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by reisse 2y ago
> Russia has extreme levels of alcoholism and drug abuse. Russia _had_ extreme levels of alcoholism in the 1990s and in the beginning of 2000s. Since then, their anti-alcohol campaign was very effective. Instead of outright banning alcoh
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by reisse 2y ago
> Why just not drop any manned vehicles and go for the remote control + AI? What is the logic? When the F-35 program was started in late 1980s-early 1990s, neither reliable remote control nor AI existed (I'm not even sure supersonic
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by reisse 2y ago
Supposed to be the _final_ solution, right? I don't know if you're outright trolling or being serious here.
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by reisse 2y ago
A320 and 737 are functionally similiar only in terms of "a flying machine moving you in the air at 900 kilometers per hour". Both Airbus and Boeing are exploring in a space of different design and engineering concepts, where there
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by reisse 2y ago
> which is so extensive that moving power from supply to demand works over several time zones. It's not really possible to do that in China...
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by reisse 2y ago
You know that US taxes the same 30% on dividends for non-residents, right?
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by reisse 2y ago
> But yes, in 2022 they were told by their Western customers that they have to leave if they want their products to be bought, and JB evacuated from Russia, relocated people and fired those, who refused to leave, blocked Russian customer
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by reisse 2y ago
Sure. The only country from the top ten by population that observes the DST is the US. From the top fifteen countries, it's US and Egypt. I think the statement is true by any reasonable metric - population, land area, GDP size.
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by reisse 2y ago
> It is not because most of the world do summer time Eh? Most of the world don't do summer time.
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by reisse 2y ago
You're missing the point, news never affect prices directly. News generate excess (compared with current price) supply or demand, which is the primary cause for price changes. In a certain way, it's always "market reacting to
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by reisse 2y ago
Cool, but information about what links were used would be nice. I assume it's latencies for default AWS links, which you likely won't use if you _care_ about the latency.
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by reisse 2y ago
> "Look, no one pirates music anymore" Is using hacked streaming apps or sharing accounts in violation of ToS considered piracy?
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by reisse 2y ago
There is a lot of evidence that it was originally made by someone Russian-speaking, starting from the fact that initial LibGen collection was some Russian and English literature taken from a Russian torrent-tracker. However I'm sure th
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by reisse 2y ago
> but the traffic is _clearly coming from Germany_ How do you know that if the only thing you see on the receiving side is an IP address, which is marked as Iranian?
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by reisse 2y ago
A lot of US resources ban traffic outside the US. Or, at least, from "suspicious" or "sanctioned" locations. Some ban EU due to GDPR. You never know such things when you are in US though...
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by reisse 2y ago
> This approach will definitely save someone's life (and probably already is) but there's no golden pill that will, long term, give a healthy, in shape, body to people without effort. Why? Is there any rational reason for such
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by reisse 2y ago
> An OEM battery for an Android phone is like $50. I've done four or five battery replacements on various Pixel phones, each time battery was 15$ max. I've done the replacement myself, but I know that in an (unauthorized, obvio
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by reisse 2y ago
Ah, it's a cycle repeating itself. I remember when Microsoft first released XP it was considered bloated (UI-wise) compared to Windows 2000 and Windows 95/98/ME. Then Vista came and all of a sudden XP was in the limelight for
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by reisse 2y ago
> We have lost the ability to function without loss leading technologies (all US based, tying those needs to whatever economic and political situation is happening in the US to the entire world) Many countries have their own tech stack f
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by reisse 2y ago
It's very hard to gather full teams (usually 10 persons) in a small communities. Public matchmaking gives an opportunity to start a game in a minute from clicking "play", regardless of how many people you have at hand right n
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by reisse 2y ago
> If you mean Russia Yes. > (which by the way is only 600-700k) 700k was the official figure for 2022, which, besides the obvious reasons to be an outlier, is also skewed by the fact 300k more cars were imported as "used" to
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by reisse 2y ago
> where can the competition export? You see, there is a 1.5m-2m new car market right next to China, completely abandoned by western players. And another 500k-1m market in Central Asia, where General Motors neocolonialist monopoly is wait
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by reisse 2y ago
Because if Apple sold MacBook Air with more RAM, many people would prefer it instead of MacBook Pro.
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by reisse 2y ago
Looks like one thing Google cannot get right for the third generation in a row is that the smartwatch is the _watch_. Something you wear all day, something looking good, something matching a wide range of looks. Apple Watch managed to push
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by reisse 2y ago
As always, -funsafe-math-optimizations are neither fun nor safe
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by reisse 2y ago
8gb ram is not fine because it's really a 10$, maybe less, production cost upgrade for 1000$ laptop. Even if it improves quality of life when using the laptop 10%, it still brings like 100$ of value to you. The only reason Apple didn&#
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by reisse 2y ago
> The primary source of liquidity in the Bitcoin ecosystem is businesses buying it to pay data ransoms. Well, maybe you can explain then why most of the crypto liquidity is not in crypto itself, but in derivative products (mostly perpetu
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by reisse 2y ago
> Intel is refusing to disclose serial number ranges of the fundamentally defective processors? I bet they all are bad. Intel just hopes failure rate is low enough to RMA instead of recall. > How do owners of that series of CPU, who s
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by reisse 2y ago
> You need to know how git works and GitHub's API. No; just knowing how git works is enough to understand that force-pushing squashed commits or removing branches on remote will not necessarily remove the actual data on remote. GitH
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> After some changes which include deleting sensitive information and proprietary code, and squashing all the history to one commit, they change the repo to public. I know this might look like a valid approach on the first glance but...

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