dunkelheit

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by dunkelheit 5y ago
> Many companies, like Netflix, are suspending services because they have no way of getting paid anymore. As of this week, Russians don't have credit cards or convertible currency anymore. That's not true. International payment
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
Your comment is a bit historically illiterate with respect to World War I. All of the fighting was done by the Russian Empire, the Soviets by contrast immediately signed a disadvantageous peace treaty ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
> IMO the best reasonable outcome I see for this war is for Russia to annex the Donbas, and possibly the Azov coast. Ukraine will commit to neutrality from NATO and no missiles, but leave open the possibility to join the EU as an economi
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
Many boycotts in the current round don't make any rational sense. It is all emotional reaction and desire not to be seen as collaborators.
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
> Twitter is also a source of claims that civilian objects are out of bounds for the conflict. Well it proved to be an evidence of not being the case. This claim could be true, but outdated.
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
> “Most of the information on this topic is crap.” “What do you mean by that?” Crade demanded. We all looked at him, because in an instant he had become markedly defensive. Sammann raised his eyes from the screen of the jeejah and gazed
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
This works only to a degree. Reserving judgment can't entirely stop emotional reaction which is the target of many of these info nuggets. Also, it can be really hard to notice that you are in an echo chamber, when e.g. you see a highly
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
The only reason why this is not happening is that there is more than one such "federation" currently and no one is unquestionably stronger. And at no point in history had a stronger faction submitted to the will of a weaker factio
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
Indeed. Though I think this is the measure of last resort for them. Right now they announced a very steep base rate hike and ordered exporters to sell 80% of inbound currency and these measures seem to be working - ruble rebounded from the
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
USD savings accounts are accessible to everybody with a bank account and pretty popular. Although recently less so, because interest rates dropped to almost zero.
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
Yesterday I was at a local branch of my bank. There was a queue (~5 people), but the ATMs worked and the cash was plentiful, no unusual withdrawal limits. Photos are probably not fake, because the demand for cash is obviously there and some
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
> There were reports (hard to verify obviously) over the weekend that places like jewelry stores were busy as people were trying to change their rubles to a hard asset. This is business as usual in a currency crunch. Already happened twi
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
Thanks. This is advocating total cyberwar. This isn't going to be pretty for anyone.
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
> Perhaps that is even the right thing to do. Interesting discussion, I personally don't think so. Truth is important. If one claims some kind of moral high ground, it is important to base one's actions on accurate information
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
No official info from Roscomnadzor, and I wouldn't expect them to be shy about announcing it (in fact they already throttled twitter a few months ago).
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
Indeed. This is war and at war nobody is interested in telling truth - that would only help the enemy. So far Ukrainians have been really good at propaganda, churning out high-quality memes at a good cadence and achieving almost total &quot
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
Works for me...
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
> Access to healthcare might be an answer. (Probably not the only answer though, but likely other answers will be aligned similarly) I wonder how much of this is explained by the obesity epidemic. And this isn't something that is so
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
Are those directly comparable though? From what horrors I have heard of the US healthcare system, one can easily pay $5000 for a procedure that someone in my country can easily get just by walking into a private clinic and paying $50 out of
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
This is kind of what Hanson is angling at. As I understand it, his thesis is that outside of obvious emergency stuff like infections, tumors, broken bones and such most health impact comes from lifestyle variables such as diet, physical act
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
> Built-in replication without the need to run Zookeeper, with multi-tier sharding support. They rewrite the ZK protocol using multi-paxos within CH itself. It's great. AFAIK this description is kind of misleading. When they say tha
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
It is nice when a program can be significantly sped up by a local change like that but this is not always the case. To go truly fast, you need to unleash the full potential of the hardware and doing it can require re-architecting the system
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
I actually have a lot of respect for old school game programmers because they have two traits that many of us who develop mainstream commercial software often lack: a) they care about performance and not in the abstract, but performance as
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
We left the exact same comment :)
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
There is quite a lot about DBMS history in the Red Book and references therein: http://www.redbook.io/index.html For the history of data model proposals in particular, there is this paper: https://scholar.google.
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
The answer is status. Most developers are (despite being comparatively well-paid) quite low-status: people tell them what to do all the time and they are expected to comply. By contrast CEO is pretty much the top of the status pole. It is n
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
> There is no user representation at any $techco. The future of everything is being architected by closed door committee, free from competing ideas. "User representation" sounds nice, but I wonder how that would work in practic
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
I think it is important not to demonize Facebook too much. I'm no fan of them, but I guess they don't really care about what people read on their feeds, as long as they are glued to their phones and clicking on ads 24/7. Sure
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
I remember a pretty similar dialogue that I had with a PM once, it went like this: PM: so what is your estimate for this feature? Me: 4 weeks to prod. PM: hmmm, that looks like a lot for a small task that is also very important for us, mayb
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by dunkelheit 5y ago
> SAY NO TO URGENT ONE-OFF REQUESTS FROM MANAGEMENT!!! The thing is, saying no to requests from management (if it is your management of course) is going to hurt your career prospects too. Instead you should say "sure, but this thi

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