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by varjag 10mo ago
He was there to coordinate his militias during the ongoing attack on the U.S. embassy. And countless lives have been saved in Syria now that Assad is out.
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by varjag 10mo ago
It impeded the Iranian colonial project considerably. Influence of Iran sponsored militias in Iraq have declined. It limped in Syria as well, which allowed for the fall of Assad regime a year ago.
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by varjag 10mo ago
I remember when Google appeared and literally can't recall anyone who thought it sucked. There statistically have to be some people who hated it. But everyone I knew was either on dial-up or low bitrate leased line and it was impossibl
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by varjag 10mo ago
6 years ago to the day many people were hysterical when Trump offed Soleimani on his Baghdad field trip. Turned out it brought substantial positive change to the Middle East. It may not work out this time but when you start from a terrible
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by varjag 10mo ago
Oh, so Obama admin was behind this? Same admin that had to be dragged by the French to help Libyans and that ceded Syria to Assad and Russia in 2013? Gotcha.
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by varjag 10mo ago
None of the places you listed (sans Egypt) were a part of Arab Spring, I wonder why.
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by varjag 10mo ago
None of them where Arab Spring had struggled were "moderate", this is ridiculous. Assad has caused death of over 600k people (by the time they stopped counting in 2019). And ISIS is a natural consequence of these secular (if you c
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by varjag 10mo ago
Which government was relatively moderate? Gaddhafi who threatened to slaughter the rebellious cities block to block on TV? Assad who did just that and gassed his own people for a good measure? The indecision of the international community t
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by varjag 10mo ago
Unfortunately I believe an invasion of Greenland is more likely.
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by varjag 10mo ago
Notice how I said nothing about long-term outcomes yet you insist on arguing in those terms. Have a nice day.
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by varjag 10mo ago
It develops pretty quick now. If you follow the news you already start to glimpse that I was spot on and it sounds like you try to move the goalposts now. Don't worry tho I'll take the high road.
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by varjag 10mo ago
Be serious. Did you really scratch your head for years figuring if it was popular in Afghanistan and Iraq?
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by varjag 10mo ago
You are free to bookmark this and rub it in my face later.
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by varjag 10mo ago
Here's another prediction: the regime will fall, the invasion will prove breezy and popular among huge fraction of Venezuelans. Trump admin (which was hugely insecure about its actual strength) will be bolstered and do some really real
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by varjag 10mo ago
I greatly respect your opinions here but I really doubt that would ever happen.
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by varjag 10mo ago
So it looks like C level execs will be made redundant before their human peons after all.
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by varjag 10mo ago
Sure but it's you who singled out Lisp here. The whole point of DSL is designing a purpose formalism that makes a particular problem easy to reason about. That's hardly a parallel to ever-growing vocabulary of standard C++.
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by varjag 10mo ago
Feynman was not entirely sincere. The implosion of nuclear device requires precise synchronization of multiple detonations. Basically the more precisely you can trigger the less fissile material you need for the sphere. To the day high accu
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by varjag 10mo ago
We once spent two weeks identifying a PTP handling bug in a particular Cisco switch firmware on a production site.
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by varjag 10mo ago
You can't sync individual oscillators precisely for very long.
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by varjag 10mo ago
It's because DSLs there reduce cognitive load for the reader rather than add up to it.
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by varjag 10mo ago
Well I for one didn't start, participate in or have supported the ongoing war of extermination and conquest. And I am not trying to win any Russian hearts and minds; that's one thing about being enemies.
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by varjag 10mo ago
There are some good people among Russian citizens, abroad or not. Some great people even. Unfortunately they are few and far between and are not representative of the mindset, aspirations and values of their home nation. So saying "the
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by varjag 10mo ago
Only perhaps 90-100 million of them are Russian citizens. For many others it's a second language too.
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by varjag 10mo ago
Europol is nothing next to Natasha in accounting
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by varjag 10mo ago
Close but unlikely to be precise in metrology sense. There's unlikely even a billion wrist watches being worn.
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by varjag 10mo ago
While I share the opinion that Chomsky held back the field of linguistics for decades, the belief that technical or scientific excellence has to beget virtues is a fallacy.
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by varjag 10mo ago
Interestingly it found a GC bug in my toy Lisp that I wrote in Z80 assembly almost 30 years ago. This kind of work appears to be more common than you'd think!
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by varjag 10mo ago
There's a thriving startup scene in that direction.
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by varjag 10mo ago
Not always, it started at a very specific point. Studio Ghibli craze + reinforcement learning on the likes.

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