MrMan

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by MrMan 5y ago
I am sure Russia will win territory when they truly want to, I think the issue is how can they hold territory long term. perhaps they can slice the country up into manageable pieces such that insurgency doesn't render the conquest moot
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by MrMan 5y ago
HN is mostly trolls, shills, libertarians and far right types, and weird bubble millennial who seem to aggressively hate everything and just want to get rich. greed and fear rule this forum and the result is very anti-intellectual. you will
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by MrMan 5y ago
HN is indeed a place for curiously engaging in surveillance capitalism while ignoring or minimizing "skeptically" the most important issues confronting the world. HN was great in 2008 to remind us that developments in software dev
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by MrMan 5y ago
I agree - you dont have to accept this as legitimate to engage in a discussion of the points raised.
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by MrMan 5y ago
Russia should retreat to the breakaway provinces and try to hold those and to ethnic cleansing to solidify demographics in their favor. kill zelensky just out of spite though it doesn't affect outcome much. try to hang onto the port th
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by MrMan 5y ago
victory is impossible for Ukraine, which will probably lose a lot of territory, lives, infrastructure, economic development, out-migration. but Russia cant win either
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by MrMan 5y ago
wow that Salon article is a bit frightening.
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by MrMan 5y ago
I agree with everything except the real loser is Ukraine.
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by MrMan 5y ago
not a military victory, almost surely, but a long-term insurrection is I guess a kind of political victory when the invaders finally leave.
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by MrMan 5y ago
I think the mission in Afghanistan was meaningless, or impossible, alternately. I dont think what happened there is a military failure but a failure to restrain ourselves and not go there in large numbers in the first place.
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by MrMan 5y ago
what does this mean
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by MrMan 5y ago
green new deal is a very good thing! looking forward to it
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by MrMan 5y ago
I agree with this assessment, and predicted this to be the year when consolidation around resources begins.
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by MrMan 5y ago
its great for EV, its low speed, they do best in stop and go type traffic.
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by MrMan 5y ago
all very reasonable and curiously discussed, yes
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by MrMan 5y ago
aspbergers is invoked to excuse the person from any antisocial behavior, while at the same time setting that person apart from regular, and by implication, lesser "neurotypical" humans. Its an ubermensch thing I see from many many
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by MrMan 5y ago
I think the underlying problem is that Sweden taxes gas very high, very good reasons. Poland, being a regressive climate denying conservative place, relatively speaking, lets gas be at a natural price. In the US trucking companies would jus
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by MrMan 5y ago
yes design mistakes cost much more to a project than broken implementation in my experience. broken code is harmless compared to a codebase that has to be rewritten after the true requirements finally reveal themselves
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by MrMan 5y ago
you are in the literal center of techno libertarianism, so good luck
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by MrMan 5y ago
those HN-ers are just "curious" and "asking questions" just like the owners of this site like it.
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by MrMan 5y ago
its categorically untrue. it is at best wishful thinking. but if the person who says it knows that the statement is false because of human nature and the way we interact in societies, what does that say about them?
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by MrMan 5y ago
I watched every UFC for many years and loved Rogan the jiu jitsu geek. the new radicalized Rogan I have no patience for. I dont need to be indoctrinated into gun nut conspiracy culture, I already live in the South.
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by MrMan 5y ago
let god sort them out right
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by MrMan 5y ago
that is something propagandists say
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by MrMan 5y ago
at a population level, this total doesn't work. every IQ strata has their Joe Rogan - someone who speaks to their fear, hatred, and bias in a way that makes sense to them. smart people are equally susceptible to propaganda and mind con
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by MrMan 5y ago
poisonous free speech has been weaponized on social media platforms to create strife and weaken the west
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by MrMan 5y ago
I am getting multiple spam mails per day now in my main gmail inbox. I think maybe google is offering paid access to companies who send marketing emails? I signed up for a certain kind of service, but didnt use it, and now get many emails p
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by MrMan 5y ago
its all the diseases besides Covid that masking helps. I think its great from a public health POV, despite being a bit annoying.
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by MrMan 5y ago
yes this is true - prolonged exposure - like students at school - masked with anything but full body protection will probably expose everyone. I am 180 degrees from my stance 12 months ago, now that vaccines have been released and proven. V
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by MrMan 5y ago
it was a dry run. if you look at the column of ex army rangers proceeding single file up the steps, you see a very well trained militia. they didn't bring guns because the invasion of the capitol was a propaganda / psychological o

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