monadINtop

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by monadINtop 1y ago
Yeah that's a fair point as well.
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by monadINtop 1y ago
there's got to be at least one hafiz commenting on HN
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by monadINtop 1y ago
>which means ownership of U.S. assets by domestic citizens will increase Which to be clear will be largely domestic oligarchs and other whales since the vast majority of domestic citizens in the US don't have enough capital to own a
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by monadINtop 1y ago
Like you say, it's just a more intuitive classical analogy for people who don't want to waste good years of their life (like me) to understand the mathematical detail of theoretical physics. The electron doesn't actually have
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by monadINtop 1y ago
I disagree, if we're gonna be hyping up machines for their prowess at "thinking" and being artificially "intelligent" in that soft effusive human way then yeah I think its fair criticism. We already knew from the 50
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by monadINtop 1y ago
Yeah perhaps, but its really hard to say anything concrete either way
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by monadINtop 1y ago
As a theoretical physicist, yes physics could definitely be subjective between different species. Physics is the way HUMANS describe nature to themselves. I don't doubt that it describes some greater nature outside of us that is invari
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by monadINtop 1y ago
No quite obviously cutting costs increases profit which goes into reinvestment to then generate more profit and so on. It has no relation to prices unless the business happens to be losing customers to competition which is unrelated. Price
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by monadINtop 1y ago
And in what world is the incentive of cutting costs and price gouging - of necessities no less - aligned with the incentives of the vast majority of mankind who would just like energy, healthcare, housing, public infrastructure, etc. to be
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by monadINtop 1y ago
I don't see how that quote or the article contradicts the title?
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by monadINtop 2y ago
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide...
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by monadINtop 2y ago
He's beaten nameless king, pre-nerf radahn, melania etc.
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by monadINtop 2y ago
the joke's on all of us as long as we continue letting them get away
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by monadINtop 2y ago
>Read a couple books Maybe you should? It might help improve your reading comprehension. The person you're responding to said that most normal people don't care enough to switch to a vastly less popular app, which is obviously
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by monadINtop 2y ago
In that case it would be similarly be helpful if you focused your initial response on a key point of contention rather effusively and ineffectively allude to several. I will keep my reply as focused as possible. You initially claimed that i
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by monadINtop 2y ago
>were conquered by Cortez and his "army" of 500 Along with the other subjugated groups who turned on their imperial suzerain, as you briefly alluded to. >The fundamental problem is that the Aztecs were armed with basic bows,
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Technology wasn't the primary cause in the genocide of the Native Americans. The initial factor was the introduction of plagues to the Americas from the numerous intraspecies transmission that occurred in the old world as a result of t
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by monadINtop 2y ago
>So, which countries did China liberate from oppression? My friend, what are you babbling about? Did you hallucinate me saying that China is my model of a utopian society? Again. Which countries has China invaded or toppled, outside of t
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Ah ok, so in other words we have to consider hypotheticals in order to even try and draw a comparison to the other state in question.
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by monadINtop 2y ago
I think this misses the deeper relationship between the Falun Gong and western intelligence agencies, that goes beyond just "pandering to right-wing nuts" after a period of "spontaneous" support from mainstream western o
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Which countries has china invaded, illegally or otherwise? Which governments have they toppled, covertly or openly?
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by monadINtop 2y ago
I never started talking about income, that was you, and if you can't see the relation between wealth and living standards than maybe it's for the best you don't discuss it at all.
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by monadINtop 2y ago
I think its more than "we just found some math that fits the data" in the sense that its not just a case of adding some terms to match an observed curve - for example like with Rayleigh-Jeans' law vs Wein's Approximation
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by monadINtop 2y ago
I will reply to the rest with more links when I get time but I'd like to point out your fixation on the bottom 10%. The bottom majority that i specifically mentioned is not that 10%. Wealth inequality is not just a matter of homeless a
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by monadINtop 2y ago
>"National wealth" is not a vague notion, it's the product of lots of government workers doing a lot of statistics Wow what a convincing justification for the need to equate the measurement of rising capital within nationa
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Do you think a decades long trend of upward concentration of wealth is remotely equatable to my next door neighbor winning the lottery? Where do you think that money even comes from? >because what other people are making or can afford sa
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by monadINtop 2y ago
I think income inequality is at least part of the story in overall standard of living along with other markers of material wealth, purchasing power, productivity, wage-stagnation, etc. What numbers in particular do you think could be more u
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by monadINtop 2y ago
To keep my reply brief, wealth can refer to many things including material goods but let's restrict ourselves to money, since both of the articles you've cited does the same. Money is not a resource. You cannot eat or build with i
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Cherry picking problems that have been solved in the last few decades are not relevant to a discussion focused on declining standards of living in relation to the economy and it's structure and how the average person experiences it - i
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by monadINtop 2y ago
Thomas Piketty's book on the matter should have enough for you. http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2015AER.pdf https://wid.world/news-article/whats-new-about-wealth-inequa... https:&#x2F

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