rabite

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by rabite 2y ago
I don't understand how banks in a country that is completely cut off from the international financial system would be profitable.
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by rabite 2y ago
> If I own a platform I’m not under any obligation to allow you to say whatever you like on that platform. Before the Internet this was not the case. In Marsh v. Alabama, it was ruled (in line with all previous precedent) that privately
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by rabite 2y ago
> After Dorsey sold Twitter to Elon Musk, Extreme eyeroll on this post. Twitter's shareholders voted overwhelmingly to sell to Musk. 98.6% of them voted an affirmative yes, in which Dorsey was a very small minority. Dorsey could ha
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by rabite 2y ago
Shifting away from using capital as the basis for resources allocation has been tried repeatedly and failed catastrophically every time. There's no mechanism than the market better to optimize the problems of supply, demand, and logist
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by rabite 2y ago
A fracking rig costs 900k and many of them sit idle for years at a time: https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2022/0415/Demand-for-o... You are essentially saying that the roughnecks that work the rig for $3
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by rabite 2y ago
> Panics are safe though (they're a controlled crash). Here's Linus's commentary on that: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1099 > I think that if some Rust allocation can cause a pani
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by rabite 2y ago
Okay. Let's pretend the Soviets killed nobody in Ukraine other than the Holodomor. That's 5 million people. The credible threat of millions more being butchered by the Soviets was real. At this point, we are disputing small fracti
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by rabite 2y ago
> Far short of the 10M figure you are introducing for whatever imaginitive and creative purposes. I didn't introduce the 10M figure, I linked an example article where it was used (the Ynetnews one) -- it is a common number I have se
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by rabite 2y ago
Wikipedia cites the Holodomor as 5 million. That was mostly in East Ukraine. That's most of the half. The other 2.5 million were from gulags. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia
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by rabite 2y ago
Yes. It was prudent to do anything to save Ukraine. Absolutely. If you love your country you'd deal with the devil himself to save it from what Russia was doing. 10 million people died in Genrikh Yagoda's torture chambers. Another
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by rabite 2y ago
Yes, absolutely, the Soviet Union and its Secret Police were an active threat to Ukrainians every day. Adolf Hitler was not. Though Bandera did work with the Nazis, he later worked against them. They weren't ideologically into Nazism.
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by rabite 2y ago
This quote doesn't really describe ether at all. I'm not even particularly inclined to stand up while I'm doing ether, much less engage in depravity. I recommend for a more accurate account that you read what Oliver Wendell H
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by rabite 2y ago
No, it is like being subsumed into the aura of angels. Like a gate to heaven has opened and is oppressing you with joyous radiation.
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by rabite 2y ago
The phrase "Slava Ukraini" predates the OUN by actual decades. There are plenty of people in Ukraine, particularly East Ukraine, that have personal objections to the mythos of Bandera as a national hero that still use the phrase,
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by rabite 2y ago
> Bandera and his nazis Bandera was fighting against the Nazis by the end of the war. At any given time, he was doing what was prudent for his country and getting resources to fight the Cheka, because the Soviets were disappearing Ukrain
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by rabite 2y ago
I've done Xenon a fair number of times, it is definitely the Rolls Royce of inhalants. I'd recommend it to anyone as long as you can divert a little and aren't paying for it yourself. If you don't have unlimited amounts
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by rabite 2y ago
"Invasion" is also an acceptable and accurate term. The doublespeak of "special operation" as if it is a police issue in a territory they have right to is what he sticks to. Regardless, Kapersky has plenty of money. If h
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by rabite 2y ago
Eugene Kapersky is a Russian state asset and literally refuses to use the word "war" in regards to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Banning foreign agents from a hostile regime in a time of war is not an attack on free speech. K
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by rabite 2y ago
This is absolutely awesome. For ages I have needed an alternative to mosh that did not require UDP -- I run every outbound connection over Tor, so I only have TCP transport available. This is an incredible improvement to my quality of life.
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by rabite 2y ago
Yes, it is webkit on the engine.
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by rabite 2y ago
Given that accidents involving BGP within the past several years have led to worldwide outages in the world's most used websites this is just not true. Also thousands of known bad announcements occur every year, which are usually used
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by rabite 2y ago
In all fairness, driving a car is a lot more complicated and full of dangerous edge cases than dropping objects or shooting anyone within a geofence.
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by rabite 2y ago
> Your judgement is clouded by emotions. This is pure ad hominem. My statements are not emotional at all. Ukraine committed no offense against Russia. Georgia committed no crime against Russia before they aided Abkhazian and South Osseti
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by rabite 2y ago
> However, blame is never black or white. It cannot be all Russia's fault. Most crimes are a single party's fault. One is the criminal, and one is the victim. Saying it is impossible for it to be all Russia's fault is logi
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by rabite 2y ago
> In the same interview Putin said that if the US had not broken the promise to Gorbachev to not expand the NATO eastward, the war would not have happened. Yet this contradicts his statements in 2002 that it was not a big deal and not hi
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by rabite 2y ago
> US led NATO expansion lead to the war in Ukraine, and Europeans are paying the price. This is the Russian propaganda of 2 years ago, and we know it is a lie because Putin went on camera and told us so himself. When asked by Tucker Carl
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by rabite 3y ago
Librarians should just begin directly teaching people how to use Z-Library and Annas-Archive.
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by rabite 3y ago
Five eyes governments like having the power to shut the finances of dissidents (see Canada seizing trucker bank accounts, FBI-partnered NGOs getting Trump supporters deplatformed from financial services). Any digital currencies created by g
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by rabite 3y ago
Sure that ApplePay will work, unless Apple disagrees with your political views and deplatforms you, or any of the governments they answer to order them to do so.
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by rabite 3y ago
Infinite number of things are possible. This article is about Facebook and Instagram, where people make public posts, can be found by searches, and absolutely nothing is end-to-end encrypted. Law enforcement has complete and total access to

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