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FpUser
1y ago
>"Even taking a former President is effectively an Act of War ..." I already said "...someone who is not the president, sitting of former....". You are just repeating.
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FpUser
1y ago
Taking president of course means war. I mostly meant someone who is not the president, sitting of former. Then it will be the US thinking of potential consequences.
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FpUser
1y ago
The winner takes it all ...
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FpUser
1y ago
>"...very few would ever be willing to threaten war with us to back up the ICC" They would not have to. It will be up to your military to come to allied country and shoot their way through. This might be physically possible but
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FpUser
1y ago
Then one should add K to ICC as for Kangaroo.
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FpUser
1y ago
>"By comparison, actually, engineering only has to deal with the complexity of the computer which is at least deterministic." This statement is on big pile of BS. From a practical standpoint there is nothing deterministic about
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FpUser
1y ago
I think their statement amounts to something like in line of: subset of modern C++ and feature usage patterns can be reasonably safe and I am ok with it. Nothing is ever really safe of course. One should consider trade offs of quality /
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FpUser
1y ago
>"What a terrifying statement." The statement may not be correct but calling it terrifying is way melodramatic.
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FpUser
1y ago
I do not train programmers. I hire subcontractors when I need help. They're all same level as myself or better. Easy to find amongst East Europeans and does not cost much. Actually cheaper than some mediocre programmer from North Ameri
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1y ago
I write high performance backends in C++. Works approximately as described in article and all data are in RAM and in structures specialized for access patterns. Works like a charm and runs 24x7 without a trace of problem. I've never ha
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FpUser
1y ago
When every country lining up to buy US debt they can print as much money as they wish. Lately however that buying of the US debt does not seem as attractive as it used to be.
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FpUser
1y ago
>"I take my chances for a probable dysfunctional government rather than a definitely dysfunctional one." I hear tickets to Libya are cheap lately. You can visit and compare.
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FpUser
1y ago
Why would anyone care what they say. Judging by their previous behavior it is safe to say that if their lips are moving - they're lying
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FpUser
1y ago
>"Everyone on this forum with hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in the bank will just stop working." Why would UBI stop the category from working? From my personal perspective - I am an independent, make good money,
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FpUser
1y ago
>"...credit relationships with the central bank" Will that come with the healthy interest rate one could never hope to repay?
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1y ago
>"There's also nothing inherently wrong with selling intelligence tools to a western government" The king can do no wrong. What a pinnacle of arrogance. >"The only thing that surprises me is that a western governme
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FpUser
1y ago
Following Trump's threats Danes would do better if they try to keep their vital infrastructure including IT as free as possible from the dependence.
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FpUser
1y ago
>"...modern development stack involves a composition of several code transformation tools." Or not. We for example use plain browser site JavaScript for business frontends. Bar some domain specific libs and web components we ar
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1y ago
For generic browser based application I am in favor and am using domain specific libraries like three.js and purposely made web components. For the rest modern javascript works just fine. I just do not see the value of those framework monst
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FpUser
1y ago
Example here in Canada and Toronto in particular. There were plenty of independent pet clinics and they used to charge somewhat reasonable prices. Now nearly all of those were bought by big companies / investors. Prices went through th
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FpUser
1y ago
>"When the time comes, how many of these immigrants do you think will fight for their host country? Especially if said host country make likely come into conflict with their homelands." Same arguments were just as valid 100-200
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FpUser
1y ago
If Alberta wants to separate to be on their own it is a lunacy. They will gain nothing in the end. I suspect that in reality there is a plan to just simply sell it to the US - separate first and then join the US later. I bet some politician
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1y ago
It seems that the amount of fences is growing up exponentially. To the point that we are all corralled. Not so long time ago people could move from country to country relatively freely. Now it is a fucking tragedy
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FpUser
1y ago
>"...than pursuing a single thing..." Where did I say about single thing: "...weapons and other more effective preventive measures..." Looking from the other angle - should Russia attack it'll trigger article 5.
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1y ago
>"Meanwhile, it increases the costs on Russia and slows their advance. It's a win no matter what." Following logic it also increases your own costs and wastes money that could've been allocated to produce weapons and
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FpUser
1y ago
Now you owe me a coffee and a keyboard
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FpUser
1y ago
I am very disappointed about Optane drives. Perfect case for superfast vertically scalable database. I was going to build a solution based on this but suddenly it is gone for all practical intents and purposes.
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FpUser
1y ago
>"...just sit it out and let the enemy..." If enemy attacks you then you do not have to sit it out. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. But calling this "do" romantic is pure BS in my opinion, well unles
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1y ago
>"there really is something incredibly romantic about the era of war mobilization. Ordinary people had a purpose simply assigned to them, and if nothing else I think it's still the case that people in all eras crave purpose.&qu
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FpUser
1y ago
I guess then might try to buy the IP
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