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by raquo 12y ago
Well, he does some good, sure, the kind that any generic country manager would do. Normal maintenance-mode deeds of good. But I can't recall any significant positive things that he did in the last few years, other than providing sign
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by raquo 12y ago
But that is the problem – he has no incentive to do anything good for the country because he has absolute power and controls mass media. He is not accountable to anyone. In fact, he sort of benefits from people struggling. When you'r
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by raquo 12y ago
For Navalny? Putin is shooting him down because he's gaining too much popular support exposing and fighting corruption. They don't want people on the streets supporting him. In general, follow the money trail (or the power trail)
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by raquo 12y ago
Navalny and Kasparov are in trouble because they had a shot at gaining popular momentum. Khodorkovsky privately expressed desire for a more free Russia to Putin, and was shot down as a warning to others. Putin prosecutes everyone who goes a
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by raquo 12y ago
Not so sure about that. Russian regulators normally don't care about tiny operations that don't influence the popular opinion. For example, there are lots of blogs talking trash about Putin and no one cares. But if you're as
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by raquo 12y ago
It's usually pretty obvious who wants to censor what information and why.
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by raquo 12y ago
Those planes are broken, they don't follow my commands for some reason...
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by raquo 12y ago
He controls all law enforcement and mass media, restricts freedom of speech, prosecutes political competition, enables corruption and connections-with-benefits, and has everyone eat this crap because patriotism. I struggle to recall a sovie
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by raquo 12y ago
Disregarding the job/compensation aspects, I'm sure many Russian Googlers would love a chance to live in a real functioning country, even if temporarily.
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by raquo 12y ago
We have so much humidity and moss growing everywhere in Vancouver, and we love murals over here. Just saying... I wonder whether a business would be required to clean up moss graffiti like they're required to remove painted graffiti. A
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by raquo 12y ago
I hope we can all agree now that a country' ideology doesn't matter, what matters is how the power is structured. And that's not pretty.
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by raquo 12y ago
I think it's more likely that no_future was shadow-banned for their previous comment.
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by raquo 12y ago
Effectively, every Russian's salary just depreciated 50% to a significant portion of the goods they buy. Local businesses might come out on top of this due to their goods being more competitive vs imports, but the population is screwed
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by raquo 12y ago
> dreamed about great russian firewall because in that case, they won't have competitors like Google This mindset is very prevalent in Russia and should be considered its greatest enemy. Most Russians are fine living in any conditio
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by raquo 12y ago
* Python offers more encapsulation without classes than say PHP if you use importing properly, so a codebase without classes is not a big deal (I prefer OOD though). * If your python code is organized in such a way that your classes will en
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by raquo 12y ago
What is this, a positive side effect of Cold War II? I'm sort of joking, but not really.
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by raquo 12y ago
Thanks for building this, looks very clean. I'm sorely missing a PostgreSQL client similar to Sequel Pro. Valentina Studio is okay but the UI is too clumsy.
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by raquo 12y ago
I concur, Knockout is awesome despite being un-hyped. Small, stable, reliable, compatible with IE6+. If you want a modern ES5 alternative there's also Vue.js
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by raquo 12y ago
Why is this submission still up? 9 obviously shill comments and counting.
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by raquo 12y ago
> you are supposed to be paying tax to the US for any money earned from the US (even if you aren't in the country) Just note – this can be overridden for some cases in US-<your_country> income tax treaty. For example certain k
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by raquo 12y ago
It's too light for me too. Mac, Firefox. It's probably readable in perfect conditions (indoors, low ambient light), but if you're tired or it's sunny it becomes uncomfortable.
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by raquo 12y ago
Broadcasting over the air is subject to radio spectrum licenses/auctions, which is the hardest part for a new "startup" entrant. Wireless is also very expensive per GB compared to cable internet, and doesn't provide too
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by raquo 12y ago
Nothing scares politicians more than a million people protesting on the streets of each major city, angry about a very specific issue. Politicians are lucky that the population is not organized enough and/or doesn't care enough to
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by raquo 12y ago
That's a nice summary of things I didn't have time to watch and should probably go back to at some point. As for some feedback – I'd rather see the title un-truncated, or at least see a tooltip with a full title on hover. It&
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by raquo 12y ago
Am I understanding this correctly? * Attacker has control of X number of tor nodes * Attacker DDoS-es a hidden service, sending millions of requests to it * Attacker hopes that at least one of these requests will be routed exclusively throu
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by raquo 12y ago
This kind of law is what holds the internet back. Why should I risk bankruptcy, litigation and imprisonment over some intern forgetting to sanitize HTML? Like that never happened before on the internet. I'm a kind person, but my #1 o
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by raquo 12y ago
So? Outages happen in any transit system. It's not like it happens often. Vancouver public transit is much better than in other cities, especially in North America.
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by raquo 12y ago
You've lost me at "crap public transportation system". Bash Vancouver all you want, but public transit is one of the awesome things about it.
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by raquo 12y ago
Woohoo, I don't need to change my Russian habits!
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by raquo 12y ago
I can't get to the redesigned page, but the old design is 240 requests, and that doesn't stop it from loading the home page in a couple seconds at most. Most of the requests must be non-blocking, non-essential to above-the-fold re

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