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Wow! For my money, this might be the most beautiful footage ever recorded. Which makes me wonder, what do others think is the most beautiful video of all?

The CCP has long been building a database on people in all countries of strategic interest (U.S., UK, Austrlia, India, etc etc). And not just the prominent people. All the people. …

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So then just say “poor people”. I’m always surprised at how many well meaning people actually project racist views unintentionally. And by the way, many “people of color” groups ou…

> Know any people of color? They're screwed Uh what? Do you really not see how racist this is???

He broke the law. He fled the country to avoid the rule of law. He sought refuge in a country run by a criminal syndicate that is presided over by a madman ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The key distinction is that they own a lot of Apple stock, but not enough to call people who work at Apple their own employees.

I don't think that is sound logic. As disgusting and insane as this invasion of Ukraine is, the current state of European treaties would not necessitate a world war as an outcome. …

From the article: > * Ukraine is not a NATO ally, and the alliance is not treaty-bound to protect it.* I suspect risking a military engagement between NATO and Russia would be to r…

This is a case of people putting their conscience before their wallets when it really matters–a true act of bravery. People of JetBrains, I salute you.

I think you're not understanding. While a bunch of people losing money is bad, it wouldn't create another Great Depression, per se. A huge investment bank with millions of counterp…

The difference (systemic vs non-systemic) is not just about magnitude, but also in who Lehman's counterparties were and the effects when those counterparties (those who were expose…

Hi, could you please stop marketing here? You've posted a bunch of replies in this thread linking to your employer. It's nice that you're (sort of) disclosing your biases, but we r…

How is crypto a systemic risk? From my recollection of the 2008/09 financial crisis, systemic risks were those in which entities were deeply intertwined with one another on a massi…

You seem to misunderstand me. I don't make an argument for its "rightness". Rather, war crimes will always occur in war. And the primitive instinct to stay alive, at almost any pri…

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> Somewhere between 1:1 and 10:1? Are you asking a question? > Going any further (e.g 200:1) You're engaging in pseudo-intellectual quantification that is meaningless and unbound b…

> you can't seriously be saying it's justified to kill 200k Japanese civilians to save a small handful of allied lives I absolutely would argue in favor of this. In fact, I would a…

> the military dictators of Japan did not plan to surrender The U.S. was on solid ground in its conduct of any form of bombing up until a Japanese surrender-including massive conve…

Then all of the greatest scientists in human history were arrogant (by your judgement). So what? Progress and truth are much, much more important than fitting in and pleasing other…

Society will feel more free if more criminals are caught and punished and thus more potential criminals are deterred.