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by aguaviva 2y ago
From a national security and economic perspective, we need guaranteed pensions, robust health benefits, and automatic wage increases tied to COL increases for workers in all industries.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
And yet we have: Internet data centers are fueling drive to old power source: Coal - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/dat... From coal plant to data center: Old power stations are b
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Would you care to elaborate as to under what sort of agreement (specifically in terms of territorial arrangements, but also any other key concessions that come to mind) you see the war "ending" in the near term? And will Russia ne
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Good points.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
In terms of massacres and "freeing the land" for anyone -- it of course has no relevance. Nothing ever explains or contextualizes a massacre, in my view. The point was simply a demographic observation -- that the Old Yishuv were
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by aguaviva 2y ago
And they're engaging in warfare against Israel with no provocation. Actually they were conceived and rose to prominence in direct response to this rather substantial provocation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/198
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by aguaviva 2y ago
First, "Muslim" is a very broad category. For some it's a pious belief, for others less so, for others a cultural marker and nothing more. I don't see much value in the commenter's rant about "pro-Palestinian
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The geometric decreases in cost that you cite (in terms of communications and SaaS) are due primarily to Moore's Law. Unfortunately there is no similar law affecting power generation costs. If tech companies got into power, the inevit
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by aguaviva 2y ago
most on the left have a strong support of Hamas. "Most" do not. Some do, but they're a minority and it's mostly confused apologetics and certainly not "strong" support. If you've been led to believe oth
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The left don't support Hamas. Sadly, a large (though difficult to measure) portion of them do. If you don't believe me, just try hanging out at their events and talking with a decent sample size of them. And for bonus points,
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Killing thousand civilians per day in east Ukraine by their own people is closer to that. You're hallucinating. Total deaths an all sides (civilian and military) are far below 1000, and certainly not ">=2000" as you are
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Janukowytsch was elected president of the country and was forcibly removed from that function. If you like him or not, it's by definition a coup. That's not what a coup d'état is. Check the definition please, and try again
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The "coup" narrative is a myth. It's just talking point you read somewhere, thought it sounded nifty, and never thought to fact-check or question the logic behind. In any case political events in independent countries are no
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by aguaviva 2y ago
> a low-yield device over the Black Sea or the North Sea How is it different? From a detonation deep inside their own territory? You tell me. a suicidal strategic strike on the continental US? I never suggested that would be the n
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Why are you picking the oblique and obviously implausible case of Putin trying to "scare" the West by detonating a device on his own territory (and as far away from his adversaries as possible)? What people are worried about is
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by aguaviva 2y ago
A high-altitude detonation is not a "World War" Obviously (as in very obviously) this wouldn't be the big one in itself, but an entirely possible provocation that could shove things in that direction. China is a significa
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by aguaviva 2y ago
There is no fear of WWIII, that's part media invention, part political excuse, part useful idiots. Not true at all. The risk may be overstated by some, but it's a perfectly possible outcome that must be considered.[0] A "
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Because the war is only partially about engaging with Hamas. It is also about cementing is stranglehold on the West Bank, and in creating conditions in Gaza favorable to what its current regime coldly refers to as "voluntary transfer&
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An Argentine lake the size of New York City disappears(theguardian.com)
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Why would they go into a completely different region instead of their homeland? Because they weren't invited by the folks living in the place they wished to settle (who in fact had been living there continuously, by and large, and in
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The massacres were deplorable, full stop, regardless of the ancestry or geographic origin of the victims (or the motives of the perpetrators). But as a point in fact the group you are referring to, being by and large composed of descendants
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Compared to Putin's speeches, which you seem to find so enlightening and engaging - I guess I must be.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Disagree, and from the way the Nard was handling the situation (basically taking it all in stride) I don't think he saw that way either.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Such fortuitous stumblings happen all the time without LLMs (and in regular libraries, for those brave enough to use them). It's just the natural byproduct of doing any kind of research.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
How is this considered "lost" knowledge there are (large) Wikipedia pages about those languages (which is of course what the LLM is cribbing from)? "Human-curated encycolpedias are a great onramp to filling in knowledge gaps&
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Sonic Youth were dicks to him too. No they weren't. That's just a meme.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
A dev that explains that all managers are obviously useless. You keep coming back to this caricature. And yet, I've never met anyone with this opinion. I just give an example where someone is asked to do something daily, and yet it
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by aguaviva 2y ago
This is irrational fearmongering The comment above yours is simply misinformed. Clearly Putin isn't going to try to take all of Europe. Even though you aren't misquoting the commenter, you're basically attacking a straw m
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It makes perfect sense, actually. Putin's kind of "sense".
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by aguaviva 2y ago
A lot of devs are just having the assumption that managers are useless fakers that bring nothing. It's not an assumption. It's reasoned inference obtained through extensive observation. And it's not "managers" in

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