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by wwtrv 3y ago
The thing is that there a lot of direct victims of Soviet crimes or their relatives who are still alive and remember their atrocities. The Nazis on the other-hand generally just murdered everyone they hated (losing all of your property + 10
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by wwtrv 3y ago
What about the Intel a770? : D
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by wwtrv 3y ago
Well yeah.. just like wild animals which break a leg, catch a serious diseases etc. they can't do anything about it and die.
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> Well it's there in the name, they add machine learning to Postgres But they are not a publicly traded company so adding a keyword won't do much for the stock. It must be something more.
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by wwtrv 4y ago
Which is interesting since since the 1280p seems to be faster than the M2 according to most benchmarks.
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by wwtrv 4y ago
Well Churchill did have some authoritarian tendencies and believed it might be the optimal form of government in countries 'inferior' to Britain.
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by wwtrv 4y ago
While you're right to a degree this relationship is still beneficial to those laborers in Asia at least to some level. Due to western investment their living conditions generally have improved quite significantly to what it was in the
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by wwtrv 4y ago
Still though, most of those people come to the gulf countries voluntarily. Not that it justifies the abuse, however I presume they are still escaping an environment that's not much better. Or at least the meager allows them to escape i
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by wwtrv 4y ago
Or you could look at actually inspiring examples like Norway...
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by wwtrv 4y ago
Nazis weren't really that popular until the beginning of WW2, just that the opposition parties hated each other even more and were unable to unite in opposition (a bit like the Russian revolution). The conquest of France was an unifyin
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by wwtrv 4y ago
If you can't tell the differ between paying income tax and executing women who try to resist being raped (or imprisoning those who don't), there isn't much point in having a good faith discussion with you, is it?
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by wwtrv 4y ago
> that one could survive without clothes I'd love to see you to try and survive naked in the desert for an extended period of time. Temperature isn't everything. Also at night it might get pretty cold.
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by wwtrv 4y ago
> US is deeply Christian US is and always was a secular state.
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by wwtrv 4y ago
I bet white straight males who owned property loved living in antebellum south...
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by wwtrv 4y ago
Rising oil prices did benefit Russia immensely, though. IIRC their budget revenue even increased during the first half of 22. They shouldn't be doing that well now anymore (with falling prices and increasing restrictions). Of course it
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by wwtrv 4y ago
You do know what the word casualty means? The US 100k estimate includes the wounded, captured and MIA besides those who died.
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by wwtrv 4y ago
The child did not lose a mother, if he/she never had one. Also she'll be out around the time the child will start elementary school. So yes the child will still be in a better spot than 99% of all children in single family househo
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by wwtrv 4y ago
That might still be preferable to coming up with theories explaining mechanisms we don't fully understand and then looking for data which might prove it. That might become especially problematic when scientists stake their entire caree
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by wwtrv 4y ago
Well back then all of your friends and relatives were probably living in the same village. Now they might be spread-out over hundreds of kilometers or even much more. Seems like fundamentally different situations to me. > If you lived in
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by wwtrv 4y ago
> The problem is the regulation that mandates people have insurance or be punished Which is the cornerstone of any universal healthcare system? It only works in other countries if the healthy subsidize the costs of those less fortunate.
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by wwtrv 4y ago
> If there was some kind of universal medicare in the US You don't even need that. Just more/better regulation would suffice. You have countries with fully privatized healthcare systems like Switzerland or partially privatized
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by wwtrv 4y ago
> Any time there are price controls, there is scarcity That's not true. It would be the case for (close to) perfectly competitive markets with lower margins, like petrol, basic foodstuffs to some extent etc. It does not apply to mar
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by wwtrv 4y ago
So if most people supposedly don't use the feature it probably doesn't cost that much to have it. Also now people who actually want to view videos starting from oldest will use a magnitude or two more resources just by needlessly
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by wwtrv 4y ago
I recall (in a European country) a brief time window around then when you indeed could a get an unlimited plan rather cheaply. There were no restriction on tethering either so you could get unlimited data on your laptop. Considering how low
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by wwtrv 4y ago
Yeah, I agree I'm not justifying the coup in any way. However I fear that democracy in the region sometimes tends to produce somewhat undemocratic governments. Egypt was a pretty recent example (in some ways extremely similar to want h
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by wwtrv 4y ago
I meant that a high PE indicates that investors have a high confidence in the company. Preferring to buy stock with a low PE is (usually) a contrarian position, i.e. you would only do so if you believe that the company will do better than t
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by wwtrv 4y ago
The problem is that the majority of people in Iran seem to support the islamists, that was the case since and before 1979. I'm not trying to justify the coup but there is no way most people would consider the elections in 1952 to be de
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by wwtrv 4y ago
way lower PE ratio is not a good thing for a stock
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by wwtrv 4y ago
> If India can do this Can do what exactly? AFAIK they haven't actually built anything yet. It's going to be years until they have anything competitive with current gen CPUs. And even if they build something useful there is no
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by wwtrv 4y ago
> while communism optimises for the common good Communism mainly optimises for the good of the high ranking party members and other apparatchiks in charge they might occasionally throw some scraps to ordinary people but I don't see

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