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> So if all these sanctions are there to frustrate people to create a coup and a revolution - its currently working in the opposite direction.

I do not believe that is the purpose. I think the idea is to make it costly for Putin to go forward. Sadly this is at the cost of the well-being of the russian population.

While I mostly agree with your assessment you lack to point out that using less troops saves costs, bombing less cities/civilians will make installing a controllable regime to rule there easier. These are all strategic decisions.

Implying Putin held back for the sake of the ukranian people is misleading.

I sincerely doubt anyone doubts the capabilities of western nations to take high res pictures with some of the thousands of satellites they have access to.

Providing Intel might leak information about it's sources yes, which is always a consideration. In the case of satellite pictures this could be, which satellites were in the correct positions in orbit and were used... but honestly I doubt the russian government is not aware of "most" of those satellites and "most" of their capabilities. I don't quite see your argument. The ties of those satellites to certain companies etc might make them targets for hacking and all that... so it's not risk free but I doubt it's a large risk.

> I thought we were on track, but it's just so stark of a reality check.

While I understand the world view and it's utopian appeal. I believe what your youth might have been missing is an incentive to critically think and search for information that is not curated for you.

In the last decades there has been not much (imo) implying we are anywhere even heading towards such a society. I believe it can only be perceived that way if you omit the large parts of society and especially the world as a whole. Local things like changes in living standard for most of the population, crime rates, organized crime. International things like piracy, human trafficking, corruption in different parts of the world. If you look beyond a local bubble, there doesnt seem to be much implying much was heading towards a society you refer to.

I do not wish to imply you don't think critically, just that there are too many topics for anyone to inform themselves about all of them. At best we are aware of what we know more about and what we know less about.

Regarding critical thought:

While I believe it is important to teach youth about independant thought and critical thinking, I also want for young people to have a somewhat sheltered youth and not to worry about all the horrible things in the world. As so many things it's complicated.

There are certain gas reserves... also winter is just about over. So demand will probably be less.

In my opinions, the more interesting question is why is the response in this war so fast and comprehensive... and my guess would be that it has the unified political willpower of most western nations behind it. Poland, Germany, France have no interest of seeing Putin succeed at a military show of force less and a days train ride from their borders.

When it comes to the middle east and further away places (geographically and culturally) the political willpower is often more oriented toward alliance contracts with other nations and idealogical reasoning... not perceived existential threat.

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> Move humanity from focusing on military pacts to economic/aid pacts and focus on human rights.

That assumes a lot of trust between all nations, their leaders and potential future leaders. A military alliance is just the manifestation of stronger bond between particular nations. With humans being the way they currently are I don't see this being realistic without larger societal changes around the world.

I don't want to comment on reforming of the UN because I honestly do not know enough about the apparatus/system and what changes might lead to which consequences.

Regarding your comment "would much rather prefer fixing the UN, than joining the NATO". I don't understand how you can compare them. I see NATO as a military alliance and the UN as communication platform for countries (writing and voting on resolutions). I don't see where one can replace the other.

I think 1. and 2. are very similar as you describe in that they believe what they pick up and have a difficult time challenging concepts the deeper these sit in their belief system of everything physical and otherwise.

The difference I see with 3. is that people that might identify with this will try to challenge their views in ways that most people won't and in the process often realize how much of their views are based on belief. I disagree with the choice of the word "mystic" greatly because anyone religious, spiritual or not can fit this description. I'm not sure I agree with you on the being comfortable or not part. In my opinion challenging yourself on emotions and feeling comfortable and reflecting on that is a part of this too.

Regarding belief and challenging your views:

I believe the milky way is a spiral galaxy. I have not done mathematical calculations of the position of stars or the densities of light in the night time sky. Even if I had, these would only be indicators. So far I have only the words of others to base this belief on.

I was originally going to go with the example of the earth being round where my only own observation might be the curvature of the earth in an airplane. But I assumed for many this might push them into category 2. so I put it here to challenge those that read this far.

[edit/addition]: The examples are supposed to challenge what you consider absolute knowledge/truth and how close it might be to belief.

If the subs being nuclear was the problem I'm sure french would have arranged for that. I can't find a source for this but the submarines in question are essentially refitted from being nuclear to diesel-electro for the export to other nations.

I think the political view in Australia has changed from "we don't have nuclear infrastructure" to "we can build up nuclear infrastructure while the US builds the subs"? This is just my assumption.

If I'm wrong on any of this please correct me.

> Those I've met online are at least twice as likely taking prescription medicine for social anxiety or other mental health conditions.

This is interesting. Can you provide a little information on the context:

- what is the number of people you've encountered to form this opinion?

- Is this all in one region/sub-population or do you suspect socio-economic differences to play into this?

The incentives for marriage in society today (atleast here) make this less of a financially viable thing:

- less social pressure to get married than for my grandparents

- less financial incentive through tax benefits already applying if you live together here (to not prefer any religous belief system)

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As far as I know the Universities are generally more research focused in comparison the the "Fachhochschulen". However according to [1] there are simply more Fachhochschulen than universities in Germany - obviously this doesn't say anything about their cumulative size in comparison to each other.

[1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/247238/umfrag...

Being german, I think it's pretty harsh too.. I developed a little slower in school and just got lucky that the school I was in basically took everyone that passed the grade into the path towards higher education. From my understanding yes your grades matter a lot but it's also up to your parents which school they want to send you to.

The development in recent years has been that a larger part of the population is finishing their "Abitur", which is the high school diploma equivilant, allowing them to apply to universities.

Often they don't feel like universities are the right place for them though and they apply to apprenticeships, which makes it harder for people who ended school after tenth grade to get apprenticeships. At least in certain fields like lab assistents, IT workers and some others. In other fields such carpentry, plumbers, ... I don't think the Abitur impacts the application process much and can even be seen as a negative.

I hope my use of the word "provocative" didn't cause you to get flagged here. It was provocative enough for me to respond, which I don't consider a bad thing. I'm surprised of the harsh moderating here on HN and will try to use my words more carefully.

I think posting on twitter is a valid way to deal with this.

Making this public helps to raise awareness for businesses to pay attention to their business processes in regards to payment release. I remember being told that the process of paying vendors is where the most fraud happens.

This seems "easy" to manipulate. Crying on demand is (in my experience) quite close to feeling those emotions by remembering certain situations in your life that will produce the emotions your looking to act out. So I doubt it would work for your use case very effectively.

It's something else to risk your own well being for a cause than to risk someone elses well being.

I think this is just because of terms you have searched. In my test-searches Wikipedia has not come up once in first position (i think the highest was 3rd in the list).

Here's what I've tried with a few variations: golang generics proposal, machine learning transformer, covid hospitalization germany

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While I understand (and agree) that reading is more comfortable on paper than on a screen. I hope this doesn't mean you print out every e-mail and pdf and even sometimes websites, which still happens surprisingly often here.

I assume it's referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_field_(chemistry)

And developing software similar to: https://openforcefield.org/software/

I understand that your post is probably supposed to be very provocative but I hope you realize that it's simply stereotypes your referring too.

Three of the six largest parties are currently campaigning for a general speed limit[1].

And regarding beer it's obviously personal taste - I'm german and prefer a polish beer brands to most german brands and theres a danish one I'm particularly fond of too.

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/btw21/tempolimit-151.html

I'm german and it's not only about disasters such as Fukushima and Tschernobl. Those may have shaped public opinion a lot but there is more. There is not a single in production long term storage for nuclear waste in Europe[1],[2]. According to [2] the only country building a long term storage for nuclear waste is Finnland.

For me the problem of nuclear waste is a big factor in regard to my opinion of nuclear fission plants. I'm sure the designs are a lot safer nowadays and we don't have natural catastrophes that pose similar threats to these power plants here in central europe and yet I oppose them because of the nuclear waste.

[1] https://de.statista.com/infografik/20000/geschaetzte-menge-d... [2] https://www.energate-messenger.de/news/200160/bericht-europa...

[Edit]: In regard to coal - coal has been a large source of energy for Germany since the industrialization because we have access to it. Germany has been so dependant on it that in-case of being cut off from oil there are considerations to convert coal into gasoline. Because of this dependency it was subsidized for decades. It's not surprising that with wind energy having a low in 2021, coal is currently in first place again. The current goal seems to phase coal-power out by 2035-2038 which I hope will happen sooner rather than later.

I think the only reason the phasing-out of coal is actually happening in Germany is the prospect of less dependency on oil (with more electric vehicles on the horizon).

Having a name with "of Region/city/former kingdom/..." is often their last name. Unless you want to claim that these people do not have a last name.

I can understand that in some cultures this might seem weird or antiquated but here in Germany these names are reality. Sometimes people with such names are descendents of royalty and sometimes someones last name "from family-name" is thier last name and happens to historically correspond to one of germany's state names or city names or just a little town.

One a side note: In Germany in 1919-1920 royalty was no longer a legal aspect that changed how laws applied to you[1]. When that happened titles that were reserved for ruling functions (king, grand duke) were removed and all other titles were moved to be part of the persons name (such as prince etc.) and could not be decreed on anyone new. These titles still exist in Germany but are simply naming "conventions" in a formerly royal family.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelsrecht

[edit] In Leonardo's case perhaps not but still i wish to elaborate a litte on the situation here.

It's open source. If you are capable of making such decisions on encryption with founded confidence you can also vendor the library and adapt it.

The reality is most developers (almost every developer I know) won't spend particularly much time on deciding settings for encryption - and honestly if they spent 10x the amount they did doing research they would still only base their opinions on things they find online like blog posts (not mathematics or government whitepapers).

I don't believe the approach is bad. It doesn't take the ability away from you to choose. It just adds a hurdle (vendoring the library), which imo stops a lot of bad decisions from overconfident developers.

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Your perspective on self replicating nano bots as well as some other comments I have read here paint a picture of immense change in a short time once the technology is released into the wild. This view seems to ignore the fact that the capability to reproduce and to adapt are not the only factors. Any green and grey goo has to cope with the limitations of it's surroundings. Here are some examples: * available energy sources (food, sunlight, wind, geothermal engery, ...) * the rate of energy conversion into the energy source consumed (electricity or sugar/fats, etc). * processing power (along with it's energy efficiency) * energy consumption/efficiency when interacting with the environment * speed of reproduction * speed of adaptability (through intelligence or evolutionary techniques).

I don't wish to downplay risks involved but even if someone creates an intelligence that can outsmart them or a replicating system which they fear may over replicate the creator should be in control of enough of the environmental factors to keep it under control long enough to reduce their creations access to energy, resources. The real risk (from a perspective of self preservation) is not limiting their creation enough or overlooking sources of energy, information or whatever needs to be limited for this system.

From what I can tell it means far less meals with meat.

When I was studying in Berlin the larger canteens had several different meals to choose from + salad and soups on any given day. Of those about half had meat in them (if my memory serves). I assume they want to reduce this number.

According to welt.de they want to reduce the meat and fish to about 4% of the food offered [1].

[1] https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article233418943/Klimaschutz...

I have found a source directly comparing US to German middle incomes incase you're interested. Figure 7 of this publication [1] seems to be relevant to this discussion and shows that the median net worth in all groups in Germany is lower. However it compares USD to EUR. Some of the other graphs in the publication showing wealth distribution may also be interesting.

[1] https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.53312...

EDIT: The publication isn't the newest, being from 2016.

abc7.com changes my monitor connection to activate drm. Because of my DisplayPort to DVI adapter my screen goes all fuzzy on that website. I thought only Netflix and co. used this DRM.

It's hard to know when certain proficencies will have an ROI. Learning to play guitar might be very valuable to you if you end up having children who want to play/enjoy the music. What I think really matters too is whether there is enough reward along the way while learning.