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by d0mine 3y ago
There was no invasion because Soviets removed Cuban missiles and Kennedy promised to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey (the missiles being there is the reason for the crisis in the first place).
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by d0mine 3y ago
Cuba is a sovereign nation, it can install missiles. Oh, wait..
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by d0mine 3y ago
Look at the context of the thread. It is likely that even chatgpt would pick up on the explicitly mentioned NATO, and its power.
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by d0mine 3y ago
Survival. What would you do when someone much stronger than you corners you? You hit back.
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by d0mine 3y ago
> aggressor You mean NATO with its orders of magnitude power encroaching East despite their empty promises in 90s?
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by d0mine 3y ago
There may be lucky 10,000 https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by d0mine 3y ago
It has been discussed to death already. There is e2e encryption if you need it. "completely unencrypted" is just false.
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by d0mine 3y ago
when you are dealing with the trillion dollar war propaganda machine any link one might provide will be drown out by noise "debunking" it. Do your own research. I found the initial links on hacker news.
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by d0mine 3y ago
Is it a coincidence that the tech you mentioned includes CIA honeypots e.g., protonmail? gnupg looks like something that actually can keep your secrets (at rest, otherwise a less-likely-to-backdoored convenient option is Telegram).
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by d0mine 3y ago
> rated on the number of comments It sounds idiotic. It is unrelated to the question whether short-term (one PR) only reviews are preferable over reviews that recognize the reality that it is not the last PR ever and therefore more long-
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by d0mine 3y ago
"Pale Blue Dot" https://youtu.be/nl5dlbCh8lY
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by d0mine 3y ago
Where are the promised cities on the Moon? ChatGPT may be the Moon-landing event: highly inspirational, highly expensive, modest (relative to the hype) actual practical value long term.
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by d0mine 3y ago
One could use generators to produce a modified iterable without copying e.g. here's genexpr is used to define generator: squared = (x*x for x in iterable) In general, a generator function can be used if necessary: def s
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by d0mine 3y ago
> 70s, 80s and 90s It reminded me of Go vs. Algol-69 http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
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by d0mine 3y ago
"brittle" ? Your suggestion to define places by their timezone name is ok (it may work in many cases).
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by d0mine 3y ago
utc is for a specific moment in time (deterministic with great precision for everyday use). "9:30am local time" may be ambiguous/unknown (the rules may not exist yet) Using the same programming type for both may cause confusi
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by d0mine 3y ago
No need to be so literal. Substitute "bubble sort" for "any simple algorithm involving nested loops/branches/collections" and the result is likely to be the same. Mistakes are common. Partially, that is why uni
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by d0mine 3y ago
Note: support for old EIEIO functions is not autoloaded any more in Emacs 29.1 https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-29...
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by d0mine 3y ago
You do understand that you are arguing for more 9/11? Or you think collective responsibility is something that should applied to others only. Rules for thee and not for me.
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by d0mine 3y ago
> correlation between MRI imagery and pain is very weak It is not just some fringe opinion from a single doctor e.g., here's recommendations from Barbell Medicine https://youtu.be/mdwj5ORPmX0?si=DOVVJCGgLe_U0GDT
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by d0mine 3y ago
- the best posture is the next posture. Move. (drinking non-caloric fluids, standing during meetings can help with that too) - firm pillow for the back - resistance training of any kind (barbell is great)
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by d0mine 3y ago
viruses have DNA/RNA genes but they do not self-replicate. They need our cell machinery.
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by d0mine 3y ago
There is a map of Middle-Earth. It doesn't mean the place is real.
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by d0mine 3y ago
It does work. People are tribal. Keep them in the dark and it is easier to rule them. «Сила правительства держится на невежестве народа, и оно знает это и потому всегда будет бороться против просвещения.» Лев Толстой (1896)
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by d0mine 3y ago
Try the same logic for e.g., .ru domain and see how it goes.
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by d0mine 3y ago
p(h) p(a|h)=p(h|a) p(a) therefore if p(a)=p(a|h) then p(h)=p(h|a) too.
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by d0mine 3y ago
The statistics is from a study. I don't remember the original but here's what google suggests «women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium.» http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2009/11
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by d0mine 3y ago
The interesting fact is that most most men are "below average" "bad" partners according to how women perceive men (I don't remember the exact numbers but it is something ridiculous like only 5% of men are worth
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by d0mine 3y ago
AI is a tool. It may change how programmers do their job but programmers won't become obsolete until humans as a whole are.
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by d0mine 3y ago
> same results when they have the same training Genetics may play a huge role.

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