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I think you might be having a completely valid emotional response to your consciousness being called false. False Consciousness, like Dictatorship of the Proletariat, are specific …

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Amusing - it's immediately obvious that Harvard's political philosophy degrees, or at least Julius Krein's, seem to be given out based on word count and not much to do with politic…

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>The Fact Remains That Your A Guy From Reddit, And Im A Guy Who Posts On A Website Thats Somewhat More Prestigious Than Reddit Dril is the Shakespeare of our age.

One might imagine China wants Xinjiang to remain Chinese, just as the US wants Texas to remain American. Let us construct a hypothetical situation where our geopolitical adversarie…

Policing in America is a mostly modern invention, and the first public full-time police force is less than 200 years old: before the police, towns would typically have a night watc…

More reasoned analyses of 20th century performed by actual academics tend to view the collapse of the Soviet Union as a complex process with multiple confounding factors, including…

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Is it really evil if a few children die in the factory? Is it really evil if the work week is 96 hours? Is it really evil if we go hungry while the profits of labour are captured b…

It is obvious that we do not live in an actual democracy. Consider this: Do you actually get to vote on anything? Do you get to vote on major national issues? Did you get a referen…

I am also an optimist and a techno-utopian... BUT: 1. This has not been tested on a single human yet, as it has no FDA approval. 2. Preliminary trials in full quadripilegic patient…

These are all simple platitudes, provided without reference. Imagine believing that 'socialism is just a phase' -- as if the entire history of the USSR, the Eastern bloc, most of A…

The point is that the government doesn't need to borrow any money in the first place. The government needs money only to buy the goods and services of the private sector in the ser…

I haven't had any HiDPI issues -- the WQHD (2560x1440) display is quite usable at both 100% and 200% scaling. I've tried laptops with 4K displays and this is a far better experienc…

The external 1080Ti will run pretty much everything flawlessly. I play Overwatch, Rocket League, GTA V, etc, and run everything with max settings and get consistent 60FPS with vsyn…

ThinkPad T480 (with a 1080ti in an external GPU enclosure for gaming at home / ML) 32 GB, 10+ hour battery life, 1Tb of flash storage with OPAL transparent self-encryption, WQHD ma…

I got started with a girlfriend, specifically. For the first month, we agreed to do the following: 1) No breakfast 2) Only coffee (no sugar, sweeteners) or tea during the day 3) Go…

I can actually speak from expertise on this! I've done fasting for the last five years (daily, eating once between 6-9PM), but this advice mostly comes from endurance road biking. …

Don't write anything on your resume that would indicate "number of years experience" -- list your jobs, explain key achievements, don't distill anything down to a number. Your resu…

China has also banned Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Bitcoin... The lesson here is to invest in any technology that China bans.

I'd prefer not to gamble millions of lives on the theory that people or states (especially states that are effectively just one person) are going to act completely rationally. Here…

If one studies history, even casually, one might note that nearly all wars in history have not started as a result of rational actors making optimal decisions in accordance with ga…