guard-of-terra

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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Легко закрывать глаза, легко выдыхать воздух, Всё то, что я хотела сказать - сказала, пока не поздно!
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
If you lie about people long enough eventually you'll notice that they hate you.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
> violent series of pogroms > undertaken by the Czarist government This is a very serious claim right here. Any concrete data on "Czarist government" undertaking pogroms? The whole discourse right here reeks of 60's uni
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Olympics was about bringing the world together. I would say it fails today, because now most troubled countries don't care about sport. But anyway, permanent location for Olympics will defeat that idea for good and will turn Olympics i
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
There exist some SF set in Strong Heaven, but it's mostly written in Russian :)
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Men are twice as stronger on certain operations - for example, grip by hand. That's a lot of biological basis, which nevertheless is much less relevant today.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
How is it any different compared to software wallet?
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Your private keys have limited attack surface, especially if they're in cold storage. However, your banking account has unlimited attack surface. It's on some remote information system that you do not control and never will. As I
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Someone steals the control of your banking account, they take everything and there's no way of getting those money back. Credit cards are peculiar in this regard.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Law is code until well connected people need a bailout.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
In a centralized system, sometimes people can help you get your money back, but it is also possible that they'll help taking money away from you. "Spirit of contract" is usually taking money from less well-connected and award
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
> how superior centralized systems are Tell us? Because around here, I saw a huge number of bank fraud basically unpunished. "Yes those guys duplicated your SIM and stole all your funds. Too bad for you since we're not going to
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
How fast is that? What's the latency for initiating communication and the roundtrip after the communication is initiated? Because it always irks me with bluetooth and wi-fi, why does it takes ages to connect? Why not 100 msec? Is it Po
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
> It's a long-lasting grievance that could perhaps be eased by some diplomacy > There is little practical incentive for either Latvia or Russia to soften first Let me try to understand. Latvia calls some of its citizens "non
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
You've just highlighted the sort of reward that you get for the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove the Soviet regime and freeing the world from Nuclear War fears and offsetting the Doomsday Clock by full 11 minutes.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
> and "occupants" (Russian speaking people) Who you also consider "non-citizens"[1], but not in the sense that they're citizens of some other state, you just refuse part of country's population of some citiz
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
I really liked throwing frisbee, unfortunately these days I have neither place nor company to do this.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
It seems that copy paste from book and the insertion of copyright violation banner were made in the same edit. Why on earth?
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
We're in XXI century, so I think it's trivial to make your company international if you ever have something to gain from it. > can not work offsite Can you elaborate what's officially permitted and what is not? Because wik
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
I thoroughly hate the idea of exercise. It's when you are pretending that you're accomplishing something that requires physical load, while in reality doing nothing. This whole busy work is so mind-bogglingly boring. I would rathe
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
My co-workers raised a note that H1B no longer relevant so much for the purpose described in headline. It's much easier to bring workers on L visa - they have even less opportunity to skip jobs or aruge for a raise than H1B holders, an
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Umm, CA 101 southeastward from San Jose? You can build a lot of apartment complexes 9 stores high on both sides of Caltrain, add more stations and trains, and here you go. You can also try building on inland hills. Look at Singapore or Haif
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Why is it revenge if passed as a law? Indeed, recent years by Putin, Erdogan and Obama show that you can pass a lot of things as a law and everybody has to comply. To any kind of insane dung! Unfortunately, not. Because in my culture, the c
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
How would you ever persuade people to respect principles underlying the law when you fail to punish people who are the law? Modern justice is all like this: We know this guy perpetrated, but it was some time ago and he's well connected
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
That's the sort of capital banks will happily lend to you.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhzKVdSnPmg Live coverage. They say situation is better now that drain is sufficient.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
I don't know about such a fiction but I guess that would be it. If we are persistent and unforgetting, this might become a reality one day. We should find "such people" in every generation and make sure they don't have a
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
You see, 35 years ago you signed this order on d'tention over hard drive 'ncryption? That's unconst'tutional, you know. Here we've got the relevant law. So now we have to w'draw a 35 years worth of pay that you
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
The people who do this now will become old and helpless to, and it is our purpose to forget nothing and make sure their final years are thoroughly ruined.
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by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Никогда ещё Штирлиц[1] не был так близок к провалу. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stierlitz

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