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by fastball 1y ago
If the West lets it happen, sure. Still seems like there is some amount of time to reverse course and stop handing the future to China if the West so desires. But democracies these days can't help but tie themselves in knots, so not ho
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by fastball 1y ago
Which part is impossible?
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by fastball 1y ago
Complete non-sequitur from where the conversation was one comment ago. This thread started with you saying "maybe they are doing it as a negotiation tactic". And yet simultaneously you think it is everyone else's fault if s
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by fastball 1y ago
No, these bombings are not a negotiation tactic, they are a response to a dangerous action (violating non-proliferation treaties). The regime hoping that this action might be useful as a negotiation tactic does not somehow strip the action
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by fastball 1y ago
If the attack was specifically targeting the US to encourage the downfall of Trump, I am sure there are millions of Americans that would be celebrating. Spend some time on Bluesky – they'd love it over there if the attacks didn'
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by fastball 1y ago
"Palestine" is a term which pre-dates Islam (coming from the Greek "Palaistine"), so I don't think you are making the point you are trying to make.
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by fastball 1y ago
If they don't control it, it's not the "other people's" land either. Land belongs to whoever controls it. That's it. That is all it will ever be. If there is not some higher power (e.g. the UN, who you say does
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by fastball 1y ago
Ok, but if you bluff in poker and someone else calls it (in this case – US bombing enrichment facilities), you can't really be mad about it, can you?
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by fastball 1y ago
Who did have enemies in the ME? It was (as stated) mostly a vassal state.
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by fastball 1y ago
Did it surprise you when Obama did the same?
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by fastball 1y ago
What is surreal about Trump being in the Situation Room?
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by fastball 1y ago
What is to stop Iran from putting their next enrichment facility deep underground in the middle of Tehran? Seems even Israel might be more hesitant to target it at that point.
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by fastball 1y ago
Impressively prescient on the part of the Top Gun sequel. This is basically the plot, just with more close calls and less "well that was kinda easy".
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by fastball 1y ago
I didn't forget about any jobs. Sure, some jobs can be less centralized. But you said "There is no point in concentrating jobs around big cities". This is wrong and I corrected you.
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by fastball 1y ago
The vast majority of jobs are not decentralized and will not be for the foreseeable future. You cannot be a steelworker or waiter or actor from a home office or location that doesn't have high in-person demand for those things. There a
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by fastball 1y ago
Housing becomes cheaper when supply outstrips demand. That is really all there is to it. If there is induced demand due to new housing being built, you just need... more housing.
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by fastball 1y ago
The question is why does the US have a lot of resources?
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by fastball 1y ago
The Apple USB-C case is requiring a corporation to comply with regulations. Breaking up a company means a subset is being separated from the parent company, in a way where the parent company is no longer deriving value from the (former) s
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by fastball 1y ago
How would Europe break up American tech companies, in practice?
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by fastball 1y ago
Why is the substrate glass? Lack of reactivity? Ability to remove imperfections? As a layman with almost zero knowledge of telescope construction, I feel like a heavy amorphous solid would not be my first choice for the base layer underneat
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by fastball 1y ago
I can have it both ways, that is the entire point of the refresh/access token system. The access tokens are used for 99% of requests (every request except "refresh" requests) and I am not persisting them anywhere – there is
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by fastball 1y ago
For sure, but (very) maybe they won't buy as many new ones, e.g. when they release new products.
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by fastball 1y ago
Yeah, most audiophiles/people I know who haven't moved entirely to Spotify/YouTube/Apply Music/etc are not storing files in mp3. FLAC or something else lossless is the obvious preference.
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by fastball 1y ago
People that like to own their digital music in the Western World are generally not storing the files in mp3. Where outside the West are you seeing many people that are specifically storing audio files in mp3 (vs just streaming/ storing
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by fastball 1y ago
Why not? It is useful for the company, ICANN gets a bunch of money, and it is not hurting anyone else (in fact it arguably benefits everyone else by causing big players to be more likely to stick things under their TLDs rather than monopoli
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by fastball 1y ago
> These days, the format is similar to MP3 or ZIP files—two legacy formats too popular and widely used to kill. While killing MP3 might be difficult, the vast majority of people aren't handling audio files themselves these days, so
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by fastball 1y ago
If it is supply you are actually concerned about you buy a couple jerry cans that you keep full. Watching geopolitics to try to time anything still makes no sense.
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by fastball 1y ago
Slack is more successor to IRC than Wave, imo.
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by fastball 1y ago
At that point you may as well day trade oil futures. Its at least easier than trying to time when to fill your gas tank based on geopolitics.
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by fastball 1y ago
And now I need to invalidate the cache if the key is invalidated. Also this cache cannot be updated/invalidated atomically, like I can if I'm just storing a refresh key in the SQL db. Caching in Redis is more complex and more pr

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