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by toxik 5y ago
You don’t take a loan to buy paint brushes, you may take a loan to bootstrap a painting business - the business is not depreciating. I agree though, you’d take a loan to buy eg a CNC mill, and you’d expect it to depreciate. On the other han
722.
by toxik 5y ago
First and last author both work for a company that sells saffron products for medicinal use.
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by toxik 5y ago
It is the right call for now. Joining NATO should not be a knee-jerk response, but a measured and considered thing that can wait until after the general election later this year.
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by toxik 5y ago
You misunderstood, or simply ignored the word “public”. In free press societies, you need the will of the people to go to war. You need a 9/11 moment. A casus belli.
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by toxik 5y ago
Sure, but can you prove it to the public in enough certainty to declare war? No. Suppose it was Russian flag, they could very easily just claim they were framed - and they very likely could’ve been.
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by toxik 5y ago
There is some sense of irony in an accessibility shortcut (the wheelchair icon) obscuring the viewport so you can’t read properly.
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by toxik 5y ago
They have guns, the two parties warred before. In fact, there was never a formal peace agreement so the war is technically still going on. The asymmetry is in the economics. Taiwan can realistically be strangled by China. This has seemed li
728.
by toxik 5y ago
Page is absolutely foobar on phone. Safari.
729.
by toxik 5y ago
Why can’t we abstract over this and optimize per system in runtime?
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by toxik 5y ago
The logic is simple. If Ukrainians can’t play, then neither should Russians.
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by toxik 5y ago
Isn’t that a result of the push to cable-tvize the internet? Symmetric high bandwidth internet became commonplace during the height of the P2P downloading era where I live. Because the market was there.
732.
by toxik 5y ago
Strong disagree. By your logic, we should be invading Russia.
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by toxik 5y ago
It’s strange that Youtube is so entrenched that even Russia could not muster its own alternative.
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by toxik 5y ago
The human incentives are certainly there, it’s the copyright and IP industry that does not want this to come to pass. There was a time when you could find obscure things on torrents with seeders, but that was shut down by the IP rent seekin
735.
by toxik 5y ago
Page crashes on my phone. Safari.
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by toxik 5y ago
Re Enigma, I thought the problem was that they ended every message with “Heil Hitler”, not anything about the cylinders.
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by toxik 5y ago
Let's examine your obvious Russian troll bait. Let's go even further, even. Let's assume that Ukraine is literally run by a resurrected Hitler. This does not justify a Russian invasion of Ukraine. The argument, even when bols
738.
by toxik 5y ago
The Balkan situation was much more similar to what's going on in Ukraine right now, there was really no immediate threat to the rest of Europe. Invading especially Sweden is completely different in this regard. If Sweden, why not Denma
739.
by toxik 5y ago
You are completely ignorant of the current status and history of Europe. An attempted invasion of Finland and Sweden would be an unambiguous declaration of war on the European Union, there is no other interpretation. China would, no doubt,
740.
by toxik 5y ago
Let me get this straight, you believe that if Russia invaded northern Europe outright, central and south Europe would not intervene? I guess some topics aren’t great to discuss on HN.
741.
by toxik 5y ago
Sweden and Finland is NOT joining NATO, if that is what you think.
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by toxik 5y ago
You have left out the part of that article that says that these protests are only about local issues and do not worry or concern the CCP.
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by toxik 5y ago
No doubt the Russian strategy will be to establish a strong presence on the western side of the Dnieper.
744.
by toxik 5y ago
Uh, this is missing bombings in several Ukrainian cities, not least Kiyv, Lviv, ~Donbas~ Donetsk.
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by toxik 5y ago
Terrorism is to war as cryptocurrency is to economics?
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by toxik 5y ago
People definitely do this on matchmaking sites!
747.
by toxik 5y ago
How do they see their texts calls emails etc? Surely that’s illegal.
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by toxik 5y ago
Stop presenting your N=1 data as truth. I text a half dozen people over SMS with regularity.
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by toxik 5y ago
If you’re a public figure, yes.
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by toxik 5y ago
Right, and it would be totally crazy to want to choose which episodes and just download those for later eg during a run. Because you can’t do that.

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