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by akrymski 5y ago
I am Russian, and I know some billionaires ("oligarchs"). They don't spend much time in Russia and don't support Putin in any way. More than anyone they realise how fucked up the regime is, which is why they stash money
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by akrymski 5y ago
Social media is mostly banned. Posting anything online against the war is a 15 year jail sentence.
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by akrymski 5y ago
I follow russian anti-war channels where people share videos of protestors. Numbers are very small I'm afraid (more cops than protestors).
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by akrymski 5y ago
Or maybe he actually doesn't want to kill the civilians but wants to overthrow the government that he believes is targeting Russians in Eastern Ukraine and wishes to deploy US missiles on Russian borders? I don't think we can find
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by akrymski 5y ago
Most definitely. And I believe that was the option Putin proposed to Zelensky, as long as he agrees to not join NATO.
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by akrymski 5y ago
Yanukovich had far less support and had opposition. Ukraine's military presence was a fraction of Russia's. Already more Russians have been arrested in protests so far this week than in Maidan, but unless millions rise up it&#x2
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by akrymski 5y ago
There is a very small number of protesters. We'd need a million people to rise up in Moscow alone to make a difference. Putin has too much support among his voters atm. And the iron curtain only solidifies his propaganda machine.
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by akrymski 5y ago
Tell that to Stalin
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by akrymski 5y ago
Sure, but the sanctions are aimed at the rich businessmen not military leaders (who aren't necessarily all that rich). Eg Khadorkovsky was the richest oligarch of Russia, has been jailed and became a major opponent of Putin. Wonder wh
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by akrymski 5y ago
I'm 100% against the war, but the American hypocrisy here is next level. This isn't an ethnic genocide. Had Putin wanted to kill civilians you wouldn't have 100s of deaths but millions like in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just like
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by akrymski 5y ago
Except you get 3-15 years in jail for protesting in Russia.
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by akrymski 5y ago
Oligarchs don't run the country. They have zero control. It's like saying let's sanction Elon Musk for Iraq. The country is run by the military. Protesters are jailed for 3-5 years.
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by akrymski 5y ago
Oligarchs don't run the country. They have zero control. It's like saying let's sanction Elon Musk for Iraq. The country is run by the military. Protesters are jailed for 3-5 years. Cornering a dictator with a nuke is the st
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Gas Flows from Russia Ramp Up(bloomberg.com)
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Predictions (2016)(lemire.me)
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Abortion pill is impossible to get(archive.ph)
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Wall Street to Become America’s Landlord(archive.ph)
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by akrymski 5y ago
There is a point at which a redundant array of inexpensive and unreliable replicas is more durable than a single drive. Even N in-memory databases spread across the world is more durable than a single one with fsync. Unfortunately few data
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by akrymski 5y ago
Another thing to consider is pluggable storage (a key/value interface) and pluggable query language (relational algebra interface?) and how to fit the two together.
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by akrymski 5y ago
1) Indeed you should only use mmap for reads afaik 2) Was thinking more of an event-sourcing model, whereby you log the SQL statements first, then update a B-Tree in the background. Read via mmap, write by appending to a log and asynchronou
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by akrymski 5y ago
Great work. I'm not an expert in database internals, but maybe someone can help answer some of these: - Why not just use mmap and let the OS handle page caching? - Why not use a write-ahead-log for all writes, with a background thread
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by akrymski 5y ago
Got a Huawei Mateview recently - 28.2", 4K+, 3:2 aspect ratio, USB-C charging, £500! Fantastic monitor with a great feature set. Retina screen similar to M1 Macbook quality, can barely tell the difference. Looks just like the Apple
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by akrymski 5y ago
Why not use hydrogen instead of heavy batteries? Why not use jet engines instead of propellers?
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by akrymski 5y ago
Just because you've written a blog post or some code doesn't make you an "entrepreneur". Pretty sure AirBnB founders haven't written a line of code for example. Creating a business is largely about sales: selling y
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by akrymski 5y ago
Looking at Compound since it's DeFi [1] the rate is 2.6% CeFi platforms like Celsius or BlockFi can offer more, but they are just as risky as any unregulated sub-prime lender in a third-world country (eg micro-lending institutions can
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by akrymski 5y ago
There's no free lunch. Returns on lending stablecoins are ~ 2X higher than a 5-year treasury bond atm because the risk is 2X higher that Circle/Tether will default vs the US-government over the next 5 years. Stablecoin returns ar
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by akrymski 5y ago
This approach works best for SPAs / web apps, but is there a reason not to use HTML5 History API these days?
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by akrymski 5y ago
yup, I've used this https://github.com/remy/inliner
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by akrymski 5y ago
Probably the coolest trick I've seen is inlining everything into a single HTML file: JS, CSS, images, icons and fonts. One single large request seems to work much better than loads of small ones.
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by akrymski 5y ago
Google will only get worse with time because the core idea of PageRank relies on honest linking. Google saw the web before link farms were a thing, which allowed it to compute authority from a clean graph. As time passes and linking become

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