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by qaq 8mo ago
Where did I say russians are dumb? The claim I am disputing is a myth that Ukraine was just a place the nukes were stationed in and they had no capability to manage them. While USSR was often making sub-optimal decisions availability of eng
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by qaq 8mo ago
I'd take teams over google chat any day.
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by qaq 8mo ago
To understand scale the Yuzhmash campus is 1800+ acres Boeing Everett is about 1000 acres
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by qaq 8mo ago
How is it a bold claim ?
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by qaq 8mo ago
Are you banned by google ? I literally provided you the names of the entities. They btw. designed and built the infamous SS-18 Satan
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by qaq 8mo ago
Nice russian talking point. UA designed developed and maintained most top tier soviet nuclear weapons. The largest nuke plant in USSR was Yuzhmash in Dnepr and largest design bureau again in UA Dnepr KB Yuzhnoe. UA had to help maintain rus
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by qaq 9mo ago
for people not burning billions of VC $ sharding Postgres is not a bad option.
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by qaq 9mo ago
Russia holds leverage over China is probably the funniest statement I've read on HN in a long time ...
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by qaq 9mo ago
I am not arguing it's a sane world view
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by qaq 9mo ago
Well people pushing for this have a world view. They see a bipolar world with China dominating Asia, US dominating it's hemisphere and Europe fending for itself. They also have major crypto holdings so instability of both major currenc
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by qaq 9mo ago
just make it $ contingent OF models make ordinary income if someone is pulling in several million USD a year they are going to be paying a ton of taxes here. What is the downside?
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by qaq 9mo ago
Still crazy how little investment goes to Python given how critical it is to the ecosystem.
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by qaq 9mo ago
Nope be it in coding context but Claude and Codex are a combo that really shine and Gemini is pretty useless. The only thing I actually use it for is to triple check the specifications sometimes and thats pretty much it.
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by qaq 9mo ago
just listen to Peter Thiel most of these policies align with his ideas/agenda
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by qaq 9mo ago
For starters even EU does not recognize Maduro as legit head of state
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by qaq 9mo ago
People who drive policy believe it has already collapsed; now it’s just about asserting control over the resources that will let US(or them personally) thrive in an isolationist, post-AGI world.
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by qaq 9mo ago
MY NY resolution is to switch to Linux after two decades of using MacOS as primary OS. The UI direction, abysmal quality of software and people getting randomly banned from the ecosystem without good reason and with no recourse finally push
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by qaq 9mo ago
Sure Musk trying his hardest to blow up EU has 0 effect on sales there
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by qaq 10mo ago
Sure but if the place you plan to escape to enjoyed protection of the falling empire before the fall things can go south fairly fast
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by qaq 10mo ago
If this boat sinks there will not be places you can hide in
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by qaq 10mo ago
If things deteriorate in US there will not be places to leave to pretty soon
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by qaq 10mo ago
with LLMs started defaulting to go for most projects Rust for WASM Zig is what I'd use if I started a greenfield DBMS project
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by qaq 10mo ago
Has BoFesc vibes "It's friday, so I get into work early, before lunch even. The phone rings. Shit! I turn the page on the excuse sheet. "SOLAR FLARES" stares out at me. I'd better read up on that..."
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by qaq 10mo ago
They are consistent (the C in ACID) for a particular transaction ID / timestamp. You are operating on a consistent snapshot. You can also view consistent states across time if you are archiving log.
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by qaq 11mo ago
The government response to the disaster was slow and inadequate. It sure was they denied it actually happened for a pretty long time.
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by qaq 11mo ago
Somehow Supreme Court ruling vs rando internet post carries a bit more weight.
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by qaq 11mo ago
2. Bridges v. Wixon (1945) A First Amendment case involving an Australian immigrant. Key holding: Non-citizens inside the U.S. have First Amendment rights. Quote: “Freedom of speech and of the press is accorded aliens residing in this count
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by qaq 11mo ago
I am saying people imaging that significant portion of paper wealth could be converted into tangible things for regular people like housing, infra etc.
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by qaq 11mo ago
Yep but if you take all that paper wealth and distribute it you aint getting much physical shit out of it. The yacht example is relevant for ratio of how even physically manifested rich people toys convert to real world things people care a
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by qaq 11mo ago
Again to do what? at scale there are many physical constraints. You can't take physical resources used to create a 500M yacht and build 100 apartment buildings. Those crazy valuations exist in part because none really tries to convert

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