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Still... interesting how in talking about the crash 80% of CNN's article is to mention the censorship, as was your own focus, and not the event itself and what is known about it.

NOTHING about the event about which there is a lot of data available.

Yeah WE KNOW THEY CENSOR, CHINA BAD.

It's not even some red scare anymore.

It's like we collectively need the repeated constant mention of "china bad", like some sort of mental pacifier, to not see everything wrong and just as bad in censorship in the west (UK, Germany, sometime the US), or more broadly everything which is going to shit here but is soaring and going well in Asia.

Mental infantilisation to the extreme, to keep our inner frightened and traumatized children in control. Thank you for helping that effort soldier.

Interesting. You use Fisher-Yates extensively. How do you feed it ?

Well, considering the author is Nancy Pelosi's biographer, and nobody involved disavowed the story in 3 years despite its very widespread circulation, and how much the American MAGA right has dissected it since, I'm not quite sure why it would be that hard to believe.

Or :

They are a pay for play publication, which some PR agency associated with Foggy Bottom "contacted" to tout the horn of some group of western capitalists.

Said capitalists got beat at their own anti-protectionist game IRL. They have no easy solution to end up on top, so they are trying their hand at "manifesting" the result they want, like some under-prepared teenagers before a test.

This "you're overproducing" meme is their try at using basic Marxist semantics. According to Marx, Capitalist economic crises are always crises of overproduction of commodities (exchange values).

The meme is designed to sow doubt in minds worldwide which are in the danger of thinking that Chinese Communism might have solved some of the basic contradictions of capitalism.

This meme is an ode to fatalism: even in Communism, ever declining rates of profit are inevitable and so are boom and bust cycles and crises.

With luck, even some people of high rank in the Chinese intelligentsia could be convinced of that...

This is IMHO a trigger warning too far and is also sooo culturaly tonedeaf it's not even funny...

UK, a country with a long naval tradition, destroyed over 25 Russian warships using Ukrainians in Ukraine.

FTFY, I know it's easy to mix up the two when trying to generate engagement.

Life hack wrt Ireland: if you can't calculate profit, you can't calculate tax...

Except that Russian officials up and down the flagpole - including the head honcho just this week - have very clearly and publicly said they'd rather that Poland, Romania and Hungary split up the Western half, and deal with the rebellious Galicians than them.

They don't want the headache and would be rather content to stop their efforts at Kharkhiv-Odessa line (if that's even possible to achieve for them, of course).

No, women might actually be conscripted too, as some presidential office members directly mentioned in interviews, and a couple of TV's had incidentally done impromptu "video polling" in the streets of Kyiv.

If only Canada had let the judicial process do its thing and at least imprisoned the man as properly requested by India, that killer of 28 people and Canadian citizen would be paying for his crimes, alive.

Blows my mind that instead of doing that, I read an article how he was somehow meeting CSIS agents warning him of the danger two weeks prior to the assassination...

"Yuri, you lost another submarine ... ?"

Considering: - US DoD is paying for it as client, and not Ukraine (it's been provided for free as far as they are concerned)

- US DoD can't, in peacetime (wrt the US), technically force an unwilling US company to be complicit in attacking foreign military assets (see below vs status of "war").

- also various int'l treaties on space assets, and various other ones applicable by analogy would bore a deep hole on SpaceX's insurance premiums, and on any derivates liabilities based on SpaceX's stock (6.3 Billion $ loan SpaceX made to Elon so he could buy Twitter/X ahem...).

- Similarly Russia probably privately warned SpaceX about a private company being possibly ^ complicit in an act of war against them outside of the home country of SpaceX being at war with them - huge liability issues SpaceX'd lose big time.

- also the matter the system relies on ground stations in a variety of countries also comes into it.

...not much anybody can do unless US or NATO formally declares war. US and Russia might be in a cold snap, but there is no violence, moreover outside of a declared war zone (surprisingly neither Russia nor Ukraine technically declared war, for a variety of intl' legal reason which are advantageous to both - hence the "Special Military Operation" b---s--t moniker everybody mocks publicly, but everybody respects legal--ly).

And then you have the French, Dutch and Belgian case of the pedocriminal network which was unearthed after the Dutroux affair, which, inspired themselves of these late 70s-early 80s satanic panics, started abusing children in a false satanic ritual settings, terrorizing them, and making thus sure the claim wouldn't be taken as seriously as they should have.

Can't really de-escalate without communicating.

Moreover - and this has yet to be publicly confirmed by some official - the kid, which police couldn't know was a kid - was fleeing because the car was declared stolen, the license plate tagged, and part of a drug money laundering scheme using stolen Polish rent-a-cars the dealer which was employing the young man was running.

Still, I'd rather not have to move my ski season to the sides of Mount Golgotha near Jerusalem - that glowing snow might still be radioactive after all.

Mutual inspections under the START treaties which took place until approx 10-15 years ago.

And what, you want them to do zoom calls and fly economy, or horror (gags profusely) , take the train like some common peasant ?

The audacity !

Doctor Emmet Brown. He has a fundamental physics project he needs the Uranium for.

But I'm not sure he has the money to pay. I wonder how the Lybians will react. Hopefully his apprentics Marty McFly will be able to negociate something.

Give it a couple more years.

Wait, I'm not sure, is this a Breaking Bad reference or something else ?

Nope. They are 5-6 years behind Russia, and it seems a couple behind the Chinese.

Apparently there was some advances needed in materials science nobody bothered to invest in on the US side until 2-3 years ago, when Russia demonstrated their new toys in production.

Yes, doctrines like this are meaningless. Let's scrap all anti-proliferation treaties, the IAEA. The whole lot. All the major armies around the world have been paranoid about them for no reason.

While we are at it, let's scrap the UN too, as it is in and of itself an emanation of such competing doctrines.

All meaningless, as reality is an illusion.

:unethical move

Would you rather he put up a set of safe spaces in the offices to shield their emotional health from the realities of working at a major company in a capitalist economy ?

Well, Twitter obviously did :-)

Well, yeah, but the CEOs of one company in Germany with the hardware and people to do that, and who was also charged with monitoring the pipelines, just died in an unexplained private jet crash two weeks ago.

You are analyzing this too much in the short term. These pipelines were meant to last for decades.

The pain of seeing a quarter of your industry close for lack of energy might have easily bent the will of Germans and others after this winter. All political announcements about replacing Russian gas before 2027 at the earliest were a pipe dream (pun intended)for anybody with any actual knowledge of the industry.

Even now, a large portion of what was supposedly bought elsewhere was just repackaged and re-originated at the port of loading, but actually Russian gas - hence part of the price hike going to a chain of middlemen.

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Well, yes, if you are blind to the problem of said war definitively and massively causing the Russia people to be irretrievably unaligned against the West for generations.

But, seems a lot of western leadership is blind.

Yeah,

Fully distributed consistency algorithms running on N nodes on linked list in which each node is a Turing-machine program run concurrently on N nodes, whose consistency shall also be insured, and which can write on said linked-list. Everything has absolutely tons of edge-cases related to the distributed nature of the thing to take care of.

Of course, I haven't even begun anything about the whole "crypto" part, and minimizing power usage.

Absolutely no meaning besides "linked lists", riiiight...

Which is ironic considering what the discussion is about: you conducted your own scientific experiment on yourself, disproved the consensus-accepted rule, and came to new conclusions.

To achieve that, you needed to have enough confidence in yourself and your ability to measure and feel stuff (which some people think is bad, apparently) versus some consensus which purports to know better.

Courageous new science regularly blasts old knowledge and education to bits, and that's a good things.