calmd

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by calmd 5y ago
> Why is that being treated as inherently bad, though? We are not making this decision completely willingly, it is more just happening and it is out of the governments control. To me this means it is risky, and can we pull out of it? H
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by calmd 5y ago
I think robotized war changes the equation a bit here. At least with regards to non-adjacent conflicts. But for adjacent conflicts between non-superpowers, if one area is depopulated, it may be much easier to walk in and keep that territo
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by calmd 5y ago
So urban cities are anti-child? Thus we will see cites change or depopulate? Does low fertility correlate with dense urban dwelling and sky high real-estate prices? I suspect it probably does, but I haven't seen any proof. Maybe this
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by calmd 5y ago
Let's take that at face value. If shrinking populations are okay, what is the desired population level? Right now no country seems to be able to stop this decrease in the modern/developed world. We are just currently shrinking.
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by calmd 5y ago
SK is committing demographic suicide though, so whatever you think of its success, it has a pretty fatal disease. It has the lowest birthrate in the world. This is going to cause significant economic problems quite soon, or they will have
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by calmd 5y ago
https://www.barrons.com/articles/covid-cases-uk-us-today-516... Delta surged lasted 50 days in India and 45 days in the UK. We may see something similar That would be nice
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by calmd 5y ago
Exactly. I think if you cited source it may have avoided u getting downvoted. Alex is a major vaccine skeptic who has been consistently wrong in his prognostications on Fox News
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by calmd 5y ago
Alex Berenson is mostly a krank who has been consistently wrong in his predictions. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-...
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by calmd 5y ago
Stunning fall. For a while Blizzard could do no wrong. I feel that Bobby, the CEO, is very focused on results and only understands gamers third hand at this point. That works for a while when the employees still care but once they stop ca
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by calmd 5y ago
A reminder that Bari is against cancel culture until you criticize Israel. She is such a hypocrite: https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-fals...
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by calmd 5y ago
Disney+ with 100M active subs is completely different than minor streaming services before that.
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by calmd 5y ago
This makes sense. A lot of stars expect a cut of box office revenues and negotiate that in. But the negotiations happened probably prior to the pandemic and the new situation probably was unthinkable. Also the box office in general has be
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by calmd 5y ago
The problem is if Disney blacklists her from its main franchises, Star Wars and Marvel and Pixar/Disney animation films, that is more than half of the box office these days. The box office is I think 50% super hero films now. That said
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by calmd 5y ago
Federal taxes?
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by calmd 5y ago
Who is behind Freenom? Shouldn't they have to disclose this method of business in their TOS?
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by calmd 5y ago
Their ideas will become more widespread but it may be done by a different team at this point.
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by calmd 5y ago
Key quote from the article: > The trick is to strike the right balance between offering more system indicators without inadvertently making attackers’ jobs too much easier. “There is a lot that Apple could be doing in a very safe way to
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iOS and Android must respond to NSO-like attacks with better security(wired.com)
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by calmd 5y ago
He is fabulously wealthy now. He doesn't have to work. What is the percentage of his ownership in this $5B company? 10%? More? He's achieved his goals likely. Probably will want to slowly cash out and diversity. Do other thi
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by calmd 5y ago
There is a long term trend that vegetables are getting less nutritious, yes. And it is speculated that it is because of soil depletion. https://www.cookinglight.com/eating-smart/nutrition-101/frui...
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by calmd 5y ago
I did not know about this: https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/nomad-vs-kubernetes Is it good? Is there a growing user base? Why do I not hear about it?
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by calmd 5y ago
I hope he is creating a simpler Kubernetes competitor for robust container orchestration/management. Hint hint.
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by calmd 5y ago
Doing it to the US is ballsy, but I bet you could have gotten away with this for quite some time against less major actors. In fact I question why someone would use this against just US diplomats in such a low stakes situation. I would ha
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by calmd 5y ago
Imagine any protracted conflict, if you can give the other leadership group minor brain damage, you'll more likely be able to out maneuver them.
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by calmd 5y ago
Epic Games has been on an acquisition tear -- just in last 12 months: - SuperAwesome, child safe games - Hyprsense, facial animation - Cubic Motion, another facial animation tool - Rad Game Tools - Tonic Games, makers of Fall Guys - Reality
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Smuggles use cling wrap to hide Intel i7 chips on their bodies(techspot.com)
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