lsd5you

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by lsd5you 6y ago
In the UK 60%+ of people have consistently supported reducing immigration, over decades. It's more correct to think that when 60% of the elites support something change occurs.
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by lsd5you 7y ago
This is a lot of media. Bizarrely no skepticism, just writing articles matter of factly using dubious (or at the very least opaque/unverifiable) figures from foreign governments.
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by lsd5you 7y ago
Likely a rhetorical question, but they're trying trying to become the place where people go to look for things ... since apparently there is a massive amount of value (at least enough to risk the windows user experience) in controlling
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by lsd5you 7y ago
So you won't conceed that this is problematic that there is according to you presumably relevant data they could cite - even if it doesn't directly apply to yemen in that particular perioud, but they chose not to? I mean what ever
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by lsd5you 7y ago
Which is problematic. They are citing it as a cause but have no quantative basis for it what so ever apparently. The effect could be 0, or negative, they've apparently just brought feelings on the situation. So figure SPM.7 looks prett
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by lsd5you 7y ago
There have always been droughts though, and things have varied from location to location. This effect you are invoking needs actually quantifying, and then comparing to the change in population. Would these regions coped if their population
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by lsd5you 7y ago
I dunno, either we lurch from crisis to crisis and possibly end up with an ungovernable world, or look at implementing something like a one child policy in countries with very high population growth (or pressuring them to do so by preventin
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by lsd5you 7y ago
We will have overpopulation and environmental crises in the future and they will get explained away mindlessly as being completely caused by climate change, when that may be only a partial or even not significant factor in the events. Not e
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by lsd5you 7y ago
but we will be able to genetically engineer ourselves out of it before it becomes a serious issue. What is your level of uncertainty regarding this? It would seem to be merely a possibility, especially if we undershoot due to falling inte
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by lsd5you 7y ago
IQ being 'a load of crap' doesn't follow from some journalists glib (and incorrect) claim. What is more, if it were true and the IQ differences were such that todays average measured as a genius then, if you were to witness s
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by lsd5you 7y ago
Erm surely ability is important as well. Programming is no different in this regard to pro sports - some people have more talent (which probably in turn breaks down into innate attributes, determination and learning opportunity earlier in l
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by lsd5you 7y ago
And probably also the non-local effects of using a framework - and a fairly magic one at that. All the effects of which are understood when creating the functionality, but the maintainer (even when it is the author) has a much harder time w
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by lsd5you 7y ago
Which is why precautionary and moderate tariffs are suitable, with some discretion for cases where things are especially egregious and/or where the economics are different (low margin vs luxury goods need different levels of tariff). P
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by lsd5you 7y ago
I'd argue that trump is a break from those past dogmas and regulatory capture (to some extent). Certainly he wasn't approved by the media - who are controlled by big business via advertisements. Trump is rightwing in the same way
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by lsd5you 7y ago
Which is why tariffs make a lot of sense. Yet there has been this massive movement of reaganite/right wing tariffs bashing for decades now - where the mantra of tariffs causing economic harm is mindlessly repeated. You would think they
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by lsd5you 7y ago
You don't seem very convinced about your own alternative though do you? More people might join your cause? And maybe they won't. Yet you may be right that they are setting their cause back. In which case there are no answers. We c
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by lsd5you 7y ago
It feels like something the (non-corrupt) left and right should be able to agree on. Plenty of people on the right seem disappointed that Trump seems to have lost his pre-government isolationist tendancies. I suppose the only hope is this t
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by lsd5you 7y ago
It is presumptious to think that anyone could say anything constructive without generalising or insulting. You personally could be the one in a thousand who just is genuinely different, but when there are a e.g. million+ people in japan who
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by lsd5you 7y ago
I can relate to this somewhat, but was anyone saying things like this before the internet? What would someone 30 years ago think about this position. It strikes me as internet enabled behaviour. Canaries in the mine as it were - the first t
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by lsd5you 7y ago
This is a ludicrous position. Apart from the fact that they have different editorial positions from each other. They cannot be both unbiased. The BBC makes some effort to be unbiased - by giving air time based on e.g. based on success at th
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by lsd5you 7y ago
This feels to me like hubris, a kind of 'end of history' prediction that we have finally progressed to at least the beginnings of a final moral order. Personally I don't believe this to be the case, and the ways it can go wro
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by lsd5you 7y ago
My god, I know we can't qualify absolutely everything we say, but I feel like you need some error bars on those predictions. Actually that is an understatement. It is wildly speculative to talk about GDP proportions and technological s
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by lsd5you 7y ago
I say make the world more interesting not less... People are adults and they can decide. To the extent that I agree that society 'needs to change' the most serious problems (abuse) are all things which have happened in private. It
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by lsd5you 8y ago
For all the criticism that Vice gets from the anti-pc crowd that read - to me at least - as a perfectly neutral and fact based article about someone who is something of a curiousity.
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by lsd5you 8y ago
Been using dvorak for perhaps 10 years myself. Ctrx-c/v/x, well they're not next to each other anymore (and kind need 2 hands to use)! I recommend using this, in my mind a way bigger improvement than just moving to dvorak its
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by lsd5you 8y ago
But this is a completely zero sum consideration, and as such from a policy point of view it makes no sense to make any allowances for this.
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by lsd5you 8y ago
Rules and technicalities have always been important? Because the EU is a technocracy and not a democracy in essence. Government is meant to control the rules not the other way round. In anycase this is a weak line given the EUs inconsistent
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by lsd5you 8y ago
Well that is subjective, but traditionally the leaders have been France and Germany and there has been an animus against the UK and its interests. Then if you break it down, there is the question of eurosceptics. Where is their influence? H
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by lsd5you 8y ago
No, schengen was another irreversible progression that we opted out of like the euro. The discount is because the rules so heavily favoured continental farmers. The UK was always the 2nd biggest net contributor after Germany (and top 5 per
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by lsd5you 8y ago
They allowed favored nations to flaunt fiscal rules for decades and cannot get their accounts signed off. Plus if some rule doesn't suit then it can get changed. It's not meaningless what you are saying but it's hardly the wh

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