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by observation 9y ago
I think that the main takeaway and I think Thiel's explanation has the most explanatory power (Tech Stag Hypothesis).
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by observation 9y ago
It just doesn't ring true. Both slavery and imperialism have had a long history before capitalism. Capitalism exists in circumstances with no plausible relationship to slavery or imperialism. It annoys me because this dialectic is so o
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by observation 9y ago
> ny large political system eventually turns out to be either authoritarian or ineffective Your thoughts on seasteading, even as a hypothetical?
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by observation 9y ago
There is something in what you say. I have to say I think this conflation of altright and neonazi is lazy in the extreme. By the media and most posters here. Democratic socialism has overlapping territory with communism but we wouldn't
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by observation 9y ago
There is some light but it's from obscure political ideologies. Nakamoto's Bitcoin, Yarvin's Urbit, Friedman's Seasteading.* These seem concerned with the technical debt we have, used loosely. As the famous Ycombinator t
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by observation 9y ago
Yes, but can you build the Sears house for 35k today without materials substitutions. I don't think you can, prices of commodities were probably lower then, which is not in line with received wisdom. The reason why I mentioned a Tiny H
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by observation 9y ago
The solution I have found is crowd sourced or expert recommendations from the following sources: Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools book and website. Metafilter Reddit's Buy It For Life subreddit Finehomebuilding's Tool Guide I find I
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by observation 9y ago
I don't know, it might be much easier. I myself went on one, found it helped concentration, but neglected to keep up a daily practice since.
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by observation 9y ago
Personally I've always felt the existence of the garage to be an underrated contribution to American innovation. I don't mean Americans aren't aware of it, I mean that sort of thing never comes up when Europeans discuss how t
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by observation 9y ago
Sorry about the edit, I thought I was waffling on too long. My position is not that you're wrong, it's that most of us are missing the subtext of our technological development which is that nearly all of it is computer related and
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by observation 9y ago
I see that view as a form of revisionism. Was it ethnic based nationalism, or was it ethnic based nationalism and political ideology and perverse financial incentives and class warfare and... seemingly countless other things.
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by observation 9y ago
Wages really do buy less house than 100 years ago. This would have been about 1920 when the Sears kit houses were invented. Look at this: http://eastsidehill.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/1927.
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by observation 9y ago
Listening to the shipping forecast is a kind of modern day ritual, I get something similar out of ASMR videos such as this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD6ZktAF_hk
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by observation 9y ago
It's not only what is said, but the timbre of the voice, repetitions and odd names, all these are hallmarks (some types) of the ASMR phenomenon Youtube.
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by observation 9y ago
> Milo Yiannopoulos advocates for practices that would literally kill people, in addition to advocating for pedophilia and getting very close to Nazi talking points. You should be able to post some links illustrating this. I expect he sa
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by observation 9y ago
I had no idea Yetis were into Communism! :-) Thanks for this, it makes entertaining reading on a cold winter's day in front of a roaring fire.
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by observation 9y ago
You may be interested in the podcast audio drama "The White Vault". It's very well produced.
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by observation 9y ago
Sure. Why don't I hear more about Americans doing medical tourism then? Is there some kind of information asymmetry, because it sounds to me as if there ought to be a lot of money to be saved if the sick people knew where they could pu
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by observation 9y ago
That is so, I think probably taxation as a measure of GDP is too dubious a measure for connecting up with a normal person's experience of taxation, in the ideal world they should be related but evidently the devil is in the detail.
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by observation 9y ago
> Why is it perfectly fine to give platforms to people spouting Nazi talking points, or transphobia/homophobia/racism, but the minorities those people are saying should be killed aren't given anywhere near as high a platfo
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by observation 9y ago
This is the thing, the laws in the USA and UK already have provisions for death threats, so when you have to fall back on hate speech or hate crime it is not clear at all that 'hate' isn't merely an appellation that denotes &
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by observation 9y ago
Are you sure Tax Policy Center can be trusted? Those numbers seem very low for Ireland. I'm willing to be wrong but something seems very off here.
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by observation 9y ago
If Americans were as physically fit as they were 50 years ago, would healthcare still be expensive?
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by observation 9y ago
The washlet and machine learning. These bidet/shower toilets are great attachments to existing toilets in America/Europe. The Japanese and Koreans have most of them. The focus that interests me most is using them for gathering dat
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by observation 9y ago
Yes, Twitter is censoring him.
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by observation 9y ago
Non-American here. There has been a role switch. We've always been at war with Eastasia. Where formerly the right harboured the deepest suspicions of Russia, the liberals have taken over the position, probably as a scapegoat for politi
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by observation 9y ago
Probably a large portion of the forum thinks the subject is itself immoral. That option isn't specifically anti-semitic even if it gets those undertones, we should expect every nuclear capable state has come up with items of that sort
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by observation 9y ago
You should not be nuked because those are real questions. I think we have organizations (not legal) which kill anybody attempting the variations of what you describe. We sleep soundly because there exist men willing to do inhuman things to
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by observation 9y ago
A majority on this forum, including those people who believe their financial situation to be dire are still in the top 1% of the richest people on the planet. Should our minimum wage workers be funding anti-poverty programs? I think not, it
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by observation 9y ago
I have a moon question. So the moon affects the gravity of Earth, producing tides. If the moon did not exist, would that affect the 'Tyranny of the Rocket Equation', would it be more difficult or easier to launch spacecraft?

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