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If nobody launches a nuclear retaliation, then Russia knows it can nuke with impunity. What are the rules they are playing with? Literally just hope they don't invade or nuke London first.
Putin also has Putin's support.
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They're all in the EU, so it would invoke the EU defense pact as well. As we can see right now, our stuff seems to be decent enough to scrap those ancient soviet rust buckets.

Also don't forget that France has the Nuclear Reset Button available. I count on them to convince the Russians not to deploy nukes.

We need an EU army nevertheless. And to deploy this army we'll need some proper governing entity for the EU.
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The reason is simple: you need extensive logistics support for expeditionary warfare. European states are not really structurally placed to engage in this kind of thing: ever since the Suez crisis, it's been obvious that we basically live in an US world order, and doing expeditionary stuff without the American's say-so is a bad idea. So, since you're going to need American permission anyway, you may as well plan on relying on their capabilities.
for example - I am.
If I don't want my car used by people who (have values including the right to ~steal~ use others' cars) I don't agree with, should I not have a car?
Plenty of that, what news sources do you respect enough for me to link to?

The “special military operation” isnt over and even Russia is attempting a limited ceasefire to help humanitarian efforts, for the third time, which means its not over due to Ukrainians resisting with some success
General question: Who pays for something like this? Or how does the cost splitting work?

Because, in theory, why wouldn't every small nation ask for this if some other nation's taxpayers foot at least 50% of bill?
So, sort of like NATO, but just at the EU level, right?
To me their logic is that their old tool works just fine so they shouldn't have to upgrade it. He essentially said that having a plan to upgrade to a newer version of the language or to a more up to date toolchain is planned obsolescence. He seems to want to be able to use his specific version of his compiler to the end of time. To me I don't quite get the justifications of this perspective as GCC is free software and it is simple to upgrade.
It skips a couple layers of abstraction to enable faster load times, the goal here is to improve over the state of the art - the promise of 'no load times' sometimes delivered by the PS5 and Xbox Series X via this same approach

Some PC ports are already getting close to this as well - elden ring's load times are very short on my PC.

It's also hard to overstate how much of an improvement it is to have an NVMe drive send data directly to the GPU instead of have to send it via the CPU. The amount of pointless work involved in the CPU hop is pretty significant.
There's an ironclad rule of broadcast, and that is given a choice between the number of channels and the quality, they will pick number of channels every time, meaning users will get low effective quality almost all of the time.

Here's a thought experiment to tell you why that is:

Say you have a choice of two stations, or streams. One of them is boring, but is of exemplary quality. The other one is fantastically compelling, but sounds mediocre trending poor frankly.

Which one do you use, and what do you think other people will do?

And the answer really is compelling wins every time. Quality is nice to have, but when more concurrent offerings can be delivered in the same bitstream, the vast majority of broadcasters will do that, because that means more money more ad dollars the whole nine.

Here in my market, we have exactly one full definition, full bitrate television broadcast station over-the-air. It looks amazing. The funny thing is, I don't watch that station much at all.

Every one of the others has 2, 3 sometimes concurrent streams. And they don't look amazing.

In radio, there are a fair number of stations that didn't do the digital system. Of the ones that did, almost all of them have two streams. Same story here, the streams I really like, are low-quality. Such is life.

I expect to see similar choice and quality trade-offs all over the place. The only way to bring quality up to exemplary standards would be to mandate it. Otherwise the majority of broadcasters won't do it.
No, we don't want that over here. I prefer to have US troops here than troops who are paid/ controlled by Brussel politicians that are disconnected from reality.
What troubles me, also, is that they couldn't find a better "voice"/public face than the one of Priti Patel, whose name sounds like one with deep, ancestral Irish/Walsh/English/Scottish roots, ready to protect the island from foreign born people. /s
> I'm no authority to classify or confirm whether RT is a "government propaganda vehicle".

russian war shill, go fuck yourself.
Following this logic, no one should ever feel guilty or be compelled to stop doing something morally wrong, because someone else probably did worse in recent memory. Someone else's bad behavior does not manifest _permission_ for you to do the same.
I left out the Russians because they did impose quite a lot. In theory, the entire goal was to spread Communist ideology. In practice, it was a lot more imperialistic than that, but you were definitely under a boot.

The level of ignorance here is staggering. The Mongols were pretty straightforward. For the most part, they would politely ask you to surrender. If you did, you were left alone to live as you saw fit, as part of a trade network, Mongol-friendly governance, and paying tribute. No one got killed. If you fought and lost, there was wholesale slaughter. Everyone got killed. There were a few in-betweens. There was no scenario like the one you're describing. The in-betweens might, for example, have skilled workers and artisans carted off.

I won't get into a back-and-forth about the Ottomans. You have no idea my background, and you presume too much. You have no idea who I am, or whom I've spoken to.
I think the follow up argument to make is that withholding evidence as a "State Secret" constitutes spoliation of evidence and should be considered in favor of the plaintiff. If it is that important to hide how the evidence was acquired then it must be more important than acquiring a conviction. Better 100 guilty men go free than 1 innocent man and such.
I did not argue that free speech is absolute. Merely that we should be free to try to convince each other of our premise. Even if you really, really, really don't like the other guy. Especially then.

I caution you to so casually frame RT as an example of the paradox of tolerance. The byline makes it clear that this paradox was created and applied to situations where the tolerated eventually seized authoritarian power to silence the tolerant. RT, and as you rightly describe, Russia, has no hope of invading the U.S. and seizing this power. It's just Russia spouting Russian propaganda. Either you trust your citizens to freely exchange ideas - even those you really, really really, don't like - or you don't. I'm getting the feeling that you don't.
> Also, how people are able to practice and improve at something, like practicing guitar and eventually being able to hit every note, or being able to never leave their wallet behind, or stopping at every stop sign and never forgetting which pedal is the gas.

That is something I can relate to. I do most things without really thinking and usually do pretty well, but this makes building skills in the long run very hard since I don't really think much. I don't really know why but I feel like thinking while doing things in the moment is hard for me.
"Who would risk nuclear escalation as millions of people are wiped off the face of the Earth?" - I think if this question is being asked, it's only a matter of times before nukes fly beyond these select boarding countries as escalation would almost certainly continue. Putin is already declaring the sanctions as an act of war while NATO/EU countries begin to rearm.
If that makes you feel any better I have written server emulators for more than one SaaS program.
Agreed a bit, there is definitely elements of instutitional self preservation for its own sake. And certainly the defense contractors are scared to have less of their main client.

But getting rid of this "world police" "free world" bullshit will still help a lot. 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.

Finally, if are allies can defend themselves, they will have more spine to call out our bullshit with things like Iraq.
> Big studios already have their own implementations.

Hence the API.
Some have, not only at CNN. However, the level of propaganda on RT is very different.
"who would risk nuclear escalation to retaliate for Latvia or Estonia? not the US."

If a President as unpredictable as Trump happens to be in office, I wouldn't be so sure.

That's not to mention the drastically increased risk of accidents once even a one-sided nuclear war has begun.

Think of how close the world came to nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis.[1] Once nukes start flying the risk grows much higher, even if there are still (presumably rational, cautious, and non-hawkish) adults in control.

[1] - https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/lone-russian-submar...
In my view the only benefit to an EU Army would be as a way to demilitarize EU member states so that they can't start a war with one another as they no longer have a military to directly control. Recreating NATO (and dissolving decades of institutional investment) and calling it the EU Army and then excluding the United States from backing you up just does not seem like a smart idea. Partnering with the U.S. is a good and desirable thing and is always a matter of choice. It just sometimes seems like it's not a choice because scenarios in which you are not choosing the United States are almost non-existent.
Why not try to use technology to bridge the gap? I know video chat might be beyond some people, but a phone call from a couple family members every week seems simple enough.
Having US troops is not because they need the troops, they want "US" troops so US citizens will die in an invasion and the US can not walk away.
That is why NATO has doctrine of "launch everything we have once we see a first nuke fly" and why it is very public about it.
Lets be honest, the US is much more proactive at defending.

Look at Germany, how reluctant was to even start doing sanctions or distribute arms. The eastern countries see this, and they just don't trust Germany will have their back. Same with France or Spain or Italy.

Also, the Bosnia war/genocide, and the late intervention is a clear failure of European policy. The US had to step in to make it stop. Same during the Kosova ethnic cleansing.

The Eastern Block members know their only single reliable partner is the US and not the other large EU members who are always late to do anything.
Pretty sure there's no way of getting from Ukraine to the UK without passing through at least one country (possibly even multiple) which do have centers that it's possible to apply for UK visas in - not since their airspace closed to commercial traffic at the start of the war at least.
>not enough direct EU parliament power

EU is economic union and should stay as such
Dumbass or Donbas? Missed special military opportunity.
:focus-visible allows you to work out if something has focus because it was clicked (not what you usually want) or if it's been tabbed to via a keyboard (what you want).
What's possible is that China will have one policy for its own citizens, but another for the rest of the World. They have proven to be very flexible on ideology if it makes them rich.
Folklore is that the Brexit vote won because of an open border policy(requirement) of being in the EU.

This should unpeel that Brexit voting demographic, after all there should be a limit in their reasons for refusing immigration into the country.

I voted the other way, but ultimately you have to respect the vote to an extent.

Perhaps if we are willing to supply armaments to Ukraine to defend their way of life (and by proxy ours), the least we can do is accept an appreciable % of people fleeing Ukraine. Purely IMO.
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Background: I'm a consultant for a company that does technical due diligence on tech companies being purchased by private equity firms. When we do one, we get all the information, including comp and totally salary to revenue, etc.

FWIW, there are a surprising number of companies that pay senior contributors this well in unglamorous fields. The world is full of what we call "tech enabled service companies", and some of these do very, very well. They depend very much on their secret sauce - the software they develop that makes them special. My perception, however, is that they probably aren't generally hiring at those kind of rates, but rather promoting/raising the devs that helped get them where they are. Some of them seem like very nice places to work.

The old adage applies: you make money doing what other people don't want to do or can't do. If it's not glamorous and hip and shiny new tech, the competition is a lot less fierce and rates must rise accordingly.
No, my comment was that there's no counter-pressure to prevent people from buying gas-guzzlers, oversized SUVs and trucks and the like, that will be around for 10-20 years, and will continue to drive wasteful demand for gas. When prices rise, it's felt disproportionally in our wallets, because US's carpark are gas guzzlers on the average.

That's only possible because the negative externalities are not priced in.

You can get from point A-B in supreme comfort, in cars that cost half that, or that have twice the mileage. The reason cars are instead bloated and have low mileage is because of American's fetishization of size, and the ratchet of the safety arms race. To break out of this tragedy of the commons, the tax-code needs to incentivize smaller cars, electric cars, flexible work-arrangements, etc... and disincentive larger cars.

And to your point; those stupid poor people (your words) buy used cars, and these used cars were originally the wasteful new cars that the selfish sociopathic rich people (my words) bought.
> They’d much rather have America sink into debt than touch the sacred cow of EU social spending.

Didn't Germany, Denmark, Romania, Austria (and possibly others I'm forgetting) already announce increases in military spending?
China is interested in weak Russia so that they can take its territory. They only support Russian aggression against Ukraine to benefit from the Russian isolation economically, wound Russian army, economy, and slowly digest it. Even when Soviet Union existed, they were on bad terms with Chinese Communist Party. Even Chinese hate Russian nazis.

Edit: Out of ~90 something joint non-binding agreements between China and Russia, only 4 were actually acted upon by Chinese government.

Digestion of the economy already started, among other things Russia has joined Union Pay, Chinese payment processor.
They're NATO members. Nice try.

If you think Russia can nuke a NATO population center and we're going to sit around and pretend like nothing happened, you're crazy.

That's MAD.
Yeah, it turbo sucks, but what matters is what we can actually do about it.

Power hungry people are always going to seek power, and they're always going to be better at it than people who aren't likewise driven. Democracy helps, but it still plainly falls under "Rules for Rulers" with extra keys. I wonder if the gamesmanship can't be addressed directly: elect a large body of "acceptable" candidates and randomly choose the ones that actually get power. This way, randomness dilutes the climbing incentive.

Of course, one needs power to implement any kind of change... :>
> Yet another piece that chooses the KPI by ignoring the existence of the individual. It’s essentially human resources management theory where units of human are fungible.

Check the about page.

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I am on the same page with you.

Western elites associate themselves with Randist idea of natural right, or natural virtue, and very questionable take on the rationalistm.

When you let these people "rationalise," and "develop flexibility" long enough, they can be forced into rationalising just anything, including fascism. The new new creed of Harward degree totalitarianism apologists in the spotlight today is a great example of this.

The West got stuck in this very questionable mental framework, and is running in circles. The decision makers talk themselves unto death for very petty, hollow arguments, so strong is this "elite conditioning."

In reality, there is little for them to really choose. It's either right, common sense, and sound, or it is this "trying to rationalise." It's morally hollow people trying to find out smart ways to not being pointed on as such basically.
> It's irrelevant in the scope of the discussion.

1. It was relevant to the point being made further up :- that is to say, on the world stage, might unfortunately makes right

2. You don't get to police the boundaries of what I choose to respond to.

> Iraq '03 was wrong, and the current Russian invasion of a democratic country is wrong.

Which was my point. Whether the US does it in Iraq, or Russia does it in Ukraine, or Saudi Arabia does it in Yemen[1][2], or Israel does it in Syria[3]

Which is why I expect we'll see sanctions levied on Saudi Arabia and Israel any day now.

[1] Saudi-led coalition strikes target Yemen capital after drone attack: https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20220214-saudi-led-c...

[2] The Saudi blockade on Yemen is a war crime, and only civilians suffer from it: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/05/24/the-saudi-block...

[2] Syria: Two civilians killed in Israeli attack near Damascus: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/7/syria-two-civilians-... “Since war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air attacks inside the country, targeting government positions as well as allied Iran-backed forces and fighters of the Shia group Hezbollah.”
Ukraine is not in NATO. Sacrificing three member states won't happen because everyone knows if that is allowed they will be taken one by one

NATO is doing everything it can to avoid war now but i'm pretty sure everyone is preparing to react in case member is attacked
Ignoring the fact that the Suez crisis was largely a turning point for the English, your argument is circular. The entire point is that we need to re-invest in these capabilities to some degree.
Based on the Russian military tactics that were employed during the first couple days of the war. You don't run and gun into a country where you're expecting much resistance. There's also the logistical self-owns by the Russians where, by many accounts, they only had enough gas and food for at most a week but it's been reported only 3 days worth.
I like the emoji idea. So simple and practical both idea and the system as well
Moreover they are probably also Putin's tank and supply routes... So they would basically become human shields...
They already do, it's called taxes...
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My point is that they can choose to exercise territorial control for ships that extends fairly far away from the coastline If the government of the United states want to freeze those assets, and they are located anyway near the US, they can just send out coast guards/military escorts and force them into harbor. No need to arm private citizens with letters of marque.
This isn't the Avengers, there's no reason for Iran or NK to get involved in that fight.

(they have no ability to project force abroad anyway)
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What's always missing in these kinds of propaganda articles is the resource issue with fissile material. If you look at the data given by the International Atomic Energy Agency you'll see that there are roughly 6 million tons available at the moment, with the price for uranium doubling over the last 20 years and cost for exploration quadrupling in the same time. Now, we get around 10% of all energy worldwide from fission, using 60k tons of uranium per year. So, at the current rate, we can do this for maybe 100-150 years. Increase the power output, reduce this time accordingly. And don't mention non-existing or experimental reactors like fusion of thorium, that have been just 10 years away from working for the last 50 years. We cannot solve climate change with current nuclear energy technology. There's just not enough fissile material.
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