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The Economics of Nuclear Weapons

The fact remains that the strategic value of nuclear arms lies almost totally on the side of defense. Obtaining nuclear weapons is a way of getting reliable defensive capability on the cheap. This is why small, relatively powerless countries want them. North Korea can shell Seoul from the DMZ with conventional weapons fairly easily, but having a few nukes certainly hasn’t hurt North Korea’s ability to keep much larger powers at bay. Pakistan’s status as a nuclear power means it faces no true threat of invasion from foreign powers, even large ones.

While they do not ensure a complete lack of armed aggression against one’s territory, they have shown that they will prevent all-out foreign invasion or any foreign action that threatens the existence of a nuclear-armed state. (The end of the USSR shows that internal threats to a regime can be maintained without nuclear war.) And at a relatively low price tag. In other words, countries with nuclear weapons need not face the dreaded “unconditional surrender” demand that is standard practice for the US in its conflicts with non-nuclear powers.


The Economics of Nuclear Weapons

Ryan McMaken (Mises Institute)
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illusionist

but if you're a developer or systems engineer who sees your OS as a critical part of your toolkit—one that should be as reliable and version-controlled as your code—then the tough road of NixOS is absolutely worth it.


Is the value added benefit to other systems with regards to the cost really worth it? Btw, I love home manager because it is easy to use (I haven't had problems so far).

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ZLUDA Making Progress In 2025 On Bringing CUDA To Non-NVIDIA GPUs

ZLUDA Making Progress In 2025 On Bringing CUDA To Non-NVIDIA GPUs

The ZLUDA open-source effort that started off a half-decade ago as a drop-in CUDA implementation for Intel GPUs and then for several years was funded by AMD as a CUDA implementation for Radeon GPUs atop ROCm and then open-sourced but then reverted ha…
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian officially notifies the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran to implement the parliament's decision to halt cooperation with the IAEA. english.alahednews.news/fastne…

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian officially notifies the ...

Alahednews - Fastnews - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian officially notifies the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran to implement the parliament’s decision to hal...
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Alberta’s Book Ban Is a Blatant Act of Cultural Vandalism
ON MAY 26, Alberta announced that it was entering the book-banning business. “Multiple books found in some school libraries show extremely graphic and age-inappropriate content,” warned a government press release. To save Alberta’s children from this material, the government promised to act: first, by inviting Albertans to provide feedback on what is “acceptable for school library collections,” and second, by setting province-wide standards that every school board will be required to implement before classes resume in the fall.

When The Tyee pointed out that three of the four targeted books featured LGBTQ+ narratives, Minister of Education and Childcare Demetrios Nicolaides shot back: “The fact that our actions of protecting young students from seeing porn, child molestation, self-harm and other sexual material in school libraries are being labelled as anti-LGBTQ is frankly irresponsible.”

Book banners can always be counted upon to deny that label while simultaneously invoking children’s innocence to justify the very censorship they disavow. “This isn’t about banning books,” Premier Danielle Smith posted on X. “It’s about protecting kids from graphic, sexually explicit content that has no place in a classroom.” (None of the books appear to have been part of any classroom curriculum, nor were students compelled to read them.)


Alberta’s Book Ban Is a Blatant Act of Cultural Vandalism

The push to sanitize school collections erases what literature is for: knowledge, discovery, the freedom to think
Ira Wells (The Walrus)

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What do you play in your phone?

We are coming from here.

I'm not gonna lie, guys, neither say the opposite: there are people who play in their phones, I bet you do, so do I. I'm curious to know what do you play in your phones, what kind of "phone gamer" are you. Remember PDAs? The only games that things had were mineswipper, solitaire, chess, sudoku among others. All those are games that perfectly use the touch capabilities of its device, but now, we have more process capacity, and we still have one touch screen (I know, you can touch many points of the screen at the same time). I've always seen the screen of my phone as a one big button, so, I can't play any game that needs more than one touch to be played. I do limit my catalogue of games to those mentioned above, and I really like them. I love sudoku.

What do you play in your phone?

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mvirts

Heeby deeby what about the various ways to build fhs environments in nix. My largest complaint is actually that the nix ecosystem has disjointed, incomplete, and incorrect documentation. You can get through it, but it's often best to try reading the code in nixpkgs when things aren't working like the docs say. I've been getting by for a few years now and I don't really even know the nix language, I really should put the time in to learn it but I will when I need to.

I'm very happy with how much nixos just works and doesn't let me break the whole os just because I want to try the latest version of blender 😅

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Venezuela Advances in Dismantling Far-right Terrorist Plot (+FBI & Iran) orinocotribune.com/venezuela-a…

Venezuela Advances in Dismantling Far-right Terrorist Plot (+FBI & Iran)

Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello denounced an international terrorist network transporting weapons of war from Colombia to Venezuela to carry out simultaneous attacks against healthcare infrastructure, diplomatic missions, and represent…
Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond

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Settlers as human shields: Israel's militarization of civilian areas in Tel Aviv and Haifa


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#ZionistEntity #HumanShields #Iran


Settlers as human shields: Israel's militarization of civilian areas in Tel Aviv and Haifa

Iranian retaliatory strikes against Israel once again exposed the regime’s military strategy of placing critical military facilities in civilian areas and using settlers as human shields.
PressTV
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RussianChineseDeepStateSock

putin is attacking civilians? I thought there was a war going on between the US/Ukraine and Russia, and Ukraine has been supplied with weapons and money enough to cover their entire GDP for 2 years and running.

Ukrainian war pages constantly talk about exchanges of weaponry, but you are saying its a war against civilians eh? Not a war, then?

That certainly waters down the ACTUAL war against civilians (genocide) happening also with US backing. Strange wording.

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RussianChineseDeepStateSock

@nanook I don't watch TV. Haven't for over 20 years. Im a student of history and I do a lot of research, and it isnt confusing or hidden knowledge at all.

Especially since it's all in the congressional record. Did you know the US congress debated the issue, and agreed to quote "allow US congressional funds and weapons to fall into the hands of Azov neonazis", specifically, years before any of this happened? Is the congressional record "tv" friend?

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RussianChineseDeepStateSock

@nanook wait so you understand that the US congress funded and supplied Azov, but you also see my analysis of America's latest proxy war against Russia as an "msnbc" story? I don't really follow. This can be viewed in the congressional record, cspan, etc. The US also shot down peace talks twice, and this is certainly not a "war against civilians" any more than ALL wars are. Calling it that in this world, right now, of course is a tactical decision that hurts Palestine.

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The New York Times completely failed in its effort to upend Zohran Mamdani. They are unable to understand his wide support because they refuse to acknowledge the rage surging through the Democratic base over Israel's genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-big…

The biggest loser besides Cuomo in the NY mayoral race was The New York Times

The New York Times completely failed in its effort to upend Zohran Mamdani. They are unable to understand his wide support because they refuse to acknowledge the rage surging through the Democratic base over Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Philip Weiss (Mondoweiss)

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chaospatterns

I really want to like Nix. The idea of declaratively defining my entire system sounds great. I can manage it with Git and even have multiple machines all look the same. I can define my partititioning once and magically get a btrfs disk working. Wow!

But I find the language confusing no matter how many times people say it's easy. I have a lot of experience with other programming languages so maybe it just doesn't mesh. It also gives terrible error messages that are hard for me to understand. And Nixpkgs is unpredictable for what version I'm going to get. One of the services I installed ended up being a release candidate version which was a surprise. What if I don't want the latest version of Docker? How do I pin it? Do I have to duplicate part of Nixpkgs? It just feels like a monorepo where everybody has to be on the same versions. Why on earth do the Nix language docs start by introducing math expressions instead of here is a simple self contained thing that installs one program. Here's how you configure it. Here's how you expand. Why does the dependency graph seem to pull in so many unnecessary dependencies? For example, I tried to build a minimal Docker image (which Nix looks to be a very good fit for), but I couldn't figure out how to strip out dependencies that likely were only used during build for a dependency.

I still like the idea and have managed to get my server defined entirely with NixOS which is very cool, but I can't recommend this to my tech friends because if I'm confused they will be more so.

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LeFantome

I have not used Nix, so I may not know what I am talking about.

That said, I have been using Chimera Linux which uses the APK package manager. It works by maintaining a single file in /etc/apk/world that specifies all the packages the user wants on the system. This is used to calculate dependencies and install packages. When you “add” and “del” packages, all it is really doing is adding and removing from this list. If you remove a package, it will remove all the dependencies too unless they appear in the “world” file.

If you do not specify a version number for a package, you get the latest. But you can pin versions of you want.

If you copy the world file from one system to another, you get the same set of installed packages.

So, if I use git to backup my world file, maybe a couple of other entries in /etc, and the dot files in my home directory, I have pretty much everything I need to completely recreate my system.

Is it really worth all the extra complexity of Nix?

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Hacker With 'Political Agenda' Stole Data From Columbia, University Says - A politically motivated hacker breached Columbia University's IT systems, stealing... - news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/… #education

Hacker With 'Political Agenda' Stole Data From Columbia, University Says - Slashdot

A politically motivated hacker breached Columbia University's IT systems, stealing vast amounts of sensitive student and employee data -- including admissions decisions and Social Security numbers.
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Anadolu Documents Israeli Atrocity on Tehran’s Evin Prison tn.ai/3346787

Anadolu Documents Israeli Atrocity on Tehran’s Evin Prison

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Turkey’s news agency Anadolu has exposed the extensive devastation caused by Israel’s airstrike on Iran’s Evin Prison, highlighting a deliberate massacre of detainees, civilians, and staff.
Tasnim News Agency

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Read this. It's important.

"Obama’s Trump-Russia collusion report was corrupt from start: CIA review"

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Exclusive | Obama's Trump-Russia collusion report was corrupt from start: CIA review

A bombshell new CIA review of the Obama administration’s spy agencies assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump was deliberately corrupted by then-CIA…
Miranda Devine (New York Post)

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Anti-Zionist Rabbis Express Solidarity with Iran at Iranian Mission to the UN


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#Iran #NetureiKarta #solidarity


Anti-Zionist Rabbis Express Solidarity with Iran at Iranian Mission to the UN

A delegation of anti-Zionist Rabbis expressed solidarity at the #Iranian Mission to the #UnitedNations in #NYC , offering condolences to the Iranian nation f...
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Glory to the martyr: 22-year-old Louay Nasrallah martyred in occupation prisons #Palestine samidoun.net/2025/07/glory-to-…

Glory to the martyr: 22-year-old Louay Nasrallah martyred in occupation prisons

On Monday, 30 June 2025, Palestinian prisoners’ institutions reported the martyrdom of Louay Faisal Mohammed Nasrallah (Turkman), 22, imprisoned by the occupation, in Soroka Hospital. He had …
Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

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We are all Palestine Action! Confronting proscription and “terror” designation of direct action in Britain #Palestine samidoun.net/2025/07/we-are-al…

We are all Palestine Action! Confronting proscription and “terror” designation of direct action in Britain

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses our full solidarity with Palestine Action, threatened with proscription by the British imperialist regime because of their direct action t…
Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

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Hi fellow #HEMA enthusiasts,
Friend of mine is crowdfunding the English translation of his book, "Unboxing Fabris", which is actually two books.
My friend is a HEMA instructor, and together with master Óscar Torres, he has studied, analysed, break down and rebuild the techniques of Italian master Salvator Fabris.
They have condensed all this work in the first book, and written a full training method in the second. The whole thing is illustrated with a ton of photos.

I have the Spanish version and I can only recommend it.

kickstarter.com/projects/unbox…

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