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by roca 5y ago
Their vaccination rate among elderly is quite low, their vaccine isn't as good as the main Western vaccines, and their hospital system in rural areas isn't very good. If/when COVID runs rampant they will have a lot of deaths.
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by roca 5y ago
I stand corrected, my information was a couple of years out of date. Thanks.
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by roca 5y ago
"We have patents required to implement AV1." "Which patents?" "We're not telling. But they're real, take our word for it." Sounds like FUD to me. Sure, they have a long history of involvement in the c
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by roca 5y ago
Last I checked that patent pool didn't actually declare which patents they believe are needed for AV1. It's FUD.
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by roca 5y ago
Not at all. This is all about retrofitting existing code with more static checking. Nothing here creates an incentive to write new code in C++ instead of Rust.
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by roca 5y ago
> Notably, no language will ever be able to catch pure logic errors by itself. It's true you'll never be able to catch all logic errors automatically, partly because you need full correctness specifications for that. But langua
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by roca 5y ago
This exploit chain illustrates how once you have obtained a memory corruption primitive it is very hard to prevent full compromise. This makes it more important than ever to limit the ability of attackers to acquire memory corruption primit
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by roca 5y ago
Of course RT is controlled by the Russian government. Can you find Zelensky's recent interview with Russian journalists on RT?
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by roca 5y ago
Complaining about censorship when you've thrown in with the Russian state media is just absurd. Here's an experiment for Chris Hedges: try doing a show on RT denouncing Putin and his war on Ukraine. At the very least RT will do ex
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by roca 5y ago
The only way to guarantee sustained Ukrainian grain production is for the Russians to withdraw or for Ukrainians to surrender. I don't think the Ukrainians are obliged to surrender to stop people in other countries from starving. This
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by roca 5y ago
FWIW I'm not American.
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by roca 5y ago
The idea that Canada or Mexico would want Russian or Chinese bases is so counterfactual it doesn't make sense at all. The USA doesn't interfere in Mexican elections. Some of Mexico's governments are quite anti-American. Non
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by roca 5y ago
Russia's neighbours wanted to join NATO because they were afraid of being invaded by Russia (again) --- and Putin's invasion of Ukraine shows they were exactly right to be thus afraid.
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by roca 5y ago
In Afghanistan? Unlikely to be hundreds of thousands of civilians killed by Americans/allies. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/af... says "at least 71,000 civilians kil
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by roca 5y ago
Maybe only America truly knows, but CND (via Wikipedia) agrees with me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing https://cnduk.org/resources/united-states-nuclear-weapons-eu...
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by roca 5y ago
Eastern and Western Europe would have been crazy to gamble everything on the hope that admitting Russia to NATO somehow neutralizes Russia, not NATO.
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by roca 5y ago
That is pure speculation. Even if you're right, Eastern European countries would be stupid to put their trust in Russian dictators staying benevolent. They were smart and joined NATO.
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by roca 5y ago
The US-supported Afghan government wasn't worse than the governments before or after it. South Korea's an interesting example. It was a dictatorship, now it's a thriving democracy. Ditto for Japan, Taiwan, West Germany. Somet
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by roca 5y ago
Interesting. I can open it fine. Here's some relevant text: > So, I will start with the fact that modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia or, to be more precise, by Bolshevik, Communist Russia. This process started practically
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by roca 5y ago
China won't be interested in propping up Russia. There's nothing in it for them.
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by roca 5y ago
Nonsense. NATO will never risk nuclear war unless Russia attacks a NATO country first. If NATO was willing to risk attacking Russia, they would already be fighting in Ukraine, which is a much lesser risk. They'll arm Ukraine but they w
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by roca 5y ago
The US military killed nowhere near that many. It was mostly internecine warfare.
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by roca 5y ago
> Why not? If America's plan was to take Iraq's oil, what went wrong with the plan, given Iraqis still control their oil?
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by roca 5y ago
If Starfleet's policy is to simply stand aside and watch while one civilization genocides another, I'm not a fan.
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by roca 5y ago
The US spent many billions of dollars feeding Afghanistan, building infrastructure, educating its people, and trying to protect them (especially women) from the Taliban. It didn't work, unfortunately.
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by roca 5y ago
Also, Russia already has NATO states on its borders, and there aren't nukes stationed there.
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by roca 5y ago
If Russia had joined NATO then there would be nothing to stop Putin taking the Baltic states right now.
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by roca 5y ago
"Russia has no fear of NATO" => "Putin takes Baltic states".
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by roca 5y ago
He wouldn't have believed the list. Just like a lot of Europeans didn't believe he would invade Ukraine.
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by roca 5y ago
He was a US ally in the 80s. Later he wasn't.

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