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by pqtyw 9mo ago
What about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Commerci... Then? Germany would have quite literally run out of oil (and other materials and even grain) a few months after conquering Poland. Most was imp
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by pqtyw 9mo ago
> Cheap oil Well allowing Iran unlimited access to global markets would certainly help that. Same for Venesuela, lifting sanctions and making it easier for them to develop their infrastructure would have lowered the global price of oil.
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
So once elected more than 25 years ago they are allowed to stay and perpetuity and stage sham election just because they won a legitimate one a generation ago?
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
> Vice President Delcy Rodriguez is in charge Today. She's still part of the same regime and party. It's not obvious Trump will let her stay in charge. Also the control the government had over the criminal gangs/syndicates
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
Considering the extreme amount of crime and violence that currently exists in Venesuela removing it's government without being able to put anything in its place will not be pretty at all... Without a full military occupation it might j
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
So it's not longer 30 years but 100? What the US did pre WW2 was in no way abnormal or worse than that what every other powerful was doing.. Also US never technically invaded Lybia, Yemen or Syria (unless you count their intervention t
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
Reagan something very similar twice and it worked out reasonably(ish) fine. Of course Venesuela isn't that similar to Panama or Granada in various ways. Given the massive amounts of internal issues, and insanely high levels of crime&#x
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
And there are not that many indications that we are moving towards that direction or we can even ever have. I guess that sort of idealism might have existed in the late 40s immediately after the UN was established but it never had a chance.
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
ICC is a joke though. It can only accomplish anything if the home country of the perpetrator is cooperating. Those allies also have much politically important economic and geopolitical concerns than prosecuting war criminals (unfortunately
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
To be fair that applies to Maduro to if you count crimes against humanity in general. Certainly applied to Sadam. So now the question is how to do you capture this leadership without foreign intervention while they are still in power? Talk
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
>these days Panama and Granada in the 80s weren't that fundamentally different. And before that US had a very long history of invading or intervening in Latin American countries due to various often dubious reasons. If anything the
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
I think it's not really an issue for 95-99% of users who uses devices with non open source drivers so there is no incentive for manufacturers to add it?
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
Risk/cost ratio? A pedestrian acting irresponsibly can of course do a lot of damage, but the likelihood of killing someone is much lower than if a vehicle is breaking the rules.
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
It's interesting considering that based on the German military doctrine at the time low ranking officers on the ground had a huge amount of independence while the French ones were stuck doing nothing and waiting for orders to be signed
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
That's kind of interesting, though considering that the German army (and presumably Prussian before that?) was know for giving a relatively huge amount of leeway and authority to more junior officers. Supposedly while the French and B
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
GLM 4.6 was kind of meh. Especially on Claude code since thinking was seemingly entirely broken. This week I've been playing with 4.7 and it seems like massive improvement, subjective pretty much almost at Sonnet level (it's still
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
Z.ai (at least mid/top end subscription not sure about the API) is pretty slow too especially during some periods. Cerebras of course is probably a different story (if its not quantitized)
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
Associating them with garishly and almost certainly inaccurately (based on pretty much all the indirect evidence we have) painted sculptures doesn't seem like much of an improvement, though?
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
Well they might as well show the texture of unprocessed marble as well. This is not particularly different.
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
>They force us to confront how contingent our tastes are Have you seen any ancient frescoes or the handful of surviving paintings, though? The white marble is of course in-accurate but that doesn't mean our tastes were inherently th
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
I fail to understand what's the point in even having those reconstructions there if we are fairly certainly they looked nothing alike the originals. Making them pure white seems less dishonest.
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
Why would the painting style they used for statues be so massively different from frescoes, mosaics and paintings during the same period, though?
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
We do have a non insignificant amount of ancient frescoes, mosaics and even a handful of paintings. As the author has pointed out they generally seem much more appealing to modern aesthetic sensibilities. That seems like reasonably strong
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
> that these are not exact copies, that we can never know exactly how they looked Meaning that these "reconstructions" are a pretty pointless and have no real purpose.
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
> have direct evidence of, and this is just the saturated underlayers Why do they even bother with the "reconstructions" if they know that they are inherently inaccurate, though
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
Is it? Planes still pollute a lot less than cars per same distance (unless you have 4-5 people in them)
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by pqtyw 10mo ago
A a bus is over 40,000lbs. More than 10x heavier than a Tesla Model 3.
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by pqtyw 11mo ago
> something other than Windows or macOS > 8GB No modern IDE either. Nor a modern Linux desktop environment either (they are not that much more memory efficient than Macos or windows). Yes you can work with not much more than a text ed
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by pqtyw 11mo ago
That's a bizarrely extreme position. For almost everyone ~$2000-3000 PC from several years ago is indistinguishable from one they can buy now from a productivity standpoint. Nobody is talking about $25 ten year old smartphones. Of cour
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by pqtyw 11mo ago
Why would Intel design and make a RISC-V chips? Fundamentally they don't have any inherent advantages over x86 or ARM whatsoever(for datacenter atleast). It makes no sense for Intel to make embedded chips on 14A or non several generati

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