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OG political blogger. Predicted the 2007 collapse. Read: https://t.co/2oa9MDzFwj , Support: https://t.co/XRrXGbpjQm - @ianwelsh.bsky.social

@ianwelsh.bsky.social Katılım Ağustos 2008
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Ian Welsh@iwelsh·
"How To Think." Thinking well is not for the faint-hearted. If you do it properly you will often come to conclusions you hate: reality is rarely as we would have it be: this is not the best of all possible worlds. You must be brave and willing to endure discomfort to think well.
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Ian Welsh@iwelsh·
Wondered why I got asthma from going outside for a minute. Smoke from fires. Routine these days, but I literally can't remember it ever happening in Toronto before 2020 or so.
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Ian Welsh@iwelsh·
@earthdrifted you mean artificial sweetners? I was trying to lose weight and switched to the diet stuff. Constant intestinal issues including bad gas, cleared up when I just said "screw it" and went back to sugar/fructose.
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Balázs Orbán
Balázs Orbán@BalazsOrban_HU·
A dark day for Hungary. Today, Parliament is adopting constitutional amendments that unlawfully remove the sitting President of the Republic and ban sitting opposition MPs from running for re-election. The former Prime Minister had already been banned from running again. This marks the beginning of a constitutional crisis that could last for years. Ironically, it is being created by the party with the largest parliamentary majority in Hungary’s democratic history. Why? Because, like their liberal authoritarian allies in Brussels, they may have won the election, but they know they deceived their voters. And they fear that, in a free and fair democratic contest, they would be voted out. A government that fears the voters will always end up fearing democracy itself.
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Ian Welsh@iwelsh·
Inflation stats in the US and much of the West are just completely worthless. I used to follow this stuff professionally. I made my own sheets and my own adjustments. Now I just ignore it. It's GIGO.
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Anonymous
Anonymous@YourAnonNews·
Remember the days that you could buy a nice big bag of chips for $2.99?
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Branko Milanovic
Branko Milanovic@BrankoMilan·
This is the part of Adam Smith that you will never hear Hoover Institution, AEI, The Financial Times cite. They cite Smith (as they do with others)...let's say, selectively.
Branko Milanovic@BrankoMilan

“Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits”. (Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter 9, “Of the profits of stock”)

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Lei Gong
Lei Gong@gonglei89·
If you are doing socialism with a consumer economy what’s wrong with spending your consumption on a Veblen good? The whole point is in a materially abundant economy you can consume what’s pleases you?
Nusrat Zahra@nusrat_xahra

@gonglei89 Sure..Gucci though cannot be reduced to "nice things".. you are supposed to be "structural thinkers" .

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IGN@IGN·
Research participants for NASA's Moon and Mars Exploration Analog mission will live and work in simulated interplanetary habitats for an entire year and also do mock Mars walks and use a rover to explore beyond the base. go.nasa.gov/3SRrImT
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Ian Welsh@iwelsh·
@RStatecraft If they disarmed they'd be destroyed afterwards. You know that, or I sure as heck hope you do.
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Ian Welsh@iwelsh·
@ChombaBupe Java and C have very different use cases. I stopped programming (we didn't call it coding) in the late 90s, but I remember optimizing code. Some people specialized in doing so in assembly. Get right next to the metal. Code these days is mostly barely optimized, if at all.
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Chomba Bupe
Chomba Bupe@ChombaBupe·
"Before Java someone would say manually allocating memory in C is fun." Try to write a high performance image processing algorithm with Java for loops only. Yes its a lot of fun writing high performance C code with explicitly written memory management system.
Antonio Sarosi@antoniosarosi

Before C, someone writing assembly would say "hand-writing" assembly is fun. Before Java someone would say manually allocating memory in C is fun. Just accept that coding has been abstracted and it will not come back, the minimum building block now is architecture components.

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Andrew Feinstein
Andrew Feinstein@andrewfeinstein·
‘Reindustrialisation through defence’ is a nonsense. In economic terms defence is a ridiculously expensive & inefficient way to create jobs &, because of the limited linkages to the rest of the economy & the extreme levels of public subsidisation, often reduces rather than increases GDP. See the research in ‘Indefensible: 7 Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade’
Declassified UK@declassifiedUK

Burnham outlines no change from Starmer in UK military policy. He praises nuclear arms, "reindustrialisation through defence" & the US alliance. He says, after years of backing genocide: "This Labour government has proved once again that UK leadership can be a force for good in the world".

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