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This is one of the least informative discussions in HN front page that I remember.

Iran letting ships through for too small price means that oil price will fall and their only leverage over USA goes away.

Looks very interesting!

In your pre-made Estonia-scenario, some of the attacks come from Finland. What's that about?

I understand the launches from the Baltic Sea, but launching Kalibr next to a Finnish garrison seems a bit far-fetched.

Out of the examples, aerospace engineering was helped by many government interventions such as war-time buying and development of titanium working.

On the other hand, it's also hindered by government regulations making all new development much more expensive than what it could be.

I'd think all the industry segments would exist as the do provide clear benefits to everyone but the development paths taken could be different from what they're now.

Could there be other explanations here? Like marginal cost of one taco when there might be less customers?

Interesting.

What do you see being disappointing about tweets on Israel? I've mostly seen him care about Palestine civilian deaths but I can't say I've read and remember 100% of his tweets.

Both landfills and incinerators are good places for waste as long as they're not next to water bodies.

They don't contribute to the waste in oceans that this sub-thread seemed to be about.

On chat applications: In Finland no one used AIM and everyone used messenger.

I suspect this was the norm also elsewhere in Europe. I am talking about Messenger 4.6 that came built in with windows xp and its later versions, not the business version.

I’d say that it’s backwards compatibility.

My understanding is that moving from 1.1 to 2.0 (that introduced reified generics) required work from developers of libraries.

It was also done in relative infancy of the ecosystem.

But I trust some c# oldtimer to tell me how it actually was as I only remember that some tools I used insisted to have older .net runtime installed.

I've heard this often.

Why don't they scale? I used them for some years for a team of ten or so people who all first had to learn to understand how they worked so might that be the problem?

I've been a proponent of Datadog usage over building inferior stuff with Grafana, Prometheus, ELK & it's ilk.

But I never thought that Datadog could be 8+ hours down on such integral parts as monitoring and logs.