CountSessine

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by CountSessine 5y ago
There's a good reason so many nations that were formerly dominated by Russia are now exceeding them in GDP per capita. “Isn’t ruled by Vladimir Putin” is highly predictive of GDP, but “has a warm-water port” is far more predictive. W
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by CountSessine 5y ago
Czeckia is in the EU customs union and therefore for the purposes of land-locked or not land-locked, Czeckia has ports at its disposal. In fact Czeckia can use Gdańsk without penalty. The reason landlocked countries have lower GDP is that t
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by CountSessine 5y ago
All of these countries save Switzerland are within the EU customs union. Being land-locked is a disadvantage precisely because you have a limited number of countries to negotiate trade with and not much leverage. Countries with a port can h
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by CountSessine 5y ago
Maybe… Something to keep in mind is that land-locked countries experience slower economic growth and have lower GDPs than countries with access to ports. Russia is mostly restricted to their Black Sea ports but they still have something. Br
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by CountSessine 5y ago
Just in time for the culture wars!
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by CountSessine 5y ago
You're giving the earnings back to investors because you don't have anything to invest them in yourself. Just like you're supposed to. It's just that you're just doing it through a buyback rather than a dividend bec
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by CountSessine 5y ago
No one is suggesting that they'll sign up for a proxy war out-of-the-blue. But the Russians are clearly surprised by the hostile resistance they've met from ordinary Ukrainians. I think they really thought that they would be welco
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by CountSessine 5y ago
Yeah - you're probably right
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by CountSessine 5y ago
This was one of the ideas behind Google+ - "circles". You could put other people in different broadcast "circles" and then you wouldn't end up announcing your weird fetish preferences or drug use to your grandma or
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by CountSessine 5y ago
Of course they can - unless you live in a jurisdiction with a so-called “right to work” statute. If you weren’t forced to join then, in theory, management could subvert and then break the union by hiring lots of new employees who are compen
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by CountSessine 5y ago
The CCP won't democratize. It was heading in that direction under Hu, now under Xi Jinping things are consolidating back towards a centralist power. I agree completely. But if you're in the CCP, and a Chinese patriot, you unders
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by CountSessine 5y ago
I doubt they care about TSMC. The CCP understands (or at least was predicting back with Jiang and Hu) that eventually China will democratize. Taiwan is a democracy right now. Democratic countries almost never re-unite into a single country.
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by CountSessine 5y ago
I think they'll be watching what happens in Ukraine very carefully. Then they'll be calibrating their predictions about what would happen if they invaded Taiwan with Russia's experience in Ukraine.
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by CountSessine 5y ago
Technical know how, mostly. But in expected ways. Machining and engineering skills as they relate to manufacturing are different now. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ovD0aLdRUs0
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by CountSessine 5y ago
Japan has a declining population. Residential real estate inevitably declines with this demographic trajectory. The Kansai region has an increasing population and real estate prices are still in decline or stable. Also Japan did not have
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by CountSessine 5y ago
I think integration was always going to be hard and most people who understood the problem knew that it was going to be hard/impossible but they went ahead with it anyways. At the time they were talking about integrated compute units b
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by CountSessine 5y ago
Why? Has Intel done anything with Altera? I’m curious. AMD’s acquisition of ATI is generally viewed as a strategic error. Does this make more sense?
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by CountSessine 5y ago
what do you do about sealioning Interesting - in the talk.origins days this was called the "Gish Gallop". In practice, everyone who debates you is sealioning you because they don't see what is so clearly obvious to you. And
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by CountSessine 5y ago
Basically, you don't want to use UTF-8 to encode UTF-16 surrogate code points The awful truth is that there is such a beast. UTF-8 wrapper with UTF-16 surrogate pairs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESU-8
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by CountSessine 5y ago
I think it's the Nazi flags. Symbols of treason and rebellion, expressions of violent intent towards fellow citizens. It stopped being fellow citizens with disagreeable and even laughable views expressing their right to freely assembl
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by CountSessine 5y ago
I've often wondered about this. Here in North America we only get the Mercedes models that need their disc rotors replaced every 30k, and we see nothing of the indestructible and serviceable models that seem to wind up in places withou
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by CountSessine 5y ago
It has been proven that a cab-forward design is safer for avoiding accidents directly in front of the vehicles, something that is more focused on in the EU. Ironic, because back in the 70's when there were more CoE designs driving ar
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by CountSessine 5y ago
You really think that owner operators repair their own trucks? That doesn't make any economic sense. This is not a hobby, they need to drive to make money not to play truck repairman. I've known several owner-operators, friends
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by CountSessine 5y ago
Exactly. The irony of Mercedes-Benz engineers marveling at how unsophisticated a simply-engineered vehicle is brought a smile to my face. Most owner-operator truck drivers want to be able to fix and maintain their trucks on their own, not b
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by CountSessine 5y ago
MacOS includes cpython 2.7 and 3.x by default. The OP is wondering about what `/usr/bin/python` will point to now or whether it will even exist.
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by CountSessine 5y ago
So clearly some people didn't hate them? In fact, maybe the majority?
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by CountSessine 5y ago
It sounds like what Argentina needs is Paul Volcker, not Nelson Mandela. What would Nelson Mandela do?
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by CountSessine 5y ago
...and yet you voted for those politicians?
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by CountSessine 5y ago
lgtm
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by CountSessine 5y ago
Three bytes are enough to fit nearly any of the chars in use in any language, including Chinese and Japanese With only 3 bytes you'll completely miss plane 2, the "Supplementary Ideographic Plane" which includes tons of Chi

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