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by anovikov 6mo ago
>could not compete against illegal imports How could that be possible? Imports had to be made in hard currency which was incredibly scarce in the Soviet Bloc (a VCR cost couple years of engineer's income on a black market), and was
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by anovikov 7mo ago
The only trick is Hormuz strait blocking by Iran... and it's very hard to tackle without a land invasion which Trump is reluctant to execute. Nothing else Iran could possibly do, matters at all.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
That's totally not the case. Asymmetry is that when the adversary starts doing it, US is politically and socially not allowed to reply in kind. For instance: ensuring they have no electricity makes it impossible to continue producing d
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by anovikov 7mo ago
I'm not at all an American and have never been to the US, and don't give a flying fuck about it. "Beneficial for us" - for the whole white, Christian (i am an atheist), civilised world. Big difference in Israeli and Pale
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by anovikov 7mo ago
This is Palestine, not Minnesota :) I live right next to it. It never gets below zero. No snow. And yes that's what was the condition of ceasefire. Of course Israel knew Hamas won't yield power. They are made so that Hamas can be
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Problem here is that first and foremost, Gaza needs two things to fix their housing stock: cement and pipes... And they aren't getting either because cement immediately goes into building tunnels, and pipes into producing rockets. No w
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Lifetimes of nuclear weapons and their deterioration with age is thoroughly studied and was one of the drivers of development of supercomputers starting with the early 1990s when nuclear testing was stopped. Ongoing work on rebuilding pluto
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by anovikov 7mo ago
I am not justifying them as inevitable. I am justifying them as beneficial for us, even if the means they employ are morally questionable at times (even if they happen to be that way for the lack of choices). I support Israel because it is
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by anovikov 7mo ago
I mean, other way around is if "Palestine" advances on Israel.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
But it means you are simply exploiting the "normal" electricity grid this way by using it when your solar doesn't work and batteries run dry - that is, when the cost of elecitricty in a normal grid, with the high penetration
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Indeed, but in most cases those people only paid because they fell into delusion/were tricked by someone/had an intention to harm others using the product. Or sometimes just by mistake.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Quite frankly, Germany already has a lot of renewables in the mix. Why did it take so long for the effect to appear and why is it still so modest? What should be renewables share be (vs ~60% today), for complete decoupling?
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Nice! This is the first time i see anyone providing a quantitative answer to this. When the effect becomes more pronounced, it will hopefully remove political barriers for renewable electricity.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Maybe a better solution is to cancel birthright citizenship and thus enable unlimited number of foreign workers? They will sign papers that exclude them from possible naturalisation as a condition of entry, and their children will not becom
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by anovikov 7mo ago
The question that keeps me thinking during the last few days - what is the moral side of working on something that helps Russians circumvent this? Is it beneficial because of free speech, expression, and access to information - or not, beca
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by anovikov 7mo ago
In atheist cultures with no concept of sin, people see obeying contracts as being sheep, it is in fact looked down upon. People will pay you only when they need something else from you, so solution is to frame a contract in a way they won&#
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by anovikov 7mo ago
I have gradually learned to see life like this: we harm the world by making money, then compensate for it by spending it. If someone wants to opt out of this, i see nothing wrong about it. Through my 26 years of career i haven't seen a
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Quite honestly i don't think Tisza is a lot better. They will be somewhat better simply because state will temporarily become weaker due to change of people in power. Hungary is an authoritarian nation. It was a mistake to invite it in
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by anovikov 7mo ago
It is especially intriguing that this is happening in the country where there is no way to physically control the population: there are no borders, it is in Schengen, everyone is free to come and go at will, and adjacent countries have free
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by anovikov 7mo ago
It's simple "us vs them". I see nothing wrong about it.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
The real reason is that companies do not need to hire any more people, they can always take their time picking the best of the best candidates and there is no urgency, because rates are too high to profitably build software. Many companies
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Now imagine that: Russians recover a downed Su-34 pilot from Kremenchuk (distance is the same). A Su-34 can't even fly to anywhere close to the border/frontline - haven't since late April 2022 after several dozen attack aircr
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by anovikov 7mo ago
>fungible resources that output work Which they are.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Nope. Founders just disappeared with whatever money was left. They claimed to have a working product and a big list of paying clients while in fact they had a half-assed prototype written by one hapless dude who they paid to the tune of $15
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by anovikov 7mo ago
We see an example of another field - politics - of what happens if we make it too egalitarian. Now everyone and their dog can vote. It gives us truly ugly results and i just can't see a way to fix it: we are asking people who have no o
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by anovikov 7mo ago
Interesting! I worked for one YC startup that committed blatant fraud, with the founders vanishing when investors started chasing them to bring them to responsibility. And they haven't been removed. Just marked as "inactive".
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by anovikov 7mo ago
The scale of American air dominance is best demonstrated by how much of a news this event is. In 1999 the scandal was that Serbs managed to shoot down a stealthy plane with then-30 year old Soviet SAM. Now being able to shoot down a nonstea
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by anovikov 7mo ago
To be fair, a lot of smart and a lot of lucky people got extremely rich with blockchain - and not a single person lost their job over it. With AI, so far i see the exact opposite.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
This. I never had patience to figure how to build a from-scratch iOS app because it required too much boilerplate work. Now i do, and i got to enjoy Swift as a language, and learned a lot of iOS (and Mac) APIs.
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by anovikov 7mo ago
But that's the whole point: make prices as high as possible politically to make transition faster. It will have to be done in any case. When it happens now is a lot better situation than 2022 one because back then, political threshold

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