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by gdy 5y ago
It's written publicly, so by definition it is written for everyone.
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by gdy 5y ago
What exactly is 'mature' about making a vague accusation, refusing to substantiate it and claiming that if the other side says anything it would be a lie?
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by gdy 5y ago
Tell that to Renault too.
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by gdy 5y ago
Apparently Germany sees Russia a smaller threat than the possibility of a nuclear incident at its aging nuclear plants.
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by gdy 5y ago
"NATO strategic adversary" That's not what NATO had been telling Russia when expanding into Eastern European and ex-USSR countries.
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by gdy 5y ago
I wonder what French think now about their cancelling of the Mistral deal with Russia [0] under American pressure [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral-class_amphibious_assau... [1] https://www.reut
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by gdy 5y ago
Oh, no, sorry, it's the same for everyone. I meant a year is how long they think one needs to use medication to avoid repetition of a heart attack, that was just an example. If one needs further help, one will get it.
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by gdy 5y ago
I honestly don't know
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by gdy 5y ago
Hi there! They only need be registered as unemployed. The law [0] is in Russian but Google Translate does a good job [1], see 5.d Free medical care in Russia is far from perfect, of course -- sometimes you have to wait for a month for an ul
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by gdy 5y ago
"There is no market for marginal improved, extremely overpriced medicine outside of pharma-marketing heavens." There is, in Russia for example. But the most expensive I could find (Tresiba) costs 12 usd per cartridge (3ml x 100 u
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by gdy 5y ago
In Russia all patients get their insulin for free thanks to mandatory health insurance (5.1% of your net salary additionally paid by employer). If for some reason you would want to buy insulin, it would cost you 2-12 usd per vial/cartr
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by gdy 5y ago
Yeah, right, that's why Russia joined WTO and is already at 28th place in the World Bank's Doing Business rating. [0] https://www.doingbusiness.org/en/data/exploreeconomies/russi...
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by gdy 5y ago
"Domestically in Russia, there is a sense of humiliation about losing the cold war and about the 90s." Perhaps to some extent. The reason for that is that the US took advantage of Russia's weakness in the 90s[0]. There was a
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by gdy 5y ago
"why didn't they take it back from Ukraine when they split up" Because the Ukraine didn't want to give it back and at that time using military force against Ukraine was unthinkable. "why did they wait until 2014 to
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by gdy 5y ago
"That's why people are concerned about Russia. It's not historical animosity. It's current behavior." You are turning this upside down. You are presenting Russia's reaction to NATO expansion as the reason for N
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by gdy 6y ago
"It is a hyperbole indeed" I'd say it was a lie.
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by gdy 6y ago
It does flow back. About half of the federal budget is formed from the taxes on natural resources. I think last time our military was used against Russian citizens was during Chechen wars. Another time was in 1993 when Eltsin used it to sh
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by gdy 6y ago
"I wouldn’t want to live in a country where nearly all your taxes get spent on building a palace and enforcing more police and military." I wouldn't want to have UKOS returned to the owners who got it dirt-cheap during '
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by gdy 6y ago
Maybe by 'human' they just meant 'sapient'?
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by gdy 6y ago
How on Earth is Russia an enemy of France? Sounds insane to me.
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by gdy 6y ago
"Along with gender, being human is a socially defined concept" This is priceless))
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by gdy 6y ago
Perhaps, they meant Lex Friedman's follow-up to the interview
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by gdy 6y ago
Hey, tell me what is your country and I'll tell you how many times I thoroughly nuked it while playing Civilization)
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by gdy 6y ago
It's a bit incorrect -- Soyuz is using Russian-made rendezvous system Kurs-NA since 2016. Ukrainian-made Kurs system is obsolete.
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by gdy 6y ago
It may come to you as a surprise, but for an outside observer, who hasn't been indoctrinated at school by the religion of American exceptionalism, the US might not be a very good example. Think of American military-industrial complex t
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by gdy 6y ago
0.05$ per kW*h in Russia.
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by gdy 6y ago
Oh, right, haven't read that far :) Sorry)
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by gdy 6y ago
"unsuspecting bystanders" What about civilians killed by Saudi Arabia with American-made cluster bombs?[0] Do they count? [0] https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/05/06/yemen-saudis-using-us-cl...
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by gdy 6y ago
"they've never threatened nuking anyone" Not quite the same, but anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option
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by gdy 6y ago
Because another "theocratic government that refuses to conform to international expectations" (The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) is not under sanctions? Because in reality all countries except the US are content with the nuclear deal

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