geoka9

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by geoka9 5mo ago
So delicious noise though!
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by geoka9 6mo ago
"She laughed funny" is a dog whistle for "a non-white woman".
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by geoka9 8mo ago
Some would say Russia is very much inside the US and somewhat inside the EU through its proxies (currently govts of Hungary and Slovakia, quite possibly in the future - France and Germany).
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by geoka9 8mo ago
> The EU is right now talking about becoming a great military force _to fight Russia_ (emphasis mine) Correction: to not have to fight Russia. The EU falling apart is Putin's wet dream because he's very afraid of a confrontatio
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by geoka9 8mo ago
> Ironically, young Canadians are looking to move elsewhere. Are they still, considering they were mostly moving to the US before and now the idea is kind of scary?
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A war foretold:how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin's Ukraine plans and why(theguardian.com)
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by geoka9 8mo ago
Why do angry people tend to lean conservative?
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by geoka9 9mo ago
There's KILO if you're cool with your bullion stored at the Royal Canadian Mint.
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by geoka9 9mo ago
> Trump is a symptom, not the cause. For sure, but there's something to be said about nobody else being able to amass so much power with the right and losing to a saner candidate (Haley, Romney, basically anybody else).
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by geoka9 9mo ago
Reserve currency status makes increasing money supply easier (the US has run large deficits and monetary expansions with less inflation than peers). "Petrodollars" create persistent demand for USD, independent of US domestic condi
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by geoka9 9mo ago
> If the U.S. obtained such a special benefit, it should have grown faster than western europe from 1950 to 1990 Not necessarily; the US could have extracted that benefit by staying ahead of the rest of the world in terms of its citizens
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by geoka9 9mo ago
> If you look at the fifth chart, the large european economies also seemed to have grown slightly faster after the war than before it. So I’m not sure how much the U.S. is benefitting from being the hegemon. Nobody's denying that th
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by geoka9 9mo ago
"European hostility" is not going to matter when there's no EU. No matter how weak, Russia will always be stronger in terms of the number of warm bodies they are ready to throw into the meat grinder than any country in Europe
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by geoka9 9mo ago
Dissolution of NATO has been his wet dream for decades. Next up is dissolution of the EU; the hard-right shift all over Europe (that he gets some credit for by financing right-wing parties and propaganda) will eventually make that dream of
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by geoka9 10mo ago
> "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition" How do you run a country without invading it or at least having a puppet regime already in place?
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by geoka9 10mo ago
The only reason Russia has been reluctant to formally annex territories it broke away from other countries until 2022 was minimizing economic damage to itself. They knew how sensitive the western countries were to forceful changes of the wo
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by geoka9 10mo ago
Small correction: for another adversary's clear geopolitical gain. While dissolving the EU has been Russia's wet dream for decades, there's not much to be gained from it by the US and very much to lose. In fact, the speed wit
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by geoka9 10mo ago
So true; Russian MO is to use ~18-60 year old males from occupied territories as cannon fodder. Europeans should be flooding Ukraine with weapons (and other kinds of support) and thanking their luck that somebody else is willing to risk the
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by geoka9 10mo ago
> You must have missed my comment about opposing the war. You're opposing the war in the same way Russian propaganda "opposes" it: if only Ukraine stopped fighting, so many lives would have been saved! But Ukrainians don&#
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by geoka9 10mo ago
Of course, it's just a question of Ukraine knowing what's good for it (and the poor Russians) and folding so that all of the dying stops! Nice one, аноним29; I hope you made your day's quota!
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by geoka9 10mo ago
That wouldn't be half as bad, by comparison. But it's more like learning how to survive in the Russian "meat wave" corps a bit longer than your peers. Looking at the parts of Eastern Ukraine that were under Russian occup
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by geoka9 11mo ago
> and intense activity AFAIR those had a specific purpose (chasing a perp, tracking down evidence, etc.). Most of his thinking he did sitting in a chair and smoking his pipe for hours on end (sometimes the whole night).
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by geoka9 11mo ago
One scenario: have a profile for each client so that you can open any website in the context of your work for that client. Containers then can be used to separate multiple logins into the same website: e.g. you're testing a multi-user
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by geoka9 11mo ago
Not only confusing, but also kinda powerful: we now have three(!) levels of indirection: old profiles -> new profiles -> containers :)
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by geoka9 11mo ago
Containers are nice, but they are, as you said, not as powerful as the new profiles system (which is, incidentally, almost as easy to use as containers now that we can switch between them right in the UI). At this time there are essentiall
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by geoka9 11mo ago
Up-to-date vaccination list is a requirement for immigrant visa in Canada.
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by geoka9 1y ago
> "If you have to ask, ask and learn..." Totally! But also keep in mind this :) https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1570:_Engineer_Sy...
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by geoka9 1y ago
What is the expiry of those options? And how much of his capital is he betting on them? If I'm not mistaken, what made the big short spectacular was him betting the farm on it. Otherwise, wouldn't it be just another day in the off
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by geoka9 1y ago
Yeah, my (limited) understanding is that the GP's argument would be valid for an options trader who looks for pricing inefficiencies to take advantage of (regardless of bullish/bearish outlook) but not _that_ important for someone
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by geoka9 1y ago
In addition to what others have mentioned, before the "AI bubble", there was a "data science bubble" where every little signal about your users/everything had to be saved so that it could be analyzed later.

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