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by maratc 3y ago
> If Navalny became Russian president I have lots of respect to the guy, but realistically the only scenario where he would become Russian president would be if the vote for the Russian presidency was conducted in the West. He would win
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by maratc 3y ago
That's true, but there's a need to put that information in the proper context. First, there's nothing new or surprising about it, as the official Russian Orthodox church has historically been under the state's control. T
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by maratc 3y ago
Given a choice of either A. Not changing your habits even a bit, and having the planet all fucked up in 100 years; or B. Drastically changing your habits, and having the planet all fucked up in 100 years and three hours , what would you ch
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by maratc 3y ago
I think you missed the actual premise these people disagree with: 5. If I change my food preferences, this will have a tangible impact on both global warming and future generations.
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by maratc 3y ago
How? Violating your employment agreement is not a crime , you may get fired but you can't go to prison for that.
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by maratc 3y ago
To the best of my understanding, it wasn’t a “buyback” as the money came from the new investors and not from the company itself. The new owner of the options (or shares) that were previously mine is the new investor — and again, this is wha
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by maratc 3y ago
In my case, I signed a part of my shares off and received an XL check (after paying XL taxes). That was a "take it or leave it" kind of deal, no platform was used.
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by maratc 3y ago
> a new random person will not just magically inherit it just because they're now the president How do you explain that Putin, who was virtually nobody, was nominated as a prime minister in August 1999, declared Yeltsin's succe
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by maratc 3y ago
And Putin was a retired KGB officer working under Sobchak and heading the FSB when he suddenly got promoted to prime minister and then named as Yeltsin’s replacement. Not exactly a career politician either. “Putin’s party” is a misnomer, it
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by maratc 3y ago
I am certain that Shoigu, or Mishustin, or Rogozhin, or the same Medvedev again, could all replace Putin just fine should a need arise. As I wrote, that would be a small change anyway, and not necessarily for the good. Navalny, on the other
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by maratc 3y ago
That was the reason for putting Medvedev there in 2008. But that wasn't the reason for puttin' Putin (duh) back there in 2012.
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by maratc 3y ago
The picture where Putin is a detested psycho hated by everyone including all of his comissars who just wait for a stroke (or bullet) to replace him with a popular, young and charismatic Western-style democratic leader — that's nothing
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by maratc 3y ago
I'm not advocating for what Navalny did, just explaining his point of view, according to which if you're not ready to die for your principles then you have no principles — just opinions. Again: his words, not mine.
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by maratc 3y ago
> I'm sure any of the original Russian elites left that weren't brought in by Putin regret him being put there would secretly love to see him gone Any elites that are there since before Putin, of whom there was notably more in
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by maratc 3y ago
I think a good proxy for russian situation would be China. They have changed the guy a couple of times in the last 30 years but the policy stayed the same. The only things that can bring a change are either a coup (not likely in Russia) or
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by maratc 3y ago
He answered that question: "I have my country and I have my principles, and I'm not willing to give up either."
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by maratc 3y ago
Once Putin is gone, someone else is going to take his place. There won't be much difference between Putin and the other guy, and that (small) difference may be for the better or it may be for the worse. Putin is not in that place becau
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by maratc 3y ago
> In cases of say fortnight, there are real server costs involved. Not to mention dev costs. In Fortnite, anyone can develop their own maps ("islands") and sell them, while Epic will pay them 40% of the revenue. Now could you p
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by maratc 3y ago
I don't think they are legally bound to investigate anything, unless law enforcement asks them to.
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by maratc 3y ago
This describes several existing formats, from Markdown to XSL-FO to the (rather niche) FB2 which is a glorified XML that supports some base64-encoded images.
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by maratc 3y ago
I just email my ePub to my Kindle's email. It then appears on the Kindle. I also email stuff that my dad reads - to his Kindle. This is easier than "USB mass storage" and does not require connecting the device.
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by maratc 3y ago
I think your guess is correct. GPL/LGPL is a contract that puts certain obligations on all parties; just by being a redistributor, Unity now becomes a party to a contract they never signed or even intended to sign. It's easier for
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by maratc 3y ago
Except there's nothing on that watch that uses Myriad. The letter N is the easy example. The typography on the watch is pretty great, even if the watch is not my style and not my price range.
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by maratc 3y ago
TikTok has an office in Tel-Aviv.
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by maratc 3y ago
> So they were both the prosecutor and the victim. Not UK, but this is (usually, I think) the case with private prosecution. When the public prosecution decides not to prosecute, the options for the victim are either do nothing, or go
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by maratc 3y ago
TIL "pregnant man" emoji exists.
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by maratc 3y ago
I use QR codes too. Otoh NFC tags only work on Android, I haven’t managed to get them to work on iPhones yet.
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by maratc 3y ago
It would be great if there's a way to store the profile on an NFC tag. This way, I could tell my guests to tap the tag to connect to my home network.
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by maratc 3y ago
Historically, the US had (rather expensive by the RoW standards) "unlimited" plans very early on, so most of the US users would not bother to think about the cost of SMS before sending a message. The rest of the world at the time
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by maratc 3y ago
> It would be nice to have just the one or two options, with app store and some kind of official entities backing I won't doubt that you know that iPhone is a thing.

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