Bluetreefrog

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I wrote Pink Floyd off after Roger Waters supported Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.

By the sounds of it, they had a lot of miles under their belt.

You have to wonder how they ended up dead? What happened to the EPIRB? Did they not have a PLB? GPS and Portable Radio?

I don't know for sure, but I suspect there aren't many pirates in the middle of the Atlantic.

I gather that many larger ships often either have malfunctioning AIS or don't have it turned on.

AIS is a system that pings identity and location to other ships, and can set off alarms to warn of impending collisions at sea.

Isn't this just more of what caused the problem in the first place? Namely, centralisation. If you store data locally and you lose a machine, that's bad but not the end of the world. If you store it centrally and you lose the data, that's catastrophic. Nassim Taleb nailed this stuff. Keep the downside limited, and the upside unlimited or as he says, "Don't pick up pennies in front of a steamroller."

This man lies like he breathes.

Petty much the view that Russia's neighbours see when looking across the border. And the Russians wonder why nobody wants be friends...

Are you sure you are on the right server? I think Lemmy.ml is probably more your bubble.

The Eastern Bloc suffered an enormous drop in living quality following the dissolution of the USSR. Far from reaping a bounty via free market liberty, the people in these countries found themselves the subject of a historic privatization and looting of national treasuries and resources.

This is a black and white perspective. You have to keep in mind that citizens of these countries were significantly worse off as (involuntarily) being part of the USSR than the countries that were not in the Eastern Bloc, and most of them are now significantly better off as part of the EU. Most citizens remember the repression, shortages, and russification all too well.

Black people aren’t Black people. They’re people.

This! I couldn't believe it when I had to answer a question about race on the entry card into the US.

I get asking about skin color. It's like hair color, or eye color, but race? So many assumptions and biases just in that one word (race).

He knows how to delegate to people who are smarter than him. He also knows the importance of 'tone at the top' in getting the best out of his team. This is what makes him the better candidate.