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by maratc 5y ago
On Feb 21st 2014, the EU foreign ministers and Yanukovich signed on a deal where there would be speedy elections — that would most certainly remove Yanukovich from power, somewhere in spring. But on Feb 22nd, the protesters refuse that de
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by maratc 5y ago
> everything is organized by USA and that people of other nations do not have any autonomy This is not an either-or proposition: the truth could well be that there were (lots of) people who wanted a regime change AND the US State Departm
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by maratc 5y ago
> Because a popular revolution shouldn't be labelled a "US-backed coup" What do you suggest we label a situation where the US government officials get in touch with people opposing the regime in a foreign country, in prote
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by maratc 5y ago
> Nobody in the west organized Euromaidan and it was not a coup. You can listen to the "nobody" organizing the "not a coup" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV9J6sxCs5k
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by maratc 5y ago
for now
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by maratc 5y ago
> then Russia can keep their gas I guess the answer to that would be "and Germany can keep their cash and maybe have to burn it to heat homes or generate electricity"? The war we're seeing (the economic war) is a point of
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by maratc 5y ago
NATO has nothing to do with buying or selling gas.
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> It also has contracts with Gazprom in Russia with guaranteed Prices and Deliveries. Is anyone under an illusion that Gazprom in Russia will honor these contracts, now that their branch was seized? And if not, what methods are there to
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by maratc 5y ago
My point is, a home server is not a main computer. I have several Pi's but never used one as my main computer.
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by maratc 5y ago
While I can see the utility of a $35 computer and even a $70 computer-in-a-keyboard-box, this leaves me a bit baffled. A Pi is bought for tinkering. A notebook is meant to be your "main" computer. Reminds me of the netbook phenome
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by maratc 5y ago
I agree it's not 100% the same thing but it's much closer than playing a plastic guitar. Being an excellent GH drummer might make you (a mediocre) drummer IRL. Being an excellent GH guitar player won't make you even a beginn
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by maratc 5y ago
> Its just an entirely different skillset. With a plastic guitar, you're right. But plastic drumset skills are transferrable to a real instrument.
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But wasn't it "best researched" because of the potential for military use, and all the military R&D money?
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by maratc 5y ago
Chernobyl is as close as it can get to the worst case. The estimation of amount of victims depends on who you ask. There's no dispute about ~30 people who died of radiation. There is a huge dispute about others, with figures going all
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by maratc 5y ago
Can other elements, except uranium, be used for power generation? I thought uranium is used in reactors because it also produces A-bomb material as a by-product.
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by maratc 5y ago
That's exactly the opposite. Imagine you need 100 Rubles to pay for 1cf of gas. But you don't have rubles, you need to buy them. Would you rather spend $1 (given a rate of 1:100) or $100 (given a rate of 1:1) to pay for that 1cf o
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by maratc 5y ago
Thanks Einstein for E=mc^2!
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by maratc 5y ago
It's not a choice of who's better; it's a choice of who's not worse. Given a choice of Apple vs. anything, I can't see myself choosing anything over Apple.
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by maratc 5y ago
You keep moving the goals. Did you decide their opinions are “similar to that of the Russian state tv channels”? When tagging some channels, but not others, together as "propagandists"/"people with similar views"&
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Imagine it was negotiated at dollars but now Russia demands rubles at a rate of 1:1.
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by maratc 5y ago
We don’t know who will sell rubles. It’s plausible that Russia can force would-be buyers to buy them at a special place and at a special (unfavorable) rate.
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by maratc 5y ago
"Propagandists" were defined as such by you , right?
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by maratc 5y ago
You're just moving the goals. What is defined as "propagandist"? What is defined as "pro-Kremlin"?
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Who defined "All pro-Kremlin Channels" and how are they defined?
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by maratc 5y ago
> I don’t understand why they would though If I were a NATO commander, I'd love to make sure the troops know how to do their basic shit even without GPS. It is entirely plausible that (in a major conflict) the GPS would be either ja
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by maratc 5y ago
> the software to simulate realistic GPS satellite radio signals is generally widely available. This is interesting. Someone knows if I can spoof GPS signals using my Raspberry Pi -- plus maybe some SDR hat or add-on?
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by maratc 5y ago
> Mearsheimer is an idiot and nobody takes him seriously in Eastern Europe Maybe they should have listened to that idiot when he suggested in 1993 that Ukraine retains some of its nuclear weapons to deter Russia from attacking it in the
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by maratc 5y ago
I don't suggest any conspiracy; I am just debating your claim on "reducing threat of COVID in UA Armed Forces" in 2017.
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by maratc 5y ago
The document linked above is from 2017. Was there a COVID-17 I never heard of?
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by maratc 5y ago
Genuine question: Why would the US Department of Defence fund "medical research to fight against diseases"?

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