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by blunte 5y ago
I don't disagree with most points here, but I did chuckle at this one: > YouTube is a great example. Being able to keep a video playing while you explore other videos is fantastic. I hate that (mis)feature. When I click something e
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by blunte 5y ago
They only need to work once. Then the deterrent value is clear. It's frankly the closest thing to a nuclear scenario you could get - in fact it's worse from the perspective that you enemies continue to live on while you wither.
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Ask HN: Are we wasting our problem solving capabilities?
5 points by blunte 5y ago|3 comments
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by blunte 5y ago
I didn't look at the previous posts you mention, but TFA is what I would consider of interest and curiosity. I didn't find it at all to be self promotion. You have to read to the bottom of the post before you are told what repog
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by blunte 5y ago
Why did it take a war for them to decide to do this? It’s not like they just discovered who these people are and where their money came from.
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by blunte 5y ago
For a year I had my home office setup with LED strip lights all the way around the room. They were mounted on a narrow shelf encircling three walls. Color temp was about 6000K. I loved it, for a while. It felt like a fresh bright day. H
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by blunte 5y ago
If by "right there on the tin" you mean at the bottom of the article then sure. I understand that all information probably has some intentional and unintentional ideological slant, but my feeling is that HN is a place for intentio
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by blunte 5y ago
This is a garbage site. Just because it ends in .org doesn't mean it's neutral. This might as well be a Sinclair or Fox associate site.
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by blunte 5y ago
I think it's the inner circle that will be his doom. He is costing them all a lot of money and options. What's the point of being an oligarch if you can't jetset around the world, owning high value properties and demonstrat
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by blunte 5y ago
Absolutely not. But his appears to be a last ditch effort by a man with waning influence. He has not made Russia better or stronger; he has only made a few people close to him ultra rich at the cost of the general population. Even if he w
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by blunte 5y ago
Switzerland risks backlash from the rest of the wealthy countries if they do not quickly come on board with the generally accepted response to Russia's actions. With the many financial laws and agreements that exist now between countri
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by blunte 5y ago
You failed to insert "woke" somewhere in your post.
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by blunte 5y ago
What a disappointingly accurate assessment. I think I'll hasten my 2-backpack relocation to a Thai beach and enjoy the last couple of decades.
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by blunte 5y ago
What a pointless fluff piece. How did they know the payments were fraudulent? Yes there are a ton of pitfalls and shams and bad things happening in the crypocurrency world, but this "article" is the media equivalent to the garbage
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by blunte 5y ago
These are depressing numbers for Russia. I think within 5 (maybe 10) years we will see a regime change in Russia and a big shift in policy.
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by blunte 5y ago
Exactly. There is just no good motivation for fighting neighbors or family.
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by blunte 5y ago
Extrapolating from bits I've read online (which means, this is probably completely wrong... but possibly not!)... Most of Russia's income is from oil and gas. And the profits from oil and gas are received by a very small few peop
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by blunte 5y ago
> I am just trying to understand and make sense of why people tacitly support, or even actively participate in them. That is a huge topic which I cannot hope to explain (or mostly understand). If you look at the shift in US political id
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by blunte 5y ago
Hello, I'd like to buy an argument.
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by blunte 5y ago
The US should not have done that, and most of us know that. That has no bearing on and is no excuse for what is happening right now. But at the time you speak of, there was a concerted disinformation scheme which led many people, likely in
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by blunte 5y ago
Ok, then what I said was not entirely fair to him. But at the same time, it is a common scenario where one human suffers and then shares that suffering upon others. My privileged perspective is different from that of many other people, but
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by blunte 5y ago
This is just modern capitalism. If a few dozen lives are lost, it's not significant compared to the quarterly earnings per share numbers.
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by blunte 5y ago
They can drink and hide and wait for the other Russian oligarchs whose wealth is being seriously threatened to remove their foolish leader and stop the idiotic war. That is more sensible than risking your life to kill your neighbor, all fo
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by blunte 5y ago
Yes, because why should a Russian soldier risk his/her life to fight a neighbor!? Only to stroke the ego of a small man? Surely the rank and file ground troops do not want this.
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by blunte 5y ago
On paper, Russia has significant military advantage. But if you look at the humans doing the fighting, I think you might see some very different levels of commitment and motivation. The Ukrainian troops are defending their homes. They are
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by blunte 5y ago
Perhaps tags would help. If each post had one or two tags, we could filter what we see by the presence or absence of certain tags. Even so, as others have noted, simply ignoring the comment section on most posts will keep the mood less nega
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by blunte 5y ago
I have absolutely no expertise on this subject, but I think an effective approach would be to isolate and financially cripple the wealthy people who surround him. Make them hurt finally; basically make their "wealth" irrelevant ou
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by blunte 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible to create an intentional environment where it could grow into any shape you want, of just about any human-scale size. Pehraps it would involve some carefully setup (and periodically adjusted
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by blunte 5y ago
If you google "mycelium bricks", there are many results. This is a decent first look: https://www.certifiedenergy.com.au/emerging-materials/emergi...
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by blunte 5y ago
I'm looking forward to custom mold (no pun) growing for applications like construction ((interlocking) bricks).

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