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by rixed 5y ago
I think you missed the point. Everybody would be fine if FB users would use FB to coordinate resistance (poor choice IMHO but that's not the point), even if this increased coordination would result in inflicted casualties. This is a ve
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by rixed 5y ago
I can add a similar story: from time to time I'm volunteering on a russian school sail ship, that's been sailing around Europe for the last 20 years, from festival to festival, teaching people from every origins to sail and live t
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by rixed 5y ago
To be fair, they do not claim to cover both sides: > We are the owners and administrators of several Russian non-political telegram channels. > We don't do politics. But we consider it important to provide unbiased information ab
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by rixed 5y ago
Please we don't need more hatred nor more call for escalation.
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by rixed 5y ago
The USSR or whatever country rulled by whatever regime, as long as they maintain a large enough army, all while preventing Europe from building its own, is my guess.
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by rixed 5y ago
> There isn't going to be one for Russia either. I'm not so sure about this. What makes you believe so?
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by rixed 5y ago
What you say about information warfare is certainly true, but one would be a fool to think only Russia does it. Controlling opinions is a more terrifying weapon than even atomic bombs, because you can actually make use of it, every day, eve
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by rixed 5y ago
What I've often found fascinating with spiders is how we text to them. I came to believe that it's an actual bug in our brain, similar to the one that makes us sneeze in sunlight, but deeper, towards shape recognition or something
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by rixed 5y ago
Spiders are venomous to insects. Actually, that venom is basically saliva, if I remember correctly, designed to digest the prey not to kill it (like us, spiders digest in part outside of their body - we cook, they inject their saliva). >
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by rixed 5y ago
I believe you, yet western countries refused to discuss that very topic few weeks ago when Russia demanded that NATO was not extended further. Frankly, as a mere western Europe citizen, arguably living far away from russian borders, I could
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by rixed 5y ago
Because of the extension (if not the very existence) of NATO after 91?
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by rixed 5y ago
You know one does not choose citizenship, right? I'm currently spending some time and money helping friends that happen to be Russian citizens despite not having been in Russia for years (I'm also going to spend time and money try
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by rixed 5y ago
In one of the "Russian Roulette" episode when the Ukrainian army circle and bomb some city in Dombas, the journalist notice a swastika pendant on one of the soldier and ask if he is not afraid of being misrepresented as a fascist,
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by rixed 5y ago
After such a long civil war in Ukraine I find it very hard to believe that they didn't know already exactly what to expect from who.
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by rixed 5y ago
In 2022 outrage does not influence policies. You have it reversed.
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by rixed 5y ago
According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(1994%E2%80... the Russian army started to destroy Grozny with heavy bombings only after the initial plan, which was to drive the tank columns straight to t
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by rixed 5y ago
In situations like these, I believe the best thing a distant westerner can do to weight against escalation is to keep cold headed, try our best not to fall prey to endoctrination, remind anyone involved to not burn bridges, to never conside
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by rixed 5y ago
According to what I've read and watched on YouTube (such as the interesting, if inevitably biased series "Russian Roulette" by ViceNews that I recommend you watch with your brain on and Wikipedia ready to look up every mentio
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by rixed 5y ago
Exactly, you need to work in tech to understand the sheer unprecedented achievement that the JWST is, for instance. To be frank, I quite don't believe it yet, and I hope they will one day publish a postmortem (postvivem?) on how they d
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by rixed 5y ago
To be fair, I believe being able to compute ballistic parameters with pen and paper give you an advantage in a total war where every communication is jammed, network is hacked and energy supply is sparse.
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by rixed 5y ago
IIRC they were explicitly banned from Iraq after that website emerged where soldiers were competing with the most gory and cruel pictures of casualties, and which disapeared when the more manageable abu graib story stole the show (anyone re
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by rixed 5y ago
I'd suggest to also have a look at the recent similarly anti democratic violent intervention of Russian paratroopers to secure the Kazakh oligarchs, which I'm confident most HNers don't even know happened less than 2 months a
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by rixed 5y ago
I share your feeling. Day by day I feel more guilty of belonging to that industry because of the laziness, sloppiness, negligence, acceptance of spying, of dark patterns, etc, and I do not disclose what I'm doing for a living more read
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by rixed 5y ago
> I’ve been judged by prospective employers based on reported app size being seen as correlated to complexity. This judges the prospective employer more than it judges the candidate, doesn't it? This is actually nothing new. Back wh
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by rixed 5y ago
Forgot to mention the most obvious childhood markers of all: toys and treats! Again, I'm looking at you Google, which offices are (were?) loaded with nerf guns, stuffed animals and treats... at least, in the engineering buildings. To s
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by rixed 5y ago
Lot's of nostalgia and comments about the lost culture. This is understandable I guess, but I think it would be more interesting to focus on actual technologies, be it hardware or software. If only because we can build replica of past
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by rixed 5y ago
Re. the VMS clustering: pardon my complete ignorance but how did orchestration work? How was the host of a new process chosen? Could processes be migrated from host to host? And how do you connect to a given service if you don't know w
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by rixed 5y ago
The question was vague on purpose. I do not believe in any specific golden age actually, but I do believe that good ideas form the past has been forgotten. I evoked the microcosm of sun stations but others might remember good original ideas
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by rixed 5y ago
I kind of agree with most of this. The question was not "don't you think the past was better", but rather "If you could revive something from the past, what would you pick?"
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by rixed 5y ago
Not only are devs micromanaged by any figure of authority with not much tech knowledge and sometime not even business knowledge and freshly landed from a different industry, if not from school, but devs are also happy to be, quite frankly,

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