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by pintxo 5y ago
75-100 years is roughly 3 generations. Which is, I guess about the average number of generations we have in our smallest social unit: the family. I guess we learn a lot from our parents and grandparents, but hardly anything from our great-g
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by pintxo 5y ago
> where each person has the same amount of say. Theoretically
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by pintxo 5y ago
Or essentially a privately owned orbital re-entry vehicle. North Korea might be interested in an option to send a small payload to space to have it approach a pre-designated area at the touch of a button.
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Dreaming of Suitcases in Space(nytimes.com)
8 points by pintxo 5y ago|2 comments
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by pintxo 5y ago
I wondered for a while, is there any sensible analysis on the effectiveness of economic sanctions?
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by pintxo 5y ago
I was wondering before if this whole “special operation” is a 1961 thing? Remember der Berlin Wall? The local communists had no compelling story to offer to their population so especiallz the young and well educated voted with their feet an
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by pintxo 5y ago
Problem is that Putins mindset seems to be exactly opposite to your statement. He sees the west setting up camp in an ecosystem he should not be. Hint: I do not endorse that thinking but I can understand that someone with this mindset might
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by pintxo 5y ago
Is there any proof that most others store their certificates on hardware?
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by pintxo 5y ago
If a corp like Nvidia cannot manage to store Code signing certs on hardware only, the whole process is broken beyond repair. What’s the value of signed code going forward?
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by pintxo 5y ago
Source? Wikipedia says you need a transit visa as any land transport will be through foreign land.
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by pintxo 5y ago
> But to say that what Russia is doing is somehow US's fault, that really does not make any sense. My take on it is: if you willingly push a bear in a tight corner, you have it coming when he starts biting and fighting. Now, this is
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by pintxo 5y ago
there is no land connection under Russian control between Kaliningrad and the rest of russia, is there?
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by pintxo 5y ago
Given the continuous need for cooling and containment, and within the context of a war, does it really matter if a fission power plant is running or shut down in terms of environmental security?
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Why Is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer (2015)(youtube.com)
8 points by pintxo 5y ago|0 comments
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by pintxo 5y ago
With the problem that sinking a Turkish ship could easily trigger Nato Article 5 if Turkey wanted it to happen.
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by pintxo 5y ago
This was merely a rhetoric question: It's not going to help with out current problem.
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by pintxo 5y ago
This goes back to a treaty from 1936 addressing "the long-running Straits Question over who should control the strategically vital link between the Black and Mediterranean Seas" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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Russian warships curb tilts Turkey to West, risks Russia's ire(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by pintxo 5y ago|7 comments
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by pintxo 5y ago
True, but it’s more of a long term solution, isn’t it?
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by pintxo 5y ago
Guess the lack of stamps means record holding has moved from the passport into the cloud. While the distributed record keeping was certainly more privacy friendly, the new method makes it certainly easier for nation states.
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by pintxo 5y ago
And 75% of the Russian population lives in Europe. But then 77% of Russian territory is considered to be on the Asian continent. And Pluto (the former planet) has about the same surface area as Russia.
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by pintxo 5y ago
Yes, Hitler was mainly interested in moving expanding eastward. But he was intelligent enough to see that the (declining but still) empires of France and Britain would not have allowed this to happen. Thus his initial attack westward to neu
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by pintxo 5y ago
Afaik, Concord was run profitable. But due to noise protection regulation on both sides of the Atlantic, there where not enough profitable routes available to be able to recoup development costs.
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by pintxo 5y ago
People able to afford first class are mostly time constraint, not money constraint. If you offer something using only 1/10 the time, they will buy it.
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by pintxo 5y ago
Bringing the ideas of packet based networking to the world of train based container freight seems interesting. Question is will the gain in time and cost efficiency (by having each container move individually more or less fully automated) b
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by pintxo 5y ago
Salary is very much Berlin specific, for a lot of jobs you will be able to earn around 30% more in places like Munich, Frankfurt or Hamburg. Berlin and the rest of eastern Germany is historically on a lower salary level. Which was fine whil
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by pintxo 5y ago
> at least they're not on the brink of civil war here lets see how much the Scottish want to get back into the EU
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by pintxo 5y ago
Mostly the water provided by the municipality is drinking water quality in Europe. But sometimes the building and its water pipes will be so old that the pipes leak metals into the water.
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by pintxo 5y ago
Good luck finding affordable real estate in Munich. It's pretty much the most expensive in Germany. Though it may still seem cheap coming from Paris, London etc.
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by pintxo 5y ago
thanks a lot for referencing the numbers. I (German) was not aware of them being so similar. I was wondering if this might be because most immigration in Germany is actually from more or less neighboring EU countries, and according to [1],

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