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ClubOrlov
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ClubOrlov is a personal blog at cluborlov.blogspot.com about economics and politics. Since 2008, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Social Collapse Best Practices (2009)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a source on social and economic collapse and preparedness, including lessons from the Soviet collapse. Commenters call it a more nuanced take than 1950s-style survivalism.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
ideas to blow your mind
Most-linked posts?
- Social Collapse Best Practices (2009)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-02-22
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-07-17
What Hacker News says?
Yeah I've gotten a little wrapped up as well looking into all of this mounting tension between the US and Russia. Protip, stay away from /r/the_donald. My personal opinion is that it is mostly political and I think (hope) that what is happening in Syria won't escalate to direct conflict between the US and Russia. I stumbled across this little blog article the other day and it helped relieve some of my anxieties. htt…
Comment linking /2016/10/oopsa-world-war.html
on “DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS”Submitted When All Your Best Employees are Going Broke as a story · 13 points
HN discussion> A "no deal" outcome, which is clearly bad, is still the best thing brexiters can actually deliver. It could go much much worse than just "bad". The UK imports a lot of food from EU neighbors. In case of a hard Brexit, this will just ... stop. The question is whether all supermarkets can immediately redo their supply chains. That is not likely. Especially since the UK will loose all trade agreements with the non-EU…
Comment linking /2009/02/social-collapse-best-practices.html
on “Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament”Submitted Social Collapse Best Practices (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis could also explain: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2013/04/understanding-organiza...
Comment linking /2013/04/understanding-organizational-stupidity.html
on “Why good managers are so rare”The point being made is: Technology without vision is dehumanizing. This is widely known and is, for example, the reason good schools make undergrad engineering students take at least a few humanities classes before they leave. Technology without vision is dehumanizing - it happened with Penn Station, where narrow quantitative and engineering goals displaced the broader human ones and led to the widely-hated station…
Comment linking /2016/02/the-technospheratu-hypothesis.html
on “The Artificial Intelligentsia”http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/04/communities-that-abide... is a positive post (as is its prequel presumably)
Comment linking /2015/04/communities-that-abide-revisited.html
on “Outschooling in the Bay Area”http://cluborlov.blogspot.com is run by one Dmitri Orlov, an ex-Soviet collapsarian similar to James Howard Kunstler. He basically did what you're asking for.
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on “Outschooling in the Bay Area”If I may quote two sources (controversial, so please take it with a grain of salt but keep an open mind) http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2019/07/war-profiteers-and-dem... https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Military-Supremacy-American-St... I am not Russian by the way, the links could give you this impression.
Comment linking /2019/07/war-profiteers-and-demise-of-us.html
on “2020 Industrial Capabilities Report to Congress [pdf]”Dmitry Orlov's lessons for individuals from the Soviet collapse, http://www.badcyclopedia.com/what-if-us-collapses-soviet-col... More at Dmitry Orlov's blog - http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/
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on “One of the most sobering reads on our economic future... from our friends in Moscow...”>The current economic problems are not related to his predictions. Why are you so sure of that? http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/02/social-collapse-best-p...
Comment linking /2009/02/social-collapse-best-practices.html
on “"Collapse will not be televised... you will only know that it has happened to you."”You can’t get out of it. You can only prepare: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/02/social-collapse-best-p... Surprised that no one has posted it, so I submitted it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=490767
Comment linking /2009/02/social-collapse-best-practices.html
on “Economic crisis 'is as bad as they come'”I'm afraid you're not going to learn toughness in a book but rather through tough experiences. If you want to train it (I think it's something you can acquire more easily at childhood) it's up to you to "design" these experiences as tough enough to harden you but not so tough that you will break. Some silly examples that comes to me : - try fasting (if your medical condition allows it) - get the shitiest job you can…
Comment linking /2013/04/meet-chechens.html
on “Ask HN: Resources on developing tenacity/grit/determination?”Preparation and disaster-specific learning can only take you so far, but http://collapse.reddit.com is a serviceable overview of that part. http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com and http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/ have a more nuanced view of social and economic collapse; 1950s style "nuclear armageddon" style survivalism is unlikely to suffice in the real world. For the last nail in the coffin of "guns and independe…
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on “How would you survive society's collapse?”
