What is Ukraine supposed to do then?

Lose. Evacuate the government. Then mount a guerrilla, and wait for an opportunity. It'll come, most likely sooner rather than later.

Why is that unthinkable? I can understand people in the US being unable to process such a scenario, but here in Europe, there's not a single nation that wasn't off the map for some time.

I know why Ukrainians don't want that, but the demographic costs of tens to hundreds of thousands of "military age men" dying are so huge that any plausible alternative should be considered, even if it's very unpleasant.

> Why is that unthinkable?

Because it’s unthinkably stupid.

> I know why Ukrainians don't want that, but the demographic costs of tens to hundreds of thousands of "military age men" dying are so huge that any plausible alternative should be considered, even if it's very unpleasant.

And you imagine they won’t die in your guerrilla war? Or the next invasion after an emboldened Russia regroups?

I dont see how network effects applies to Uber/Airbnb because nothing stops drivers/hosts from listing their property in multiple such apps

People continue using Airbnb because that's where the properties are listed. And owners keep listing properties because that's where the users are.

My point was that nothing stops hosts from listing their properties in AirBnb as well as a competitor. Unless AirBnb penalizes delisting or enforces price parity I guess?

They don't fine people for late payment?

Like they said, you have to be _blatant_ to get rung up. There are any number of life events you could use as reasonable cause to avoid the fines entirely and get a favorible payment plan.

Was thinking of criminal convictions in relation to "convicted", not fines

It's not mediocrity. courts being slow is a feature, not a bug to insure that the final outcome is the most just as possible.

Otherwise, you leave the door wide open for corruption where judges can swiftly persecute the side that is out of favor.

1933 Germany was already a failed state, you shouldn't infer anything from that.

Germany is the best argument multiple people in this thread made for how a multiparty system prevents the move towards extremism, but we are within living memory of Germany collapsing into what was arguably the worst case of extremism in history.

Of course there were special circumstances at play. Democracies don’t tend to collapse into dictatorship when things are going great. But the multiparty system did nothing to prevent it.

If a charismatic demagogue gains enough popular support, no constitution, multi party system, or separation of powers etc can stop him.

You could maybe argue that a demagogue is less likely to rise in a multi party system, but I haven’t seen any empirical evidence to support that.

Servers usually have massive amounts of cores that are individually slow. Not surprised that single threading would be a bottleneck

nice

Surely that's not legal is it? Can the government force companies to include spyware?

No, but they can tie it to the consideration of software and services contracts which has the same effect.

That's one of the ideas the British government had a few months back...

It's been legal in Australia since 2018 and frustratingly nobody seems to give a shit except for yanks trying to point out any government's injustices other than their own.

I've updated the joke, refresh on your end.

Maybe auditing companies can run their own tax servers?