mannerheim

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by mannerheim 9mo ago
Piracy used to be punishable by death. There would be a lot fewer people willing to pull these kinds of stunts if they knew they would actually face consequences.
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by mannerheim 1y ago
>then you can, you know, put a bit more into making them work Assuming it's a problem that can be solved by more money. The US has the fifth-highest amount of education spending in the world, behind countries like Luxembourg and Nor
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by mannerheim 1y ago
There were no good people at the end of the USSR fighting for the USSR. They fought for their country in the sense of their individual nations, but anyone fighting for the USSR was fighting for what really was an evil empire.
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by mannerheim 1y ago
EW is needed at the front, and these bases were deep within Russia. Lasers are not common technology for anti-drone use yet, and likely kinetic weapons are superior since lasers will not work in any sort of bad weather.
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by mannerheim 1y ago
Russia has gone to great lengths to insulate its populace from feeling the effects of the war. For Russians not directly involved in the war, one could hardly tell there even was a war going on. You can see this from interviews with the res
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by mannerheim 1y ago
They produce large quantities of drones, like the kind that were used in this operation. 2.2 million in 2024. Some of those could be diverted to worthwhile targets for deterrence purposes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/d
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by mannerheim 1y ago
>The attack occurred a day after Russia launched airstrikes at multiple cities in Ukraine, killing 57 and wounding 160. Needed to get 32 more.
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by mannerheim 2y ago
Well, if we're ignoring everyone else's descriptions of SBF, Caroline Ellison had a tumblr on which she repeatedly self-identified as a rationalist: https://caroline.milkyeggs.com/worldoptimization
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by mannerheim 2y ago
There's also the other time the rationalist community made national news, when a similar cult accidentally gambled away ten billion dollars in cryptocurrency.
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by mannerheim 2y ago
'We have the Manson family at home'
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by mannerheim 2y ago
Back in the day, sailors would be hanged by the neck until dead for acts of piracy like this.
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by mannerheim 2y ago
That hollow, symbolic win could have been given to them by anyone other than Trump. If nobody else thinks a group's interests are worth listening to, don't be surprised when they start chasing after the tiniest morsels.
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by mannerheim 2y ago
There are credibility issues if you make promises you don't follow up on, especially very public promises that are completely within your power to carry out; there are no limits on the presidential pardon power, barring that it only ap
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by mannerheim 2y ago
Many were convicted of the same acts and received far lighter sentences. They specifically sought to make an example out of him. That is contrary to the rule of law.
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by mannerheim 2y ago
Selectively punishing someone with a grossly disproportionate sentence on the grounds of their political beliefs seems contrary to the rule of law.
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by mannerheim 2y ago
One issue with any potential trial for murder-for-hire is that the allegation as presented in the Maryland indictment has two problematic witnesses: DEA agent Carl Force who acted as the hitman, now in prison for embezzling cryptocurrency f
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by mannerheim 2y ago
Biden could have taken the wind out of Trump's sails by commuting Ulbricht's sentence when he was in office. If you don't think a group's interests are worth listening to, don't be surprised when that group votes fo
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by mannerheim 2y ago
Possibly a deal with the Libertarian Party, which chose not to run their candidate in several states to help Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhDKYYdD2vY
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by mannerheim 2y ago
A video from Reason magazine a few days ago[0] mentioned a deal between the Libertarian Party leadership and Trump in which they selectively didn't run their candidate in several states in order to help Trump. If this is true, Trump co
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by mannerheim 2y ago
He was in jail for running a darknet drug marketplace. Hiring a contract killer was a crime he was neither charged with nor convicted of.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
That's not a constitutional requirement. There's no law that says the government can only do this to terrorists. In fact, even if somebody is a terrorist, if they're American, it would still be unconstitutional to deprive the
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by mannerheim 3y ago
The content is not what is being outlawed, only the distribution mechanism. ISIS wouldn't be allowed to own a publishing company in America; nobody thinks that somehow curtails freedom of speech. If somebody so chooses, they could dist
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by mannerheim 3y ago
> At the end of the day, what this law is asking for is a Great Firewall around the US, that prohibits which websites its citizens can visit. This law is asking for no such thing. Even if ByteDance refuses to sell TikTok, Americans would
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by mannerheim 3y ago
Case law does not protect non-citizens. People have been deported for being communists.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
The law doesn't say Americans must buy it. Just that it can't be owned by a 'foreign adversary'.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
Good news: The law to force divestiture of TikTok is an American law.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
TikTok should be banned until Facebook and Google are available in China.
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by mannerheim 3y ago
Are you saying he asked them to approve a contract that the board never saw the terms of, and they agreed?
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by mannerheim 3y ago
> If Sam was responsible for that, he smuggled one hell of a trojan horse into OpenAI, and should have been fired a long time ago. What's the likelihood that he signed onto a $10 billion investment deal from Microsoft without approv
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by mannerheim 3y ago
Everyone has a price, yet Microsoft can't buy the three board members on OpenAI board. Curious. Your initial statement was flatly wrong, and you're grasping at straws to make it still true. Microsoft wouldn't be able to get a

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