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by skitout 6y ago
Well, it make total sense that for example Poland wanted to join NATO. Still, this move was certainly seen as a expansionist and threatening move by the Russian. And the fact the West seems to had informally committed to not enlarge NATO to
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by skitout 6y ago
30 years in geopolitics and in history is nothing... And I guess many Russian would feel the West, NATO, USA had been expansionist, as they "aggressively" expand their area of influence (colored revolution being one tactic) in Ru
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by skitout 6y ago
For Tunisia (or Egypt), the key element was the army stepping in against the dictator.
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by skitout 6y ago
My point is not to say what is preferable. I was just pointing that saying "A part of not assassinating Assad is that he was fighting the extremists (aka ISIS)" is not true, as ISIS was a minor player at the beginning, and as Assa
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by skitout 6y ago
Sorry I have not been precise. Ukraine was not part of Russia, but under Russian influence. And Ukraine in very important for Russia (ans Belarus share this same characteristics) as this gives access to Russia's core, without natural b
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by skitout 6y ago
Russia took Crimea in response of having "lost" Ukraine following a pro-west colored revolution, that had probably helped by foreign interests (USA is probably part of the equation)... Crimea was quite already Russian anyways...
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by skitout 6y ago
ISIS was not a significant player at the beginning of the events in Syria. And Assad helped ISIS by freeing men [1], then not really targeting it during the first part of the war. ISIS (and other extremist) were fighting against other Assad
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by skitout 6y ago
In a way this post is saying that a new nation is emerging ("culturally aligned knowledge workers") and that that would make sense to create a new Nation State for this new nation ?
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by skitout 6y ago
2 recent examples, and 2 old ones : Recently Syrian Kurds (YPG) are more or less anarchists and had decisive military victories, mainly but not only against ISIS... Zapatista Army of National Liberation is close to anarchism too... The conf
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by skitout 6y ago
So to you this is not a problem that VC and investors discriminate negatively people based on their gender of race ?
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by skitout 6y ago
You think you hire the best person for the job... Just like the Swedish in the HBR article I quoted were sure they invest in the best project/person while they were discriminating negatively women (the discriminating positively men).
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by skitout 6y ago
"My point is, arbitrary assumptions based on race are totally meaningless in 2020." Well, unfortunately race and gender are still important in 2020, and in the VC world there are still important negative discrimination against wom
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by skitout 6y ago
Well, invstors unconscious bias against Black people, against woman and many other (and unconscious positive discrimination of White and Asian men) is hurting the tech ecosystem [1] [2] which isn't good either for current VC and for th
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by skitout 6y ago
Do we agree that current VC, mostly because of unconscious bias, are racist and sexist ? Then what do you suggest to change this situation ? I am not super comfortable with counsious positive discrimination as a momentary tool to correct a
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by skitout 6y ago
Example of bias from some VC against woman (was done is Sweden, know for its gender equality): https://hbr.org/2017/05/we-recorded-vcs-conversations-and-an...
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by skitout 6y ago
The fact is (this is fact, not ideology) VCs tend to : -discriminate positively White and Asian men because they are White and Asian man independently of their merit -discriminate negatively all other people because they are women, black pe
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by skitout 6y ago
Renewable energies, energy efficiency and demand response are already cheaper than most new dirty power plant...
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by skitout 6y ago
First thing is generally to avoid storage (diversified electric mixed,interconnection, big demand response market, and things like solar not optimized for the maximum kwh generation but for generating kwh when needed possibly...) Then you h
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by skitout 6y ago
The article is not talking about people wearing Maga hat... Not sure what is the point of this comment about this particular article (while I would understand it on some other articles, even if I would disagree with you)...
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Bernard Stiegler(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by skitout 6y ago|0 comments
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by skitout 6y ago
40% is kind of an average of already installed offshore wind project, some having been installed 10 years ago... In wind project in general we've seen a continuous trend of spectacular increase in capacity factor [1], and 40% capacity
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Weboob(weboob.org)
64 points by skitout 6y ago|78 comments
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by skitout 6y ago
The fact is people are forced to participate in our current society. There is more freedom than in Cuba, but there are still huge number of things constraining my freedom, how I can use it, how much would cost to exercise this freedom... Ho
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by skitout 7y ago
A (non-specialist) idea of architecture : - If you are more than X minutes at less than 2 meters of someone, you get a unique address from this person (like for any blockchain transaction), stored in your smartphone. - If your are infected
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by skitout 7y ago
A good Monero wallet gives you more privacy than any bank...
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by skitout 7y ago
In general I do agree with you; here I think it is different, with 2 different options. 1. You can use Monero like blockchain 2. What's allowing to de-anonymize wallet is the multiple transaction you do, especially the transaction link
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by skitout 7y ago
If there is no need of blockchain, then it would be "stupid" to use blockchain, as it tend to be more complex and inefficient. However all the design I came through included a state-run centralized database to contact people who h
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by skitout 7y ago
Thank you for your insight. My (non specialist) answers: 1. It is possibly be a (little) bit more expensive to run, but the cost must be compared with the potential gain: more privacy, and more adoption thanks to privacy (=less cost for tre
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by skitout 7y ago
"We don't want something that only allows people to be notified on their devices without anyone knowing who they are. We want to know exactly who the contacts are" Why??? And even if you want the authorities to get specific n
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by skitout 7y ago
Blockchain allows to send stuff pseudonymously (bitcoin, ethereum, komodo…) or anonymously (monero, Zcash, pirates...), and allow to get a decentralized system, with high level of privacy and control. Seems to me that can be useful for a mo

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