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by pyrale 2y ago
> Instead once there was a spark, those relationships kept pulling more and more countries into the conflict This is a bad take on the cause of alliances. large wartime coalitions had been a thing since the consolidation of power into mo
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by pyrale 2y ago
> This is also why its importantly to gain colonies (Greenland/ Canada) or mineral rights from other countries so that the amount of stuff we have increases. So, basically, blueprint for the new opium wars. Or, more likely, WW3.
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by pyrale 2y ago
I believe gp’s point is that whether the recruiter is secret police doesn’t change much if NK decides to let its citizen do it in interviews.
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by pyrale 2y ago
I understand your point, and that law is a problem. But there is a big difference between a law and a practice. In the case of NK, we have a long, documented trail showing that the country controls its foreign nationals. Despite that law, t
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by pyrale 2y ago
And, likely, it will eventually hit everyone harder than it should, because of this administration’s misconception that it’s only an issue for that community they hate.
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by pyrale 2y ago
I wonder how long we have to wait before we can pitch a machine that presses fruit juice packs into a glass to gullible VCs again.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Hal Abelson, casually enraging functional programing CS people around the world.
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by pyrale 2y ago
So basically, you want everyone to depend on you, but you want to depend on no one. And if a more balanced trade relation arises, your current leadership is willing to destabilize the whole world, and threaten war.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> Tunisian consumers don't have the ability to afford products from the US. They do use products from the US, just not physical ones. It's weird to read such takes on HN of all sites.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> Increased demand for Treasuries pushes their prices up and yields down, effectively lowering interest rates. > What are the flaws in this thinking? Not sure why international investors would want to buy more t-bonds when the country
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by pyrale 2y ago
> From a British perspective [...] > especially after I've just described the French perspective. Make up your mind. > Similarly, the views of the French far-left are not the "French perspective". No one in France is
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by pyrale 2y ago
From a french perspective, it is definitely rightwing. You would have trouble finding which major policy they made that aligns with the left, while many of their policies effectively dismantled workers’ rights. Also the former socialists we
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by pyrale 2y ago
> There's no way in Java, Rust or C++ to express this either You make it look like it's a good thing to be able to express it. There's no way in Java, Rust or C++ to express this, praised be the language designers. As for
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by pyrale 2y ago
There's a difference between a journalist and an information or an article. Any journalist or newspaper carries a bias when looking at information. Their ethics and process is what allows them to still publish information that is verif
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by pyrale 2y ago
All of these parties are equivalent to the dems. They're rightwing, not center. There's been a trend recently to call them center-right to make the distinction with far right parties which were anecdotal 50 years ago, but make no
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by pyrale 2y ago
> Edit: It's saddening that this apparently cannot be said or discussed. The sad part is that you can't make the distinction between a paper being opinionated and it being propaganda. Plenty of newspapers have historically had
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by pyrale 2y ago
> This is all to say: the guardian became a nonprofit-like trust at a point in time it was already a stable business, with capital to self-finance. The same kind of logic was applied to two french newspapers: - Le canard enchaîné, create
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by pyrale 2y ago
Dans ce pays, il est bon de tuer un pilote de temps à autre, pour encourager les autres.
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by pyrale 2y ago
If we follow your logic, they would still want the orders ; they would simply look for ways to avoid fulfilling them.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Advertising is not limited to companies trying to sell an innocuous product.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Please explain to me how efficient the US health care system is. That’s right, it’s part of the money handled by public entities in my country, and "decentralized" in the US. Personally I don’t want any of the kind of "growth
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by pyrale 2y ago
Just because your batna is shit doesn’t mean you should sign everything.
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by pyrale 2y ago
I can also make some methane depending on what's on the lunch menu, but that doesn't mean cheap renewable natural gas is a solved problem.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Plot twist: the death star was originally conceived as a contraption to regulate waste heat in artificial planets.
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by pyrale 2y ago
It really depends on what you call "long distance". Anyway, transportation loss for entsoe is public data [1]. You'd need to cross it with production/consumption data [2] in order to get relative numbers. For instance, F
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by pyrale 2y ago
> It's hellishly inefficient, but I repeat: the energy is free. Can you give pointers about who gives away hydrogen generation systems for free? Because the cost of energy usually factors in the cost of amortizing equipment required
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by pyrale 2y ago
> And when thinking 5-10 years out, not taking the full exponential drop in battery and solar prices is beyond foolish. The curve on solar is gradually getting flatter, though. Lazard's last LCOE report even saw it increase, partly
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by pyrale 2y ago
> I understand the risk of falling on the deaf ears Always good to cast yourself as unheard in your first sentence. > where from comes the idea that communism is the opposite (or less of) capitalism No one said they're opposite,
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by pyrale 2y ago
It's not someone asking for communism, just for the return of a more healthy capitalism where everyone has a chance to invest, as opposed to some sort of feudalism where private ownership of strategic companies becomes more common, mon
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by pyrale 2y ago
Paypal is a good example actually: convincing enough to get named ceo, but gets kicked out once his partners get to the bottom of it.

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