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by paganel 3y ago
I didn't say it was "out of spite", to the contrary, I said that the measures should have been (and could have been, given a different geo-political context) a lot harsher, such as trying to breaking up Apple's operation
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by paganel 3y ago
There's a big geo-political component now at play, at least when it comes to Europe (I live in Europe). Meaning that the Europeans can try and upset the big American corporations up to a point (almost 2 billion euros as in this case),
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by paganel 3y ago
> The findings suggest that factors such as the movement of peoples These are heavily influenced by geography. > direct and indirect cultural exchanges This are heavily influenced by physical proximity, which, of course, is heavily i
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by paganel 3y ago
Not that many drones get shot down, and when it happens it’s so noteworthy that the one doing the shooting down can’t actually believe his luck. And they usually use shotguns for that, using rifles is really just 100% pure luck. As per the
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by paganel 3y ago
A lot less money involved, but I remember my boss at the time (we were a small mortgage broker in Eastern Europe) asking me to write a quick Python script that would automatically get the daily Libor number and save it into our DB. Seeing a
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by paganel 3y ago
> If a company is making ball bearings I know it was an anecdotal example, but a Western company purchasing Chinese-produced ball bearings will most probably mean that Western company doing business with and empowering the Chinese milita
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by paganel 3y ago
The digitisation and GPS-localisation of everything has been a mistake. For West's sake I hope that they end up becoming aware of all that, sooner rather than later, because there's no way that they can make better and cheaper ele
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by paganel 3y ago
> it will take a good 20 seconds to load the list of new notifications. Same thing here. Thought it was my (relatively much) slower Internet connection, or maybe that I had something "wrong" (what exactly that might have been,
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by paganel 3y ago
Same for Romania, or close to the record, anyway. I don't remember any month of February where we had 20 degrees Celsius in mid-February, and I'm in my 40s.
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by paganel 3y ago
To say nothing of the fact the Iconoclasm (which started in the 700s) was heavily influenced by nearby Islam and the contact the Byzantines had with Islam. Granted, many of today's Byzantine-focused historians here in Eastern Europe tr
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by paganel 3y ago
My dad was a civil engineer back in the '80s when I was a kid and seeing that first large image with all the instruments made me highly nostalgic, because he had a drawing tool-set very similar to the second from the left (it was manu
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by paganel 3y ago
It's interesting because when it comes to submarines and related nuclear deterrence the US are at least a head in front compared to the Russians (and obviously much more advanced compared to the Chinese), unlike the other two forms of
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by paganel 3y ago
Interesting that in times of major geo-political worldwide distress the US "glamour" media is quite quick to turn back to being propaganda vehicles, reminds me of how Life magazine was used back in the '40s and '50s.
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by paganel 3y ago
Honest props to you for managing to do that, you're a much stronger person than I am.
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by paganel 3y ago
I couldn't honestly do that, the nostalgia would be too much for me, even for only 10 years ago, even 5. And then how do you process past relationships and marriages? Or the death of loved ones? Or other such traumatic experiences?
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by paganel 3y ago
To be fair there's "bad" and there's "more than bad", this looks to be in the "more than bad" territory. And whenever I hear "Shock therapy" being mentioned I shiver, because it reminds me o
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by paganel 3y ago
You park on a designated place and you have to pay before the AI car comes and catches you, if not, presumably you get a fine. There are still some “manual” check-ups done by people walking on foot and checking your car plates in that gran
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by paganel 3y ago
Bucharest. This is the article about it [1], in Romanian but google translate can help, and especially you can see a photo of one of those cars at the very start of the article. [1] https://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-administratie
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by paganel 3y ago
Which is why the forced digitalisation of everything, accompanied in almost all cases by centralisation, poses very big strategic risks that almost no-one in a position of power is willing to openly talk about. In the Eastern-European capit
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by paganel 3y ago
Nobody is mentioning about how this is a social problem with the US that needs fixing, for example I often times forget to lock my car's doors in the Eastern European capital where I'm living and yet I've never had anyone &qu
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Drone-interceptor "ACROBAT" which fires a net(old.reddit.com)
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by paganel 3y ago
At the tactical level, of course that what you're saying is true, but the big Ukrainian counter-offensive from last year had been preceded by lots and lots of allusions made to "war games simulations" set-up by Ukraine's
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I think that strictly looking at it in terms of money-related operations stuff can still be managed/double-checked externally, i.e. by the real world, which means that whatever mistakes/inconsistencies might show up there's s
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by paganel 3y ago
> They all saw Twitter cut 80% of its staff and yet is still online. I remember the denialism on tech-focused forums like this one about that move, turns out it was the correct one from the owner's point of view. Of course that it s
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by paganel 3y ago
He has a little daughter around and he's staying with that concoction around his face, so that said kid won't be able to see her dad's eyes but instead she'll get to see that electronic thingie. Very bleak.
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by paganel 3y ago
They've had a ~70% share price fall since the height of 2021, 40% lower compared to the summer of last year, of course that their future (at least as an independent company) is under threat, saying otherwise is just wishful thinking. &
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by paganel 3y ago
Higher interest rates are part of the game, or of reality, if you want to put it that way. So, yes, it was a reality check and it has proved that that company could only be viable under very particular economic circumstances (i.e. interest
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by paganel 3y ago
The US and the EU are mostly at parity when it comes to total spending (that includes military spending), with the difference being of about 5-10% last time I checked (which was sometimes in September of 2023). By how things have progressed
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by paganel 3y ago
One could have said the same thing 2 or 3 years ago about companies active in the renewable energy space like Orsted. I mean, they were one of the biggest producers of wind-turbines, what was there not to like in this ESG-focused investmen
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by paganel 3y ago
Yes, and yes, economic autarky (which is what this “let’s bring industry back to America” thing actually is) is usually associated with nationalism and other such stuff (I personally call it Mussolinian, but someone may come and mention Lis

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