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That feels more right to me. Maybe inning 8 on money/hype.

That's because they fucked up. I don't know where you've been but we have been dominating oil markets since the end of WW2. The dollar is sometimes called the "petrodollar" because…

in the case of airplanes the only thing thats the private market is the planes and the ticket, the entire system of airports, safety, navigation is state subsidized and when the ma…

Dropsite news is good, but are you familiar with manufacturing consent’s propaganda model of the mass media? A simplified explanation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M&ra=…

Pro-US slop. The greatest threat is our own government. They are the ones with a right-wing government building a repressive apparatus across a huge number of datacenters and are p…

NSA probably read and stored a highly significant fraction of those emails.

The real story here is that prediction markets were banned for a reason and loosening the rules is causing chaos just as was expected. AI plays little role in this story, hacking b…

Whether or not this is really true or just US propaganda, the majority of technology transfer has occurred through the open process of requiring US companies to form partnerships a…

It makes me feel a little crazy seeing the constitutional architecture post-civil war used to diffuse responsibility away from the federal government and divide the people against …

This is kind of a strange take. Local taxes are for petty but useful stuff because the sovereignty of your locality is heavily circumscribed by state and national authorities. That…

Books are generally far higher quality texts too. The really good articles get republished as books, think about that.

That's true, but I still benefit from the games being played. It also weakens the oligarchs slightly by reducing their margins. It's also worth remembering that the laws were writt…

We have the laws, but I don't have to feel outraged when regular people undercut the oligarchs and those people's interests align with my own.

Generally speaking, companies retaining a competitive advantage with each other is good for their investors but bad for the public. It's usually to the public's benefit for employe…

Worth noting that it is the Europeans and Americans that have been colonial. Asian peoples have, with the prominent exception of the Mongols and Japanese Empire, pretty much not do…

This is a just so story. The main issue today is the lack of democracy in the country and the use of technology to surveil and govern a restive population as the government has les…

Thank you, that's very helpful to know!

I played a little bit around with LISP but I was astounded when I saw that you run programs using the live REPL. I thought, how can you reliably deploy a finished program if it can…

Drones fly over Gaza all the time, scaring the shit out of people and sometimes murdering them senselessly. They have done this over many countries.

I don't really understand how any of this contributes to "defense". Sounds like "offense" to me. Just patrolling the skies over non-white countries and launching missiles at weddin…

That's confusing. The rich make their money and hold their assets in economically productive (or extractive) enterprises. Land, factories, services, arms, etc are the real storehou…

His statement at the end was pretty interesting: "If we do want to change our relationship to technology, I think we’d have to do it intentionally. My basic thoughts are roughly: W…

"Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha-Joon Chang" "How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang …

Robert Maxwell, Ghislane Maxwell's father, was a big player in turning the industry towards profit seeking (though I agree with the sibling comment that it's capitalism's fault ult…

nothing wrong with nationalizing