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Plan A – Princeton Study of a Possible Nuclear War Between the USA and Russia(sgs.princeton.edu)
6 points by Jerry2 5y ago|0 comments
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by Jerry2 5y ago
Hmm... be careful not to use that locking feature when 'locking' it to a regular sign post. When I lived in NYC, my roommate's bike was stolen when a thief just removed bolts holding the sign and then he just lifted the whole
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If anyone wants to go down the "lab leak" rabbit hole, check out Charles Rixey's Substack [1]. He's assembled a massive database of articles and a complete timeline of events [2] that lead to COVID-19 pandemic. He's
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Given the dire situation and prospects for the future, doubling of the wheat prices is completely rational. Some countries are now also imposing export bans. [1] That won't stop price increases but at least they'll still have whea
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Prof. Sabine Hossenfelder has a great article on the lack of progress in fundamentals of physics: " The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is not normal " [1] Choice quotes: > We know this both because d
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by Jerry2 5y ago
The oldest one I know is PDP-11. It's still being used in nuclear power plants and many plants will continue using it until at least 2050 (maybe even longer if they remain working). [1] PDP-11 was released in 1970 so your TSOS find is
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by Jerry2 5y ago
> Both Russia, Ukraine and Serbia have a Neo Nazi problem So does the US. But in the US, neo-Nazis are not in our government, the Congress and in top military positions. They are extremely powerful in the Ukraine and are dictating polic
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> Mearsheimer has been proven wrong Everything that Mearsheimer stated would happen to Ukraine has now come to pass. He predicted it perfectly 7 years ago. He was not wrong. Neocons and Liberal Imperialists, as he calls the "war pa
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How is AZOV battalion not a neo-Nazi outfit? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion There are photos of them doing the Nazi salute [1] and videos of them flying the Nazi flag on the front lines. Even human rights
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If the US cuts off Russia from SWIFT, Putin has stated that it would mean war. I'm no military expert but my older brother who's an officer told me that he worries that Russia would immediately start cutting undersea cables that c
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I've read a bunch of articles on this conflict and this video by Prof Mearsheimer from University of Chicago explained it the best to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
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My grandfather was in the US Air Force and has served as lieutenant general. He told me a story about the time he met Carl Sagan. He organized a conference on space for USAF officers and someone suggested he invite Sagan to give a keynote s
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Russia controls the supply chain of western technology, so who is bluffing?(telegraph.co.uk)
6 points by Jerry2 5y ago|0 comments
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One of the members of my team ordered a Framework Laptop, the Professional edition, about 4 months ago to replace his old Lenovo. In the first week, he had battery drain issues. Even when he put it to sleep, it would drain the battery. He h
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> How They have lobbyists [0][1], and you don't. But don't worry, "experts" and oligarchs tell us that corruption here is among the lowest in the World. > Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” cust
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... or DMCA'd. Over the past year, I've noticed that quite a few repos that I used to track have disappeared. I keep a local bookmarks list now because if a "starred" project is removed or DMCA'd, Github does not te
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YouTube CEO wants governments pass laws to have more control over online speech(reclaimthenet.org)
18 points by Jerry2 5y ago|8 comments
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> YT with that and ublock origin is a completely different experience. SponsorBlock. It changed how I consume YT. It has saved me a ton of time.
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> First, Firefox does ship a lot of anti-tracking tech, as much of it by default as possible without breaking sites too much. Hi sfink. Thank you for a response. I still use Firefox myself but I've been disillusioned by the Mozilla&
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I found this paper interesting [1] and how they characterize Firefox' behavior out of the box: We investigate the request behavior of each browser (Figure 7). Brave is the most effective at reducing third- party tracking-and-ad
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Call me cynical but I'm guessing that Meta just made a large donation to Mozilla and in turn they're using Mozilla to whitewash this proposal. They're just buying Mozilla's reputation (what's left of it) for their p
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> otherwise extralegally subverted it No, read my comment again. Every one of the links shows a completely legal way to grab someone's data from any company. The whole point of my initial comment was to point out that legal system i
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> LEOs? Can only think if Low Earth Orbits. It's a catch-all term for all the law enforcement people. There's now so many organizations that can get your data through warrants, and some even without warrants, so that's a c
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> I wonder why? NSLs: https://www.eff.org/issues/national-security-letters/faq Dragnet/Geofence warrants: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike... and htt
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> So only comedians and animated TV shows are allowed to be offensive? I heard some comedians say that they don't perform in Canada because of the same type of anti-free-speech laws. Maybe some Canadians can chime in but there are
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> Poll after poll shows that the military is the most respected institution in American life. Not even the military is safe anymore: > Trust in the military is dropping significantly, new survey suggests https://www.milita
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> Elements of both exist in the modern world You could describe the dystopian part of our condition as a blend of various dystopian tropes: https://i.imgur.com/kDo2NNr.jpg Which of these is most dominant depends on where
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Heh, I had one of those players as well. A coworker of mine purchased it, didn't use it often and when he decided to use it for biking, it stopped working. In the meantime the company went out of business and he couldn't even get
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Looks like a repeat of the Guinea coup from few months ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/world/africa/guinea-coup-... Also, an interestring video: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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Idiocracy was not meant to be a documentary.

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