alephknoll
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> Democracy / constitutional republic is an option for highly intelligent and engaged population. Democracy works best when the population is dumb, scared and disengaged. > Without democracy, revolts just result in more…
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> Those who wrote the characters of Noah and Manu probably had same ancestors or the story travelled between Levant and Indus region. They can't have the same ancestors because one is of aryan lineage and the other is…
It was just a simple observation. You are reading into things too much. There's no need to be so defensive. Your comment hasn't upset me in the slightest ( rationally or irrationally ) and I sincerely hope you weren't…
Do you have regret? Ever asked yourself why did I do drink coffee just before bed. Have you ever played a game and thought if I do this, then my opponent will do that, so maybe I shouldn't do that. Have you ever had a…
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Google workers protest China contract. Sentiment of top comments : 'If you work at Google and you have participated in this protest: Thank you.' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17776276 Google workers protest…
By that criteria, everything is a failure. After all, it's the job of the proponent to oversell you on things.
So does israel. Will politico write a hit piece about that as well?
> After banning TikTok people will naturally start to wonder about regulating Facebook and other social media and this would be a good thing. It's not 'people' demanding anything. It's the elites. Why would the elites…
> Russia is a minor player compared to China, a distraction that was welcomed by China with open arms as it helps divide and weaken the West. How does that follow? The war united the west, not divide it. > China is the…
It's the same thing as banning. It's banning via a different method. It's more of a ban than china 'banning' US social media for refusing to follow chinese laws within their own country.
Or they could take the easier and less conspiratorial route and control government by controlling intelligence? Governments act based on intelligence. Intelligence determines who we go to war with, what surveillance…
"Easiest" is probably entering illegally and signing up for the military.
The point of H-1B is to lower wages. Not to stabilize them. It's a way to increase supply of labor which puts downward pressure on wages.
You can have a 2-3-4 right triangle if you can find the right axioms for it.
> Which is why the south fielded close to a million man army What does this have to do with the fact that most south vietnamese wanted reunification? You mean governments are able to pay poor men to sign up for wars?…
> Do we need to rethink the idea of global social media platforms? Maybe even the idea of a global internet. Yes. > If countries like Brazil or India want to have everything censored They aren't even the worst. The…
You forgot the best part. Satan has 3 faces and each face has a mouth. One mouth is continuously chewing judas, another mouth is chewing brutus and the third is chewing cassius. For eternity. It's a great book, but it…
> It's not like NATO did any major nation building in Afghanistan or Iraq, at least nowhere near close to post-WW2 Germany... so in that point he did keep his promise. What? So he carried out nation building in 2…
> Maybe because my introduction to him was Would've thought most would view it as dark and melancholy and resigned. You get optimism from those lines? Do you feel the following is optimistic? '... The woods are lovely,…
> It is harder to get 1000 people to participate in an unethical military campaign than it is to get 10 people. No. It's easier to get 1000000 to participate than 1000. But that's not the point. We are talking about…
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If norway or norwegians cared so much, they wouldn't be pumping out so much oil. Norway is a top oil producer on a per capita basis ( along with saudi arabia, qatar, etc ). If norwegians care so much about the…
> No matter how bullish you are on the potential of AI, it's horrifying and categorically unethical to use them to decide who to kill. Is it any more horrifying or unethical to decide without AI? > It creates the…