lurk2

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by lurk2 15d ago
> Once you become a pundit, whether on politics or tech, and rely on eyeballs to feed you, you are going to be throwing stinkers. Peter Zeihan
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by lurk2 17d ago
> Why would you ever expect that you would have a choice of what products you use at work? Similar arguments were made to defend Harvey Weinstein. > And yes, if you feel that strongly, you absolutely do have the option to vote with yo
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by lurk2 21d ago
> In the UK, google extracts one average lifetime retirement savings per person in revenue, on average. Those numbers don’t make any sense. Alphabet had 403 billion in revenue in 2025. The UK’s population is around 69,000,000. This amoun
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by lurk2 23d ago
There are Costa Ricans who barely speak English making those wages reading off scripts in a call center.
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by lurk2 24d ago
> Rather, there is a clear established relationship: higher housing costs correspond to a lower TFR (Total Fertility Rate) [1]. Classes exempt from these housing expenses—namely, individuals whose parents hold substantial real estate and
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by lurk2 24d ago
> wealth inequality. I believe this single issue can explain all of modern society's problems If anything the trend is the other way; countries that are significantly more economically egalitarian tend to have lower fertility rates.
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by lurk2 28d ago
> And we live in a society. Correct. > So by extension we do already accept that neutral procedures are possible Doesn't follow. > and that we have achieved them. Doesn't follow. > The English Common Law systems and th
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by lurk2 29d ago
> In any society, you're going to have diverse views of "the right thing." To have a functioning civil society, you actually need the opposite of what you're saying. You need a collective general trust that people wil
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by lurk2 1mo ago
> It probably would have been more helpful if you took the time to quote the particular part of my comment which you believe to be untrue. He did.
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by lurk2 1mo ago
This has nothing to do with this board's subject matter.
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by lurk2 1mo ago
I saw a video from the ModRetro YouTube channel a few days ago and thought it was AI because it only had 10,000 subscribers. They’ve been at it since March of 2024 and have less than 400,000 views spread across 54 videos. Strong attention e
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by lurk2 1mo ago
Account created 2 minutes before this comment was made.
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by lurk2 3mo ago
> Perhaps this is a topic that isn't easy to discuss openly? Give it a few years. > J.D. Vance might represent a kind of domestic counter-force in the U.S. that leans more toward 'America First' rather than prioritizing
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by lurk2 3mo ago
This video was extremely disingenuous.
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by lurk2 3mo ago
In 2014 it was Chile, in 2017 it was Honduras, then Colombia and El Salvador in the early 2020s. In Chile and Colombia they were coasting on tax authorities not pursuing them and relying on the cultural cachet of being thought-leading risk
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by lurk2 4mo ago
> There is a ground-level appeal of the China-style panopticon because it delivers public order and clean streets. Correct. > Larry didn't just buy his way to digital dictator by bribing the right people Incorrect. > it answer
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by lurk2 4mo ago
He’s talking about shifting attitudes towards China online, not within China itself.
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by lurk2 4mo ago
This article was posted by a brand new account that has submitted 4 articles from the same blog in less than 48 hours. It also looks like it was written by an LLM. How does something like this even make it to the front page?
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by lurk2 4mo ago
You’re right that my reasoning was off. I don’t think it helps the point OP was trying to make. The argument being made in favor of labor isn’t “The only way for someone to be happy is to have a job” but instead “The majority of people will
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by lurk2 4mo ago
I have no opinion either way but this doesn’t follow. I can imagine a world where people don’t need oxygen to breathe but they still do. If we say people need oxygen, the argument is obviously about the world such as it is rather than the w
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by lurk2 4mo ago
Those industries have been reshoring for more than 5 years.
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by lurk2 4mo ago
WeWork, Theranos, FTX
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by lurk2 4mo ago
Private correspondence corroborates how the founders felt about these issues. They would not have seen things your way. You’re appealing to them as a disingenuous rhetorical technique to validate your own ill-conceived arguments, not becaus
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by lurk2 4mo ago
> Which group do you think the Founding Fathers would say better reflects the American spirit? To me immigrants are clearly the better reflection of the best aspects of American culture. United States Congress, “An act to establish an un
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by lurk2 4mo ago
The flow of students between China and the USA is effectively unidirectional and always has been. What insight do you have to suggest that this will change in the near future?
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by lurk2 4mo ago
It’s irrelevant who you ask because it isn’t how the word is defined.
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by lurk2 4mo ago
> The overwhelming majority of current US residents were immigrants themselves at some point in the last 150 years (only natives were there, everyone else immigrated from somewhere) Having an ancestor who immigrated to one’s country does
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by lurk2 4mo ago
> Most people in the US are immigrants, including white people. If they were born in America they aren’t immigrants. > To think otherwise is anti-American, and you do not belong here. United States Congress, “An act to establish an un
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by lurk2 4mo ago
> Taxation without Representation was literally the driving force for the creation of America itself The issue of taxation without representation had far more to do with the founders’ status as Englishmen and British subjects than their
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by lurk2 5mo ago
> a reputation for a strong engineering culture We’re talking about the company that shipped the storage bug?

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