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by aix1 5y ago
What are your thoughts on individuals publishing READMEs on how best to interact with them? Similar sort of thing or sufficiently different?
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by aix1 5y ago
Even if they did that and all sanctions immediately ended (which is doubtful), it would take a long time to undo the effects of those sanctions (investor confidence getting rebuilt, the memories of foreign-owned civil aircraft getting expro
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by aix1 5y ago
Russia is a regime where reporting things that disagree with the official govt line is punishable by 15 years in prison[1]. It is not at all surprising that an independent news outlet reporting on and for Russia would choose to be based in
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by aix1 5y ago
Exactly. It'll be a slow and steady decline in terms of safety, pilot training and so on.
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by aix1 5y ago
I am really sorry to say this but as of last midnight Novaya Gazeta have ceased their newsroom operation. https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/03/01/o-rabote-v-uslov...
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by aix1 5y ago
And, just to be clear, "can't be said of Russia right now" really means "publishing information that disagrees with the official line is punishable by up to 15 years in prison". https://novayagazeta.ru&#x
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by aix1 5y ago
Echo of Moscow and TV Rain have also ceased broadcasting in the last couple of days, for the same reasons.
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by aix1 5y ago
The BBC stopped the shortwave broadcasts in 2008. They have announced yesterday that they're bringing them back: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22961286/bbc-news-blocked-...
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by aix1 5y ago
Russian authorities block access to internet sites they don't like. I imagine that on a technical level it's not hard to bypass those blocks, but the vast majority of the population is neither motivated nor technically savvy enou
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by aix1 5y ago
Dystrophic? (As in: affected by tissue degeneration?)
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by aix1 5y ago
It's hard to be sure, but he is now surrounded by (ex?) multibillionnaires who have all of a sudden lost much of the ability to enjoy their airplanes, yachts, houses etc, ONLY because of voices in Putin's head telling him about hi
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by aix1 5y ago
How big of an economic impact can we expect from this?
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by aix1 5y ago
> 150k+ Hungarian people do live in Ukraine and they could be attacked directly. I am clearly not in a position to conduct risk assessments on anyone else's behalf, but I personally don't find this argument particularly compell
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by aix1 5y ago
Somewhat curiously, I'm getting "507 Insufficient Storage".
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by aix1 5y ago
Easy to defend and on the shortest, most direct route from Belarus to Kiev. This map illustrates it well: https://i.inews.co.uk/content/uploads/2022/02/SEI_89676355.j...
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by aix1 5y ago
Not sure if crypto is an option for you? https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/26/22952357/ukraine-bitcoin-... https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/1497594592438497282
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Ukraine Conflict Update 9(iswresearch.org)
15 points by aix1 5y ago|3 comments
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by aix1 5y ago
Confirmed by Twitter: > We’re aware that Twitter is being restricted for some people in Russia and are working to keep our service safe and accessible. https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/14976153841695662
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by aix1 5y ago
> when did the "Czech Republic" becomes "Czechia" "On 17 May 2016 the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic to the United Nations informed the UN that the short name to be used for the country is Czechia."
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by aix1 5y ago
Just wanted to note that the acute accent over the и (in both Russian and Ukrainian) indicates the stress and is only used in fairly narrow contexts such as dictionary entries. Normally it's just Киев/Київ.
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by aix1 5y ago
> It's unacceptable to refer to a country. The United States of America, the United Kingdom, the Bahamas, the Gambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (and probably others) would like a word. :)
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by aix1 5y ago
> That line carries their supplies. Russia doesn't need this line to carry supplies along the border. They can just carry them on the other side of the border (through Russia or, if we're talking further west, through Belarus)
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by aix1 5y ago
Again, the source that your other comment cites is a Kremlin propaganda outlet. There's little reason to trust it to accurately represent Ukraine government's position on anything related to this war. https://www.stopf
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by aix1 5y ago
> an article on the evidently Ukrainian site This "evidently Ukrainian site" is a Kremlin propaganda outlet: https://www.stopfake.org/en/strana-ua-or-strana-ru-how-a-san...
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by aix1 5y ago
My interpretation is they're pushing and (sadly) making progress, though much slower than they'd like. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russia-ukraine... Judging by the many videos of interrogati
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by aix1 5y ago
> Russia supposedly stopped the offensive yesterday for negotiations and it's now back on. An important caveat is that this is according to Russia. Ukraine's version is quite different (it was Russia's attempt to lure Ukr
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The handful of independent media that are still allowed to exist in Russia all got a written warning this morning requiring them to use the term "special operation" and not "war", "attack" or "invasion&quo
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by aix1 5y ago
https://imgur.com/a/jnu3yUn
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by aix1 5y ago
This doesn't directly answer your question, but yesterday Roskomnadzor[1] has announced that they would "partially block" Facebook in Russia [2, 3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Service_for_S
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by aix1 5y ago
It's also quite incredible to see how _everyone_ has rallied around him, regardless of their political preferences in normal times.

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