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901.
by mopsi 4y ago
> Ukrainians are dying in a war that any educated person knows they are likely to lose. Today is the 25th February 2023, not 2022.
902.
by mopsi 4y ago
I disagree with that, and the linked article says no such thing.
903.
by mopsi 4y ago
> Evidently, you weren't even aware of the fact that there are multiple parties in the country. That's quite telling. People are often surprised that East Germany had multiple parties too; surprised for the same reason.
904.
by mopsi 4y ago
> It's extremely frustrating when people CHOOSE to not understand something. Indeed. From context it's obvious that site generators were banned, so that participants would have to actually code a solution and not just install
905.
by mopsi 4y ago
> So the bombing of Donbas, Alley of angels, countless reports of Ukraine violating Minsk agreements, Ukrainian and European officials admitting Minsk agreements were a lie, cutting of civilian infrastructure, tortures, kidnappings, peo
906.
by mopsi 4y ago
He is employed by the Russian military administration to project an image as if the occupied territories were independent separatist areas. ECHR found that untrue. LNR and DNR remain under direct Russian control.
907.
by mopsi 4y ago
The link you posted demonstrates how ridiculous that point is. By the time Russian operatives disguised as DNR and LNR leaders asked for "help", Russia had been amassing army on Ukraine's borders for months, not to mention th
908.
by mopsi 4y ago
> All of that, save the artillery strikes, is also true of the US in western Ukraine: presence of military personnel; significant influence on military strategy; provided weapons, political, and economic support. The US has no comparab
909.
by mopsi 4y ago
There was no civil war before Russia manufactured it to take advantage of political instability and invade. There is no reason to speak of "pro-Russian separatists" as anything distinct from Russian armed forces. It's bafflin
910.
by mopsi 4y ago
> It's denying reality to believe that EU devs are even with US devs financially. I have no horse in this race, I just care about the truth. I think you are missing the bigger picture here with purely financial comparisons. I earn
911.
by mopsi 4y ago
I find this the most likely scenario too. Blowing up the pipeline cemented that Europe wasn't going to get Russian gas for the winter. It left less maneuvering room to any interest groups that could've used it as a bargaining chip
912.
by mopsi 4y ago
And risk getting cut off from further military and economic support from allies? Highly unlikely.
913.
by mopsi 4y ago
> You find it plausible that a global power outside of NATO would commit an act of international terrorism like this, blowing up the critical industrial infrastructure of a NATO member and everyone would just let it slide? Plausible? I
914.
by mopsi 4y ago
It was damaged beyond repair, certainly beyond a quick repair. If the plan with gas extortion was to break the will of Europe over this winter, then no alternative to Putin could offer any relief after it was blown up, decreasing the value
915.
by mopsi 4y ago
> It's not clear to me who else even has a motive to do this. Putin. Blow up the pipeline so no-one can offer cheap gas in exchange for being recognized as the next legitimate leader of Russia behind his back. It's one of the
916.
by mopsi 4y ago
The whole small piston-engine plane industry collapsed in 1980s because of excessive liability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Aviation_Revitalizatio... If I recall correctly, Cessna was found infinitely liable
917.
by mopsi 4y ago
> Seeing people draw this parallel was surprising to me, as I associate colonialism with the European conquerors of the world: Portugal, Spain, France, Great Britain, The Netherlands and Germany. Indigenous peoples living in Russia lik
918.
by mopsi 4y ago
> Regardless of whether you think the Russians were hopelessly naive or full of shit, it is a promise broken. Nope. It's a PR meme created for 2007 Munich Security Conference where Putin made his famous speech and needes justifica
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by mopsi 4y ago
> Russian mothers love their sons just as much as American ones. It doesn't matter at all what they think, average citizen has absolutely no influence on how the government is run in Russia. Russia is a colonial power: security ap
920.
by mopsi 4y ago
People often say that the internet would die without intrusive ad tracking. HN is a pretty good example of the opposite, and there are many others. An electronics store I frequent hosts old-school electronics forum, a nearby youth hobby cen
921.
by mopsi 4y ago
> This is measurably untrue; modern computers have trouble with the Windows XP era of games a lot of the time. Many games require tinkering and some will just crash after a minute. This is mostly the fault of games and not Windows. Sof
922.
by mopsi 4y ago
My ancestors in Eastern Europe were usually attached to the land and belonged to the landowner. They had no rights: they owned no property, they could not move, and their owner could treat them any way he liked, including unrestricted viole
923.
by mopsi 4y ago
Nobody uses decimals in these situations, and "it was almost 30 today" isn't that much different. Short and gets the point across.
924.
by mopsi 4y ago
Microsoft Flight Simulator[1] is a really interesting example, because running code from third parties has been the norm for decades. Custom code for things like airplane instruments was distributed in DLL modules that had full Windows API
925.
by mopsi 4y ago
I would assume it. If attacker can send my game arbitrary commands for execution without client side filtering out things like moving my character around (unless context allows it, eg waiting for a mission to start), there are good odds t
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by mopsi 4y ago
From the escalation they threatened with - yes, absolutely. Medvedev threatened with nuclear war if targets in Crimea would be hit. HQ of Black Sea Fleet got hit, along with spectacular raids on airfields, but only response were pathetic re
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by mopsi 4y ago
> then an escalation will inevitably be met with an even larger counter-escalation. What was the reaction to Patriot? Russians just brushed it off as obsolete and decades behind their own tech, an obvious lie, just like they have backt
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by mopsi 4y ago
> Yes — I believe that a substantial reason for this is what happened in Donbas. Russians are angry at Putin for being weak and allowing this violence against ethnic Russians. There was no violence to speak of. In all of 2021, only 25
929.
by mopsi 4y ago
> Are they cheap? Can you buy them for next day delivery? Yes. They are consumables comparable to bulbs and light fixtures at home, just good LEDs on a PCB in a metal/plastic case. It's sheer insanity to pretent that aerodrom
930.
by mopsi 4y ago
You make it sound much more difficult problem than it actually is. Embedded lights are nothing new, every small to medium airport has hundreds of them, larger airports thousands - marking runway and taxiway centerlines. Technical characteri

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