Clewza313

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US Signs Peace Deal with Taliban After 2 Decades of War in Afghanistan (2020)(npr.org)
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by Clewza313 5y ago
That's the ETOPS (Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards) rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS It's mentioned in the article, and it didn't just kill off 3-engine planes, but 4-
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by Clewza313 5y ago
The US also directly funded the mujahideen, the forebears of today's Taliban, back when they were fighting the Soviets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_mujahideen
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Afghanistan Meant Nothing: A Veteran Reflects on 20 Wasted Years(laurajedeed.medium.com)
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Not really. Most Gulf states are petrified of militant Islam, and the Taliban subscribe to a creed (Deobandi) that's not particularly popular among Arabs.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Fall of Saigon v2. Although I have to say the speed at which the Taliban took over once the US pulled out is pretty astonishing: it's clear they have a strong level of popular support.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
A common nickname for westerners in China is dabizi (大鼻子), literally "big nose". And a mysterious yet common compliment in Japan is to be told hana ga takai (鼻が高い), lit. "[your] nose is high".
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Elon has his own agenda and SpaceX is his vehicle to achieve it. If his plan succeeds, we'll have a self-sustaining commercial space industry.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
In a sane world, NASA would be cutting their losses and pulling all funding from Boeing around now, since it's already beyond clear that Starliner is not going be better than SpaceX's offerings on any meaningful metric. Unfortunat
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Interesting article and discussion about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27916733 Although the article carefully avoids any mention of race as a factor, and comments mentioning this even in the mildest terms
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by Clewza313 5y ago
FWIW, the Mikkelsons (couple originally behind the site) had a messy divorce and the lawsuits between their various entities continue to this day. The plagiarism here does seem pretty clear cut, but it's likely the funders of investig
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by Clewza313 5y ago
You can learn Mercurial in three minutes if you have a background in command line administration and source control. But in a past life I have on several occasions found myself trying to train enterprises on how to use basic source contr
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Children born during pandemic have lower IQs, US study finds(theguardian.com)
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by Clewza313 5y ago
I think even 2.5% sounds incredibly optimistic. Cuba's internet system is famously dysfunctional, for a long time the only form of access was to stand around a few overloaded public wifi points. Mobile data is available now, but proh
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by Clewza313 5y ago
But that's precisely the question: why are they hiring?
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by Clewza313 5y ago
One other big change since the 1990s, though, is that Creative Commons is now a real thing. Many publications/sites including Wikipedia, Stack Overflow and open-access journals release everything as CC by default, and Wikimedia Common
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by Clewza313 5y ago
It's actually not particularly friendly. The old joke is that Aussies call people they don't know mates, and people they do know cunts.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Playing the devil's advocate here, why is it OK to pay a developer in India $3000/year when they could command $300,000/year in Silicon Valley? Also, unless they joined within the last year, the current employees signed contr
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Here's the original thread, as opposed to a random person quoting a random tweet halfway into it: https://twitter.com/kelvinfichter/status/1425217046636371969 https://threadreaderapp.com/threa
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by Clewza313 5y ago
There have indeed never been more millionaires, because the bar keeps getting lower and lower. A million today inflation adjusted backwards was $143k in 1970.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
> Decide what you want to do with your life, and work your hardest to achieve that. This is precisely the "American Dream" mindset that the article is calling out as a fallacy. Most people are not in a financial position to
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by Clewza313 5y ago
There are a bunch of cities in China and India where AQI peaks at well over 1000. As you'd expect, the long-term health effects are similar to chain smoking, but it doesn't cause healthy people to drop dead on the spot or anythin
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by Clewza313 5y ago
As a fellow Singapore resident, it's undoubtedly hot. The parent's point was that there are places like the Gulf that are unquestionably hotter. I once visited Kuwait in August, and it was 52 degrees in the shade with near-100% h
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Seriously? The specific instantiation of the high-level concept is the proliferation of stablecoins, most notably Tether, which has printed $62 billion and counting. It doesn't require a conspiracy theory to note that being able to l
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by Clewza313 5y ago
There is a great personal account of facing these problems in the New Criterion: https://newcriterion.com/issues/2012/10/the-fifth-problem-ma... Unfortunately the current paywall looks pretty insurmountable,
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Are we reading the same HN here? You're telling me there are "legions of anti-Semitic trolls", but all I see is one post that's already been flagged & downvoted to oblivion.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
"What do you call the person that finishes last in medical school? Doctor." Somewhat less snarkily, I was under the impression that medical schools hate not graduating their students, so once you're in, basically anybody who
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Blocking tokens on exchanges, blacklisting addresses and threats of legal action? And silly old me thought that decentralized cryptocurrency was supposed to be the path of Freedom(tm) beyond all those centralized, coercive, fiat-like restr
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by Clewza313 5y ago
The OP's assumption was that $42M in fiat has to enter every day to keep prices stable. Manipulation can definitely keep prices stable without a net fiat inflow... until one day it can't, because as you note the bills have to be
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Civil Cooperation Bureau(en.wikipedia.org)
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