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>>>It would be an extremely bad deal for Ukraine.

Putin might very well level Ukraine before he let's it just slide into EU/NATO without a fight. He could then fall back to Crimea/LNR/DNR, state that they are Russian territory, and that any violations of Russian territory may result in a nuclear response (in accordance with Russia's existing policy regarding "First Use"). That might be enough for him to save face at home with his "Special Military Operation achieving sufficient objectives".

Will NATO do a mini-Marshall Plan to get Ukraine back on its feet, or will the Ukrainians end up forgotten, like the ~20 million food-insecure Afghanis who are invisible less than 6 months after we retreated?
It is precisely the decades after decades resignation to "US number 1" that maintains this status quo!

There is no inherent weakness of Europe. It has far more people than the US. All that welfare state makes it far more efficient too in many matters.

A little "Military Keynesianism" would, frankly, be really good for solving Europe's problems of higher unemployement and whatnot too. I am generally against such things, but the welfare states make the risk of runway jobs guarantees and military industrial complexes less bad.

In general, Europe missed out on Keynesianism it seems (the military or non military varieties). 70+ years of welfware states is being undone by stupid austerity. They figure out how to be good to the poor (unlike US) and not do austerity (like the US, despite what you may think), and they should leap ahaed of us.

The "US-lead world order" is Europe's choice.
One could argue a crazy irrational leader is a better defense against the start of conflict than a rational leader
Ah, thanks. Interesting to compare "The Argentine", the abandoning of which usage the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina explains as a mere fashion change.
The relevant CVE page returns a 500 error: https://github.com/canonical-web-and-design/ubuntu.com/issue...

21.10 appears to be lacking the patch.
Even though the US often pays for much of it, you're effectively giving up a fair portion of your sovereignty. It makes your military forces somewhat subservient to the US.

So if the US wants you to do something maybe not in the best interest for your nation, you're still going to have a really difficult time saying no. And if you try to say no anyway, the US already has a solid base to help support an opposition.

Plus, as we've seen both in Ukraine and the Middle East, seeming to accept US support can make you a target for anti-US factions.
The trend is very much in the opposite direction. This is a tiny blip on the radar compared to the overall trend of defunding and downsizing European militaries.
What I wonder is why do poor wage slavers like you enjoy tounging the boot so much?
I mean, according to international laws, only adjacent countries really need to accept Ukrainians as refugees. And they all are. At that point they've reached a "safe" country.

And all the Slavic EU countries are going above and beyond to help anyway.

People really need to understand what a refugee actually IS, according to law. Also, non-Ukrainians in Ukraine (foreign students for example) aren't refugees. They have a safe country to go back to.

Anyhow, the UK can choose whether or not it wants to accept displaced people but it's not under some sort of obligation to, under all the treaties I know of relating to refugee status.
I've turned the socials into a pull medium, not a push one. This is why Twitter lists are so good. I open a list and browse topics I'm interested in, not what Twitter 'thinks' I like.
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It's impressive how much of an utter disaster this has been for Russia.

In the space of a week and a half Putin has enlarged and strengthened NATO, persuaded a number of minimally militarised formerly neutral countries that they need to protect themselves from him, expanded the EU, massively enhanced the reputation of Ukraine, done huge damage to his own economy, and destroyed the reputation of Russia's armed forces.

His next performance review is going to be interesting.
That's a fair point.

I'd accept 'a mask probably won't protect you if you don't wear it properly', or even 'you can still catch COVID even if you wear a mask', because those things are both true.

I object though to the phrasing that a 'mask probably won't protect you'. A mask MAY NOT protect you, but PROBABLY will.
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The point was probably that people who visit HN from Russia bias heavily against the war - mostly young, educated, well off.
There's a (cold) calculated logic to this in that there are more than a dozen countries closer to Ukraine the refugees can escape to, so what exactly is the reason to open up the borders? its not like Germany and France are persecuting the refugees. I dont say I agree with it, but I can understand it
looking a the current suffering of Ukraine and considering my mental not so good state:
I'm just flabbergasted that so many people simply don't care about wellbeing of other humans. I don't know how anyone can enjoy things while people are suffering few hundreds km away.

And yes I also think this way about iraq, yemen, syria and numerous african countries
I work with Java day to day. And I definitely fall victim to overuse of a functional style. Starting to think I shouldn't try to fit everything into a stream, but it's hard because that seems to be the general direction my company is going with their SDK.

I do heavily prefer Optionals however when dealing with Values that can be null. Dealing with nullity checks is annoying.
I don't think this is a normal thing in today's Romania, but perhaps a Romanian will correct me.
What use is a mutual defense pact when only one of the parties is capable of defending themselves let alone anyone else? Americans are tired of fighting everyone else's wars. We don't even get respect for it, just comments about how we don't have socialized medicine and are backwards brutes. It's pointless.
> Resistive heat (like a light bulb or space heater) is terribly inefficient.

Resistive heat has efficiency ~1. That is better that almost any other heating source with exception of heat pumps and cogeneration. If we consider visible light as a separate gain, then light bulb has efficiency ~1.02

> Resistive heat up high (in a ceiling or on a light) is even worse than resistive heat at ground level, because the heat escapes the dwelling without heating the occupants in the room much.

For light bulb, i guess most energy is dissipated by IR radiation and only small part by convection. So it heats whole room and occupants, but not air.
Oh that was done a long long time ago. Take a look at Ushio and Tora. The story Tamamo-no-Mae would attach herself to emperors and drive them mad, causing them to commit massacres.
P sure you can only vouch for dead stories. Even a single flag by a user begins to downrank a post (in a nontransparent way) even before it gets enough to be greyed out
This is a large scale ground operation with errornous objectives at the beginning. With a fortified city you probably don't have many ways except to shell your way in. I doubt the other major powers can fare better.
It is from 2003, it should be in the title i guess.
There are dogmatic forms of religion and non-dogmatic forms.

The mystics of various religious affiliation sought a direct experience of the transcendent reality, which as an experience itself is beyond dogma (though dogma could play a role in the experience's interpretation).
That video is a summary of the book in the post (Dictator's Handbook). I'd say that when combined with the works of Pfeffer, Cialdini, and some negotiations theory, you can get a pretty good framework for navigating organiztions and create predictive models for political outcomes. However, the map is not the territory, and you can't prevail in a game when your opponents see you strategizing, so having opinions about this stuff essentially disqualifies you from winning at it.

I use these authors' models in my consulting work to effect change in large tech orgs. Most people say they are playing chess and think they are secretly playing poker, but really they're trapped in a a game of musical chairs during an outbreak of cooties, where people are watching for signs of the music slowing down and angling for a diminishing number of seats. As a consultant, I solve problems and collect my fees move on as I don't value the things they struggle for, but having a metamodel from books like those for what's going on can unblock organizations with some small influential changes.
> They were still adamant that the United States, who they claimed started it all, bore the brunt of the blame [of the Cambodian Genocide]. In short, Chomsky still refused to admit how wrong he had been over Cambodia.

wow, I had thought this was just a mistake on his part, but this is truly heinous. lost all respect for this person
Wonder if the stone had a bunch of naturally occurring tetraethyllead or dimethylmercury or similar that unknowingly affected people nearby.
a little of column A, a little of column B. A lot of the stories are just stories, but the traditions borne of them are still culturally important.
"Many politicians absolutely do good"

I mean if you look at them with an uncritical eye, sure. The system is corrupt, at least in the US. Just look at what corporations pay in taxes.

Can you name some US politicians that "do good," and what do you define as good? Talk is cheap, they all tell you what they think you want to hear. Think of all the corrupt systems in play that are detrimental to the us population: NAFTA, globalization, policing, qualified immunity, civil asset forfeiture abuse, mass surveillance, over-prosecution, ungodly military spending, school defunding, many more. Things these "do good" politicians just ignore. Doesn't that taint them at all in your mind?
How is all/only necessary not the fucking DNT header already.

We have and had a standardized way of indicating consent. They just decided to ignore it.
HAD been lacking :). the most popular pet name in Ukraine right now is Bayraktar. But of course, as others mentioned, it will take only a few blown up 1$bln warships before things turn nuclear.
Most likely Russians will have a demo nuclear 'test' in neutral waters sometimes this year. There aren't any 'cooler heads' to prevail in this situation - just bloodlust and enablement
> your argument is circular.

How so? The Suez invasion didn't fail because the British (or the French) didn't have the logistics to supply their forces. It failed because the US wasn't OK with it happening.

The point is, France could build whatever expeditionary force it could fit within its national budget, and it would still be completely useless for national strategic interests, because you could only really use it if the Americans agree you could use it. Thus, it would just end up doing stuff that fits in with American strategic imperatives.
> Consider, right now the US military budget is bound to balloon some more because of this war, without us doing any fighting. Military Keynesianism --- chest puffing handshake.

We are sending actual weapons and machinery, which need to be replaced by new weapons off the factory line. One Javelin missile costs $175k.

"In less than a week, the United States and NATO have pushed more than 17,000 antitank weapons, including Javelin missiles, over the borders of Poland and Romania, unloading them from giant military cargo planes so they can make the trip by land to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and other major cities."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/us/politics/us-ukraine-we...
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Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective. I wish you best of luck.
Importantly, you have to be a permanent resident in the UK to host your family.

I respect the UK's immigration policy, and very much appreciate the chance to pursue an exciting job opportunity in the UK that I took a year ago. And yet it saddens me that I cannot help my family in the period of uncertainty by offering a certain path to safety.
I couldn't have said it better myself :)

In the first 4 years, Lunar was actually completely free and supported by donations on BuyMeACoffee.

I made a total of $5k in those 4 years from donations, probably even less after PayPal took their huge cut.
Well, they probably can’t nuke Western Europe with impunity.

But it’s not clear what NATO membership’s really worth for Eastern Europe. I’m from EE and I don’t understand why the US or the UK would risk their countries or even WE getting nuked for EE.

I have the feeling that EE was accepted into NATO just to piss off the Russians and put some space between them and WE. Just like with Ukraine before it went sideways.
I recall the experience of a blind adult getting surgery that allowed for vision, and describing the process of learning visual information gave some idea of what infants experience; first it is all brightness, or darkness, then very vague shapes and primary colors, eventually honing in on discrete objects and hues.

It makes more sense that, without any context, our brain can't just "add" a color to its repertoire, but must interpret some data within the context of existing 'thought'. Some things may be literally unimaginable without a framework of existing memories and experiences, or only possible through some recursive process "Oh so 'a' is 'like' xyz, that makes sense".
This is a cool tool but it should differentiate between "users" and "customers" so that weighting is based on the potential for making paying users happy (or perhaps the word "user" should just be changed.) It also appears that these sliders are equally weighted but I find that these factors are NOT equally weighted based on a particular feature, the lifecycle of the product and the lifecycle of the company.
> the concept of IP ownership -- let alone specifics of how its structured -- are a cultural and human construct. [...] I'm not at all convinced we'll make much progress as society if we impose our values on everyone, and expect everyone to behave the same way

When thinking beyond the means (economical based incentive) and skipping straight to the end (advancement of human technology and culture) - One particularly huge country (China) has already been doing an accidental experiment for a long time: taking western IP and patents with a pinch of salt, and just using them pretty freely (as far as I understand it), at least at a national level.

I find the existence of that duality in the world really interesting, and it's not exactly one sided because the west has been exploiting China and Asia in general in their own way. On one side you have economically based idea and technology creation incentives with ever increasing restrictions; on the other you have all the benefits unleashed without restriction, yet without significantly affecting the incentive for the source (I'm sure some "not rich enough" people will complain it does but frankly the economical mechanism have already been pushed too far).
I mean, most cultures will pretend to take this shit seriously then just ignore it and forget it ever happened.
> > modals and other horrible UI features

> and most users on HN have at least a rudimentary understanding, often an expert understanding, of how a browser works under the hood

Y'all, with your expert knowledge, know there's a dialog element in HTML, right?
I would be shocked (and likely dead shortly after) if NATO launched all out nuclear retaliation for the sake of the baltic states. It's a very convenient threat until you're faced with the reality of pushing the button.
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Also, the referendum was legally non-binding.
Let's stop beating the bush and say it as it is: there's no "real" EU without an EU Army!

...regardless of what the US does or doesn't do. NATO serves a different purpose.

If we ever want to get close to the dream of an European Federation we need to get the Army done. Then maybe some EU equivalent of the FBI (no Interpol doesn't cut it, something with trained men with guns and bugs and all, and EU only).

Even a possible future improvement of the relationships between Europe and Russia is contingent on this: we need to be able to talk with Russia without the US sitting at the table, and to have the option to also act against the interests of the US. Which, frankly, don't really coincide that much with that of Europe anymore.
Unless you believe they are accurate you could post along side why they are understandably wrong given the propaganda situation.

If you believe they are accurate youbcan use a throwaway to explain why your view that mass bombing of civilians by Russia is partially nato’s fault.

If the views aren’t something like that, then why hesitate to post?
> One could argue a crazy irrational leader is a better defense against the start of conflict than a rational leader

One could argue anything, but I don't think there is a good argument for that position. In fact, I think it's painfully obvious that such a leader makes it less likely that efforts at avoiding conflict will be successful.
Second of all, meta-whataboutism. If you are arguing for censorship, you are wrong.
The Russian government sadly already thought of that. They have already set up parallel supply chains for their planes, military goods, cars, softwares and computers. For planes, it's through domestic industry being kept isolated for military reasons. For military goods, it is all made in CIS countries and use no foreign (except maybe Chinese? Not sure) critical components. For cars, they have begun to import Chinese cars already. For software, piracy solves the issue. For computers, they have domestic low performance processors with already functional x86 emulation, as well as the option to buy Chinese chips.
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And kuro5hin, a sort of mix between Slashdot and Substack...
I'm not dismissing it having an effect. But isn't it probable that the light profile would be somewhat different for an actual monitor and a back/sidelit eInk dislay? If so, the effect may differ as well.
Sure, but I'm assuming that was Feudal Japan setting.

You could easily have another one with a modern setting, since the rock splits in 2022.
Article 5 of the NATO Treaty - an attack on the territory of any member is considered an attack on the territory of every member.
This was a question on a game show last night I watched.
Oh good, gives game devs a perfect excuse to start charging a recurring fee for what's an infrastructure detail on their side. Gotta get those sweet sweet subscription fees.
We wouldn't have gone through the "are neural networks conscious" bit of discourse if more people read this book.
The real question here is, how far are Russian soldiers willing to go to protect their pride? At what point do you wake up and realize that you're killing people for no reason other than to appease a tyrant?
If that happened, Europe and NATO would retake and partition Kaliningrad. Russia cannot sustain that level of military force so close to the rest of the European powers.
Don't know about the Baltics but Japan for example pays $1.8B per year for US troops.
I'm sorry. The U.S. is broke. How about trading with the Bear instead of poking at it? U.S. Russia isolation policy has failed miserably.
Because for army issues we have NATO already and keep in mind that positions in EU parliament are chosen and voted for by politicians only, not by people.

So in the end this army would be used 90% to stop protests against EU in countries, losing their sovereignty in the process
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Look I know what you're all thinking, but we shouldn't let this one good decision trick us into supporting the current Russian regime
No, the article assumes that most people don't have power, and they offer no evidence for it.

I believe that we live in a 'bureaucratic autocracy' i.e. where the things we argue about on the News and in Congress are only a tiny, tiny slice of governance, but that there is generally enough transparency in the system to cause change, driven by voting, public sentiment.

In particular - think about how so many people in power are 'really sensitive' on a lot of issues.

Literally, if almost anyone in the USA uttered the 'n word' in public - they would be 'out'.

Just consider that: a single word - and 'gone'.

That's due to sensitivities.

Overt corruption usually amounts to the same thing.
Indeed. However with language sophistry it can be justified as low wages in service industry. I of course do not visit restaurants and bars. It helps that good people on social media have advised that stingy/no-tippers must not go to restaurants or bars etc. If they still do so at-least appreciate if waiter spits into their food before serving.
Well, I wouldn't disagree with what you're saying. Living in Scotland, we had a separate (independence) referendum and the ensuing fallout from that. I was out of the country for that one but saw the same kind of systemic mass media leveraging of cherry picked ideas.

All said, I think the UK should be more aligned with the EU here and play its part in securing the well-being of Ukrainian citizens. We (I think, as in the West and/or democracy) are united in recognising Ukrainians rights to self-determination
If you look at GDP charts, the US is very dynamic in comparison to the EU. I think the EU is a better model, but when it comes to raw economic, military and diplomatic power, there's no comparison.

If you go back to the decades in which the US became the world hegemon (post-war era) the difference is way more stark. It's not that the EU resigned - it's that the US muscled them out!
If you want a change, leave. I wouldn't expect them to change just for you honestly.

I think most places will have you do a bit of operations work.
How astronomers “see into the past” by looking at dim stars, and how bigger telescopes see farther back in history?
"Noam Chomsky was the most conspicuous American intellectual to rationalize the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The death toll, he argued, was minor compared to the list of Third World victims of the “far more extreme terrorism” of United States foreign policy."

Chomsky's comment here is neither false nor rationalising the attacks. I am not a particular fan of Chomsky (but I am on "the left") but this article is an especially weak attack on him.
They're being flagged because they're mostly off-topic for HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). And anything about the war is mostly just attracting whataboutisms, so not much great discussion regardless.
Yeah, I built out some models for this as a weekend project, based on my limited knowledge as a bandcamp consumer.

It's a surprisingly-complex domain!

Simply modelling all of the relationships is a fun experiment.

i.e. so-and-so is the producer and advertised co-artist, so-and-so is both an individual artist but also a member of bands X and Y, bands X and Y are part of the super-group Z; label A is a subsidiary of B, which was a subsidiary of label C from 2012-2016, was independent from 2016-2017 and is a subsidiary of label D from then until now.

Now, think about building RBAC on top of this, like you're hinting at!

No small feat, to be sure.

edit:

The main rabbit-hole I dove down was revenue-sharing, so that labels and artists can be paid out immediately, without the latter needing to wait for some settlement layer governed by the label. It turns out Stripe allows you to implement this fairly easily, and with limited fuss!

Even if the label chooses not to use this process for some reason (I wonder why!), you should be able to model out revenues for all parties, and show the artist(s)/song-writer(s)/label(s) what they should have had in gross and post-tax earnings for any given period in time.

You can even show the music consumer what % of each purchase will go to the various parties involved in producing the music, which might help in steering people towards indie labels or artists. Kind of like nutrition facts for music. :)