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by ailef 5y ago
One has to be braindead not to acknowledge the invasion. Ukraine is getting wrecked and innocent Ukraininans are dying at the hand of Russian soldiers. It's obviously a catastrophe, under every point of view. Now, the hard part is ack
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by ailef 5y ago
> but Russia is a full-blown terrorist-state. Thanks for repeating Western propaganda. Do you apply this definition to the US as well? If that's the case I'm ok with it, otherwise I would like to hear what definition of terrori
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by ailef 5y ago
> is like comparing a ticket for jaywalking with blowing up a maternity-hospital. Ukraine has done a whole lot a shit in the recent past and this comparison doesn't really hold against a scrutiny of reality. It seems like the typica
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by ailef 5y ago
In my opinion fake news detection is an ill-defined problem, since the definition of "fake news" itself is not clear. You might be able to spot blatant inaccuracies like "Mount Everest is located in France"; but then do
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by ailef 5y ago
If you liked it you might also find the French documentary from Paul Moreira interesting. There's some overlap, but this one focuses on the events of Odessa more. > "Ukraine The Masks of the Revolution", a documentary abou
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by ailef 5y ago
> No, in those regions the will to stay Ukraine outnumbers the will to become a Russian vassal or part of Russia: From the IRI report: > The sample consisted of 2,400 permanent residents of Ukraine aged 18 and older and eligible to vo
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by ailef 5y ago
There have been massive pro-Russia protests in the eastern part of Ukraine after the 2014 Maidan revolution, which often have been brutally suppressed by Ukrainian authorities. It's a fact that most people in that area feels closer to
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by ailef 5y ago
I understand your reasoning. In this case, yes, Coinbase could be an easy way to set this up. You can set up your own wallets, but doing that for every crypto requires you to download multiple clients and manage multiple key pairs so it bec
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by ailef 5y ago
I don't really know about Coinbase, so apologies if this advice is not welcome. What I think is that most people would donate Bitcoin anyway so supporting many different cryptocurrencies wouldn't necessarily increase the likelihoo
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by ailef 5y ago
Why not just use an ad blocker?
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Ask HN: Where to search for geo-located and timestamped video footage?
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by ailef 5y ago
> Keep in mind, the 3000 dead you claim are, best as we can tell, fabricated by Putin. It's impossible to have a rational conversation about this topic when data about civilian casualties provided by the UN[1] is framed as fabricate
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Ukraine has started using Clearview AI’s facial recognition during war(reuters.com)
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by ailef 5y ago
> Nothing similar is happening in Donbas. I guess the 3000 dead civilians just bombed themselves.
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by ailef 5y ago
> Your paycheck signer Very classy argument.
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by ailef 5y ago
I can't help but notice that instead of condemning Azov crimes and recognizing that they too are a terrorizing force in the region, you conveniently blamed their existence on Russia. The hypocrisy here is blaring. We are now at the poi
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by ailef 5y ago
You can find this information with a 2 minute Google search.
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by ailef 5y ago
> Do you think Russia's funding of terrorist groups in the eastern portions of Ukraine known for atrocities against civilians could've influenced that decision? You are maybe confused with neo-Nazi Azov battalion and co. also
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by ailef 5y ago
To define NATO as a defensive alliance you need to stretch the definition of the word defensive so much that probably Putin invasion of Ukraine could be considered defensive as well. > 2. NATO doesn't have hypersonic missiles. Russi
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by ailef 5y ago
You alias all the known ad-serving domains to unresolvable stuff in the hosts file. I just used one of the lists I found on GitHub.
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by ailef 5y ago
GP phrased that quite ambiguously but I think he meant "Reading the news is not the problem". At least by reading the second sentence that's the only logical interpretation.
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by ailef 5y ago
I agree with your approach but I think that, unfortunately, Wikipedia is extremely unreliable when it comes to political content (or anything that can be politicized). I mostly use it as a starting point to collect references, but even thos
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by ailef 5y ago
So you're already admitting that the US would try to influence these two independent countries. What if Cuba refused to accept the deal?
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by ailef 5y ago
From the Russian point of view that's your mortal enemy that has expanded for the past 20 year and now it's knocking on your borders. How would the US react were Canada, an "independent, democratic country", "volunt
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by ailef 5y ago
Yes, but this point is kind of moot given that it was NATO membership expansion in the first place to start the tensions. You can look up articles from 2008 and see that even Germany (Angela Merkel) was adamantly opposed to Ukraine and Geor
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by ailef 5y ago
Rather than a justification, I take it as an explanation of why Putin is doing what he's doing, as opposed to the other, often circulated, explanation that he just went crazy and invaded Ukraine for no reason.
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by ailef 5y ago
> Ukraine didn't have ambitions to join NATO before Putin attacked it for the first time in 2014 That's just not true. > NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed toda
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by ailef 5y ago
There is no chance Ukraine will join NATO in the short term (and possibly ever), let alone immediately. This would trigger an Article 5 invocation that would compel NATO members to send troops to Ukraine, escalate the conflict even more, po
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by ailef 5y ago
Putin wouldn't have allowed them to become members. And this is effectively what is happening here: Putin is unfortunately destroying Ukraine, and effectively making sure that any possibility of joining NATO is long gone. This would ha
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by ailef 5y ago
> Ukraine is fighting now for less militarized and endangered Europe. I hope somebody else can appreciate the irony of this sentence like I do, given that the cause of the conflict is military NATO expansion towards east.

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