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by Nginx487 6y ago
So-called "elections" after 5th-6th term are a bad joke. Face it, ex-Soviet republics Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan never seazed to be totalitarian regimes with pathetic tries to convince the world they adopted some democracy.
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by Nginx487 6y ago
For offline job I always take a break to do a detailed research about local market, median/max salary, cost of living. Here I often withdraw my candidature due to unsatisfactory Software Engineers compensation in the region. If I decid
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by Nginx487 6y ago
I would say, during this pandemic half-measures do not work. As an expat in Vietnam, I witnessed successful handling of the first wave. 3 months we were living like there's no virus, economy was reopen. Now the second wave, after the f
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by Nginx487 6y ago
I know this is not much, but when I joined de-Googlefication initiative, I felt it's a right thing to do. Firefox with uBlock Origin, DuckDuckGo, Lineage OS on the smartphone. When I have to use Google products, say Maps or YouTube,I d
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by Nginx487 6y ago
I have chronic headache, caused by some kind of vascular dystonia (still can't be properly diagnosed). I would say, opioid-based painkillers is a terrible way to treat chronic pain on a long-term scale. Not to mention harm it cause to
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Typing time as well!
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by Nginx487 6y ago
The code encapsulated into "__main__" assumed to be module-specific, this is the purpose of that pattern. If you want to make some code available for another module, you just refactor it into separate function.
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by Nginx487 6y ago
On the other hand, blocking absolutely adequate YouTube accounts (engineering, education, history) without explanation and appeal process is super unethical. Creating monopoly (which definition YouTube perfectly fits) is not only unethical,
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Vietnam and China have never been "socialist brothers", and even just brothers. They are adversaries on the civilizational level, 17 big wars during the last 20 centuries, half of them for Vietnamese independence. The last armed c
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Vietnam at this time clearly an ally of the US and other Western countries, against China of course. There was a plan to create a naval base in Cam Rahn, but new US administration cancelled this.
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Did anyone think what was the reason to smuggle drugs into China, while it is notorious for outgoing drug trafficking? I bet they detain a random man and accused of a crime he did not commit. Why? Because they can.
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Karma is just a counter in database. Hong Kongers do not afraid to face a death sentence for opposing the regime. Don't afraid to tell the truth, the worst may happen to you is a couple of downvotes by troll factory workers from Beijin
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Any possible measures to oppose such a behavior? Chinese do not hesitate to use freedom of speech when it works for their interest, like vandalizing GitHub pages of regime critics, however Chinese platforms protected against any foreign med
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Of course, if it did not happen to you, it may never happen to anyone else, like to these Canadian citizens who have been here taken hostages, or Australian citizen sentenced to death.
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Thanks for the insight, however, would you provide some source, explaining how DuckDuckGo-Bing "hack" is implemented. > but I definitely get different results from Google, Startpage, and DuckDuckGo Different results from Google
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by Nginx487 6y ago
How it would fit the market with services like DuckDuckGo, Startpage and SearX? All these services provide internet search for free. DuckDuckGo has its own engine, Startpage and SearX are meta-engines, reusing existing services.
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by Nginx487 6y ago
I'm really happy the UK did not leave the former colony to suffer under the communist regime. Reminds me of the situation with Jews before WWII - if they were given the same kind of refuge by any country, Holocaust would hot had happen
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Great initiative, given that most of the immigrants are educated, experienced professionals, and have English as their second native language. Definitely, democratic progressive countries should compete for the right to host Hong Kongers.
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Remembering days when I was a sysadmin, vim or even old-school vi was the default editor on literally every POSIX/UNIX system, and I had to deal with quite a variety of them - BSD family, Solaris (still Sun), AIX - some of them still n
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by Nginx487 6y ago
We can simply ignore the fact China is a totalitarian communist state, but in this case, we have not to talk about it at all, because literally every decision of CCP has the underlying motivation to weaken the national security of countries
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by Nginx487 6y ago
I hope other countries follow this absolutely wise decision. China will not hesitate to use any measures for weakening national security of countries it believes to be its enemies
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by Nginx487 6y ago
There are no private companies in China, all of the corporate entities directly or indirectly depend on CCP, which uses every opportunity to damage national security of its enemies.
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Absolutely right decision. There are no private companies in China, all of the corporate entities directly or indirectly depend on CCP, which uses every opportunity to damage national security of enemies.
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Doing push-ups every morning does not necessary for your success. It just helps you stay fit. Same with programming puzzles. It won't help you directly during solving your daily problems, it's just push-ups for your brain.
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Estonia would have immediately shared the information about the accident with the allies. Russia always (without exceptions) tries to hide it from the world https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/12/security-brief-
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by Nginx487 6y ago
That's common sense. The only authoritarian state in the region refusing to share information for common security. In 2019 they already tried to hide radioactive leak on the nuclear test site [0] After the accident, people with the rad
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by Nginx487 6y ago
Can't even guess, who's riding the horse with the naked torso could be responsible.
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by Nginx487 6y ago
>Trust in the government is at an all time high Sure, after successful handling the pandemic. Was a nice surprise for me as well, especially compared to China
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by Nginx487 6y ago
I'm an expat in the HCMC. I remember significant amount of skepticism by the beginning of the outbreak around COVID-19 related news, as both expats and locals suspected state censorship involved, like it happened in China about a month

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