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by mcguire 5y ago
That's the point of sanctions and shipping weapons to Ukraine.
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Bret Devereaux (Acoup.blog)(twitter.com)
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by mcguire 5y ago
There's nothing really complex about BGP. The management system Facebook uses, as I said, bites back occasionally. AWS does a lot of fancy things, but from the actual networking perspective it's not any different than plugging i
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by mcguire 5y ago
Ukraine does not have nuclear weapons. They inherited some when the USSR fell apart, but they returned them to Russia to be dismantled in return for guarantees from the west and Russia. The Chinese did not have nuclear weapons when the US f
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by mcguire 5y ago
The "congress", or rather the military and civilian executives (Congress hasn't really weighed in yet) don't want to be in a position of having two large nuclear forces in direct conflict. For very good reasons.
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by mcguire 5y ago
The internet itself is really, stupidly simple. There is a fair amount of complexity in managing it, and that bites back fairly frequently, but the vast majority of the complexity and crazy stuff is above the level of basic connectivity.
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by mcguire 5y ago
Sean Carroll's Royal Institution lecture discussing the many worlds interpretation and using a similar app: https://youtu.be/5hVmeOCJjOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv5FYrOthvE
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by mcguire 5y ago
Keep in mind that there is an intelligent cut-out in the system: the judiciary. They exist because the law is not a computer program and because loopholes are not like security flaws. In this case, the DoJ (officially) noticed the situati
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by mcguire 5y ago
De-nazify a country with a Jewish president? (His grandfather's father and brothers were killed in the Holocaust.
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by mcguire 5y ago
Amazingly, from the stuff I've seen, Ukrainian air defense is still a thing! It's not anywhere near gaining superiority, but it's not suppressed either.
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by mcguire 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220222212015/http://en.kremlin...
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by mcguire 5y ago
When your enemy tells you what he is going to do, it is best, to a first order approximation, to believe him.
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by mcguire 5y ago
I don't know the details, but it also apparently leveled Grozny.
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by mcguire 5y ago
You might poke around https://armypubs.army.mil/ This kind of thing is scattered all over the place, but it's generally publicly available. How about https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR
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by mcguire 5y ago
On the other hand, it will damage the Russian economy, which will in turn damage the Russian ability to field military forces.
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by mcguire 5y ago
And the alternatives to sanctions are?
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by mcguire 5y ago
I would submit that most of the commenters in this forum have more to do with the ruling class than with the working class. (The median personal income in the US is about $36,000/year. ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/serie
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by mcguire 5y ago
Well, a) they are literally the only ones who can do anything about Putin's regime, and b) they are paying taxes, no? Those taxes pay for the Russian military. Destroying a country's economy is just about the only way to stop a mo
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by mcguire 5y ago
Oh, and for the love of pete, 0. Do not panic.
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by mcguire 5y ago
He's quite critical of the Soviet Union. " Lenin criticised this plan and suggested making concessions to the nationalists, whom he called “independents” at that time. Lenin’s ideas of what amounted in essence to a confederative s
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by mcguire 5y ago
" Canada temporarily suspends operations in Kyiv. Due to the rapidly deteriorating security situation, the Canadian Embassy in Ukraine has temporarily suspended its operations in Kyiv and moved to an office in Lviv. Canadians in need o
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by mcguire 5y ago
Does kind of depend on who is the president of the US.
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by mcguire 5y ago
That having nuclear weapons is literally the only way to prevent a neighbor from annexing your country.
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by mcguire 5y ago
" In recent history look no further than when the US ordered a naval blockade on Cuba after Cuba's request for Russian missiles to be placed on the island to defend in the event of another US invasion attempt. Putin is literally t
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by mcguire 5y ago
Ah, yes. It's a pity the Ukrainians did not pick the right side back in 2014 before they ousted Yanukovych.
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by mcguire 5y ago
Additionally, Russia has a significant nuclear arsenal. The word on the tweets is that NATO going head-to-head with Russia would mean two significant nuclear powers fighting directly, making a significant risk of escalation. (NATO contestin
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by mcguire 5y ago
Why are you still there? 1. Keep your passport on you at all times. It's your best protection against official soldiers (from every side), although it may not help against unofficial militias. Stay away from them. 2. Make sure your emb
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by mcguire 5y ago
My understanding at this point is that Russia has destroyed Ukraine's air defenses and has complete air superiority. Western forces could contest that, but won't because that could cause unintended escalation.
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by mcguire 5y ago
Europe. The funny-shaped land between the Urals and the Atlantic. Here's a map of the Allied offensives in the last two years of the war. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Second_w.
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by mcguire 5y ago
The altimeter does not want to know the average distance to the ground over a several square mile region. It wants to know the distance to the ground directly under the aircraft.

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