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541.
by ajuc 2y ago
> The composition of this ordeal was inferred from statistical analysis of fights in The Iliad. Each of those scenarios included a fair share of spear throws, sword strikes, shooting arrows, and spear strikes, all performed in full body
542.
by ajuc 2y ago
People want youtube to censor totalitarian propaganda and allow free speech. It's not surprising when you thing about it.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Presence of WMD was an excuse for Iraq war. Intervention in Afghanistan was a response to 9/11.
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by ajuc 2y ago
USSR and China were sanctioned as well during the cold war. There was intentional difference in how they were sanctioned to cause them to split off. Both of these things worked as intended, causing USSR and China to work against each other
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546.
by ajuc 2y ago
This is just military production. It's like the growth you have when a hurricane destroys a city and you have to rebuilt it. It doesn't accumulate, it's just a waste. BTW look up North Korean economy growth after the war :) N
547.
by ajuc 2y ago
Sanctions work on the timescale of decades. They cut your GDP growth by 1-2 percent points. After 50 years you become North Korea. Let's see if Russia is a problem in 50 years :)
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by ajuc 2y ago
Because UN approved it.
549.
by ajuc 2y ago
Sanctioning US back then would be interesting. BTW war in Afghanistan wasn't illegal.
550.
by ajuc 2y ago
The problem is that avoiding escalation with an imperialist dictatorship IS escalatory. If NATO escalated a little more in 2008 - hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine AND in Russia would still live. Instead we made Putin think he can
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by ajuc 2y ago
Accept Ukraine to NATO in 2008 and none of this would have happened. Thank France and Germany for blocking it.
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by ajuc 2y ago
The sooner the better.
553.
by ajuc 2y ago
Same in Polish. "Silnik" is both motor and engine. You add second word to specify the kind (electric, combustion, stirling, steam, ...).
554.
by ajuc 2y ago
AI was never well defined. AB tree pruning chess engines were called AI at one point. Game programmers call A* and behaviour trees - AI. At this point it means nothing. Call it machine learning or automated optimization. Arguably you could
555.
by ajuc 2y ago
It's weird that the obvious wasn't mentioned in the article nor here: cars change how you perceive cities. When you're walking you have time to apreciate ornaments on nearby buildings and you can see the whole buildings aroun
556.
by ajuc 2y ago
In case of German GDP vs Global GDP I'd argue the correct thing to do is to draw a graph of a new variable "German GDP as a percentage of Global GDP" and a separate graph of Global GDP.
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by ajuc 2y ago
How's the recycling of burned oil and coal going?
558.
by ajuc 2y ago
it won't because drones can go higher than 1 km
559.
by ajuc 2y ago
If you're shooting at a cheap drone with a million-dollar-missile - it's because you don't have anything more appropriate at the right place to defend a high-value target. The appropriate solution right now is AA artillery (G
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by ajuc 2y ago
Well, yes, but it's advertised as "replacing million-dollar missiles" which is just false.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Cost per shot is only one of the relevant metrics for comparing actual cost-effectiveness. For one example - surface-to-air missiles usually have ranges of 20-100 km. This device has range of 1 km. So each shot can be orders of magnitued ch
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by ajuc 2y ago
It was 2008. Back then Russia had problems conquering Georgia (and backed off when 3 EU politicians flew to Tbilisi during the war). Even in 2014 with all the corruption in Ukrainian army and all the preparations (remember that Yanukovych w
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by ajuc 2y ago
Worst case would just look like what happened anyway. Best case is no wars in 2014 and 2022 and hundreds of thousands of lives saved.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Polish technically has past perfect, but I've never heard it used in real life and most Poles wouldn't know what it is if you used it :)
565.
by ajuc 2y ago
If you mean that he used the conspiracy theories to sound funny and edgy - maybe? Hard to tell what he believed when we were in middle school and what he just said for lolz. Now he does believe in all that shit. The latter part of your comm
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by ajuc 2y ago
> the way a language structures the world for you in the way its vocab influences the way you think in concepts You can even see it in this article :) "Learn only 4 tenses. Past for one time events, past continuous, present, future.
567.
by ajuc 2y ago
> In 2008, Ukraine was very far from being in a position to join NATO, or even to want to. Jake Sullivan (American diplomat) said in an interview with Mikhail Zygar recently that he was in the room when it was talked about. Ukraine was i
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by ajuc 2y ago
> After the 2014 annexation of Krimea, Ukraine could have chosen to "appease" Russia, but it didn't. It literally did. Zelenski was considered the appeasement president and he tried to appease russia at the start of his te
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by ajuc 2y ago
> Do you believe that the Russians are bloodthirsty and looking for war no matter what? You don't need to ask. Putin issued a letter in 2021 demanding NATO accept that Eastern Europe moves back into Russian sphere of influence. Incl
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by ajuc 2y ago
If Ukraine was accepted into NATO in 2008 neither this war nor the war in 2014 would have happened. Russia won't invade Finland nor Sweden despite them joining NATO. In fact Russia moved all units from Finnish border to Ukraine as Finl

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