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by buran77 5y ago
I think today more than ever we can agree that relying on gas may put any country in a far more precarious position. Remember that you can make enough electricity at home if need be, even if at a hefty cost maybe. The same cannot be said
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by buran77 5y ago
Speaking of due process, 97% of criminal cases don't actually go to trial in the US and are instead settled with plea deals [0]. The sentencing is so harsh for anyone demanding trial and losing that it's mostly a paper right at th
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by buran77 5y ago
If Uber gives a driver a ride at a price that's a guaranteed loss for the driver (like in the example) but never shares in that loss then none of Uber's actions are motivated by care for riders or drivers but exclusively for the b
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by buran77 5y ago
> The supposed usefulness of the work sacrificed in proof-of-work is to prevent Sybil attacks The usefulness of PoW is to reinforce a system that produces something. Presumably the higher the value of that something, the more you're
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by buran77 5y ago
> you can only imagine proof of clapping hands because yes that example is useless. People do it all the time, it must have something. But no practical value. But let's not argue for the sake of arguing. It's like saying Ponz
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by buran77 5y ago
PoW(hatever) is a cancer as long as the "Whatever" doesn't have any value behind it, it doesn't bring value to society because it's guaranteed to take resources without leaving anything useful behind. It incentivize
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by buran77 5y ago
While AP is sometimes touted as "FSD safer than a human driver" in reality it's just a set of driver assists that can help a driver drive safer. Since AP doesn't drive itself except for very limited definitions of dr
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It's not just the media reporting in itself as much as how concerned people are about the suffering that happens during that war. Sure people watched Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on TV but most of the Western world was free to watch
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by buran77 5y ago
With enough determination (and it doesn't take that that much) you can make propaganda work just fine in any language. And that's they key part, it doesn't need to be perfect, just good enough. Look at Fox News or Alex Jones.
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Let's not kid ourselves with this kind of rationalization. Intent matters when you failed to achieve your claimed results. When you need to explain why the crap you pulled smells so much better than the same crap the other guy pulled.
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by buran77 5y ago
> public service sector tends to pay shit Oh this is certainly not that. Plenty of those institutions pay more than any reasonable job in the private sector and yet audit departments usually stand out by being filled with juniors to a mu
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> Its not very different here. It's very different here. On paper those certifications junior auditors get make the difference between "guy with hammer" and "engineer". These juniors are sent in as capable audi
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> "see, someone signed here and said everything was fine!" But that's fine. If you have a crack in your foundation you want to know about it, not to be forced to fix it or for the whole world to know about it. You can
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> The misconduct mostly involved junior assurance staff, who shared online documents containing answers to internal assessments, it said. This is some major BS right here. "The rogue engineer", "the junior staff", etc
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It's a method to exercise control over a large slice of the population and rob them of the means to challenge their position. I don't think too may see it necessarily as a fair measure that must be imposed on those people for the
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Yes... US "only" financed, coordinated, and offered active military support for the invasion. Then imposed a blockade on Cuba for asking for nuclear help from the USSR. And in 2014 forces which were definitely just pro-Russian mil
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I don't like bubbles anyway :). All those countries have consistently acted exactly with the same methods you see now. Trying to avoid direct war but with no issues interfering with each other's conflicts and "buffer countr
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> Ukraine had been interested in joining NATO and the EU for 10 years now When Ukraine was flirting with the idea of a relationship with the EU in 2013-2014 the Crimean invasion happened. It was absolutely predictable even at that time a
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> have precisely zero interest in preemptively invading And yet no single (super)power in the world would accept this assurance and allow adversaries to take positions at their borders. The US didn't allow Russian missiles in Cuba,
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I'm reasonably convinced that the only reason for anyone relevant to float around the idea of a NATO-Ukraine relationship was to drag an already economically fragile Russia into a conflict that they may "win" but at a high co
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Russia is most likely incapable of carrying any sustained conflict as far as Serbia, Bulgaria, or Romania, particularly when the last 2 are NATO members. They can cause disruption in other ways but no effective open conflict. But Russia doe
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I did phrase it right. I don't care about judging the "morals" of any superpower but the status of "enemy" is less subjective.
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Everyone who was abused by a superpower is nervous and would like the same help. What's the point in making that list to support your point if you're not going to paint the other half of the picture which is making the opposite po
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by buran77 5y ago
I don't think Russia is willing or able to occupy Ukraine. They most likely want to "poison" the region and make the country undesirable in NATO. No superpower wants the enemy right at their border. The US didn't appre
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It seems strange for some people because they imagine this "average" as a classical mean and the intuitive shape of the bell curve - the biggest chunk must be in the middle ("for every child that dies at birth someone must li
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by buran77 5y ago
> Technically no Technically language is very interpretable but in some very simple cases it can be mitigated to the point where it's not a realistic issue. Even your book example isn't simple enough to be completely iron clad
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> if you can convicingly argue that the function output is inconsistent with what the parties agreed to Talking about (smart) contracts in general, if both parties agree that there was an error they can resolve it without any court. The
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> If there is later a disagreement about what was agreed to, a judge sorts it out. Only because human language leaves a lot of room for interpretation. Computer output doesn't, or at the very least not nearly to the same extent. If
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by buran77 5y ago
My old iMac was constantly waking from sleep for online tasks because of the (on by default) Power Nap feature introduced around the same time as InstantGo. By the time I paid any attention to it my HDD had ~500.000 head park cycles which a
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by buran77 5y ago
> I suspect not. As a functioning adult with a developed prefrontal cortex You proposed ridiculously cruel and unusual punishment. A form of torture, clearly endangering that person's life, physical and mental health, that is ille

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