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by orwin 7mo ago
The timing is the dumbest. Either you attacked during the protest+insurection to try to divide Iran, or you waited for Komenei to die of his cancer and the election of another priest as the supreme leader. The guardians of the revolution pa
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by orwin 7mo ago
It's not only that. Oil prices also greatly increase the price of logistics, mining, metallurgy and fertilisers.
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by orwin 7mo ago
They get Chinese currency and trade it to Afghanistan/Pakistan/Turkmenistan (and probably India and China) to buy food and weapons.
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by orwin 7mo ago
I honestly like the system as long as its reach is limited and it's stay this way (i.e EU regulations set goals, and states do what they want to reach it). The money lobbyists throw is huge, for very, very little progress.
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by orwin 7mo ago
Exactly! When I have to speak with actual English people, I do try my best to imitate a Americanised, TV show accent. When I speak to non-native speaker, I don't try and let my french go through. It's easier for everyone.
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by orwin 7mo ago
The website is worse than anything I've made, and I'm a backend/network/system guy.
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by orwin 7mo ago
War can't be won by everyone, but it can absolutely be lost by all concerned parties, even those who didn't participate.
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by orwin 7mo ago
For anyone saying that's dumb: it's not even true. Iran real issue with the USA started with the iran-iraq war, where Iraq had the support of the US, and used US-made chemical weapons against civilians.
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by orwin 7mo ago
The information on the number of confirmed deaths in Iran is so easy to find, I am a bit miffed that he wrote 'tens of thousands'. We have the number of confirmed deaths, we have a number of death still to verify, if he wanted he
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by orwin 7mo ago
(are you talking about Qatar or Saudi Arabia?)
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by orwin 7mo ago
It seems you can't read a map. And btw it's very different targets, Hormuz vessel contain oil, gas and fertiliser for the Asian market. The red see is mostly foodstuff, cattle and Asian good for the European market. Way less impac
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by orwin 7mo ago
The diaspora somewhat supported it for a week. Then a desalination plant was hit, and I guarantee the support grew way, way weaker. Now we're 3 weeks in, and the only Iranian I keep contact with is extremely sad that the outcome is thi
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by orwin 7mo ago
It's not all. I tried as much as I could not commenting on it, but the delusions of _a lot_ of hn users on the subject, even a few whose opinion I respect, were unreal. People who are not MAGA btw. And I'm not sure most of those r
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by orwin 7mo ago
I agree it's not hypocrisy, but I can see the element of hypocrisy, if I understand their meaning correctly.
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by orwin 7mo ago
My company new installation now use Siemens routers. It seems a few will keep Cisco though, so we have yet another provider. More work for me I guess.
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by orwin 7mo ago
Saddam was paid (in chemical weapons, but not only) by the US to invade Iran, it didn't work well for them at the time, despite the MEK helping them with hidden routes and a lot of local support they don't have anymore. The curren
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by orwin 7mo ago
I think he is asserting she never created a policy, tweeted or manufactured a war for her insider trading: it was purely opportunistic.
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by orwin 7mo ago
A bit, but mostly it propose extremely well-rounded solutions that are almost never complete, and sometimes miss a major point. I would rather have my juniors work themselves to understand what is needed, or/and ask me questions rathe
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by orwin 7mo ago
> total manufacturing capability" is set to decline in any prolonged engagement with an Iran-like nation That was what Russia thought about Ukraine. Effectively, they needed East European tanks and munitions for the first two years,
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by orwin 7mo ago
I like Claude, at least when the user reviews the code before asking for a PR. But gods I hate tickets/feature requests written by Opus/Sonnet (or worse: Codex or Gemini). If you know/understand your product enough it's
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by orwin 7mo ago
I'm not sure about all the Americains acronyms, so DHS is Department of Homeland Security i guess, what does it have to do with your Emergency department? if i understand correctly, FEMA is your federal hurricane/flood/fire e
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by orwin 7mo ago
Is this the new "payment package", so a bit less than 19B/year, or is this added to the 11B, and ICE funding is 30B/year?
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by orwin 7mo ago
Exactly. And this also want' just a protest. They were protest in the big cities and uprising from suppressed minoritiesm which explain the death toll among people from the regime. Iran might have at best have a self-regime change, at
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by orwin 7mo ago
7 thousand confirmed death, 9 thousand unconfirmed death. Among that 1200 confirmed death from the regime forces, and 400 to be confirmed bystanders. The nurse burned to death by protesters is among those 400.
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by orwin 7mo ago
The occurrence increased, but weirdly, the length (in time spent, not kilometers) was reduced by around the same number. So you enter a bit more traffic jams, but they last a bit less.
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by orwin 7mo ago
Have you been to St Etienne or Limoges ? If we talk >80k sized French cities, Paris is in the middle of the pack. Maybe on the tail end (if you don't have a lake or fast access to a sea I can windsurf on, you loose a lot of points b
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by orwin 7mo ago
I don't think I would place all of them in any 'top' list, but all the books I have read, ~60%, are great read. Weird list though.
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by orwin 7mo ago
Europe is third since the 2000s. The pushed the Euro to try to limit it (and from the mouth of someone who was present when they pushed, it was also caused by the black Wednesday of 92, the attacks on currencies increased, and the cost to r
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by orwin 7mo ago
Currently, European (and Chinese) strategy on hydrogen is to use it as a reduction agent in steelmaking and other industrial processes (I've heard cement and some non-steel metallurgy, but steelmaking is the main one). Hydrogen is made
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by orwin 7mo ago
If you break the rig on a mature oil deposit, there is a chance you will make the remaining petroleum/gas unreachable for the foreseeable future (at least at an acceptable price point). So you reduce the total oil quantity humanity wil

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