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The average strength of the wall of a besieged city does not matter. Only the weakest spot does. The same holds true for protecting a computer system ...
August 18, 2024 at 01:04
Yes, but most wealth is not seizure resistant. If you do not fall in line, you may suddenly get an "audit" from the IRS, or from some other federal de...
August 18, 2024 at 00:44
Actually, there certainly is. A law is enforced only in a particular jurisdiction. Outside of it, there are other sovereign states with their own laws...
August 17, 2024 at 11:51
I'm not sure if wealth necessarily leads to political power. You would still need to make the connections with people who actually have the political ...
August 17, 2024 at 09:19
Better quality of what?
August 17, 2024 at 05:35
Imagine that I say that every claim is corrupt. It won't work because in that case, the claim that claims that, is also corrupt. Hence, there must exi...
August 17, 2024 at 05:26
That is another version of Laplace's demon: This demon cannot exist because of Cantor's generalized theorem (or "Cantor's diagonalization"). Cantor's ...
August 17, 2024 at 05:10
August 17, 2024 at 04:35
The Torah and the Quran emerged out of nomadic shepherds. That is not the problem. The problem is: And who exactly polices the police itself? That is ...
August 17, 2024 at 04:13
They have apparently reached the limit in Barcelona, Gran Canaria, Mallorca, and Venice. The bottom of Spanish and Italian income ladder are now chant...
August 17, 2024 at 02:29
First of all, colonialism is about forcing your views onto the indigenous population. You are not in that position as a digital nomad or nomad capital...
August 17, 2024 at 01:22
Exactly! Karl Marx did not erase hierarchical order. His communists merely created another one. Any attempt at erasing inequalities will simply lead t...
August 17, 2024 at 01:02
You cannot make it better for everyone but you can certainly make it better for yourself, by going where you are treated best. As a digital nomad slas...
August 17, 2024 at 00:54
Even if the universe turns out to have a theory, this theory will almost surely be incomplete and therefore be able to predict just a small fraction o...
August 17, 2024 at 00:02
In the formalist view, mathematics is just about string manipulation. Even though a mathematical theory -- if it is capable of arithmetical string man...
August 16, 2024 at 23:12
Utopia is possible only if other people also strive for it. They won't. It is not useful to be bothered with what other people do. You can only contro...
August 16, 2024 at 13:14
The term "democracy", "rule by the people", is in and of itself already nonsensical because in reality a country is always "ruled by the oligarchy". T...
August 16, 2024 at 12:21
We are talking about nomadic shepherds who were not yet embroiled in the nascent depravity of farmer society. There are older codes but these people a...
August 16, 2024 at 06:51
According to Islamic doctrine, the Quran is a retransmission of the Torah+Gospel without alterations (especially alterations to the Gospel). The two s...
August 16, 2024 at 06:38
There are fields that are a tightly meshed combination of both, such as architecture. A good number of architectural rules have been experimentally te...
August 16, 2024 at 04:54
Yes, it means that science is an epistemic domain governed by a justification method. It really does not matter what exactly it is about as long as th...
August 16, 2024 at 04:00
If you can experimentally test a stubborn observable pattern, then it is scientific. In all other cases, it is something else. The humanities are gene...
August 16, 2024 at 03:36
Many men are perfectly fine with casual sex, friends with benefits, or situationships with zero commitment. In my impression, it is mostly women who c...
August 15, 2024 at 13:20
If a woman does not want to reproduce, she can easily achieve that by not making any deal or arrangement with a man. It is really not difficult to do....
August 15, 2024 at 13:03
The history of society is one of growing degeneracy and growing depravity. You cannot even trust yourself because all of us grew up in the degenerated...
August 15, 2024 at 12:51
A democracy still has a ruling oligarchy. Political power still concentrates in the hands of the few in power. The ruling mafia still ends up with the...
August 15, 2024 at 12:43
These benefits predictable started concentrating in the hands of the apparatchiks of the Soviet Union. Political power always concentrates in the hand...
August 15, 2024 at 12:06
In my opinion, reprogramming the biological firmware of humanity will result in something full of bugs, i.e. contradictions. The likelihood that repro...
August 15, 2024 at 12:00
In your "good" society, you would get something for nothing. Fine, but not from me. But then again, there are enough western men nowadays simping in t...
August 15, 2024 at 05:59
Yes, it is better to provide them with some good excuse. If it sounds somewhat reasonable, they will go for it. Provide them with uniforms, weapons, a...
August 15, 2024 at 05:30
In the West, men have heard women loud and clear. That is why men don't provide anymore. If you manage to provide for yourself, fine. If not, then als...
August 15, 2024 at 05:24
I don't believe that. Sovereign nations will always fight each other. It is a side effect of being sovereign. There is no referee for conflicts betwee...
August 15, 2024 at 04:42
The world is continuously at war in various places. Wars don't really stop. They just shift location. There are wars going on right now. We convenient...
August 15, 2024 at 03:55
As long as society agrees that men have no obligation to provide for women who only recognize that they have rights but do not accept any obligation, ...
August 15, 2024 at 03:33
According to modern standards, it means that Marx would have experimentally tested his hypothesis. It is thanks to people like Marx that Karl Popper f...
August 15, 2024 at 03:21
Our sense of justice is part of our biological firmware. Civilization corrupts it, though. Therefore, the best reflection of what is preprogrammed in ...
August 15, 2024 at 00:37
I do not believe that it is possible to eliminate wars entirely, just like it will not be possible to eliminate the mating season in which male animal...
August 14, 2024 at 23:19
Options on the internet are exactly the same wherever you are. People in rural Zimbabwe have the same options as you. That is why the internet is the ...
August 14, 2024 at 15:06
That is not a particularly fair question. So, for a starters, according to you, people should not seek to improve their own lives because there are ot...
August 14, 2024 at 14:23
They are trying to find in drugs what they could also find in spirituality, if at least they tried.
August 14, 2024 at 06:53
A medical bill here in SE Asia is typically a lot cheaper than your copay in the US or in the EU. Even with the most generous insurance, you will stil...
August 14, 2024 at 06:08
If you don't know how to pull it off, you may want to spend $13.99 on the introductory Udemy course: The digital nomad lifestyle works out fine for a ...
August 14, 2024 at 04:22
The site actually admits to being somewhat subjective: In fact, their cost-of-living index may barely be any better than the notorious Big Mac index. ...
August 14, 2024 at 03:34
There's also the official policy on religion in China as well as the persecutions ("anti-religious campaigns") in recent history and even till this ve...
August 14, 2024 at 02:11
There's marginally cheaper, still: - Pokhara, Nepal, $789/month - Makassar, Indonesia, $875/month So, yes, in theory, you can go bargain hunting for t...
August 14, 2024 at 01:44
France may not be the right place to go to. France is itself deeply mired in a cost-of-living crisis, just like most of the West. At https://nomadlist...
August 14, 2024 at 01:26
In absolute numbers, China has the largest number of atheists in the world. There are countries with a larger percentage of atheists but the actual nu...
August 14, 2024 at 00:04
He "explains it all" in just two of the chapters. His pseudo-intellectual theory on the Jews: - VOLUME I. A RETROSPECT. Chapter XI. RACE AND PEOPLE Wh...
August 13, 2024 at 15:43
It wasn't Stalin's "other career". He just kept going!
August 13, 2024 at 15:02
It probably requires some usable skill, i.e. something even modest to make a living from. Totally unskilled is a problem. But then again, in just a fe...
August 13, 2024 at 14:48