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by kikimora 5y ago
I think we are on the same page. A parent has a mental model of the world and the kid inside it. Based on this model the parent makes projections and take actions. The problem is this mental model which never the same between the parent and
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> In the first case, I still don't understand why you don't just mark their answer from creatively misinterpreted instructions wrong and move on with life. Because your job is to educate them. They also complain about the task
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I think is how it is supposed to be - parents making decisions for their kids using their best judgement (preferences). It is ok for kids to disagree when they grow. It is less ok to make a problem out of it. Most parents really try hard to
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by kikimora 5y ago
What happened in Putin’s Russia had happened in many other counties. What makes it special is large nuclear arsenal that makes Putin immune to an intervention. I won’t go into how much Russians are responsible if at all as this is just too
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by kikimora 5y ago
There is going to be big protest rally tomorrow and I’ll be there. My friends in police told me they are on full alert, even Putin’s guards (ФСО) will be on streets tomorrow. I don’t care. Many Russians are evil and full of Putin’s propagan
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by kikimora 5y ago
The divide is clearly between people who watch Tv and people who don’t. It happens that younger people watch less TV, and this is the only reason. You may be surprised how strong propaganda is. I spoke with quite a few people recently and i
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This is exactly what Russian government wants. It does not need this much Russians. It will be happy to have maybe 500 000 of them, just enough to pump oil and gas.
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You’ll be taken to a police dept by the first cop. Any form of protest is effectively banned. Sometimes with severe consequences.
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by kikimora 5y ago
Pardon my French but this is bullshit. Putin’s perverted logic goes like this - Ukrainian joins NATO, it establish missiles, Moscow in danger. The problem is Ukraine does not have to join NATO to have US missiles on its territory. Basic mil
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by kikimora 5y ago
I don’t find the level of resistance to be unusual. Ukraine have been at war since 2014, many people know how to fight and ready to fight. They have good reason to fight as well. On top of that they have good equipment provided by USA/
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by kikimora 5y ago
This is not about hardware failure but OS crashes and bugs that much more frequent.
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by kikimora 5y ago
Configuring cloud is likely more complicated than configuring a few VPS because its configuration interface designed for large scale deployments and corporate/government needs. Cloud scales, not just in terms of compute and storage cap
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by kikimora 5y ago
I don't see your point. You attack an outline of a system. Fun system will be complex and I won't describe it here in full. In the same way as today notary appointment procedure is complex and involve multiple organisations. I cla
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by kikimora 5y ago
Please see here, I dug some nice links specifically about how DVLA works. I think you don’t understand the process and how much manual work might be involved. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30062371
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by kikimora 5y ago
What you describe seems way more automated than what we have today in Russia. Still… > Literally nothing about buying a car involves actual people reviewing anything. It's all automated, it's all online. Who gives dealer access
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by kikimora 5y ago
A few years back I wanted to call then but didn’t find a number. How do you contact Google’s support?
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by kikimora 5y ago
Market makers likely know how thing works and react to a volatility spike. I wonder what was the traded volume during the event and how it matches normal order book disposition. If only retail orders left in the boom then there will be very
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by kikimora 5y ago
Last time I bought a car the process involved multiple people that was there only because of a centralized database. First of all I need a contract with a dealership, so there is a lawyer involved. Then I pay for a car (cashier) take my con
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by kikimora 5y ago
I would consider this to be a corner case, that does not disprove the point I made.
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> i dont know how to explain this to you but the only thing that blockchains replace are databases like mysql. This is just one half. The other half is blockchain and smart contracts also replace all the people involved in controlling ac
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by kikimora 5y ago
You got me, lawyers can stay :) But a bunch of clerks and middleman are out. Today the job of a middleman/clerk is to modify a centralized database in a regulated way. They got their licenses, exams, special education and so on. There
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by kikimora 5y ago
No, because courts can be elected by voting on the blockchain which gives society a way to control them. And voting on the chain (if implemented right) cannot be controlled that easily by a government. I’m all for the central database. To e
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The only reason why we have trusted middleman is because before bitcoin there was no scalable solution to Byzantine generals problem. Now we have it. Whenever this solution is better than having a central entity appointing middleman is rema
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Vote with your (imaginary) citizen token to appoint a notary. And have a right to vote against it at any time. With blockchain you can elect new notaries every day if this is how you want to manage it.
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How much taxpayers money goes into maintaining this database? Not sayin blockchain is a better solution but it can replace 99% of UK DVLA staff with an algorithm.
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You cannot get your hacked bitcoins back even if you are the government with police and army. Lots of things that government does can be replaced with a smart contract. Hey, you can even have direct democracy - vote with your citizen token
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The promise of blockchain is to eventually remove lawyers and all middleman. It can be done already with existing tech. I can easily imagine a smart contract managing property rights, another one managing mortgages, etc. And of course all t
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by kikimora 5y ago
Even if track time with their tool Upwork can take money back from you. I’ve witness the case where client paid $40k with Amex card and then chargeback. Poor freelancer lost $40k because Upwork took that money from his account as soon as it
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by kikimora 5y ago
This cryptocurrency rant is offtopic. Would it make a difference if Norton would install something that shows ads? As to your question - crypto is the new form of cash, different form every other forms we have known before. One exciting pro
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by kikimora 5y ago
> It can even be simple things, if I can now whiteboard virtually, and use my own hand writing on the board, and now I'm in another app, and I'd like to pull up that whiteboard I did? This is equivalent to say Slack letting you

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