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by polotics 3y ago
Oh wow how did you manage to get good sources about the state of the CIS's psychology, society, or for that matter military? Do you have access to FSB's secret polls? How does polling work if the wrong answer gets you 15 years in
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by polotics 3y ago
Once the Kerch bridge is cut and the southern offensive gets through to the Azov sea, they won't have any other choice but to scamper from Crimea.
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by polotics 3y ago
You only can afford to not think in black and white until you're confronted with, as you write, evil and good, yourself. As per one of Ekaterina Schulmann's recent talks (I think the one at Science Po) "Q: Do you know which
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by polotics 3y ago
It seems to be the Muscovites giving up on folding Ukraine into their empire, and going for scorched earth instead before withdrawal. Here's hoping Belgorod and Kursk can be liberated soon.
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by polotics 3y ago
Climate-change related posts that tell us what we already know, but trigger carpet-bombing by deniers, whether those may be deluded earnest posters with their identity somehow stuck to denial, or russian/oil-industry/whatever shil
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by polotics 3y ago
Best and clearest cut case on the issue. I am looking forward to the "ask reddit", "ask twitter", "ask hacker news" exclusive models... Maybe bring back Ask Jeeves?
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by polotics 3y ago
I left a job with a nice little packet of money for all of the accumulated overtime from a few years of hard work. Who would want to not get paid for their efforts? Do the people deciding you shouldn't, not expect to get paid for their
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by polotics 3y ago
How so?
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by polotics 3y ago
The ability of clickbaity titles to attract even the most clever internet users' attention will surprise you thanks to this amazing twist! ... Dopamine works on expectations...
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by polotics 3y ago
Revise your understanding of thick please. I a business is expecting me to do all the work to obtain service from them, they should be tipping me, not me tipping them. Next time I see Jeff Bezos's yacht maybe try to step on board and a
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by polotics 3y ago
no
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by polotics 3y ago
They have made many very public statements to the effects that they do want to expand, also for example questioning the legitimacy of the Baltic states, and sending many planes on defense-probing paths in the overall Zapad (Western) directi
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by polotics 3y ago
Do you mean before the invasion of 2014? (???????)
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by polotics 3y ago
Indeed the actual point of the article seems to be: don't look at the limits-to-growth model's actual amazing ability to have put curves on a graph that 50 years later we are still following. Look at that one line that's stil
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by polotics 3y ago
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. Pop-science is peddling expertise as newspaper copy. And by the way, someone having been wrong in 1970's is relevant for you to the droughts and floods of 2023, how?
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by polotics 3y ago
Well a scientist that can present material proof on the spot can say that. Someone that says that without then immediately presenting proof just disqualified themselves.
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by polotics 3y ago
Just Wow. Clothing yourself in counterfeit cynicism much? "People" don't sell disaster, how much disaster do you fill up at the pump? What proportion of your first world non sustainable lifestyle is spent on these sales of di
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by polotics 3y ago
The light coming down is in wavelengths that get through, the radiation on the way back is lower frequencies, infrared that CO2 intercepts. The sun is a massive fusion reactor there is a lot of energy coming. The effect is small, but comp
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by polotics 3y ago
Not true. Global cooling was a fad not supported by most the effects of CO2 had been know for more than a century. The burden of proof is on you: fetch all publications since 1960 and post your meta-analysis to Nature.
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by polotics 3y ago
You are talking about fractions of a percent, for transactions where banks in aggregate take some risk, while Google and Apple keep their 30.000/100.000 ransom on all transactions...
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by polotics 3y ago
Word! I just left a Java-only shop for pythonic pastures and the culture is so much more pragmatic and to-the-point. Hopefully soon enough ML models can be fed millions of line of code and produce the functionally equivalent thousands...
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by polotics 3y ago
I find it pleasant, snappy.
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by polotics 3y ago
Thanks a lot this is looking amazingly prescient. Who bought the movie rights?
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by polotics 3y ago
The household agent movie is something I'd watch! Let's see: "Groundhog Dishes"? (a comedy) "Squeaky"? (modern horror) "The Cleaners" (action)...
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by polotics 3y ago
Doesn't have to: colleagues will give one another benefit of the doubt...
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by polotics 3y ago
The article does state that Amazon took all of the fake publisher books down after the journalist from the Post asked them about. Jeff Bezos owns both, this may have expedited the process.
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by polotics 3y ago
Am I the only one who saw the first picture on the article and immediately thought: hell yeah, that's a fake CEO! ?
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by polotics 3y ago
Unsubstantiated non-measurable opinions are not true in any valid sense. The words you are looking for are: "not even wrong" !
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by polotics 3y ago
It depends if "TV" just meant broadcast TV, or if it is: no broadcast TV, no Netflix, no Disney+, no Amazon Prime, no Apple TV, no MUBI, no DVDs, no on big-screen games, no small-screen games...
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by polotics 3y ago
How are python list comprehension in any way more weird than Java streams?

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