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I never said to discard them because they are French, but the political ideas they advance are the centric positions of French culture which for every problem the solution is more taxes, taxes on the rich etc

It would be like expecting American economists to be very libertarian, or Chinese economists very interventionists. The culture of their countries reflects their ideas.

NB: J'habite en France

This is basically a prisoner dilemma on a global scale where the incentives are for single marginalised nations to leverage the fact of being tax havens to survive globalisation. The dream of a single global tax is as possible as making China/US respect any of the agreements they have signed regarding trade and environment.

The same proposal is also criticized by many economists too, who argue that inequality has not risen as sharply as Piketty's crew claims, or that the bulk of that inequality is linked to the real estate, for which the only solution is build more houses and destroy the capital accumulation of older generation to the profit on newer ones.

1: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/deciphering-the-fall-and-...

I would not cite Piketty, Zucman or Saez who are the hardest fighters of the wealth inequality thesis as they usually mix political advocacy and have been criticized in their methodology and have been under a fair share of controversies. Btw I have grouped them because this is how they are usually treated, both by the fact they are all French economists but also on the fact they all push for the same inequality thesis

1: https://www.davidsplinter.com/AutenSplinter-2024-ReplyToPSZ....

2: https://philmagness.com/2014/12/an-empirical-critique-of-tho...

3: https://qz.com/1725562/elizabeth-warrens-economic-advisers-a...

EDIT: Here is the rebuttal for 2 by Piketty himself: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capital21c/en/Piketty2014Tec... courtesy of andrepd

Counter-example: All the European, and world countries who have implemented the various inheritance, wealth taxes and heavy redistribution yet the inequality is still widening. Take France, Norway or Sweden as the ideal social democracies.

Argentina (the end game of social democracy) pre-Milei had a huge array of taxes and regulations which lead to the state misusing that money to actually enrich a small elite of politically aligned. Similar things and arrangements (under the form of subsidies to companies) will happen under Trump and levying more taxes will just give more opportunity for corruption.

I dont see an issue with such a thing, except on the case of legitimate purchase or corruption like the Egyprian bracelet that was smelted for gold.

All EU nations have programs to safeguard cultural artifacts and the UK had trainings as late as the 80s or 90s I think.

As for your first point, the nations set to safeguard their treasures, doesn't mean they weren't at a total war were destroying those of the enemy is out of bounds. The fact that Germany and the UK safeguarded paintings and sculptures doesnt mean they dont destroy the other's one.

As for the Reformation, it happened 500 years ago. Even before and after many heresies and iconoclastic movements destroyed artifacts and historical things for being pagan but I don't see why are you trying to go so far back when there are literal examples of the Taliban explosing Buddhist symbols that date of this century, or Palmyra.

Yes, and? I am sorry but what does that have to do with anything. The point is that Middle Eastern countries dont value their historical heritage enough and in case of civil conflict would at best sell it in the black market, at worst destroy it for ideological reasons. I think in the region only Turkey, Armenia, Georgia and Jordan are trustworthy enough to safe-keep their cultural artifacts existing abroad.

> Syria 2011 > Lebanon 1970s > Algeria 1990s > Afghanistan 1990s

A few simple examples of nations who have went through rather devastating wars and civil wars including Islamists who's main ideology is that anything pre-Islamic is to be destroyed as it might lead to heresy, and who go out of their way to destroy historical places and artifacts. And if not war, then the fact that the cultures of those areas traditionally dont value historical artifacts the same way the developped European, or Chinese influenced countries did in their times.

I am sorry but it is not defending colonization, it is a legitimate issue given that the middle east is stuck on an unresolved powder keg of issues, keeping the Pregammom in Britain instead of where it came from is a good thing.

Even during WW2 the UK, Germany and France set out programs to saveguard historical cultural treasures in protected areas.

Ok let's check the societies where these revolts happened: - Nepal - Morocco (of which I know more of) - Madagsacar

Let's take some time to understand the context.

Wow ideal societies, dreams, people walking with 6$ foofoo drinks where the average monthly salary is 400$ and the inequality and corruption far surpasses the average. When I mean gerontocracies I touch on the west but also on the diverse emergent countries who's politicans and entrentched castes are also very old compared to the median age of their populations.

And even in the West, idk what you mean but you know that consummer electronics has nothing to do with the fact that in most European countries post-2008 there has not been any meaningful wage growth while housing and other necessaities have raised in price. In the US same thing, when it comes to prices vs wage growth and inflation, only with the supplement of having also debt for university. I recommend you search youth unemployment rates by year and country in the OECD.

Stop being an entitled asshole and try to look from the point of view of those more younger.

You know that a fair share of those Gen Z is mid-20s to late 20s now and this is a classical eruption of people who's society doesnt give them the means to support themselves. I dont get the nursery thing, if anything modern societies are a tyranny of the elders, a pure gerontocracy

From my experience in Europe, this comes to being the least bad choice amongst a large series of bad choices. They install CrowdStrike in legacy devices running in critical industries like manufacturing because a lot of devices are legacy (think Windows 2000 and XP in 2025) which cannot be changed because either the company is bankrupt, the machine change would cost millions or the company is strapped for cash and/or labor to actually update all of the necessary (and not supported) industrial computers.

This + corporate shit policies from departents disconnected from the needs on the terrain.

My recommendation is to start researching V2Ray and XRay protocols and translate Chinese made tutorials. This seems to be the only protocol (under the xtls-vision-rpx) that works in GFW countries like Iran, Russia and China. Buy for a month a cheapish VPS and rent it for a month in a close country like Armenia/Caucasus Region, set up an XRAY server and then download Streisand for iOS or the equivalent in Android.

Also the Chinese GFW is not this titanic wall, there are well known exploits that use the 443 TLS port to masquerade as popular wesbites signatures.

If you need some guidance lmk I can write a full tutorial on how XRay/V2Ray works and how to set it up, as well as a series of scripts to generate stuff :)

I am legitimately curious what is the day to day work, and what is the consumer itch they itch for the companies.

Could you develop on your experiences and what is the missing POV that makes so many HNers be against consultancies?

I actually agree, which is why I have high hopes for Ladybird and such. The best type of government is not a democracy but an benevolent dictatorship (also historically called the philosopher-king). You force the politics of neutrality on people, but doing so leads to people on the extremes attacking you and labelling you with unacceptable names like what is happening with DHH and the Omarchy thing

Most historical feminists would be labelled TERFs today, just like the most liberal 19th century politicians would be seen as conservative. TERFS are still feminists. Communists also allied themselves with fascists during the inter-war period yet you can still consider them as separate.

You are most certainly Western, or if not part of the educated and Western brought elites of the Global South. But I most certainly assure you that in the other grand civilizations, the idea you expounded is the standard and just as you feel this idea is the objectively right one, in the other societies with other codes and ethics (Confucian, Vedic/Buddhist, Islamic or non Western Christian), the people living in them have as strong attachment to those ideas as you do. For you the 2 most important values are equality and freedom (deeply liberal values) which are not the same elsewhere.

You also have to understand that just as you are imposing your ideas as "objectively right", in the other societies the other side is doing the same. Thus you are making a political take because it is a value judgement on how societies should operate. You might not like it or not but not only is it a value judgement incompatible with most people in the world, but it is also part of a faction inside your own arena (left wing coded Western politics)

I think the issue with CoC is that they have been used in the past by politically motivated (notably on the left) activists to take control of a project and ensure a political line. You may agree with such a political line like anti-fascism, inclusion and what not. But the issue is that you have opened the door to politics inside what ought to be a technical area, and historically, politics change, the ideas you agree on today will be pushed to more extremes (some you might disagree with) you will not be comfortable with and eventually you will be alienated from them completely. But when that happens, you will have no recourse and will eventually be purged (like those before you, being called the trendy workd of the moment, fascist or woke) too because you accepted the opening of the door to such behaviours, your only solution will be silence.

As for examples of that happening, NixOS comes to mind, the Rust debacle too.

Also another issue you might not see, you are ironically also enforcing a dominant idea (your american culture) onto the rest of the world thus creating a hierarchy where your ideas are right and the other cultural operating systems are wrong.

Contraction in 2023, 2024 and stagnation in this year. It is still has the effects of a recession even if the official data doesnt reflect it.

AudioBOokGENerator -> abogen

One should stop asuming everyone is versed in all slangs (or slurs for that matter) existing in all languages in the world. The author seems to have a Turkish name, thus I will assume he is Turkish and so I would guess he didnt think much about the name.

Idk what world you live in, but Germany has clearly been in recession, unemplyment rose over the last few years and the rest of the Eurozone is in a similar condition

I think this is the most uncharitable reading and understand of Hobbes that exists. The main argument (and context) is that men is evil and can only live in "civilization" by being forced into it by an absolutely powerful state. The fact this state is a monarchy, a dictatroship or a democracy is not the issue. The fact (in which he is right) a state needs absolute power and monopoly of that power. Modern democracies are a good example, they have the absolute power and thus are more stable and peaceful that warlord controlled pseudo-countries in Africa.

In Europe, in order to be compliant with the new banking rules, you need to have a kind of external confirmation which is, ding ding ding your smartphone. You literally need to open your bank app in order to approve online transactions. And increasingly things are being digitalised thus you need will have an increasing need for smartphone because of such proposals.

The alternative is that the bank sneds you a clunky OTP machine with a code every time you want to make a purchase or transaction.

OP, did you also read Gray Mirror this morning. Curtis Yarvin went onto defend the IC idea this morning as a way to defend nascent industries (new industries). Interesting article, also presented the ideas of mercantilism of Friedrich List (originator of the Zollverein idea).

Hi, thanks for the project and contributing a nice European alternative to Outline. I had a few questions relating to Docs as it seems a nice alternative I want to integrate in our company.

- Is it a project funded directly by the Governments or by the NGI funds?

- Is there an extensibility via plugins or other in the future thought for integrations ?

- Is the ProConnect the only way or can one use a self-hosted OIDC or another IdP to login?

I dont have the exact stats under the hand but if you look in the CAC40. There is not a single innovative company founded independently in the last 40 years. All offshoots at best, at worst companies literally founded between 1890-1920, similar in Germany, Spain and Italy. It's kinda crazy ngl.

I think he is referring to this section 3 https://www.denic.de/en/content-pool/denic-domain-terms-and-...

To register a .de domain you need to give your address and legal name. And your national ccTLD is usually the only one that you are sure won't get pulled under you because there are some legally binding rules around it unlike .tv or .me

> It's much better to measure things using Pareto frontiers: pick up the important dimensions that you want to measure a decision or your progress against

This is very interesting, could you develop more on this as I feel like I haven't completed understood it

For a functional VPN with all the telecom companies you should set up a v2ray/Xray node on a close VPS in a country near your area.

It is functional as I had to set up some for some people, if you need help I can guide you through it as there are not many good English guides.