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by rainworld 8mo ago
> British colonialism So the Palestinians and Arabs thought a hundred years ago. It served them badly. It’s not that US/UK and others don’t get anything out of the relationship, as you note. But the arrows have been mostly pointing
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by rainworld 8mo ago
> Maybe WE can't imagine taking losses like this, but in Russia they seem more than willing. WE are happily enabling Ukrainians to take such losses. > seemingly carelessly. They are doing what works—which evidently it does, howev
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by rainworld 9mo ago
And, in fact, often sharing this “accelerationist” motive.
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by rainworld 9mo ago
A much better and more informative piece: https://open.substack.com/pub/eventsinukraine/p/zoomer-schoo...
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by rainworld 9mo ago
You did not understand the point of the quoted post at all and you’re turning the matter on its head. For the US and its friends, the UN system and international law have always been a tool. Used when beneficial, circumvented when necessary
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by rainworld 9mo ago
The multipolar world is truly new and terrifying Now, even the USA invades foreign countries! ( https://x.com/EventsUkraine/status/2007431899107758263 )
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by rainworld 11mo ago
> And what makes you think Russia didn't pay a price for that? That wasn’t the question and you’re putting words in my mouth. > look at Syria - they literally removed Russia from the middle east. https://www.bbc.com&#x
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by rainworld 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shoo... Including but not limited to: A Turkish supply convoy, reportedly carrying small arms, machine-guns and ammunition, was bombed by what is believed to hav
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by rainworld 11mo ago
> You are massively downplaying the scale of the attack. Iran sent hundreds of missiles in a go. The report I linked and you obviously didn’t read directly contradicts you: 574 ballistics total with no wave larger than 40. > because t
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by rainworld 11mo ago
70% of interceptors used were US. A whopping quarter of THAAD stockpile. https://jinsa.org/jinsa_report/rising-lion-air-defense/ > almost no major hits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli
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by rainworld 1y ago
Revealed: many common omega-3 fish oil supplements are ‘rancid’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/17/revealed...
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by rainworld 1y ago
extremely expensive No. CSPRNGs can be pretty competitive these days: https://github.com/google/randen Yes, in some cases that’s still (a bit) too slow or too much code but best to benchmark first.
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by rainworld 1y ago
And yet here we are: DNR -> fancy grain -> DNR -> basic, approximated grain. Because noise doesn’t compress. And you get compression artifacts even in Blu-ray releases. What’s the point of applying fancy grain when what a lot viewe
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by rainworld 1y ago
These days, when we see noise/grain in an end product it has likely been added in post-production. So, ideally, studios would provide distributors with a noiseless source plus grain synthesis parameters. Bonus: many viewers would welco
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Are we overthinking post-quantum cryptography?(neilmadden.blog)
4 points by rainworld 1y ago|2 comments
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by rainworld 1y ago
Don't tell mopsi but I’m not actually Russian. Our vital interest is cheap energy and a peaceful near-abroad. Not our vital interest: https://static.dw.com/image/17298012_1004.webp
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by rainworld 1y ago
No, you’re still not getting it. This “double standard” is a figment of your imagination, it doesn’t exist. Roughly every country on Earth acknowledges Ukraine’s right to self-defense. A large number of them is materially supporting Ukrai
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by rainworld 1y ago
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by rainworld 1y ago
And already—for the n-th time—escalation has made things worse for Ukrainians. More bombs and missiles are flying, restrictions were lifted. Because good PR prolongs this war but doesn’t win it. Because ultimately, the interests of the nati
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by rainworld 1y ago
>Haven't they considered just stopping? We don’t have to speculate. They’ve just presented to Ukraine and published their conditions for ceasefire or settlement. The reaction suggests Ukraine/the West would rather continue. Of
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by rainworld 1y ago
>some other country to just give up That some other country gets over 55% of its budget from the West and almost all its materiel. Total direct “aid” over 320 billion so far. Total costs to the West much higher still. And the result fo
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by rainworld 1y ago
Not even the ability to pepper Ukraine with Kalibrs was hobbled. You raise a good point, though. Why is the West, via its proxy, attacking (not for the first time, it must be said) a part of what it recognizes as Russia’s nuclear strategic
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by rainworld 1y ago
Spooks in general like to project a veneer of competence, downright invincibility. Entertainment media, journalists, experts play a big role in this. And by and large it works. It’s especially true for spooks of a certain entity. Also, it’s
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by rainworld 1y ago
Yes, even in still limited numbers they have been highly effective. Hundreds of Ukrainian assets destroyed, and they have no real answer. Played a big part in Kursk becoming such a debacle. And Ukrainians cannot hope to match these numbers.
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by rainworld 1y ago
Yeah, it wasn’t the mass murdering of civilians with full material (several Hiroshimas worth of conventional explosives, free of charge) and poltical support of the ruling Democratic party that divided voters. Wasn’t the senile president an
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by rainworld 1y ago
KYIV, Ukraine — In the courtyard of a group of ordinary-looking Kyiv apartment blocks, a stairway leads down to a small basement apartment. With the windows cracked open, children's voices from a nearby kindergarten fill the room. &
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by rainworld 2y ago
Does Linux 6.8 in fact ship ABI v5? At least it’s not guaranteed (Ubuntu 24.04, 6.8.0-55-generic). This post suggests 6.10: https://lore.kernel.org/landlock/20240716.yui4Iezai8ae@digik...
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by rainworld 2y ago
// If we have no rules, just return if len(rules) == 0 { log.Info("No sandbox rules to apply") return nil } Really cool and well-written project, but I disagree with this choice: No rules should m
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by rainworld 2y ago
That bio is out of date but, fine, he’s not literally a think tanker, he operates on the academic side. Pretty much the same job, though, especially when writing such “opinion pieces”.
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by rainworld 2y ago
Think tanking is a fantastic grift. At first, representatives of the General Staff told a lot, confusing, but very interesting. Then there were more reports. But most of all I remember Budanov's answer. Someone asked him how much time

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