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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>the largest single spike in deaths of despair in human history 1990s Eastern Europe was bad but this is extreme revisionism and exaggeration. The despair and famines caused by Stalin, Hitler, Mao all caused far more deaths.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Ah the good old classic of accusing Russian dissidents of being Jews or crypto-Jews. A tradition as old as Stalin. FYI Dmitry Glukhovsky is neither Jewish nor Israeli.
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>Yeltsin staged a coup with the help of the US A blatant lie that keeps getting repeated. Yeltsin hired some American campaigners and advertisers because he wanted a loud Western-style election campaign. It's funny how Yeltsin havin
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
This whole affair really puts the phrase "Try that in a small town" into perspective.
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From across the pond it feels like American millennials and Gen-Z have already declared their country to be a failed state. How much can a nation progress if its youth is pessimistic about everything? It doesn't matter whether the pess
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
I am surprised that the "Postgres supports JSON so we don't need NoSQL systems" talking point is so common on Hacker News. MongoDB's marketing department is partially to blame for this because they marketed the negative
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Does anyone know if it's possible to build the ergonomics and DX of tRPC on top of gRPC-Web? tRPC is TypeScript/Node.js-based while gRPC-Web backends can be built in most languages.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>Private investment — mostly from venture capital firms — in Israeli startups in the first six months of 2023 stood at $3.9 billion, the lowest since 2018, according to SNC. $3.9 billion in venture capital investments during the first si
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
GDPR made some Danish companies and many German companies migrate away from American cloud providers. At least in Germany it feels like GDPR has (mistakenly?) been reduced to "don't trust Americans with your data". I think th
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The goal was always to get into either China or Russia. They are the only geopolitical heavyweights that wouldn't have folded like Ecuador did with Assange. It's amazing how the "American whistleblower randomly ended up in Ru
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>Reality Winner Interesting how few of Snowden's and Assange's fanboys care about RW. Maybe because her leaks proved Russian meddling in US elections?
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Interestingly the IETF collaborates with the Chinese surveillance sector (China Mobile, ZTE, Huawei etc.) but comes out against the US surveillance sector.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Has anyone had luck with fine-tuning Llama-v2-7b using the paid (€11.00) Colab Pro?
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Metro 2033 author sentenced to 8 years in prison for criticizing Russia's war(pcgamer.com)
18 points by 0xDEF 3y ago|3 comments
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Because Russian boomers and nationalists are hellbent on territorial irredentism to the detriment of Ukraine, the Baltic countries, and according to some of their "Greater Russia" maps even Finland.
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
>increased Russophobia Where in the world is there any "Russophobia"? The far-right in the West and around the world loves Russia and Russians.
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>Today, Russia is essentially also arguing for pre-emptive war but the reasoning - putting American missiles and forces in Ukraine - is a hell of a lot plausible. The Russian government invaded Ukraine because they consider it a fake nat
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
What has your propagandistic comment to do with a well-researched article that looks at the leaked source code of a Russian search engine?
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>Russian corruption doesn't generally touch Western governments - the atmosphere is too hostile to it. Brussels, Vienna, and many other European capitals are full of Russian "lobbyists".
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>Also Western billionaire versus Russian oligarch - even if the source of wealth is virtually identical and their political power probably higher in the West. The term "oligarch" has a specific meaning and, surprisingly, Wester
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
I have noticed many new security and privacy oriented projects use Go and even C/C++. Wasn't Rust supposed to be the language that should be used to write all security-critical software? What happened? Are crates like rustls/
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Most VPN services are already blocked in Russia by both mobile and landline providers. Many also block Tor. However now it seems like Russian mobile providers are blocking not just VPN services but even the underlying VPN protocols (WireGua
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Russia Starts Blocking VPN Protocols(vpncentral.com)
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>The US helped provoke Putin's invasion of Ukraine, by trying to get Ukraine to join NATO Why do these blatant Russian lies keep getting posted here? Putin and many other Russian warmongers consider Ukraine to be a "fake nation
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by 0xDEF 3y ago
Interesting that Russia needed to base this operation within Ukraine and use Ukrainian SIM cards. Maybe it was targeted at Ukrainians and wanted to appear as being from Ukraine in social media recommendation feeds?
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As a European I would fully support the US shooting itself in the foot by breaking up its Big Tech companies if it meant that European alternatives would replace them. However we all know it's going to be Chinese alternatives.
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>Congrats, you yield all the economics of scale to China That is the goal and why "Break up Google" is being aggressively pushed by pro-Chinese bots on reddit, twitter etc. "Break up Google" should be translated to &q
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It's sad we have reached a level of political correctness that means even American tax funded researchers are afraid to call out non-Western countries like China and India.
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For HN I think this tweet is relevant because the twitter owner is now promoting removepaywall.com. Google got in trouble because their AI generated "answer box" at the top was based on paywalled content.
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How are you going to convince Asia and Africa to stop their economic growth? How are you going to convince Americans to stop driving Ford F150s? How are you going to convince Europeans to stop doing vacations that involves long-distance fli

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