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by FpUser 8mo ago
Soviet cartoon (1984) based on the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quyaaszg6jc
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by FpUser 8mo ago
>"It's your mess, now clean it up" Yes sir. On a second thought - who the fuck are you to tell the country with the biggest dick what to do. We'll be putting 100% tariffs on you.
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by FpUser 8mo ago
Well the one now is definitely worse. Not that I like the one before. Something better is needed
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by FpUser 8mo ago
>"They believe the current system is fundamentally unfair to them" Well it fucking is. But thinking that current king can fix it is a lunacy
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by FpUser 8mo ago
Long time overdue. It is so stupid to rely on a single country in so many areas
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by FpUser 8mo ago
8.4.7 here. phew
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by FpUser 8mo ago
>"Putin's regime might be a cancer of humanity" It will go away at some point unless global west will start behaving in the same manner.
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by FpUser 8mo ago
>"nationalized and forced to keep operating." Assuming there is no some kill switch which would render a whole infra including hardware inoperable.
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by FpUser 8mo ago
>"like containing Russia" I think at the moment Canada faces way bigger problems from the south.
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by FpUser 8mo ago
>"but taken too far, isolationism is a death sentence" I would argue that few large countries have everything to be self sufficient. For the rest - they would have to band together to avoid being at the mercy of their bigger ov
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by FpUser 8mo ago
Next project: interstellar jump craft
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by FpUser 9mo ago
Yeah, I remember seeing board with the list in the 90s in some company I can't remember. It included every employee including the owner along with the status like IN,OUT - WHERE - PHONE, OUT
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by FpUser 9mo ago
>"Most engineers (including me) spent months grinding LeetCode ..." I have not done it once (work in programming for 40+ years) as independent. Few times potential clients tried to play this game but I just simple refuse. On wa
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by FpUser 9mo ago
$100K after they pass away? I am curious what those will be worth by then. This whole thing sounds like some tricky scheme. He can probably take these 100M from his profit, stuff it into some fund to avoid taxes and let the fund grow, meanw
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by FpUser 9mo ago
I am constantly designing parts myself. I just wish that instead of having many unfinished, unpolished products we had something with the level of Solidworks / Onshape / whatever. FreeCad is getting somewhere but it is still way b
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by FpUser 9mo ago
Cut the crap please. There is a huge difference between likes of say serial rapist and ones that are in prison because they voiced disagreement with the Russian government. Btw the West happily deporting Russians who are in opposition to re
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by FpUser 9mo ago
I was talking about getting "influenced". I do not base my research on what's on HN. Prefer to find and read articles on specific subjects.
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by FpUser 9mo ago
No it is not. Canada did not try to do anything resembling Free Trade with China. It is btw prohibited by NAFTA / CUSMA. Canada pursues reasonable targeted deals like every normal country should. Trump is just getting hysterical becaus
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by FpUser 9mo ago
>"I agree though that a strong EU is needed, in part to defend against the US, as well as Russia (until the Russian economy reaches failure)." So after Russia fails "a strong EU" is no longer needed? Also waiting for
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by FpUser 9mo ago
Guangdong Province at the moment has about 140,000,000 people. About the same as Russia so it figures. Also it is not the best idea to estimate GDP of Russia in USD and using US criteria.
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by FpUser 9mo ago
>"HN users are the global thought leaders and (hate the term) influencers" I've no idea about leaders as those do not write here much. As for "influencers" - my golden rule is to research subject I am having doub
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by FpUser 9mo ago
I would say "wrong politics". Atrocities committed by other regimes have no problems staying on top page.
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by FpUser 9mo ago
>"Yeah, it's almost like people walking around with guns is a bad idea." When those people are ICE it definitely is. I think those motherfuckers should be wearing straightjackets
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The Rise of Chinese Memory(youtube.com)
1 points by FpUser 9mo ago|0 comments
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by FpUser 9mo ago
This sends shivers down my spine. I've no idea how can person be so composed and cool.
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Alex Honnold Completes the Most Dangerous Free-Solo Ascent (2018)(nationalgeographic.com)
3 points by FpUser 9mo ago|2 comments
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by FpUser 9mo ago
Europeans might disagree
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by FpUser 9mo ago
As a long term Gold and Oil pretty much are
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by FpUser 9mo ago
The world is reacting to reserve currency being used as a tool to conduct politics and twist arms. Started before Trump. He is just increasing "efficiency"
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by FpUser 9mo ago
>"The export driven economies like China or the EU rely on the dollar to weaken their own currencies for competitive trade" I have about zero clue how finances really work but it looks to me as the statement is only true if the

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