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by ajuc 3y ago
I am Polish. Western betrayal is a popular view here, but not universal (my own opinion is that it was bad luck - the combination of underestimating new military doctrine of blitzkrieg and the rise of USSR, nobody was planning on betrayal).
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by ajuc 3y ago
If USA invaded Mexico or Canada I would support defending them. But I don't think it would happen.
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by ajuc 3y ago
> Especially how the Ukrainian speaking part of Ukraine has treated the Russian speaking Ukrainians I live in Poland. I was in Ukraine many times. I work with Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking Ukrainians. My cousin married an Ukrainian. Th
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by ajuc 3y ago
0. find a big customer you can ride on For Christianity it was Roman Empire and keeping slaves pacified. Then they pivoted to medieval kings and keeping serfs pacified. For Microsoft it was producing DOS for IBM.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Russia did ethnic cleansing in Ukraine 2 times in last 100 years. And they openly advocate for it on public TV. But apparently Ukrainians should just surrender and hope for the best.
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by ajuc 3y ago
In the particular case of Georgia they weren't as insane in 2008 as it seems from the first glance. Russia was separated from Georgia by Caucasian mountains. Upto 5000 meters high. There are a few routes (famously the "Georgian wa
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by ajuc 3y ago
> And I do not see this as colonial mindset yes, that's usually how this works > My guess is Merkel and Macron were right in 2008: trying to get Ukraine and Georgia into NATO would have meant war with Russia Merkel just wanted ch
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by ajuc 3y ago
Nah, Western Europe wanted cheap resources, USA just didn't wanted to deal with Eastern Europe, so they supported Putin. The deal was "keep order and deliver resources and you get to do what you want". Russia was playing alon
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by ajuc 3y ago
Yes, I know. And he's catastrophically wrong. I think he's blinded by his anti-western bias. Yes, west isn't the good guys. But Russia and China are definitely the bad guys in comparison. Americans didn't wanted to have
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by ajuc 3y ago
> > how does the coupling work? > through our senses I think it's pretty obvious what I meant? person A person A person B person B brain waves -> body -> senses -> brain waves
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by ajuc 3y ago
If you you argue for letting countries invade others and not to help the defending people - you're not a libertarian. You're an useful idiot of dictators.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Through our senses?
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by ajuc 3y ago
First season was mostly ok, there were some "representation" changes but not too bad. 2nd season they changed everything to the point that it's easier to list what didn't changed. And they changed it for worse... Third s
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by ajuc 3y ago
How law is actually used matters much more than these technicalities. USA has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, police brutality and police murdering people is a bigger concern than in most places where people have to sho
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by ajuc 3y ago
I think this is a common problem artists have to deal with. The art they want to make (and that fans want to get) vs the industry approval filter. You have to lie to at least one of these groups. See new Netflix shows for how idiotic and se
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by ajuc 3y ago
If you spend your money on the "child-like" activities (fantasy, gaming, etc) as opposed to adult-like ones (huge suburban house, car, boat) you help preserve biodiversity and help other people as a side-effect. Also - planting tr
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by ajuc 3y ago
The only reason gaming is child-like and theatre isn't is that gaming was invented recently so mostly young people liked it till last decade.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Good riddance. Building a second home for everybody so that they spend half of their lives there and waste hours moving between them each day is Evil. It's one of these things that evolve slowly into absurdity, like the nerve in giraff
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by ajuc 3y ago
I didn't think I'd it necessary to mention that Ukraine was a part of USSR and Poland at the time. It's common knowledge. What isn't common knowledge is that Hitler had plans for Ukraine in particular (inspired by Hlodom
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by ajuc 3y ago
Just before WW2 the Haber Bosch process for fixing atmospheric nitrogen into fertilizers/explosives (same thing basically) was invented. Shortly after the war it was widespread, and since then there was no starvation in any developed o
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by ajuc 3y ago
Something like IPA probably. Some languages are already basically phonetic so you don't need to change anything.
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by ajuc 3y ago
> It isn't doing classical reasoning per se, but neither does it match an unreasoning brute process. What we call "classical reasoning" is also running on neural network trained by predicting data. I think the distinction
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by ajuc 3y ago
> Nope, there's no reasoning. It's just generating the text that best matches its training data. There's no contradiction. You have to reason to predict the text well in many cases.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Usually you discard extreme values to reduce noise, and in fact they wrote that's why they did it: > We then take the fifth percentile as our final measurement, because we assume that most noise sources are one-sided (for example, c
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by ajuc 3y ago
They are. Try to write one :)
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by ajuc 3y ago
Traditional programming vs machine learning shows the limitations of first principles thinking. You can write huge programs with byzantine nested chains of logic. But you can't write an OCR with a bunch of ifs.
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by ajuc 3y ago
One said Ukrainians are nazis and satanists and that NATO wants to invade Russia. And that Russia won't invade in 2022. The other side said Russia wants to invade and that it will invade in 2022. Believing that when there's 2 side
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by ajuc 3y ago
Cycling is quite safe. Cars are dangerous.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Can't you put fuel as expense when you have a small business? Then only individuals would pay that tax, not businesses. > The actual answer is to build a comprehensive mass transit system that makes driving unnecessary for most peop
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by ajuc 3y ago
Climate variance works both ways, and I'm not sure which side is more important. For example harsh winters and big temperature differences make maintenance of motorways significantly more expansive compared to railways and walking path

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