golergka

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by golergka 2y ago
Telling apart roman republic, principate and dominate is middle school stuff. Surely, we can expect that level of knowledge from a pop-sci journalist?
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by golergka 2y ago
You would be surprised. Criminals are not the smartest of people.
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by golergka 2y ago
Whenever I see outliers like Luxembourg in these stats, I wonder if there's something fishy with taxes and/or accounting going on there. Or may be just citizens of neighboring countries going shopping to Luxembourg for tax-related
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by golergka 2y ago
> During the late Roman Empire, rulers like Julius Caesar Caesar didn't rule in “late” Roman Empire — in fact, he didn't get to see the empire at all, since the first emperor was his successor, Augustus.
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by golergka 2y ago
Whatever the incentives, they already decided to include DEI commitments into their obligations to shareholders.
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by golergka 2y ago
I think the point of this case is that they don't have to be moral at all. They penalise the company for doing bad things not because they think it's bad, but because they have financial incentive to do so.
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by golergka 2y ago
Crowdstrike is a verb too now.
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by golergka 2y ago
Also, making an excavator look like fighter jet cockpit: https://news.lgdisplay.com/en/2022/01/rising-potential-of-tr...
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by golergka 2y ago
How many of these experiences included bullying, fighting and abusing each other? Kids are not kind.
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by golergka 2y ago
I just love how a world-class quantum computer scientist who just made a discovery that just blows up everything known to mankind is up to the very end is worried about missing a bus.
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by golergka 2y ago
> Creating needs was an effective strategy—"look, you didn't know you needed this before, but now you know you want this product!". That's how literally every innovation works. Do you think that fridges that save your
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by golergka 2y ago
Well, center of Moscow and any other city are basically different countries in terms of quality of life and all other first-world stuff.
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by golergka 2y ago
Empanadas are basically the same as pirogi, and pineapple empanadas are delicious.
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by golergka 2y ago
Not unnecessary, but an unattainable luxury. Industrially produced and available ingredients in Soviet union were a world away from mozzarella, good tomato sauce and bay leaves you may want for the simplest pizza. If you wanted to get your
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by golergka 2y ago
In Moscow 10 years ago you could get any kind of pizza. Classic Italian thin pizza, american thick, deep dish Chicago style, super thin and crunchy New York style, Roman square pizza.
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by golergka 2y ago
Yes. Milk was often not available, condensed milk was used instead, and its not something you can make cheese out from.
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by golergka 2y ago
Most of national Russian cuisine have simply disappeared in Soviet union, only with a few simplified recipes remaining of it.
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by golergka 2y ago
Do you think it was deliberate or just a general reaction to an uncaught exception somewhere in the ad part of the app?
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by golergka 2y ago
Reminds me of a similar story where 5 military men were on ground zero underneath an aerial nuclear detonation to prove its safety. https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/07/16/156851175/f..
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by golergka 2y ago
Because if you cut prices, you'll get a larger share of the market. So even if you make less profit per unit, you make a larger profit overall. Also, as you scale, some costs stay fixed, so your costs per unit might go down as well.
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by golergka 2y ago
Security through obscurity is fragile. Strength in numbers — less so.
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by golergka 2y ago
What's odd about this? Both a good things worth applauding to.
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by golergka 2y ago
And just like that, another GPT-4 wrapper startup was born.
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by golergka 2y ago
I think the author misses one of the main advantages of react: transformation of application state into ui is a pure function. I've worked with a lot of different UI frameworks (mostly in gamedev) before switching to web development, a
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by golergka 2y ago
> You know, before 1945 it was said in Europe that Jews weren't able to integrate fully with the host society. One might ask: Was that the Jews' fault? Or the host society's fault? Which Jews? Ultraorthodox don't inte
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by golergka 2y ago
In a sense, it looks like these insurance company's policies work a little bit like regulation. Except that it's not monopolistic (different companies are free to have different rules), and when shit hits the fan, they actually ha
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by golergka 2y ago
Not exactly. Nastoikas are vodkas and other similar strong spirits infused with different aromas after distillation. You could buy a vodka bottle from the store and make a nastika at home from it. Rakia is a strong spirit which is distilled
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by golergka 2y ago
> color space is 2D Human eyes have three different color receptors, each tuned for it's own frequency, so it's already 3d. However, apart from human perception, color, just like sound, can have any combinations of frequencies
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by golergka 2y ago
I went to math high school which was the most prestigious one in Russia at the time. Most of math class graduates would go to study math at the uni, and for the first year would be far ahead of their coursemates — but then would be hit by t
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by golergka 2y ago
Algorithm questions are overrated, but asking a real life question where a naive solution is n^2 but basic knowledge of standard tools brings it down to log n is always a good idea.

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