ed_balls

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by ed_balls 5y ago
> Do you have a source for that? an interview with https://twitter.com/wolski_jaros Sorry, not in english.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
> You're not responding to what you're quoting. It didn't make any mention of what proportion of tanks were destroyed by what weapon. The statement would only be not true if the Ukrainians have not been able to take out an
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by ed_balls 5y ago
I don't think it is. > Ukrainian forces have been able to take out Russian tanks using the Javelin anti-tank missile system being supplied by the U.S., and a lighter, more easily transportable missile supplied by Great Britain. That
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by ed_balls 5y ago
on average. You miss 70% and you may need 1-3 hits. (smoke or other protection, tank engine maybe cold etc.) Tanks with active protection are even better. You hit less than 10% with nlaw. Newest Javelin is a bit better. That's why ligh
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by ed_balls 5y ago
better comparison is that fully equipped tank, with a trained crew, maintenance and logistics is 10mln. To shoot eliminate a tank you need about 7 shots from a NLAW and about 4 people that need very little training. The best way to eliminat
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by ed_balls 5y ago
I think there will be more war. In the future wars will be fought with drones - you don't sacrifice many young people. One could make an argument that fertility rate of 1.8 is a good thing. There is a better control of the labour marke
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by ed_balls 5y ago
Invest, but where and how?
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by ed_balls 5y ago
> promise a reduced sentence They did, but it didn't work > Life is not a hollywood action movie. This is an example from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
> torture is morally acceptable? Someone stole the car with the baby inside. Police caught the thief, but there is no car or the baby. There is a heatwave and the baby can last max 2h in the car. The thief panicked and dumped the car som
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Ask HN: Why did Putin start the war?
7 points by ed_balls 5y ago|10 comments
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by ed_balls 5y ago
- build muscles to increase you "static" calories consumption. - Semaglutide shots - Have you heart broken
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by ed_balls 5y ago
That's why call it Putin's war. Russian didn't vote for it.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
and mining in Siberia will be price competitive for max 15 years.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
One possibility is to evacuate through Armenia or drive to Finland.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
> Visegrad countries have refused for years to help with the inflows from the Southern border People have this incorrect perception that governments are all powerful. The government in Poland did agree to take in refugees, but they los
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by ed_balls 5y ago
No, we cannot. It seems the war will continue, which given current influx it will result in 12mln refugees, about 5mln in Poland. We don't have housing, schools, hospitals for 5mln people. This is not SF o Syria where you can live in a
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by ed_balls 5y ago
nukes is the best things that happened and the reason why there is not world wars anymore. You can make an argument that Izrael should give 3 or 4 warheads to Iran. It would de-escalate the proxy wars.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
a lot of business will be bought up by Chinese for pennies.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
and warning is a step forward.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
True, but in war they could add a warning to the website.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
Ukrainians already have, there was a counter attack in the north of Dombas
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by ed_balls 5y ago
> I see no reason Ukraine would cross their own borders to strengthen their negotiation position "We give you back X, you give back Mariupol" > complete annihilation of Russia as a country you think US would die for some vil
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by ed_balls 5y ago
That's why I'm a big believer of modular nuclear reactors, where active cooling is not needed.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
There isn't one. Maximal theoretical damage (not practical) would not end civilisation.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
Ukraine is a nuclear state[1] that temporarily doesn't have nukes - they gave all to Russia. [1]Budapest Memorandum was not fulfilled, so Ukraine regain their status of nuclear state.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
demonstration nuke - it's called tactical nuke, which is different to strategic nuke. Imagine Ukrainian army winning and move towards Russia and Belarus. Putin may decide to fire a tactical nuke to "escalate to de-escalate"
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by ed_balls 5y ago
Even if all nukes would go off (spread evenly) they would not kill everybody. The worst case scenario of global worming would not kill everybody. People living north of 40o will survive.
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by ed_balls 5y ago
North stream 2 has very little to do with this whole conflict. Because mining is quite expensive in Siberia, Russian gas may not be price competitive as soon as 2030. Renewable energy is getting cheaper. At some point, natural gas turbines
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by ed_balls 5y ago
Without natural resources Russia GDP would be lower than Polish. I think the whole reason for this war is the green transformation of the world. Military dictatorship played the wrong game and didn't mange to reform the country (it see
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by ed_balls 5y ago
A pice of trivia: in Polish it should also be Kowal (Koval). Land owners were taking the names of the places they owned, so if you owned a village called, called Paris, you took the name Pariski (adjective). This created a culture of adding

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