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by torlok 7mo ago
That's because Desert Storm was launched by people who remembered the Second World War. Current wars are started by draft dodgers.
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by torlok 8mo ago
I hope you're joking. This is such "Ukrainians are just Russians by a different name" logic. China, Belarus, and North Korea are deep in this conflict, so are all the European countries. There's no stalemate end to this
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by torlok 8mo ago
I'm quite sure I was being clear when I called Democrats "pro-war neoliberals". Still, voting Democrat would have saved all those lives taken by the Trump administration up until this point.
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by torlok 8mo ago
I did not miss that. That's exactly my point. Its two sides of the same coin on this issue; that's why Democrat voters stayed home. Doesn't change the fact that there would be a whole lot less heinous events in and outside th
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by torlok 8mo ago
The ICE killings, deportations of US citizens, and the general anti-US sentiments around the world show that lesser evil exists, and that not voting can have consequences. It's a shame that it took all this for the Democrats to even be
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by torlok 8mo ago
Everything. A new conflict distracts from the ongoing genocide and allows its perpetrators to stay in power.
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by torlok 8mo ago
Donald Trump blatantly did this last year via Truth Social.
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by torlok 8mo ago
All these people are in the same rotten ideological boat. It's safe to assume that, as long as they're not competing for the same pile of money, they're cooperating. If not now, then eventually.
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by torlok 8mo ago
We should just let people with overwhelming amounts of money research and fund new ways to trick people's lizard brains into giving them even more money.
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by torlok 8mo ago
If the benefits of increased productivity went to the people instead of the 1%, you wouldn't need a growing population.
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by torlok 8mo ago
> Here's what I think the real skill of the AI era is. It's not prompt engineering. It's not knowing which model to use. It's not having the perfect workflow. > It's knowing when to stop. 99% of gamblers stop
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by torlok 8mo ago
The convenience of having regular generics and dyn generics handled automatically is a great feature of Rust, sure, however you can write a template in C++ that directly calls a method, f.e. obj.Object::method(), which skips the vtable, ach
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by torlok 8mo ago
Same thing was said about crypto.
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by torlok 8mo ago
I write mostly like I would in C, but use C++ features as needed. It ends up looking similar to Rust if you squint. All these "I write games in C" people complain about C++ features, and then end up reimplementing virtual interfac
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by torlok 8mo ago
It's in the Epstein files. Bannon was seeking funding from Epstein for all the worst far-right movements in Europe.
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by torlok 8mo ago
The point is that the data you're sharing may look banal to you now, but you have no idea how it might get used in the future, and by whom. You should assume that all data you share is available to everybody. Thus everybody should pref
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by torlok 8mo ago
On Friends it's implicit, on The Jetsons is explicit.
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by torlok 8mo ago
Caring about jetpacks, flying cars, or robot maids is such modern-day capitalist brain rot. George is the family's breadwinner and works only two days a week for one hour a day in the show.
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by torlok 8mo ago
Elon didn't want to get outshined after Sam Altman suggested that "maybe we build a big Dyson sphere around the solar system". When will people realize that these "geniuses" are only good at making money, and any be
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by torlok 8mo ago
There's an audience for this. People have been taking these vapid statements and his trouble with communicating as evidence of genius for well over a decade now.
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by torlok 8mo ago
Poland is still low on the EU ladder in terms of GDP per capita and PPP. What I wish is that the amount of subsidies from the EU was better communicated in the face of rising anti-EU sentiments, and the periodically-returning topic of WW2 r
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by torlok 9mo ago
The voter base doesn't care. Federal agents are sent to a state against the governor's will, a man gets shot and killed while carrying a holstered pistol, and all the MAGA 2nd amendment republicans think this was a justified killi
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by torlok 9mo ago
I thought he had freakishly large hands before, but that picture of him on the top with his hands in the air makes him look like the lawyer uncle from Always Sunny. He's built for free solo.
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by torlok 9mo ago
What a weird techno-optimist blog post, full of cherry-picked examples, with a twist of consumerism. Refreshing take in a sea of nihilism, but saying people are interested in Pokémon and N64 games again when it's mostly post-NFT &quot
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by torlok 9mo ago
Individual investors can buy whatever they want. The idea is to be competitive with the US, so that indices like MSCI World are more than just thinly-veiled S&P500 indices.
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by torlok 9mo ago
I'm fine with supplementing with nuclear, but it's still a single point of failure, and needs water. France and Switzerland had to shut down nuclear plants last year because the rivers got too hot. This issue is not going away.
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by torlok 9mo ago
I'm from Poland too and the only thing we have is land, the sun, and wind. Coal poisons the air we breathe, and hurts the climate our children will live in. It's not about money, it's about security. The worst thing for polis
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by torlok 9mo ago
Renewables lead to energy independence and a more distributed energy grid. It's fundamental to security, and can't be so easily measured in terms of money. The EU is increasing its independence from China via initiatives like the
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by torlok 9mo ago
> You cannot: > Operate official, unofficial, private or any otherwise competing BitCraft servers Doesn't this contradict the Apache license? Isn't this "source-available"?
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by torlok 9mo ago
You had a year of flip-flopping on tariffs, and a lot of noise. Serious threats are coming out just now, and may get cut abruptly closer to November. It's going to be a while before this presidency gets reflected by the market.

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