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CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel hundreds of scientists by December
  • Depriving Russia of nuclear scientists, or capable people in general, might well be worth whatever wages they brought home.

    If you want to bring the inter-european war into it I'm not sure if we can afford to be unpragmatic about this. By all accounts letting Russia bleed manpower in exchange for some small wages is well worth it. If you want to deprive them of money you really need to strike at their ability to export gas and oil at inflated prices. Advancing knowledge about fusion aids that goal, though the effects are likely (hopefully?) too late to matter.

  • Communism
  • Agreed, but I am sad that they don't choose to share any of those personal experiences that they claim are vital for understanding communism.

    Even if communist revolutions tend to fail for the same reasons most revolutions fail (a need for temporary authoritarian rule followed by fumbling the succession) anything that can help understand how and why something failed is useful.

  • JUST EJECT FASTER
  • Heck if accelerating to Mach 19 in about 2 meters is acceptable you could just disable the rotors and only experience an acceleration of less than Mach 1 in just a few meters.

  • J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk Named in Imane Khelif's Cyberbullying Lawsuit
  • I won't pretend that its popularity is in any way proportional to its quality, but I enjoyed it and so did many others so she must have done something right. Calling a work that many people enjoy trash just sounds a bit elitist to me.

    Feel free to call the author whatever you want though, at this point I've no respect left for her.

  • average day in NPM land
  • Wouldn't surprise me if even Unicode advices against using Roman numerals depending on meaning.

    It was mostly a joke (though frankly if you try any implementation more complicated than that joke you're going to have a bad time).

  • New tech discovered
  • Education has really failed to impress upon people the importance of asking questions. It's amazing how much time is wasted on making people learn answers to questions they don't even know how to ask.

  • A cool guide to Epicurean paradox
  • If the story of the garden of Eden is anything to go by I'd say that the creator definitely both made those things and very clearly instructed us not to use them. Either way if logic itself is evil then any logical argument cannot possibly apply to a purely good being.

    Of course I'm in camp snake, I'm just playing divinity's advocate.

  • Both sides!
  • If you place killing an ideal beyond implementing your own you're making exactly the same mistake.

    The best we've come up with is to try to ensure people are educated and well informed and only a majority can make certain decisions. Not all countries are doing too well on all 3 (heck the U.S. doesn't even manage to ensure decisions require a majority) but if an ideal gets accepted under anything resembling those conditions then killing the bigots is no longer an option.