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by af78 2y ago
> I notice that the Latin of this inscription is very messy To a modern eye (like mine), other examples of Roman cursive look hard to read as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cursive
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Crypto Is for Criming – By Paul Krugman(paulkrugman.substack.com)
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by af78 2y ago
Another data point. When Musk bought twitter and started wrecking it, several people I followed created an account on blue sky but most did not use it that much. This seems to have changed over the past week (i.e. after the US election). Do
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by af78 2y ago
They seem to be using this framework: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia Avalonia aims at compatibility with Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) XAML. The web platform is explicitly supported: https://a
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by af78 2y ago
Taiwan and democracy are two of the CPC's Five Poisons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Poisons#Chinese_Communist... Authoritarian regimes, the CPC among them, regularly claim that democracy is a western concep
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by af78 2y ago
One possible reason: > The word "REPEAT" should not be used in place of "SAY AGAIN", especially in the vicinity of naval or other firing ranges, as "REPEAT" is an artillery proword defined in ACP 125 U.S. Su
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by af78 2y ago
dicytea's workaround ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41871624 ) works - sort of.
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by af78 2y ago
I live in France and had never heard about this game before. I can play the simulator on mobile but on the desktop Linux the "place disc" button is unresponsive to mouse clicks. I tried both Firefox and Chrome. Am I the only one?
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by af78 2y ago
While a PAE system can address more than 4 GiB of physical memory, individual processes still use 32-bit pointers and are therefore still restricted to 4 GiB. I think this is why the author calls PAE a hack. In x86-64 long mode and i386 32-
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by af78 2y ago
The article focuses on Linux and FreeBSD, which are LP64.
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by af78 2y ago
After a second look I realize I got carried away and my earlier claim about the Ukraine war being harder on civilians in one year than the Vietnam war in a decade was not fair to the Vietnamese. My point about the other conflict is just tha
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by af78 2y ago
The comment you were replying to seemed to relativize, contextualize the use of a dehumanizing term (‘orc’) that is frequently used by Ukrainians and supporters of Ukraine when talking about russian invaders. Whether the Vietnamese or the P
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by af78 2y ago
By 'countless', I was referring to events in this war other than Mariupol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_inva... Of course russia committed many more in the wars you cited. And we co
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by af78 2y ago
Exactly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mariupol In this example, one among countless others, russia killed tens of thousands of civilians, in a couple of months. russia caused more suffering in a few months of
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by af78 2y ago
Literal whataboutism.
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by af78 2y ago
Ukraine did negotiate from 2014 to 2022 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_Format ). Everyone knows what it lead to. It is now clear that, unles
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by af78 2y ago
> What tangible policy can you show for this? Not rhetoric - actual legislation. Does this qualify? “China and Brazil to launch 'Friends of Peace' platform to resolve 'Ukraine conflict'” https://www.msn.com
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by af78 2y ago
This text is a short story ("nouvelle" in French).
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by af78 2y ago
Telegram operates in France, this is sufficient. Edit: By "operates" I mean its services are accessible from France. If an entity cannot or will not comply with EU laws (e.g. GDPR) they can block clients from the EU. I regularly c
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by af78 2y ago
How so? US administrations (both D an R) have been pushing EU states to spend at least 2% GDP on defense, and everyone understands that a significant fraction of it must be purchased from the US.
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by af78 2y ago
Well, one can turn X into XX or XXX... And handwritten prescriptions have become rare where I live, these days.
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by af78 2y ago
| The main reason supersonic flight is dead is the sonic boom Is it? The Concorde would fly at subsonic speeds over land and move to supersonic over the Atlantic. Given the reduced flight time at supersonic speeds I thought economic conside
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by af78 2y ago
Absolutely. Most Western leaders (though not all) deluded themselves thinking Russia wanted better relations and that all the problems were somehow the fault of the West. Countless confidence-building measures were taken. Most Western count
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by af78 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20... It went far beyond a couple of artificial protests. Russia did support Trump in 2016 (and beyond), Trump was quite happy about it.
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by af78 2y ago
| If the Cold War was truly over when the wall fell, we'd have welcomed Russia into NATO. This was offered by NATO: Partnership for Peace, NATO-Russia Founding Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93NATO_
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by af78 2y ago
Going to RT did not help Assange's legal case in any way. I'm against double standards. It was wrong from both Assange, Blair and other Western leaders and activists who claimed to care about democracy and human rights to deal wit
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by af78 2y ago
Being prosecuted, even unfairly, does not necessarily imply you suddenly go and work for a dictatorship -- unless you were already working for them. People who know Russia well know it wasn't that different in 2012. It had already inva
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by af78 2y ago
Russia Today is absolutely, 100% propaganda. Raising awareness about government surveillance is a laudable goal but it does not seem to be that of Wikileaks. How does publishing Clinton's or Macron's campaign e-mails reveal anythi
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by af78 2y ago
Assange literally had a show on Russia Today. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-assange-tv/wikilea... WikiLeaks founder to host Kremlin-funded TV show
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by af78 2y ago
It's not just "DNC and US intelligence." Wikileaks tried to influence the 2017 election in France among other examples. See https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacronLeaks . This partially backfired when the du

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