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by V-2 5y ago
Even if they aren't, they've been vetted very carefully by the secret service. Embassies are among the last places where liberal-leaning individuals would be allowed by the regime to get.
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by V-2 5y ago
I'm wondering about the same, and I don't understand why you're getting downvoted. At the very beginning of HN guidelines we read: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're eviden
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by V-2 5y ago
Hopefully something meaningful and productive for the inhabitants of the city
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by V-2 5y ago
Naming streets after people who are still alive (not to mention under 30) is nonsensical in principle. Make no mistake - I do hope that Protasevich gets released, and I have no sympathy for the regime whatsoever... but there's absolute
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by V-2 5y ago
Warsaw named one of its roundabouts after the Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev - similarly in Lviv (Ukraine).
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by V-2 5y ago
Both economical and political, as it will increase Belarus's dependence on Russia.
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by V-2 5y ago
"Because of the constraints on fuel, there was no realistic alternative to going down" Source? Wasn't it a Transatlantic flight? "And again, once that happened, the fact the Austrian government sent a search party say
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by V-2 5y ago
You seem to have started writing your reply before (or instead of) reading my commment in full. My point was that if Snowden actually was there, they wouldn't land in Austria to begin with. Unlike the RyanAir flight, the plane wasn&#x2
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by V-2 5y ago
"in both cases a state pressure was applied to extract an undesirable to the regime citizen from a plane" As I explained - in case of Snowden they would only have prevented him from getting to South America. They wouldn't h
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by V-2 5y ago
That's not quite true. Their relations have had multiple ups and downs. Besides, Belarus having burnt other bridges always offers Moscow extra leverage.
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by V-2 5y ago
Well - they obviously had enough fuel to simply fly back to Russia if Snowden were actually on board. I'm not saying I support that action - I'm only pointing out these two incidents aren't quite in the same category.
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by V-2 5y ago
It's patently ridiculous, especially taking the context into consideration (persecution of opposition).
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by V-2 5y ago
Valean's (EU comissioner for transport) take on the matter is bizarre to say the least, too: "The @Ryanair flight took off just now from Minsk bound for Vilnius. Great news for everyone especially the families and friends of peop
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by V-2 5y ago
It's merely a daughter company, owned by RyanAir Holdings. That's why RyanAir itself refers to the flight as (unsuprisingly) theirs. There seems to be some sort of an orchestrated action behind spreading this distorted version of
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by V-2 5y ago
And directly responsible back in the Soviet era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
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by V-2 5y ago
Apart from this jarring omission, they repeat the propaganda claim that Minsk was the closest airport at the time, which is blatantly untrue.
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by V-2 5y ago
There is no way Belarus would have gone ahead with something of this magnitude without Kremlin's backing. Russia benefits politically, too - sanctions will be imposed by the West now, driving Belarus closer to Russia.
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by V-2 5y ago
"Believing we're the only intelligent life in the universe is an epic violation of the Copernican Principle." Not necessarily, because the principle collides with observer bias in this case. I don't think it's val
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by V-2 5y ago
"When we update this prior in light of the Fermi observation, we find a substantial probability that we are alone in our galaxy, and perhaps even in our observable universe (53%–99.6% and 39%–85% respectively). ’Where are they?’ — pro
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by V-2 5y ago
If I ever need the help of law enforcement, I'd be quite happy if they weren't all tangled up in investigating people uploading "graphic content" on Facebook. Especially given that in many countries Facebook doesn't
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by V-2 5y ago
Monte Carlo method is even used by chess programs. Having the engine quickly play multiple games against itself, from a given position, is an alternative method of evaluation, probing how the position holds "in practice".
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by V-2 5y ago
I meant the *former. Chess.com gives you access to the game record at least (even if its analysis functions are limited for free users). Chess24 doesn't
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by V-2 5y ago
I do prefer lichess, but is it "most well known"? If we measure it by the number of users (what else), chess.com dwarfs it really.
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by V-2 5y ago
It's not really feasible though: * Online chess typically uses Glicko ratings (this applies to Lichess and chess.com alike), FIDE ratings are based on Elo * Online ratings are typically blitz ratings - people tend to play fast games on
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by V-2 5y ago
Yes - not only features are limited and paywalled (fine, you need to keep the lights on), but they're nagging you about buying a subscription at every turn (now this feels intrusive to me). Their UI also feels clunky and dated: kind of
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by V-2 5y ago
"(chessbase.com, ICC, FICS are lesser alternatives now)" I'd say that the main competitor of the two is now Chess24. It follows the subscription/premium model, taking it even further than Chess.com. Eg. the latter does
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The EmDrive Isn’t Dead yet Says the Guy Who Invented the EmDrive(popularmechanics.com)
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by V-2 6y ago
"Complaining about literary trends is like complaining about too many people eating an ice cream flavor you don't like: pointless because there's no scarcity. If you don't like it don't read it." Well, not re
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by V-2 6y ago
It's mostly Java that's playing catch-up, so arguably it's Java "cloning" C# rather than the other way round, and it's been that way for years now.
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by V-2 6y ago
"[C#] was always designed to be a Java clone" "Initially" would be somewhat closer to the truth than "always".

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