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Did Ukraine use Nazis to ethnically cleanse Russian speakers in regions which wanted independence? According to all Western media before a year ago: yes.

Over that same period Europe is projected to become poorer than Asia in gdp ppp for the first time in 500 years. I'm sure I won't be hearing Poles making the case they are actually part of Asia within those 20 years.

Yes, it really does. It's not like the Warsaw packt was named after a town in Poland or anything.

That's news to my family in Cyprus who very much think of themselves as living in the middle east.

www is just the easily visible part of the internet that everyone could access. Usenet, BBS, email etc are all non-www parts of the internet that were more important in its early history but harder to access because you couldn't just point one program at them. www just happened to evolve fast enough that it could emulate the old layers, e.g. Hotmail is the thing that kept emails alive past 1995. I'm sure that without a www front end email would have gone the way of gopher.

Poland is _not_ part of the West.

Rich. It means rich. Before Japan in the 80s it also meant white.

Apart from the fact you have a kill ring you can edit like any other file sure. In the same vein a car is a tricycle.

Something that let's you press keys really fast.

Yes, this is why unsafe exists. It tells the typing system to take a hike and let the natural Turing completeness of types happen. Trying to explain to people who don't understand higher order functions that types are the first rung of an infinite ladder of meta languages is like trying to explain the colour blue to nematodes.

All useful type systems are turning complete. The only people who don't realise are those that want to rewrite everything in rust.

Putting all your capital in one too big to fail bank is the least costly option and the optimum strategy.

Until the US lets the largest bank fail this will continue to be the case.

It's not irrational to act in your own interest. It's irrational to suppose that everyone should act in the majorities interest.

The issue isn't that cubicles are good, they aren't. The issue is that open office plans are worse. If your work is calls and emails that can be chopped up in 10 minute increments then an open office is great because that how long you can concentrate between distractions, if you need to think they are productivity killers that would give mandatory shots every 10 minutes a run for their money.

Google of 2001 is not the Google of 2023. If anything its the exact opposite.

Yes, but the majority of current activists want purity tests and circular firing squads. I've seen more cypher punks in board rooms of billion dollar companies in the past 5 years than I have on reddit or hn.

The opinion that no number should be illegal gets thrown out the window when you talk about an image. This used to be as common as AOL email addresses 20 years ago.