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by myrmidon 2y ago
I would argue that our sensor package is losing its lead very quickly-- audio performance is already on par with current tech and image processing is closing the gap very quickly as well (it helps a lot that silicon-based technology is much
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Pure fruit juice is insanely unhealthy. This is because it circumvents the normal mechanisms that regulate fruit intake, while containing even more sugar. If you press orange juice yourself, and see the mountain of fruits that are needed
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> You cannot conclude that USA has excellent educational system if it delivers the great outcomes for certain advantaged subgroups. This is not what he did. He just explained to you that the outcomes for all those subgroups are basic
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Those peace terms included Russia getting to annex Crimea, stationing troops in Donbas (eastern Ukraine), Ukraine retreating all of their troops, Ukraine being neutral (permanently non-allied). In return, Ukraine would have gotten some guar
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> The new puppet government was ethnic cleansing the local Russian populatin Yes, this is what Russian state media insinuated. If Russias utmost effort was to protect the minorities in Ukraines east, spearheading a peace-keeping effort w
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by myrmidon 2y ago
I'm not "bad faith trolling". Unlike a troll, I actually stand behind my points instead of taking up some arbitrary contrarian position which I then shift around whenever parts of it become untenable to defend. Also note that
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Yeah sure, but those had absolutely nothing to do with the Ukraine. And honestly, Russians have their current and past governments much more to blame for this, considering all the shit they did in Chechnya (starting with mass deportations i
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by myrmidon 2y ago
What was the justification for annexing Crimea in 2014 then? Your timeline seems a bit biased to me, because having a big part of your nation annexed by a neighboring army seems like a reasonable cause for shoring up your land defenses to m
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> You cannot be serious. The EU has put up tariffs on EVs because the EU car industry who had 10 years to get ready decided that it was better to keep building diesel engines than invest in EVs. Voters in Europe are not screaming for che
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> Try testing for internationally recognized borders and the situation is same for the Israeli invasion and Russian invasion. I do not understand your point. Ukraine has borders that were recognized by Russia itself (Budapest Memorandum)
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> let have Russia no other choice to intervene. Could you expand on this? Why did Russia have no choice apart from trying to annex Ukraine?`Because to me it appears like they have all the choice, still, they just don't want to stop
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by myrmidon 2y ago
I'll bite. > For example, can you tell me if EU is about saving the environment and stopping climate change? If so why they are blocking the Chinese electric cars? Can't stand others making the world better place better than th
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by myrmidon 2y ago
I don't see how it could. "Build expensive nuclear plants because aggressors are less likely to target them while they try to annex you" is not a very convincing value proposition.
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Because advocating for more nuclear power would not really help their goals now. 1) Every GW of installed renewable power makes nuclear plants less useful (and renewables will continue to be built because they're too cheap to stop).
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> Italy/Spain is so corrupt/incompetent to run nuclear power plants? Yes absolutely. Japan has a much more respectable culture regarding safety/diligence, and basically every italian citizen will agree on that. If Japa
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by myrmidon 2y ago
The article you quoted also states an estimate of ~1600 deaths from the evacutation alone, and widespread rise of depression, anxiety and stress disorders among the affected population (also suicides). Also note that death per GWh on hydroe
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Regarding B: This tracks with what I've observed in this regard, namely that sponsoring by companies just doesn't work well as business model even for projects where you would assume that it should. The incentives are just not wor
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Do you think that "low approval" and "scandals involving his wife" are completely irrelevant here? Should those be omitted from an article like this because he is on the conservative side of the spectrum?
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Strongly disagree with that take. Genetics can only have a minor influence on number of offspring, because the genetic makeup of basically every industrialized nation did not change completely within 20 years. If there was no other fact
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by myrmidon 2y ago
You raise a completely valid point that "fascism" is used in exactly the same way by the left political spectrum. But this does not make the use of woke as a generic accusation any better. > I simply do not believe anymore that
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> Because they only done this since its socially and commercially profitable? You still did not tell me what those trojan horse writers are doing except that it is outside of the definition of "ESG score" that I provided. Wh
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Alright, so the search engine told me that "ESG" is a set of criteria to rate sustainability of corporations/investments, where E stands for environment (ressource efficiency/non-pollution, ...), S for social (worker saf
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Are western comics "trojan horses for activism and ESG scores"? What do you mean by this (activism and ESG)? Who is "they"?
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by myrmidon 2y ago
As an embedded software developer: 100% yes. Having a cheap OTA option will always lead to more sloppiness in development; the problem is that this makes it possible and easy to delay "features" in general when software projects
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by myrmidon 2y ago
I believe you are mostly arguing against a strawman (or highly editorialized, i.e. misleading headlines). It would be beyond naive to assume that Russia would just announce "we're out of tanks, gonna call of the war now!". Th
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by myrmidon 2y ago
This missile type is basically designed specifically to hit European cities with nuclear payloads as efficiently as possible (relatively small missile, with just enough range to cover Europe and a MIRV design makes absolutely no sense for n
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by myrmidon 2y ago
The weapon test aspect is a very interesting thought. My view so far was that ballistic missile defense in general is a complete gamble and basically impossible to get satisfactory coverage for a reasonable price. I wonder if that view has
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First ICBM Launch in Combat?
18 points by myrmidon 2y ago|46 comments
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> And then I just don't really understand your general point which seems to be that because you believe Russia could not successfully defeat Europe/Poland that they are not more threatening than they were 10 years ago? No. What
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Thanks for the link! Was really suprised to see EU being favored as brokers over the US. Makes me kinda curious if there is still significant blame/resentment regarding the Budapest Memorandum (against the US specifically)...

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