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yogthos OP , 16 days ago to worldnews in High-Tech American Weapons Work Against Russia—Until They Don’t

mostly really just an admission that the weapons don’t work

yogthos , 16 days ago to worldnews in BRICS to launch independent financial system

That’s sort of what Bancor is, in programming terms you can think of it as a common protocol that you can adapt your currency to, and then it can be used with anybody who’s also implementing this protocol.

yogthos OP , 17 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to worldnews in Samsung Electronics workers announce 'indefinite' strike

Indeed, occupied Korea has been brutalized just as much as the north, but in different ways. If the south can be freed from the clutches of the burger empire, things there would improve immeasurably.

yogthos OP , 17 days ago to worldnews in Samsung Electronics workers announce 'indefinite' strike

I mean these are highly specialized professionals, they don’t grow on trees.

yogthos OP , 17 days ago to worldnews in Samsung Electronics workers announce 'indefinite' strike

Hopefully, one day DPRK can liberate the south.

yogthos , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to programming in Are microservices really the future?

I find small services work fine for well defined and context free tasks. For example, say you have common tasks like handling user authorization, PDF generation, etc. Having a common service to handle that is a good idea. This sort of a service bus can be leveraged by different apps that can focus on their business logic, and leverage common functionality.

However, anything that’s part of a common workflow and has shared state is much better handled within a single application. Splitting things out into services creates a ton of overhead, and doesn’t actually address any problems since you have to be able to reason about the entirety of the workflow anyways. You end up having a much more difficult development process where you need a bunch of services running. Doing API calls means having to add endpoints, do authentication, etc. where within a single app you just do a function call. Debugging and tracing becomes a lot more difficult, and so on.

yogthos , 17 days ago to worldnews in BRICS to launch independent financial system

Russia—moved from the upper-middle-income to the high-income category:

Economic activity in Russia was influenced by a large increase in military related activity in 2023, while growth was also boosted by a rebound in trade (+6.8%), the financial sector (+8.7%), and construction (+6.6%). These factors led to increases in both real (3.6%) and nominal (10.9%) GDP, and Russia’s Atlas GNI per capita grew by 11.2%.

…worldbank.org/…/world-bank-country-classificatio…

I’ve found it’s pretty good matching up with predictions.

If you bother going back through the videos in the channel, then it’s pretty obviously not matching up with how things developed.

yogthos , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to worldnews in BRICS to launch independent financial system

Most of US economy isn’t productive manufacturing output, it’s stuff like service industry, software shops, financial economy, etc. Some of it, such as the health insurance industry, is actively harmful to society. There’s a great article explaining how US lost most of its productive economy at this point.

americanaffairsjournal.org/…/the-value-of-nothing…

Industrial output in US accounts for something like 15% of the overall economy, and steel production levels are comparable to Russia. That’s a pretty good proxy for the size of industry in a country. So, when you compare US military spending to the productive economy in the country, then it’s a very high percentage of the industrial GDP.

Also, the article you linked counts all the military adjacent economy to get to the 10% number, US military spending would also look a lot higher if we did that. US defense spending is currently well over $1 trillion a year.

thenation.com/…/tom-dispatch-america-defense-budg…

Meanwhile, US industrial output is around $2 trillion.

brookings.edu/…/global-manufacturing-scorecard-ho…

yogthos OP , 17 days ago to worldnews in The Sahel stands up and the world must pay attention. This past weekend the heads of state from Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger met in the first summit of the Alliance of Sahel States.

I can assure you that the world is paying attention to Africa kicking out colonialists.

yogthos , 17 days ago to worldnews in BRICS to launch independent financial system

Manufacturing, food production, research, tech, you name it. Meanwhile, I’ll reiterate my advice that I gave you last time. Go back through the channels you watch, look at their past predictions, and compare how they hold up today. If a lot of what they say turns out to be bullshit, as is the case with this channel, then maybe find a more reliable source. You seem to be a real sucker for these propaganda channels. Weren’t you peddling Perun last time?

yogthos , 17 days ago to worldnews in BRICS to launch independent financial system

Again, even if you inflate it to 10%, that’s very clearly not a war economy. 90% of the economy isn’t oriented towards the war, and the war has practically no impact on day to day lives of the vast majority of the people.

yogthos OP , 17 days ago to technology in AI is effectively ‘useless'—and it's created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns

I think the tech does have legitimate uses, and that it will continue improving over time. I’m just pointing out that it’s being massively oversold right now. I actually think it’s better if the bubble bursts early on in the hype cycle, and then people can focus on figuring out how to apply this tech where it actually works well.

yogthos OP , 18 days ago to technology in AI is effectively ‘useless'—and it's created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns

That’s already happening actually.

yogthos , 18 days ago to worldnews in BRICS to launch independent financial system

I implore you to learn what a war economy actually is. Spending 6% of the GDP on military industry is not it. Here’s a starter for you online.norwich.edu/…/cost-us-wars-then-and-now

yogthos , 18 days ago to worldnews in BRICS to launch independent financial system

When faced with the basic facts of the situation, libs invariably go for personal attacks. It’s hilarious how people who run around calling everybody who disagrees with them trolls, are the ones following a script. 😂