paying a peasant to work
Peasants (serfs) were not paid. They were bound to the land they worked, and were given a fraction of the harvest they produced. The rest was property of the Lord who’s title controlled the land.
There was a (very small) artisan class where the concept of payment existed, though often it was payment-in-kind - smith the plow for my oxen and I’ll give you some food after the harvest. Money was rarely encountered for the vast majority of people.
Explaining what happens in a neural net is trivial. All they do is approximate (generally) nonlinear functions with a long series of multiplications and some rectification operations.
That isn’t the hard part, you can track all of the math at each step.
The hard part is stating a simple explanation for the semantic meaning of each operation.
When a human solves a problem, we like to think that it occurs in discrete steps with simple goals: “First I will draw a diagram and put in the known information, then I will write the governing equations, then simplify them for the physics of the problem”, and so on.
Neural nets don’t appear to solve problems that way, each atomic operation does not have that semantic meaning. That is the root of all the reporting about how they are such ‘black boxes’ and researchers ‘don’t understand’ how they work.
Not quite. First, the vast majority of Iraqi equipment was Soviet, and the vast majority of the stuff that wasn’t Soviet was French.
French contractors even built the air defense network and control center.
Certainly there are tensions in Iraq as a result of it coming in to being as a constructed nation - nowhere did I say otherwise. However that doesn’t justify a war of aggression against a neighboring country.
Further, Iraq’s casus belli had nothing to do with having a potential ‘claim’ to Kuwait’s land. Kuwait sovereignty pre-dates by centuries. The real reason was Kuwait’s refusal to write off Iraqi debt and refusal to lower its oil product (it was producing above its OPEC quota - depressing prices and hurting Iraq’s exports).
It is true that Saddam thought the West was using OPEC and Kuwait to undermine Iraq. That may be true. Putin thinks the West is using Ukraine to undermine him - so should we stop supporting Ukraine and let Russia annex it?
Desert Storm was the good one. Sadam invaded Kuwait, a large international coalition ended the occupation. Today’s analogue would be NATO entering Ukraine, kicking the Russians out, and showing that wars of aggression are unacceptable.
Iraq in '03 was the problematic one. Falsified casus belli, war crimes galore.
From these, many people think he cheated. The vibrating butt plug is unlikely, but what is more likely is that Magnus’ prep got leaked and Hans was able to hyper-prepare for a specific line of play.
You can fly in space towards the planets you can see. When you get there, you won’t be able to land and will be able to fly straight through the planet itself.
Planets outside of the fast travel menu aren’t really planets
Context does not matter is exactly what you’re saying
No, what I am saying is you can’t blame every bad thing about the Korean peninsula on the US. Did the US recognize the PRK? Nope, they suppressed it. Should they have recognized it? Probably.
Did the Soviets recognize the PRK? Nope, they usurped it. Should they have recognized it? Probably.
Did the existence of the PRK change the trajectory of the peninsula towards separation and civil war? No, it was hardly a speed bump to the imperial power of the USSR and US.
The PRK is an interesting historical anecdote, but it is irrelevant when discussing the Korean War.
Interesting how you ignore how the US did not recognize the goverment installed by the people of korea (PRK)
The brief existence of the PRK has essentially no bearing on the civil war. It existed less than a year, and was dismantled in both the South and the North by the actions of the US and Soviet Union.
Neither power cared to entertain what the people of Korea wanted in the Post-War period.
I wonder what half-truth or outright lie y’all will respond with next to paint the US and SK as Satan next to the Angelic Soviet Union and DPRK.
No power were the ‘good guys’. None had the moral high ground. All deserve blame for what happened. The history of the period is one of tragedy and ambition.
None of that changes the fact that North Korea, backed by the Soviets and later China, started the shooting war by invading the South.
The comment I replied to said this:
This was the instigating event behind the civil war.
Dictionary.com says this for the word “instigating”
Causing, initiating, responsible for
Please explain how an event that occured after the invasion was the cause or initiator of the war.
If you cannot, then admit you didn’t read the thread and just came in here to muddy the waters.
If you are too proud to admit that, just ghost.
Japanese occupation –> Separate US and Soviet Occupation Zones –> Two different governments of ‘Korea’.
Not all that complicated.
Well, that’s a refreshing take to see. But that doesn’t make the event mentioned here not problematic or not a further motivator of the war
Did you miss the part where the first such event didn’t take place until after the invasion by the North?
I did not defend any fascists. I pointed out innacuracies in the prior posts.
Ask the other poster why they felt the need to lie to make their points.
If hating tankies means you have to support fascist dictatorships, then I guess I’ll never hate tankies.
Luckily it doesn’t.
It is very possible to dislike more than one thing.
This the was instigating event behind the civil war
No it wasn’t, and it wasn’t even one event.
There were literal years of border skirmishes before the North invaded on the 25th of June, 1950. The Bodo League Massacre is the name for a series of purges of suspected communists that began with an order from the SK President on June 27th, 1950. Two days after the North Invaded.
Try again tankie.
North Korea invaded the South.
Crippling sanctions and the military presence are because the war never officially ended.
Learn history.
Those without respiratory issues don’t have oxygenation issues while wearing masks.
The same air is going into your lungs, the only difference is your diaphragm has to work harder due to the filtering effect of the mask. If it can’t manage that, then you are likely already on oxygen due to low tidal volume and chronic hypoxia.
You can buy a pulse oximeter from CVS for like $20 and test this yourself if you don’t believe me.
Believe it or not, what you swallow has almost nothing to do with your weight. The only place the body absorbs energy from food is in the intestines, and the brain controls that process.
The digestive tract is a tube, open at both ends, through which food passes. The process of extracting energy from that food is complex and highly tunable: the brain controls the production and secretion of hundreds of enzymes and other chemicals, as well as the physical action of the muscles lining the tube.
The ‘basic physics’ here begins at the intestinal wall, not the mouth.
There are plenty of things that can cause fires that are not oxygen, and don’t contain oxygen.
The halogens, Fluorine and Chlorine in particular, are powerful oxidizing agents on their own and can produce flames in the same manner as common flames.
Here’s a report on the spectra of flames produced by combustion in a Fluorine atmosphere (PDF warning).