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Jul 3, 2017 · The more things change, the more things remain the same. Be careful that in the pursuit of any sort of ‘superintelligence’, society first divize a religion or philosophy that guides it away from strong feelings of emptiness and nihilism, ‘apatheticism’. Sean Connery already aptly showed us in his cult clas 4 thg 8, 2023 ... 18. července byla otevřena Štvanická lávka, která propojuje Karlín s Holešovicemi a část ostrova Štvanice. Hlavním důvodem pro stavbu lávky ...As a rule: If it's in the news, it's already too late to make money from it.akarlin Russian Empire • Additional comment actions Speaking of that, Russia overtook the Ukraine in life expectancy about a couple of years ago - the very first time this happened since records began.Quantifying Future Time Orientation. In a 2010 paper on time preferences *, the authors Mei Wang et al. conducted an experiment in which participants could choose either $3400 now or $3800 a month later. Now I would choose the latter option but maybe it’s just because I’m intelligent and have been living in the West for quite a while.As we’re now approaching mid-2011, I suppose its time to give my traditional update on Russia’s demography. So here’s the lay-down: 1. In February, I predicted a population decline of c. 50,000 in 2010 (after a 23,000 rise in 2009). This was due to the excess deaths of the Great Russian Heatwave of 2010, and […]2. Births continue to rise, with Total Fertility Rates reaching 1.57 in 2010 and 1.60 in 2011. This is marginally higher than the EU average (1.59 in 2009), and similar to Canada (1.67 in 2009) and to Estonia (1.62 in 2009), which was the majority-Christian nation least affected by the demographic crisis after the Soviet collapse.Riding on the apathy of the masses, crony Communists rig the elections in a small, corrupt post-Soviet backwater to retain their iron grip on power. But their dastardly plans to crush democracy and draw benighted Moldova back into the Eurasian darkness are foiled by the heroic students of Chisinau. Inspired by their boudiccan (and photogenic) […]If Americans views of themselves can be simplified to those general terms, you can do the same for Canadian views. You don't understand the data. Canadians are far more favourable to the US on average than the rest of the world. 45-50% is the global average, Germany the most liked country with 59% globally.Russia sent military leaders, soldiers and arms into Ukraine in order to start a civil war, killing Ukrainian soldiers and local patriots. Ukraine responded by using armed force, following the precedent set by Russia in how it handled the Chechen rebellion but doing so in a much less deadly way for civilians.At the outset, I want to set out what this post is NOT about: It is not, per se, either an endorsement or a refutation of “coronapilling” or “coronaskepticism.” (Though yes, obviously, I am personally closer to the former position). It is not a judgment on how we should manage the tradeoff between lives and […]Jul 12, 2017 · Russia didn’t stop doing business with Ukraine. Having said all that–Russia’s decoupling herself from last vestiges of a remaining (and increasingly decrepit) industry–from Yuzhmash, Zorya Mashproekt, Progress or Antonov is a catastrophe for Ukraine. H/t Eduard-456. Navalny has accepted Strelkov’s call for a debate from June 15. @georgesdelatour I agree. One could say that serious consideration of LTG has moved beyond the so-called Overton window, i.e. range of publicly-acceptable discourse.I guess that's what the combination of 1) being (wrongly) perceived to be wrong in the 1970's and 2) being subjected to a generation of "myth of progress" / markets-and …About Me. Archive. Anatoly Karlin’s main website is at akarlin.com, where I write about transhumanism, existential risks, geopolitics, and Russian politics. This Substack only serves as my newsletter, which I release monthly.Jun 14, 2017 · I don’t know how, but Lynn, Cheng, and Russian psychometricist Grigoriev have managed to find Russian regional results for PISA 2015. Moscow has plummeted in the rankings and is now fourth, whereas Saint-Petersburg is now first. I have calculated the correlations with the PISA 2009 results, for regions that participated in both surveys, to be ... akarlin • Russian Empire • Additional comment actions This image is a good illustration of why although most Russians did not support the Bolsheviks, most did not go out of their way to resist them.akarlin.comThere\\'s apparently popular demand for a new Open Thread so here you go! Though I probably won\\'t be checking up on the comments here much. I needed to recharge the past month. But I\\'ll start writing much more …18 thg 7, 2021 ... Spicyness around the world overview (https://www.unz.com/akarlin/thought-for-food/) ; u/4lf4b3tbr03r avatar 4lf4b3tbr03r · If someone has ...

@Mitleser I think these are two different things - conscription is one thing, contract soldiering - and this test is aimed at them - is another thing. Another more relevant point might be that Chechnya is full of militarized structures anyway, I think they number around 20,000, which answer directly to Kadyrov.Pumpkin Person (PP), an up and coming IQ blogger, has estimated Putin’s IQ to be about 127. He derives this based on a z-factor analysis of Putin’s status as the most powerful White person in the world (135), based on the 0.4 correlation between IQ and income (and presumably, power), minus an adjustment for his relatively dimunitive height ...The level 6 question in the source is so easy, i can not imagine only a few procent of the people in every country can answer that. It appears a basic question for 12 y.o. Math class.In the future the children of Yishmael will stir great wars in the world. And the children of Edom [the West] will gather against them, and make war with them, one on the sea, and one on the land, and one by Jerusalem; and each one will prevail over the other but the Holy land will notfall to the hands of Edom.

Preferably more. No electronics (other than for navigation) – books are ok, but they must be of the right kind. A good fantasy book is excellent, or tales of myth and legend or ghost stories or weird tales. All these open your mind to reality. Poetry and fiction are excellent too – but they should be Romantic.Anatoly Karlin • October 8, 2021. • 800 Words • 519 Comments. It was never my mission to pursue “activist” goals so much as to try to accurately understand and explain how the world works, and at best, play some modest role in informing the debate in those areas that I hoped could make use of some of my insights. …

Reader Q&A - also see RECOMMENDED ARTICLES & FAQs. Feb 21, 2019 · This all rings true enou. Possible cause: As I have pointed out, the jokers who dominate today’s “Russia debate” such.