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When there's no other way, I'd agree with you. I personally can't watch low quality videos because it strains my already very poor eyesight (even with prescription glasses on). HD videos have a kind of soothing affect on my eyes.

Will do! Also, nice name. Alekhine's games have given me great pleasure over the years.

Starting FORTH by Leo Brodie - Written in a casual, funny, beginner friendly way, and even though I'm not a beginner I still enjoyed it immensely. Now if only Forth were more popular!

Edit: realised OP said `thing' not `things' so I deleted some books.

>Don't be snarky.

>Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents.

>Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle.

Looks like it breaks multiple guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What's wrong with British museums?

But then you'd be stuck with 480p quality media.

Bigger budget doesn'talways mean better films. Most of my favourite films were made for less than $10 million, but that's just my taste I suppose.

Edit: changed 1 million to 10 million after I actually googled their budgets.

I used the wrong word. I should've used `fact', which is what you used for your own clause.

A few years ago, I helped a friend move an entire book collection that he'd bought from the seller's house to his house, and while waiting I flicked open one of the books, when I noticed a little insect crawling around. That's when I learnt about booklice. I can never look at old books the same way again, knowing that there might be bugs living in them.

Depends on whether we improve battery technology, then we could store the excess for less windy days. Also I did a quick search and there are places on Earth that are consistently very windy, so we could maybe even set up massive wind farms there. Commonwealth Bay, Antartica is apparently the windiest place on Earth, where the average annual windspeed is 50mph, according to the Guinness World Record book.

Bam Margera looks like he could star on Bum Fights as a bum. They could call it Bam Fights.

>My point: countries with economic interdependence are less likely to go to war,

And my point is: Russia broke this `rule' indirectly (meaning going to war with a country that they know would be protected by countries that they are interdependent on), so China could too. Russia and Europe were strongly intertwined, yet Putin and his generals still went to war knowing that there would be dire economic consequences. The only thing that would make China wary of doing the same is if Ukraine wins.

>which is a fact to consider when advocating for reduction of interdependence among nuclear powers.

Nuclear weapons are more of a deterrent of war than trade among nuclear powers over than anything else.

>I’m not arguing that China is great or any of the other things you seem yo have read into my relatively straightforward point.

That's not what I gleaned from your posts. What I got was a lack of urgency about China and her aspirations in the world.

>Russia did not think it was attacking Europe.

Do you really think Putin and his generals thought that everyone would stand by and watch as they invaded Ukraine and do nothing? That's absurd.

>It is not a remotely analogous situation to US/China.

China-Taiwan and Russia-Ukraine are eerily similar, actually.

>China is much more mutually dependent on the US, and much more sane.

Their massive military build up and itchy trigger finger aiming at anyone who even tries to insinuate that Taiwan isn't part of the PRC says otherwise. Not to mention their posturing in the South China Sea, which has perturbed not only Taiwan but Vietnam and the Phillipines too.

>much more sane

Are you sure?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_China%E2%80%...

Around 40 people died in these skirmishes. And 40 is a conservative figure btw. India claims that more than 30 Chinese soldiers died, whereas China claims 4 died. US intelligence has the number at 20-35.

I might've agreed with you had Russia not invaded Ukraine. Your assumption is the same assumption we all made, but they invaded Ukraine anyway.

The comments in this thread are kneejerk responses to the quote in the OP, which is silly because if you people had just clicked the link you'd realise that the report is mainly focused on China. We are _all_ too reliant on China and addressing the issue is not "nationalistic" or "North Korean juche" or the other rubbish I've read ITT so far.

All he originally had to do was to ignore the account. Him offering to buy it, or even him showing that the account perturbed him, exposed his insecurities and only added more eyeballs to the issue.

I can get around Sky Broadband's block on Libgen by just using Libgen's IP, for example.

RIP. I used to listen to E2-E4 while playing chess. His music was very entrancing.

If you only want to learn to read German, check out a book called "German For Reading" by Karl Sandberg. I'm using it now and it's pretty good.

Online chess and OTB chess are not the same. This is a mistake many people ITT are making. If they can prove that he cheated OTB (especially if they can prove he cheated during that now infamous game against Magnus Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup, which is what set this whole thing off in the first place) then by all means he should be banned but until then let's put the pitchforks down.

If people are going out of their way to approach you (especially women), then it's probably down to you being attractive or at the very least above average.