VladRussian2

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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>You're essentially arguing against all free trade. it is a stretch. Free trade just isn't always the best approach to every situation. >A world that relies on trade is a world at peace. again, big stretch. Just for example:
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Norway is in Europe where dairy is a staple food. So here you go: "A country can do without uranium, it can't do without staple food".
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
that's the point - Egypt didn't take necessary measures for their food security. I lived through food/gas shortages and high prices at the end of USSR so i think i know how Egypt people felt. Now living in the US i appreciate
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
like between Universe in the beginning - hot meson-gluon soup and at the end - vast over-expanded vacuum with few super-super-super-large black holes
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
> Thus, we don't get paid in "golds". in case of gold it is in "kilograms" - still plural, even though it is divisible.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
Watson may start really outperform humans when his strength - the ability to ingest and process/correlate huge amounts of, probably with not completely understood relevance, information, like full DNA sequence of a patient, etc... - w
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
there are different levels of security. "Thanks God, children aren't going to bed hungry (and thus probably survive next few days)" vs. "children going to bed after glass of good milk and cookie (and thus probably grow h
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
Canada is the same (from the same link above): "Past this amount, tariffs are exceptionally high, in the neighbourhood of 246% for cheese and over 300% for butter. "
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>Understanding Ricardian/comparative advantage, recognising that dairy is not a matter of national security, and importing it. A country can do without uranium, it can't do without dairy. As another example of food security bei
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>Still, in Norway, oil wealth may have made the state reluctant to make reforms or cut subsidies unthinkable elsewhere. Farm subsidies allow farmers, for instance, to keep dairy cows in heated barns in the Arctic. and the alternative? Mi
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
> That is bad for accuracy, one of the main version around is AK-74, same mechanics, only 5.45mm caliber instead of 7.62mm of AK-47. While not a sharpshooter's, it is a very accurate gun.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
yep, looking at the prototypes like e-Volo, one can try to imagine the Bay Area skies in 5 years.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
after protests against ferry, the next mode of transportation will be a private plane i guess, something like Osprey. Or may be submarine.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
nostalgia :) The simple logical simplicity of this http://pastraiser.com/cpu/i8080/i8080_opcodes.html allowed, after some short time without even looking at the table, to type the binary code directly in (our pref
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
it doesn't even come to close to the "cost of business".
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
"Fast and Furious 1X" will be starring self-driving cars i guess.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>You mean the era of J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO, which spied on every domestic activist group and potential subversive from Vietnam war protestors to Martin Luther King? they were forced to prioritize their limited resources and abil
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>Mercurial is a DVCS my bad. 5+ years since i worked with Mercurial. Digging deep into painful memories, my Mercurial PTSD from that time is absence of in-repo branching - need to clone which is a killer for very large repo we had and no
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
> If you are trying to run at a very large scale with a single repo, Perforce (or apparently Mercurial) is the way to go. that is the problem - single logical repo in Perforce/Mercurial does mean single physical repo. Which obviousl
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>With perforce, you can reasonably expect to run into this brick wall somewhere in the neighborhood of terabytes of metadata and dozens of transactions per second. That changes depending on what sort of beastly hardware you are willing t
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>My suspicion is that open source projects tend towards Git because of GitHub but I think a lot of companies who don't have the option of external code hosting lean towards Mercurial. GitHub is a consequence not the cause (ponder fo
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>I'm stunned by how torture has became common in TV shows, at least since "24". But is it propaganda? to me, it was more a way to please the audience. Violence in its ultimate form. A viewer who associates him/herself
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>However, now that the U.S. government, and the NSA and its collaborators in particular, have been shown to explicitly not have this goal – in fact, their goal has been to strive for less secure systems and more difficult standards – wh
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
> He is probably a very nice, very earnest person. Obviously. Being a pushy jerk explicitly forcing your employer's agenda wouldn't be very fruitful and thus would be a bad job performance by an NSA employee in such position. &
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have a dog and can say for sure that it is definitely nor random nor "simple preference" (and magnetic alignment falls under "simple" category)
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>Remember that a smart phone contains many of the key components for a drone. how about stealth supersonic self-landing on aircraft carrier satellite networked drones? Not that i doubt Chinese military or economical might, especially tho
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>Who ever owns the islands ... has the rights to exploit the oil/gas fields in the ocean beds around them. that is the current post-colonial (post-WWI) framework of "independent sovereign nations". This framework starts to
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>Data is stored in the blockchain forever and can be retrieved using a transaction hash as an identifier. so, if someone stores any piece of copyright material the MPAA/RIAA would need to destroy whole ecosystem of the given coin? b
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
buy freedom? from whom are you going to buy it? who has a freedom for sale? do they have excess supply of it? or would they build a one for you? or are they going to sale you their own one?
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>The government needs to break projects down into smaller chunks, to mitigate the losses if a supplier doesn't deliver, you don't pay them, and they go bankrupt. Then they need to establish and enforce an incentive system where

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