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‘Coda’ Star Troy Kotsur on His Historic, Healing Oscar Nomination(nytimes.com)
1 points by vanusa 5y ago|1 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
Title edit for diction (which in the original was basically broken).
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Why is the White House stealing $7bn from the people of Afghanistan?(theguardian.com)
13 points by vanusa 5y ago|3 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
One can debate whether the Soviets would have been able to invade the Home Islands, or whether this would have been necessary to press the Cabinet into surrendering. But it does seem strange to say they were not in a position to make a &quo
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by vanusa 5y ago
I am not the only one who believes that in the long term the atomic bombs saved millions of Japanese lives. You can believe that if you want of course - but it seems simplistic at best to ignore other factors, such as the planned Soviet e
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by vanusa 5y ago
Both are correct actually. But at least you care - that's what really matters.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Also, he’s criticized the Russian government many times before. Which makes his current silence all the more telling.
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by vanusa 5y ago
"Passive aggressive" is exactly how you expect people to behave when you force them to do things they don't particularly want to do -- and follow this up by not paying them for it.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Such twaddle. As if Rogan's programs "pierce the veil of our own simplified reality".
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by vanusa 5y ago
I would consider someone a moron if... I'd be pretty pissed if ... Sounds like you'd be a natural pick to run a company with 270,00 employees.
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by vanusa 5y ago
I find the Russian demand that NATO not expand to Ukraine fairly reasonable given the history they have with NATO. Do you find the act of holding a knife against the throats of 40m people to persuade compliance with this demand to be als
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by vanusa 5y ago
There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war. To say this about the media without making the same critique about the actions of the current leadership your host country -- which is very obviously the party doing the "
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by vanusa 5y ago
The important part is that people in these roles receive phycological support too, That may be "the important part", but the article is very clear about the fact that, in you know, actual reality -- the workers at this company d
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by vanusa 5y ago
The point is, like PHP and FORTRAN it got millions of people programming who otherwise wouldn't have -- precisely because of its loosey-goosey philosophy (and lack of default strictness). And because it could be used to do some seriou
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by vanusa 5y ago
And so it goes through the ages. I dropped it in there because it's the famous refrain from the 1982 Fear hit Let's Have a War : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUxkFCBPgx4 Which seems to find new relevance in t
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by vanusa 5y ago
There's so many of us
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NATO expansion: 'a policy error of historic importance' (1998)(jstor.org)
3 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
Could be.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Misleading title. What he said was that that would be likely happen if Ukraine joins NATO and "attempts to retake Crimea by force" -- which would be a rather different set of circumstances than simply "joining NATO".
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by vanusa 5y ago
With no support whatsoever for that claim.
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by vanusa 5y ago
That is of course not what the article says.
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by vanusa 5y ago
That's now what Biden actually said, of course.
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by vanusa 5y ago
We're talking about a person who has less than 48 ours ago threatened nuclear Armageddon on the entire world. [1] Strictly speaking, he said that bad things you're talking about would happen "if Ukraine joins NATO and tries
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by vanusa 5y ago
Among the many things to hate about LC: in most circumstances (in Python land, now) you wouldn't be too happy with someone for mindlessly cranking out a full-fledged class (with some apparent confusion thrown in about the nature of the
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by vanusa 5y ago
Why not link to the the Bloomberg article directly? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-11/ubisoft-e... https://archive.fo/mdPyU
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by vanusa 5y ago
Yeah, I guess I'm kind of nostalgic for the days when being a college instructor was still considered a viable profession in itself.
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by vanusa 5y ago
"It is idly speculated that blockchains may be applicable to real estate" would be a better title.
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As 15-minute grocery apps move in, LES bodegas contend with getting muscled out(gothamist.com)
6 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
"As if to"
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by vanusa 5y ago
Very few of the maths textbooks I've read have had the answers to the exercises in them. Well it's been a while - by my recollection is that (at fresh and sophomore level at least), the better textbooks always did have answer

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