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When was the last time the US invaded, with an intent to never, ever leave? When was the last time the US invaded, and slaughtered civilians, on purpose, just to spread terror.

Not by accident, or a rogue element, but purposefully.

When was the last time the US jailed, not by a mistake in justice but on purpose, all who dared speak out about her actions? And killed them when possible?

Many reading the above will say "But this one time...", yet that is the point. It is an aberration for such things in the US, not the norm. Not the standard.

Russia is not even remotely the same. It is a dictatorship, lead by a single, non-elected, blood thirsty, malicious murderer.

The whataboutisms are so weak, and paper thin here, it is absurd.
I dont blame them, South Africa is quite far away and friendly to Russians.
Russia declared a cease-fire to evacuate civilians but has already broken it.

> And have you stopped the iraq war? Or closed guantanamo? Or stopped the war in yemen?

I'm not American. Ask a yank.

> But this is the choice of the ukrainian government. I am against mandatory conscripting and would not accept to be force drafted myself. And I would not want to fight next to people who might flee any second.

Ask a woman who's been raped why she wore a short skirt... You should be asking why Russia is killing civilians, not why Ukrainians are defending them.
> With this new generation, we get not just new cores, but also get PCIe Gen4

Aren't new CPUs supposed to get PCIe Gen5, are Xeons a generation behind on this? Similarly, it has DDR4 memory while desktp CPUs get DDR5 now.

Personally I'd just like to see a modern (=PCIe Gen5 and DDR5) CPU with only performance cores (8 or more) and AVX-512...
The Nazis were stopped from outside and the USSR by people from it's government because of it's economic downfall.
the targeting of conspiracy theorists and right wing (wrong think) opinions, in the market place but especially by silicon valley, has all been a warm up.

this is an authoritarian feature of our merger of state and market that will continue to grow and find increasing number of avenues for application.
Americans weren’t the first to do sanctions though? Not even close. In fact, EU countries were asking America to, and are still asking for more.
The EU needs to do something about Cyprus.
https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/futures/W00/advanced-...

Filter to 'All'

Those tops between 2010 and 2013 is the 'Arab Spring'.

Now you know what is coming.

I mentioned that eight days ago, it was a sure thing ten days ago.
The moment they crossed the border.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30457490&goto=item%3Fid...

Oh, and it was talked about for months.
It's that Ukraine Breadbasket thing.

We Germans had a tour back then, just for that.
It's not widely known, but we sometimes even stole the pure soil literally, Chernozem.

History and geostrategics, quite interesting.

Uh, by the way, the Ukrainians had a land reform last year.

As a primer:

https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/blog/who-really-benefits-cr...

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And now to something completely different, the Serbians and the Balkan...
Words are not as rude as bullets.
he came to Georgia under difference circumstances though, not running away from the government like the people fleeing right now
Being forced to participate in defense is different than being forced to participate in offense.

Defending is like paying taxes. Everyone has to do their part, and the day of payment coming due for enjoying the citizenship is too late to decide "maybe I want to change citizenships".

It's frankly dishonest to try to reduce and equate everything to "forced to participate in war".
> Also, because of lack of expertise courts may simply not want to deal with this kind of proof and thus not acknowledge it.

Courts lack expertise on almost every subject, I don’t think this logic can actually hold up.
please read the article (and linked MSC [0]) first and check out how this decentralized(!) conferencing proposal works.

I don't think tools that implement this exist in the XMPP ecosystem at all.

[0] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/mat...
I am not sure why NATO wanted Ukraine as a member, is there any strategic interest? Or was this more like whoever wants to join NATO can join, they are a sovereign state after all and can do what they want?

US and EU are certainly aligned in some aspects, they oppose war in general and the resulting humanitarian crisis, they want to uphold international law, they want sovereignty respected, they do not want further escalation, but I would agree that the US could potentially profit from the situation when the EU adjusts its resource dependencies, especially oil and gas. But I am not sure if gains in specific areas are not offset by the consequences of the entire situation in general.
By the way why was the comment downvoted? I (probably mistakenly) believed that hackernews was more mature than reddit (or other similar sites). Good faith questions... should be treated as such, I thought?
Ever written anything in assembly? We trade cycles and bytes for programmer convenience. Assembly code heavily optimized for size will do things that are absolutely horrifying from a maintenance or general "architectural cleanliness" angle. Terribleness you might encounter:

* Reading instructions as constants because the values you need happen to already be in the code.

* Self-modification, including writing variables as constants into the instruction stream, generating instructions at run-time, and reusing code space as data space for one-once code.

* Using bits in the opcodes to store data, since a single bitflip doesn't affect the interpretation of some instructions. E.g. on the Z80 if Z and C are both always 1 at a particular point, you can use either jrz (0010 1000) or jrc (0011 1000) and use the 5th bit in that instruction as a flag. Free storage!

I do find this sort of thing fun. As a hobby. I wouldn't want to write an air traffic control system that way.
The issue is whether you can repair your machinery yourself, not whether it can be repaired.
right and left are just made up concepts for poor people to fight about

this is all about money, like all world conflict. it just shows how globalisation only works if you're subservient to the will of the US.
I thought it might be this long-lived site, but no: https://www.grc.com (see Shields Up!! tool)
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Isn’t a naming authority exactly the kind of thing that cryptocurrency people deride as centralization?
also "Don't sue me either".
You would need a different proof (likely a much more complicated one) for n-ary primes.
I’d be wary of hoping for a popular revolt against Putin- typically when people in a country feel under attack they rally in support of whoever the leadership is. Look at George bush’s approval rating right after 9/11. When people are scared they look to whoever is in charge to protect them. This might be an exception to the extent that Russians feel that the wounds were self-inflicted. But they may also start calling for retaliation against the west, if they feel that their country is being attacked unfairly. It’s hard to say.
Has anyone tried machine learning techniques on these problems?
It reminds me of those stats published from okcupid saying women found 80% of men to be below average.
No one thinks that a regular Ivan from some russian city (on his own) is responsible for the war and should suffer. And I see how you could (and probably should, at some level) feel sorry for russians fleeing the country.

But this is the only way to tell them that they -- collective Ivans, Russian society as a whole -- should stand up and act: they should articulate their content, they should protest against putin's policy, and they should stop the war (an alternative would be to accept Ukraine to NATO and finish this war is a day, but that won't happen).

While they're suffering economically, the suffering of Ukrainians is just on another level -- it's not about restrictions (e.g. no ikea or facebook or apple products) or money (inflation), it's about flattened cities and destroyed lives.

I woke up as I heard bombs falling on my city, and I definitely haven't felt any sympathy for russians since then.

If they feel they don't support their country's aggression towards Ukraine, they should go protest and stop it -- even at risk of being fined or imprisoned. Otherwise they should just embrace all sanctions and become North Korea imho.
The only people that can stop Putin are the russian People.
Dabbling in Keto, a burger is one of the impacts I feel the most. The grease, salt, and buns - often served with a carb side like fries - and the portions
It’s been less than a single ~~generation~~ human lifespan since WW2, stop pretending like our species has transcended simply because we can send some 0s and 1s across the world.

There is war. People are dying, and you’re here commenting about free speech and your lack of access to 0s and 1s.

Edit: My usage of the term “generation” was pointed out to be wrong
4 for work
10 personal

They are getting a bit hard to handle mostly because my app (authy) doesn't have a good enough set of icons
On the contrary. Leaving results in cementing the status quo because the population that remains are blind Putin followers.
There are already young people brave enough to protest with just 2000 people protesting.

I'm talking about a million people standing outside and walking towards the Red Square, shaking their keys. If Russians cannot manage this, then I do not have sympathy whatsoever.
It has been far easier to protest against Putin than most of the prior Soviet regime (except for the very end of the USSR).

So far as we know Putin does not yet operate massive extermination camps and labor gulags as in the prior USSR. He is not yet rounding up and exterminating large groups of the population.

Putin is meek compared to Stalin.

The apologist complaints I'm seeing in regards to Russia and protesting, is that there is a cost to going against Putin. Yes, there certainly is. Of course there is. And there's a cost in Ukrainian blood in not, a cost the Russian people are responsible for.

The Russian people don't get to have their cake and eat it too. They don't get to enjoy the prior good times (relatively speaking) under Putin, cheering him and his ways on when it was convenient, and then not get credit for the blood Putin is spilling in their name now. This machine Putin has built is also partially their responsibility.

A lot of Russians may have to die to stop Putin. That's their responsibility to shoulder for tolerating Putin's regime from the early days when he promptly began committing war crimes and robbing the Russian people of human rights. Or the majority can keep doing nothing and it might keep getting worse, keep getting harder to remove him, and he might move into Stalin mode and start genociding groups he dislikes.
Story no longer at that link. Alternative:

https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-russia-aerofl...
A CIA employee working at listening station based at an RAF base in the UK (presumably listening into transmissions from e.g. Russia) is rather different from spies based at the Russian embassy in Washington.
It would be great if Oligarchs around the world were uncomfortable.

This should be and opportunity to catalogue just exactly who the oligarchs are and what are their assets and how are they affected.
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Great time to be on a plant based gluten free diet!
We could simply not sanction agriculture-related exports. That would be moral, IMO.
- it is turning the number into a string of 1s 3 => 111 4 => 1111 and so on

- then trying to simulate divisibility test by trying to find perfect groups of '11' to simulate division by 2 failing which (that is the backtracking part) and trying find perfect groups of '111' to simulate division by 3 and so on...

Clever but very inefficient
Peterson is remembered for swapping wives and children with fellow Yankee
So will the room have a setting to make a voice video only room, a mixed room or a chat only room?

I assume m.ring would not be needed if its a something like a Teamspeak room.
> The Nazis were stopped from outside

Yes, after killing 30 million+ people. It would have been much easier if Germans didn't enable them or someone took out Hitler in 1938.

And we punished Germany for generations because of it. The US still has military bases there to this day.
The Hebrew version of this interview is a bit longer:

https://www.mako.co.il/news-n12_magazine/2022_q1/Article-bf2...
this is a silly caricature.

historically, a majority of Americans supported both the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq when they started, and public opinion did not turn against them for several years, and even then it was not an overwhelming majority.

Obama campaigned on the folly of those wars but chose to stay involved because it was believed by many that some level of success could yet be achieved for the people in those countries, who were in many cases partnering with the US.

Nevertheless, the eventual unpopularity of those wars did in fact lead to "regime change" in the US, because the US is a (somewhat) functioning democracy.

Americans are in fact at this very moment preventing the US from engaging in this war in Ukraine.
It's a number of factors coming together. The market over 2021 was very tight, with China importing a huge amount of wheat, some drought/weather issues, and probably more. Coming into this year, nitrogen fertilizer, potash and other agriculture inputs are very expensive, which partly traces back to energy costs (natural gas) and sanctions (Belarus/Russia). Adding the Ukraine war to this puts a huge percent of global exports at risk, with at least some people naming it as the biggest supply shock in a lifetime: https://twitter.com/ScottIrwinUI/status/1499137998386085889

It's not just the supply shock, but everyone expecting rough conditions this year before the war started. Primed with those conditions and a commodity where not having any means millions/billions of people starve, it's easy to see how supply concerns can set off some very sharp movements. Energy and food inflation like this has a history of setting off events like the Arab Spring; it's a very inelastic market and governments don't have the option of not paying.

I'm no commodities expert though.

Here's an article on effects in Egypt: https://mei.edu/publications/russia-ukraine-war-has-turned-e...
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In case you haven't noticed, North Korea hasn't exactly invaded South Korea recently. The sanctions haven't created a revolt, but they've almost certainly eliminated the North's ability to wage an offensive war.

Doing the same to Russia should be our target. If we cannot end the totalitarian regime without starting World War III, we can still neutralize it as a threat to the rest of the world.
But what would that solve? The blocks on the blockchain are public, so anyone can fake a timestamp by grabbing an old block and generating a QR code.

The point of this website is that the server signs the timestamp. It's more than just a QR code with a time and date, it has some actual verification code.
I take it that you don't work on a large corporate code-base / don't have to code-review other people's code?

Auto-formatting (esp. when used as a pre-commit hook) means that changes people make to the style are ignored/reverted (and/or, that places where people introduce a different style in new code, are auto-formatted back into the existing style immediately, rather than that needing to be an additional commit later on.) Thus, no spurious diff lines from formatting. Thus, not having to wade through a bunch of "noise" diff-lines, to get to the "signal" of semantic changes at code-review time.

Also, having auto-formatting on both your main branch + development branches, makes merge/rebase conflicts less likely to happen. (Which basically boils down to "fewer noise diff-lines" again.)

In other words: auto-formatting makes code more machine-legible to syntax-blind parsers; which in turn allows tooling like diff(1) to be more helpful.

(Yes, we could just have language-syntax-aware semantic-level diff/merge/etc. tools. Not sure why nobody ever made these. I bet this is one of those things where Lisp users have had it for ages but using their own parallel world of abstractions that doesn't exist in C/POSIX.)
> You should still believe the reporting of actual events done by the major international news orgs.

Would you say we should believe major russian news orgs? Healthy skepticism is required, especially during times of war. There is a reason why each side banned the other's media, social media, etc. So that they can spread propaganda without pushback. The first casualty in war is the truth.
Methanol and other byproducts do vary based on strains, conditions, etc. Generally, methanol is not an issue in things like wine because it's not produced in large enough quantities, even when conditions are poor. A treatment for methanol poisoning is actually ethanol (and likely some NAC). Only when distilling is methanol concentrated enough to cause problems. When done correctly, the distillation process separates the methanol from the other distillates at specific temperatures. Usually the heads and tails of a distillation run are thrown away. I believe it's the head that has the lions share of methanol.
We may be seeing the highest nominal price for wheat in US history, but we are nowhere near the highest inflation adjusted price. The price of wheat in 1866 was $2.06/bu [0]. That is $36.43/bu in 2022 prices.

In times of famine, prices have of course been higher. Just for fun, the rider of the black horse in the book of revelations prices a quart of wheat at one denarius (a typical days wage at the time). If you go by the 4.4g silver content of the coin, that comes out to $3.64 per quart or $135/bu.

[0] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/wheat-data/
steps:

- it is turning the number into a string of 1s 3 => 111 4 => 1111 and so on

- then trying to simulate divisibility test by trying to find perfect groups of '11' to simulate division by 2 failing which (that is the backtracking part) and trying find perfect groups of '111' to simulate division by 3 and so on...

Clever but very inefficient
Absolutely 100%. I can't tell you how many companies I've lost respect for because they've hopped on the virtue-signalling PR bandwagon. It couldn't be more obvious they don't even believe what they're saying but it's in vouge these days so they plow forward anyways. The added bonus of some casual anti-white/anti-european hatred is the cherry on top.
Sanctions against the US for the Iraq war would have been totally legitimate. What exactly is your point?
We had big protests. They were not big enough unfortunately.
go back home and fight for freedom. You are the only one that can stop Putin.
Not trivial at all. It's billions of dollars, huge amounts of energy to pump water up and down mountain ranges, many years of construction, many more years of litigation... And why on earth would Canada give us their water?

There was a plan to pipe water to California from the Pacific north west, and the projected costs for that were insane.

By the time the high price of water justifies projects on this scale, there will be blood in the streets, not water in aqueducts.
> At the same time, we recognize this is work that we as a movement cannot do alone. Our projects can only do so much when, for example, academic and mass media representation of marginalized communities remains insufficient, which in turn limits citations and primary sources for us to build from.

The document linked above has some very pragmatic and boring goals like:

* Supporting media and journalism efforts focused on people of color around the world, in order to expand reliable media sources covering these communities

* Addressing unequal internet access

* Improving digital literacy skills that impede access to knowledge

* Investing in non-traditional records of knowledge (i.e. oral histories)

What do you think they're doing that's so wooly and vague and useless?
I think discriminating peoplejust due to their nationality has to stop. I am seeing this even at my university even if official sanctions are more targeted. One big problem is the "deemed export" rules that the US imposes effectively on the whole world ( e.g. if we do research for a US listed company)
Perhaps, but the other points I brought up might.
Decline of religion (maybe). People aren't sure what makes someone a good person, so they latch on to whatever fashionable cause is being promoted as GoodThink by the media this week and then try to make everything about that.

An amusing example I just read about is Tony's Chocoloney, an "edible virtue signal":

https://thenewconservative.co.uk/tonys-chocbaloney/

What's interesting is how often this blows up in the faces of the people doing it. Tony's Chocolate seems to have mostly just infuriated customers with its actions. If anyone is actually buying this chocolate bar because it makes them feel virtuous it's hard to notice.

At some point smart CEOs are going to crack down on this stuff. It was the founder of Hacker News who said "keep your identity small". Probably that'll come back into fashion as awareness grows of how destructive letting insecure marketing interns emotionally bully executives is.
> using your existing server auth

Complete sidenote, but just to expand on the above, the OIDC work is particularly exciting because (at least my understanding is) it opens the door for letting people use a single Matrix account for a lot of different "stuff" on top of Matrix.

There have been some interesting conversations and demos I've seen about using Matrix rooms to help with P2P sync for apps, and there are already bots on Matrix that use Matrix rooms for notifications so you don't need to send emails. But setting that stuff up is kind of challenging if you don't want to make a dedicated new user for each app or grant access to your account -- and (again, assuming my understanding is correct) I vaguely suspect that we might start to see a lot more 3rd-party apps built to integrate with Matrix once it's easier to point someone at a webapp and say, "just log in with your Matrix account, and it'll only have access to one room that's specific to this app."

So imagine potentially having a collaborative app that's hyper-focused on one task, like a collaborative D&D messaging platform or some crud. And in the backend, everyone using that app uses their regular Matrix account, and under the hood it's just sending messages to a shared room -- and then as a developer you don't need to worry about handling a bunch of encryption and user accounts and all of that stuff, you might not even need a backend at all.
Yeah, Truth Social and Gettr censor and suck. Gab is much better in this regard (RT has a presence there for example and Gab won't cancel them https://gab.com/RTintl)