john_moscow

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by john_moscow 4y ago
Except for having to change tires, oil and brake pads earlier, and also having to deal with more mechanical issues due to sheer mileage.
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Well, yes it is. And it works just fine on the "mom and pop shop" scale. But the whole idea of the post-2008 startups is to "disrupt" the industry by replacing the knowledgeable people with algorithms and minimum wage em
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Efficiently handling large text files requires extra special care. ~2x memory looks like a naive implementation of just allocating an std::string from heap for each line. Due to heap fragmentation and various overhead it would quickly blow
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Well, they don't. The toxic positivity is the product and the investors are the customers.
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by john_moscow 5y ago
>You can tell them what they are doing well, what they aren't doing well, praise good employees and criticize bad managers. You can do that over a beer or two with the (ex-)colleagues any time before or after you leave. It's no
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Such things are indicative of the general zeitgeist in the society. If most people were hard workers, knowing how to count money and expected accountability, you would see more sentencing for embezzlement and nobody would care about some ra
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Curious, does something change after the first year/warranty runs out? I've bought one from Costco, never connected it to Internet and am using it as a big HDMI display. Aside from the brief prompt to accept the privacy policy whe
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Coincidentally, Russia's history for censorship starts with banning the popular-back-then neo-nazi party[0]. 20 years later, you get a prison sentence for questioning the "special military operation in the Ukraine". But no, t
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by john_moscow 5y ago
>Complete disaster for his future and really a shot to his otherwise happy and optimistic life. It depends. Imagine what if he got accepted only to be taught that his caring father (and the sole fact of having a father) is a "privil
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by john_moscow 5y ago
>Try on some shoes.... Imagine putting 30 years of high taxes into a state as a high earner and business owner (that's me). Then imagine that your almamater doesn't accept your kid when your kid is, in fact, a lot smarter than
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Ukraine is a victim of an aging dictator that lost his marbles. A dictator that accomplished his goals within Russia without any opposition, got bored, and decided to play a rather bloody chess game geopolitically. That said, it started wit
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by john_moscow 5y ago
The actual sanctions imposed by actual governments do make sense - they target specific companies and oligarchs, attempting to incentivize them to ditch Putin. The rest is just virtue signaling. People feel that they need to do something, s
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Price controls shift the pain point from the price to availability. USSR had planned economy and fixed prices for most merchandise, but you had to call in favors to "procure" many wanted items from buddies working near the supply
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by john_moscow 5y ago
For context, Russia has a special government service [0] dedicated to censoring the websites they don't like. They maintain a list of blocked IP addresses, and the Russian ISPs are forced to block access to these, or face revocation of
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Vladimir Putin is an ex-KGB officer. The country has a system for monitoring all phone communications, and the major email providers are affiliated with the state. Also, 100% of the media is spinning the "we're liberating Ukraine
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Dude, they lock you in Russia up if you protest too much. Russia is a full-blown dictatorship now with Internet censorship, state-operated propaganda and other bells'n'whistles.
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Well, it's deeper than it seems. You cannot just start revoking random people's citizenship for being relatives of the loosely defined bad guys. That's the straight route to turning your own country into a 3rd-world dictators
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by john_moscow 5y ago
The West is weak. It is used to solving problems on paper (2008 crisis, Pandemic-time money printing) and hoping that it will somehow pan out. The tolerance for getting out of your comfort zone is near zero. The politicians will toss out a
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by john_moscow 5y ago
As someone who's been tracking Russian politics due to being born there some time ago, the recent wave of sanctions are starting to have a rather undesired effect. Roughly since 2008 (Georgian war), Russia has been actively cutting man
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by john_moscow 5y ago
I actually looked into the incident with the donor's account being frozen. From what I could understand: 1. The person made a donation to the Freedom Convoy. 2. Trudeau signed the Emergencies Act, giving rather broad power to freeze ba
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by john_moscow 5y ago
>We don’t yet know how wide the government and the banks will cast their electronic dragnet, but the potential reach is enormous, which means the potential for overreach is significant. This is exactly what they did in Russia. If you con
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Or it merely enters a power-saving mode once the oxygen levels drop, survivable or not.
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by john_moscow 5y ago
In other words, the organizers managed to agree between themselves and come up with reasonable demands, but the government showed complete unwillingness to reason. So Benjamin Dichter showed himself as a better diplomat than Justin Trudeau.
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by john_moscow 5y ago
The linked video has ~750K views and features Benjamin Dichter, one of the 3 convoy leaders, outlining 2 very realistic demands: 1. Abolish federal vaccine mandates for border crossing. 2. Abolish ArriveCAN - the app used to track health&#x
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by john_moscow 5y ago
As someone who was born in the USSR and spent considerable effort trying to figure out why the West made it so much better, I think this is very superficial. Bank accounts are being frozen because currently it is an efficient way to insti
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by john_moscow 5y ago
>Aside from a billion dollars+ in trade blocked when the protest -- having achieved nothing terrorizing the residents of Ottawa and blasting horns/setting off fireworks around the clock I don't think, it is entirely fair to bla
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by john_moscow 5y ago
Well, as a first generation immigrant myself, I myself completely oppose the current policy of stuffing an increasing amount of newcomers into the same infrastructure, same overcrowded cities same number of hospital beds, etc. This is a rac
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by john_moscow 5y ago
This sort of highlights how the dividing mechanism works. You pick a group of people known for some fairly reasonable (asking to end mandates that have little effect given the ~90% vaccination rate anyway) and other unreasonable (blocking h
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by john_moscow 5y ago
This makes me wonder. Google has been known for a while to ban accounts semi-randomly with very vague excuses and no recourse, so people would lose access to gmail and other services. Is Microsoft going to do the same? "Sorry, we spott
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by john_moscow 5y ago
>I dunno, getting inspired and copying all the ideas, deciding that they can do a good enough job internally instead of hiring Keivan doesn’t sound like a bad thing in and of itself. It just completely kills the motivation to make any ki

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