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by baybal2 6y ago
> It's believed that the only way is to "distrust and verify" and not kowtow to their ways like what the West had been doing for the previous decades The only way that will work will be dropping few tank divisions on direc
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by baybal2 6y ago
> As such, I do welcome campaign like the poverty elimination [1]. Which is inits entirety a propaganda campaign. I have peers from all across China, poorest parts included. All what 6 people saw were a photoshoot, and a potemkin village
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Wuhan lab infected 'humanized mice' with bat coronaviruses in 2019(taiwannews.com.tw)
36 points by baybal2 6y ago|13 comments
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by baybal2 6y ago
Less by 2.5 times, but it being 2.5 times more wouldn't make much difference. Power, and energy density would still be very, very bad.
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by baybal2 6y ago
I came to very much the same conclusion few weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25651782 The basic math behind the company simply doesn't work. They cannot make money out of it.
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by baybal2 6y ago
Just build water towers. 100m water tower is nowhere near as an extreme engineering as this.
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by baybal2 6y ago
And obligatory reference to Backdoored Streebog cipher : https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/071 https://www.sstic.org/media/SSTIC2019/SSTIC-actes/RussianSty... The backdoor was hidden in the p
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by baybal2 6y ago
It's not a conspiracy theory. GNOME 2 was a project of 100+ developers. TOPAZ was a half-baked tablet UI tech demo from a dozen Red Hat employed devs, later dropping to 7-9 regularly active ones. Tell me what is more to explain about t
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by baybal2 6y ago
> if you are a developer and you disagree with someone's choices, you are free to take it in your own direction. That would be best said to persons named above. They were free to fork GNOME into their touchscreen based imaginary fu
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by baybal2 6y ago
> If you are a developer and you don't agree with direction changes, you don't have to work on them I would tell the same to Poettering, Clasen, and co. There is really nobody who obligates them to work on their "innovatio
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by baybal2 6y ago
> Picking directories has been pretty broken forever as well. Say you start in ~/Downloads/foo and want to store the file in ~/Downloads, then navigating up will have "foo" selected, with usually no blank space t
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by baybal2 6y ago
> What's the point of controlling popular software by making everybody hate it? I think, in their view, all comes after taking hold of the project. But here, they got that, and now what? Now, all lofty plans have to meet the cold re
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by baybal2 6y ago
> Free software development is not a democracy, and does not get driven by polls. Features and bugs are introduced by those who show up, within a community that works towards a shared goal. And it is exactly to let themselves yell that,
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by baybal2 6y ago
That was not possible even with cold war number of missiles in service, let alone now.
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From Japan to the US, young people give up on finding jobs(asia.nikkei.com)
2 points by baybal2 6y ago|0 comments
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Nationwide Power Blackout in Pakistan(theguardian.com)
3 points by baybal2 6y ago|0 comments
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by baybal2 6y ago
And this generally describes what Alibaba does to itself too. Human turnover there is very high, and the company subscribes to idea "beatings will continue until revenue improves"
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by baybal2 6y ago
Do you guys understand that retaliatory use of nuclear weapons is very likely assured even if president says no? People in underground command bunkers likely have families too, and will act like most normal people.
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by baybal2 6y ago
> You just need to obtain the DNS names or IP addresses of the nodes the same way everyone else does — by participating in the network. Not if such network was made purposefully to minimize transparency.
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by baybal2 6y ago
There is a third option on the table! Using DMA controller. People say what's the difference in between copying memory by CPU, or by DMA controller? The difference is exactly that. You rarely need that, but in some cases you have: 1. Y
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by baybal2 6y ago
Maoism: DPRK, Indonesian Maoist insurgency, Malaysian Maoist subversion, Singapore coup attempt, Burma, Laos, Campuchia, Nepal, India Naxalite insurgency, Albania, South Yemen, South Peru insurgency, Brazil Araguaia Guerrilla War, ~10 Afric
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by baybal2 6y ago
> Isn't the point of sanctions to make the offending product so expensive that other options become more viable? The key word here is other options . Are there any? China on other hand has many other options than the US market.
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by baybal2 6y ago
> MAD basically assures no hot war Wait, wait, wait. That's not a fact, and in fact a known piece of propaganda. First. Even, an all out nuclear exchange in between superpowers, in an unrealistic scenario without counterstrikes, and
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by baybal2 6y ago
> Maoism is linked to the traits of Chinese national character A virulent strain of communism, a disease that plagued Europe for close to a century, and even managed to put up roots of its more violent forms in the New World. You say Mao
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by baybal2 6y ago
> I can wholeheartedly recommend On China by Henry Kissinger [1]. I will wholeheartedly not recommend anybody to read Kissinger. The man has completely imaginary idea of what China is, and even more so about its leadership. I can only la
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by baybal2 6y ago
> The west needs to sanction China. Do you understand that the West mostly sanctions itself when it tries to sanction a country which: 1. Has surreal trade surplus with it. 2. Supports nearly entire consumer spending part of your economy
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by baybal2 6y ago
> What can an individual do to help Hong Kongers? Any suggestions? How many firearms, and ammo you can buy, and how many politicians you can lobby? Even if you are a single digit millionaire, that's just enough to arm, and feed no m
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by baybal2 6y ago
Yes, G PUs, not C PUs.
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by baybal2 6y ago
Yet another Bloomberg "bombshell" without a single named source? Rumour were going on for at least 3 years, but they are rumours. Except for the fact of Bob Swan being sighted visiting Xinzhu, there was no other facts supporting t
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by baybal2 6y ago
No, I mean dislocation, as in military dislocation. https://www.ausa.org/sites/default/files/SR-1998-CPMW-Tactic...

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