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by crateless 4y ago
As long as they go into it fully informed, that is the best one could hope for.
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by crateless 4y ago
Well, they have been bullshitting for loooong time if that is the case. I recall watching a video of Gorbachev talking to the US Congress and warning about NATO/US expansion. This was in 1997. There is no credible threat of a NATO inva
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by crateless 4y ago
> Russia does not want to engage in conflict with a NATO country. If Finland joins NATO then Finland will be at piece for the next century, guaranteed. Russia has not engaged in conflict with a NATO country, so far. If the stakes are rai
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by crateless 4y ago
Following the Kremlin's logic, the advent of hypersonic missiles and the neoconservative bent of US/EU politics, it is seemingly inevitable that war is here.
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by crateless 4y ago
Qaddafi would like a word.
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by crateless 4y ago
It is better to call Putin's bluff now rather than wait for Ukraine to fall which might force cooler heads to prevail. Also a dual ascension dares Russia to go to war on two perhaps three fronts? For Russia, the choice is: war now or w
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by crateless 4y ago
> a strong show of force and a no-fly-zone would have stopped this, but it's too late now. Scholz is the Chamberlain of our age. It's not too late to put up a no-fly zone. If it was ok then, why is it not ok now?
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by crateless 4y ago
Of course nations should be free to choose their own path. No-one is arguing against that. Mearsheimer argues that when the path that a country chooses comes into conflict with a great power's security interests, those interests become
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by crateless 4y ago
CIA Director, William Burns wrote this in 2008. Edit: Nyet means Nyet: Russia's NATO Enlargement Redlines : https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html
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by crateless 5y ago
I don't see how Ukraine being democratic is an existential threat to Putin in any meaningful way. This situation has been almost 14 years in the reckoning since April 2008. The NATO-US acting from Ukraine possibly attempting to foment
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by crateless 5y ago
No, I am saying that I had not taken Russia's threat model into account. Given that threat model, Ukraine is an existential issue for them and the resolution of the uncertainty that has been in place since 2004 was just a matter of tim
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by crateless 5y ago
I was wrong. I admit that. I spoke from a position of superficial knowledge at the time as I ignored the wider context of the situation and was commenting from a position of received wisdom as I was unaware of what a parent post mentioned r
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by crateless 5y ago
Are we now admitting that NATO was in Ukraine? I thought that was verboten.
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by crateless 5y ago
> - My touchpad is recognized as "PS/2 Generic Mouse" by libinput, so I can't have touchpad scrolling. I have the same issue. Different Dell laptop though. It's been an issue for a looong time. Scrolling reliably
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Joe Rogan: Podcast star apologises over past use of racist language(bbc.com)
2 points by crateless 5y ago|1 comments
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by crateless 5y ago
Rust Evangelism Strike Force.
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by crateless 5y ago
I think the rescript forum is more active and would probably have an answer to your question. https://forum.rescript-lang.org/
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by crateless 5y ago
They are in dire need of a RESF. There is precious little current material on youtube about the language and it seems to have sunk into obscurity which is making me hesitant to pick it over TS.
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by crateless 5y ago
The diplomatic ultimatums as well as the Belarus deployment are in response to the mainstream media's assertions of imminent attack and could also be interpreted as Putin trying to leverage the situation to his advantage to try for con
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by crateless 5y ago
There is basically no escalation from Russia. The troop deployment on the Ukraine border mirrors a similar deployment in April last year[1]. It is just convenient (Biden's domestic issues/Nordstream 2/other unknown reasons) t
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by crateless 5y ago
Mortality rate (p.50) and hospital admissions (p.44) muddy the picture quite considerably. Would love to see similar figures for other countries in Europe.
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by crateless 5y ago
> Most will never be under threat of a state actor that necessitates getting their friends and family "the hell out of Telegram as soon as possible". I think you should qualify that as "most people - in the western hemisph
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by crateless 5y ago
I learnt it from the news during the Clinton years. Took quite a while to make the connection. You can add on Tucson to that list as well.
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by crateless 5y ago
Are there any resources e.g books, blogs etc. that have a low-level description of the data structures/algos involved when SQL queries are run?
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by crateless 5y ago
You are right. What is happening in the major universities is not representative of the majority of universities. Therefore I agree that, depending on where you look and how you look at it, the state of the humanities is largely intact. I t
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by crateless 5y ago
> Please don't start flame-war topics on HN. This is a disingenuous attempt to dismiss a valid criticism by categorising it as a flame-war topic. The humanities today, in general, are by no means either tolerant or open (at least in
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by crateless 5y ago
I have been recently picturing a dystopia (utopia?) wherein women sell their eggs to some kind of govt. agency which in turn hires women who are willing to carry babies to term. These babies are then raised in child group homes by state emp
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by crateless 5y ago
I don't understand, how does sci-hub undermine the prestige-accumulation feedback loop?
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by crateless 5y ago
> "Another open question is whether the Virtuous Victim effect occurs across cultures, including in populations that are not “WEIRD” (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic). As just articulated, our theorizing pred
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by crateless 5y ago
I wish that there was a breakdown by gender as well. It seems somewhat incomplete as is.

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