saiya-jin

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1501.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
Not intervening is a sure way to have delayed consequences from same aggressor, of same or worse manner. This isn't about Ukraine itself anymore, not with Russia/Soviet history of dominance, coercion, bullying and murder. Nothing
1502.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
Your claims about those 13 - you provide no evidence, just sow baseless doubts. That's a russian playbook, saw them doing this and much more over past 20 years all around former warsaw pact countries to weaken them, with some success a
1503.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
Electric heating, oil heating and so on. Not sure if the grid would cope with such a load, but there are always options. Another option is just to give up with your kind of argument, and pay up Russia. That's looking increasingly like
1504.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
On paper with raw soldier numbers you may be right, but look at the map, and check once again how many troops russians deployed. Its not possible to really conquer country so vast with so few soldiers. Maybe 5x more, maybe 10x. Not if civil
1505.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
Patreon hosts tons of youtube channels focused only on weapons including purely military ones, how to make guns more effective (aka better at killing), how to tweak ammo to be more destructive. That's one fucked up schizophrenic stance
1506.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
Not sure why Germany has such a weak stance against Russia now. It can't be just because of oil and gas imports for sure. It must look supremely weak to any strongman like Putin, encouraging him to push for more since nobody ever gave
1507.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
> I'm now thinking Russia is the next country to get a massive improvement in quality of life and infrastructure That's practically impossible. They could have done in in last 30 years, but almost all the profit went to pockets
1508.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
You can train your body to incredible lengths. I became much more sporty some 12-13 years ago. In the beginning, if I did some longer hike or skitour (3+hours with 1000+ altitude difference), I got pounding headache no matter how much water
1509.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
That's simply not true. Many Russians are swallowing uncritically whatever Putin says. I've personally met on my Elbrus expedition in cca 2016 quite a few in our team (russian agency, I never go with western ones when mountaineeri
1510.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
If Taiwan military blows up critical parts of fabs upon invasion, China can promise whatever they want, its just empty words. Also, as we can see here, promises mean less than fart in the wind to states if its lucrative to break them
1511.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
> More to the point, is it worth igniting a war over Ukraine? Really? That's a very good question for Putin, try asking it and enjoy gulag or sudden inexplicable death/disappearance. What the fuck gives one state (Russia) right
1512.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
You and parent project this in some theoretical universe where these effects would be ignored. Why on earth do you think so? With semi-unlimited energy at our palms, we can do serious geoengineering. We can put these furnaces into high orbi
1513.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
Most often such comments come from eastern parts of Europe, where nationalistic movements have a nice resurgence in past few years. A prime example is Czech republic, a very euro-skeptical nation despite all the benefits it brought them. Hu
1514.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
Putin is smart as hell, most probably sociopath on top. You don't get to be long term successful KGB apparatchik for nothing. The problem is, nobody who wants all that juicy freedom, democracy and other perks of good western life wants
1515.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
just like: bigger half of Caribbean, City of London, all of the UK Channel Islands, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Malta, Cyprus, Macao, Singapore, Delaware (yes that's US) and many, many more. Its a dumb approach, sold by populist politicia
1516.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
Well elite in financial sense since we talk about banks, doing unlawful financial operations. Its not a bank's role to investigate murders. Poor can't do that much impactful financial crime, can they
1517.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
Yeah, a lot of people in Eastern Europe similarly associate Milka as quality chocolate (which is true compared to local ones). But once you taste high quality Swiss ones, most of the 'celebrated' ones taste like mediocre sugary go
1518.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
First part yes, second hell no. I haven't met testers in past 16 years with deeper dev knowledge (because they would be already doing that, usually better paid and more creative), business knowledge alone isn't gonna cut it. Unles
1519.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
Well look at the map. Look at neighbors. Look how many 9/11 culprits came from there. Look what is in the ground. US is more than happy to keep such dictators in place to get access and control over all this and more. It really doesn&#
1520.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
> I don't find the surveillance to be intrusive, so it's acceptable. Interesting opinion for somebody with nick called 'shadowgovt'. I get your point, but even as that its shouldn't be OK in any meaningful way. I
1521.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
People everywhere mix those 2 regularly and nobody is confused. You don't say you go out for a run to burn some kilo calories and so on. Sometimes places like HN are needlessly pedantic
1522.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
Can't say if you are serious or not - healthcare costs compared to US are insanely low. Even if you go to private clinics. If you actually live there, you ask around to not get fleeced by some 'posh' places that cost too mu
1523.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
US did this to themselves, FATCA et al pushed very aggressively by US government through regional/EU governments. Same goes for ie Switzerland, land for US retirees on very opposite wealth spectrum compared to this article. Now there i
1524.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
Saw this in my company few years ago when "agile" management was at the helm. But it was more in "cut X % workforce immediately", repeated few times even when financials were OK. It stressed people to no end, even well a
1525.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
> https://youtu.be/xky3f1aSkB8 On a highly unrelated note, looking at the video, the lady looks and sounds kind of familiar. US LHC, nah, too far, not probable. But then - "Filmed in CERN's S'Cool Lab&quot
1526.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
I agree with rare earth theory too, but even with it, the observable universe is so huge that even those tiny fractions of various probabilities should at the end materialize on a massive scale. And its not like with higher G or some other
1527.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
I've noticed this some 14 years ago when doing mighty backpacking trip(s) in India. 2x 3 month trips, traveling all around that place with little plan and just return ticked, planning max few days in advance. Every day was so differe
1528.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
Its about how selfish one is. Sure we can cram our tiny kids into plane to Japan and do that trip we planned like there is no tomorrow. But if you know a bit about child's mind you know how stressful for them that whole experience woul
1529.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
A kind of moot point, this is decision process happening in every studio all over the world. The only people who are truly independent are those who finance their movies themselves, and they are for a very different audience than Disney. No
1530.
by saiya-jin 5y ago
feels like the last 20% of this will take much more than 80% of the whole delivery time

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