ocschwar

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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   That's all well and good. But is the maintenance tab for the roads, water, sewer, power, and telecom that you need actually paid for? Probably not. But you won't know until it falls apart.
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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   I seriously doubt the willingness of upper class suburbanites to put up with gasoline and rubber rationing in the event of a war. Home front mobilization in the US has become anathema.
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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   Cloning means runtime inefficiency, but the cost is so pathetically small compared to the amount of code we run in Python and Java with their larger footprints. Yes. Clone more.
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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   The title implied that it's not for amateurs, and now that I have some data about Rust and teenagers, I can say it very much IS for teenagers. After one afternoon wrestling with GDB and C code, they're ready to put up wrestling wi
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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   Also, Rust introduced the idea of these things in a systems language.
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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   Homefront mobilization is pretty much the same for disasters, wars, or a pandemic. If you can't do well with one, you probably can't do well with any other.
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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   I'm going to plug this Iraqi-founded and run organization: <a href=" https://www.ideasbeyondborders.org">Ideas Beyond Borders.</a> They're paying Iraqis to translate things to Arabic and expan
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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   I spent most of the 80's somewhat close to the front of a war (Israel) as a child, but I was in the US for the events of 1989, and one of the things I saw was how in the US, people learned all the wrong lessons from those events. In Eu
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   by ocschwar 6y ago

   There are several. But I can't type in Arabic to save my life, so it will be some time before I can find it.
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    I'm brushing up my Arabic so I can understand the interview with that excavator's operator.
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    Negative electricity prices are not inherently a problem. They can mean a nuclear plant paying a wind farm to curtail production so that it can ramp its own production slowly, but there is nothing inherently bad about that. And they are a h
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    Heh. My office in Boston is right by where Asian package tour companies stop their buses and send their customers out with docents in their language. And yes, they never stop for food even after walking 5 miles through the city, which is fo
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    In American usage, travel just means changing your longitude and attitude. It can be just for work, or just to perform an errand for the family.
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    It is true that in the Ottoman and Czarist mercantile cities, ethnic riots did involve Jews and Greeks, sometimes against each other. I should have specifically said Jewish and Greek armies.
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    The war was such an embarrassment most Americans don't know much about it either. For a real laugh read about the Siege of Detroit.
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    It is awesome. Any project that improves daily life for any part of the Middle East is a way to show the haters that the world isn't waiting for them to come around.
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    So's the arrival of Jewish refugees from Arab countries, which is still ongoing.
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    Israel could do Greece a favor send some IDF forces to play as the Turks and war game a land invasion on the Thracian border. It would be a useful exercise for Greece because Israel's infantry capabilities map closer to Turkey's t
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    Lebanon issued the declaration of war. They can withdraw it at any time. A declaration of war is an invitation to be invaded.
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    the Maccabean Revolt.
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    Apples and oranges. It's been 2200 years since Jews and Greeks last fought, and both sides aim to keep it that way. Israel has 0 island-hopping capabilities compared to Greece's ability to patrol its Aegean waters.
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    Lebanon's diversity is the problem. It only takes a veto from ONE faction.
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    That's not actually what happened here. ERCOT was letting bids come in at crazy prices because at that point the only thing they were paying attention to was whether the Texas grid would collapse entirely. Volts and watts mattered. Dol
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    Thankfully, you cannot participate in a real time electricity market if you don't have millions of dollars of copper, steel and aluminum installed to generate or use it.
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    > I have a pretty dark outlook when it comes to global warming, but when you're a griddy customer and you're watching your meter constantly, it just made sense. Yes. However... During the deep freeze, the consumer utilities wer
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    Ever heard off radio? It was kind of a big deal back then.
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    "mostly Western mostly white settlers" There you go. Rationalizing an intent to subject people to ethnic based displacement. (People who at this point are of mixed descent of every Jewish community, including those displaced INTO
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    Yes. And persecuted specifically at the behest of the founder of Palestinian nationalism, Hajj Amin Al Huseini.
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    You can drop the term "colony", or "colonizer" et cetera. At this point the term means nothing more than "person who deserves to be displaced owing to his ethnicity and present location."
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    by ocschwar 6y ago

    The previous allegation against her was something that would make her the hero even if she was guilty. It was a charge of "making good trouble", albeit one that would put her away for a long time under the CFAA.