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Israel blocked Ukraine from buying Pegasus spyware, fearing Russia’s anger(theguardian.com)
7 points by akhmatova 5y ago|2 comments
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Anatoly Chubais quits Kremlin post, reportedly over the Ukraine war(nytimes.com)
4 points by akhmatova 5y ago|0 comments
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by akhmatova 5y ago
The fact that you need to dial as far back as 1930s to find a climate worse than what we have now (just so you can say "I betcha you didn't know about that stuff!") would seem to indicate... that there's not a lot substa
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by akhmatova 5y ago
We see things differently, I guess. I found it jejeune (and the tone behind it rather obnoxious).
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by akhmatova 5y ago
As for a) - "nuance". As or b) - I don't see that there's some kind of grand superposition of opposites at play here like you do, so I'll largely pass. But more broadly: it seems beyond dispute that the the broader
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by akhmatova 5y ago
Scale matters. And in terms of sheer magnitude of insanity and frequency of its emission -- no one who has held that office can hold a candle to number 45.
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by akhmatova 5y ago
Totally agree with you there (except for the 3 percent of the time when actually we do want to apply predictive branching, as it were, and brace ourselves for tomorrow's need rather than simply today's. That is arguably how the f
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by akhmatova 5y ago
It's the kind of sentence that, to me at least, grinds my mental gears to a halt. This is the cortisone rush that tptacek was referring to. You need to let it go through you (or past you) until you feel your mental gears loosen up a
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by akhmatova 5y ago
This is sheer nonsense from the jump. No it's not. The basic point that was being quoted (from the NYT comment piece) was quite sensible actually. The OP author then immediately falls into the semantic trap of "right to express
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by akhmatova 5y ago
Sadly, alas -- not only are there plenty of ways that code written in typechecked/compiled languages can (despite these benefits) easily begin the irreversible slide into becoming unmaintainable (or otherwise high-maintenance) slop --