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by roca 5y ago
You're totally ignoring Putin's speech where he explicitly stated Ukraine always was and always should be part of a Russian empire.
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by roca 5y ago
Afghanis are starving now and Afghan girls can't go to school. (Yes, the Taliban are saying girls will be able to go to school again in March. We shall see.) Western allies spend huge amounts of money building roads and other infrastru
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by roca 5y ago
South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Donetsk, and Luhansk weren't part of Russia post-USSR. > And what it sees as the wresting of its allies by “the West”. Honestly, seeing how nations fare after trusting the USA (eg Kurds) I can’t really blame
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by roca 5y ago
But Ukraine hasn't joined NATO and until recently Ukrainian opinion was against it. Of course they very much want to join now, but that is a situation of Putin's own making. But anyway, I'm confused, because you're sayin
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by roca 5y ago
Putin turning back now, saying "actually I never intended to take Kiev", would be a clear admission of defeat. Everyone outside Russia would understand that, which matters because fear of Russia is an important goal for him.
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by roca 5y ago
One problem is that a lot of American institutions don't want an EU military, they want NATO to be the only player so they can dominate it. I take the American side in most international issues but I think that's a mistake.
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by roca 5y ago
Kenya's representative to the UN made a very strong statement against Russia invading Ukraine. Non-Western non-superpowers are no more excited about being kicked around by Russia and China than Western ones. Western hegemony hasn'
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by roca 5y ago
I basically agree, except the US invasion of Iraq is far more defensible than the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The USA got rid of a really bad dictator in Iraq. Ukraine's government was democratically elected and much better. The USA d
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by roca 5y ago
I think US/Iraq is not a good analogy. The USA got rid of a really bad dictator and the majority of Iraqs were happy about that --- but social divisions crippled the aftermath. OTOH Ukraine has a democratically elected government and i
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by roca 5y ago
The bigger point is that life for everyday Afghanis was better under the American occupation than it is now. (Partly because the Taliban can't feed them.) Too bad the warlords didn't agree.
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by roca 5y ago
There's some of the latter, but there are also a lot of people whose single principle is "AMERICA BAD" and everything else follows from that. (I'm not even American)
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by roca 5y ago
Russia in NATO would by no means "literally eliminate a whole host of terrible scenarios". Putin would still be in power, in fact he'd probably have swallowed up more territory by now using his ability to paralyze NATO, and h
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by roca 5y ago
Russia's interests aren't threatened by Ukraine in any way. Putin 's interests are; every successful democracy on his border is a model that threatens his rule. The USA is far from perfect, but nearly all the interventions y
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by roca 5y ago
You mean, Ukrainians keep wanting to join NATO.
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by roca 5y ago
In-network IP multicast has all kinds of practical issues. Without it, you can't match the performance of colo-hosted stream concentrators.
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by roca 5y ago
AWS and Azure opening data centres here should help.
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by roca 5y ago
P2P can't work once you have more than a few participants.
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by roca 5y ago
In practice safe Rust code never causes use-after-free bugs, for example, and UAF bugs are large fraction of exploitable RCE bugs. Safe Rust code could trigger a compiler bug that leads to use-after-free, or trigger a bug unsafe Rust code (
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by roca 5y ago
You can enable integer overflow checking in Rust release builds. Android does. I think that trend will continue and at some point even become the default.
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by roca 5y ago
This absolutist statement is basically meaningless. Taking Rust as an example (use Swift or even Java if that works better for your use-case), we know how to write Rust code that is guaranteed to be free from common classes of bugs that the
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by roca 5y ago
We don't need to be sure of that. We already have ample evidence that code written in Rust has far fewer vulnerabilities than, say, code written in C.
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by roca 5y ago
That wouldn't be crazy, and it's not much different to what ASAN does. But then what happens if/when a subsequent call to malloc() reuses that memory location? That location's entry in that global table is given a new ma
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by roca 5y ago
I skimmed the entire paper before making that comment. I'm pretty sure I understand it. BTW I have a PhD in static program analysis. If you think the paper is right, just explain how it detects use-after-free in the following code frag
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by roca 5y ago
Wow, that paper is extremely wrong. > Memory deallocation can be modeled as an assignment. For example, the statement free(p) can be represented by the statement p=invalid, where invalid is a special untyped pointer to a temporally ‘inva
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by roca 5y ago
Yes, but without temporal safety, it's not that valuable.
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by roca 5y ago
Not at all. Browsers have to assume Web content is malicious, and they behave accordingly.
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by roca 5y ago
Has Australia granted any such exemptions to anyone else?
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by roca 5y ago
Failure to understand the system is also not usually grounds for being allowed to enter a country.
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by roca 5y ago
I do not understand the "what more could this man have done?" line. Trying very hard to meet the rules for entering a country, but not actually being able to meet them, does not normally give people the right to enter that country
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by roca 5y ago
He should explain what he was thinking in early December, before he tested positive for COVID. Presumably he was not actually expecting to play in the Australian Open then, having no grounds for any kind of exemption? Did he actually say th

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