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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
About those alternatives, do you think Boris Nemtsov was murdered without Putin's approval or order, right outside the Kremlin?
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
2015 was the first year of the Rabid Puppies, as can be seen from "No Award" actually winning the Best Novella and Best Short Story categories, among others. We'll never know who would have won in the absence of all that ball
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
By your argument, we should disregard everything Noam Chomsky says on politics because he is a professor (emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an elite university deeply interconnected with the government, and thus must b
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
As can be seen in the first seconds of the lectures, Timothy Snyder is a professor at Yale [1], a private university, so he cannot be considered a government employee. Additionally, even in government run universities in the west, there is
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Second the recommendation, learned a lot watching this. If you don't have time to watch all 23 episodes, the last one is a bit of a summary, discussing the history of European imperialism and colonialism, particularly Nazi German imper
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
The same way they already did in Estonia in 2007? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3xq2XrCHv8
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Some journalists have interviewed high ranking members of the Trump administration, including Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who said that Trump told him "he would seek to withdraw from Nato and to blow up the US alliance with South Kor
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Agree with your list of pro-Russian populists, except Meloni doesn't appear to be pro-Russian, in Italy it's rather Salvini (Lega Nord) and Berlusconi (Forza Italia).
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
If US Congress decides to spend 1 billion USD on weapons for Ukraine, they will not wire 1 billion USD to a bank account in Ukraine. The US government will give > 900 million USD to US companies that build weapons in factories in the US,
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
The Elon era seems to emphasize hypocrisy and censorship at the command of authoritarian regimes, while Elon himself posts disinformation about election laws in the US. https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-gov
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Indeed, the term doesn't describe any of the 3 countries it's most often applied to (the other being China and the USA).
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
The customer who hired this consultant was authorized to read that data because it was their data, not the vendor's; it was just stored on the vendor's server.
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Perhaps you are confusing Nizhny Novgorod (on the Volga, east of Muscovy) and Veliky Novgorod (with the historic Republic, south of Saint Petersburg, west of Muscovy).
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Notably, Crimea belonged to Russia since the defeat of the Crimean Khanate in 1783, when Russians ethnically cleansed half of the native Crimean population, and in 1944 Stalin deported the entire ethnically Crimean population that was lef
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Not to mention "export", which was in C++98 but only ever supported by Comeau C++.
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Would you say fossil fuels are not sustainable, given they are subsidized with trillions of dollars every year? https://www.statista.com/chart/31016/volume-of-global-fossil...
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
The governments have to subsidize solar, so it can compete with government subsidized fossil fuels. You may be surprised to learn that global fossil fuel subsidies rose from $4.5 trillion in 2015 to $7 trillion in 2022. https://
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
That's a good area to start, although 90% might be optimistic. See this paper: Pozen, Alexis and David M. Cutler. 2010. Medical spending differences in the United States and Canada: The role of prices, procedures, and administrative ex
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
> It's still a class A misdemeanor though and they will arrest you for it. Just like in California. https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/Prop47FAQs.pdf
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
> And places like California, Oregon, and Washington won’t prosecute for crimes under about $950. For comparison, in Texas, the misdemeanor limit is at $2,500. https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm&#x2F
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
The reason why people served XHTML as text/html was that Microsoft Internet Explorer didn't recognize application/xhtml+xml. https://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml https://www.w3.org/2003/0
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Ubuntu ships the live patching that was developed by SUSE and Red Hat. After Oracle acquired the company that developed ksplice and took the technology private, SUSE started to develop kGraft[1] and Red Hat started to develop kpatch[2], and
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
I got the impression that sources are not available to the general public. See for example this security update, the versions back to 20.04 have links to launchpad, the older versions have no link but say "Available with Ubuntu Pro&quo
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
> their competitors are essentially doing the same thing. OSF was developing an operating system[1] based on Mach, a file system from IBM, and BSD's IP stack, that intentionally had very little in common with AT&T UNIX. OpenELA
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
There isn't really an equivalent of Tumbleweed in the RH ecosystem. CentOS Stream maintains various API and ABI stability guarantees whereas openSUSE Tumbleweed just upgrades you to the latest version regardless, once it has been teste
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Interesting that both Red Hat and SUSE ended up with quite similar processes now with Centos Stream+EPEL vs. RHEL and openSUSE Leap vs. SLE. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe... https:&
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Essentially a debt ceiling means: * legislature determines the government's income by setting tax rates * legislature determines the government's spending by passing the budget law * legislature determines the maximum amount of go
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Please try to find KDE on this page: https://documentation.suse.com/sled/15-SP4/ > SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop includes the X.org server, Wayland and the GNOME desktop. https://documentation.suse.c
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
FireWire (aka IEEE-1394) was an open standard but implementors were charged substantial per-unit patent royalties by MPEG-LA. This likely a major reason why it lost out to the royalty-free USB, despite technical advantages.
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by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Only superficially; the display server architecture was quite different and more powerful in NeWS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22456575 There are a lot more interesting DonHopkins comments in this thread: https:&#

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