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by yks 5y ago
No, "we" did not, it is russian propaganda. And if we are talking about broken promises, there was this thing called Budapest Memorandum.
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by yks 5y ago
It will be more than that after a few more months of Tucker Carlson's shows.
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by yks 5y ago
Of course not, I blame Rupert Murdoch. But this sudden allegiance of the modern Trump/GOP to Putin is a sign of things to come.
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by yks 5y ago
The West was not manufacturing regime changes out of thin air, it was supporting factions in the internal political conflicts. So did Russia, but for some reason that never counts.
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by yks 5y ago
Goal of NATO is “to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. … to promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area.”
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by yks 5y ago
Ukraine aligned with the West may be a security issue for Russia only if Russia itself is not aligned with the West which it absolutely does not have to be. If Russia did not get an ex-KGB absolute monarch traumatized by the fall of the Ber
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by yks 5y ago
Exactly, if Putin really worried about protecting borders, he'd never move most of his Asian army units to the Ukrainian border, exposing huge vulnerability to the powerful autocratic nuclear regime who actually kinda wants these expos
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by yks 5y ago
What kind of argument is that? Because the empire lost its buffer colonies, it needs to re-acquire them again? Because it feels "vulnerable"? Vulnerable against whom? Against the countries the previous iteration of that empire sou
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by yks 5y ago
In real world it's usually hard to precisely quantify this improvement ahead of time and so managers might over weigh the probability that your efforts fail to materialize the win. In the end you need a manager that is comfortable enou
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by yks 5y ago
Same. I don't even want to get promoted cause that could ruin my WLB in such an important year.
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by yks 5y ago
What is likely to happen in America is that all states adopt some form of California's Prop 13, capping taxes for existing homeowners and crippling future generations
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by yks 5y ago
What is the name of this cognitive bias that shows up in all web3 conversations about how internet/web2 ended up being a success and therefore web3 will too? If X led to Y, then Z that (we say) is similar to X will also lead to Y.
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by yks 5y ago
Need on the side of issuers obviously exists, they can make money. At the same time we see that most of the potential users, such as gamer community at large, are overwhelmingly against NFTs. So this need is clearly being manufactured, whic
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by yks 5y ago
What an irritating read, the questions, quotes, everything in the bold font is essentially pro-crypto when Brian's responses are really not!
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by yks 5y ago
Yes! I was going to the empty office and it was great, now more people have showed up, it's getting crowded and I prefer to WFH again.
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by yks 5y ago
They are running around regulations and it seems like an actual selling point. For example, read this article from the list: https://blog.aragon.org/what-is-a-dao/ . Looks like venture capital is betting that the govern
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by yks 5y ago
I dunno, usually it's 2 "upscale chain brand" gas stations with identical high prices and 1 "local brand" gas station nearby with significantly cheaper gas. I don't understand how competition works in the gas s
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by yks 5y ago
> the correct answer is my answer. Even if yours also works, it is not my answer. That right there is probably what's actually wrong with the tech hiring. And that's why Leetcode, despite the disconnect of it from the real job,
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ZippyDB: Facebook's general purpose key value store(engineering.fb.com)
9 points by yks 5y ago|0 comments
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by yks 5y ago
I still think that the primary problem Starlink "solves" is the regulatory capture in the US. It baffles me that laying fiber cables everywhere is so expensive/impossible that literally launching things into space is the more
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by yks 5y ago
Most apartment buildings in America have a quite bad sound insulation in my experience, and although I've seen some modern apartment towers with a solid soundproofing, those are usually not affordable to most people and so everyone jus
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by yks 5y ago
Advertising cryptocurrency as a "hedge against the imminent inflation" helps the holders of a given cryptocurrency to increase the value of their holding.
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by yks 5y ago
> Inflation hysteria. And it doesn’t help that there is a strong financial incentive in spreading inflation fears now.
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by yks 5y ago
I feel like it's just been a shortage of everything going on - the shortage of housing, traffic throughput, the shortage of physical space in the national parks, the shortage of good schools, good jobs. There are many more people, but
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by yks 5y ago
That’s a dream of mine (astronomy and SWE) but alas earning money is a higher priority right now and unclear when that will change
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by yks 5y ago
Which is all fine and good until "get rich quick" are forced into your index funds.
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by yks 5y ago
The most reasonable explanation is that Tesla/Elon don't actually care about the environment and if it's going to suffer in their pursuit of whatever financial scheming and/or vanity, so be it.
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Pyramid Schemes (1998)(ftc.gov)
1 points by yks 5y ago|0 comments
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by yks 5y ago
In the same way how unprofitable startups are more attractive to investors because they are free of baggage of actually making money and have only future potential, so is doge better than bitcoin because it got rid of all the baggage of bei
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by yks 5y ago
Because contrary to popular belief, Bitcoin is not any more a "hedge against inflation" than any speculative stock?

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