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by f6v 4y ago
> Of course, Crimea issue is just another example of conflict of “territorial integrity“ vs “right to self determination” principles. World needs more formal rules. This is the key point that most people overlook. There’s a lack of consi
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by f6v 4y ago
> Not sure what else you want? This is truly tragic, I feel for civilians. As an EU resident, I want the EU to take actionable steps and achieve peace. Alas, I don’t see it happening. Everything that’s been done only led to escalation. P
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by f6v 4y ago
> But, you are ignoring the fact that Crimea did not decide to secede but that Russian soldiers I’m not so desperate to pick a side here. It’s absolutely right that Crimean secession wouldn’t be possible without Russian military interven
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by f6v 4y ago
Comparing the data from Ukrainian ministry of finance for late 2013 and late 2021, the average salary is about the same when accounting for UAH/USD exchange rates and inflation.
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by f6v 4y ago
> clearly a fascist state I think everyone is very confused with what “fascist” means. Some say not having a gender-neural bathroom is “fascist”. But anyway, it seems you’re very set on not liking someone, so it’s better to leave you alo
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by f6v 4y ago
What’s fascist is to ignore what people living in some place think about it.
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by f6v 4y ago
> This 'westernization' process started to slowly make Ukraine richer. I don’t think Ukraine reached even the pre-2014 prosperity levels by February 2022. You need to separate wishful thinking and hard data.
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by f6v 4y ago
> occupying Crimea > the West failed to react appropriately at that time As someone born in Crimea I always failed to understand why it’s the West’s business.
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by f6v 4y ago
> ISG formed a special working group to investigate and consider these claims. Charles Duelfer, head of inspectorate at time of publication, summarized the group's conclusion: "Based on the evidence available at present, ISG ju
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by f6v 4y ago
China is definitely not a “planned economy” in a sense that you meant it. Also, every economy is planned in some sense. Every government plans how much it’s going to make and spend.
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by f6v 4y ago
Have you lived there?
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by f6v 4y ago
You forgot the /s tag.
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by f6v 4y ago
> Saddam was a dick, and now he's gone Yes, but you also need to not support other dicks. Like, why are saudis bombing weddings in Yemen? And for how many years now? They still have Patriots “guarding” their airspace(yes, Iranian dr
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by f6v 4y ago
> Oh, you bought booze and chocolates yesterday? You're getting fat and drunk, your health insurance just went up I mean, you’re exaggerating. But yes, I’d like obese people to pay more for insurance. Also, if government thinks booz
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by f6v 4y ago
> the US builds soft power by being a reliable ally (when we commit) against a world full of active hostile powers. Still waiting for the US to provide evidence of WMD in Iraq. /s Sorry, I can’t stand hypocrisy.
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by f6v 4y ago
I don’t see an issue. The government already knows how much I earn, where I live, etc.
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by f6v 4y ago
Although not in euro, but Denmark has MobilePay that’s instant.
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As iOS user I couldn’t care less if it was.
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by f6v 4y ago
I don’t know if this can be implemented but I wish it was. I have the Word app on iOS. Now, a citation manager like Zotero could allow importing references into Word through this API. You click a button in Word and that brings up a dialog f
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by f6v 4y ago
It doesn’t have to be affected more, just diagnostics in US might be better. People in outer parts of the world might not be getting diagnosed and cared for.
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by f6v 4y ago
> is it even realistic to have a 9-5 kind of structure in IT/software dev field Absolutely, at least in Europe. Not everywhere, be wary of “we’re family” and “hustle” types.
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by f6v 4y ago
I’m really interested to hear the story of joining a company as a CTO on a below-market salary and no shares.
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by f6v 4y ago
That’s the entry-level device in the latest Apple generation. It’s not a low-end phone, but it’s not high-end either.
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by f6v 4y ago
You’re right, but a base iPhone for 1000+ EUR is crazy.
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by f6v 4y ago
It’s often money. I’d run dozens of experiments, but some reason Forbes top 100 don’t want in the queue in front of the lab. But also, there might be lack of results beyond that time point.
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by f6v 4y ago
Ukraine is not in EU and shouldn’t be there.
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by f6v 4y ago
> I assume this should be good for EU economy on the long run? If they could produce and export a lot of stuff. But that requires energy. At the current energy prices- forget it.
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by f6v 4y ago
My first question is how to pronounce assaia. Second: I had an impression that production hardware is air-gapped. I assume it’s not really the case?
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by f6v 4y ago
I also use the word “retarded” without reservations, so can’t answer. To me it has nothing to do with clinically ill people. Rather, those who are retarded by choice.
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by f6v 4y ago
> each of the major variants seems to evade the vaccine of the last major variant I think that COVID vaccines aren’t variant-specific.

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