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by maratc 5y ago
> Nobody except deluded tankies About a billion of these "deluded tankies" live in China. > Russia does formally recognize them as a nation Formal recognitions aside, but if you go anywhere from the Russian extreme left (e.g
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by maratc 5y ago
I doubt they can also take the assets, of which there are (at least) codebase, name, graphics, and domain name. Forking is AOK though, but that's a bit like starting from scratch.
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by maratc 5y ago
My imagination has nothing to do with it, but from what I know from history, countries will go to great lengths — sometimes leading to their destruction — when they feel their existence is under a threat.
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by maratc 5y ago
I don't think that stopped Turkey (having a territorial dispute with Cyprus) from being admitted. Also, your interpretation means Russians would have to rely on Nato interpreting their own criterias in a certain way. This may be a reas
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by maratc 5y ago
Devil's advocate here: can we — for the sake of the argument — assume for a sec that what Russia's been saying is true, and that their goal is: not having Nato in Ukraine? Because if we can — for the sake of the argument — assume
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by maratc 5y ago
I think there's a third option -- that of independent Ukraine, unassociated with anyone (Swiss-style). The option of NATO -- as is clear from Russian actions -- isn't acceptable to Russia, but this third option may be. (And I don&
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by maratc 5y ago
OTOH we don’t have any evidence of Russia having any beef with either Georgia or Ukraine, up to 2008 NATO Bucharest summit, where NATO announced that Ukraine and Georgia would be accepted as members. Georgia was wrecked in half a year after
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by maratc 5y ago
The real fear for you should be the one where Putin’s regime is toppled, and Russia disintegrates into a series of mini states, all of them with nuclear capabilities.
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by maratc 5y ago
I think that Russia may have a two-prong strategy: either make sure Ukraine is not joining NATO, or make sure that Ukraine that joins NATO is completely wrecked. In the alternative reality, where Ukraine promises tomorrow not to join NATO
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by maratc 5y ago
ecolines.net is a European bus company that is also used by the refugees to move from Kyiv and Kharkiv to Poland. How is that a "Russian news outlet"? What good does it do to DDoS it?
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by maratc 5y ago
That’s an interesting detail, thanks.
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by maratc 5y ago
As far as I remember the SCotUS verdict was "we don't want to say if it's copyrightable or not, but if it were copyritable it would fall under fair use".
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by maratc 5y ago
A reminder: take any sum operation of wealth with a huge grain of salt. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS228821959920140404
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by maratc 5y ago
I use mail forwarders on my custom domain so anything sent to me@mydomain.co is simply forwarded to myregular@gmail.com. Except the domain renewal fees, it's free. If Gmail blocks me, I can readdress the forwarding to hotmail or usa.ne
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by maratc 5y ago
On the other hand, this thing may become ... the information super-highway!
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by maratc 5y ago
We should invent a system to transmit packets that is resilient to nukes. Maybe Department of Defense should get involved. Maybe they should even make some advanced research project agency or something.
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by maratc 5y ago
I would suggest waiting, since there are news about a deal to sell NSO to a US venture fund. We could then refer to it as "US spyware" and skip the renaming part.
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by maratc 5y ago
Thanks, that's very relevant and on-point (as opposed to my examples).
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by maratc 5y ago
Note the text: > It is undisputed that the plaintiff's IP address was forwarded to Google when the plaintiff visited the defendant's website. In this context, "It is undisputed" does not mean "It is a truth univ
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by maratc 5y ago
"Your honor, the victims of my ransomware attack decided to use a modern CPU to run my code. The attack would not have succeeded have the victims used Z-80, so there's no one to blame but the victims themselves."
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by maratc 5y ago
> I don't think you get the agency argument. I do get that argument; I just don't think it holds any water. If one hires a hitman to kill someone, that one may still be held accountable to manslaughter, even if that specific pe
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by maratc 5y ago
As pointed out in another great comment: > Sure your honor, the victim died by carbon monoxide asphyxiation, but it was his choice to inhale the gas, even though it smells the same as normal air"
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by maratc 5y ago
IANAL but For the purposes of this Regulation: (1) ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, dire
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by maratc 5y ago
> even though the provider has nothing to do with the interaction I beg your pardon, but in this case "the provider" (website) has directly sent the user's browser to a third party (google fonts) by including an instruct
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by maratc 5y ago
No. The responsibility of the website owner is not to send users' personal data to third parties, OR to receive their users' informed consent to such sending BEFORE that sending occurs. That's the law. It's enforced by c
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by maratc 5y ago
> the original website is merely requesting the user to do so ... in a violation of GPDR, because user's informed consent was not received beforehand. > it's exactly what the court is there for I might have been more clear:
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by maratc 5y ago
There are two options to do what's required by the law: either A. not sending users' personal data to third parties; or B. receive informed consent from the users before sending their personal data to third parties. If the option
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by maratc 5y ago
It hardly matters in the court of law what you "could also say". The law is clear: you don't have to send your users' data to third parties, but if you decide to do it, you have to receive their informed consent first
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by maratc 5y ago
> not forced to follow the instructions Again, you're talking about an opt-out. GPDR (the law) requires an opt-in.
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by maratc 5y ago
> It could be configured not to That's an opt-out and GPDR requires an opt-in.

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