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by _zagj 8mo ago
> The narcissism of small differences? Certain political parties (typically leftwing) in these countries will often leverage, if not outright foment, anti-Americanism for political gain. And then you have the external propaganda campaign
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Besides fear of populism, I think it reveals a genuine contempt for the United States on the part of Canada and Europe, one that past US presidents and policy makers have long overlooked and downplayed. Note that besides all of the territor
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Another poster commented that it was likely done with Claude.
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It doesn't; you're just dense or deliberately misconstruing my posts to grind your ideological axe. Europe should have checked Russia's aggression in 2014, when it annexed Crimea, not looked the other way and continued busine
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I'm arguing Europe shouldn't have let Russia steal so much of Ukraine.
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Well, it's certainly a "worthless piece of land" (or close) compared to Crimea and all of the other Ukrainian territory Europe sat by and allowed Russia to devour since 2014. And even after 2014, Europe still went ahead with
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by _zagj 9mo ago
> While the US was seizing Russian oil tankers The US, under Trump, also bombed and sanctioned Iran, a major ally of Russia and supplier of drones and drone parts, and kidnapped Maduro, their staunchest ally in the Western Hemisphere, an
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by _zagj 9mo ago
> anesthesiologist Were you even offered a colonoscopy without sedation? In the US, many providers often require sedation for colonoscopies, regardless of your age or lack of comorbidities--which, ironically, makes me less inclined to
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by _zagj 9mo ago
> When I think about the counterfactual me that grew up in a large American city, New York or L.A. instead of Toronto, I see someone who's more stunted than me, in important ways. No skating classes, libraries too far to walk to on
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by _zagj 9mo ago
In fairness, a large chunk of those immigrants to France were "Pied Noirs" and other diaspora from its former colonial possessions, e.g., Indochina.
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Which is really galling when you consider how many Windows 11 users have inadvertently been locked out of their own bought-and-paid-for computers thanks to BitLocker.
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> and you've gone to the trouble of refusing to accept CHAR_BIT!=8 This one was a head-scratcher for me. Yeah, there's no cost to check for it, but architectures where CHAR_BIT != 8 are rarer even than 24-bit architectures.
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Where is the author advocating not using const or casting it away?
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> Sam was part of YC's inaugural batch in S05 and founded OpenAI as YC Research in 2015 Notice how they omit any mention of Loopt, and almost try to imply that he's famous for founding OpenAI, when the trajectory was really Loo
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by _zagj 9mo ago
> soft power Go look at what these people thought of us before Trump : https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/06/11/views-of-the-u... > Sweden: 47% had a favorable opinion of the US.; Germany: 49
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by _zagj 9mo ago
Why link to some reddit thread? I watched the video, and he described divestment from US bonds and equities. Those are easily some of the most desired, and consequently overvalued, securities on the planet. If European divestment actually e
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by _zagj 9mo ago
Yeah, they're the ones trying to gaslight Americans into believing that NATO hasn't been a completely lopsided relationship since the end of the Cold War, and that it makes complete sense that Americans be treaty-bound to defend n
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by _zagj 9mo ago
They typically also need GPU acceleration, these days, and that can be an even bigger bottleneck, with the drivers often not supporting older cards.
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by _zagj 9mo ago
> US is the only country to have ever invoked article 5. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty > Following the September 11 attacks, the Secretary General of NATO, George Robertson telephoned C
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by _zagj 9mo ago
> Soft power is a thing This is the usual claptrap Euros and Eurosimps come up with when Americans gripe about subsidizing Europe's defense. "Soft power" isn't putting money back in Americans' pockets, and the pr
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by _zagj 9mo ago
This reminds me of the articles about Canadian "snowbirds" selling their stateside pied-à-terre (due to tariffs and deteriorating cross-border relations), presenting it as if it were a bad thing for the average American that forei
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https://www.pensiondanmark.com/en/investments/equity-list/?A... Hopefully they'll sell off their Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, and other US equity holdings too. Part of the reason US equities are so expensiv
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Europe has already been exposed as a paper tiger. It won't divert funding from its social safety nets to re-arm, even in the face of Russian encroachment into their frontier, and it's too dependent on the American consumer market
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by _zagj 9mo ago
I disagree with the person you responded to, but I also don't see any practical reason why the US should remain in NATO going forward. It's essentially the defense equivalent of a welfare program, but one that primarily benefits w
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by _zagj 9mo ago
I don't agree with what Trump is doing, but NATO is clearly more of a liability for the US at this point than an asset, distracting us and diverting resources from our primary theater of geostrategic concern (Asia-Pacific), and Europea
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by _zagj 9mo ago
> In my experience (20+ years with C/C++, and about 4 years with Rust), Rust is significantly less complex than C++, while being similarly capable OK, what about if you have an existing code base of hundreds of thousands, or even mi
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by _zagj 9mo ago
I wasn't suggesting the people answering are bots, only that the verification is done by the mods and is somewhat opaque. My concern was just that these well-meaning people might be wasting their time answering botspew. And then inev
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Those are hyphens.
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Reddit has a small number of what I hesitatingly might call "practical" subreddits, where people can go to get tech support, medical advice, or similar fare. To what extent are the questions and requests being posted to these subr
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by _zagj 9mo ago
Military recruitment ads seem perplexingly resistant to the trends of increasing diversity in advertising. And the minorities one might assume to feel slighted by the oversight, are noticeably silent about it.

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