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by 2143 5y ago
> the all-Russian phone would be in a suitcase form-factor You don't know that. If China didn't make phones, wouldn't you have said "all Chinese phones would be shaped like a pyramid"?
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by 2143 5y ago
I'm just worried that in the rare event that I travel to the west will somebody be like "Well, here's the foreigner who funded to sabotage what our government wanted! Go away!" and get myself banned from entering <Wes
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by 2143 5y ago
Ah don't be it's not your fault.
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by 2143 5y ago
I'm not even a US/UK/EU citizen. Is there any way I can contribute? Or do I just sit and watch the world burn as policymakers elsewhere indirectly make policies that might inadvertently affect people far far away as well?
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by 2143 5y ago
I'm not on an iPhone, but I might have an insight about this. My home country is a very humid tropical country in Asia. When I was in the United States (I was in a cold dry place), the fingerprint reader works perfectly. Instantly. Nev
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by 2143 5y ago
Or maybe the Russians might invent something of their own? They did have those space programs which were a big deal at the time.
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by 2143 5y ago
Her husband being a billionaire is besides the point. Your conclusion doesn't follow your premise. It's at best a speculation. Do you think only billionaires in India get diagnosed with cancer, and the remaining cases go undiagnos
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by 2143 5y ago
> at least within the US Because America has straight lines everywhere and no curves, unlike other places. Calculus is absolutely required for most engineering tasks. Maybe for CS students there could be more emphasis on statistics as we
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by 2143 5y ago
In support of delegation: (This was the philosophy at a Scandinavian firm I worked at). A more-experienced employee might want to delegate some of their less important tasks to less-experienced people, so that the former can focus on more i
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by 2143 5y ago
I'm probably not the best person to say what I'm about to say. In my university days, I took a graduate-level class called Software Foundations. We used Haskell to learn and implement type systems and a few other things. At the ti
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by 2143 5y ago
> The absurdity of that statement has triggered me a bit to be honest. Oops I'm so sorry I never meant any offence. I did mention it was unconfirmed. Anyway, for everybody who's reading: I was wrong. It looks like Ukraine'
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by 2143 5y ago
> although I imagine it's mostly bursty and peaks during US/EU common business hours Because people in places like Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, UAE, South Korea, and many others are hiberna
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by 2143 5y ago
From what I understand: There are countries in Europe that are not a member of the European Union. Eg: UK, Switzerland, Norway. From what the OP said, they are from Russia, and studying in another eastern European country. (Russians (as wel
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by 2143 5y ago
Yep. He shouldn't even have a glass of water until every single problem there has been solved. Sarcasm.
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by 2143 5y ago
Perhaps you should just use Windows. > Windows calculator is so simple that it makes it super easy to hop in, do a quick calculation via the numpad and jump out. What's wrong with calculator in Linux? FWIW, I just fire up a Python i
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by 2143 5y ago
> I don't think Windows 95 looks that good (compared to today). Me neither. I dislike anything that reminds me of old Windows. Some people are the opposite — when they move to other platforms, they seek out things that look like old
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by 2143 5y ago
> Golang binaries are like 5-15x the size of a dinamically linked C binary, yes, but at least they provide everything and run everywhere. I once ported a shoddily written (by me) Python script to Go. About 400 LOC in Go. The compiled exe
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by 2143 5y ago
The animal doesn't know or care about who owns what land. It sees grass. It eats.
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by 2143 5y ago
> Russia obviously doubts You still don't get it. Do you doubt that Russia is powerful? Hence, the diplomacy. > strategically important rail bridge That's kind of the problem isn't it? Strategic assets near Russia (I th
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by 2143 5y ago
> modern army and it was a total massacre You don't get it. Look, nobody has any doubt that USA is very powerful. But that doesn't mean they must annihilate the world. And Russia is no slouch. Diplomacy is the need of the hour.
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by 2143 5y ago
> NATO and especially USA should have responded by sending two thousands soldiers to Kiev And Russia would've been scared and retreated. Sarcasm aside, all that would've done is accelerate the whole invasion procedure. And then
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by 2143 5y ago
This would be news even if you, spoonjim, beat Carlsen :D
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by 2143 5y ago
> Indians will absolutely swarm any content about India put on the internet. And because of the large population, even a small percentage would still be a large number. But individual Indians do that on their own independent will though.
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by 2143 5y ago
The oil kings realised long ago they'll run out of oil eventually. So they've diversified into other businesses. It's now a hub of business activities that have nothing to do with oil. Global warming — yes that's a probl
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by 2143 5y ago
> They'll have to do something against the sexism They're working on it. The situation has improved. There's a long way to go, but there's progress. Give it a 100 more years. > dressed like locals Please don't
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by 2143 5y ago
Dubai is not perfect. But it's not _that_ bad. And I think they're trying to be more welcoming to foreigners and everybody else and ironing out other issues. But it'll take time, and won't happen overnight. Is the situat
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by 2143 5y ago
I don't know if OP is going to see this. I feel he'll be happy at Jane Street Capital. They use OCaml though (and I think they have a large part in building OCaml), but I suppose an expert Haskeller would have no trouble at all pi
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by 2143 5y ago
> don't waste a second of your life or you'll fall behind I never said that. And I agree with what you're saying; I do not have the mentality you described.
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by 2143 5y ago
Sure. Different things work for different people. Do what works for you. Cheers mate.

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