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by sofixa 1y ago
The thread I answered in had someone playing dumb as if there would be no reason whatsoever to consider Russia a hostile actor, I was responding to that.
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by sofixa 1y ago
> The EU is clearly otherwise willing to watch Ukraine fall. All the money, humanitarian aid, weapons, intelligence, training and geopolitical backing beg to differ.
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by sofixa 1y ago
Might just be lag? In any case, if I recall correctly from a Youtube video I can't find (it was either Wendover or Real Engineering), if the grid is fully down, it takes quite a lot of effort and time to bring it back online because it
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by sofixa 1y ago
Spain and Portugal are quite big and with harsh terrain, I doubt anyone would bother invading in a traditional sense.
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by sofixa 1y ago
They still need other infrastructure to get anywhere though (routers and other networking infrastructure).
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by sofixa 1y ago
Heavy handed policing is not political repression. And yes, police, gendermerie and the army patrolling in France are armed. There have been enough terrorists attacks in recent memory that this is the norm. None of those weapons were ever u
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by sofixa 1y ago
And also American decision makers being incapable of not misunderstanding Communism and various Communist parties/regimes. They made the mistake in Korea and then repeated it shortly after in Vietnam, of just limping everyone together
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by sofixa 1y ago
> The internationally-recognized government of South Vietnam asked the US for military intervention. Nope. South Vietnam only existed because of the US. It had no popular support and it was basically a state out of whoever was left of
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by sofixa 1y ago
> even bough January 6 and the associated political repression took place in early 2021 Repression for a coup attempt is the expected and wanted outcome. Also, please stop mixing the US, maybe Canada and UK with "the West".
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by sofixa 1y ago
As someone from a post-Communist country, unfortunately it didn't, exactly. The former ruling class just switched colours and looted the country during the "privatisation" phase of democratisation. People were never properly
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by sofixa 2y ago
> One thing I can not afford though is your head in the sand optimism It's not optimism to be dismissive of opinions with no basis in reality. Russia cannot defeat Ukraine. If they attack in the Baltic, they'll add at least a f
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Dragging the EU into the Ukraine war What are you talking about, most EU member states have been a part of it from day 1. Per capita and per GDP some of them have contributed more than the US.
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by sofixa 2y ago
> I've seen teams go for AI, do it well, and succeed. Succeed based on what criteria? I struggle to think of a single product with "AI" that I'd call successful (excluding the already existing and established niches o
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by sofixa 2y ago
The choice isn't between a Chinese EV and an Italian diesel car. There are plenty of EVs by EU based manufacturers, including affordable ones from e.g. Renault/Dacia. Sacrificing the European automakers for a temporary discount wo
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by sofixa 2y ago
Key quote: > The regulations focus on measures to extend product lifetime (reparability, upgradability, battery life). The increase in average lifetime, e.g. from 3.0 to 4.1 years for a mid-range smartphone
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by sofixa 2y ago
You probably missed Mistal and DeepSeek. And of course you're making the assumption that AI will be a revolution on par with the industrial one, which is still to be proven.
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by sofixa 2y ago
Again with people of limited knowledge and intellectual assuming GDP means anything relevant to the point they're making, but it doesn't. Exhibit A, almost 9% of GDP is tourism. Not only is that not productive in any sense of the
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Name a thing that the USA will not be able to produce themselves Smartphones. Computers. Servers, switches. Anything that relies on an advanced chip. Anything that needs cobalt or lithium or coffee or cocoa or any other material not fo
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by sofixa 2y ago
Yes, Germany and France and the UK are gearing up for war. Then why do you claim that Russia will attack the Baltic and there's a chance it will be a limited war only there? Do you think Germany and France are gearing up for fun and wo
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by sofixa 2y ago
> No, just the Baltics. There will be no attack on Polish or Finnish mainland and so would these countries reciprocate only on the Baltic theatre. Neither Poland nor Finland will commit all their resources to defending the Baltics exposi
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by sofixa 2y ago
> But seriously, very good analysis Nah, it's utter bullshit. Russia can't defeat Ukraine on its own, but they think Russia has a 1 in 3 chance of victory if they add Poland, Baltics, Finland to their war? It's pure wish
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Yes Poland will join, absolutely: the battle for Suwalki/Kaliningrad will affect it directly if anything. But without the US commitment (which I hope you realize is not happening) there is a 1 in 3 chance of Putin's substanti
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Ukraine had dozens of airworthy fighter jets Russia had how many hundreds? And how much time to prepare how to neutralise them? > , Russian chance of occupying significant part of Baltics with realistic level of NATO involvement is
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by sofixa 2y ago
> If I were Putin I'd attack some very minor NATO state to check if NATO will really send soldiers to defend it. Example: is really somebody willing to die for Estonia Even if nobody else, the other Baltic states and Poland will def
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by sofixa 2y ago
Yes, but the initial stopping of the Russian advance happened before the vast majority of that help arrived. In a way, Russia lost the war the moment it didn't finish it in a few days - it ensured Ukraine could be supplied, and that th
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by sofixa 2y ago
> See, people look at the stalemate and often draw false conclusions. It's not that Russia was too weak militarily, it's that Ukraine put up one hell of a fight While Ukraine unquestionably put up a hell of a fight, the fact th
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Unfortunately, Putin is likely going to keep invading up to Germany’s Fulda Gap Russia can barely handle a stalemate with Ukraine. They have zero chance offensively against Poland and the Baltics, let alone the full blown might of the
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by sofixa 2y ago
> 1. easy to install packages 2. readily updated packages. Not OP, but I want my package manager to have good UX around package installs and updates, not it deciding to update a Python major version because a random small thing I'm
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by sofixa 2y ago
Raw compute wise, you're almost right (almost because real cloud hosts aren't overprovisioned, you get the full CPU/memory/disk reserved for you). But you actually need more than compute. You might need a database, cache
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by sofixa 2y ago
> Paul Graham (the only "thought leader" behind this website) loudly campaigns against the current U.S. administration almost every day on Twitter Does he? https://x.com/paulg (maybe moderated by Musk/Twi

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