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Then call it US + EU vs Russia + China. The point is that it's getting serious.

Watching the (cold, for now) start of a conflict between NATO & BRICS is terrifying.

DUPE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32657112

> strong historical record So did the medical practice of bleeding out a patient. It's been the only way but being the only book in the library doesn't qualify how good the book is. The…

> Text is the best available way I said exactly that. I added that it's horrific and it's not hard to imagine that we will find a better way.

I couldn't disagree more. You don't buy a drill, you buy a way to get a hole in, say, wood. That's the core product. The core product of 'programming' is a software solution. …

I think it's the same reason why so much of our software is poor quality: taking something from "works" to "works well" is a cost sink. It will cost you and yet doesn't …

That was my argument above. It's something Adam Smith didn't realize: Capitalism optimizes to discomfort. Over the decades, airlines have found more ways to put more seats in the same space…

We specifically got a printer that only can connect via a USB cable and it's been perfect. But that's not the answer. Why? It's not that much data. WiFi doesn't seem to have som…

There's a long list of comments in that thread discussing "why" it's the case, with most simply saying "it's difficult." I disagree. I think it's the same reas…

I'm completely agreeing with you. I've argued this in the worst possible way because everyone is assuming I'm saying the opposite. I'm not saying the seed is different, I'm …

How did you get that I'm arguing nature over nurture here? I'm literally saying the opposite. Rich people nurture and help their children with connections, etc.

> There are traits that rich people have that seriously help them maintain and acquire wealth. I'm saying the only traits that rich people have "that seriously help them maintain and ac…

My email is in my profile. I'd like to talk more.

You're really bad at logic but you're confident in it; that's not a good combination.

Separation Church & State Tesla cars are burning slate Crackdowns on encrypted talk Britain shock We don't want the MONKEYPOX!

I wouldn't use those terms but my comment was similar: The end of the US/NATO hegemony / The rise of a BRICS equilibrium

It's not that there's inflation -- it's the level of it. It's massive and will play out in very large terms in the coming years.

This is crazy big news and no one is talking about it.

The end of the US/NATO hegemony / The rise of a BRICS equilibrium If this is true, what does it mean? China will invade Taiwan? What else?

> What I am doing is falsifying your hypothesis That is not what you are doing. You are picking a winning lottery number and saying why did this number win and others not? That's faulty lo…

Rousseau said, "Money is the seed of money." We can guess at the myriad of reasons but we don't have to wonder if it's true. I'm sure you've read this but if not, it&#x…

He went to a fancy private boarding school as a boy and his family had connections. > how does being the son of a guy who owned an emerald mine in South Africa explain him being richer That's …

This is the type of statistic that embarrasses statistics. How many of those rated "highly intelligent" (I would be fascinated on how they measured that!) were in an elevated economic gro…

"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" -- Lenin

It's "zavináč" in Czech -- pickled herring. If you buy them in a jar, they're rolled up, looking a lot like that symbol.

Same here. I find it a little funny that I’m 54 now and when I was watching the video of the ad I was thinking, “That’s so COOL!!”