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by xcv123 3y ago
The annexation of Crimea occurred immediately after the 2014 revolution. The west made their move and Russia responded.
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by xcv123 3y ago
I am not talking about justification. I am talking about what motivated Russia to take this course of action.
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by xcv123 3y ago
Your reply is well thought out. The fact is that Ukraine was being turned against Russia. This was unacceptable to them and considered an existential risk, whether by direct or indirect force, by military or political/cultural subversi
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by xcv123 3y ago
Yes everything that followed was entirely without US agency support. How convenient.
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by xcv123 3y ago
Yes. However, the difference being that there was a 2014 revolution in Ukraine, and Ukraine did subsequently become aligned with the US, and the US is extremely aggressive toward its enemies and has been inciting anti-Russia hatred for many
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by xcv123 3y ago
Your timeline is messed up here. Poroshenko was the guy who signed the EU deal in 2014, immediately after the revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union%E2%80%93Ukraine... > Really? Yes, the 2014 Ukrai
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by xcv123 3y ago
> Russia has no legal or moral right This is not about rights or whataboutism. This is about a government and society that believes there is an existential threat to its existence. I am just understanding things rationally, using critica
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by xcv123 3y ago
US invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc, is an historical reality. Not Kremlin propaganda. I am just observing and thinking independently. Ukraine obviously became aligned with the US/NATO side before Russia invaded. > they jus
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by xcv123 3y ago
Perfect excuse to raise prices and make more profit than necessary, disguised as a "risk premium". Regulators would need to audit this.
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by xcv123 3y ago
So you are proud of being stupid and illiterate. Instead of accepting a correction you double down on the stupidity. Childish.
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by xcv123 3y ago
You didn't read the article. Greedflation is a theory that some companies exploited inflation to create excessive profits, not that greed was the sole cause of inflation. Here is the study: https://www.ippr.org/files&#x
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by xcv123 3y ago
This is very basic stuff. You are overthinking it. Microsoft is in the group of "big five" tech companies (Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft). IBM is not in that group. The reason for that is IBM is significantly smaller
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by xcv123 3y ago
> unless these so-called “scientists” got companies to open their books, they don’t know shit Public companies. Publicly available information.
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by xcv123 3y ago
> I can deduce that inflation isn't caused by greed Try actually reading the article before commenting. The article does not say that inflation is caused by greed. Not even close.
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by xcv123 3y ago
"Greedflation" describes an observation that is independently verifiable. Publicly available data. "the report finds that company profits increased at a much faster rate than costs did, in a process often dubbed “greedflation
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by xcv123 3y ago
The article is not making claims of any conspiracy. The companies can act individually to exploit a situation. Corporate greed. You're missing the context of higher reported inflation being used as an excuse to increase prices beyond w
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by xcv123 3y ago
The only way to settle this once and for all, is an arm wrestle between Arvind Krishna and Satya Nadella.
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by xcv123 3y ago
Yes Red Hat is significant in its niche of enterprise server operating systems, but it's not in the same league as Microsoft as a company overall. Red Hat would typically be deployed on AWS or Azure where they rake in all the money. Wh
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by xcv123 3y ago
Microsoft is now 20x bigger than IBM in terms of market cap.
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by xcv123 3y ago
The Red Hat deal was relatively small at $34B. Microsoft has a market cap of $2.8 Trillion. IBM is only at $146 Billion. But IBM still has a higher head count.
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by xcv123 3y ago
Obviously the English Channel separates the continental mainland and the UK. Geographically the UK is part of the British and Irish Isles. The UK is generally not considered as part of "continental Europe", but some definitions of
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by xcv123 3y ago
... is not part of the UK itself. But it is under British sovereignty.
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by xcv123 3y ago
UK is an island, not part of the continent.
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by xcv123 3y ago
Jetbrains took the #1 spot from Eclipse many years ago. The free community edition is fully capable.
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by xcv123 3y ago
Could be poor sound quality from your phone microphone
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by xcv123 3y ago
> usually more expensive to run AI models Machine learning inferencing on phones is cheap these days https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Neural_Engine
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by xcv123 3y ago
Examples that I could find. Not sure that the browser itself is a political tool (yet). But the leadership has been strongly in favour of implementing some dystopic ideas. Crazy ultra far left weirdos. "MOZILLA CEO CALLS FOR INCREASED
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by xcv123 3y ago
That statistic could be skewed by a high childhood mortality rate.
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by xcv123 3y ago
The other commenters here said it better than I did. Here's an explanation of the Broken Window Fallacy https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fa...
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by xcv123 3y ago
You are completely missing the point here.

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