foverzar

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by foverzar 4y ago
Always has been.
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by foverzar 4y ago
Why? It's actually much closer to a classical democracy. Remember that "dēmos" was never the same thing as the "óxlos".
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by foverzar 4y ago
Wow, what a rant. You don't really travel much, do you? Given that you srsly experience the world through "countries subreddits". JFYI, Reddit is something rather obscure in ex-soviet states, especially to non-teens. Sorry, b
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by foverzar 4y ago
Right? Things like fast inverse square root feel like total black magic.
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by foverzar 4y ago
Wouldn't inflation actually be much more harmful for a loan-based economy like the US?
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by foverzar 4y ago
> if West can run quantitative easing for 15 years, why not Russia? Is it the West or specifically the US. United States can do this because of the dollar's role in global economy: essentially everyone else will be paying for it. Ob
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by foverzar 4y ago
> They will fight between them with their remaining soviet weapons Says who? They can just as well harass non-Russian neighbouring states. Or quite likely form some kind of > since they are not competent to fight any large country Tha
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by foverzar 4y ago
> They fly bombers into their airspaces (oops), deploys military manoeuvres at their borders, rambles about aiming their nukes at the capital cities. Your argument would be valid, if this was something exclusive to Russia, and not a comm
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by foverzar 4y ago
> It would be so fun to be in IT in Russia right now Yep, that's me. > Software and film piracy is now completely legal No it isn't, sadly. The one immediately good thing I had hoped to happen out of all this mess, sadly did
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by foverzar 4y ago
> The Russian economy peaked in 2013 and has been going down hill since then Do you have anything substantial to back this claim? Cuz to me (actually living in Russia) it seems like exactly the opposite - the economy had been slowly deco
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by foverzar 4y ago
I dunno, we had a terrible experience with Go nils at my current job: - It's super-easy to create a situation where some some obscure code fragment can cause a panic and crash the whole app due to nil pointer access, especially in mult
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by foverzar 4y ago
> I found that defaulting to everything non-nullable (there is a setting in these tools which should be the default, implicit nullable or non-nullable) and providing the few places where you want to use null explicitly gives you effectiv
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by foverzar 4y ago
> where it's easy to harvest Are we already capable of harnessing enough to power anything actually serious and industrial, rather than a small household with some consumer electronics and lightbulbs somewhere like California, where
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by foverzar 4y ago
> BTW, the column that I interpreted as "indoor plumbing" in the Rosstat document that I linked was "водопроводом". To me it means plumbing... "Водопровод" is "water supply", not "plumbing&quo
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by foverzar 4y ago
> But the main point is, that's why doctors shouldn't do these assignments Do they ACTUALLY do them, though? I've read about some freakish case when a child was mutilated during circumcision, and the doctor had advised to
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by foverzar 4y ago
Ok, 50% of NS2 had exploded, and the German government doesn't consider the only remaining pipe to be safe: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/nord-stream-2-berlin-glaub... More pedantic, but doesn't change my
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by foverzar 4y ago
> There are lots of kids born with ambiguous & differing genitals where parents & doctors make an assignment for that kid outside the womb. This sounds suspicious. I don't really believe that the ambiguity is actually that a
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by foverzar 4y ago
Even in your analogy no one bothers with quantum physics outside it's specific scope.
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by foverzar 4y ago
> The first LNG terminal has just been built (using a ship-based terminal I think, so somewhat different than a completely land-based LNG terminal). Are you implying that LNG carriers are even remotely comparable in terms of economy and
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by foverzar 4y ago
> You really haven't paid attention to anything Russia's done for the last 20 years, have you? > They love letting the west know they can "touch" us while maintaining plausible deniability... This is just a feeling
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by foverzar 4y ago
No risk of Germany making deals with Russians + demand for American "molecules of freedom". > Making Europe enemies instead of allies? Oh please, who in Europe would even dare to shift the narrative towards regarding US as an e
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by foverzar 4y ago
Everything people don't like is Kremlin propaganda these days, even when you cite Radio Free Europe.
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by foverzar 4y ago
> The language "trouble surviving the winter" plainly suggests massive numbers of Germans freezing to death You are arguing semantics of specific words people use in informal internet conversations, which is pointless. There is
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Currently gas storage is at 100% in Germany > And this is with a blown up pipeline. Most of the storage was filled when the pipeline was operational and pumping gas at full capacity (what did you think they were filling it with?). I
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by foverzar 4y ago
I'm pretty sure you yourself have a really vague understanding of Russian oligarchs and their power, if you bring them up in this context. They don't really influence the big politics. Not for the last 20 years or so, at least. Se
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by foverzar 4y ago
> they made it even more obvious that the only route for gas would be NS2, by blowing NS1. Except NS2 had also exploded. Even if it didn't, can you explain the purpose of this all? What is there to be gained? NS1 had bigger capacity
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Perhaps it's a muscular display of their power in the field of energy. The mere fact that you use "perhaps" and have to imagine an interpretation for what could or could not be regarded as a vague signal, tells us that i
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Russia has the most to gain because they'll simply sell the natural gas to Asia or through another pipeline No, not really, how do you suppose this would work? There is a pipeline A to Europe, and pipeline B to Asia. Both operatio
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by foverzar 4y ago
> "I see zero reasons why Russia would attack its own infrastructure" only points at one's lack of imagination or intellectual honesty really. Imagination can help one paint any kind of picture in their head indeed, but ma
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by foverzar 4y ago
Are you reading Russian news directly, or do you rely on someone to report them to you? It was a hot topic in Russian media outlets.

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