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I could see future China pulling some dick-swinging moves like requiring putonghua for ATC within some expansive interpretation of “their” territory you know, the same kind of thing the US has done ever since it became a world power
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carry on then posted:good. it's only a matter of time until other areas like aviation switch over as well eschaton posted:I could see future China pulling some dick-swinging moves like requiring putonghua for ATC lool no. yes that would be a swinging dick move, for sure, and the immediate effect on the country would be a shutdown of their international air travel. no airline on earth is going to spend the money, let alone time, teaching their pilots a new language just to keep the chinese flights. best case: - if you live in a major hub city you can still get a direct flight to beijing with a departing chinese airline, but your schedule options are curtailed like you're flying to north korea - if you don't live in a major hub city you have added at least one layover to every flight going to china, plus the associated schedule problems - airports in surrounding countries will be swamped as airlines start dumping people in japan or vietnam to catch a small domestic shuttle into the country man what a dumb poo poo idea.
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eschaton posted:I could see future China pulling some dick-swinging moves like requiring putonghua for ATC within some expansive interpretation of “their” territory china, unlike the US's bipartisan china policy of cutting off our nose to spite our face, actually cares about commerce so won't do something like this abruptly to exert power
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the comments thread on the assassination of the Haitian prime minister is so bad
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Vaslo 2 hours ago [–] This reminds me of the scene in The Shining when Wendy disturbs Jack. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to do Jack’s reaction when someone interrupts me. reply
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hobbesmaster posted:china, unlike the US's bipartisan china policy of cutting off our nose to spite our face, actually cares about commerce so won't do something like this abruptly to exert power have you paid attention to prc diplomacy lately
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bob dobbs is dead posted:have you paid attention to prc diplomacy lately no, it turns out the US’s monitor was off
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growup12345 51 minutes ago | parent | favorite | on: Paternity leave: The hidden barriers keeping men a... The main thesis of Morgenroth is that men and women are equal in terms of their ability to be communal… but are they? No evidence offered, just some philosophical symmetry “it has to be” argument is concocted. I don’t buy it: in western countries you are protected by law if you want to take parental leave, so if men want to do it they should do it regardless of what “society” thinks. The law gives them the power to do so, hence who cares about the hypothetical existence of these “deep prejudices”: even if it is as bad as they say, it’s not like anyone can fire them. But you might miss out on your career: and that is logical… if you go away for 5 months, then your colleague who is ultra competitive and childless and was waiting for his chance will just snatch up your position and when you are back you will find yourself sidelined. I see zero issues with this: you prioritised family, hence where your career will go from that point shouldn’t matter to you at all. Are people supposed to modify business objectives due to personal choices? If people do believe the answer is yes, we are entering the land of such deeply ingrained entitlement that to me that is the real problem. No one owes you anything in life: if you think otherwise, you are set for a disaster.
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Ewe, the peasants want to breed.
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Xik posted:Are people supposed to modify business objectives due to personal choices? If people do believe the answer is yes, we are entering the land of such deeply ingrained entitlement that to me that is the real problem. as if your business objectives weren't the result of some capitalist making a personal choice, but the immutable word of God
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I love that the next sentence isquote:No one owes you anything in life: if you think otherwise, you are set for a disaster. yeah just like nobody owes any loyalty to your business objectives, fucker
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quote:I see zero issues with this: you prioritised family, hence where your career will go from that point shouldn’t matter to you at all. just careening from absolute to absolute without any forethought or empathy or understanding of power structures
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surely that person would not mind being passed over for promotion due to spending too much time posting on hn during working hours
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unquitting the forums just to bring you this npr markov reality nugget Litnerd (YC S21) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com) Litnerd is building the Pixar for Education. INSPIRATION: Just as Lin-Manuel Miranda took a history book (the story of Alexander Hamilton) and brought it to life through art and theatre ('Hamilton the Musical' is now EduHam – a history teaching program in public schools across the nation), so too will Litnerd teach students with that same inspiration of bringing subjects to life.
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Ruffian Price posted:incredible just as the pope is selected by cardinals to speak for god, ceos speak the truth of The Market they are vessels for the invisible hand
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Breakfast All Day posted:unquitting the forums just to bring you this npr markov reality nugget mystes fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Jul 13, 2021 |
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litnerd cd-roms coming soon to a discount metal rack by the checkout counter in a retail outlet near you
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oytis 2 hours ago [–] > Visibility is not a meaningful "reward" for established European newspapers Why? There are two ways how I would land on a newspaper's page. One is if I read them regularly, then I just go to their website directly to check what's new. That's what their loyal audience does, and Google doesn't affect that. Another one is that I'm googling for news about a specific event or specific person - then I go to whatever pages Google shows me. That's how newspaper expand their loyal audience. reply
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NihilCredo posted:Ewe, the peasants want to breed. avi/post combo
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Internet Janitor posted:just as the pope is selected by cardinals to speak for god, ceos speak the truth of The Market this is where evangelicalism is headed if its not there already
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Hobli 4 minutes ago | parent | favorite | on: Jeff Bezos’ Dystopian Legacy Goes Far Beyond Amazo... The EU like Bezos didnt care about it much while their empires expanded. The "enlightenment" happened only after their arms race to colonize the planet ended in world wars. Learning takes time. Emporer Bezos is thankfully a tad smarter than the Kings and Queens of the EU and his road to "enlightenment" will be much shorter with less devastation and trauma. I just hope, after they learn their lessons, the Amazon corporate robots will be less sanctimonious than present day Europeans.
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the only bezos enlightenment that would make a difference to society is if his shoulders and neck were enlightened by 10lbs or so in minecraft
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that's actually a thought. has bezos done more damage than the collective monarchies of old europe combined?
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dioxazine posted:that's actually a thought. has bezos done more damage than the collective monarchies of old europe combined? think he's got a ways to go to catch up with leopold
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dioxazine posted:that's actually a thought. has bezos done more damage than the collective monarchies of old europe combined? nah, i don't think bezos is any worse than your average gilded age robber baron now the zucc, on the other hand...
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quantumsequoia 1 day ago [–] One plausible explanation that is less damaging: Gates is a utilitarian and determined that the net benefits that could come from networking with Epstein outweighs the risks. It can kind of be perceived as the trolly problem in real life. Do you pull the lever and get one person's blood on your hands, but result in 4 met lives saved? Or do you stay morally pure by refusing to kill someone... and let the 5 people die by your inaction? Gates does strike me as an analytical, ends-justify-the-means kind of guy
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laurent92 15 hours ago [–] I understand, but it sounds like we are digging ourselves into the same hole as USSR workers who were not incentivized to deliver working products, when we do that. It’s a civilizational peril. How do we solve cooperation at large scale? Is the only way to watch large companies accumulate bored employees and constantly recreate “the small guy”, the startup, which will finally make things right, until they become too big to be incentivized? reply
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hmmmm I seem to recall someone writing about how workers under capitalist modes of production can feel alienated from their labor
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mystes posted:quantumsequoia 1 day ago [–] i was just thinking of the children when i plugged that teenager
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the onlyfans thread is unsurprisingly full of sad coomers: 9530jh9054ven 18 minutes ago [–] >If you've got a robust social network then [watching Twitch / OnlyFans as a parasocial interaction] is not all that harmful, and if you don't then it's at least something, but you can trick yourself into thinking that something is enough when really it can be quite a shallow and ephemeral social experience. Doesn't that also apply to any kind of interactions though? Every single group I've ever participated with in my entire life has always been shallow and ephemeral. Especially the in person interactions. vmception 2 hours ago [–] On the other hand, I have found it pleasant how reliably non-offensive it is to ask almost any attractive* woman about their subscription content now. It is mostly freemium or they are willing to have an objective conversation about how they’ve been thinking about it. I don’t really think it is different from a parenting perspective. Many of the women** appreciate the approach about their content because the intentions are clearer and they don’t have to guess what a guy thinks about anything while also knowing that guy finds them attractive but isn’t likely going to bother with anything non-consensual or at least not blow up on them on the spot. From what I can tell, many of the women (that I’ve met in person and subsequently asked about their streaming services) were also hostesses and strippers and/or dabbling in modeling and pivoted when the venues weren’t available through the pandemic, something that offered only a slightly greater temporary anonymity and equally outside of the view of protective parents. When the analytics leak from these websites, I bet the demographics data would subvert all assumptions. If enough people do it, the “blackmail” potential from having digital shareable erotic content evaporates. So that should give some peace of mind with this direction of the world. *A consensus-level of visual attraction, as opposed to something more subjective. ie. you can look at someone and guess which ones have been suggested to do content by others, and likely have a following to stay active by the time you showed up **My perspective is only about women and isn’t suggesting that only women are content creators
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does that second guy just ask random women he meets whether they stream porn?
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If he finds them physically attractive, yes.
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That whole thread is just sad as gently caress, goddamn.
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blippage 3 hours ago [–] > I feel like these dangerous aspects of sex work are often ignored in the current zeitgeist of de-stigmatizing, I agree entirely. I heard of one young lady who started an OnlyFans, apparently did quite well, but decided to stop it because of the psychic damage. I'm going to be heavily downvoted for this, but I'm going to say it anyway ... We need to stop all the bullshit about how it empowers women. Certain sections of the Women's Lib movement are particularly to blame for this, and it is right to heavily censure them. Sites like OnlyFans exploit lonely young men who are poor at making connections with women. It's morally wrong to engage in exploitative behaviour. Period. I don't care if they're "beta cucks", "incels", "losers", or whatever de-humanising manshaming words one cares to use, exploitative behaviour is still wrong. Sure, if you bounce your tiddies over on OnlyFans then it doesn't make you literally worse than Hitler, but these people should be discouraged from what they're doing. reply
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hn thread: "if you bounce your titties on OnlyFans then it doesn't make you literally worse than Hitler"
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NihilCredo posted:the onlyfans thread is unsurprisingly full of sad coomers:  how the gently caress does anyone read hn... get this poo poo outta my brain!!!!
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quote:tomc1985 12 hours ago | undown | parent | flag | favorite | on: Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
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xyzzy21 11 minutes ago [–] It's easy to destroy something. But very hard to replicate its order and structure quickly, status quo ante. This is why conservatives exist: they know this so their position is: "Think this plan through 3-20 more times first to make absolutely sure you know what you are getting into". For some of us who'd spent time in the Middle East, we knew the invasion of Iraq was 1) based on bogus justification, and, 2) would end very badly. What actually happened was well within #2's range. And 100% predictable
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living in a historically fairly socialist country it is interesting that the word conservative is not really used in politics, but when it is it tends to align with the american view, despite that not making a whole lot of sense. liberal is defined as you would expect from circumstances though; right-wingish and anti-tax and so on.
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