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by Sebb767 5y ago
I honestly think this would have worked out quite well for Russia if they would have managed to take the Ukraine swiftly. Sure, there would be some sanction, but they could have either sat it out or negotiated down for giving back half of t
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Honestly, my hope is that none of the Oligarchs or the Russians at the trigger want to see the world in a fiery end. One thing that might be tricky is if he deploys tactical nukes, though. They're small enough so that the other nuclear
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by Sebb767 5y ago
But people who don't necessarily need it and/or don't make money with it won't pay insane prices for (ab-)used mining GPUs. It won't be insanely cheap, but definitely a lot cheaper.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
You don't need to play new games. My Steam library is full of cheaply-bought games and there are quite a few childhood games I'd love to revisit. If you need a recommendation, I'd go for faster than light or slay the spire. I
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by Sebb767 5y ago
These weapons need to be ready to retaliate with few minutes of advance in case of a first strike and Russia is engaging in an active war directly on it's border. Additionally, they are fully aware they are provoking nuclear powers r
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by Sebb767 5y ago
The Taliban were the response to a Russian invasion, so this hardly surprising.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
The US government is currently very much not involved. And sure, the ua gov will have a GitLab somewhere, but their time is limited and GitLab does not seem like a great value.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Throwing nukes at Ukraine is not going to happen. First, it will likely force the west into action (the current inaction is in part caused by the promise of no nukes, which would be void if Russia starts using them), but it comes with much
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by Sebb767 5y ago
And then they ironically failed due to the winter. Quite funny that the USSR has been on both sides of this.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
And possibly immediately cause NATO action. Russia is really not in a powerful position right now.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
It's only important when GitLab is used in government infrastructure, though. I imagine that most GitLab instances are civilian, in which case attacking them doesn't help Russia much.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
I'm pretty sure this is a reference to the famous Dropbox comment[0], not an actual proposal. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by Sebb767 5y ago
There's also the problem of logistics. We have one (technically two) full pipelines for gas to Russia; even if we want to switch and buy all our gas elsewhere, it will be really hard to actually get it here.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> it does actually make a lot of strategic sense from Putin’s POV and he is not, in fact, an idiot? I don't believe he's an idiot and I'm sure he knew that he could take the Ukraine without much resistance from the West. I
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> It's interesting because losing someone's PII that includes information that can lead to financial fraud can bankrupt a company. Experian seems to be doing quite fine
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by Sebb767 5y ago
My Ukrainian colleagues were actually back to work yesterday. It's surreal how things can be so normal and yet so different.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> If China decided to ally with Russia - or help them get around the sanction - it would decimate China's economy as well: The US and EU also heavily depend on China. Russia is not thrown out of SWIFT for a full-on war; I highly dou
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by Sebb767 5y ago
I think the most likely explanation is that the account only came to Patreons full attention due to recent events and (probably) an insane rise in support.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> then maybe you will understand a bit better why the likes of Patreon cutting off support for the defenders is effectively taking sides. It obviously affects the conflict; there's really no option not to play for them. I just hones
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> I've seen first hand what life under Russia looks like, there is no way this is going to be whitewashed. I'm really not trying to whitewash anything. I have friends in the Ukraine and I'm fearing for their live right now
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> You could, but it would be bullshit. In your (our) opinion. But that does not make it an absolute truth. > If you really had paid attention to German history you would have realized that sometimes violence is the only way to deal wi
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> In this case that has been made pretty easy to see. Even large numbers of Russians agree with that. Just as large numbers of US citizens disagreed with the wars of the last decades. > Indeed. But this isn't the Cuban missile cr
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Well, from their point of view, a military pact with the explicit goal of keeping them under control has first taken their land and is now threatening to get even closer to their border and encircle them. Just take a look at the Cuban missi
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> when in this specific situation violence is maybe not bad. I'm pretty sure Russia would say the same thing if you ask them about their situation. That's the problem once you bring in subjectivity. That being said, tolerating
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Same here. The house in the beginning looks a bit strange, but nothing that couldn't be caused by a potato camera. I'd fallen for this, too (though the plane does not look like a Russian one).
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by Sebb767 5y ago
If Russia really wanted to create nuclear fallout problems, they have weapons that do so far more targeted and effectively.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
And it takes me about 2 hours to spin up an overfitted NN in TensorFlow. Learning and mastering are quite different things.
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by Sebb767 5y ago
Next to all the other good points, Steam has managed not to f up in all these years. If you go deep, their launcher has an insane number of features - trading, backgrounds and picture frames, drops, profile levels and a lot more - but their
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> Do not bother with official status pages. You should. If the status page is also down, you know it's going to take a while ;-)
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by Sebb767 5y ago
> You're assuming all discrimination based on race is wrong. Counter question: Which discrimination based on race is right?

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