dh2022

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by dh2022 4y ago
I would my home country of Romania to your example. Life was miserable through 80s but there hardly any visible crime. Certainly no shoplifting and no vagabonds. We used to have a saying "te bate ca la militie" to describe the con
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by dh2022 4y ago
Isn't this one of the (many) reasons to use cloud computing? All major cloud computing vendors keep multiple copies in separate locations.
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by dh2022 4y ago
Most of government debt is due in a few years [1]. The interest rate is fixed as long as the government will pay off the debt on schedule. With the current debt load Gov will not pay its debt on schedule. When the debt will become due the g
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by dh2022 5y ago
Am I the only one that thinks corporations really pulled a veil over the American people's eyes? And that Republican and Democrat parties really differ only on social issues, but when it comes to economics they both favor the corporati
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by dh2022 5y ago
Some examples: Disney, Netflix, Salesforce (Marc Benioff used to host fund raisers for Hillary Clinton), New York Times. Larry Page made donations to Democrat candidates, 88% of Google staff made donations to Democrats so maybe we can inclu
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by dh2022 5y ago
I worked lots of minimum wage jobs. None of my co-workers would have peed in bottles / shit in bags / stress themselves out for 1 more dollar / hour. Me neither.
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by dh2022 5y ago
Like the person above you mentioned: "we seem to be in a worker-favorable economy". Nobody would do what you said for another dollar per hour. I worked lots of minimum wage jobs and none of my co-workers would have shit in bags, p
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by dh2022 5y ago
Putin already crossed that line - he has been bombing places in West Ukraine like Lviv and that training site for a couple of days now.
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by dh2022 5y ago
Another option is Russia coerces Ukraine into accepting the 3 things [1] Russia asked. It can happen. It will be interesting what will the West do if this happens. [1] the three things are: 1. No NATO integration 2. Recognize Crimea as part
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by dh2022 5y ago
I guess my point was not clear. I meant to say this: 1. Ukraine will never join NATO, and NATO knew this 2. NATO encouraged Ukraine to ask for NATO integration knowing (since Dec 2021) Russia will not stand for it, 3. Russia invades Ukraine
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by dh2022 5y ago
Ukraine would be in substantially better straits if NATO told upfront everyone (including Ukraine and Russia) the Ukraine will not be part of NATO. The biggest country in NATO does not want to enforce no-fly zone and does not want to give p
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by dh2022 5y ago
Re: "it's more than likely that all the individuals currently of Beethoven's absolute talent level are thought of as merely "extremely good", not "genius", precisely because they don't break away from
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by dh2022 5y ago
What is the value of this signal? Thank you! (I always thought that UN Security Council did not have any value because veto-yielding members would always block adverse resolutions. If there is any value in the UN Security Council I would re