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by w0de0 5y ago
Ah, no, I believe it's primarily a purely tactical advance. Chernobyl is directly in the Russian army's shortest path of advance on Kyiv. If it turns out they don't try to take Kyiv, I stand corrected. But practical necessity
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I agree our nations have done less than everything that could be done. I do think we've done quite better than could have been hoped around 2016. I believe your moral certainty is quite flawed: 1. It rests entirely on hindsight. These
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by w0de0 5y ago
Is the subtext that Putin plans to blow it up, or what? Information war does not need a rational subtext - I suspect it is more effective when it hasn't any. Even better if multiple rationalities are all slightly plausible yet
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This development is a tactical prerequisite for besieging or attacking Kyiv. The exclusion zone covers the shortest route to the city from Belarus - the shortest route available to Russian forces. It’s also perhaps a strategic coup for Russ
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Your moral certainty is laudable and impossible to dispute without sullying one’s own ethics with hypocrisy, and inviting charges of moral and literal cowardice. But. Nuclear weapons are far beyond the ken and capability of humans’ intuitiv
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The exclusion zone occupies the shortest route from Belarus to Kyiv.
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Our hueristic for acceptable risk does not properly account for low-probability but extreme consequence circumstance - proverbial black swan events. Against instinct, we should find unacceptable even an absurdly minuscule chance of (for ins
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by w0de0 5y ago
Your point is most starkly clear in the case of any open source malware.
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No, the poster is entirely correct - for traditional currencies. Given enough cash, one could light a decent bonfire.
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I will do the politeness of responding, as recompense for the passion of my dismissal. If you be so kind, see my response in another subthread. I promise there is no shortage of pretense!
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I will do the politeness of responding, as recompense for the passion of my dismissal. > I want to ask, what about the book was so offensive? I would be dishonest not to admit my dislike's passion was conceived in frustration with t
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by w0de0 5y ago
In America, the train hasn't been that vital to infrastructure since the era that inspired the trope. Trucks move 7 times more value annually [ https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/2017-north-american-freight-num... ].
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A manifesto pretending (lazily) to be a novel, Atlas Shrugged is a sophomoric work of prescriptive pretension, not the type which observes and reports in verisimilitude a plausible description of human affairs. In short your comment is an i
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Indeed. It's probably the dastardly, competent CIA using innocent people's grievances to keep the Russian nation down. I mean, connect the dots! Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltics, now Kazakhstan? All suspiciously close to Russia. The
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by w0de0 5y ago
Humans are by an OOM or more the most complex creatures to arise from raw natural selection; about us we have constructed a fractal diversity of society and culture. Humans are animals, yes, but they have long transcended the ordinary press
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by w0de0 5y ago
How does one "instigate riots"?
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> archeological record or even fossil record The Earth may (I think it likely) have been tectonically active for long enough to destroy any such traces of an advanced civilization arising during its first couple eons (oldest macro-fossil
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by w0de0 5y ago
You have described, accurately if glibly, the situation in the West prior to the Industrial Revolution and globalization, which have brought world-historical growth in economic, educational, and spiritual quality-of-life for non-elites. Ove
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by w0de0 5y ago
Good point. Not sure why they invented the EU in the first place. Bunch of unnecessary bother, really.
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Indeed, the tale took a grim turn with this detail. I had hoped for some good clean macabre irony when I saw “Irish” in a coming sentence. Luckily, “See Also” has a link to Dublin Whiskey Flood - 13 fatalities - all alcohol poisoning!
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Of course you're right - but drugs usually do deliver the benefits espoused (if often at a Faustian price). Your two statements are a shade oxymoronic. Addictive habits form suddenly, but not immediately. Every drug requires a period o
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The internet also delivers mostly spam, and is still a public good. The USPS needs reform, sure. But a public postal service which will deliver mail to everywhere, even at a loss, is fundamental to civilized society. Prior to the internet,
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Neither position is inherently absurd, nor is their contradiction. A more thoughtful response might have taken the time to contemplate the origins of government and the relationship between “absurdity,” your understanding of government and
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You're absolutely right. Once I saw you characterize a tax as a punishment, billionaires as "people who know how to invest [wealth] efficiently and distribute it," and wealth as solely the result of "build[ing] economica
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Good god, man. This is slavish. And - I'll note - not unpopular, which is distressing. Tax isn't punishment. Ever. Especially when tax rate is already so low that the proposed "emergency tax" is still less than historica
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Perhaps I am unsophisticated, but as a regular user of both Windows and Mac - Mac for work - I find Macs to have exceptional UX. I do not feel the pain that is regularly elaborated in blog posts such as this. Among the best parts that Windo
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> How do you copy-paste file or folder paths between terminal and Finder? Anyone? Drag the file or folder from Finder to your terminal to copy the path. To open a file or folder in Finder from your terminal simply run `open <path>
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I’m no spy, but I believe your description of agents has always been true. Note that, outside fiction, “intelligence agent” is distinct from “intelligence officer.” The latter is a professional spy who recruits and handles the former from a
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You could write that article, make the argument. The ability to do so does not imply equivalence, a balance of "completely right or completely wrong," in which no morally superior position is available. This piece makes the key po
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Your critical responses focus on parsing the meaning of "astronaut," or on the true utility of the job with respect to other non-human test pilots. I leave all of that aside, and agree with you on egalitarian and emotional grounds

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