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by ed_balls 4y ago
There is Yamal, Brotherhood and Turk Stream - more than enough capacity. I don't think anyone is willing to buy more than 10% from Russian, ever. It's too risky. China is keeping it under 15%.
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by ed_balls 4y ago
by deniability I mean that you cannot be sure if this is Russia, USA or someone else. If you use depth charges, they explode in certain way and leave some debris which say "this was XXX bomb so must be Russia/USA". This is sa
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by ed_balls 4y ago
> patrol boat dropping some depth charges on a time delay in the middle of the night That's also an option, but you would have problems with precision and deniability*. You could use some WW2 style device and blame it on German mine
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by ed_balls 4y ago
Poland has an ideal device for this sabotage https://www.gospodarkamorska.pl/zdjecia/artykul/25081/135779...
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by ed_balls 4y ago
This is really interesting. Russia knows (if we didn't do it then must be USA), USA knows (if we didn't do it then must be Russia). Germany would never know, but now they are fully dependent on Poland, Ukraine or US Navy for their
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by ed_balls 4y ago
Similar thing has happened on USA soil (Gas Terminal explosion)
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by ed_balls 4y ago
> Sabotage makes sense, but by whom? President Biden on Nord Stream 2 Pipeline if Russia Invades Ukraine: "We will bring an end to it." Initially I thought it's a mistake. Russian company took over the German one after the
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by ed_balls 4y ago
What is more US slave economy was worse. In Roman times you can become free. It was common for slaves to be paid wages, treated well, and given their freedom.
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by ed_balls 4y ago
> How did a blockade around Taiwan turn into a global maritime halt? Not a halt but increase of costs. 2/3 of world trade is near Taiwan. The insurance premiums will skyrocket. USA aka World Police will be busy with China, which wil
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by ed_balls 4y ago
> Geopolitics pits Germany and Moscow as geopolitical rival Only when the land between Moscow and Berlin is subjected to either state (division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact)
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by ed_balls 4y ago
> As for land transport becoming more efficient than ocean, that’s a pipe dream I don't remember exact numbers from 2019, but it was something like: Air: 1 metric tonne: $100, 24h Rail: $40; 10 days Ship: $8; 30 days Let's say
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by ed_balls 4y ago
> the deck looks stacked against a Beijing-Moscow-Berlin As of this movement, yes, but in the future USA won't be able to keep the hegemony. Right now there is a leverage on energy (oil and gas from middle east) and the cheapest fro
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by ed_balls 4y ago
I haven't said that. They want to go back to status quo ante, hence "French President Emmanuel Macron has sparked a new wave of criticism and incomprehension over his calls to avoid humiliating Russia in Ukraine" Also, that&#
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by ed_balls 4y ago
Ukraine has a large deposit of uranium as well.
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by ed_balls 4y ago
Because of geopolitics, the rest is just hypocrisy. Germany and France wanted to build the Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok with help from Russia. That new Europe would became a 3rd power (after US and China) It's a good match. They c
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by ed_balls 4y ago
The military application would be quite interesting. Nuclear powered aircraft carrier has abundant energy which could be used to produce jet fuel. It would simplify the logistics, which is critical in the times of war.
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by ed_balls 4y ago
for river shipping it would be better to have a train like traction system. It could be only placed on the one side of the river when you go upstream. Batteries would do the job for docking and going downstream. Similar to https:/&#x2
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by ed_balls 4y ago
The question is how warranty and insurance be impacted by it.
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by ed_balls 4y ago
> really wanted to make a difference most people don't care, they won't move for that. But Covid/Remote work/housing is pushing them, hence Rep. went all-in.
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by ed_balls 4y ago
Some voters may, but the main goal is to manage society. It's a perfect replacement subject for income inequality, debate about guns, foreign policy like isolationist movement. Because of the electoral system, Republicans in Texas had
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by ed_balls 4y ago
> Nuclear isn't commercially viable in energy markets with very high levels of variable renewable energy True for cost per Watt, but there are other factors. A good replacement for burning fossil fuels is solar + batteries, which is
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by ed_balls 4y ago
The average ago of nurses went from 46 to 55 in my country. The current retirement age is 60.
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by ed_balls 4y ago
https://soketi.app/ <- looking into this option Pusher https://pusher.com/tutorials/how-to-build-a-chat-app-with-vu... https://matrix.org/sdks/#matrix-org-js-sdk https:/&
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by ed_balls 4y ago
> Australia tried this with tragic results It's the opposite, worked like charm. Your main voting base, powerful people, developers, banks want price of properties to increase.
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by ed_balls 4y ago
You can use this approach http://lukasz-madon.github.io/Password-management/
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by ed_balls 5y ago
Can you not say that "this macbook and that car are company's property" and fulfil the capital requirement? the minimal capital in Poland is 5000PLN(1100EUR) and you just buy a laptop.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
Looking from the distance with very little information I can't comprehend the decisions that Hungary has made. Russian are a single point of failure. If there is a collapse or civil war in Russia, Hungary's energy sector is doomed
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by ed_balls 5y ago
The title is misleading. 280 armoured vehicles. 93% sounds like a propaganda number. Good active protection system can get this number to a single digit e.g. Merkava thropy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRJzcM5ETY4
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by ed_balls 5y ago
I'd bet my money on corruption. They told the soldiers it would be a fast thing like an exercise. In that case I can burn more fuel to keep me warm, sell 1/5 to a local farmer. Old food rations? They are fine for a few more years.

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