bojan

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by bojan 7mo ago
You got the timeline wrong. The break-up of Yugoslavia was a long, arguably still on-going, process, the final phase of which happened peacefully. Serbia and Montenegro, that made the post-1992 Yugoslavia, agreed in 2003 to change the name
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by bojan 7mo ago
> On one hand, that account of the attempted project takeover smelled to me like Jia Tan. Oleh was basically the sole maintainer for many years, and the development basically stopped when he left.
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by bojan 7mo ago
> The video slop can well replace TikTok and Reels. Make educational content about your hometown. Explain how to throw an uppercut. There is a fundamental issue of trust here. Facebook has me tagged as history nerd so I get to see those
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by bojan 7mo ago
The difference being, Ukraine has no choice but to fight on.
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by bojan 7mo ago
I keep my Voodoo3 2000 with the idea to frame it, but I still haven't found a good way to do it.
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by bojan 7mo ago
That doesn't mean those lines were of any quality though.
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by bojan 7mo ago
The car of Theseus. Glad it's working for you! I hope you get many, many kms out of it!
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by bojan 7mo ago
Are you doing the maintenance yourself? I guess at some point the yearly maintenance costs exceed the value of the car itself.
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by bojan 7mo ago
> In other words we could see negative impacts from both without them canceling each other out. See William Gibson's concept of Jackpot.
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by bojan 7mo ago
The black market is not an institution, it's a messy anarchy where you have zero guarantee you'll get what you paid for. > As is the "bribe economy" – the general understanding that getting X done generally costs you
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by bojan 7mo ago
> In Europe its just kwh. In the EU, yes. When you go to those dark corners of Europe that never achieved the membership, all bets are off. In Montenegro and Serbia they charge per minute because the only entity allowed to sell kwh'
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by bojan 7mo ago
I don't think that math checks out as the subscriptions got way more expensive as well.
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by bojan 7mo ago
Russia is not a _physical_ threat outside of its immediate proximity. But they invest large amounts of money to propaganda channels everywhere, have direct military influence in large parts of Africa, are known to poison people in the UK an
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by bojan 7mo ago
Only because of Russian money and influence that helped this administration to power. The root of the problem is Russia, always has been.
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by bojan 7mo ago
> Tomorrow's machines will not be slower The way it's going, the AI hyperscalers are buying such a big portion of the world's hardware, that it may very well happen that tomorrow's machines do get slower per dollar of
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by bojan 7mo ago
That explains why I can't seem to access VKontakte anymore from outside. Not a huge loss as it rightfully suffers the same fate as Facebook, but still.
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by bojan 7mo ago
You have one right fewer than natively born Americans - you can't become the President. Make of that what you will.
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by bojan 7mo ago
Why not both? Encourage cycling when possible, and when not, an EV. Looking at American commute distances however, cycling, even with an e-bike, is likely not a reasonable option.
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by bojan 7mo ago
Do they have to be a magic bullet? Switching from ICE to electric is a much smaller ask than switching from personal cars to... bicycles?
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by bojan 7mo ago
On another note, if you had 100 engineers and you lay almost all of them off and keep 5 super-AI-accelerated engineers, and your competitor keeps 50 of such engineers, your competitor is still able to iterate 10x as fast. So you still lay p
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by bojan 7mo ago
It is commonplace in the US that the administration in the White House sues people for saying the wrong thing.
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by bojan 7mo ago
> Given unlimited money and time, many engineers, arts, etc will write and rewrite something to perfection This is a common trope, but in my experience many engineers I met know that's not how a business runs. Dealing with the cons
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by bojan 7mo ago
I don't understand this. What you call bold claims are easily verifiable facts. Demographic and education level statistics are widely available online, choose your source of choice. I'm pretty sure there are also a lot of people o
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by bojan 7mo ago
Not just Hitler. There are more recent examples in Europe, like Putin, Orban and Vucic. All of them got elected fairly, and all of them engaged in the process of slowly but surely breaking democratic institutions and checks and balances dow
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by bojan 7mo ago
Being Serbian, the bombing campaign of 1999. was successful. It lead to the (temporary, 12-years long) regime change, and to the de-facto independence of Kosovo. It ended the war.
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by bojan 7mo ago
> But russia-ukraine is also a much more contained war between 2 parties that will likely end in a stalemate. The whole of Europe is affected, it might seem contained only if you live very far away. Every European country is affected in
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by bojan 7mo ago
Those who know their history also know that the current American administration is of a kind that usually ascends following the rules, but then never voluntarily leaves power. So I don't think Israel has anything to fear there.
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by bojan 7mo ago
That all being said, we are talking about different cultures. Iranians are on average more educated than Iraqis were/are, and the country is ethnically more homogeneous. So I have hope that they'll find a way to organize when the
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by bojan 7mo ago
> I don't know if I've seen "tech debt" do serious damage to any company, and I've been around a long time Just to provide a counter data-point, I've certainly seen companies not being able to move anymore b
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by bojan 7mo ago
> I imagine the browser could take some context clues and switch rendering to puny code if the locale of the user is nowhere near a cyrillic region. Anyone reading this - please, please, please do not make any assumptions based on the en

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