ClumsyPilot

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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
They have been in compliance with nuclear treaties, that’s not a trivial point. Also going back to the time of slave trade and genocide of native Americans seems a bit rich…
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
I would support this idealistic approach and disregard for consequences if we didn’t have an “ally” that’s doing exactly the same thing, and potentially vulnerable if a major power decides to intervene
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> It is easy for Ukrainians to pass for Russian It would not be necessary, as you pointed out, plenty of Ukrainians still live in Russia and they are free to drive trucks. Best of my knowledge, there is nothing like interment of Japanese
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
START treaty between US and Russia requires that the Bombers are stored out in the open so that they can be monitored from satellite, to check compliance. I guess after today's attack, that treaty is dead.
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> hat the US does or doesn't do now will have any impact on Muslim extremists' desire for revenge well current actions certainly aren't helping
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
They are stored out in the open because of the START treaty between US and Russia, it requires that nuclear strategic bombers should be visible from satellite to monitor compliance with the treaty. This attack, potentially, might spell the
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> An amazing idea: Drive a truck full of drones deep into enemy territory and let them loose. Is it such an amazing idea? Imagine the shoe is on the other foot - would you normally be able to drive a truck full of drones into a country a
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
Exactly, so with that in mind can you please explain how mines in Africa controlled by war lords represent capitalism? Because if they do, then capitalism is horrible, and if they do not, then the argument made by the OP is hypocritical
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> Do you think those miners are volunteering out of revolutionary solidarity? Miners were getting paid in USSR too, are they capitalist too by this logic?
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> Capitalism doesn't preclude public infrastructure. That's just a facile argument I am measuring by the same yardstick as the OP. If taxes to pay for public services are good capitalism, then you can’t call Europe socialist. &
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
That's what I am saying - look at the size of deals in UK fintech - Revolut, $577 million, Monzo $374 million, checkout.com $333 million Uber's Series C was $361M, that's the kind of money you need to put a company on the glo
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> anti-capitalist activists using iPhones, riding in Ubers, and ordering Amazon deliveries… > every single job, iPhone, and modern convenience they enjoy exists because someone, somewhere, took a risk to make a profit. Amazingly capit
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> The money should be returned to private hands where it belongs and those individuals should be the ones to decide how to invest their own capital This is not a meaningful statement ‘Returning money in private hands’ does not result in
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> You know what's even more convenient than a VM? Not needing a VM and still having the exact same functionality I mean this is basically heresy now. most code is virtualised, or sandboxed, or in a VM, or a docker container, or seve
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> No business should ever encourage their customers to reply to the emails they are sending out. It’s fascinating that we keep creating new technology and then find out that in practice most of it cannot be trusted. Which means it cannot
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
Spherical cow in a vacuum
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> The only solution here is: hardware 2 factor like yubikeys. And when that’s lost, what do you do? Aren’t you back to account recovery step?
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> will never be forced to reimburse all the damage they've done because the true cost would bankrupt the company This story keeps repeating. Maybe we should try it and see if it works as a deterrent.
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> fancy autocomplete word guessers are replacing governments UK has had them in government since 2022, or maybe since Brexit/ Teresa May with her nickname Maybot. The decline in quality of governance has been so severe, that I’d wag
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> presuming to know something about OpenAI’s motivations To increase shareholder value?
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
See, you just don’t get it, we will only be free when we get rid of politicians and have referendums on all legislation. But you can sell options on your family’s votes. Once someone sells a vote, they are in vote debt, and can default by v
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> You can turn over your national defense to the AIs. None of these are Peruvian companies most likely. In the final analysis, are we even left with the government of Peru? Folks, this has already been happening for decades, western cons
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> hundreds of pages long and specific to the industry Very convenient how it works out For my behaviour the law is very short and clear - taking product or service without paying for it is theft. If I pay for 1 car but take an additional
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> Kubernetes is simply too resource-intensive to run on a $10/month VPS with just 1 shared vCPU and 2GB of RAM To put this in perspective, that’s less compute than a phone released in 2023, 12 years ago, Samsung Galaxy S4. To find t
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
Oh common, Israel vs Uganda? > The entire operation lasted 53 minutes – of which the assault lasted only 30 minutes They did not even control of the whole airport, let alone for a prolonged period of time. they got the hostages out and G
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
A civilian airport is huge both inside, has hectares of land area and thousands of staff. Given that this never happened to before, requires sneaking thousands of armed men into to USA and does not achieve anything obvious besides general t
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
The appropriate analogy would be to take the freeway on a unicycle, naked. Otherwise known as inviting disaster.
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
So what is the scenario, Russia does <what> to cause the president to be evacuated, and hopes he will fly through this route on a Blackhawk, as opposed to any other option, places an agent with a rocket launcher along the route, hopes
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
Sounds like they should sort it out before placing civilians in danger
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by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
Surely either you are training, or you are on a mission, but in that case you should be competent pilot. training on a confidential mission is just inviting disaster

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