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by mamonster 9mo ago
2026 is gonna be the 6th action packed year in a row I guess.
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by mamonster 9mo ago
>First, it assumes the people of Belarus is willing to start a war with NATO I think there is a more than 50% chance that Belarus is reintegrated in some form into Russia within this century. It's very clear that there is no plan fo
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by mamonster 9mo ago
>helping the latter seize Iran's northern and Azeri/Gilaki-majority territories Wont't ever happen because Aliev is the OG of multipolarity/mnogovektornost and this would prevent him from scamming all of his neighbors
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by mamonster 9mo ago
For those getting excited about regime change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_protests Not to be insensitive to the Iranian people, but it's like France in a lot of ways, they riot/protest so much that th
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by mamonster 9mo ago
Just look at qualifying exams for some PhD program in the relevant area. For example, if we take abstract algebra (I assume you mean rings, groups and fields), I found this https://www.math.kent.edu/~white/qual/ I
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by mamonster 9mo ago
>Swiss law requires one bank (Postfinance) to offer banking irregardless but if you are sanctioned you can't use the wire system, no other currencies, no credit cards and you cant use Twint either so it's in effect useless. You
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by mamonster 9mo ago
>Squeeze Ukraine for rare earths Ukrainian rare earths are a massive meme. The only argument that is reasonable is that post-war Ukraine will have below 0 environmental protections and accept Congo-style mining. If it was not economical
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by mamonster 10mo ago
Slightly off-topic: Is Evans still the standard introduction to "modern" PDE techniques like weak solutions/Sobolev/etc or did something better come out? I remember that I found it not so well written whilst in undergrad
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by mamonster 10mo ago
>No it wouldn't, as long as the target is military and you didn't have opportunity to killed him in base it is fine. "Opportunity to kill in base" is completely vague and varies depending on the military tribunal that
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by mamonster 10mo ago
>When Ukraine assassinates a Russian general with a car bomb, is that "terrorism" or is that just a targeted killing of a military leader during a war? That depends on when the car detonates. If the car detonates when he and hi
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by mamonster 10mo ago
>I'm in a position where I don't have enough years of experience to comfortably choose where I work. I'm basically forced to join a company as a junior and "climb the ladder". I still don't know why I would
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by mamonster 10mo ago
>The only thing about this constant discussion about the metas and what not is that clearly everyone knows this, so who is this supposed to be for? LPs. Your LPs want to hear about how you are using their capital for A.I. If A.I fails 2
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by mamonster 10mo ago
>Multiple conditions are aligning for a broad re-alignment of medical care delivery in the US, resulting in the development of a two-tiered delivery model: high-quality, efficient, innovating cash-pay for those who can pay and low-qualit
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by mamonster 11mo ago
>Maybe parliamentary democracy has finally proven superior to presidential systems Because the parliamentary democracies like in Europe are doing so much better....
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by mamonster 11mo ago
>Also, if it’s being done to us, surely we’re doing it back? Until USAID got gutted, yes. Now not sure.
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by mamonster 11mo ago
>Whatever you say about this policy, it is the opposite of the high-tariff, free trade-skeptical ethos that one associates with Trump’s economic agenda. It is even, dare I say, almost globalist. >There’s a big question that I still ha
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by mamonster 11mo ago
>I think it's a very good lesson: Investment isn't easy, I think the opposite actually, for sovereign wealth funds its not that hard at all. Kuwait and Abu Dhabi are doing perfectly well, they just don't invest based on cr
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by mamonster 11mo ago
>And it’ll make your gums recline Would you happen to have a source? I mentioned this specifically, he said that he is only aware of gums reclining for very heavy users (5+ pouches a day) and that from the other patients he has 1-2 pouch
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by mamonster 11mo ago
Honestly, now that you have all-white snus, basically all of the issues of cigarettes are gone (and they are so fking expensive in Europe) and you get all of the benefits of nicotine. I don't need to go outside the office, just sit at
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by mamonster 11mo ago
This is no longer true. The latest version of Kinzhal has maneuverability during the last section (and makes them much harder for Patriots to shoot down). This was done in 2025 and was(apparently) achieved via software modifications only.
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by mamonster 11mo ago
They should figure out how to put a part of the 371B under military budgets, given that rail is the only serious way of war logistics at the moment.
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by mamonster 11mo ago
>I'm merely pointing out the hypocrisy of attributing crime to immigration while in reality immigration props up vast sectors of our economy (construction, delivery, and healthcare being the main ones). Where is the hypocrisy? Both
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by mamonster 11mo ago
The article is okay, but it kind of buries the lede: The real reason they (Montyan, Alyokhin, Markov) all were targeted was because they all went after Solovyov, the Rush Limbaugh/Glenn Beck of Putinism. Run this article through Google
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by mamonster 11mo ago
I'm still yet to hear a coherent explanation of what "winning" this particular race means as opposed to coming in 2nd place ? Like is the thinking that winning = AGI and in the timespan that China has AGI and US doesn't
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by mamonster 11mo ago
>On April 21 2021, in a letter also signed by a group of retired officers, a former officer in France’s Ground Force, Jean-Pierre Fabre-Bernadac, made a stark warning. Published in the magazine Valuers Actuelles it denounced the growin
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by mamonster 11mo ago
Eisman, Burry and Paulson all got their brain broken by that. With Burry I think the redeeming part is that he is mostly, AFAIK, running his own capital since that time so there's no point criticizing him for his weird picks. Paulson s
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by mamonster 11mo ago
Main reason why MAGA will fail even harder is that you now see that there is basically nothing holding this movement together apart from Trump. Next step in MAGA is the open inheritance war between the original 2016 spirit and the 2024 dono
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by mamonster 11mo ago
Fair enough. Once you get into actual hours worked, you have a lot of people working less than FTE numbers by quite a bit. For example, once the maternity leave runs out, in finance a lot of couples go to 80% so that with 1-2 days of home o
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by mamonster 11mo ago
>Switzerland is ~35 hours/week What? Switzerland is 40-42 hours for a full time employee.
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by mamonster 11mo ago
You also need to understand 3300 EUR net in France is good money. Its probably something close to 80th percentile in terms of salaries in France.

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