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by af78 2y ago
There are people who asked several AI engines (ChatGPT, Grok etc.) “what should the tariff policy be to bring the trade balance to zero?” (quoting from memory) an the answer was the formula used by the Trump administration. If I find the re
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by af78 2y ago
That's fair. Making predictions is risky business, economist or not. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/paul-krugman-internets-eff...
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by af78 2y ago
This is the opinion of Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman too, in his post Crypto is for Criming https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/crypto-is-for-criming .
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by af78 2y ago
I'm taking figures from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational_energy Moment of inertia of the Earth: I=8.04e37 Angular velocity, with sidereal rotation period of 23.93 hours: ω0=2π/(23.93 × 3600) Angular v
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by af78 2y ago
I did not understand it that way. Putin is probably smarter than Trump (though he does not deserve to be regarded as a mastermind IMHO). The parallel I find interesting is that both are authoritarians who were helped to power by billionaire
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by af78 2y ago
Garry Kasparov recently made the same connection in this piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/pu... > Berezovsky, who elevated Putin to power from behind the scenes, was so
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Startship Was Doomed from the Beginning(planetearthandbeyond.co)
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by af78 2y ago
> How many more billions do we need to send to ensure Russia loses? Any how many more years will it take? You have to compare with how much will it cost if the war continues to grow in scale or intensity. Russia is dedicating more and mo
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by af78 2y ago
It may surprise you but Russia is not winning. It has been exhausting itself for no measurable benefit, at the cost for US taxpayers of roughly a coffee per day. Up to now, Ukraine has never received the support it would need to win, just e
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by af78 2y ago
The Ukrainians want this war to end, too. The difference is that they want to survive as a nation, so how the war ends matters. Plus if Russia wins, its appetite will only grow, and another war is just a matter of time.
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by af78 2y ago
It goes beyond that: - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7435pnle0go US sides with Russia in UN resolutions on Ukraine (the US rejected a resolution that named Russia as the aggressor). - https://news.
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by af78 2y ago
These bankrupt theories have been debunked long ago. The other comments in reply to yours did that well. The first video is literally Putin speaking, the second one is a list of Kremlin talking points, just with an Indian voice. The term “N
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by af78 2y ago
Are you calling on russia to stop its aggression and return to its borders? If not you're not against war, just on the aggressor's side.
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by af78 2y ago
This. If NATO countries threatened anything, it's russian imperialism, by having the ability to defend themselves.
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by af78 2y ago
This is russian propaganda and it is important to know what it says, to be able to recognize it when you see it elsewhere, from the mouth of an influencer, a politician, a comment on the Web etc.
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by af78 2y ago
Then why sabotage the help European nations give to Ukraine? One example: https://news.online.ua/en/the-us-is-ending-support-for-ukrai... The US did not give a single fighter aircraft to Ukraine, not even under Biden.
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by af78 2y ago
There is still some economic pressure that could be applied on Russia but the Trump admin is rejecting that. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-08/us-vetoes... There is a clear pattern at this po
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by af78 2y ago
> China is on Trump's enemy list I hear that a lot, but is it true? I don't see signs that this Admin is doing anything to prepare for a confrontation with the PRC; rather, signs of the contrary: TikTok ban reversed, conciliato
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by af78 2y ago
New features are not cost-free. They translate to increased code size, increased browser build time and decreased performance. At some point the maintenance burden becomes too high, even for Google. I don't think they have an interest
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by af78 2y ago
Thanks. While the primary meaning of 'marcher' is 'to walk', it can be used for machines and vehicles indeed. 'Rouler' is for vehicles only. Interestingly in English the verb 'to run' is used, suggest
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by af78 2y ago
I'm not sure how to translate this line: « Ah ben maintenant elle va marcher beaucoup moins bien, forcément ! » (Bourvil reportedly improvised it, causing de Funès to start laughing and bow his head to hide it). Google Translate: “Ah w
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by af78 2y ago
Plays fine in France.
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by af78 2y ago
I am all for securing critical IT infrastructure, I think we agree on that. Hostile powers will exploit any vulnerability they can find. In democracies, ordinary citizens are a target. In Romania an election was annulled, and TikTok specifi
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by af78 2y ago
To make the life of hostile foreign powers harder? Currently they are allowed to run code written by them on the devices of unsuspecting citizens, and curate the content these citizens watch. The argument sounds like a non sequitur: because
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by af78 2y ago
> On December 8, 2024, Treasury was notified by a third-party software service provider, BeyondTrust, that a threat actor had gained access to a key used by the vendor to secure a cloud-based service used to remotely provide technical su
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by af78 2y ago
Agreed. None of what I mentioned necessarily implies a war crime, as far as I know.
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by af78 2y ago
Most EU countries banned certain categories of weapons like cluster munitions and antipersonnel mines, and as a result were unable to provide them to Ukraine. russia had no such qualms. Fortunately non-EU countries were able to supply Ukrai
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by af78 2y ago
Twitter mobs may be unpleasant but calling this “totalitarian control” is a stretch. Keep this word for places with near-zero individual freedom, death camps, torture chambers, mass graves etc.
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by af78 2y ago
As if threats from Russia and its partners (China, Iran and North Korea) weren't bad enough, Team Trump threaten Greenland and Canada these days. Divisions within NATO is the last thing its members need at the moment. There is more tru
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by af78 2y ago
Unfortunately these kernels look very old: - https://github.com/OpenIPC/linux/tree/ingenic-t31 : v3.10.14 - https://github.com/OpenIPC/linux/tree/ingenic-t40 : v4.4.94 etc. That&

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