Idiot_in_Vain

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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
And because these commanders and soldiers don't want to end up in a Siberian prison or worse, they report everything is going according to plan, there are no losses in the russian army, russian weapons have no analogs anywhere in the w
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Not a problem. There's one person making the important decisions in Russia and he doesn't know how to use the internet.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
I hope Ukraine can beat Russia and liberate it's territory in 2014 borders, but it's far from a done deal. Currently Russia produces more ammo than all NATO countries combined. Ukraine allies need to open new assembly lines for am
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
This has been repeated a million times. Some people just prefer to leave in their own imaginary world, where Turkey is a part of the common market, and free to do any trade deals with 3rd parties.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
I wonder if ChatGPT is actually smarter than most leave voters...
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
So financial deregulation is a positive development? Remember that next time the state has to take 50 or 100 billion dollar loan to save a greedy bank, that's too big to fail. No big deal, it will just cost a few percent higher taxes
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Wonder if QC holds any iSIM related patents, that will prevent their competition from offering iSIMs.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Why? My Threadripper desktop PC supports a maximum of 1TB RAM and it doesn't take much space at all.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Despite the interest, insurance, taxes, and maintenance when paying a mortgage the majority or at least a big part of your payment goes to pay off the house - so after 15 or 20 or 30 years you own a very expensive house. When renting all th
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
I haven't played with the NY times calc, but is the following correct: Housing prices only keep pace with inflation. America realizes it totally forgot about a few million homes it built, greatly expanding supply. Housing prices rise o
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
dmitriid, you seem to not understand the simple fact that if one of a hundred startups an investor financed turns into a big success he can make big profits overall, despite 99% of the companies lost him money.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Oh yeah, it caused a million problems for people and businesses, but in the far far future the NHS will get 300 trilion pounds a week... Used to work in the Department for International Trade - not a single one of their international trade
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
I love privacy, but the majority of people in the world seem not to understand it's importance. No, there are no "zero expectations for a company to ever turn profitable". If you ever tried to get investor money you'll k
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Or they will pay the hackers and try to keep the breach a secret...
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
You are mostly right, but the UK was extremely stupid to exit EU. They lost free access to their biggest market. And they made it harder and more expensive for their biggest suppliers to sell to them.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
The problem is certifications, standards, reviews are strong barriers to entry and destroy competition and startup opportunities. EU already lacks big tech compared to US, China and Russia. EU can easily regulate that to write software one
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Yeah, I think you're right and I was wrong.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
You've got the story wrong. He wasn't kicked out because of the stack debate, but because he sold PP to eBay (making enough money in the process to fund Tesla and SpaceX).
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
There are literally millions of professional developers using C#. Any problem you run into has a solution documented online. Languages like Nim are a good choice for developers who need the adrenaline rush of dealing with complicated proble
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
99.9% of the users don't need a TB. There are flagship models with 1TB flash.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Wonder if there's a browser plugin that can calculate SHA 256 checksum for a page and all linked JS - to help verify that the encryption/decription code has not been compromised.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Buy a school sounding domain, copy existing school web site -> get an education plan.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
I don't know where to start. >> Consider the nucleus of a normal atom. We know and have mapped out electron shell structures. Nuclei too have structure but it's way more inscrutable and complex as you have to deal with the e
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Nokia G22 is a good budget phone. The SOC - Tiger 606 has two big and six small CPU cores, while most budget SOCs have eight small cores. Together with 4GB RAM makes for mostly lag free UI. 4GB/64GB is the minimal config to run comfort
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
So you know better what "they" need than corporations like Apple, that add trilions of dollars to their market cap based on their smartphone sales? There is a very small minority of people who prefer smaller phones, but they make
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Hi Patrick :)
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
>> How much does continuously streaming 4k bandwidth alone cost over the life of a GPU? Doesn't matter - the bandwidth used by an average user costs a small portion of a montly subscription fee. High prices for GPUs may be a good
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Micro$oft seems to think that my PC is their PC and they can do whatever they like with it, without even asking.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
The simplest known forms of life - simple bacteria and archea are extremely complex. They have hundreds of different proteins, RNA, DNA, membranes, interacting in a million different ways. Humankind has been able to create multi-gigahertz p
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
During WW2 Germany had the biggest steam presses in the world - allowing them to build airplanes from bigger components pressed into shape, while all the other countries had to use a lot more smaller components bolted together. Made Nazi pl

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