Yeah that’s true, there’s a minimum write speed you have to achieve if it’s going to be at all useful. And to be fair, a lot of this tech never hits the market because it’s hard to scale from lab to production, or just not cost effective enough to produce at scale. Still good to see people researching this stuff though.
Oh yeah, tape drives are still used for long term storage because tape tends to be a lot more durable and cheaper. You can safely store info on tape for decades.
Given that Russia has massive artillery superiority over Ukraine as well as dominating the air, it’s pretty clear whom the attrition benefits in this war. Russia didn’t just rush Avdiivka out of the blue. They were putting pressure all across the front for many months now because they have more troops and more equipment as even western media now admits. This forced Ukraine to run their increasingly depleted reserves around to plug holes, and eventually there was going to be a collapse in the front. This is what we’re seeing in Avdiivka right now. This wasn’t an ordered retreat. This was a disorganized rout of Ukrainian forces in the area leaving wounded and equipment behind. Even western media is admitting this:
Might want to consider that Ukraine is a totalitarian regime that kidnaps people off the street to send them to die at the front. Not exactly surprising that a lot of people wouldn’t be comfortable speaking their minds openly. The only people who want this war to keep going are westerners who are cynically using the people of Ukraine as cannon fodder in a proxy war with Russia.
What cover up operation? There are videos of people being grabbed off the street and gang pressed into army all over the internet. Even western media reports on this now. There is also no free press in Ukraine, all of it was shut down a long time ago along with opposition political parties. I can’t say why you personally are so ignorant, but this information is readily available.
Sounds like you need to educate yourself because this is frankly embarrassing.
The idea that we are entering an era of techno-feudalism that will be worse than capitalism is chilling and controversial. We asked former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to elucidate this idea, explain how we got here, and map out some alternatives.
To refer to this as feudalism gives an impression that capitalism functions effectively and we are transitioning away from it; however, in reality, we are merely progressing into the advanced stages of the same system. Let us simply acknowledge that it is indeed capitalism.
I’d say capitalism is an evolution of feudalism that was facilitated by the industrial evolution. However, the two systems share most of the negative aspects, and in later stages of capitalism differences become increasingly negligible.
Well, specifically what changed was that under feudalism power in society was determined solely by birth. Either you were born a noble or you weren’t. Capitalism was rich merchants overthrowing the nobles and democratizing the oppression of the workers. I do agree that for the most part it is an iteration of the same system though.
I agree, late stage capitalism starts to look a lot like feudalism because all the wealth ends up being concentrated in the hands of a few people, but there are some differences in the way the two systems function.
I agree that there are more similarities than differences, and in most tangible aspects two systems behave in a similar fashion. Both are fundamentally predicated on a small privileged class of people living off the backs of the working majority.
As reported exclusively by russian sources at the moment, he lost consciousness after a walking hour and prison medics were unsuccessful in reanimating him, as per sources in УФСИН (government body regulating prisons and punishment). He was 47 years old at that time. The last time he was heard of he was moved from...
Let’s be honest, Navalny was a nationalist right wing scumbag who thought 90s reforms were a good thing. There was zero chance of him ever becoming a prominent political figure in Russia because liberalism is a discredited ideology for most Russians today.
Yeah, privatization was the problem, and having lived through it personally, I know what things were like before Putin took over. Calling USSR a dying corpse striving for change is frankly absurd. USSR had problems to be sure, but liberalization was not the solution, and that’s precisely what led to privatization and Putin’s Russia today. USSR could’ve taken the route that China took and stayed communist. Liberalism is the actual cancer in Russia today.
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The idea that we are entering an era of techno-feudalism that will be worse than capitalism is chilling and controversial. We asked former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to elucidate this idea, explain how we got here, and map out some alternatives.
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Alexei Navalny was pronounced dead ( lenta.ru )
As reported exclusively by russian sources at the moment, he lost consciousness after a walking hour and prison medics were unsuccessful in reanimating him, as per sources in УФСИН (government body regulating prisons and punishment). He was 47 years old at that time. The last time he was heard of he was moved from...