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Im gonna say it because Dang apparently isnt (to this comment)

Thank you. I want to add an aside here: I have chronically abused the rules of this site in the past. I was ignorant as to the mission of Hacker News and how it can help me! I realized that my ideas are worth having a slow, measured conversation punctuated by facts and understanding of other views just as well as my own. I was falling into a trap of politicizing truth and losing my way in the process.

I’m thankful dang gave me the opportunity to change.

As the saying goes, haters gonna hate.. best to ignore and carry on the process.

Extemely proud of ISRO.

> I feel like India has more important problems to solve than this.

OK. Keep "feeling" and others will keep doing.

The legend himself. Waiting for this one for a few days.

Look up stuff by Rupert Spira, Michael Langford, Nisargadatta (already mentioned a few times in this thread), "The Ashtavakra Gita", "Dhammapada".

An older Thinkpad till some decent Ryzen based 4K laptops come out next year.

I just got me a T440P. Put in 16G, SSD (can put 2 more SSDs for a total of 3), its got a socketed i7 and a removable 9 cell battery for easier upgrades. I upgraded the default display (garbage) to a 1080p display (really simple ..done with a screwdriver) and this thing is a beast with Manjaro Linux and KDE or i3.

I also have an x230 with OpenBSD.

My old 2015 retina MBP is going to my dad who has a shitty old windows 10 spyware laptop.

Yawn. That would only be a problem if you choose to run Micro$oft software. And it is in your hands to fix the problem by going with Linux etc. (key word is choose...i realise it is imposed on many, specially in the enterprise world).

The Economist's editorial stance is classical and economic liberalism.

https://www.economist.com/help/about-us#About_Economistcom

>What, besides free trade and free markets, does The Economist believe in? "It is to the Radicals that The Economist still likes to think of itself as belonging. The extreme centre is the paper's historical position." That is as true today as when Crowther said it in 1955. The Economist considers itself the enemy of privilege, pomposity and predictability. It has backed conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It has supported the Americans in Vietnam. But it has also endorsed Harold Wilson and Bill Clinton, and espoused a variety of liberal causes: opposing capital punishment from its earliest days, while favouring penal reform and decolonisation, as well as—more recently—gun control and gay marriage.

Funny, a lot of left wingers would say Economist has a neo-liberal (right wing) bias. It seems the Overton window has shifted the right so far to the extreme that someone like Milton Friedman would probably be considered left wing.

Perhaps they have different bias, depending on the subject? (I don't know, I haven't opened one since leaving school)

I think they'd argue that they have a consistently liberal "bias" in all subjects, it's just they don't map cleanly onto modern left-right politics. For example they favor deregulation and privatization which are traditional "right wing" stances, while also favoring gay marriage and drug legalization which is an issues that has recently been more championed by the left. The Economist would argue that their stance in both issues is "liberal" thus there being no contradiction.

Thank you.

From the two comments above, I guessed it was something like this

yes, this is evident from claims that hillary clinton is a leftist when she is closer to maggie thatcher

Or that Bernie Sanders is a socialist...

Doubtful. It's just that the left-right-axis isn't that helpful these days. You can be socially progressive but financially conservative.

Very true. Left no longer means liberal.

Outside of the US, "liberal" politicians and political parties almost always belong to the center right part of the countries political spectrum.

They used to. Since Zanny Minton-Beddoes took over it's basically the British version of the NYT but in magazine form.

citation needed

IOW, Google and its properties continue their slow suicide/slide into irrelevance.