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by cbg0 2y ago
Your n=1 sample with a case of insufficient transparency provided to the public isn't really enough to make a generalization about corrupt spending.
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by cbg0 2y ago
Most ISPs likely have logs of all of the clients who were behind a specific external IP anyway.
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by cbg0 2y ago
> So a stock market and/or real estate crash can actually be good to reduce inequality . In fact I think its about the only way to dramatically reduce inequality. This would assume rich people have all their money in stocks, which i
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by cbg0 2y ago
You're contradicting yourself. To maximize that peace and protection of human lives you need real security guarantees, otherwise there will just be a small break before the conquering starts again.
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by cbg0 2y ago
All square? What is that supposed to mean? Also, the poster above gave you actual examples that you're handwaving as "regardless of wars" and then go on to say "russophobia without any good reasons"? Please don&#x27
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by cbg0 2y ago
There's no talk of sending European soldiers to fight for Zelensky, the only thing currently being discussed is a peace-keeping force, once an accord is reached. If that happens there will most likely be elections held and Zelensky mig
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by cbg0 2y ago
With time being relative, nuclear might become irrelevant, though that's very far off into the future. It's very important to have stable baseline power generation that you can depend on, and not the whims of the weather. Wind t
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by cbg0 2y ago
Actually, I'm pretty sure it was a lot of fearmongering due to the Fukushima incident which started that wave of anti-nuclear in Germany. A bad decision, for sure.
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by cbg0 2y ago
If the history books are any good indicator, Putin going away tomorrow won't really change anything, the problem has always been with Russia as a whole, not just its leader - ask most of the EU countries that have some historical beef
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by cbg0 2y ago
> We will not escalate to risking WW3. There's zero risk of WW3 due to MAD doctrine, so nobody is dropping nukes. Russia couldn't take on one country, let alone dozens of them in a conventional war, so that's also not happ
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by cbg0 2y ago
The EU doesn't need to align on all politics. Defense is defense and everybody understands the value of that.
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by cbg0 2y ago
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by cbg0 2y ago
Europe has always been willing to defend itself, but the US had interests in keeping EU dependent on the US for defense; It was a win-win because US could keep their large global sphere of influence and the EU could spend money on other thi
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by cbg0 2y ago
> I, for one, don’t want to keep dumping money on him throwing his citizens into the meat grinder. Neither does he, Ukraine just wants real security guarantees.
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by cbg0 2y ago
Asking for assistance from a country that has stood by you since the war started and also offering them a deal for minerals makes you a "beggar"?
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by cbg0 2y ago
As much as social media will try to ingrain this into you, people are not just "right" or "left" and you'll find plenty of conservatives in the US that are not in agreement with Trump's stance on distancing fro
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by cbg0 2y ago
Britain held elections in 1945, after VE day.
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by cbg0 2y ago
You can't have elections when you're being invaded or under attack, it's not unprecedented and it's also constitutional. The UK for example didn't have elections from 1939 to 1945 due to WW2. If part of your populat
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by cbg0 2y ago
You can't have diplomacy with Russia, they don't respect any agreements, EU tried to partner up with them on trade as a "diplomatic" route, hoping that cash flowing both ways would be enough to keep Russia happy, but the
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by cbg0 2y ago
> Ukraine is war torn, deeply in debt, and no longer provides the strategic benefit to Russia it might’ve in ‘22. Expanded access to the Black Sea and natural gas/minerals were and still are very important to Russia. Aside from thes
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by cbg0 2y ago
You are correct, I should have said "again".
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by cbg0 2y ago
EU+UK aren't conscripting at this time and also have much better training and equipment than Russia, so the comparison isn't apples to apples, I was just saying that we do in fact have "warfighters".
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by cbg0 2y ago
No real security guarantees also means tens of thousands of lives lost when Russia gets back into gear and tries to take Ukraine a second time.
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by cbg0 2y ago
Nobody's firing nukes any time soon, everybody loses when they start flying and you can't rule over a desert.
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by cbg0 2y ago
Secret Service is telling Trump to help Ukraine?
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by cbg0 2y ago
> Frankly, the EU is only able to "think long and hard" but never to actually do anything. They have no warfighters anymore and it will take years for the member states of the EU to rebuild anything resembling military capabili
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by cbg0 2y ago
Is it really valuable data? The task is probably very niche, which is why all models struggle with it and is unlikely to be solvable by a future model without specific training.
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by cbg0 2y ago
You mean assembled there? Or is at least 51% of it built in Texas?
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by cbg0 2y ago
Pretty good considering there are laws around data privacy and government institutions that enforce them. Are they perfect? Of course not, but it sure is better than no laws to protect my personal data.
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by cbg0 2y ago
Yes, it refers to something which aligns with generally accepted historical facts about a certain event or time in history.

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