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realitista ,

.ml is leaking again

realitista ,

That would be hilarious if they arrested Putin but he just continued ruling the country from Moscow.

realitista ,

This would be a great sitcom.

realitista ,

Yeah it’s when you need a reasonable amount of RAM or disk that they really bend you over.

realitista ,

I can’t wait to see the level of grifts that will come when they really start to get desperate.

realitista ,

Accurate assessment from what I’ve seen.

realitista , (edited )

With Trump the grift is usually that the people who buy in think they are funding his campagn whereas he uses much of the money for other stuff like his personal lawsuits for business fraud and the like.

realitista ,

The thing is that master has a different connotation in IT than server does. Such as in master/slave pairs for fault tolerance.

realitista ,

This is true. Warm standby is more or less obsolete in favor of n+1 load sharing.

I think for most cases you could use primary and standby for master slave replacements.

realitista ,

I agree that active/reserve is a better way of saying it, and that’s the way I’ve always said it when working with these systems. Honestly I may have never heard master slave in actual use in 15 years of regularly describing such systems.

realitista ,

Great way to get new meat for the meat grinder.

We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why (www.theguardian.com)

With Google’s recent monopoly status being a topic a discussion recently. This article from 2017 argues that we should nationalize these platforms in the age of platform capitalism. Ahead of its time, in fact the author predicted the downfall of Ello.

realitista ,

Best would be if they nationalized these systems and then migrated them to their FOSS alternatives over time.

realitista ,

They wouldn’t need to run the ad business. Downsize and replace it with taxpayer dollars.

The reason to nationalize something existing in these spheres rather than build something new is because the network effects of these platforms make it near impossible for something competing to get a foothold. And if anyone could fail to compete against big tech, no one could fail better than the government.

realitista ,

Wouldn’t you not want to tell them you have one so that they keep wasting energy and manpower thinking it works?

realitista ,

Sounds like it doesn’t really work though.

realitista ,

Does that include storm shadow missles?

realitista ,

That’s how he gets his funding now.

realitista , (edited )

It’s twice what any independent reports are saying, but even 500 is more than everything Russia conquered in the last few months.

realitista ,

It’s a great platform for being able to transfer money that would otherwise be under sanctions and for storing criminal profits. And that’s probably what it will always be for.

realitista ,

It’s traceable but also possible to hide your identity, especially if you are a major criminal or government under sanctions. Especially when compared to the traditional finance system (in which they also tend to be pretty good at hiding their identities and transactions).

realitista ,

There seems to be little credible hard evidence on either side, so anyone claiming to know the real truth here is just talking out of their ass.

realitista ,

I’m okay with this phrase except for the word “intent”. If we give someone the power to try to assess our intent, it can easily go the way of totalitarian states where they say you have a bad intent any time you criticize the government.

You should be punished for outcome, not intent. If you say something provably untrue that results in riots or murders, you should be held accountable for the outcomes of those statements. This is not that different from our current libel laws.

realitista ,

Yes my point was that “guilty mind” alone shouldn’t be enough to charge you with a crime.

realitista ,

I have to wonder if the cup wasn’t really better for him though. He could hide up in there and still see out, and I’d imagine predators had never seen an octopus in a plastic cup before, whereas they are probably quite aware of shellfish.

realitista ,

Protect from what? It will certainly protect him from fish. I think it will work against anything without claws, and if he’s up against something with claws, I think they would easily pry the shells apart too. Even against something with claws he could maybe crawl to the other side of the cup- they likely wouldn’t open enough to crush the whole cup.

realitista ,

True, but would they? I would think most have learned not to eat plastic by now?

realitista ,

The only way to get this rich is by exploiting others and almost definitely breaking laws. These people all have a screw loose somewhere.

realitista ,

Unfortunately this isn’t possible in their sandbox. They will knock down your sandcastle and kick the sand in your eyes. Best you can do is to stop interacting with them and leave them on their own island.

realitista ,

Do you really think it’s fair for a full blown man to fight women in the ring just because he identifies as a woman? Women will get very seriously hurt or possibly killed fighting someone assigned male sex at birth. I have no problem letting them do anything that doesn’t hurt others, but this is a case where I think we need to be more sensible.

realitista ,

It’s one thing to work within the limits of your physique to become stronger, better, etc. It’s another thing to have a totally different physique that gives you a starting point higher than can be achieved naturally by anyone else.

realitista ,

I don’t think it’s fair to penalize a woman who works all her life to get to a certain level and just make her compete against someone who maybe hasn’t had to work at all because they are physically male. If anything, we need to make a class for people who are physically male but presenting female.

realitista , (edited )

As far as I can tell, that reliable information isn’t out there other than the fact that a Russian judge said she tested as XY and that she’s tested for high testosterone. I’d say XY is a pretty good starting place to call someone male or at least not traditionally female, if that test can be trusted.

But I think a lot of the controversy here comes from a lack of trustable info.

realitista ,

A man with the same body weight as a woman would still inherently have more upper body strength and higher ability to gain it as that’s just how men are built vs women. It’s still not a fair way of setting intersex classes.

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No, I’m not saying I believe him, and yes I would like to see the evidence. It’s pretty hard to draw conclusions without it.

And no I don’t support genital inspections of 12 year old girls, and frankly don’t think genital inspections are probably the best way to decide this. I think chromosomes and hormone levels are probably the best we have, and maybe there’s just a class for athletes that fall outside the norms for their sex, similar to weight classes, because it’s pretty clear that it does give a huge advantage.

But it’s worth considering that maybe 12 year olds just shouldn’t be in the Olympics in the first place.

realitista ,

Fair enough. But why not handle these exceptions in the rules then? If they don’t confer a major competitive advantage then let them compete as the sex they feel like.

But I don’t think we can draw this out to a full blown man who identifies as a woman so gets to compete against women. As usual, there is a sensible middle ground, and you have to get into the weeds a bit to sort it out.

Its like people who say only “pure capitalism” or “pure communism” is the best system, when in fact they are both garbage options, and the best is actually capitalism constrained by socialist policies like in Scandinavia. Yes, it’s messy and complicated and hard to figure out, but that’s pretty much always the case for coming to the best result.

The extremes on either side are almost always wrong.

realitista ,

Anyone who fails the tests for the other cases you list. The governing body of the sport gets to decide, and tests are decided by scientists and doctors.

realitista ,

When did I say I didn’t like their decision? I said I wanted more information.

realitista ,

For the same reason anyone wants to know anything. Because if anyone is to have an informed conversation about this, we need to know how they come to their conclusions. Their lack of transparency is a large part of why this controversy exists in the first place.

realitista ,

Yes because outside of athletics it doesn’t really matter.

realitista ,

No I can’t because there’s no data to go off of. I’m honestly unclear as to whether it’s a valid issue or not. Even in this case where the data we have seems to indicate there’s an issue, the data doesn’t seem entirely trustable. Anyone claiming complete certainty in this environment with no evidence is clearly just blindly pushing an agenda in bad faith.

realitista , (edited )

Did you actually read said comments? I’ve said this multiple times. It’s basically the thesis of my statements.

realitista ,

I don’t think any of this matters until you get to college level or olympic level sports, at which point I highly doubt it would dissuade any would be competitor. But I do think if it got bad enough it could dissuade women. For example, if you just let men compete openly and without scrutiny in any women’s athletics competition, which seems to be what some people are advocating for here.

realitista , (edited )

All of this I’ve covered in this thread except the last point.

I don’t have any problem with women competing openly and without scrutiny in men’s athletics competition because I can’t think of any sport where it would confer an advantage. If there were one, I would be against it in that sport. Though safety would still need to be a consideration in any contact sport.

Also worth mentioning, I am not against the idea of getting away from the idea of having sports separated by sex completely, and somehow tiering them by ability. But I think that would be exceedingly difficult to do in a way where it was safe and fair for everyone, especially when it comes to boxing and martial arts. But for other non contact sports, I don’t see any reason to have a division by sex at all, just have tiers from best to worst.

realitista ,

Also covered under the threads spawning from this parent thread. I’m starting to feel trolled here, so please just read the comments under this parent thread, I’ve answered all your points already.

realitista ,

They are literally all in branches of this thread. I’m not going to keep answering the same questions over and over (many of which I already answered for you specifically).

realitista ,

Generally in terms of numbers, if they get all the f-16s that were promised, they will be back to something around the size of the Air Force they had when they started the war. It will still be much smaller than Russia’s, but it will be a big improvement over where they are now.

As for additional capabilies, these are the main ones:

  • Used with the correct munitions, they will have a longer range for air to air and air to ground strikes, meaning they have a good chance to hit enemy aircraft without the enemy aircraft being able to hit them. This can help make a big dent against the glidebombs which Russia is currently using to great effect.
  • The new types of missles will allow “fire and forget” capability meaning that they can quickly get out of harm’s way once they shoot their munitions
  • New types of missles like HARM missles will allow them to more easily take out enemy air defenses.

But it’s also worth considering that learning to use a new fighter jet even in the most basic way takes a year. To get really good in one takes many years. So it will probably take some time still before they really get proficient with this new capability.

realitista ,

Yeah that’s the one I know, though I think it sounds nicer with the wording I know:

“A sock was placed upon the cock, And babies were prevented”

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