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> Is a key sentence here. Your points are invalid because none of these actions(even if they really took place, because you know about them from biased source) were caused by intent to destroy Ukrainians as group

They all took place, Putins stated goal to remove Ukraine as a state and the idea of being Ukrainian. Russia says this very upfront and blatantly they don’t try and hide it despite how much more work it makes for its propaganda arm.

Let me guess your only unbiased source is Russia?. The same source that believes in Ukrainian super soldiers and Ukrainian black magic battalions because they failed to take city 300km from their border.

> About jailing - of course you can jail prisoners of war, but it does not prove anything. Ukrainian SBU, like Russian FSB is descendant of KGB. They can get any testimony they need, especially from helpless prisoner of war.

You seem not convinced even by a court sentence, what would you even convinced by? At this point in time you seem to require impossible evidence for something that we have clear video and photo graphic evidence for.

Unless you think a shopping centre is a valid military target?.

> Second, Putin thinks that US broke the first point of that memorandum by inciting the 2014 coup. Because Ukraine is not sovereign now - it is fully controlled by the West. So old rules are not working anymore

So because Ukraine decided and ousted their Russian puppet all the way back to Moscow and decided they wanted to have someone pro Europe they don’t deserve sovereignty?.

Btw the only person who calls the 2014 revolution a coup is the Russian puppet who got ousted and his Russian handlers.

> And third, Minsk agreements were signed after the annexation of Crymea, so Budapest Memorandum was already broken. If you do not intend to follow agreements, you don't sign them or you are liar. You don't say "hey you broke our last agreements so i can broke these".

Yes Russia is a liar, that is painfully obvious they never follow any agreements they make (binding or not) and they always shout scream and get their supporters to stamp their feet when others act the same way.

Why should anyone believer anything Russia says or sign or abide by any treaty Russia decides when Russia themselves don’t?.

> which clearly states that Putin told Bush that he will attack if Ukraine or Georgia joins NATO. 14 years later he attacked and everyone: "look! Putin is liar!". He told you about consequences 14 years ago!

Neither joined NATO and he would never attack if they did, it’s why all the former Soviet states try to join NATO because Russia is incapable and unwilling to even blink in the direction of a NATO member.

It’s also probably why Russia tried to force all the post soviet states to not join NATO so they can go pillaging again in the future.
The keys that makes the desert problem finite bounded are "can't leave supplies in the desert to pick up later" and "without starving any traveler on the way". Relax either restriction and you're back to exponential behavior, either by taking extra trips or leaving a lot of dead travelers.
If 50% of people avoid investing in industries that are profitable and hurt/kill people, that means people with no such reservation take the profit. You essentially pass the gains to people OK with causing cancer.

I don’t think the avoid investments you don’t believe in changes anything except making others money.
I don't see how that is any different than having a public SSID. The goal behind hiding it isn't to prevent people from knowing it, just make it less obvious.
> Being an immigrant isn't some magical power

No one’s claiming it’s a superpower, but there definitely seems to be some quality of immigrants that makes them more successful entrepreneurs. And, it’s not just highly educated parents, money, and technical backgrounds since the number of non-immigrants who fit that same profile far exceed the immigrant population.

If I had to guess it’s a combination of: hunger (sometimes literally), willingness to think and act unconventionally, work ethic, and persistence.
More wealth isn’t enough to satiate his ego, he absolutely craves legacy. As of now he’ll still be a small footnote in history, kids will likely learn about Henry Ford 150 years from now but Musk isn’t worth much of an appearance. Tesla is just an iterative step in EV / battery manufacturing, and is likely to be dwarfed by competition over the next 50 years, even if it does really well.

SpaceX gives him the chance to truly make history. People will learn about our first manned trip to Mars and the first colony. Perhaps even for thousands of years.
Do you have any numbers to substantiate this? Most people in NYC like the subway, even the ones who express grievances about cleanliness, crime, &c. It's a cornerstone of the city's convenience and culture.

At the turn of the century, most people didn't want cars on their city streets; that's what the article we're discussing is all about. What the average American (not just NYer) wants changes over time; I consider my support for public transit to be merely an investment in a perceptual shift that's already taking place.
From listening to their podcasts / twitter spaces it sounds like they're building machines from the ground up. I get the impression they'd hate the analogy, but an apple style take on owning the hardware and software together.

For a dip into how deep in the weeds they are, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCkuCkp3Zoo (they also do this as "oxide and friends" wherever you find podcasts, which is a nuisance to link to but works better)
This hit me right in the nostalgia feels. I used Turbo Pascal and Turbo C heavily in high school and university. The computer science faculty at my university had their own modula-2 compiler (gpm) so many of our assignments had to be done in modula-2. I would have loved a TPM-2.

Additionally, my primary school had an Apple IIe, on which I would sometimes use CP/M. My Amstrad CPC464 could run CP/M, too.
> Alpha radiation is completely harmless and doesn’t even get through a sheet of paper.

It is indeed harmless outside of your body, but it is devastating inside of your body.

The reason is that outside of your body, it is blocked by your layer of dead skin, if it gets to it, your dead skin ends up pretty messed up as it absorbs all the energy of the alpha particle. But no big deal, it is dead, doesn't take part of your biology, can't turn cancerous. But now, if that alpha emitter ends up inside of your body, maybe in your lungs as you breathe in radioactive dust, it will end up dumping all of its energy inside of your live cells, damaging DNA and doing everything bad ionizing radiation can do.

Gamma radiation, the unstoppable one is actually less dangerous if it finds its way inside your body, that's because it will go right through it, it will mess up a few cells on its way out, but most of its energy will be dumped outside of you.
It's pretty clear CAN/AUS/NZ have dispensed with notions of fundamental justice, and have a "so sue me," approach to legislation and governance, as this stuff is just too stupid to be reasoned with. The language means nothing, the principles mean nothing. It's no longer about tech, it's about what our options are when the state has demonstrated official contempt for the people it ostensibly serves.

Well articulated. Exhibit A: Successive Australian governments allowing Assange's imprisonment. Exhibit B: Australia not allowing its own citizens to leave the country during COVID without first requesting permission. Exhibit C: Steadily increasing internet and mobile surveillance and censorship.
No need to downvote this. Long history of documented corruption.
The charging voltage has to mach your battery voltage, so twice the voltage in the charging cable means you can send more power for the same amount of amps.
> Solar has less single points of failure and if it fails not much happens

On the surface this is very true. However, types of solar have caveats that do not manifest until you have a certain amount of utilization in the grid. Photovoltaics do not contribute to inertia. This is the Newtonian concept that ensures instantaneous voltage stability separate from any active demand/generation management functions. The more inertia you have, the more work it takes to speed up or slow down the grid.

Hypothetically, a grid that is 50% PV solar and 50% others would experience severe stability issues if the other class of generation were to be substantially impacted (i.e. your big-bang-for-buck military targets).

You cannot run a power grid on PV solar alone. It just won't work at scale.
SSD speeds will probably continue increasing, so removing RAM will take us about 20 years back to the past, with the difference that these will have seemingly "unlimited" memory. Imagine Windows 2000 never complaining about being out of memory.
The people who contribute daily to making our society that way are all indeed culpable. However, the people who opportunistically turn a profit from society being that way are the worst of that collection of people.
> and to reward based on performance instead of seniority

You say that like it's a bad thing. (Also, generally unheard of in the types of places we're discussing; you don't get paid more for being good. You get paid more for be good enough for longer.)
“From that point of view the best 'solution' would be to spread power as wide as possible”

Not necessarily. Because how? And to your point, because on that I think we agree, what would a well intentioned individual do with no guardrails, let alone one with bad intent?

I am under no delusion that the solution would be to simply spread out power. For one, my simple mind can’t imagine how that would actually work, without getting corrupted, in current year.

No, I’m more concerned about how humanity can form any sort of societal structure, power structure, without having one of those two above people (meaning all of us, at times) royally fuck it up.

But that’s what thousands of years of human history seem to indicate. We are doing something wrong as a species, if not at least something horribly inefficient, vulnerable to abuse, and likely to cause harm.

I’m not looking for an answer, I certainly don’t have one. I still don’t fully understand the problem. But it seems lower level than the distribution of power. I’d almost say more primal, or animal, but that feels like it cheapens it.
Not quite sure where you’re going with the religion vs philosophy question, in the context of my statements the only real difference would be removing any threat of divine intervention, which itself may have some effect on the how well groups align with their shared beliefs. Read like that then yes, I would agree that the statement would apply for philosophy, but weaker.

As for your original post, you
make a jump to stating that evolution would prefer truth, but that’s not a given simply from the fact that we perceive our world in such a way that we consider evolution. Evolution as we understand it is without intent, and only “prefers” that which in the
long run yields further offspring.

A point I was trying to make was that the truthfulness of for instance religiosity doesn’t impact whether or not it has an effect on “fitness”. A religion can be entirely false, and yet contain memes that make its adherents’ genes procreate more successfully.
I'm "well banked" I guess, but the laundromat nearest me still only takes quarters for some godforsaken reason and sometimes it is convenient for parking meters (although most of them use the same app nowadays).
Electricity is roughly half the price of petrol or diesel, and about the same price as propane.

I spend about as much on fuel for my elderly 20,000-mile-per-year Range Rover as half a monthly payment for a new EV, and because it's dual-fuel it's actually cleaner than an electric vehicle.
Am I crazy or did they get rid of this setting? I remember they used to have a way to set your status to "not looking", but I've been looking recently and can't find it.
Charging power is roughly battery voltage * charging current. There are practical limits to battery voltage, but higher charging current is expensive.
It's a weird argument to say "Nuclear does this, solar does not" as if the two are against one another and you are comparing them.

Here, I'll do the same thing: "Nuclear produces power 24/7, while solar can only usefully produce power for ~8 hours a day, or 1/3 of the day".

Sure, for that 1/3 of the day, solar does not have political problems like being shut down for danger. However, for 2/3 of the day, nuclear does not have the physics problem of being useless.

Each solution has pros and cons and I want my power to come from both.
Large amounts of low radioactive waste that is safe to discard in 1 year.

The highly radioactive waste that lasts thousands of years is actually quite small.
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All of those accidents combined killed less than 10% of the people that are killed by fossil fuel pollution every single year. Most nuclear accidents are entirely hypothetical.
Assuming this is actually true, my guess would be the social pressure.
> it's a juicy and easy target for an adversary to cripple your electricity production. A few dozen well placed missiles might be all you need to take an entire nation that's heavily nuclear dependent to its knees.

This is true for any other system of centralized energy production, including, notably, the one we have right now.
That’s true if your shop didn’t create a bunch of custom controllers or apis inside the k8s world… or forked it.
I agree with you and the slow streets, that would be a better design.

As for goals, what we currently have is good for me, where I live. There are many areas in the city where it would be impractical not to have a car. I believe the goal should be to make it possible to live without a car anywhere in the city. I don't really care about the specifics of proportions of infrastructure.
Nuclear Experts Question Effects of Chinese Cell Towers on Missile Silos
It is curious that political action is not first and foremost in our minds, if at all. We take it for granted that all manner of immoral production and consumption will be permitted.

Instead passive and voluntary actions like simply not investing in companies and not buying their products - possibly framed as something more principled like divestment - is our default setting.
Bad news, it is presumed they were tipped upon which they are taxed.
Invariably? Right now I ride a bicycle to where I work 4-5x per week, and make car trips maybe 1-3x per week. The nearest grocery store is across a 7-lane stroad. I would believe the externalities of cars are an order of magnitude worse than those of scooters.

But if we're introducing NewThing with new externalities, we should still try to mitigate them. As NewThing becomes ExistingThing, the overton window narrows around norms of its use. The overton window around scooters is still wide open!

If your car is parked illegally, you get ticketed and maybe towed. The threat of enforcement keeps no-parking areas free of cars. (This works in part because cities ticket the _registrant_ of the car -- not the user, who is often impossible to tie to the act.) I think my point is: should we have rules and norms like this around scooters too?
I still remember reading the book as a kid. I was probably a bit too young for it and found it pretty...intense. Didn't know there was a film - will try to find it.
Respectfully, I disagree with the postulate that there is no possibility of solidarity with “the marginalized”, and think this is a good example of why. When you say ask “them,” who do you mean? Ex-convicts, Amazon workers, teamsters, some combination of these, or what? And who are you going to listen to when people (inevitably, even within the same faction) disagree?
I think that what this approach does is renders ethical discussions impossible. By denying the possibility of a common rationality in which moral questions can be weighed, ethics is reduced into a collision of interests, and the unsurprising result is that nothing can happen without the approval of the strongest party in the conflict.
See Occupy Wall Street for another example of this principle in action.
And how does that compare to the business-as-usual shutdowns of solar (every night, cloudy days, winter as a whole) which unlike nuclear are highly correlated between separate plants?

If storage is cheap enough then solar will be an important part of the mix. But unless you have the right geography for geothermal or hydro (which probably means flooding a bigger area than the chernobyl exclusion zone before you've even started, but leaving that aside), nuclear is still the only viable option for clean, reliable baseline power. It's not an either/or, we should be building both.
Why can't you close any of the books once opened?
A sad loss. Especially as she was trapped in a conservatorship and was trying her best to fight it.

I always loved the story about how she was thinking of quitting Star Trek because of the limitations of her role until Martin Luther King asked her not to, because her role as an intelligent, independent, courageous equal was so important for black women.

She was a true trailblazer and inspiration.
Can I ask when you had this exchange, which email you contacted (I've tried emailing both the support address and the individual addresses) and which email provider you use?
Not usually and definitely not in this context.
That was probably polybutylene. PEX has been installed even before that (since the 1950s) and proven longevity, while polybutylene piping was already beset with lawsuits in the 1980s. As usual, the USA only does the right thing after exhausting all other options.

Actually, I'm remembering there were some widespread failures of PEX-C. Hmm.
Please, update the headline and either use CA, Cal, or California. The only acceptable use of the word "Cali" is in a LL Cool J video.
That's the context everyone else is addressing.

This is what I was referring to. I responded to a specific point, of a specific post, about a specific thing.

This happens all the time. It's how conversation works. Yet you continue to ignore context, continue to ignore what I was discussing, which I have reiterated in every single reply. Instead, you find fault that I was not discussing.. what? What you wanted to discuss?

I repeat again, and go back to my original reply, we must truly understand cause, to effect correction.

For some reason this appears to bother you greatly. All of your replies have been to posts of mine stating this. Apparently, you disagree?

Well, why even bother responding? You apparently don't care for cause, and get upset at targeted correction.

There's little else to say here.
What’s your point? That it makes riding the bus less safe?

You’re safer on a bus without a seatbelt than you are in a small car because of the mass of the vehicle.
We have people dying of breathing complications right now and we have so much CO2 in our atmosphere that we're changing the weather.

We need nuclear energy precisely because humans are not safe.
Exactly what happens when ignorant fools who are politicians and lawyers who are every bit as arrogant as they are ignorant.

"..with a computer" just makes so many powerful peoples' brains fall out of their ears.

"Skip all established market regulation, with a computer." Ok, I don't know how to think about this because computer.

"Act like the stasi spying on people in ways they never agreed to with a the most massive bait and switch ever see, with a computer." Ok I don't know how to think about this because computer.

"Organise a peaceful protest with a computer." Hold up, no computer for you.

There needs to be an established technique for people to explain and understand what is going on by describing how precisely the same thing could be done with an infinite army of paper pushers. [1]

You've just banned this guy from taking out pen and paper and writing a letter to his kids substituting A with N, B with O, and so on in what is known as a Caesar Cipher named after the late Roman emperor who used it a couple of thousand years ago and is now commonly used by children.

If you believe this guy to be doing something illegal, like organising an illegal peaceful protest you GET A WARRANT and then require him to provide the passwords. It's that simple. Really. If you can't get a warrant then you shouldn't be looking at all.

[1] Would also work for describing what facebook, google, air bnb do so we don't go from zero regulation any illegal conduct goes swinging back right to overregulation that destroys all their competition. Just applying the normal antitrust, tax, consumer protection laws etc and throws into stark relief where there is actually a need for expanding the coverage of the law (or contracting it).
Well, fascist politicians will certainly address crime by immigrants. Personally I'd rather have the immigration than the reemergence of fascism, but Italy is not my country of residence, so hey, not my problem!
For a brief period of time, Visual J++ was the best Java IDE around.
Technically it is not Australia but New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia. Australia is a federation of states, with the federal government only having legislative power in certain areas. The result is a mish-mash of different layers [1].

Hopefully these laws won't survive a journey though the NSW courts, but even so they will have achieved their goal of disrupting protests. If there is a glimmer of hope it is that the government that passed these laws is mired in a corruption scandal and probably won't survive elections early next year [2].

State governments in Australia, particularly NSW, kowtow to real estate developer / economic interests. Despite there being an official ban on political donations from real estate developers, the landed gentry seem to maintain their sway [3]. For example the koala is now an endangered species in NSW [4], as proposed koala protection laws for the then vulnerable species were gutted after pressure from land holders [5].

[1] https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-29/dominic-perrottet-bac...

[3] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-15/nsw-history-of-corrup...

[4] https://www.npr.org/2022/02/11/1080081190/koalas-endangered-...

[5] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-08/nsw-coalition-strikes...
> the professor had already been prewarned

> We all got an "F"

> The rest of us were given a chance to rewrite the term paper.

That seems really unfair. Why didn't the rest of you just get a grade based on the quality of the rest of the paper?
we will discuss enhancements to our previous server deployment architecture. Previously, it was a very basic implementation and with this enhancement, we are focusing on Scalability, High Availability and Security.
You do have a relevant point. In time of war safety of many things cannot be guaranteed. However, I promise you, for the Ukrainians the bigger issue is not the reactor. It is a concern, but it is not the major concern.
I too was momentarily astray... and then became curious.

There's a 2022 What's New [1] for... err... ILE RPG in IBM i 7.5 ? Aka RPG IV Technology Release 7 ? Aka... sigh. The current state of RPG. It includes: new operation code DATA-GEN generates a structured document, such as JSON or CSV, from an RPG variable; the OVERLOAD keyword is used in a call operation, the compiler uses the parameters that are specified for the call to determine which of the candidate prototypes to call; ... .

Current language reference[2]. If there's a modern open source compiler, I didn't quickly find it.

[1] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=wn-whats-new-in-75-1
[2] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=languages-rpg
Except when it isn’t. Granted it’s cleaner than coal and gas. But there’s the pesky problem of waste, plants that cost billions, decom is not cheap, easy or clean.
Oh and the financial incentives to operate longer and cheaper than is safe.