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by baybal2 5y ago
> erdogan literally buys weapons from russia as a nato member After US refused to sell PAC 3 despite Istanbul pleading for it since even before Erdogun
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by baybal2 5y ago
Yes, I would've myself thought that a CIA recruiter who suddenly comes upon a 22 year old American in Germany out of a sudden, with an offer of money, car, and a ticket to USSR must be a communist spy himself trying to pull off some tr
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore? They are putting it wrong. You do not work on open source for compensation, but because you want to. People who got into opensource with sole aim at scoring high profile job with some dotcom ma
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How the KGB Caught America's 'Volkswagen Spy'(rferl.org)
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by baybal2 5y ago
There is nothing nuanced about what mafia-like organisations, which includes communist parties, turn to. They consume their members with life of fear, and strife. One wrong word to the boss, or something allowing others to set you up, and y
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by baybal2 5y ago
> In past the Chinese government didn't send large numbers of people to camps based on their ethnicity. In past the Chinese government did send large numbers of people to camps based on their ethnicity. Tibetans - since 1957 Mongols
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by baybal2 5y ago
Why?
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by baybal2 5y ago
Mr. Greene, can you explain where do you see bold faced racism in what I wrote. I point to: 1. In the communist power structure, there is no place for "ambitious," or "talented." The only point of communists hiring few S
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Xiaopeng set the country up for orderly succession No, he did not. He built a cabinet of marionettes, and set himself to be a gray cardinal to run the state from behind the curtain. Jiang Zemin then ousted him out of power. You know n
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by baybal2 5y ago
This is not how China works. Previous leaders only exited power because they were pretty much ousted, and their power was never really institutionally checked. Mainland China never been ever close to constitutional rule. It's unbelieva
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by baybal2 5y ago
Most people going to China to make money don't come there wearing pink glasses. It's a Faustian bargain. Eat your soul for money, and an opportunity to run a factory without being sued by everybody on the day 1. The remaining mino
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by baybal2 5y ago
If you use anything on a commercial basis with Google, go to small claims court without hesitation, and pull the answer from them rather than keep paying them to lawyertroll you on your own money. Depending on your jurisdiction, small claim
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by baybal2 5y ago
Rtl8156 is one of few NCM USB cards which got mainstream. NCM protocol is very lightweight, but has support for DMA, and some offloading
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by baybal2 5y ago
No, fast neutron reactors are less poisonable, and can achieve much higher burnups even with conventional fuel.
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by baybal2 5y ago
You seen multiple national guard unit commanders evading orders, bidding their time to see who comes on top of that mess — in the history of US military such conduct is unheard of.
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Let's say for the sake of argument they decided to just let them be - no police move in, no military, just let them be in the building, what would have happened next? That's exactly the catastrophic scenario: multiple militar
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by baybal2 5y ago
> Absurd to think civil war is likely because a bunch of uncoordinated idiots followed the crowd. Not a bunch of uncoordinated idiots, but multiple insubordinating military, and law enforcement units, with one general ready to subvert th
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by baybal2 5y ago
5 years ago, I started raising this topic. People said, "It can't happen here" 4 years later, they got an insurrection which was few hours away from something way more serious. The harder people want to believe into "It
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by baybal2 5y ago
What is supposedly toxic in it?
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by baybal2 5y ago
I think modern satellites have matrix sensors
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by baybal2 5y ago
It's stripped to the max, but I doubt that reverse conducting igbts would cost extra $500.
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by baybal2 5y ago
Clear your cookies. Nikkei has a bugged website
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by baybal2 5y ago
Microbes didn't know how to eat wood for tens of millions of years https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous
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by baybal2 5y ago
I am conflicted on this myself. Even most basic coding keeps being more profitable than EE. I went to live, and make money in the mainland China for a few years. It was a hard bargain with the conscience. I simply cannot fathom how the indu
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by baybal2 5y ago
But this is how I understood what you said. I would eagerly await your reply in our conversation if this is not what you wanted to communicate to me at a time of your convenience, after we both have time to cool down after a heated conversa
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by baybal2 5y ago
People need to have this conversation no matter how flamebait it will be. The ability to speak truth is when you don't allow yourself to be shouted down.
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by baybal2 5y ago
I largely quit trying to get into semi 10 years ago because I was was able to get better salary, and quicker just by pumping wordpress websites. And not like 10%-20% bigger, but few times as much. My first full time job in line of "mak
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by baybal2 5y ago
I know IMEC as I was thinking going there at some point. Both IMEC, and SUNY are heavily graduate research oriented. There are some undergrad opportunities there, but one's chances to get there are probably less than getting into MIT.
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A VLSI class, even from an average university will contribute very little to your employability. As I said, Big Semi barely if ever employs entry level professionals. And besides Big Semi, there is really very few companies left. Even start
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by baybal2 5y ago
Hsi Chinping bought his degree paper from a ghostwriter, and barely showed for classes. A practice deemed "almost" acceptable in the mainland among elites. People tell "for somebody already so high rank, merely buying a unive

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