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by nimbius 5y ago
what the article really misses is why this is happening, and it boils down to 3 things: soft power, hard power, and ideal. The decline of soft power was a direct consequence of Washington moving from a pragmatic good-faith actor to a rhetor
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by nimbius 5y ago
not necessarily. a large enough (100 warehouse) union presence would have the same effect that coal unions had in great britain in the sixties. Just the threat of a strike would be enough to send your stock to the barbers chair for the wee
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by nimbius 5y ago
pretty offtopic but i gave up on waiting for Pi to be open for anything more than business. their shady history of pushing microsoft repos (and crypto keys) without my consent in their Raspbian OS was the last straw. for those who arent am
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by nimbius 5y ago
sadly my original nihilist prediction of 10%+ inflation by Q4 is starting to seem more meritous every month. the efforts to incept quantitative tightening as of April are...bad comedy. The federal reserves one quarter of one pecent increase
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by nimbius 5y ago
not sure where the proclivity to underestimate Russian military technology comes from. it certainly was a sterling hallmark of US leadership at the time of the cold war. Russia has been making in-house AESA for a decade. they started with
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Deutsche Bank predicts the US will tumble into recession in 2023(markets.businessinsider.com)
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by nimbius 5y ago
Americans adore the idea that just because it wasnt written down, it somehow holds no value to the parties involved. History remembers a broken promise differently... https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-prog
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Russian cosmonauts were not making a pro-Ukraine statement with their spacesuits(npr.org)
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by nimbius 5y ago
not to sound snarky, but what are you doing to address the 34 incident outages in the past 90 days? i feel like theres been no real update on this slow rolling disaster. we're not even a week into april and already a 5 hour outage in
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by nimbius 5y ago
you seem to be conflating Russian military with Soviet military as if they enjoyed a significant divergence, but in reality one is just a progression of the other. the SU35 for example can still stalk down an SR71, just as its soviet SU25
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by nimbius 5y ago
a muddled brand is better than the currently maligned harbinger of misery disinformation and insurrection that Facebook has been mired in. Recruiters at Meta probably appreciate the distance.
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by nimbius 5y ago
buying a seat at the court of public opinion would certainly allow one to press for rosier dispositions, albeit 9% is far from the standing of grand arbiter.
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Amazon workers on Staten Island vote for a union(npr.org)
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Real-time market monitoring finds signs of brewing U.S. housing bubble(dallasfed.org)
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by nimbius 5y ago
unsurprising as this trend is seeing popularity in south america as well as other countries the US deems of ill repute. Frankly im convinced this is the quiet death of Kissinger era soft power, the American monetary policy cudgel. The US c
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by nimbius 5y ago
my prediction is that, as more cloistered elite continue to abdicate themselves from the responsibility of paying taxes, the states desperation to backfill the shortfall will inevitably result in filing reforms including legitimate free fil
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by nimbius 5y ago
the articles author seems to conflate the context and purpose of either. Active shooter "training" is designed solely for self-preservation in an emergency situation and shouldnt be combined with first-aid as it by definition mea
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by nimbius 5y ago
im seeing a lot of "my router" and "my computer" threads so its probably worth it to say this isnt for your home network. Mikrotik is targeting larger customers with a product that handles offloading to the ASIC's
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by nimbius 5y ago
these watches are gorgeous, but so are "real" omega watches. unpopular opinion but crossing over these brands only makes sense if you think youre capable of targeting a lower income customer without risk of damaging your existing
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by nimbius 5y ago
oof. running IE11 exploits (feels illegal here...), elevating to vbscript, testing the boundaries of the JIT, checking for screenshotting, observing for brave browser and communicating with two shady blank page sites... not since the port
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Contraceptive pill for males is 99% effective in preventing pregnancy(news.sky.com)
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by nimbius 5y ago
so the takeaway here is that whilst the rest of the world enjoys the wrack and ruin of boomer excess, boomers enjoy...evermore excess? What am i supposed to take away from this other than smouldering rage? this is an advert at best.
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by nimbius 5y ago
https://www.githubstatus.com/ at the time of posting, webhooks and actions are still struggling :( there have now been 23 incident outages in 90 days. if anyone from Microsoft is reading this, you need to start considering
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by nimbius 5y ago
agreed. both of these companies --google and apple-- have leadership that see this as a hill to die on. Apple looks ready to go to the guillotine for the right to gouge startups, while Google seems more amicable to try obfuscation tactics
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by nimbius 5y ago
100% agreed. a lift-and-shift migration to Galera and modern MariaDB wouldnt be hard, but knowing MS there are mid managers waiting in the wings to swoop in and drive this into the ground with azure/sqlserver, the former of which post
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by nimbius 5y ago
I managed to get through the PDF and it certainly dances around the vietnam war. Stanfords shouldering the bulk of the wound-licking here as vietnam ended in futility in 1975, which is a little early for a comprehensive academic assessment
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by nimbius 5y ago
>The activity we have observed has been attributed to a threat group that Microsoft tracks as DEV-0537, also known as LAPSUS$ i guess nothing leaves redmond before getting hit with the marketing sugar stick. >Unlike most activity grou
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by nimbius 5y ago
https://www.githubstatus.com/history 21 incident outages in just 3 months. At this rate the benefits of running your own gitea or gitlab are starting to become competitive.
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Kaisa becomes latest China developer to delay earnings results(channelnewsasia.com)
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by nimbius 5y ago
>The Okta service has not been breached and remains fully operational. There are no corrective actions that need to be taken by our customers. despite an overwhelming preponderance of damning evidence from twitter (as well as the hacker

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