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@AndrisVelps Ieguglē "diesel price graph"

Latvijā degvielas tirgotāju visatļautība turpinās ⛽️ Naftas cena ir kritusies un stabilizējusies ap ~87 USD par barelu 📉 Salīdzinājumam - 10. martā pie ~85 USD par barelu dīzeļdegvielas cena bija ~1.83 €/l. Šodien – jau 2.11 €/l, lai gan naftas cena praktiski nav būtiski augusi. Kur ir loģika? 🤔 Turklāt šobrīd tirgū vēl aizvien tiek pārdota degviela, kas ražota no iepriekš iegādātas - lētākas naftas 💰 Un tagad jautājums - kas notiks, ja naftas cena atgriezīsies pie ~63 USD par barelu? Vai cena nokritīs zem 2 €/l? Vai arī nē, jo sabiedrība jau būs “pieradināta” pie augstākām cenām? 📊 Tā turpināt nedrīkst ❗️

@igorsushko Why would Munich residents defend Dresden? They would be in a much better position staying within city limits. Besides, they don't even speak the same German.

I respect Toomas very much but this attitude is beyond comprehension to me. 1) Baltics are a much easier invasion target for Russia compared to Ukraine. 2) NATO refused to defend Ukraine for irrational fear of attack by Russia and its nukes. What's going to be different? 3) NATO can't defend the Baltics. Insufficient will, munitions, and zero ability to counter Russian drone swarms. 4) Russia can occupy the capitals in hours/days, dig in, mine the area, and then snipe at any allied infantry with artillery and drones that may try to come through. Is NATO going to bomb Tallin, Riga, and Vilnius? Russia is willing to lose millions of soldiers in the war. How many are Poland or Finland willing to lose? What about Germany? 5) Alternately Russia could start by occupying Narva in Estonia and gauge the reaction. Is today's NATO going to go WW3 over a tiny border town with 50,000 population? 6) Europe doesn't have enough missiles to do any meaningful damage to Russia. Once out of conventional munitions, you're crazy if you think France or the UK will launch pre-emptive nukes against Moscow because Russia expanded its border by 10km, 1,700km away in Estonia. 7) If Russia invades the Baltics it's because NATO members refused to defend Ukraine. Every single nation refused to do the right thing - send troops to help Ukraine when it mattered most. They still haven't done it. You reap what you sow.

@MykhailoRohoza "Why not try" for what? So that Europe would stop supporting Ukraine? Does it really make sense to you or is the expansion of the war simply your wishful thinking?

An attack on the Baltic countries is вполне real, and here’s why. There are at least THREE reasons for such a move. The first and main one: Russia risks NOTHING. No matter how events unfold with the occupation of the Baltic states, Russia will not end up worse off. Sanctions are already in place. Europe is no longer buying its oil products and gas. Weapons are being supplied to Ukraine anyway. From a purely military standpoint, Russia also risks nothing. It has nuclear weapons, so if it succeeds and occupies the Baltics or parts of them, no one will be able to push it out. And if it loses, it won’t lose its own territory—it will simply retreat back to its borders, and NATO will not invade Russian territory because of those same nuclear weapons. So why not try? The second reason lies in the broader war aims. The goals of the Russian Federation go far beyond occupying the Baltics. First and foremost, Russia is interested in the collapse of NATO and the EU. From this perspective, any territorial gain in the Baltics would count as a victory. Even if Russia does not capture Vilnius or Tallinn, but only a few border villages, it would still be seen as a victory, because it would demonstrate NATO’s inability to protect its members. So again—why not try? The third reason: Russia has sufficient forces and resources in the potential conflict zone to accomplish military objectives and achieve an acceptable outcome. In the Leningrad Military District, there is a combat-ready grouping of about 70,000 troops, which can easily be reinforced with reserves from the Ukrainian front. This force is mechanized, with around 700 tanks and a large amount of armored vehicles. Separately, it’s worth noting the drone component, which has no real equivalent in NATO and could radically shift the balance of power in the event of an invasion. If the forces are sufficient—then why not try? As of now, the situation looks like this: Russia has enough capabilities to pursue its objectives in the Baltics and faces no clearly bad сценарии under any development of events. The situation is very similar to the one before the invasion of Ukraine—especially considering the recently introduced law allowing Putin to “protect Russians abroad.” The Baltic countries have helped us more than anyone else, and I sincerely wish our friends never face war. But to preserve peace, one must prepare for a major war. And it is very good that our Baltic friends have learned from Ukraine’s mistakes and have built defensive lines and fortifications to repel any invasion. I truly hope that the Russian Federation will break its teeth on the Baltics just as it did on Ukraine.

Tiem, kas šausminās par lauksaimniecības zemes "izniekošanu": tie ir tikai 330 ha. Rapši Latvijā tiek audzēti 145 tūkst. ha platībā. Lielākais pielietojums - degviela. Neesmu enerģētikas eksperts, bet saules paneļi varētu saražot 100 reizes vairāk enerģijas uz 1 ha, nekā rapši

@ltvzinas Un kas bija apstiprinātajā būvprojektā?

Mūkusalas ielas promenādes margu pasētā lietots zemākas stiprības klases betons, ko tagad autoruzraugs, būvuzraugs un būvnieks atzinuši par neatbilstīgu paredzētajam pielietojumam. lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/l…

@JurgisLiepnieks Dzīvei pastāvīgajā uztraukumā nekādas jēgas arī nav.

Tramps Irānas sakarā izskatās haotisks, izmisis, apjucis. Nerunāsim, ka visu laiku nonāk pretrunās, pinas un putrojas. Vai ASV vēl aizvien pēc būtības ir NATO, tas liels jautājums. Krievijā tikmēr acīmredzami kaut kas briest. Kādreiz mēs šo atcerēsimies un brīnīsimies, ka mēs tā mierīgi dzīvojām, ar savām lietām nodarbojāmies, neko īpaši neuztraucāmies ne par ko.

@BlackHC Incredibly deep article! There is one more aspect I wish it covered. That is, the limits of human capacity to manage complexity. As pressure grows to produce change faster, humans will be losing understanding of many important details resulting in irrecoverable disasters.

A while back, Andrej Karpathy said the app store will be replaced by generated, disposable software," and Amjad Masad predicted that the value of all application software will go to zero I think this "ephemeral software hypothesis" is wrong, though, and I want to explain why:

@AZvejsalnieks Uzlabot uz 3 dienām?

Mūsu valdība palaida garām labu iespēju uzlabot attiecības ar ASV. Viss kas bija jādara - jāaizsūta kuģu saraksts un jāuzprasa, kā ar šo varam palīdzēt. Kamēr atbildētu. Tad kamēr apkārt Gibraltāram 4x uzpildoties ietu, viss jau visticamāk beigtos. 90%, ka līdz Persijas līcim pat netiktu, bet žests būtu labs un būtu grūti pēc tam mums pārmest, ka nepalīdzējām. Un pat ja tiktu, nu pabraukātu patruļās, dikti maz ticams, ka pirmajā līnijā dzītu. Bet pie mums, kā parasti🤷‍♂️ Ar Sprūdu viss skaidrs, tas no PRO, ko tur paņemt. Pārējie arī ar kājminamo domāšanu. Un ar ko šis ASV pasākums tieši atšķiras no Irākas vai Afganistānas, kur sauszemes spēkus sūtījām un kritušie bija?

@IAPonomarenko It was written exclusively for Trump and he will not find any contradictions.

Now the Kremlin’s favorite con man slams “UK and EU warmongers” for failing to support Trump’s war with their own ally and client, the Iranian regime. Yes, that’s how insanely stupid Russians think you are, and they expect you to swallow such slop propaganda.

@EvgenyFeldman Трампа не нужно интерпретировать, в него нужно верить!

так, теперь Трамп повторил, что война успешна и будет короткой, выступая перед конгрессменами-республиканцами. а потом добавил: «Мы не успокоимся, пока враг не будет тотально и решительно разбит» вот и думайте, что он пытается сказать

@RuslanLeviev @ax3maestro У него в том числе австралийский паспорт. Скорее всего у него просто недостаточно однозначная политическая позиция для какой-то группы активистов в Латвии.

Есть, как и в Западной Европе. Здесь нет настолько сильного неприятия всех обладателей красного паспорта. Не отзывают визы, не закрывают банковские счета, не вводят какие-то дополнительные санкции. 100% гарантии нет нигде, но в сравнении со странами Балтии тут рисков на порядки меньше

Одна из причин, почему я дважды бы подумал прежде чем ехать в страны Балтии (мне). Ладно ещё не пустить, ладно запретить, объявить персоной нон грата. Главная проблема что есть примерно 0 гарантий что в этом случае тебя не вышлют в Россию (найдут рейс и способ, как нашли и в США)

@brankopetric00 You can see your current month's future invoice updated every day.

Every AWS service page says 'Pay only for what you use.' What it doesn't say is that you'll use things you didn't know you were using until the invoice arrives.

@adagamov Очень впечатляет физика, но люди всё равно ещё пластмассовые. Ещё и очевидные глюки. Например, в самом начале при переворачивании листа бумаги на нём пропадают буквы.

🇩🇪 The Dor Brothers — известная берлинская студия по производству видео с использованием ИИ — показала трейлер фильма уровня блокбастера за $200 миллионов, сделанный за сутки.

@Grady_Booch To so many people programming is a black magic of talking to computers in their weird languages. Even to those who used to program but then went on to management positions.

English is full of ambiguities, gaps, biases, and contradictions. And what do we call a language that is sufficiently expressive and precise such that we can use it to create executable artifacts? A programming language. We call it a programming language. See also Edgar Dijkstras' wonderful article, "On The Foolishness of Natural Language Programming".

@nicbarkeragain Also, it's often faster and much more reliable to write the code (with AI auto-complete) than reviewing the code you don't know anything about.

"AI will generate all the code, and senior programmers will review it" is basically a mantra at this point. I'm fortunate enough to know a number of top tier programmers personally, and precisely 0% of them want to spend their time reviewing AI generated code (myself included)

@AndreasSteno Software is not code just as buildings are not bricks. Better bricks technology will definitely help and may even change some fundamentals, but major bottlenecks will remain.

@federalists Hard to understand how Poland is more committed than Baltic states and Finland, given that Poland didn't even join the euro area.

EU at 27 blocked. The E6 move. When unanimity paralyses the Union, it is legitimate that the willing and most committed Member States move ahead. Not to fragment Europe — but to break the deadlock towards a federal Union. 🇪🇺 #E6 #EUreform #EuropeanFederalism

@aavst20551 Где вы были 8 лет?

США: рекордное количество людей, убитых полицией в 2023 году (при Байдене) составило 1.329 человек. (Согласно данным, собранным проектом Mapping Police Violence) В предыдущие годы 2021 и 2022 - больше тысячи каждый год. Где были возмущения ныне возмущающихся?

Sometimes it’s too slow…for suuure 😂 #macron #forsure

@Acyn Looks like a scene from an unrealistic anti-itopia movie.

Leavitt: His speech… it has rave reviews. The president really struck an inspirational tone.