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by aguaviva 2y ago
If your engineers are slacking in work, what's the best way to increase their sense of urgency or motivate them to ship things faster? Make sure they are properly and competitively compensated. Did I mention competitively?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It seems like you're feigning naiveté, here. Misdirected attacks happen all the time in warfare, and tragically there's nothing in the slightest bit surprising about it. The circumstances around the Majdal Shams attack are stil
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Nothing strange at all about it. It's just how thugs operate.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Who don't actually do the work, and likely would not be able execute it no matter how hard they tried. In that vein, I've sometimes wondered if this projected insinuation (of the developers' myopic tendencies and general hapl
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by aguaviva 2y ago
But there's plenty of evidence. Perhaps so. I'm not familiar with the details of the case. But this I do know: prior felony convictions are manifestly not evidence. Presenting them as such causes me to seriously doubt the bro
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Without them, the devs would just go into whatever useless direction or would spend days trying to solve non-problem. Perhaps this is a sign you need better devs -- much better devs, in fact? And that Scrum, while it may appear to help
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The grandparent was mistaken about an intent to conquer "all" of Europe - but similar threats have been made against Poland and the Baltics (as Putin's appetite for direct annexation seems to be limited to territories of the
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Because it's what the aggressor has been saying all along: "That is why it is so important to achieve all the goals of the special military operation. To push back the borders that threaten our country as far as possible, even
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Trump wants a peace deal in ukraine that could involve land concessions. Do you think rewarding the aggressor with large-scale land concessions (the only kind they have indicated they will accept), along with other concessions they will c
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Desert Racers Demolish Art Carved by Ancient People in Chile(nytimes.com)
3 points by aguaviva 2y ago|1 comments
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by aguaviva 2y ago
https://archive.md/DDkj4
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by aguaviva 2y ago
"All bark and no bite" is what many said prior to the 2022 full-scale invasion. Of course he's probably mostly bluffing but this isn't just any eventuality we're talking about here. The threat is very real and mu
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I appreciate the thoughtful analysis. I may follow up again in a day or two.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
https://archive.md/d1xte
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Marxist critic Frederic Jameson believed reading was the path to revolution(nytimes.com)
6 points by aguaviva 2y ago|1 comments
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Israel did not hit random Lebanese citizens, it hit almost entirely Hezbollah operatives. Every large-scale airstrike in an urban area hits random civilians, and so far the Lebanese Health Ministry has indicated that out of 558 killed s
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It can certainly be argued that NATO expansion was bad policy, intrinsically antagonistic, and basically in the wrong spirit of the way the world should have re-organized itself post-1989. That's actually my gut feeling as well. But
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by aguaviva 2y ago
In recent years not so rare. Americans killed directly by the IDF: - Mar 16 2003: Rachel Corrie - May 11 2022: Shireen Abu Akleh killed, very in a likely targeted attack - Sep 6 2024: Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, also likely targeted A
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Ukrainian Rock Star Poet Serhiy Zhadan Fights Near Front and Performs Behind It(nytimes.com)
1 points by aguaviva 2y ago|1 comments
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by aguaviva 2y ago
https://archive.md/ZbUYb
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The Ukrainians are facing the situation they're in, not you. And they understand the parameters of that situation infinitely better than you do. They can decide for themselves whether to bend over and let Putin have his merry way wit
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by aguaviva 2y ago
She does actually, and I'll take her word over yours.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
If the context starts with the Budapest Memorandum, then you mention "other agreements", it's natural to assume you meant legal agreements. And unless we're going to talk about legal agreements -- none of this dissecti
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by aguaviva 2y ago
If they're living on stolen land, they're not civilians. Meaning a very large portion of the population of nearly all the countries in the world are not "civilians" in your view.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I'm sure if you dig just a bit further you might find some other agreements that have been made, and then broken (by NATO nations), prior to the start of the war in Lugansk/Donetsk/Ukraine as a whole. Except you can't,
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by aguaviva 2y ago
You can believe in whatever caricatures you want. I see no need to convince you of anything.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It wasn't an opinion, it was an observation.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Hungary's Putin-puppet regime This may feel nifty to say and/or believe in, but has no connection to reality. Source: any Magyar you will talk to. Edit: For example [0], posted 5 minutes after I posted this. [0] - https:/
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by aguaviva 2y ago
20 year war killing millions in Iraq and Afghanistan Are you sure about the "millions" part? In you know, the factual sense? Or does it just feel like something neat to say, to get your point across?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Look, I'm no fan of the occupation, to put it mildly (very mildly). Perhaps a more pertinent question to ask would be: do you consider the settlements (at more or less their current scale) as being helpful to Israel's security i

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