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by krona 9mo ago
The last US president to seriously question their country's foreign policy got their head blown off. It goes without saying that Trump is not a serious person.
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by krona 9mo ago
Sure it might be unacceptable but realpolitik and realism has little to do with anyones moral or ethical principles.
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by krona 9mo ago
The Monroe Doctrine is over 200 years old and simple enough for your average dictator to understand. Don't expect the US to turn a blind eye to investments in key strategic assets of your country by its strategic rivals. I don't t
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by krona 9mo ago
Many might not like it, but given US interests and Chinese ambitions, the Monroe doctrine is one of the few parts of American foreign policy that makes sense (in a realpolitik way) in the current geopolitical landscape. The state sponsored
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BMW Recalls 36,922 X3s over Steering Software Glitch(bmwblog.com)
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by krona 9mo ago
Page 5 of the National Security Strategy: We want to ensure that the Western Hemisphere remains reasonably stable and well-governed enough to prevent and discourage mass migration to the United States; we want a Hemisphere whose government
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by krona 10mo ago
Can't wait to see the first Nobel prize in physics being awarded to a scientist who is actually a product of Chinese academy. Any moment now.
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by krona 10mo ago
Having being working as a direct competitor to Palantir on and off for the past decade, I'd guess one of their embedded engineers wrote a few custom SQL queries.
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by krona 11mo ago
I first encountered it at a Hotel du Vin (UK) about 10 years ago.
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by krona 11mo ago
It's hard to see how China can sustain itself economically when the population is predicted to half by the end of the century and 30% the population will be >65 years old by 2050. Hard choices lie ahead.
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by krona 11mo ago
> With this said, it is important to note that the ‘very dissimilar education’ group consisted of only 10 TRA pairs. This small N is not a shortcoming of this analysis, per se. Rather, this is a shortcoming of the TRA field; these 10 pai
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by krona 11mo ago
> Of the 87 pairs, 52 experienced a similar type and duration of schooling within a similar location. In fact, 25 of these pairs attended the same school for some period of time. Analysis revealed that ‘Educationally Similar’ TRA pairs h
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by krona 11mo ago
Nobody I know of who voted for Brexit did it because they thought it would make the country (or themselves) any richer or poorer.
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by krona 11mo ago
Not least because hitting a person at 50mph on a country lane will cause serious amounts of damage to your car and ruin your day!
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by krona 11mo ago
I agree that many LED headlights are too bright (or, more commonly, poorly calibrated) however one thing which can significantly reduce glare is to clean your windshield properly at least once a year. Few people do this. When I say properly
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by krona 11mo ago
> Rust has become a viable alternative to C++ Alternative yes, derivative no. Rust doesn't approach C++'s metaprogramming features, and it probably shouldn't given how it seems to be used. It's slightly self-serving f
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by krona 11mo ago
That £59.90 figure is 2012 prices. In 2024 money offshore was £102 offshore, onshore £89. AR7 estimates are >10% higher. Those prices were not high enough for Hornsea 4, who cancelled the contract (with a big write down for the entire pr
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by krona 11mo ago
The outcome of Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 6 suggests wind isn't cheap compared to wholesale electricity prices in the UK, which are already one of the highest in the world. The maths is quite simple. And that doesn
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by krona 11mo ago
clang-tidy has a check for this. https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/bugprone/use-... MSVC and the Clang static analyzer have a analysis checks for this too. Not sure about GCC. It's wort
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by krona 11mo ago
Capital misallocation do be like that, but I don't think that capital would be feeding children in the Congo if it wasn't for Facebook's latest folly.
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by krona 1y ago
> Except long term effects from COVID are not fully understood yet, especially in children. Most European countries don't offer vaccines for under 18's unless there's a very specific reason. Some don't offer the vacci
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by krona 1y ago
I can't help but notice your comment doesn't actually say anything of substance, either.
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by krona 1y ago
> SAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic-aperture_radar ?
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by krona 1y ago
The capacity factor of onshore wind in UK (~27%) is far worse than offshore (~40%). So we'd need even more reliable generation if we wanted to cover the hills in windmills and actually depend on them to do anything useful. Let's n
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by krona 1y ago
As someone who lives near two of the largest USAF bases in Europe, I'm glad the Americans can import vehicles too wide for the average street because it allows the locals to identify them at a distance and somewhat anticipate their non
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by krona 1y ago
Poor style gives a sense of character and authenticity.
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by krona 1y ago
> Apples EU revenue is larger than China and Japan combined. I think you've confused 'Europe' in Apple's reporting (which actually includes all of the middle east) for the EU (which notably excludes the UK, Norway, Ru
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by krona 1y ago
The UK doesn't have enough lawyers or legal infrastructure in general to handle that kind of case load!
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by krona 1y ago
Well sewage has to be dumped (especially in storm conditions), and the water companies have licences to do so. However Thames was found to be in breach of the license, so were fined. Many people claim these things happen because "share
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by krona 1y ago
> they also made the news for dumping particularly large volumes of sewage into rivers Yes and they have been fined for doing so, thus proving my point. These companies have statutory obligations . See the Water Industry Act 1991 and su

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