ojl

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by ojl 4mo ago
They also have a lot of R&D, sw dev, etc in Gothenburg.
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by ojl 4mo ago
The Gripen E is 4.5 gen, and I am not sure having US fighters in a war against US would be so much better.
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by ojl 10mo ago
I guess they will use Ericsson and Nokia equipment instead.
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by ojl 1y ago
I think it’s Ericsson and Nokia (which bought Alcatel Lucent I think) that are the main competitors.
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by ojl 1y ago
> the digitalization of everyday life took longer, whereas everyone and their dog in the US had a smartphone and social networks from day 0. This very much depends on where in Europe you were living. In parts of the Nordics (at least Swe
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by ojl 1y ago
> They don't spend their full NATO commitments. Some do and some don’t. EU is not one country. But in general it’s a bit strange that we didn’t start increase spending already around 2014.
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by ojl 1y ago
Two countries in Europe have nuclear weapons (several have nuclear power though). Sweden for example had a nuclear weapons program that was shut down in the late 60s (guess which country strongly wanted us to shut it down). I think most Eur
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by ojl 1y ago
> unsuccessful in influencing the EU to fund its own defense We did cut down too much on our defence, especially after the Cold war (not all European countries though, like Finland). But, many European countries have bought plenty of exp
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by ojl 1y ago
I believe there are several non-US awacs systems out there, although the American ones are probably the most common.
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by ojl 2y ago
Says the troll getting paid a few rubles parroting russian propaganda on western forums..
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by ojl 2y ago
I personally am not afraid of russia successfully invading my country, especially considering how much men and equipment they lost in Ukraine. But if the war in Ukraine would end on Russian terms, they might get more stupid ideas later afte
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by ojl 2y ago
Or russia could maybe just leave? Quickest and smoothest way to get peace.
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by ojl 2y ago
So you mean we should be happy with peace on russian terms and rewarding them for invading their neighbour? Russia is very much weakened and probably would like this though.
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by ojl 2y ago
So you believe Trump when he said that the US has given more support than Europe? He was corrected several times but continues saying it, and I see several comments about it here as well. I agree about satellite reconnaissance and such syst
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by ojl 2y ago
But for how long will you be able to have the strongest and most modern military in the world if you start losing money because of trade wars and/or other countries stop buying US weapons and so on? I believe it won’t be good for your
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by ojl 2y ago
You weren’t alone in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also, fighting against talibans and Iraqi rebels is a bit different compared to the war in Ukraine so I’m not so sure your US troops are more “warfighters” than the European troops.
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by ojl 2y ago
Plenty of European countries joined the US in Afghanistan and Iraq when the US asked for help.
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by ojl 2y ago
You entered ww1 in 1917, almost at the end of the war after German submarines attacked American ships, if I remember correctly. So the US tried to stay out for quite some time.
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by ojl 2y ago
Who are “they”? Several European countries have nuclear power (together with some other source as well of course) and are planning to build more. It will probably take a long time though.
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by ojl 2y ago
We do have defence industry in Europe as well.
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by ojl 2y ago
It seems for some reason that it’s only important to keep these things in mind and mention that it contains American tech, is an international effort, etc, when discussing some successful European company. But when discussing American compa
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by ojl 2y ago
In what way did Ukraine and the west threaten Russia? What bad thing do you believe would have happened to Russia if they hadn’t decided to invade and destroy big parts of Ukraine? It’s difficult for me to imagine that they had no other cho
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by ojl 2y ago
I got the Swedish translation as a kid more than 40 years ago and also spent plenty of time trying to find the goldbug. Still have the book and my kids loved it as well.
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by ojl 2y ago
No, it’s not people from one college. The members of the different committees are professors or scientists from various Swedish universities, and the Royal Swedish Academy which gives the awards doesn’t not only have Swedish members as far
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by ojl 2y ago
Just because he said he didn’t need a big part of the university courses doesn’t mean that it’s easy. He said that he learned most of the things at the job, which I mostly agree with. For some domains it’s important to have the proper educa
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by ojl 3y ago
Nvidia was founded 30 years ago so not exactly new either.
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by ojl 3y ago
I remember some years ago I read an article about some Russian tourists in Sweden who got really sick after picking and eating mushrooms. I don’t think any of them died but several of them needed to spend time in the hospital if I remember
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by ojl 3y ago
Not so difficult to choose between the US and Soviet Union probably.
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by ojl 3y ago
With the help from German rocket scientists..
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by ojl 3y ago
Ericsson is a large company with many different products but I didn’t see any usage of ClearCase when I was there. It was mostly git, C++, etc. Some product was written in Erlang but most weren’t (what I know of at least)

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