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by freefrog334433 3y ago
The Vietnamese didn't need active participation from China or the USSR to win. It was seen as a war of independence, with a popular Northern Vietnamese government and a US puppet South Vietnam government, whose soldiers were unmotivate
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by freefrog334433 3y ago
It is interesting to compare the Iraq and Afghanistan war (the US didn't militarily defeat Vietnam, and Korea was a military stalemate) with successful recent invasions. China invaded Tibet, and Russia invaded Chechnya, and Tibet is no
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by freefrog334433 3y ago
I worked for a large telco, where we hosted all our servers. Each server ran multiple services bare-metal - no virtualization, and it was easy to rollout new services, without installing new servers. I missed the level of control over netw
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by freefrog334433 3y ago
While I understand the anger that our parent's generation had an easier life, we have reached limits to growth, like a jar full of bacteria 99% full. Articles like these help reduce people's anxiety over the drop in living standar
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by freefrog334433 4y ago
I'm using it to edit rust code, and it's great that it works out of the box. I was looking for something feature comparable to vs-code, and struggled with emacs and neovim plugins. It is changing, but I've been happy with it
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by freefrog334433 4y ago
No appeasement has been the reason for fighting wars since WW2. This shows a misunderstanding of the wars. In Vietnam, it was called the domino theory, except Vietnam was a war of independence. The war on terror - invade Iraq so the terror
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by freefrog334433 4y ago
Unfortunately Australia has the highest rate of immigration amongst developed countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_by_country#Oceania Government fiscal policy appears to be 'just add people'
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by freefrog334433 4y ago
Similar to Australia. We have mandatory voting, with paid staff, most being hired just before elections, and from my experience working there, it is well organised, with plenty of redundancy, in case of challenges and recounts.
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by freefrog334433 5y ago
Asking about someone's salary is normal in Cambodia, and in a Telecommunications company I worked, everyone knew each other's salary, which worked well. HR would send memos asking people not to discuss salary, as they couldn'
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by freefrog334433 12y ago
Each tower supports more voice channels, and given than voice has higher priority than data and most people use mobile phones for calling, then each tower does support more subscribers. In Cambodia, prices have been dropping - 3.5GB on 3.75