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the world's dominant power by virtue of having roughly half the total world population

If human+ level AI takes off one would expect to see a great decoupling of power from population.

New Zealand does have the advantage of an ocean border and thus near total control on entries and exits.

Compared to the very porous land borders of the US.

Of course the easiest solution to the problem is money. You sell the games you don't want for money. You buy the games you want with money.

Much simpler than algorithms for bartering.

You're using "high interest rate" to mean "biotech has great returns right now".

Everyone else is using it to mean "the Federal Reserve has set the interest rate high right now"

Very different situations.

Of course that situation may be reversed for people with a Chinese grandma instead of an Italian grandma.

AoE may be Turing complete but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit

The difference is mostly heart disease not "risky behavior".

If anything the average software engineer is more likely to die of heart disease due to our sedentary lifestyles.

Sitting on chairs is the real "risky behavior" in terms of health, although few people think of it that way.

Your CDC figure is an average over all genders. Assuming hacker news readers are disproportionately men, the mortality rate is even higher, since men die younger than women on average.

Everyone remembers Malcolm X, but does anyone remember the names of the thousands of civilians who protested the Iranian regime and got summarily executed?

Resistance doesn't work very well against highly militarized autocratic regimes.

Maybe the m dash?

The Arab States post-1948 genocide of indigenous middle eastern Jews has been far more complete than Israel's genocide of Muslims. There are almost zero indigenous middle eastern Jews left in the Arab states, vs two million Muslims living in Israel (20% of Israel's population).

long COVID is probably more accepted as a real thing by practitioners at this point than CFS

Isn't long covid just CFS that can be attributed to Covid?

If you accept that multiple viruses can cause "long <virus>" syndromes, of which long covid is just one example, it's plausible that CFS is really a cluster of syndromes, one category of which is these post viral syndromes. We just can't pinpoint the virus behind it every time because most viruses haven't been studied as much as Covid has.

At which point the bitcoin in legacy wallets is clearly worthless

the cheapest and least disruptive option is to cut consumption

And good for the environment!

price to pay for the damage the us and Israel have inflicted on Iran

Well if we're talking reparations, shouldn't Iran pay for the damage Hezbollah inflicted on Israel with Iranian supplied weapons for decades?

Israel withdrew fully from Lebanon in 2000, and this was certified by the UN, yet Hezbollah kept attacking them anyway.

If Hezbollah offered Israel a choice between: peace with Hezbollah OR occupy land in Lebanon, I think Israel would rationally choose peace.

But Hezbollah has never offered this. Their stated goal is complete destruction of Israel.

So if the options are: Hezbollah shoots at you from right across the border OR you occupy a buffer zone and Hezbollah still shoots at you but from further away:

Isn't it perfectly rational to choose the buffer zone?

Imagine if the US government diverted the billions spent on this war into building out green energy infrastructure.

If everyone had electric cars charging from solar then Iran's strait gambit would be much less effective.

now.. with that $2M toll, iran just learnt it can just toll the ships...

But the strait has two sides and Iran only controls one side. The UAE/Oman on the other side could equally threaten to attack Iranian ships unless Iran pays them a toll.

I notice the repo has no data on supply of doctors per person in different countries. It's well known that the US residency system with its limited slots constrains the supply of doctors who can practice in the US.

Exactly https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/few-us-busi...

Only about 70 employers have paid a $100,000 Trump fee on H-1B workers from outside the US since it was imposed through a September White House proclamation, a government attorney said Thursday.

Yet another reason monopolies are bad.

If Iran is unwilling to let neutral international observers confirm the number, that suggests they are trying to hide a number they don't want the world to know.

Difficult to be sure what would happen in a counter factual universe without foreign interference.

We do know that Russia et al sow division online as part of their anti western efforts, a strategy detailed in their "Foundations of Geopolitics" manual.

I want American pedos to be brought to justice but let's not forget, in Iran it's legal to marry children so they are actually even worse on this issue.

They're angry about civilians dying, so they want different civilians to die from lack of medical devices?

The government forcing you to put your body in harm's way is the opposite of bodily autonomy.

Male only conscription. Meaning no bodily autonomy for men.

Doesn't the Geneva Convention state that if militants build an underground base beneath a civilian building, that civilian building becomes a military target?

Gaza is Swiss-cheesed with hundreds of miles of military tunnels. If any attack on a tunnel is disallowed because of civilian buildings above it, I predict many countries will start adopting the Hamas strategy of putting military bases under civilian buildings. That way, every attack on your bases becomes a war crime by your enemy - you can't lose!

Sufficiently advanced technology has become like magic: you have to prompt the electronic genie with the right words or it will twist your wishes.

Free trade is leftist now?

I thought a minute ago "communist China" was the protectionist one and "free capitalist America" was the one in favor of free trade.