jakubadamw

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by jakubadamw 3y ago
> And on top of that, we can do some basic algebra. If we know that x < N and N < 5, then we can infer that x < 5. So if we see a comparison x < 5, we can then rewrite that to true. Even better: if `x` and `N` are integers, t
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by jakubadamw 3y ago
The point of the comparison was to compare the stock growth during the tenures of the two CEOs in question. Steve Ballmer ceased to be CEO in 2014.
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by jakubadamw 3y ago
The UK was never part of Schengen, but it was part of the single market. So while passport/ID controls have always been performed on the UK border crossings with other EU countries, customs controls had not – until Brexit.
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by jakubadamw 3y ago
What? Which cities? In mine, Kraków, the above just isn't true. In my neighbourhood, there even isn't a chain-affiliated café that I could go to – if I wanted to in the first place – but there are five or six independent cafés in
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by jakubadamw 3y ago
There were also deep fake videos of the Ukrainian president going around meant to demoralise the Ukrainian society and the Ukrainian army, specifically.
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by jakubadamw 3y ago
Today, Rust compilation is parallel in the front-end at the crate level, not file or even module level. Large crates will therefore not benefit from parallelism, and splitting a large crate into smaller ones comes with its own costs too. Th
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by jakubadamw 3y ago
War as an impersonal phenomenon doesn't bring anything inherently, saying so simply blurs individual responsibility. It's up to the belligerents, up to the individual commanders, units and members of armed forces to decide what an
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by jakubadamw 4y ago
Not an expert either, but this: > Any losses to the Deposit Insurance Fund to support uninsured depositors will be recovered by a special assessment on banks, as required by law. suggests other banks will effectively pick up the bill?
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by jakubadamw 4y ago
I understand your snark is simply meant to signal your sympathy towards war crime negationism, but the Gulf War incubator reference does happen to be on topic and not in the way you may have intended. https://edition.cnn.com&#x2F
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by jakubadamw 4y ago
By all means, do read Dostoyevsky. A Writer's Diary, for example. If you want to see where today's russian chauvinism and genocidal war crimes flourished in ideas, that's a place to look.
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by jakubadamw 4y ago
They didn't vote to be annexed. Ticking a checkbox on a ballot with armed soldiers behind your back is not voting. Any referendum carried out by an occupying force and followed by an annexation is against international law, specificall
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by jakubadamw 4y ago
Cute. I take it you're not aware of the elephant in the room which is the corruption of the German political (and, even more so, business) elites by the Russian energy lobby. At the regional level we're talking about people like S
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by jakubadamw 5y ago
You're right, TASS is a Russian state press agency transmitting official propaganda but what this is an example of is Russians admitting their own loss. It rarely happens in this war, which makes this all the more interesting.
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by jakubadamw 5y ago
> These things have long been super typical of growing middle-income countries on their way to First-World country status Except these things aren't even true, at least not in Poland. Corruption in the classical sense hasn't be
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by jakubadamw 5y ago
Look, I'm Polish, I'm critical of the current Polish government for a variety of reasons (including its stance on European Union), but your description of what Poland is today is just outrageous. > wealth amass in a tiny sliver