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by effie 4y ago
Internet will copy whatever is valued. You had wrong expectations. Moral indignation is not going to help you. If you can't make a living writing and selling books, let go and think of a different thing to do.
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by effie 4y ago
I wouldn't connect those concepts at all. Democratic process is expected in a state that proclaims to be a democracy. Not in a trade agreement of multiple states. Also, EU is not just a trade agreement.
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by effie 4y ago
Nicely said. Actually there is a point - vengeance and moralizing. But you're right this probably wouldn't have much effect on GPU availability and reduction of pollution in the near future.
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by effie 4y ago
His argument is that by buying a miner card, you're validating strategy of miners, which are considered "bad actors" by gamers and environmentalists. If you intentionally decline buying a miner card, you're helping to ma
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by effie 4y ago
Indeed it is not a country. But democratic process is a very wrong word here, even with the adjective "representative". The EU process for updating its own rules is a bureaucracy directed by prime ministers, and those influenced&
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by effie 4y ago
Are you sure? What happened to sovereignity of countries in choosing who they do business with? Can you provide some legal rationale?
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by effie 4y ago
That's interesting, so Zelenskyy was calling for acceptance to NATO before they changed that part of constitution?
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by effie 4y ago
Is this a serious question? Politicians lie all the time! Why? To get support, or to minimize resistance. And Putin manipulates and lies very well.
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by effie 4y ago
There were many reasons. Ukraine got under control of a West-oriented government and many Ukrainians supported that. Military and economic ties grew. This telegraphed that Ukraine was on the path to be lost from the Russian sphere of influe
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by effie 4y ago
> Our leaders are to blame for going on with this imbalance of leverage for so long and not taking measures or backups despite the US warning us Power of european leaders comes from european citizens, not from US (at least on paper). Bla
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by effie 4y ago
That may be the biggest "fake it till you make it" operation in history...
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by effie 4y ago
This would be possible only when all in the parliament would agree and want the same policy and same law as soon as possible. This is indeed rare, even in dire circumstances like hospitals full of sick people and more coming, or energy cris
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by effie 4y ago
You're mocking him, but he was accurate - it is authoritative government, even more so than in the West. I'd say expropriation of gold was authoritarian, i.e. undemocratic, because it was done by president, not Congress. US, with
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by effie 4y ago
Spot on. We've seen this before with Hitler, and we are smarter now. It's true the situation is different - Putin has nukes - but we have nukes as well, and there are ways to be tough without escalating to using them. This means w
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by effie 4y ago
There are mechanisms to prevent that on a large (EU) scale, and US probably will use them if needed. Threats or sweet deals to politicians will keep them in line.
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by effie 4y ago
That's possible, but I think they just use the rhetoric to activate old people nostalgia and bring more support for the regime. Soviet union respawning does not seem likely, nobody except Russia wants that.
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by effie 4y ago
You can still imagine a gravity well that even a nuclear powered rocket would be unable to climb out of. Nuclear thermal rocket has greater specific impulse than chemical propellant rocket, but not by that much. But there are other ways to
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by effie 4y ago
It's much easier to go sideways fast at height of 10km. That's why rockets start vertically (go up), and only later in height they tilt to "go sideways".
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by effie 4y ago
The most efficient, in terms of minimum propellant, would be to use Sun's radiation and solar wind to slow it down and thus let the Sun pull down the craft. E.g. big mirror at 45 degrees to solar radiation flux. This could take a lot o
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by effie 4y ago
Some, not all, people are willing to get on Boeing 737 MAX. Certainly not people who know about the fiasco and avoid increased risk. Your counter-example does not work at all, instead it is an example of my point. Boeing managers were drive
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by effie 4y ago
Admitting scientists were wrong in their claims on science does not hurt societal standing of science or funding. The cost is very low, everybody expects scientists to be wrong on science from time to time. Admitting scientists may have cau
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by effie 4y ago
Is there any commonly used software developed in Common Lisp or any other Lisp? It seems LISP is this perennial hype language that everybody praises as a superpower but nobody uses for any real task...
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by effie 4y ago
This site is called Hacker News - hackers are people who like to understand how things work and tweak/subvert them to their purposes. Are you here by accident?
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by effie 4y ago
The mainstream view is that php-fpm has better performance than old CGI, and is much better for domain isolation (no suexec hacks needed). But it is also more buggy in operation. It hangs from time to time, requires monitoring that restarts
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by effie 4y ago
> for crying out loud, why? just stick with http. Because on a busy server, it's better to have lower number of interpreter processes than one per HTTP request. So multiple requests need to be passed to a single interpreter process,
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by effie 4y ago
Which one? That engineers do not understand that Apple can charge more than PC makers?
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by effie 4y ago
Never say electricity is generated from gravity, that is an instant reveal that you don't know much physics. It's hydro power, water power, or hydroelectric power. Gravity is everywhere, water is not. Energy can be extracted only
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by effie 4y ago
> new Soviet Union Any reason to think this? Did Soviet Union form by Russia invading and conquering another country? No, it was a result of fall of the Russian empire and the Russian civil war. The conditions now are very different. Fal
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by effie 4y ago
You forgot storage or massive long distance transportation that nuclear future does not require, but solar/wind future does. That changes the "cheaper and better" to "there is no cheap solution, we need both solar/w
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by effie 4y ago
Apple M1 is great performance per watt and great marketing on the internets, but that's it. MacOS limits what a computing enthusiast can do. Virtualization and docker do not work great on M1. PC is a little worse in perf/watt, but

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