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raidicy··on Ukrainians Win the Long War
Why is it banned? What is the accepted narrative and what is the alternative narrative?
raidicy··on Launch HN: Stock Unlock (YC W22) – Investment Education for Everyone
>(understand the company, understand the industry, understand the geo-political context), and explaining people how to evaluate their appetite for risk and how to invest within that risk profile.

Can you recommend any books/media for this specifically? I've often wanted this type of material but haven't been able to distinguish pop-economic feel-good/self-help books from high value ones.

raidicy··on Bad behavior is almost always good politics (2021)
I had not seen this before. Thank you for helping to improve my accuracy of the events.
raidicy··on Bad behavior is almost always good politics (2021)
>...some protestors were trampled by a police horse

I was under the impression fox news admitted to this being false[0].

[0]https://www.yahoo.com/video/fox-news-contributor-admits-crea...

raidicy··on Psychological Operations
Do you have any suggestions on materials that might aid in critical or strategic thinking?

How closely related are PsyOp and Public relations/marketing/communications?

Is PsyOp analogous to strategic sophisticated trolling?

raidicy··on Minimal English (2018)
I have studied Toki pona for a little while in the past. It's emphasis is on minimalism and context. Especially since the Lexicon is around 130 words. It sounds like things can be ambiguous, but once you get a hang of it communicating is pretty easy.

In my opinion this allows you to learn the grammar and how to speak relatively easily( which is also helped by the fact that there are relatively few grammar Concepts)

Further there is an offshoot of the community called Toki ma, where it's emphasis is on building on the Concepts that are from Toki pona and extending them to be more of an aux lang and to be more fledged out as to be able to discuss complicated Topics.

With all that said, I really would like to see some sort of version of this for other languages. From my limited language learning it seems there's a huge learning curve in the beginning that can somewhat taper off after you get a good handle on a language's grammar. For example knowing definitively three to four hundred words you must know to be able to speak basic Japanese/Spanish/French etc, cuts down on your study requirements.

There are of course arguments against this, but it seems like a cool idea.

raidicy··on KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (1984)
I wish there were literature or media on the subjects that Curtis covers. I find Adam Curtis is more focused on making entertaining docus than explicitly informative. On occasion in other docs he's made some claims of fact on topics that have more nuance than "yes" or "no".
raidicy··on How can minorities of regular individuals overturn social conventions?
So is Marxism a victim of being connflated with people masquerading as Marxist committing atrocities?
raidicy··on How can minorities of regular individuals overturn social conventions?
Please understand my lack of education in this subject.

According to other comments Marxist governments have committed heinous crimes. I have asked questions about whether or not those crimes are the result of Marxism or the people who enforced it.

I understand that there is a large stigmatisation against criticizing capitalism and the free market in America. Capitalism and free market politics seem, as I have no real education for this type of thing, as though they've become symbols of America. And symbols and ideology are usually venerated.

I am left to wonder a few things:

If Marxism truly is responsible for suffering at scale, then why are there people still fervently attached to the idea? Is it a lack of historical context? Is it the same kind of idea why some people become neo-nazis; some romanticized ideation how the world should work?

Further despite any of this, why do people still espouse the idea of class distinctions? (This sounds like a very right sounding question).

Regardless of any political or economic theory or ideas, I personally think that there is a distinction between the interests of people who work for a wage ,the "average"person, and the people who govern / own property/production/govern. To dismiss this would ignore the whole industry of lobbying. With which the entire point is to further corporate interest in government. Whereas these interests may not necessarily be maligned against the average person, they are not in the interest of the average person.

I apologize for my ramblings as I don't have anybody to discuss this with. My final question becomes this: is Marxism a flawed system but still has some good ideas in it?

raidicy··on How can minorities of regular individuals overturn social conventions?
I am like a baby when it comes to political and cultural thought. I apologize if my questions are stupid.

Is Marxism a form of Socialism? And are the failings of the implementations throughout history a direct result of the ideology itself?

raidicy··on How can minorities of regular individuals overturn social conventions?
I would like to preface my comment the idea that I have limited knowledge of this entire field.

So it seems that leaders who have tried to implement Marxist ideas have committed great atrocities. Did they commit those atrocities in the name of Marxism, or were they corrupt and used Marxism as a guise for totalitarist actions?

Because class struggle is such a Hot Topic in Marxism, is the above the reason why the idea of class struggle is completely dismissed in America? The reason I ask is because there is a good long history of employers taking advantage of employees. And those employers having government support to do so. Although, most of my examples come from 1850-1920, there are still some issues that working people face today from their employers and the government. Unions aside, did the atrocities committed by Marxists contribute to stigma against questioning the status quo?

raidicy··on How can minorities of regular individuals overturn social conventions?
>They got exposed as Marxists, and everyone started distancing themselves, thankfully.

What does that mean though? Why would Marxism be a signal for avoiding the movement?

I don't know anything about Marxism.

raidicy··on The HTTP of VR
Aframe comes to mind. You can have full VR experiences that link just like a Link in HTML to other VR experiences.

https://aframe.io/examples/

raidicy··on Tether launches Bitcoin-based startup Synonym
Interesting. Definitely a lot of bitcoin maxi talk. Although I would like to see more details on this uncensorable "2nd economy".

When they say lightning tokens, are there really going to be altcoins supported on bitcoin's infra ala altcoins on ETH?

raidicy··on Adam Curtis’ “Bitter Lake”: A Review
I really do not like it at in episode 1, of his latest doc series, Curtis did not show the very questionable results from MK Ultra and chose only to cherry-pick the only woman coming forward to say that it wiped her memory and cut it so that it looked very credible. And then went on further to say that it only wiped patients memories which from my understanding all it did was create a bunch of people with PTSD or Nothing at All.

Ironic that the episode is largely about paranoia,disinformation and persuading someone's thoughts based on narratives. Curtis asserts shaky if not outright wrong results about a once popular American Mythos, MK Ultra.

If my suspicions are true; in that which he has assembled a series of facts that he believes fits a certain narrative that he is weaving into this documentary, the irony would further solidify into an ingot. As this first episode is also about succumbing to false narratives via paranoia and the false idea that appearance of patterns alone are evidence enough of a phenomenon. While this episode attempts to dispel the notion that grand conspiracies and higher forces are driving the centuries narrative, his cuts and edits and how he presents the information may weave his own.

It's disappointing because I want to watch something like this that condenses and attempts to form some kind of understanding on how the state of the world is today.

raidicy··on Show HN: A tool for your learning, like Anki and Notion in one
I dislike subs. Any plans for one-time-purchase with offline support?
raidicy··on OpenAI Codex
lmao; copyright muted so you can't even hear them speaking.
raidicy··on Biden Issues Zero-Emissions Vehicle Executive Order
While I find it nice that many people were able to bring to light some poorly written legislation, and actually have some impact , it's kind of a bummer that this action might not have been successful if it was not about money.
raidicy··on Facebook drops funding for interface that reads the brain
I also have RSI and it stops me from being a productive programmer, playing any sort of video game, and completely ruined my life for a couple years. If I get really good sleep I can use the computer for a couple hours without any pain at all but normally I'm relegated to only using my hands for a little bit each day otherwise I'll injure them. I tried using voice to text but then I injured my vocal chords using it. Physical therapy and Rehabilitation is slow and I doubt I'll ever be able to have the full use of my voice and hands again. Having a BCI would improve my quality of life immensely.
raidicy··on Heat dome causing record breaking heat wave
Stupid question. Can't we just let the brine evaporate and then compress the minerals left over?
raidicy··on Paperlike 253: The First 25.3 inch E-ink Monitor
Is this 2500 because the tech is new or because one company has the patents for it?
raidicy··on Internet in a Box
This was my thought exactly. Excuse my naivety, but shouldn't a wifi-enabled pi be able to broadcast and automatically connect to others around it? And as long as they all have unique names shouldn't <piname>:port_number be possible for a simple web sever on them?
raidicy··on Kernel – non-invasive brain interfaces
I really would like some consumer level BCI that would allow trainable actions so that I could map them to macros or mouse movements. Until think most of these products are either novelties or maybe only beneficial to researchers.
raidicy··on Utopia, a visual design tool for React, with code as the source of truth
First I have to apologize. I hadn't upgraded chrome. After updating it did not happen again on chrome. It does happen on firefox[0], and I do realize that you've stated your app works best in chrome.

Lastly, thanks for making this. It looks really cool.

[0]https://streamable.com/jth0pn

raidicy··on Utopia, a visual design tool for React, with code as the source of truth
As soon as I resize the code menu this[0] happens. Everything shifts up and I cannot scroll it down or get it back to normal without refreshing.

[0]https://imgur.com/a/N82Zutz

raidicy··on Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)
Genuinely curious; is eating something processed like this better than eating regular unprocessed ground meat?
raidicy··on Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
In my very naive opinion; borrowing the open-source (or at least source available) models from software would benefit nearly every industry.
raidicy··on Exporting image assets from ethereum smart contract with solidity
What about storing a base64 string and decoding it in the client? Would an arbitrary base64 string fit in a 256 variable?
raidicy··on Andreessen Horowitz Leads $25M Round in Ethereum Scaling Solution
Avax also failed their big launch and had accounts with negative balances.

Aside from that; at this point I think eth will end up becoming a stack of tech.

raidicy··on The GameStop stock is part of our national pandemic gambling binge
At the risk of sounding dumb; why not? As long as you put money in you're willing to lose it seems it's better to take a calculated risk on a stock or cryptocurrency in hopes for a return. When you're poor and can make as much as a paycheck in a single lucky trade it almost doesn't make sense not to try.
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