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by rank0 4y ago
It that was truly their goal, they could’ve carpet bombed their targets day 1. Their nuclear arsenal is enough to obliterate much more than Ukraine off the map… The million land mines in Southeast Asia and record setting drones strikes and
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by rank0 4y ago
A big fan of the American war machine huh? The US is hated in many regions for playing world police. I suppose you support the war in Iraq because Iraq shouldn’t have invaded Kuwait? We only care about Taiwan because of TSMC. We don’t even
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by rank0 4y ago
> Russia has legitimate security concerns regarding a defensive alliance expanding closer and closer to them? Yes. The “defensive” narrative is silly if you can think strategically. The United States would NEVER tolerate a similar situat
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by rank0 4y ago
I see what you’re saying but now huge portions of the country and it’s infrastructure are literal rubble atm.
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by rank0 4y ago
This mentality is was created the Cold War and has cause immense international damage throughout history. I’m no fan of the Russian federation, but they have legitimate security concerns regarding nato expansion. We’ve been actively destabi
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by rank0 4y ago
That one is a tough calculation imo. My worthless opinion is that Ukraine and the west should’ve negotiated right at the beginning by guaranteeing no NATO membership. Even if Ukraine wins in the end, the country has become a smoldering pile
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by rank0 4y ago
I want to like Nix so badly but I just can’t get past the thought that it’s complete overkill. By the time you get comfortable with the syntax and tooling, you could’ve just crafted use-case specific shell scripts to compile/configure
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by rank0 4y ago
Plutocracy
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by rank0 4y ago
The other currencies are weakening faster than the dollar. You care about what you can actually buy with a currency not just it’s exchange rate.
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by rank0 4y ago
100% agree. Our government needs to start being fiscally responsible. We cannot sustain our current levels of debt forever…
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by rank0 4y ago
And you’d be a sucker for not taking tax credits the government has legally granted you. It’s the governments fault for making terrible loans and forcing taxpayers to absorb the risk. Don’t be mad at people for receiving…be mad the governme
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by rank0 4y ago
I don’t understand how you can be so optimistic about energy security in Europe. They’re in the midst of an energy crisis right now… The infrastructure they have now is literally insufficient.
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by rank0 4y ago
Did you read the article?
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by rank0 4y ago
What about the air defense systems? Those things surely need advanced compute. There’s also drones, communications systems, electronic warfare systems, jets etc…
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by rank0 4y ago
Setting a hard rule like this is quite strange… Did I understand that right? Women you interview get an automatic 0.5-1.0 handicap?
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by rank0 4y ago
Damn that’s such a depressing take I hope that’s not right. I’d much prefer ignorance over outright manipulation.
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by rank0 4y ago
So what about their wages? How are they going to service that debt if the cost of living is increasing faster than their income?
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by rank0 4y ago
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not… Financial assets actually do great in inflationary environments. Most people don’t have any. Why do you think most Americans can’t afford housing? Most peoples wages won’t even be close to increasing 10
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by rank0 4y ago
How about the annual 400B in interest payments this year alone? How about the massive wealth disparity in our society? I don't want to work for the government 4 months/year if we can just rack up infinite debt and be fine.
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by rank0 4y ago
Yeah and 90% of your citizens had their earnings/savings destroyed.
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by rank0 4y ago
> Interest payments relative to federal tax receipts are at multi-decade lows. It'll take some time before the current debt needs to be replaced at the higher rate. We've had artificially low rates for the past 14 years. I argu
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by rank0 4y ago
That's an excellent question...absolutely it does! Not many people seem to pay attention to this fact. Every year we have a multi-trillion dollar deficit in our congressional budget. To make up this difference, the treasury department
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by rank0 4y ago
Nothing is preventing any group from forming that exact governance structure. The cold hard truth is that nobody wants to do that. You’ll always lose to your competitors. Nobody actually wants to manage the entity that employs them.
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by rank0 4y ago
Is there a serious performance benefit here instead of using electron? You still need to spin up an instance of your operating system's javascript engine correct?
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by rank0 4y ago
Can anyone explain to me the appeal of guix over nix? Is the learning curve any easier? I really badly wanted to like nix...but its just so strange and unconventional. Whenever I need a disposable environment I reach for lxc/lxd.
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by rank0 4y ago
Not even trying to be confrontational here, and I appreciate the conversation. My 65 year old father maxed out his 401k for 35 years working his ass off. He's also set to receive a government pension from ~15 years working in the publi
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by rank0 4y ago
That’s a bit ridiculous and it’s entirely your own definition. A FAANG engineer who makes 300k in salary and owns millions in securities and real estate is absolutely still a “capital owner” or upper class or whatever you wanna call it. The
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by rank0 4y ago
Ya know I bet we even have a lot of overlapping opinions. It seems I just have a wider definition of “capital holders” than you do. For example there’s tons of subsidies to the upper middle class that I think should be eliminated. Examples
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by rank0 4y ago
Insanity. It’s shocking to see so much support here ITT. Nobody should have to fork over biometrics and government IDs to get on the web.
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by rank0 4y ago
Degree holders are absolutely in the upper tier of society. They earn more money and have more wealth. You don’t think the bottom 80% views the top 20% as “upper class”? We’re spending hundreds of billions of debt relief here. That money co

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