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Balance of power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_power_(internationa... The Treaty of Rome was signed in the late 1950s. It, and the subsequent steps to today’s EU are products of Europe’s own internal balanc
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Vietnam was originally a US funded French effort to retake its former colony, Iraq & Afghanistan rebalanced Middle Eastern power to secure an unthreatened flow of oil to Europe and Asia (even in the early 2000s, it was the EU almost who
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Quite right. The US guaranteed the security of allies and their trade in exchange for opposition to the soviets, who no longer exist. The current post soviet (& fledgling post ME) situation actually is relatively “free” though, there is
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Hawaii is reliant on the mainland US for the bulk of its food imports AFAIK, not a global network. It’s also in an insanely strategically valuable position. If shipping between the mainland US and Hawaii has stopped for a month, US aircraft
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A sad truth is, the higher end of fit and finish on iOS almost always includes writing or hacking about at a lower level than one “should be”. And SwiftUI is at least one level above that , so it’s going to be some time before it’s stable
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This is actually an article recounting a few primary sources on the ground at the time of contact, and almost immediately mentions the Aztecs’ enemies in Tlaxcala and Chacla along with a cemetery study of the Mixtec—who suffered some of the
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And significantly lower incomes in ruralish areas where public transportation infrastructure is rubbish, vast swathes of Europe are still impressively poor. There are plenty of personal vehicles in rural southern Germany, SUVs and all, to t
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JavaScript frameworks haven’t significantly changed market share for like three or four years, it’s React with niches of Vue and Angular exactly like it was in ~2017. Even the build systems haven’t changed. “Minimalist” CSS frameworks esche
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It’s not consistent with any of the myriad approaches to international relations either, and quite frankly, how agreeable you find a fictional world order isn’t worth discussing. If you’re interested in geopolitics reading outside of Philip
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Keyword: world Could be safe internally, but that is utterly irrelevant to its neighbors, and the geopolitical order of a world in which the nazis weren’t crushed, the winning empires weren’t dismantled, and the US isn’t the guarantor of
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It’s a bit on the nose, wordy, and already implied but I’m not totally against it ;)
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I’m poking at the idea of sportsmanship being as relevant as you’re making it seem to sport—especially at the top—not the concept of cheating or fair play. But to answer your question, if the sport has a profusely well documented history of
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“Winning isn’t everything it’s the only thing, whoever said winning isn’t everything never won anything.” etc It might be cultural, but that attitude strikes me as the very heart of sport in all honesty.
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Exactly.
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I absolutely cannot stand the quality of DuckDuckGo results, programming related or not. I use !g on almost any general search query out of a conditioned lack of faith in the ability of DDG to surface anything useful. The name is childish a
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Economic crises almost always cause huge drops in fertility rates, look at the US rate post GFC. Fertility being correlated with income levels, the people spending time at home together are already not going to have kids, the others are une
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for a grand total of 103 Nobel prizes won by US citizens* Meaning not only does the US outperform in Nobel laureates as a massive nation at a per capita level, it’s simultaneously attracting even more .
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Too bad disabled users don’t either. Cross platform wasn’t even mentioned or implied in your original comment by the way, it was edited into the second one where you narrowed an “arthritic, farsighted Arabic speaking user” into “arthritic”.
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Common, customizable keyboard shortcuts & behaviors across the entire OS are huge for people with arthritis that can’t use a mouse, Automator workflows that hook in and take care of repetitive tasks are common and eventually Siri Shortc
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It was supported for a while but just ended up being more free bits for fingerprinting, Firefox spoofs it if resistFingerPrinting is on for example.
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Does the lack of arthritic, farsighted Arabic speaking users factor into it not being too hard or is that whole mess already built into the underlying libraries? UI platforms as a rule are always terrible, but there’s inevitably a whole lot
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And what happens outside in the urban areas other people also happen to live in? It evidently is a problem though considering the entire Chinese middle class seem to have switched en masse to disposables, turning China into the largest di
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There is a lot of problems with split-pants e.g. children now dribble . It’s not all that big a leap either, there are plenty of gifs of Chinese parents utilizing split-pants to great effect.
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A “mask” that only applies if one is unable to read past a headline. Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a new immigration law... The original version of the bill, introduced in the Senate by Philip Hart (D-Mich.) and in
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Friendship, joint ideals, and empathy don’t exist at the international level without a third party security guarantor keeping the various sides down, see: the history of Europe pre 1945 (and post ~2030 or so). You’re not coming to HN to loo
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Somehow these social media giants from X would be allowed to collect crazy amount of data on their users, but Y’s would be deemed illegal. Could unironically be answered “Yes, and?” in a rational discussion about geopolitical issues, espe
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Somehow these social media giants from the west would be allowed to collect crazy amount of data on their users, but tiktok would be deemed illegal. Yes. It’s a separate issue. If there was a real concern for users privacy and safety thi
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Some may misinterpret this article as satire. Surely it is not really desirable for software projects to fail. But the facts speak for themselves. Quite fun to read regardless!
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Empirically from those same links, tear gas as a “riot” control agent works. It’s impossible not to see an obvious strategy of police provocation, hilariously on display in [2], but tear gas as a tactic to disperse groups of people can’t se
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Meanwhile, the riot riots. Tear gas won’t manage gentrification and economic inequality, and overarching societal reform won’t manage a riot in progress. Right tools for the job and all that...

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