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by pydry 1y ago
>The amount of total financial support provided to Ukraine is lower than that which Russia has earned from the same bloc. The amount of aid sent during the war totaled up to about $300 billion, which is roughly equal to the Russian milit
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by pydry 1y ago
>Congratulations, you’ve shown superior strategic capability than Putin’s entire pre-war military brass. Congratulations on deluding yourself into believing he's losing this war against all of the evidence I guess. >Was this writ
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by pydry 1y ago
>If this was remotely true, they'd have won the war already. They're invading the largest country in Europe armed by a military bloc constituting 60% of world military spending. Which part of that screamed quick to you? >Rus
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by pydry 1y ago
Gazan civilian casualties eclipsed Ukrainian within about two weeks. Militaries routinely use civilian objects for military purposes, so that these objects are targeted isnt meaningful in and of itself - like the time a pizza restaurant was
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by pydry 1y ago
If there were ~9 wars that followed purely imperialist logic and 1 where it could plausibly have been done for imperialist or humanitarian reasons, it was probably done for imperialist reasons. Fragmenting Serbia and creating a puppet sta
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by pydry 1y ago
Russia is following Clausewitzian principles pretty assiduously. They've got a set of 3 clear objectives and their tactics on the ground, e.g. * prioritizing attrition over the capture of territory. * avoiding urban fighting where poss
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by pydry 1y ago
This was clearly the idea. Google doesnt like competition.
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by pydry 1y ago
If you cant trust VPNs sold to dodgy Israeli spyware firms who can you trust?
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by pydry 1y ago
Theyre saying if you find references to a very specific set of phrases that were probably included accidentally on github then github is likely part of the training data.
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by pydry 1y ago
I get what you're saying. People want vendor lock in...otherwise they wouldnt pay for it. People want bait and switch sales tactics...otherwise they wouldnt work. People are perfectly fine with high rents...if they didnt, they would no
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by pydry 1y ago
The problem isnt technical feasibility it is market incentives. Most companies have no incentive to let you hold your data when they can just hold it for you. If they do this they can mine it for data to improve their product as well as sel
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by pydry 1y ago
>Everyone claiming Israel is the worst of the worst - just put yourselves in their shoes, and imagine for a moment that your friend/your husband/wife/baby/kids are still kept hostage by brutal people. Hostage. Not pri
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by pydry 1y ago
Gazans are not being expelled though. Netanyahu's equivalent of the Nazi Madagascar Plan fell through, just like the Madagascar Plan did. His Plan B was the same as the Nazi Plan B: Genocide.
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by pydry 1y ago
The demonstrations are about his power grabs. They have 0 to do with the genocide. On that topic most Israelis are not against him. It is, in fact, what is keeping him in power and why he wants this war so badly. ~15% of Israelis believe
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by pydry 1y ago
More than £10k
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by pydry 1y ago
This is why whistleblower laws need to be stronger (e.g. retaliation means automatic jailtime even if the whistle was wrongly blown) and rewards need to be larger.
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by pydry 1y ago
>People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it." I dont know about that, denial is a powerful force.
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by pydry 1y ago
>I used to work for a software company that literally had "no politics" as part of its DNA I did too. It was something the CEO started saying after a particularly brutal game of thrones style purge. I think a lot of times compa
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by pydry 1y ago
>You need either nuclear or gas This is straight up misinformation. Nuclear power is not a peaker. Gas is, batteries are. Nuclear power provides baseload and must be paired with a peaker too - almost always gas (France uses epic amount
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by pydry 1y ago
It mystifies me that more people dont get this. 5 x cheaper means you can add the cost of storage on top and it's still cheaper than nuclear power.
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by pydry 1y ago
Try measuring how much house a median junior programmer salary will buy and compare it to how much house a median wage of the 1950s would buy. The results will surprise you.
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by pydry 1y ago
>Has your company actually done this? Ive worked for plenty of companies that pretended that they cared about the human resources and not one that has ever been upfront about the fact that they will lay you off for a bump in the stock
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by pydry 1y ago
Who would've thought that decades of wage repression that fell especially badly on the young would lead to a surly and uncooperative workforce.
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by pydry 1y ago
A history of failures period. She surfed google's wave of success before proving conclusively at yahoo that it couldnt have had anything to do with her.
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by pydry 1y ago
They mean safer from apps like NewPipe which threaten their margins by giving users their attention back.
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by pydry 1y ago
The transition to where type hints become valuable or even necessary isnt about how many lines of code you have it is about how much you rely upon their correctness. Type strictness also isnt binary. A program with lots of dicts that shoul
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by pydry 1y ago
Food security issues dont necessarily give you enough time to prepare.
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by pydry 1y ago
Here we are because: * Types are expensive and dont tend to pay off on spikey/experimental/MVP code, most of which gets thrown away. * Types are incredibly valuable on hardened production code. * Most good production code starte
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by pydry 1y ago
A) It does, sometimes. B) The far right has a lot of wealthy donors because it is safe for capital. In this case, I think money would have smoothed over most of the issues.
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by pydry 1y ago
A statically typed language doesnt prevent developers from using the equivalent of dict[str, Any].

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