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by ptr 5y ago
You cannot have all information, and trying to analyze things too far and “fairly” leads to paralysis by analysis. In software, but also in real life. Russia knows that the West is prone to that, so it’s been used in their propaganda for 50
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by ptr 5y ago
First off, I don’t care. Ukraine vs Russia is about Ukraine, Europe and Russia. Why should Ukraine suffer for things the US has done? US is only a part of this because they’re the largest member of NATO. And secondly, the first Iraq war was
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by ptr 5y ago
Not just emotions. Lives and democracy. In Ukraine, and extension, Europe.
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by ptr 5y ago
Yea, the participants have their interests: Russia wants to create a “Russian Empire”, Ukraine wants to survive as a democracy and as a country. Decide yourself which side you want to help.
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by ptr 5y ago
I have no reason to favor either side Yes you do. A warmongering country with a crazy dictator (that threatens the world with nukes) has vowed to crush a friendly neighboring country, and then proceeded to invade said country. This
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Musk vows to save ISS after Russia threatened to let it fall from orbit(dailymail.co.uk)
5 points by ptr 5y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 5y ago
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" Of course they have a chance. Their current strength is about 465k men (and women). Add on top the general mobilization happening now. They're a
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by ptr 5y ago
Who cares what Biden will say? If Russia does something as drastic as a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, what's next? European basic security is threatened. I don't care whether something will make Biden look good or not.
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by ptr 5y ago
NATO troops and weapon shipments to Ukraine became a thing after Russia started threatening Ukraine's existence -- we want to help the Ukrainian people. We as "simple" people can decide whether we trust people like Putin or p
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by ptr 5y ago
Would be interesting to hear more about this — why did they think the new way would improve the situation? Why was the new solution harder to work with? Why was it hard to understand?
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by ptr 5y ago
Same in Sweden, the Yellow Pages were the business part of the phone book. I wonder how this international alignment happened or if it's just the natural way of coloring phone books.
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Belarusian Railways hacked after transporting Russian troops(railfreight.com)
12 points by ptr 5y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 5y ago
I’d bet there are very few handguns in Finland, mostly bolt action hunting rifles.
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Time the Market Game(personalfinanceclub.com)
2 points by ptr 5y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 5y ago
The constiness of a pointer can be casted away while the constiness of a value variable cannot — it’s UB. foo::x is declared const, so it’s always const.
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by ptr 5y ago
The Soviets definitely had extensive and detailed invasion plans of Sweden, a neutral country. Sure, offense is the best defense, but you make them sound as if they were just protecting what was theirs.
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by ptr 5y ago
Nostalgia is irrational and often felt for things that were objectively worse. I feel nostalgic about a lot of crap. Including Tiger.
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by ptr 5y ago
It’s a special kind of account, you can sell everything and withdraw the proceeds, then buy new assets outside that account. So you can choose, but not retroactively (unfortunately!)
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by ptr 5y ago
You can even chose to pay 0.375% on your assets p/a, instead of the capital gains tax. Pretty good. But you’re exaggerating the income tax situation. ~60% is the marginal tax rate, you only pay that for a part of your income over a cer
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by ptr 5y ago
A recruiter contacted me for a position at the company that I co-founded. Unfortunately I didn’t have the time to play along, so the only outcome was a message to the hiring manager.
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by ptr 5y ago
It’s interesting; I assume you’re using “mental gymnastics” in a derogatory sense but I love those questions and I would love answering them. I’m actually a bit peeved that no one is asking me them right now.
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by ptr 5y ago
A movie entertains for ~2 hours and costs ~$10, ~$5/h. In this perspective, games are very cheap.
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by ptr 5y ago
Not saying it’s the reason, but Sweden has higher urbanization than its neighbors. The country also has more people who don’t speak the native language. Belgium has a similar population size but more deaths (27k).
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by ptr 5y ago
Yes please inform the hiring manager.
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by ptr 5y ago
For software engineers, there are employers in Stockholm that pay much more than 63k USD p.a. A good income combined with the low mortgage interest rate (~1.4%) and the basically tax-free investment accounts (ISK/KF) make Stockholm a p
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by ptr 5y ago
I think the original poster is off by a bit, 350-450k USD for 60m2 is what you pay outside Stockholm. In the city proper, it's ~770k USD for 60m2. Basically this segregates society into the "haves" and the "have nots&quo
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by ptr 5y ago
Does anybody know if there’s a Mac app that randomly pops up a “what are you currently working on?” dialog? No automatic stuff like trying to find out using the foreground application and no explicit starting and stopping of activities, jus
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by ptr 5y ago
It’s Ive, right? He could definitely follow up on that statement — I don’t think he needs a lot more money.
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by ptr 5y ago
What if you’re not diligent with the main thing you’re “there for”, as in, doing the work you’re paid for and spend 8 hours/day doing? It’s not “just anything.”
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by ptr 5y ago
It takes willpower to do something different and raise above the “operational”/“manual typing” level; I can’t see how that’s laziness. Long-term thinking isn’t associated with “laziness” either afaik. Fixing problems through programmin

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