Lazare

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by Lazare 4y ago
This is a fascinating article: https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/11719/ Or for a shorter version (but the same point): https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats-th
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by Lazare 4y ago
> What details are clearly incorrect? There's a few, but as an example, Hersh claims the divers deployed off of an Alta-class minesweeper, which was taking part of the BALTOPS22 excercise. There was no Alta-class minsweeper taking
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by Lazare 4y ago
It doesn't make a lot of sense (ie, if you accept the premise is true, would you expect the plot to play out as Hersh claims?), it includes several details that are clearly incorrect, it isn't particulary supported by open source
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by Lazare 4y ago
It's a plausible theory, and it does at least go some way to explaining some of the oddities. For example, why such a large distance between the breaks in the NS1 and NS2 pipelines? The detail about the Minerva Julie are suggestive. Ho
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by Lazare 4y ago
Fascinating that Akamai apparently thinks that the brand equity of "Linode" is less than whatever people will impute to some new "Akamai cloud computing" among their target customer base. Which is...puzzling! I can only
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by Lazare 4y ago
Funny, I subscribe to three Substacks, and they're all left wing, in one case being written by an avowed Marxist. Tell me more about this niche?
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by Lazare 4y ago
> Substack isn't a technology platform - it's a business model. They paid a bunch of well known writers a bunch of money to come to their platform and it paid off. I think they have wisely bet that there is no shortage of conte
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by Lazare 4y ago
I agree that it feels like Medium failed, but I think it's hard to say exactly why because it's hard to say exactly what Medium failed at . Several iterations of their (often changing) business model seemed to focus around creati
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by Lazare 4y ago
Again though, the dollars (and pound, and euro) are already overwhelmingly digital. I already don't carry cash on me, and make payments digitally. You don't need a new currency to allow removal of cash.
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by Lazare 4y ago
Citation needed, I think. :) Keep in mind: 1) I "own" some cards in MTGO. That is, there's a line in a DB run by Wizards that associates them with my account ID. I can log in and confirm they're in my collection, and I c
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by Lazare 4y ago
Seymour Hersh has had a long and storied career, and he has made some very bold claims that later turned out to be correct. He's also, especially recently, made some very bold claims that so far have not turned out to be correct, w
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by Lazare 4y ago
I find these discussions frustrating because the UK pound (like the US dollar, the euro, etc) is already digital. THe overwhelming majority of pounds in the UK are just numbers in a database already . So there's no information being c
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by Lazare 4y ago
Er...trading items between players is a core part of basically all MMOs, many ARPGs, some TCGs, etc. It's a huge thing in many games, including some of the most popular games on the planet. ...none of them use or need NFTs or a blockch
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by Lazare 4y ago
> > overjustification effect > Fair enough but not a flaw. ...a lot of game developers want people to enjoy their games, either out of a sense of artistry, or just because enjoyable games attract players and make money. If you&#x27
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by Lazare 4y ago
On the one hand, what's being alleged doesn't actually sound...particularly bad? I don't see any obvious ethical concerns, and if it's against French law then that should be litigated in court, not on a blog post. But on
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by Lazare 4y ago
If it was a quilted gambeson, that would make a lot more sense, but it seems quite clearly to have a shape and structure to it - see in particular the shoulders and, in some cases, what appear to be breastplates shaped to emphasise the bu
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by Lazare 4y ago
The same author did a kit review of the Gondor armor from the movies, and was (broadly) quite positive about it: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/10/collections-gondor-heavy-infan... His observations seem to mesh c
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by Lazare 4y ago
I think the reaction was driven by four things: 1) The legal profession tries to instill a sense of ethics into the lawyers they train, and what DoNotPay was proposing violated that ethics. I don't want to overyhype the legal professio
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by Lazare 4y ago
There are employee evaluation tools that try to measure if employees are meeting expectations. The entire point of stack ranking is that it does not do this . The article is about a lead who resigned/got fired because the system wante
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by Lazare 4y ago
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." That comes from Blackstone ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio ), and has been a bedrock principle of justice in Eng
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by Lazare 4y ago
They got the etymology wrong. There is no negative connotation.
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by Lazare 4y ago
Signal isn't dropping SMS by choice, but because the APIs aren't being exposed on Android going forward. You won't find a replacement until that changes.
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by Lazare 4y ago
More mobilization is impractical; the current mobilization seems to already be far more than the system can handle. And as for straight out war...the war went hot in Feb. Russia has been holding nothing back in its (so far futile) efforts t
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by Lazare 4y ago
Nope, the banks may struggle to sell the debt, but that just means they're on the hook for it. There's no "get out of jail" card there.
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by Lazare 4y ago
> Forums weren't replaced by discord. Forums were replaced by Reddit. Although you post still stands, I think you're very wrong in thinking about the reasoning why people use one or another platform. There may be some contexts
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by Lazare 4y ago
Yep. From wikipedia: > On Wednesday, November 9, 2016, an underage African-American Oberlin College student and Student Assistant Treasurer,[9] Jonathan Aladin (aka Elijah Aladin), attempted to purchase a bottle of wine using a fake iden
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by Lazare 4y ago
There's like...three fairly seperate ideas here. 1) Is financialisation of food good? 2) Is welfare/a social safety net good? 3) Shoud weldfare be provided as cash or in-kind? Hitting them each in order: 1) The finacialisation of
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by Lazare 4y ago
Here's one way to think about it: In many countries, government policy has been (in some cases explicitly) that house prices should always go up. (The calculation is that more people own homes than rent, so this should be worth votes o
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by Lazare 4y ago
Food and shelter are basic human needs, but food is one of the oldest commodities, and the financialisation of food has real advantages in ensuring an adequate supply of food, stable prices, etc. There's extensive empircal and theoretc
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by Lazare 4y ago
> Ah yes, it’s completely fair that the only people who should be morally allowed to participate in the financial apparatus that sometimes leads to getting rich, are the people who are already rich. I agree with your overall point, but t

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