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by dmpk2k 4y ago
Fair point. Leaders have been debasing currencies since forever.
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
At this point you are probably correct. That said, if the US were in a better financial situation, how would 1-2% inflation (as far as I can tell, this roughly the rate that gold is currently being extracted) lead to people starving in the
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
It limits the rate of monetary inflation. It is much harder to dig a shiny metal out of the ground than adding more zeros in a computer. If you're not worried about the long-term consequences of both the fiscal and monetary policy of t
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
That is a common counterargument, and yet the common counter-counterargument matches my experience: That sadly doesn't apply to housing or food, at least in the places I've lived. E.g. houses in the place I was born are now 5x the
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
That's been the promise of increasing productivity for many decades, and yet...
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
That knee-jerk reply exemplifies why there won't be any negotiations any time soon, and I'm just some random person on the Internet. You need to take a walk, and I'm out too.
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
Of course not, because they are all American vassals. Being under the Pax Americana umbrella myself, I'm quite okay with that. However, I hope you can understand why a major power like Russia might be suspicious.
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
It was many different leaders. I suggest you actually read the archive document(s). Yes, they're long. Regardless of whether you think the Russians were hopelessly naive or full of shit, it is a promise broken. Remember, we're tal
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
You're not wrong, because that is true too, but it is NATO that scares Russia. Given Russia's long history of bloody invasions, I don't think this is something Americans can at all relate to. The American Civil War is small p
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
"Never" is too strong: George W. Bush pushed hard for Georgia and Ukraine to join NATO at the Bucharest Summit in 2008: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/01/nato.georgia
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
It seems to me that neither side was upholding its promises. There are no angels here.
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
There are plenty. Russia is hardly a paragon of honestly, but from the Russian perspective there are plenty of examples to draw from about Western leaders ignoring agreements. The first and most obvious is this: https://nsarchive
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
There is the mistaken understanding that this is all just an artefact of Putin. It's not. Most of the Russian elite agree with this war, since they (collectively, including before Putin) have been warning that they will not allow Ukrai
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
I had the exact opposite experience. Debian always had to add their own variations and special sauce to the configurations and layout. Slackware was as stock as you could get, effectively identical to what you'd get with a configure; m
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
You are vastly overestimating the importance of AWS Lambda, even in web tech circles.
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
I felt the same way about static types, until I had the misfortune to work on an absolute disaster of a codebase (happened to be in Javascript). The worst case for a dynamically-typed codebase is so very much worse in high-level languages
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
Could you give a list of your favourite MOOCs (on any topics)?
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
> so we should not expect any meaningful performance gain from typing Elixir code but > The Erlang compiler already does so to improve performance within a single module and we want to eventually do so across modules and applications
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
ZFS does, although to fully exploit it you'll need to make DMU calls.
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
Probably heatpumps, depending on the climate. Heatpump effectiveness drops off rapidly as you head below 0C. Considering the temperature extremes that southern US versus northern US housing experiences over the entire year, it's probab
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/01/nato.georgia Five months later the Georgia war happened.
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
And yet it is still true.
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
I have started calculating things in LHCs. The LHC is a massive machine with advanced technologies, took a decade to design and build, involving 10k scientists and the international community, and cost $9B. - Squadron of F-35 aircraft:
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
An FPS set in sub-Saharan Africa (read: not just Far Cry 2). Ideally, something like ARMA. It has an incredibly rich and varied terrain, with many iconic animals, great beauty, and many cultures (including their histories and mythologies).
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
I realise this is a nitpick, but: > consumers are not willing to buy cars without radar, or washing machines without advanced sensors What? Am I that out of touch?
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
Sadly, no. If flying first class would have allowed my cats to sit in the cabin, I'd have done so. Nothing short of a private jet allows that though, and perhaps regulations wouldn't allow it even then.
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by dmpk2k 4y ago
I detest the dehumanization of airlines; it is all very bureaucratic now, compared to when I was a child. I flew two cats from oceania to Europe, and the process was jarring; some regulation at the time prevented them even flying together.
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by dmpk2k 5y ago
But the pro-vax people are talking about Ukraine too, so not exactly compelling evidence.
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by dmpk2k 5y ago
And yet replacing it with something that sounds harmless will not change the underlying reality.
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by dmpk2k 5y ago
Is it okay if I ask New York Times to not be posted here? It has done far more damage to the world that unherd ever can.

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