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by ghostwriter 3y ago
> It's not based on my feelings > All the smartest people I personally know > I also looked up the top 10 AI researchers at Yandex > in the hottest industry at the (arguably) most innovative company in the country. All of t
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
> There are 354,000 people dead already. Your link says that as many as 354,000 Russian _and_ Ukrainian soldiers have been killed _or_ injured in the Ukraine war, but you present it as a number of people killed in a single country. W
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
> So what? Passing some bills justify full scale military invasion? It wasn't full scale at first, and there was leeway for a diplomatic resolution of the political crisis, which Kiyv regime decided to ignore and to escalate instead
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
> Prior to the war maybe slightly under 50% stayed. Now it is under 10%. Just to clarify your point, are you suggesting that only 10% of MSU gradutes are staying in Russia after receiving their respective degrees, or are these the number
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
What's the ratio of those who left to those who graduated and stayed?
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
> we are all biased and reality is too complex to argue about without simplifications, so that's not a great argument. However it's a good argument for distinguishing between simplifications introduced by feelings and the ones
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
> but if Ukraine was the size of the US with the military of the US, I wouldn't bet on them not being horrible when invading other countries. It didn’t stop them from taking part in the invasion of Iraq: * https://en.wiki
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
It’s the second time you’re deliberately avoiding answering where else is your clarity about the second group come from, except from your imagining things. > It's not about safety, it's about agency. Because action > inactio
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
> As a MSU CS alumni I can tell you, it is pretty clear the brighter, the more likely to leave. How does your alumni status’ anecdotal evidence bring clarity on the matter of the predominant intellectual capacity of those who’re leaving
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
> but there is an obvious filter that the ones left behind are on average less risk taking Where’s that clarity come from? The opposite could be argued as well: those who’ve left are seeking safety and safety isn’t associated with risk t
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
That’s a fair point. I was trying to exemplify the conflation point between two groups with the assigned traits (“the brightest” vs “rest of them”) with bringing my own selection of people everyone would clearly disagree with to be a valid
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
Software engineers were a simple example of the conflation point. Those who left and those who’re the brightest aren’t the same group.
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
Political activists and journalists are hardly the brightest group of people either, so you’re just assigning the opposition group that you prefer to align with, with a token of “the brightest” because it makes you feel good about it. How a
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
You’re conflating a group of pro-western enterprise software developers - with little to no adulthood responsibilities aside their work, due to their age - with a group of the brightest folks.
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
> No, they did the same for all languages. are you negating "prohibited official use of minority languages" with "they did the same for all languages" as a means to show that the bill was even-headed? > But what yo
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
It's counter productive to get into debates with people who call one side of the conflict as "orcs", it just shows that you've got skin in the game to object to everything that doesn't align with "Ukraine'
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
No it didn't, you're referring to an article on Wikipedia explaining how a battle was lost. I was saying how the war was won. Eventually every single insurgency leader and their field commanders were eliminated and nowadays Chechn
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
> The occupation of Ukraine signals Russia's intention to do the same with other countries they occupied in the past (Poland, Romania, the Baltic countries, &c) which are now part of NATO. None of those countries have ever been
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
The three insurgent groups acted across two campaings (two hot war phases). The first phase was dealing with Dudayev & Maskhadov and their following specifically. The second phase acted on the Kadyrovs group and the Khattab & Basaye
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
Russia didn't lose in Chechnya, there were two campaigns and three rival military insurgent groups to combat. Eventually, the most prominent one was dealt with, and Khattab and all of his Saudi and Afghani terrorist field commanders we
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
> Because it's evil Russia attacked poor innocent Ukraine in 2014 The poor innocent Ukrainian government did pass a bill to prohibit official use of minority languages on the eastern part of the country (dominated by Russian-speakin
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
> Should we (by we, I mean the rest of the world) just let them annex whatever land they want There's no "whatever land". The war is going for a particular land with particular significance to Russia, similarly to Panama&#
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by ghostwriter 3y ago
> The US has lost three wars without resorting to nuclear weapons; None of which was happening anywhere close to US borders. In finance they say that past performance is no guarantee of future results, but you're eager to bet everyt
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by ghostwriter 4y ago
> Just because the US (and the UK) was making bad decisions in Iraq 20 years ago doesn't mean they are making bad decisions in support of Ukraine now. Why wouldn't it mean bad decisions now? What did happen to those who made ba
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by ghostwriter 4y ago
> Imagine I lock you in a room If you lock a reasoning being in a room, then regardless of your further actions with the French language, you'll be dealing with a reasoning being. Your sequence "you will have had to have gained
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by ghostwriter 4y ago
Their monthly salary is usually on top of other benefits such as subsidized/free accomodation in their capital, food and travel expenses coverage, and so on. They definitely can allow themselves a new Macbook if they wanted to buy it o
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by ghostwriter 4y ago
If you’re in agreement, could you explain absence of sanctions against the US coming from the EU?
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by ghostwriter 4y ago
You can keep issues within git itself: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
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by ghostwriter 4y ago
> gcc and clang are all not ready for production use or rather untested and/or buggy. Which items from this table are lying about GCC v11 support of C++20? [1] Which of the features are buggy in GCC v11-12? [1] https://en
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by ghostwriter 4y ago
> automagically turning blocking operations into non-blocking is - which has not really been tried before (with erlang and go being the first). sorry, but Haskell has had it way before Go, with proper STM too. Neither Erlang nor Go are o

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