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by ajuc 2y ago
Ukraine loses some land. People there are tortured, brainwashed, scared into submission and drafted to Russian army. Russia rebuilds its stocks. In 3-5 years Russia invades again and the situation repeats. This already happened in 2014. If
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by ajuc 2y ago
Asking for diplomatic solution now is ridiculous because it's obvious to anybody in the region that Russia wins long-term if we let them attack, negotiate parts of Ukraine, rebuild, attack, negotiate parts of Ukraine, regroup, etc. And
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by ajuc 2y ago
> they have no great job, no great life partner or no great status in their community, they feel there must be something that is preventing them from getting these things My friend works in IT and earns probably in the 99th or 98th perce
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by ajuc 2y ago
"Insulting the religious feelings" is the phrasing here in Poland. It's almost exclusively prosecuted when the hurt feelings are on the side of the vast majority = Catholics. There's about 50 people sentenced per year. M
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by ajuc 2y ago
It's not abundant enough. When it was more scarce - more people starved. Starvation was common even in Europe till the end of WW2 (because after WW2 cheap artificial fertillizers were introduced). And that starvation happened mostly in
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by ajuc 2y ago
I have a friend like that. He has M.A. in computer science, is pretty smart overall, but believes all the dumbest conspiracy theories, including the contrails one. It's fascinating and scary at the same time. It's what happens whe
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by ajuc 2y ago
It's not. Scarcity is bad for poor people, abundance is good. In the limit - if food is abundant to the point of being worthless - nobody starves. If the food is so rare it's more expansive than gold - almost everybody starves.
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by ajuc 2y ago
It's more complicated than that, brain cuts out the blurry "in between" frames when you move your eyes. Which means it has to extrapolate the images from before the movement to fill the gaps. There's many weird effects o
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by ajuc 2y ago
It frustrates me to no end when people do this with items that expire in a year. You aren't even maximizing your utility, you're just doing the shopping equivalent of "rolling coal".
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by ajuc 2y ago
That's a common mistake when thinking about economy (so called broken window fallacy). It's not actually making lives of people in poor countries better when we waste more of what they produce. Food becoming more expansive just me
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by ajuc 2y ago
> AI arguably accomplishes this using some form of abstraction though does it not? It's unabstractable for people, because the most abstract model that works still has far too many variables for our puny brains. > artists routine
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by ajuc 2y ago
Stuff that we can't program directly, but can program using machine learning. Speech recognition. OCR. Reccomendation engines. You don't write OCR by going "if there's a line at this angle going for this long and it cros
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by ajuc 2y ago
Abstraction isn't the silver bullet. Not everything is abstractable. "This program generates the most likely outputs" isn't a scientific explanation, it's teleology.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Open source is like democracy. Imperfect and easy to fuck up, but still by far the best thing available. Apple is absolutism. Even the so called "enlightened" absolutism is still bad compared to average democracy.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Post-WW2 Poland was a totalitarian state with stalinist terror. Soviets installed their puppet communist government and murdered anybody inconvenient - mostly people who were connected to pre-WW2 government, army, guerilla fighter groups th
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by ajuc 2y ago
I agree, but also I don't think path dependence is a bad thing. Value of learning X as opposed to Y for you objectively depends on what you already know.
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by ajuc 2y ago
The problem with USSR-style heating infrastructure isn't the heating (apart from unfiltered coal-fired powerplants), but the insulation. Commieblocks were made with almost none, and to this day in most of Russia and former USSR they ar
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by ajuc 2y ago
> USSR has been eco/green paradise USSR was poor as fuck therefore is saved money on packaging whenever it could. It was occasionally ecologically benefitial as well, but to go from that to "eco/green paradise" is abs
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by ajuc 2y ago
The funny thing is that it's the same tradeoff that slavery was, just to a lesser degree :)
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by ajuc 2y ago
It was fun all around. To be allowed to leave you had to sign a paper promising to "tell" the secret service on your travel companions after the trip. So everybody on the trip was living in paranoia of one another. It was mostly t
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by ajuc 2y ago
Any attack during which the country attacked invokes article 5. Czechs didn't, and I'm not surprised. Similarly Russia launched a cruise missile back in 2023 that flied over half of Poland and crashed in forest near Bydgoszcz. Pol
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by ajuc 3y ago
We also dug out millions of tons of useful materials out of ground, purified them and concentrated them in cities and along roads etc. We cleared forests on most of continents to let people do farming there. In Eastern Europe at least the b
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by ajuc 3y ago
> Sadly, overnight the version control system crashes and they have to recover from the previous day's backup. You have lost an entire day's work. If I give you the diff, how long will it take you to type the changes back into
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by ajuc 3y ago
You can't lie to people you can't communicate with.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Misinformation wants to be free just as much as information. Removing information is the wrong strategy, because internet makes publishing information so much easier. And bitrot+time will effectively remove the information for you if you ju
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by ajuc 3y ago
It would disappear anyway. All those personal webpages will be lost in time, like images hosted on long-dead servers and phpbb forums. "Internet never forgets" is one of these naive fairytales we told ourselves when we were young
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by ajuc 3y ago
I mean that's your chance to train the SkyNet, take it :)
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by ajuc 3y ago
Thanks, now that I think about it that makes sense :)
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by ajuc 3y ago
They evaporate faster in the cold, because the air is very dry when it's very cold. Or sublimate I guess? In any case they usually don't freeze unless they are very wet (which rarely happens - people use washing machines that rota
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by ajuc 3y ago
Dunno what counts as "Northern Europe", but in Poland nobody uses powered dryers, it's all natural. And it gets to -20 C in the winter here sometimes. Dry cold is not actually a problem for drying clothes.

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