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Abdullah Khalid
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quantum scientist trying to build a quantum computer, want to stop surveillance dystopia, climate change.
@ZaneSelvans Also in tournament setting, sometimes symmetric games can become unsymmetric.
For example, there can be a football match between A and B in the group stages. A can advance to knockout by winning against B. But B can advance as long as they don't lose by too many goals (so they fall below C in ranking). Say, A-B = 0-1, 0-0, 1-0, 2-1 are all acceptable to B, but 2-0 or 3-1 are not.
1. Mafia should fit the bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)
2. Kabaddi is turn based sport, where in each turn both teams have different goals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabaddi
3. I have played board games with such conditions. Can't remember name.
@solar_chase @hweimer I played around with this. Seems interesting.
I would like some more stats to know how I am doing. A monthly/yearly history of
- how many units were generated by solar panels (perhaps relative to available sunlight)
- similar measures for batteries and others
- profits, perhaps broken by source (sold by solar panel, sold by battery, etc).
GeofCoxJason Hickel's book 'The Divide' - A Review.
A brilliant analysis of global inequality, though it suffers from the imbalance of most books of this type: it spends 250 pages setting out in detail how big and intractable the problems are, then just 50 sketchy pages on possible solutions.
It falls into 4 parts. The first is a detailed deconstruction of how western governments, their international agencies like the World Bank, and their supine media, have created the impression through statistical sleight-of-hand that international aid has been relieving poverty and hunger, when in fact the flow of wealth has been massively in favour of the West, and the truth is that poverty and hunger have been getting worse in most of the 'third world'.
Most blatant of all, they claim successes for capitalism and western aid that in fact have been entirely due to the very real development miracle in... communist China. Take China and its close neighbours out of the statistics, and almost everything has been going backwards fast.
The second part is a summary narrative of the true history of colonialism, revealing the enormous scale of wealth taken by the West from the rest of the world since 1500, and how indeed the West has not only plundered it, but actively prevented the non-white world from developing itself.
The third part describes how the violent exploitation of slavery and colonialism has changed form - into financial instruments and unfair trading terms - but not effect: massive transfers of wealth out of most of the world into the West.
The short final part offers Hickel's solutions. It is largely an appeal to governments to co-operate to better regulate multinational corporations, trade, debt and tax, and to democratise the international bodies for this co-operation: the UN, WTO, etc... All well and good - but Hickel neither deals with the question of how such progressive co-operation can be brought about, nor the structural problem of the publicly-traded share company model - even though this problem, which makes big business investor-driven and therefore largely indifferent to negative impacts on people and planet, is essentially the same as the indifference of 'investors' extracting interest payments from already impoverished people.
@collectifission This has been true forever for a wide variety of technologies. Rich countries can sell high tech goods to poor countries, but what poor countries need is technology transfer, and manpower development. That's the hard part.
4. Saving for near term future reference (for example document needed in a meeting): tag as TempInfo and archive.
Now I have two relatively short lists: Emails tagged ToDo and TempInfo.
- Work my way through ToDo list as time and priority permits and take necessary action. Once all actions are done remove tag.
- TempInfo tag is removed from emails as soon as relevant situation has resolved.
I mostly stopped being overwhelmed after I created this system.
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@MartinEscardo Here is my system which works well in Thunderbird, but can work in many other clients. The key thing is that all emails should be archived immediately after first reading in inbox. For each email in the inbox, if it requires
1. no action: read it and archive.
2. one liner reply (or you have time): reply immediately and archive.
3. longer reply or other action like set meeting or make phone call etc: tag as ToDo and archive.
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@ZaneSelvans Isn't one of the central - and one of the most problematic - claims of capitalism that there is no objective economic value of anything, and the *only* way to determine the value of something is to let the market decide? So if buyers want abstract art paintings or pickup trucks, and sellers are willing to sell them, then the most value has been created (by definition). And we can sleep easy.
@Rowena @GeofCox Indeed. I grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, only a few kilometers from the Indian border. Decades after partition, you can still see the artifacts of the hindus and sikhs who were expelled from the city, and the artifacts created by the incoming muslim refugees.
Yet, when I managed to visit India in a brief era of peace, the locals everywhere refused to believe I was not Indian. Because skin, language, clothes and all was the same. Yet, an artificial border stands between us.