logic magazine is wonderful too: https://logicmag.io/
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The name libcom is an abbreviation of "libertarian communism" It blows my mind that some people think communism hasn't been tried enough times. "Yes it failed 999 times before, but THIS flavor of communism will definitely work!"
the biggest argument against this is that communist countries still achieve great things in the face of MASSIVE setbacks and sanctions from capitalist countries with lots of power. Yet after an initial period of food insecurity, these nations tend to do great for a while. For example, the CIA reported that the Soviet diet had less calories and was more nutritious than the American diet.
In 1980, the average life expectancy of a man in Russia was 62.5 years. Women about 10 years longer. In other words, less than the average life expectancy of each gender in the US. According to the journal "Alcohol and Alcoholism", the life expectancy improved by a couple of years in the 90s but subsequently fell back to Soviet Union levels. The aggregate life expectancy bottomed out in 2003 (UN Statistics) and has since improved to about 73 (average of men & women). That's #35 on the list of similar countries, trailing countries like Mexico and Iran. The aggregate life expectancy in the US is above 79. These are all from the UN Population Prospects 2022 Report. You can check them yourselves. Finally, are we supposed to trust the CIA?
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#73If you're interested in retro stuff, I highly recommend checking out Byte Magazine's archive at https://worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm . They have issues dating from 1975 to 1994, and the search functionality is pretty good. While not all of their content is of high quality, there are some fascinating gems hidden in there. For instance, their February 1992 issue has a section on Archie, one of the earliest i…
I miss Byte and Nybble mags. There are no good programming/computer mags that take you into the software and teaching programming at different levels. Not just beginner, intermediate, etc., but software and low level hardware for specific chip sets. Raspberry PI mag is the closest thing. Maybe I should just downgrade my desktop to a RPI and enjoy the hobby again. Maybe, build a robo-dog/cat/creature.
you can add Dr Dobbs to that list.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8758915 for the 'end of it' and for the archives https://archive.org/details/DDJDVD6 or https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Dr.+Dobb%27s+J...
Re: Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?
#74A bit more tech and tech-impact focused, but I've enjoyed https://logicmag.io .
You may also like Emergence Magazine. It's significantly more humanities/culture oriented but similarity wide-ranging and imaginative. Come to think of it, I think imagination is one of the qualities that makes Quanta so magical. Ostensibly it's a magazine about the interactions of formal and natural sciences, but they're not afraid to include a bold dash of imagination.
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#75Since nobody shared the Quanta URL yet: https://www.quantamagazine.org
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#76logic magazine is wonderful too: https://logicmag.io/
Logic has been absolutely fantastic but they’ve recently switched owners/editors so it may not be the same in the future.
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#77Outside Online - Long Reads: https://www.outsideonline.com/tag/outside-features/
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
the biggest argument against this is that communist countries still achieve great things in the face of MASSIVE setbacks and sanctions from capitalist countries with lots of power. Yet after an initial period of food insecurity, these nations tend to do great for a while. For example, the CIA reported that the Soviet diet had less calories and was more nutritious than the American diet.
In 1980, the average life expectancy of a man in Russia was 62.5 years. Women about 10 years longer. In other words, less than the average life expectancy of each gender in the US. According to the journal "Alcohol and Alcoholism", the life expectancy improved by a couple of years in the 90s but subsequently fell back to Soviet Union levels. The aggregate life expectancy bottomed out in 2003 (UN Statistics) and has s…
i don't know why you're all arguing about marxist-leninist state communism in a thread about anarchism. of course it's bad and does not work. that's what the link i shared says.
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#79Undark:
It's along the lines of Quanta or Nautilus but with more of an investigative type of work, the main goal being bringing under-reported science-adjacent issues to light.
They do have a slightly leftist tilt but it's still mostly professional. I haven't really noticed them doing that thing left-leaning publications do where they act as though some matter of opinion is fact, and can't conceive of counter-arguments. They do a good job investigating all angles, in my experience.
I had the pleasure of accidentally meeting one of their editors for something entirely unrelated, but we did chat about the magazine and I was pretty impressed with her desire for rigor rather than agenda.
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#80You seem to be interested in the Slow News Movement! I keep a list of online slow news magazines (including Quanta) here:
https://hung.su/slow-news-movement/
Some magazines that no one has mentioned: