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by krn 7y ago
> through Baltic banks, including at least one in Lithuania Just to clarify: The Russian Laundromat mostly relied on the banks from Latvia and Estonia[1], the two EU countries with the largest Russian population. The only banks which par
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by krn 7y ago
> That such financial regulation is being politically decided It's not being politically decided, but multiple senior members of the parlament in the committee on Budget and Finance have publicly expressed their concerns. I agree th
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by krn 7y ago
A Lithuanian here. > But Lithuania has a sizable Russian population [1]. It's also a small country. The Russian population (5%) is a tiny minority here, not represented by any political party in the parlament. It's much bigger
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by krn 7y ago
Revolut received its banking license from Lithuania in December 2018, but hasn't switched its customers over yet. After the family connection with Gazprom became public, Lithuania started considering revoking the license, and Revolut a
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by krn 7y ago
The CFO resigned only after the documents passed to The Telegraph by a whistleblower showed that for three months in 2018 Revolut switched off an automated system designed to stop dubious money transfers[1]. [1] https://www.tel
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by krn 7y ago
> Also, apparently the declined transaction shows up, but it takes a while. I have had multiple times when the most recent transaction showed up only after restarting the Revolut app.
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by krn 7y ago
I assume he was better than an average programmer, since he was responsible for designing Excel Basic at Microsoft. I think the very best programmers keep coding in their 40s and 50s, because there is simply nothing they could be better at.
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by krn 7y ago
I believe there are many great developers who refuse other positions and still code in their 50s, but an average developer in his 30s could be better than an average developer in his 50s, because many successful developers might transition
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by krn 7y ago
> Brave is built upon Electron, which is built upon Chromium (not Chrome). Brave has been built directly upon Chromium since December 2018[1]. [1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3328781/brave-browser-...
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by krn 7y ago
> I'm less convinced that age has anything to do with good outcomes these days as is the discipline to do the responsible things, regardless of how little we wish to do those things. The age might also act as a filter, since the bes
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by krn 7y ago
> I think the only reason they were hated was due to being popular and somehow offending or scaring someone in power. The idea of not being the highest authority to the people is the scariest thing to any authoritarian power. That&#x27
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by krn 7y ago
> Accounts are verified with government-issued ID, so you know people are who they say they are. Facebook and WhatsApp account information are also used when available to verify identity and prevent fraud. What could be a bigger achievem
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One of the World’s Greatest Art Collections Hides Behind This Fence (2016)(nytimes.com)
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by krn 7y ago
> I would need to start storing them in a "traditional" database, introducing additional layers, serialization, overhead and bugs. If the app state is stored in a single atom, I would use localForage[1] (available as a cljsjs p
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St Andrews beats Oxford to take second place in Guardian university rankings(theguardian.com)
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by krn 7y ago
Could it be an iOS/Safari-specific bug?
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by krn 7y ago
The AMP links to visit the original site are working fine for me on Brave (based on Chromium) on Android: clicking on the "(i)" icon shows the URL. The easiest way to to get rid of all AMP pages in Google search results is to disa
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by krn 7y ago
Are there any reasons to prefer Restic over BorgBackup[1]? A conclusion from one comparison (2017)[2]: "Restic’s memory requirements makes it unsuitable for backing up a small VPS with limited RAM, and the slow backup verification proc
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by krn 7y ago
> to different countries within the EU while only having one office/country of incorporation I think this system already applies to paying VAT for digital purchases in the EU.
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by krn 7y ago
Ubuntu gets around any possible GPL violations by offering to download and install proprietary drivers (ex., Nvidia) and codecs during installation process. Could something similar work for Android apps?
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by krn 7y ago
> Telegram violates multiple open source licenses Any examples for those who would like to learn more about this?
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by krn 7y ago
As I understand, the point of GDPR is to protect data and privacy of EU citizens. Therefore, you would have the same obligations to EU citizens even if your server was hosted outside the EU. On the other hand, if you don't serve EU cit
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by krn 7y ago
> Hetzner specifically is not unlimited/unmetered That's true for Hetzner Cloud, but Hetzner's dedicated servers have been unmetered (with a guarantee of 1 Gbps) since October 2018[1]. [1] https://www.hetzner.co
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by krn 7y ago
> But as soon as you build a business model around this - poof - rate limiting -> some TOS violation claim pops up. If bandwidth was at the core of my business model, I would certainly want to pay for it separately to avoid possible i
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by krn 7y ago
> It may work great for europe, but most of the world's population is elsewhere. That's true, European providers work best for Europe. But how many global locations does a service really need, if it's sitting behind a CDN?
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http://weathermap.ovh.net/ https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/rechenzentrum/
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by krn 7y ago
Their bandwidth limits are based on Mbps / Gbps, so the bandwidth is unmetered, but not unlimited . And unlike CDNs, public cloud companies make money from the computational power (CPU / RAM) they provide.
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by krn 7y ago
> Bandwidth is insanely expensive on all clouds. OVH Public Cloud[1] offers unmetered bandwidth (250-500 Mbps) in all regions, apart from Asia-Pacific. Hetzner Cloud[2] offers 20 TB (1 Gbps) for each cloud instance, but has locations onl
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by krn 7y ago
> If anyone can point me towards decent quality Russian language media in Latvia, I'd be really grateful! What about https://rus.delfi.lv/ ?
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by krn 7y ago
> Now police arrests him, beats him, denies lawyer for hours and then says he had 10 kilo heroin in his apartment. How likely is it, that Ivan Golunov was targeted for his latest report, which was published the next day after his arrest[

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