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by gonvaled 10y ago
I am not saying drones should not happen, just that they should be used for important stuff, not for your latest underpants. Or, better said, you can get your latest underpants with drones, but you should cover all costs of doing that, incl
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by gonvaled 10y ago
> that's called paying insurance. Not really, because there are costs which are not apparent, or are a matter of policy. - What is the cost of annoying me with drones' noise? I hope the government decides it is non zero. - I do
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by gonvaled 10y ago
> I don't think letting a stranger enter your building / yard is less of a privacy / danger / noise concern. Well, nobody enters without ringing, and I receive them at the door. And danger: I'll let you know as s
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Whether it is worth stealing depends on several factors: - is it worth it? - will I get caught? - am I a robber? Stealing from the front of your house does not happen because most people are not robbers, and it is easy to get caught. Beside
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Sure, but the incentive is there once you start dropping valuable goods. And drone technology is improving. I guess you'll have a 2-3 year secure-delivery-to-your-garden window. Build a drone that tracks other drones going out of the A
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by gonvaled 10y ago
What a nightmare: thousands of little drones flying around our heads, causing privacy issues, unwanted noise and danger, for what? To deliver non-critical stuff in a short time? Who needs the newest Kindle or those cool tennis socks in 30 m
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Secure? If a drone comes to drop it, a drone comes to pick it up.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12099576
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by gonvaled 10y ago
This applies to any ideology: if you have an X society, non X people can join and destroy X society. With the caveat that most Xs are not open, thus no contradiction by closing society X. So only libertarianism suffers from this contradicti
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by gonvaled 10y ago
We'll see: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/19/erdogans-purge-ma...
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by gonvaled 10y ago
It doesn't, but it can help. Anyway, in case of Hungary, they have already been warned by the EU a couple of times. Time will tell how this evolves, but weakening the project as UK has done will for sure reduce the incentives to return
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Sure it is, since my argument for weakening of international institutions is that the USA did not lead by example. My analysis of russisn motives was pretty much “they did what they did because the USA prooved that they were an expansionist
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by gonvaled 10y ago
The EU in particular waited until it was pretty clear that the coup was going to fail before siding with “turkish democracy“. The dramatic events taking place in Turkey were received with silence for over 4 hours from the EU. Clearly, they
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by gonvaled 10y ago
You keep using that word “threat“ “military threat“. It was not a military signal: it was an “I own the world“ signal. And Russia has made sure to send its very own signal too.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
At the end of the cold war, Russia was very weak economically, and its leaders were fairly internationalists. There was a window of oportunity to strengthen the UN, but the USA just wanted a an American empire. Foreign influence? Can you te
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by gonvaled 10y ago
This is a catastrophe! If muslims do not make it into the modern era, what are the alternatives? We can not build walls between blocks, so perpetual war is the only answer. Losing Turkey is even worse than losing the UK - and both are proba
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by gonvaled 10y ago
What part of “signal“ is unclear to you?
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Which strongly suggests that Turkey's days in NATO are numbered, specially now that NATO and EU betrayed Erdogan. Will Turkey get closer to Russia? I think so because bipolarity is on the rise, with NATO on one side, Russia+China on th
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Sorry, maybe I did not understand this bit: > Turkey is no different. The EU did absolutely nothing and had no influence on the strength of fundamentalism in Turkey. Turkey has nobody but itself to blame for that.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
I said: > What a blunder the west is playing: only 25 years after the URSS collapse, and instead of integrating Russia into the global institucions, the USA decided to proffit the strategic advantage to expand and provoke. We have manage
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Not an expert, but I would say Kurds, Iran, Israel, Egypt are all points were Turkey and USA do not align very well. By the way, even USA and EU do not allign perfectly in all issues. And even the EU has a lot of differing opinions, which d
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Look, signals matter. 36 years ago we had a military coup in my country (Spain). We overcame the situation, in part because the King (I am fiercely anti-monarquic, but whatever), opposed the coup. We were obviously the same country, but if
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by gonvaled 10y ago
What has the effectivity of the shield to do with anything? The shield was mainly a signal by the USA: “I can do whatever, whenever and wherever“, and Russia has been saying “not really“ for the last ten years.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
That's one example. There are other 27 (soon 26). Dont get we wrong: I dont think it's magic, just than then, and for Turkey, it would have worked. And more important: it would have been the right signal to send, to the whole wor
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by gonvaled 10y ago
But fundamentalism was a declining ideology. The EU gave it renewed strength.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
> after Russia had made it very clear that it was uninterested in participating in any international institutions that would restrict its autonomy in any way Exactly! The USA was leading by example (Kyoto, International Court of Justice,
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by gonvaled 10y ago
We could have had collaboration without submission, which is what Russia would have accepted, but the USA wanted to abuse its temporary strategic supremacy to force long term submission. And now we are here.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
I dont know. They were moderate, we said they dont belong to EU because they are muslim (lots of people said that), and they became fundamentalist. It is true that fundamentalism is on the rise worldwide (also in christian countries) but my
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Turkey has a lot of rubbing points with the west and that has not prevented it to be a NATO member for decades. You need to compromise and obviate issues, and this can happen between Turkey and Russia.
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by gonvaled 10y ago
Missile shield in Poland. I rest my case. Global collaboration and integration is surely better than conflict, and I dont see a third option, long term.

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