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ponector
1y ago
But why? We have many examples of war activities between states with nukes. If tomorrow russia will occupy three NATO countries: Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia - nobody is going to use nukes.
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Yes and no. That's people what actually hold the ground. No drone will capture a city. But they can help assault team to survive/advance.
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Recent tactic adaptation is to fly at altitude 2-3 km to avoid mobile ground air defense groups. There are already available different FPV designs used to successfully intercept Shaheds, loitering munitions and reconnaissance drones.
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1y ago
>> How exactly do you picture it ending? With a peace agreement. Russia withdraw its troops, ends occupation and pays for the inflicted damage. Sounds fair, no?
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No one has/had political will to help Ukraine win. USA actually had will to help Russia to continue invasion. Imagine USA to send lend-lease weapons with strings attached: do not use against Hitler's troops in German territories.
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1y ago
First point means nothing, Russian occupation proved it both in 2014 and 2022. Security assurance from USA doesn't mean anything.
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1y ago
But it looks like a payback for one-time favor.
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1y ago
Why then 15%? Why not $10 per hour of service for all tables assigned to the waiter? Why chef who is actually prepping your dish got fixed rate but pretty girl should get percentage of the total bill? If I order a $100 bottle of wine, shoul
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1y ago
Smart guy, he is on both chinese and russian payroll!
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>> Meanwhile South Korea decides getting closer to China might be the better course of action. Good for them. If USA is not a reliable ally anymore, not a surprise there are active talks on free trade agreement between China, Japan an
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1y ago
>> this person is a threat to democracy I would say it is true. Such killer is a threat to democracy.
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1y ago
The solution is to sanitize text that goes into the prompt by creating a neural network that can detect sarcasm.
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1y ago
Risk increased, should family live there and be killed with higher probability?
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1y ago
And then there is a devastating hurricane, billions to be paid by insurers. Who you think give them money to pay? The answer is: everyone who uses home insurance all over the world. They will keep insurance companies afloat while paing bill
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1y ago
>>> Blue collar skilled labor starts at 100$ an hour in West Virginia or Mississippi now Why should they charge less? Would you want to pay 50$ for unskilled worker instead?
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1y ago
>>> Putin would be blamed for being a CIA agent sent to destroy Russia Have you seen how US soldiers have been rolling out red carpet for putin? A national hero was coming home.
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1y ago
>>but that's just life in the big city! In a big American city. School issues as well American due to funding structure. I'm not saying there aren't problems at school in other countries, but not like that: schools in c
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1y ago
My favorite is Google street view for my EU account translates streets in any random EU city to Japanese. Because why not?
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>> Why do people forget about board members and shareholders Board members do not have powers over daily business of the company. I would add the board to the feodal model as a Church. The head of the board is the Pope.
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>>> And prevailing speeds on many non-urban highways in the US are 80+. I'm curious how such traffic can handle trucks at 55mph but cannot handle car with max speed of 78mph.
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1y ago
>>> Offshoring always ends in disaster, Is it? If it is a disaster , why there are millions of IT folks employed in offshoring locations? Only the cheapest offshoring ends in disaster. Cheap contractors from TCS will fail you. Open
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1y ago
Can you unionize your offshore teams? Oh wait, that was one of the reasons to move your jobs overseas...
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1y ago
And also workers should be paid for not working 26 days per annum, it's more than a full month!
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>> where it comes from It's a power play. To show regular folks their place. Big corpo is a modern feodal state, where CEO is an emperor, c-suites are kings, managers are barons, IC are peasants and external contractors are slave
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1y ago
There is always an answer to unionizing and other demands: hiring freeze plus offshoring overseas. Eventually even unionized people will be replaced with offshore buddies.
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1y ago
Funny Dacia Spring EV could meet strict EU standards and keep up with traffic on the German Autobahn but you think it's not good for USA. Btw, it's actually Tesla cannot meet strict rules: cybertrack is not street legal in EU.
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1y ago
UK is much better without EU. Or actually it is not? Countries don't need EU to survive, but growth and development is better in the union. Try to travel somewhere outside the EU. Get a visa, exchange money, get health insurance, get s
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1y ago
Depends on the country, but overall I'll say the opposite is true: cheaper is to ignore it. Climate change will not stop even if Germany switched to 100% renewables. And globally it is also not a top priority.
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>> A household consumes an average of 14 kWh of electricity per day. If there is a motivation, consumed amount for particular cloudy day could be 1\4 easily. Simply do the laundry, other energy intensive task next day.
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1y ago
That is always funny how ruzzian supporters follow victim blaming patterns. Ukrainian war could be ended anytime, ruzzians can simply go home instead of dying for $20000. The second option to end the war is for Ukrainians to surrender. To s
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