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by bigfudge 6mo ago
You’ve missed or are ignoring my point that any victory would be pyrrhic.
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
There is no in winning a war between the US and China, even assuming it doesn't go nuclear. There would only be losers all over the world. It would make the current Iran conflict look like a tiny speedbump (albeit one which is likely t
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
I'm not sure if you're joking and this is a backhanded compliment to Harris, or you're sincere in your belief that what Trump will negotiate is going to be better than the Obama deal he ditched in the first term. I hope you&#
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
I think you're reading too much into this report. It was one ship that according to the story passed by hugging the French coastline. My memory from a radio report at the time was these ships also passed at night. There's no sens
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
I really didn’t experience the early internet that way.
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
That’s what you will get in the US. It’s not clear a functioning democracy would produce the same outcome.
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
At the beginning it was fairly clear to everyone outside the US that this was an illegal war of aggression. That we waited until Iran had struck Israel and gulf countries was at least a fig leaf for the pretence we were doing something reas
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
Is it possible to pan?
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
Really not many people outside far right proponents of hate speech (and more recently MAGA shills) have been complaining about free speech in Europe. Yes, there are laws against holocaust denial for specific historical reasons. The UK also
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
I'm not defending racism against immigrants to Europe, but let's get this in proportion. It wasn't long ago that the US had _state mandated segregation_ and regular lynchings. All racism is abhorrent, but I really don'
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
Really though, how many companies actually need Azure, AWS? In my experience in SME's there is _so_ much overcomplication, over-provisioning and overspending going on because there has been a default assumption that US cloud==lower ris
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
How has Europe actively hindered the war effort? Not volunteering for demining duties under fire in a very narrow straight, and preferring diplomatic solutions seems eminently sensible, and not at all the same as 'getting closer to Ir
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
The bureaucratic apparatus in the EU has a reputation for being complex, but a lot of that seems to be bullshit stories written by people like Johnson in the 20 years leading up to Brexit. I've yet to see much evidence it's more c
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
> European skepticism of the US has its roots in the postwar era. This is crazy. The Europeans fell hook line and sinker for the line that the US could be trusted to manage security for Europe and would always be a dependable ally. That
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
The French are just (wonderfully) arrogant enough to say what everyone else is thinking. The UK will likely be too spineless to actually follow through, but the Germans and Eastern Europeans are not going to tolerate the level of exposure w
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
Those attempts happened before the US really made such a concrete demonstration it was a security and strategic risk though. That was back in the good old days where they at least pretended to be strategic partners. It's good to be sce
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
As someone who never uses spaces or any window manager, what am I actually missing? What’s wrong with cmd tab and just switching between apps? Is this going to be some Kind of major epiphany?!
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
This is so unhelpful. What has happened in the last 5 weeks has hugely escalated the violence in an already difficult situation. It's not wishful thinking or naive to think that deliberately inflaming a difficult situation is a bad ide
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
This comment doesn't make much sense. Are you implying German taxes are buying Russian oil and so funding the war in Ukraine? If so, that's a very partial reading of what's happened in recent years. Europe went through a huge
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
On a laptop? I’m interested but have never found sleep/wake and battery life to ever remotely approach osx and a Mac.
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by bigfudge 6mo ago
That would be gross. I wish devs didn’t abuse menu bars (looking at teams, zoom etc)
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by bigfudge 7mo ago
This probably reflects my own prejudices, but it always struck me that MS based IT people wouldn’t work with anything else, basically because they couldn’t. That stack optimises for not really having to understand what you’re doing, but als
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by bigfudge 7mo ago
> Funnily, I had friends from Europe participate in the No Kings protest here, while coming from countries that have literal kings. This is either disingenuous or misunderstands the nature of European constitutional monarchies.
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by bigfudge 7mo ago
This is unnecessarily confrontational. The real point here is that there better functioning democracies than the US. They have faults, but Scandinavia and much of northern Europe (partially excluding the UK) much better approximates what yo
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by bigfudge 7mo ago
Malpractice insurance is a big part of the higher salaries.
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by bigfudge 7mo ago
I really hope you're right. Sadly, though, I don't see any evidence of UK companies disinvesting from big US tech. There aren't good alternatives and what there is is too complex. As long as 'everyone else is still using
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by bigfudge 7mo ago
It is relevant because having an industrial base and know how makes it much easier to scale up. Hopefully that’s what will now happen. Also, let’s see how the 43% holds up when European and gulf states do their next round of procurement.
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
That’s true. But it’s also often the case that we do choose to regulate harms so I’m not quite sure what the point you’re making is.
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
No. The difference is that the New York Times has not been specifically engineered to be an addictive black hole for attention. Algorithmic social media is something new. Concentration of press power has always been a concern in democracy
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
But the people with control of mechanisms of power like social influence do only care about money, so the voices of people who have other values become irrelevant.

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