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I think the parent is referring to heavy financialisation of the economy in the West. As we've recently seen, such economy can grow quite unconstrained by the material concerns suc…

Taiwan is liberal democratic china. It's doing quite okay.

It's not just large corporations, it's arguably most jobs, and it's getting worse. Wageslaves don't get to keep those proceeds either, not enough bargaining power.

The UX is horrendous, density of information is a fraction of what it was and the infinite scroll sucks

> not including geeks Sir, this is Hackernews edit: Sorry, I could not resist. Just does not feel like arguments to the tune of "my consumption habits do not require X, so who even…

Not the best success story, granted, but socialist revolutions in China and Russian Empire had definitely hurt the rich as a class. Definitively even.

Why is everyone on social media talking about Midea? I never see any other brand mentioned. Is this a coordinated marketing campaign?

Why Cantonese?

Are you familiar with the "proofster" concept? It's funny how poignantly on the nose some memes can be.

Why? Because killing serial killers is good, and having war is bad? I think the person you were responding to had a more utilitarian view. When war happens, the death of conscripte…

I can't help but notice that your definition of "utopia" includes people never disagreeing with you. And no, you can't justify death penalty because some people "get out on a techn…

No, where are you getting this from? His value proposal was that he was a) an outsider in politics, b) russian speaking ukranian. He was elected on on the platform of reducing corr…

30% of the population protesting - that would be absolutely enormous! Revolutions are made by single digit numbers

Second time? More like fourth time. First there was Crimea, then Donbas, then the current invasion.

I suspect a large part of that 110K would be the government's cut. Again, coming back to the french system, an employee getting 40K after taxes costs ~80K to the institution there.…

Well, no. That money is the total grant sum, to be spent over multiple years, and PhDs are usually funded in full - in Germany a PhD takes around 5 years. Moreover, the money a PhD…

This sounds like quite an outlandish figure, could you please elaborate? For example, an ERC grant would allow for a maximum of 25% of the so called "indirect costs", that is, one …

These are gross overall costs for the full PhD, not yearly salary.

At least in France, where they have PhDs which last only 3 years, a years of PhD would cost ~45K EUR in gross salary (granted the student gets around half of that after tax), then …

Same. Feels like we exist in a very small bubble doesn't it?

There are many good Chinese language films, not all of them Cantonese. You're forgetting about Taiwanese directors (Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien) and mainland sixt…

"We have evidence but it's secret". Hey, we've seen this one before, it's a classic! At this point, the credibility of the trust-me-bro evidence can fall anywhere on the scale betw…

I think if you wanted to bring up meaningful words, those were not the best examples to give. In the recent years, somewhere amongst the endless nuclear threat screeching and the i…

Who cares? It's just words. It's better than getting attacked while being paralyzed with indecision.