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16 hours agoSome sources in English:
Earlier covering of the same facts:
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That makes you similar to Noam Chomsky
Maybe study the whole story before writing. From Wikipedia:
In 1961, the U.S. started deploying 15 Jupiter IRBM (intermediate-range ballistic missiles) nuclear missiles near Izmir, Turkey, which directly threatened cities in the western sections of the Soviet Union. These missiles were regarded by President John F. Kennedy as being of questionable strategic value; a nuclear submarine was capable of providing the same cover with both stealth and superior firepower. In the late 1950’s missile technology was well developed in the field of medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs), as opposed to ICBMs (intercontinental-ballistic missiles) which could not be kept in a state of readiness at all times.
MRBMs represented only a small portion of the total American nuclear arsenal, but still much larger than the U.S.S.R.'s. Soviet strategists realized that some nuclear equality could be efficiently reached by placing missiles in Cuba. Soviet MRBMs on Cuban soil, with a range of 2,000 km (1,200 statute miles), could threaten Washington, DC and around half of the U.S. SAC bases (of nuclear-armed bombers), with a flight time of under twenty minutes. In addition, the U.S.'s radar warning systems oriented toward USSR would have provided little warning of a launch from Cuba.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had publicly expressed his anger at the Turkish deployment, and regarded the missiles as a personal affront. The deployment of missiles in Cuba - the first time Soviet missiles were moved outside the USSR - is commonly seen as Khrushchev’s direct response to the Turkish missiles.
I guess this is the best approach.
The problem is that it works. And it works globally in most countries.
4·5 days agoWhy did Navalny go back to Russia from Germany in January 2021? The only possible explanation is that somebody forced him to go back.
9·6 days agoTotally agree. French Wikipedia is better on so many topics around psychology, sociology and philosophy!
This could be the most important news of this year. It is sad that it is ignored by most media outlets.
The Chemical Brothers - Believe. It is actually a short film about man machine interaction and nightmares.
Former Socialist country man speaking: «everything they told us about Socialism was a lie, but everything they told us about Capitalism was true»
Non-communists should not say to communists what they have to do.
Rich people spend the money in Epstein island
The Industrial Revolution was accompanied by systemic violence too.
As new economic forces pushed rural workers toward industrial cities, they often faced overcrowded, unsanitary living conditions.
Furthermore, the struggle for basic labor rights erupted into decades of bloody conflict between workers, private armies, and state forces.
You can find more information in this book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/643062/captain-swing-by-eric-hobsbawm-and-george-rude/
6·11 days agoGood point. Reading the documentation of the library and the source code is often a better use of a software developer’s time.
Writing code is only the tip of the iceberg. You actually have to:
- understand how the company works
- understand the use case you are managing and how it relates to other business flows
- understand strenghts and weaknesses of the technologies, libraries and frameworks involved
- decide which one to use and how
- thinking about all possible corner cases, evaluating their frequency and importance
- only at the end, write, test, optimize the code
While large language models can help in the last step, they are very limited in previous ones, except working as a search engine on steroids.
There is something similar in Japan, it is called gampi paper. It played a role in Japanese literature and a movie, The Pillow Book (1996).
1·12 days agoNon c’è nessun bisogno di scusarsi. Siamo in uno spazio virtuale in cui ognuno comunica nel modo che più trova comodo.
La mia convinzione personale, però, è che, se si pretende dagli altri, bisognerebbe anche pretendere da se stessi.
Non ci siamo capiti. Per me, la destra italiana dovrebbe tornare alle origini, cioè bungee jumping a Piazzale Loreto.
Però è anche vero che il supporto ad Israele arriva non solo da destra. Non possiamo ignorare questo fatto, se vogliamo avere un quadro completo della situazione.
Non sono affatto tutti uguali, il Movimento Cinque Stelle e Potere Al Popolo si sono schierati dalla parte dei palestinesi.
Sorge il dubbio su quanto sia appropriato usare categorie da fumetto della Marvel per analizzare la geopolitica contemporanea.
Democracy is when the brother of the king rapes underage girls. They bomb countries to expand their underage girls pool.