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by sega_sai 5y ago
Screw them. They maintain the news.yandex which on purpose ignored the war and presented the government view on the situation. (and for last few years they never showed any kind of news associated with dissidents like Navalny, or other unpl
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I guess the only possible explanation I can come up with is that they don't want to send their staff to a place with murderous regime, where neither twitter nor facebook works and where you can get 15 years for the "disinformation
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by sega_sai 5y ago
And twitter now as well https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/149983286478729625... (and bbc Russia)
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Russia Blocks Facebook(twitter.com)
9 points by sega_sai 5y ago|2 comments
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by sega_sai 5y ago
The whole article is basically about different interpretations of probabilities -- probabilities as reflecting the degree of belief, vs pure frequentist ones. Both make sense, they just need to be used in different situations and need to be
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I obviously support Ukraine in their fight against invaders (and I am Russian born), but cutting the internet from Russia would be actually more useful for the Russian government than Ukraine. Russian government just today closed the last i
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Independent Russian radio station and TV channel have been disconnected(twitter.com)
8 points by sega_sai 5y ago|0 comments
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I think this actually has much less to do with "protecting" the stock market (as discussed in comments), than protecting the ruble. Because for sure the majority of foreign investors will want to sell their securities ASAP and exi
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Russia Intensifies Censorship Campaign, Pressuring Tech Giants(nytimes.com)
7 points by sega_sai 5y ago|4 comments
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I absolutely agree (I live in the UK), but in the end it's a question of money I believe. Somebody has to bear the cost of more expensive fuel/gas. I am sure if UK wanted it could have subsidised those costs till the next winter.
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I know that technically they have elections (I'm a Russian living abroad), they just count in a 'special way' so they get the result they want. And yes I agree popular uprisings is a possibility. But in the case of Germany i
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by sega_sai 5y ago
All these sanctions are a bit of the joke when you are dealing with an insane leader in a country without elections and sitting on top of a pile of reserves. And the west is not doing one thing that could actually actually make a difference
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I certainly sympathise much with that call, given the west is basically saying now -- we'll put in sactions, hopefully in a few months/years Russians will notice, in the meantime lets Russians bomb and occupy Ukraine. And to be h
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by sega_sai 5y ago
Thank you for the reply. It would be certainly be a useful feature.
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by sega_sai 5y ago
This is such a tragedy. Two close countries with shared histories are being put to war and many innocents will die because of a crazed maniac who has been sitting on his chair for 20 years and who has delusions of grandeur.
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I still cannot quite understand why it's impossible for 1password to always require a second factor (i.e. yubikey or phone) to unlock the vault. I.e. I want to require a second factor when I turn on my laptop or when I return to my des
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by sega_sai 5y ago
Scientist here, who has been writing code for > 20 years. I don't buy pretty much anything in the article. This was a bunch of opinionated examples. Science programming in my opinion has many different levels which require different
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by sega_sai 5y ago
Somehow I always prefer cffi over numba and cython. When I write a performance-critical piece of code in C/C++, interfacing it with cffi I know it'll be very fast, while with numba/cython I always feel there is so much uncert
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by sega_sai 5y ago
As I user of Firefox for ~ 13 years who switched to Chrome a few years ago, I think the ultimate question is what would the users want, what would distinguish Firefox from Chrome and how many actual users would care about that. In my opini
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by sega_sai 5y ago
It is a sad state of affairs when such important jobs like teaching young kids are not respected and compensated well.
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by sega_sai 5y ago
Lon/lat it should be. First because of x/y, but also because in astronomy, it is right ascension, declination. (Obviously it is just matter of convention, but certainly for an astronomer lat/Lon is very unnatural)
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by sega_sai 5y ago
As a person working in science (long past PhD), I disagree. There are tons of problem in science: grant system, pressure to publish etc. Also everyone in science is still a person with standard people problems: ego, desire to be right, wan
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by sega_sai 5y ago
It would be nice to have a registry of predictions about the stock market, so one could group them by person doing the predicting and their track record. Without that I personally cannot take seriously the stories about impeding stock marke
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I've found the article so well written. It was a joy to read, notwithstanding the grim topic.
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I don't think germicide is necessarily good. There are theories that the abundance of allergies and autoimmune diseases is partially caused by excessive cleanliness/lack of exposure to microbes etc.
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by sega_sai 5y ago
Yes, it's certainly good, but the fact that we have to pay 2k$ typically per publication is still noteworthy. And that money goes from universities/grants/government/funders to something, but not to referees. I don&#x2
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by sega_sai 5y ago
Okay, seeing this news and the fact that that onhub page is still up on google's site, I'm certainly not going to get a google nest (and I literally had them in my basket in google store). I understand retiring without much notic
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I'm not sure that your reading of the paper is correct. For example, see this figure https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0/figures/1
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I knew nothing about the author of the text, and read it with interest, but the fact that he didn't mention Franklin was certainly a surprise and warning sign. To anyone who studied the issue, it's clear that Franklin should be cr
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by sega_sai 5y ago
I disagree with your statement, but here are the results for the whole UK https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants... and here's the plot for London https://twitter.com/the

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