ethbr1

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I wouldn't say there are no rules. There are international agreements, consequences, and parties that may or may not choose to enforce those consequences. E.g. the entire UN Security Council was predicated on the idea that no other cou
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There's a big international diplomacy difference between assassinating a leader and forcibly extraditing one on drug charges. Not too many countries will go to the mat to support a leader who was engaged in narcotics trafficking, if th
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Is it? I'm skeptical, as it seems to have that ring of circa-2003 WMD justification about it, but I won't dismiss it out of hat. And if the US intends to prosecute Maduro on drug crimes in SDNYC (good!), then they'll have to
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The issue with regime change is whether there's enough political cohesion in a country's population after a despot / autocrat is removed. "The opposition" is rarely a large and representative enough group to effect
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> With congress having abdicated Historically in the American Republic, this has been true more often than not. There's a reason something taking "an act of Congress" is not a new expression for difficulty.
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> the silence of the Iranian government on this point suggests something coordinated to me Or, you know, a theocratic autocracy that realizes the perception of its military power is critical to keeping the populace in line? And admitti
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Caracas was definitely hit in preparation for the operation, and I'd assume air defenses and assets within scramble range were the primary targets. Example footage that seems to track with BBC confirmed Caracas strike locations: https
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> If you’ve ever taken a sales or business or networking course, and seen the people that take the advice literally and act like creepy wooden weirdos, you know why. Business “skill” is intangible, partially luck obviously but partially
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> data showing that the removed options weren’t used that frequently This is literally the shitshow that's post-Ribbon Microsoft UX in a nutshell. In the 90s, they designed a logical ontology, then mapped every item somewhere in
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You can also just directly registry hack to force always-more-options: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1cv8xt3/how_ca...
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The problem with "new entrant" is that only revolutionary features convince users to switch en mass. Tabs/stability (Firefox vs IE). V8 (Chrome vs Firefox). Anything else is a battle of attrition, where the deepest pocketed c
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The problem with opening the "which obscene is protected" door is that it gives the government (presumed to be correct in judgement by default) too much power. See Bush W admin's leaning on credit card processors to freeze ou
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> USofA was probably the only place that actively resisted the global effort. Really? China, Indonesia, Iran, South Korea, Italy, UK, Brazil, Tanzania, North Korea, etc.? Making the COVID response sound like one global cooperative ende
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> for the last 10 years or so huge amounts of free-floating sargassum seaweed have grown in warm ocean waters around the world For those curious about numbers for 2025, a couple links: https://optics.marine.usf.edu/proj
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If only there were a carbon-free method to move vessels across the water.
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It's a complicated bit of American constitutional / federal law. Tl;dr... The US military cannot be used to perform domestic policing functions (Posse Comitatus Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatu
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Boris Johnson: Hold my pint.
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> So the EU’s options are limited. Part of the issue if that as you move up the value chain your list of potential trading partners shrinks, as lower-income partners aren't viable. Look at GDP per capita (I picked nominal, for exp
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I think the implied difference from upthread was that women are less active online in public, unmoderated spaces for the aforementioned reasons. It's no surprise they often use private and/or moderated spaces instead.
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Sure, there are misogynistic cultures out there, but that doesn't justify it from a categorical imperative perspective. If it's okay, then it's okay for all sexes. And I'm hard-pressed to name a world culture that's
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Exactly. If I had to characterize the general internet (read: what would and wouldn't raise an eyebrow in an average forum) in terms of political alignment, it'd probably be: - anarchist 60s/70s - libertarian-meritocr
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I think we might come from different cultural expectations? In my book, it's reductive to sweep unsolicited sexual harassment under "attention", unwanted or otherwise. It's not rocket science: everyone deserves to be tre
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There's also the inconvenient truth that a very specific part of the world was online in the 1990s. Primarily more educated, more liberal, more wealthy. Turns out, when you hook the rest of the planet online, you get mass persuasion
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Parent was saying that most men don't understand the amount of casual sexual harassment women are subjected to in unmoderated online spaces -- much more so than men receive. Which makes me sad. Apparently Y chromosome + enculturation =
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And then capitalism crumbles because the delicate bargain between labor and capital it was predicated on has been destroyed.
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> there’s definitely some equity being traded in this “non-exclusive licensing deal” It does bring up a curious question - what happens to the Groq equity owned by the leadership team that's being hired by Nvidia? And/or VC e
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> Wow that event log reads like the most psychotic corporate-cult-ish group of weirdos ever. And here I thought it'd be a great fit for LinkedIn...
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I have heard the policing is very strict, but I thought on the business side they were extremely laissez faire.
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There's functionally little difference between spaces being non-printable characters, unless there are examples of text editors that do not render offset empty space when they're used. Spaces vs tabs, sure, that's an argument
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To me, this was one of the greatest strengths of early Python: humility. It didn't try to be everything (high performing, compile-time static typing) to everyone (novice, intermediate, expert, academic). It instead made it easy to solv

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