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- German government defense spending for 2021: 46.8 * 10^9€ [0]

- German government defense spending for 2022: >=100 * 10^9€ [1]

quote from [1]: "Scholz said that the German government would allocate €100 billion earmarked for the German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, in the 2022 budget. "From "From now on, more than 2% of our GDP will be invested in our defense," Scholz said.

Germany has previously been criticized for devoting less than the 2% mark on defense spending called for by NATO membership rules.

The €100 billion will be allocated into a "special fund" for the German armed forces."

[0] https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news/cabinet-budget-2...

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-reversal-on-ukraine-weapons-p...
It's based on claims though ("Head of Ukraine's Jewish community claims Russian neo-Nazis fight alongside rebels"). However, it's irrelevant because you don't seem to know what a nazi is. So, two neo-nazi groups fighting each other makes perfect sense if they are from different countries. While part of the basis is the same, the other part is opposed to each other. For your information: Nazi = Nationalsozialist = _national_ socialist. While some groups put less emphasis on the extreme nationalism part, others do not.
Well, they definitely have now.
And it's all about tail latency for processes.

A big latency spike in latency and your desktop seems to hang, the audio shutters or you see framerate drop (or even freezes) in games.

How do you go after these? You optimize for fairness (which guarantees your workload a fair fraction of the resources) and frequent scheduling (higher frequency / smaller slices).

The downside is that you will trade in maximum throughput.

Looking at the settings I can see that this is what they adjust, but they should clarify what they regard as crucial for such a setup.
Ecosystem of packages and language interop (e.g. C bindings) are also criminally underrated.
Your comment is factully incorrect. The article cites three studies, only one of which (Gao et al) is based in a Chinese institution. The other two have lead authors at University of Arizona [1] and UC San Diego [2].

Note that [1] is specifically titled "The Huanan market was the epicenter of SARS-CoV-2 emergence"

Mischaracterizing the evidence and/or article really doesn't strengthen the "Occam's razor" argument.

[1] https://zenodo.org/record/6299600
[2] https://zenodo.org/record/6291628
As someone who follows life extension research closely: all the lifestyle stuff like "eating less" is useless. You can't rejuvenate an organism by changing the external inputs to its natural processes. It's half-measures at best.
I expect it’s “destruction or grounding of the Antonov fleet” because not all planes were in Kyiv, and so the planes currently working outside of Ukraine would probably be grounded in the meantime, with the ones at Antonov’s facilities likely destroyed.
Thousands of Russian tech workers sign petition opposing invasion of Ukraine
Wow congratulations Europe!
As mentioned, this was right on the Gulf of Mexico where it was both very hot in the day and very humid all the time.

In the early summer, the temperature dropped from the upper 90's in the day to the low 70s at night. In the worst of the summer, the temperatures were only dropping to the 80's, and they did use the air conditioners then.

However, that fan moved so much air that there would be a stiff wind blowing across the beds all night, and that cool humid wind would have you under the blankets in no time.
One thing that always bothered me about energy waste are fridges in the cold winter.

Outside the house is cold, so we heat the house. Outside the fridge (house) is hot, so we cool inside fridge.

Is there no option for fridges/freezers to get cold air from outside the house? Or is the overcomplication not worth it?
What can happen if this monster will start loosing? I fear very much he will not hesitate to press the red button. It is foolish to think he is not ready, just listen what he said about nuclear weapons before. Now, totally isolated, with destroyed economy, without people's support anymore.
> Are smartphones serving as adult pacifiers?

Absolutely yes!

I wrote plenty about it in Digital Vegan but there's only time and
space to touch the surface of the psychology and research in a short
accessible book.

https://digitalvegan.net

I'm working on a new study with attachment theory experts looking at
the ways we form emotional bonds with digital devices and how they
become transitional or proxy objects.
In other words you keep the space hotter to increase your personal comfort.

It’s perfectly viable to keep a living space just above freezing. You however need gloves to stay comfortable at 3-4C (38f).
I agree. The risk of war is too great.
Antonovs in America (2012)
The whole article is about how conflicted these people were. Also, the details of what was happening to the Jews only surfaced at the end of the war. Before that Hitler was peddling stories of shipping them off to an island on the Bahamas, and broad public antisemitism wasn't limited to Germany in the 1930s, so a lot of people were fine with this.
Self-Nourishment in Times of Despair
Agreed, but a few text files shouldn't be a big size increase. Its the only was to provide the source to users on mobile platforms without making the source directly public. Or do you have another suggestion?
155 billion to be precise. It’s 100 billion in addition to what is spent this year already.
Something like COLOR=(light|dark|none) would be much better.
Ok but why not just have separate, simpler configuration files for each host?
When people hear ddos they often think about pure force of traffic. In reality there are attacks like specifically requesting slow parts of a website, or long opening http connections (i.e. slowloris) that can do the trick with much less traffic.
Shades of Racism (FR)
COLOR=(light|dark|none) would be much better.
> I had a PC 15 years ago with a PCI Layla 8 channel input

aha the first soundcard I bought was an ESP 1010... brings back good memories ! it was running on and it was also able to go quite below 60 ms too, I did not have too many issues playing live with guitar amp sims with it, between 8 and 10ms of latency IIRC ? on an athlon xp 3000 or 3200+...
This is good except for slash-em (too many mons with same letters).
Sure, I can agree it's based on claims.

I just wanted to illustrate that the same can be said on both sides.

Maybe we should do a "special operations" in Russia to clear it from Nazi's, just as Russia is doing to Ukraine right now.
The definition propaganda I could find easily includes "biased or misleading information"

I don't think this meets the definition. It's 100% wartime messaging with a political purpose in mind, but I think it is a poor example of propaganda.
Why the Chinese Internet Is Cheering Russia’s Invasion
> a few comments in recent days saying how ridiculous it is for Putin to claim the Ukrainians support Naziism given that their president is a Jew,

Probably taking their cue from propagandists in Western media outlets who don't mind painting Eric Zemmour, a Jewish journalist trying to run for the French presidency, as a racist and antisemite, all but implying that he has Nazi sympathies. But somehow Zelenski and his government are off limits?
You mean " thank you"

Because german will now buy expensive gas and weapons from USA.
I think your preferences make total sense. Though I have little experience with wildfires. Would an air filter help?

For my own eccentricities, I have the bedroom window open slightly while sleeping, closed when awake.

During the winter, when inside I wrap up in warm clothes, thermals, scarf. When exercising outside I wear only one or two layers. I call it the 'Winter Paradox'.
> In case of PostgreSQL there is json and jsonb. For SQLite, hexdump of the database shows text representation and seems to be stored like json than jsonb. I am not aware of the full design and source code but it seems some functions parse and cache the JSON representation.

Wouldn’t a jsonb-type storage require a new storage mode for sqlite, which would be a major architectural change?

JSONB derives (at least logically and historically) from hstore, so postgres had a history of structured type stores. Not so for sqlite.
Publishing their full names is the right and human thing to do. Russian government is not keeping their families informed.
That is why Germany’s decision to deliver weapons is much more dramatic than many Germans realise. It is the admission that their previous policy of “Wandel durch Handel” (roughly meaning to gain influence in a country by forming tight trade links) has failed.

Today it’s Russia, but they will have to follow through with China, too, plus a few other countries (gulf states e.g.).
2001 Antitrust is about Gates :)
American talking heads call actual Jewish people Nazis all the time. It's literally blood libel.
It's not underestimating the people of Ukraine. Putin can have his soldiers killed for months and years. And he seems crazy enough to do it.

The Ukraine does not have enough soldiers and not enough infrastructure to last that long.
How about invest 100 billion on renewables to get independence from russian gas.
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More specifically, 20% of 1000 people. The rest are just hard-right.
Ask HN: Which book made you study mathematics
Which book made you understand what real mathematics was all about? Not rote calculations we do in school. Or in other words, which book got you curious to learn more of mathematics and make a career out of it??
My respect for germany is through the roof.
The difference is - humans now has the capability to create viruses. And it's obvious that covid is created by humans. You just need to look at its generic code to figure that out.
I imagine that the challenge is maintaining a constant temperature. If you want to use cool air from outside to cool the food you either need a way to stop doing that when it gets too cold or include a heating element. Both options will probably get expensive quite fast.

If you want to save energy buying a coolbox and storing some stuff outside during the winter is probably far easier and cheaper ;)
The Mathematical Tourist by Ivars Peterson when i was 15. Years later when my wife and I combined our pretty extensive book collections it was the only tile we had in common.
Fridges with top doors tend to lose lot less cool air when opened than the regular front door ones.
In practice there will be gas rationing.

By the way, is the German power grid really reliant on gas to such an extent?
My country lost 60% of male population in WW1, and around 18% of total population in WW2. It crippled us forever. I think it's better to not rush into things.
Lukaszenko claims there are no Belarus soldiers in Ukraine.

https://newsrnd.com/news/2022-02-27-lukashenko--we-have-no-s...
Yeah if we had admitted Ukraine to NATO this war would never have started.
Ha! Just a few months ago, I came across Cloudflare Research's Address Agility blog post (since published in SIGCOMM [0]) that squeezed Internet's waist down to a single IP (dubbed Ao1), and instead reasoned that perhaps with popularity of TLS, a naming scheme (like the SNI field) is all that's needed, because given the pigeon-hole principle, there will always be more names (variable length puny-codes) than IP addresses (fixed-length hex/octets).

Telecom industry perhaps deployed something similar in Multi-protocol Label Switching. Other address translation schemes such as the HTTP Host header, and Google Maglev-esque Virtual IP load balancers (in-use at BigCloud providers) are other attempts at addressing hosts using something other than public IPs (which enabled domain-fronting, once employed by Signal before it was outlawed [1]), squeezing Internet's narrow waist further.

I am mostly interested in Ao1 from an anti-censorship point-of-view (IP fronting) as that's the last frontier as far as stateless firewalls go, while names, DNS and SNI, can be hidden away today with DoH/DoT and ECH (encrypted client-hello), respectively.

That said, I like the term Simplfying Assumption better as described in a series of posts on it by apenwarr [2][3] while the classic The Rise of Worse is Better pits C against Lisp, arguing that sacrificing correctness, consistency, completeness for the sake of simplicity of the implementation, is a worthwhile trade-off [4].

[0] https://research.cloudflare.com/publications/Fayed2021/

[1] Amazon threatens to suspend Signal (2018), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16970199

[2] The strange story of etherpad (2011), https://apenwarr.ca/log/20110313

[3] Conspiracy theories (2004), https://apenwarr.ca/log/200411

[4] https://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
To read this, this "site" demands and account, and for the account a real phone number.

I would suggest not to post these unless an alternative link exists. It's not different from a paywall.
Yeah, and Biden plans to seek more than $770 billion in the 2023 defense budget while doing nothing to implement any significant item of the agenda he was running on.

Defense contractors are dancing and singing and praising the war while people die and suffer.
You have linked to only one of the three preprints and used it to claim that all
three preprints are from Chinese labs.

These are the author names from the three preprints:

The Huanan market was the epicenter of SARS-CoV-2 emergence

Authors: Michael Worobey; Joshua I. Levy; Lorena M. Malpica Serrano; Alexander
Crits-Christoph; Jonathan E. Pekar; Stephen A. Goldstein; Angela L. Rasmussen;
Moritz U. G. Kraemer; Chris Newman; Marion P. G. Koopmans; Marc A. Suchard; Joel
O. Wertheim; Philippe Lemey; David L. Robertson; Robert F. Garry; Edward C.
Holmes; Andrew Rambaut; Kristian G. Andersen

Online: https://zenodo.org/record/6299600

SARS-CoV-2 emergence very likely resulted from at least two zoonotic events

Authors: Pekar, Jonathan E.; Magee, Andrew; Parker, Edyth; Moshiri, Niema;
Izhikevich, Katherine; Havens, Jennifer L.; Gangavarapu, Karthik; Malpica
Serrano, Lorena M.; Crits-Christoph, Alexander; Matteson, Nathaniel L.; Zeller,
Mark; Levy, Joshua I.; Wang, Jade C.; Hughes, Scott; Lee, Jungmin; Park, Heedo;
Park, Man-Seong; Ching Zi Yan, Katherine; Tzer Pin Lin, Raymond; Mat Isa, Mohd
Noor; Muhammad Noor, Yusuf; Vasylyeva, Tetyana I.; Garry, Robert F.; Holmes,
Edward C.; Rambaut, Andrew; Suchard, Marc A.; Andersen, Kristian G.; Worobey,
Michael; Wertheim, Joel O.

Online: https://zenodo.org/record/6291628

Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in the environment and animal samples of the Huanan
Seafood Market

Authors: William J. Liu, Peipei Liu, Wenwen Lei, Zhiyuan Jia, Xiaozhou He,
Linlin Liu Weifeng Shi, Yun Tan, Shumei Zou, Xiang Zhao, Gary Wong, Ji Wang,
Feng Wang, Gang Wang, Kun Qin, Rongbao Gao, Jie Zhang, Min Li, Wenling Xiao,
Yuanyuan Guo, Ziqian Xu, Yingze Zhao, Jingdong Song, Jing Zhang, Wei Zhen,
Wenting Zhou, Beiwei Ye, Juan Song, Mengjie Yang, Weimin Zhou, Yuhai Bi, Kun
Cai, Dayan Wang, Wenjie Tan, Jun Han, Wenbo Xu, George F. Gao, Guizhen Wu

Online: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1370392/v1

In the linked pdfs you can see the affiliations of the preprints. The first two
are researchers from universities in the US, UK, Australia and EU countries. The
last one is researchers from Chinese institutes.

Bottom line: the article is not based on studies by "Chinese-only researchers in
state-backed institutions" as you say.

Also, please don't abuse Occam's Razor as a tool to shut down curious discussion.
This military budget increase being necessary is nothing to rejoice really.
Part of the speech the chancellor gave was also the announcement to build two new LGN terminals „pretty quickly“ in order to gain more independence. This of course goes hand in hand with a general push to more renewables.
Or Germany could, you know, build and purchase local made weapons instead. It could ally with the France, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, etc. to lower development costs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-12/germany-p...
too little, too late

Most NATO members are under the 2% min required of their membership for years

No surprise Russia can just steamroll all the way through Ukraine with nothing but "strong" messages in the media in response.
You can just give them a call, you know.

In fact some of them are made to call their family in some of the videos circulating.

The right and human thing to do is following the Geneva Convention. You'll have to make a pretty amazing case if you want to argue it should be disregarded in this case.

It should be obvious there's better ways to inform families of these POWs, not just because a less public/propaganda way is more respectful, but also because a more direct route is more likely to reach them.

But that's obviously not the point. This is pretty standard as propaganda goes and fits neatly with the other narratives that are spun.

That can be understood and accepted, but it definitely shouldn't be celebrated.
Yup. The nation state is premised on the idea that the state has a monopoly on violence. When the state no longer has a monopoly on violence it’s not a country anyMore.
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Better late than never I guess...That's a lot of money but there's also a reason the nato quota is calculated as a percentage of GDP.Now let's just hope this money won't somehow go into the oligarch's pockets, as we've seen germany likes to spend money on russia way too often.(Remember NS2)
Based on EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Any discrimination based on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation shall be prohibited.

Is this then legal?
I made this tool because I was frustrated to use multiple different tools to accomplish some of the tasks that I do repeatedly on a daily basis. teenytools has all those tools
at one place and a central command palette for even easier & quicker access.

If you want to read more about it: https://vishaltk.hashnode.dev/teenytools-a-quick-all-in-one-...
How about not assuming that one thing is depending on the other.

You are aware what Habeck is currently doing?
Vitamin D3 could be important for fighting infections
Or revert the decision to phase out nuclear power.
With what energy?
I had this thought when I got an electric blanket. What's the point of heating the whole room when with a mere 60 watt you can have a warm and cozy bed. Electric clothes would be ideal, if we could find a solution for small and practical batteries.
Fuck propaganda. We only study it because we have to.
Germany itself has 5,5% of the global market share in weapons exports, which in relation to its size means this is a big industry.
Not so random. Note the last paragraph in particular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_200_(code_name)
If you put all the defense budgets of the EU together it dwarfs Russia. Sadly because of historical reasons we can't have a European army.
I know freezers with a top door, but no fridges - and frankly, I imagine a top-loaded fridge to be impractical in kitchen use unless there is some way to reach the bottom more easily. Do you have a link to a fridge like that so I can imagine the concept better?
> intractably hard problem

Is it intractably hard? We already know how to 'rejuvenate' cells for a decade. The field did not receive a lot of attention however, partly because of misguided ethics concerns. COVID changed that attitude
The difference is that the Ukraine has language and racial laws (as written in another comment) while Russia supports minority groups by providing TV channels and radio programs in their language.
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The only winners from war are oligarchs and the "defense" industry..
> Wtf went wrong with all of this.

No idea. It's a disaster on wheels and everyone knows it.

It means that diplomacy and appeasement from the west had failed with Putin the moment that Afghanistan was invaded by the Taliban after that withdrawal disaster. It cemented the weakness the US has towards the whole world and they put themselves on a weak foot and enabled Putin to have a go on Ukraine.

It turns out that as expected, Biden has created another war again rather than the orange man, who everyone thought was going to be the one to kickstart World War 3.
I suppose they would think it better to be thought of worse for bad eating habits than it is to be incompetent at abiding by international standards for conducting science, or even to have maliciously released a bioweapon.
Or even better: nuclear. You need a reliable source of energy, otherwise you have to combine solar and wind with gas anyway.
To put this into perspective : 155 billion is almost 4.5% of the German GDP. The US is spending 3.7% this year. The original 55 billion was equal to what Russia was planning to spend this year on its military (at least officially) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
> Clinical psychologist, Dr. Carla Marie Manly suggested that for some people, doomscrolling can be addictive, creating a feeling of safety and security during uncertain times.

Reminds me of the microeconomic difference between classical music and cocaine. Both are addictive goods i.e. marginal utility increases with consumption. But classical music is providing positive consequence whereas cocaine and doomscrolling "removes" negative consequence (mileage will vary w/ different time scales).
Germany never had problems sourcing weapons...

"Germany is the world’s third biggest weapons exporter"
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-is-the-worlds-third-...
That's just not correct.

NATO has higher military power than Russia.

The reaction you see is diplomatic driven not military driven.
fasting does have something to do with longevity (in mice and other animals). Maybe not in humans but it's certainly a valid line of research
With the energy it would have had if it wouldn't have given into the clueless Greens and shut down nuclear many years too early.

There are major consequences to every vote and policy. People need to learn this and not vote on idealistic feelings.
SPFS is implemented in one german bank, so Merkel and Putin still can trade gas behind Europe back even if they block swift
It seems to be some internal issue. I've been seeing 404s and the occasional 500s for various YouTube feeds on and off. They seem to come back, but hopefully this isn't some internal rollout.
And maybe bring back nuclear power plants? Nah, that would actually make sense!
Huh? He’s going to build more gas terminals to reduce the dependence on gas?
Well he rolled the dice, because from what I understand the treatment at the time still had some % of serious complications. If he elected to do so and unluckily suffered some complication after the procedure in 2004, very little, if any, of the subsequent events would have occurred.
To anyone familiar with the matter, l this was long overdue, now the government just has a reason to greenlight >€1200 per citizen for badly needed investments, this wouldn’t have been a popular move before. Obviously the calculus changed. The Bundeswehr is not even close to what I’d consider the minimal requirements as it stands right now, but I still don’t like that we increase our annual spending on the military now. We need the money elsewhere, NATO should have enough guns already, this is just going down the industry-drain instead of funding much needed help in the care- and education sectors. We need elementary school teachers, psychologists, and systemic change for the people who care for the old, sick and weak. Instead we’re playing war games. That’s just not right
If its not open source, just don't distribute the source. If it is open source then link to the public git repo containing the source.