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by braincat31415 9mo ago
I know about this, but again, this does not mean that Browder himself was squeaky clean. My opinion is that he bit off more than he could chew, aligned with the wrong crew and lost the fight with the people more powerful than he was. Of cou
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by braincat31415 9mo ago
Alephnerd, I doubt Mark Carney was personally involved in anything shady, but it is entirely possible that GS operations in Russia proper were not entirely clean. I am not even implying that GS was aware of anything. What I am saying is no
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by braincat31415 9mo ago
That's what he says, but I very much doubt that. He was running an investment fund in Russia in the 90s. Back then such activity was impossible there without some connection to the organized crime, whether state-affiliated or otherwi
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by braincat31415 9mo ago
I see. Thanks for the quote. I missed that part in the press release.
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by braincat31415 9mo ago
Has the study made an effort to exclude any other factors? For example, a reduction in commute during the covid years?
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by braincat31415 9mo ago
NYT says Russian AD in Venezuela wasn't even hooked to radar, with much of it kept in storage. Indian AD (S-300 or S-400) performed very well during the recent conflict with Pakistan.
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by braincat31415 9mo ago
Add to this all of us who pay taxes to subsidize the effort.
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by braincat31415 9mo ago
I used *roff back then. Now I have to put it into confluence. What a downgrade.
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by braincat31415 9mo ago
What a constructive comment. Are you a Wayland developer by any chance?
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by braincat31415 10mo ago
I find Mandarin Chinese a lot easier than Russian.
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by braincat31415 10mo ago
It's actually the other way around; the Saudis are only able to sell their oil because the oil money is flowing into US treasuries and other financial instruments, and it has been like this since the 70s.
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by braincat31415 10mo ago
Agreed, and it's easy to understand why the US is doing what it is doing in Latin America by reading the new national security strategy.
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by braincat31415 10mo ago
I am not sure how US manufacturing activity contracting implies that Europe is not losing its manufacturing to the US. There are lots of news of European companies expanding in the US (one example would be Airbus in Alabama, lots of others
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by braincat31415 10mo ago
Thanks for the link. I think the facts are correct but the conclusions are wrong. Yamal gas will be redirected to Asian markets by 2030, and Europe will keep losing its manufacturing base to locations with cheaper energy (e.g. the US). But
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by braincat31415 10mo ago
A self inflicted wound. Europe keeps entering into spot gas supply contracts and paying through the nose instead of signing longer-term contracts for lower prices. The Russians have always been reliable suppliers even after sanctions took
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by braincat31415 10mo ago
Understood.
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by braincat31415 10mo ago
There is another way to go about it - ignoring the phone completely while enjoying biking or jogging. Or leaving it at home. Unless I am on a call duty, all my notifications can wait.
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by braincat31415 10mo ago
An interesting idea, but I look at it as yet another thing to make my life more complicated than it needs to be. A pen and paper, plus a mechanical watch have served me well so far.
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by braincat31415 10mo ago
This looks more like refusing to enforce the law rather than prioritizing individual rights.
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by braincat31415 11mo ago
I think what you are saying is still on a shaky ground if I understood you correctly. Site operators will have a political bias that will skew the decisions. And of course there is pay to play and kickbacks... integrity was for sale ever
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by braincat31415 11mo ago
Interesting, even though I personally learned a very different lesson. You are right about the icecream though, I have never managed to find a better one in the US.
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by braincat31415 11mo ago
The specific example I cited was the "we are coming for your children" chant in NYC, which is way beyond demanding to "live and let live". Things like this give an insane amount of ammunition to the anti-gay movement. Yo
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by braincat31415 11mo ago
It's a fair question. No, no desire to curb anything because of who is going to do the curbing. Any regulating entity (government or private) will use subjective judgement and will invariably devolve into censorship. The concern of c
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by braincat31415 11mo ago
Touched a nerve? I have quite a few gay and trans friends. They tend to agree with my views which is live and let live. Their lifestyle is not a problem, and they afford me the same courtesy.
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by braincat31415 11mo ago
What would you do if your array is so large that it requires an unsigned int64 index?
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by braincat31415 11mo ago
I should blame the Russians then for introducing stupid acronyms into English language. It is not nice to use the word f!@k in a public forum, but wrapping it in a dumb acronym is just fine.
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by braincat31415 11mo ago
FAFO? Yet another moronic acronym of the day. Jeez...
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by braincat31415 1y ago
Is anyone here still using [tg]roff?
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by braincat31415 1y ago
I agree. Pfizer settled more than a few cases. When talking about a low probability but catastrophic event, the burden lies on the side of the vaccine manufacturer and a mandating agency (and not on the side of the consumer) to prove beyond
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by braincat31415 1y ago
The article you are referencing is based on CDC data which is not matched by a more complete data maintained by UKHSA. I think Norman Fenton commented on that at some point. I'd be careful when taking its conclusions at a face value. I

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