uni once, where he had printed the entire text of the Medicare bill on a giant pile of paper. He explained that it had taken him, a professor, sever
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by lores 17d ago
"Educated" and "informed" aren't the same.
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by lores 17d ago
Democracy requires an informed electorate. Just having the right to vote isn't enough.
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by lores 23d ago
That's a common belief, but that duty is not absolute and does not imply the executive must choose money over morals.
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by lores 23d ago
These conversations about EU regulations, bureaucracy or general slowness and carefulness contrasted to American ease of doing business and raising capital always make me think "but... look at the state of America! Is it really somethi
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by lores 23d ago
My humble view: at high level in large firms, everything is politics. Even assuming high-level managers with the common good in mind, someone will sponsor with millions of dollars 10 useless but good-looking and inoffensive projects, just s
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by lores 29d ago
Oh, pretty sure journalists and headline writers are also well aware of it, if for no other reason that every comment thread must be mentioning it. Their incentives are just to publish trash and generate engagement, that's all.
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by lores 29d ago
But causation requires correlation. In general, I think it's unhelpful to point out something so basic to or about professional research, researchers are well aware of it.
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by lores 2mo ago
It doesn't give you 25% a year, because you don't have your investment anymore (or most of it, if there is a second-hand market.) After the first year you'd have a -75% return, after the 5th you'd be at an effective annu
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by lores 4mo ago
The American propaganda machine has done a good job on Americans...
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by lores 5mo ago
In the immortal words of Ladré: Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira! Les aristocrates à la lanterne. Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira! Les aristocrates on les pendra. Si on n’les pend pas On les rompra. Si on n’les rompt pas On les brûle
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by lores 5mo ago
These convenient and cheap book/game/video platforms sure killed piracy. Now that piracy's gone forever, we can enshittify the whole thing again! At least I imagine that's how it went in the meeting of 35 year-old corpor
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by lores 5mo ago
That's not what's considered waterfall, though. Specs are always required for any work, even if they're only in your head, even if the work takes 15 minutes. It's the length of the feedback loop and the resistance to spe
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by lores 5mo ago
If you are on the spectrum at all, you have a high-to-very-high chance of being more clumsy than average due to differences in sensory processing.
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by lores 5mo ago
They don't? I'm in London, and my local grocer will happily sell me one bean if I want. I've bought 1 bird chilli several times.
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by lores 5mo ago
Those only work as long as legislators have shame, or there is a significant faction that can use the provided legitimacy to redistribute power away from the elites towards the people. That's not the case at a national level in the US
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by lores 5mo ago
Why not? There are only two redresses against elites who don't abide by a social contract: the law & courts, and physical violence. The courts are much preferable, but legislators now serve those elites rather than the public, and
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by lores 5mo ago
Society still has paid at least for your education, depends on your working power to at least fund your dependents, and at least on some degree of reasonableness from you not to raise everyone's insurance premiums. There's a line
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by lores 5mo ago
I would switch to Codex, but Altman is such a naked sociopath and OpenAI so devoid of ethical business practices that I can't in good conscience. I'm not under any illusion that Anthropic is ethical, but it is so far a step up fro
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by lores 5mo ago
Change and progress like the people of France deciding they had enough of injustice and nobles' impunity, then? A little short-term pain for social progress? We agree.
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by lores 5mo ago
A CEO can choose physical, mental, legal or financial violence against the common man. The common man only has the choice of physical violence. Without it he is impotent.
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by lores 5mo ago
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by lores 5mo ago
I was referring to the myriad of things.
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by lores 5mo ago
Holding the EU back from the role models of two fascistic societies is an excellent thing.
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by lores 5mo ago
I'm glad you bring that example, because I was in fact an immigrant in the Netherlands for several years. Do people speak English? Many do. Will they speak English by default? No. They are obviously more comfortable in Dutch than they
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by lores 5mo ago
Calling people's preference for their own language "stubborn" is a puzzlingly entitled take. Do you expect every country in Europe to change their language to English? If not, how do you propose immigrants be fully functional
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by lores 6mo ago
Same problem as rating your pain on the pain scale: is 10 the worst pain I've experienced, or the worst I can imagine? Because I've got a... very vivid imagination. And still, that's the best we can do. I blame an imperfect u

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