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by thriftwy 3y ago
For starters, pre-2014 Russians would be glad to have a visa waiver with the EU. But they never got that. Then 2014 and Crimea affair came and EU didn't have that lever to pull. Things like student exchanges, etc, were also severily li
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by thriftwy 3y ago
What are you going to do with Kaliningrad if you occupy it? Are you going to hand out EU Schengen passports to its residents? You may get a large line for ingress if you're going to swap Russian passpors for EU ones. If you don't,
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by thriftwy 3y ago
You can see plain text Telegram (and Twitter?) posts by a direct link without login. You cannot do that anymore to FB or Instagram posts.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
You can't put 10 yo children into MOOC on boring subject and expect them to do anything at all.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
In countries with solidary pension systems you can surely bind retirement benefits to number of children. The issue being, they try to avoid paying more than the bare minimum anyway and if you pay less, that means dead old homeless people o
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Who said that the modern one is right, and the greek one is wrong? Modern high culture is what, 2 centuries old? Maybe 3 in Paris and parts of Italy? And modern embraceness of homosexuality barely 50 years old? Whereas Greeks had at least 5
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It would make sense to have them in Norway with its hydro power, cool air and perhaps glacial water cooling.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
If you supply more energy budget, the proton will be able to throw together a more effective show. I guess that's it.
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Ask HN: Any terminal/console client to GPT?
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The peasant class will still have to comply, though.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
That's a pretty popular kind of star. I believe stars have surface temperature from 3K to 10K, corresponding to a pretty narrow range of black body radiation. Then it's mostly unaffected by that chemical medium, save for some scat
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> Why limit ourselves to the arbitrary wavelengths They're not arbitrary: * These are the ones where the energy output of Sun's black body radiation peaks, giving the scene lighting. * These are also the ones which coincide wit
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by thriftwy 3y ago
"Comrade Stalin, a terrible mistake is happening!" Well PayPal is known to do that for two decades now, it would take a huge amount of self-confidence to keep $80k there.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Nokia could not stick with a single platform, once their heirloom Symbian became inadequate they caved. Like the absolute majority of corporations, they did not understand platforms. Platforms require decade-long thinking, instead of "
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It's very weird. Any of these houses in HK could have been a great dacha , and would cost hundred of thousands dollars.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
So instead of helping the vulnerable groups get education, they will try to divert as much funds as possible from that goal? I alao thought that getting education outside of public one-size-fits-all school was a conservative thing (religiou
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by thriftwy 3y ago
So you would assume we have flat out selective removal of being smart trait. Just great.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Both options seem irrational. For starters, coffins don't have pockets. Spending free time during youth beats having nothing to do during seniority years.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I wonder why all of troublemakers are not ejected from the system? You would think any "komsomol" types would be flushed by democratic system whereas they would be retained in assignments based system. Are there parents who genuin
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I wonder why the same set of people would be happy for years of unpaid and costly education, to get a job with overtime expectations and have significant motivation for career growth. At least children will be yours. Whatever you do on your
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by thriftwy 3y ago
So you expected to find a way of increasing quality of kids while increasing quantity of kids at the same time ? People saw kids as a source of income through all the history. It's just that the modern ethical liberal sees somebody e
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The rich can absolutely afford as many children as they want. Whom you are talking about are upstart "upper middle" who have a good wage but no capital of their own, and the rich are generally happy to have them thrown under the b
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by thriftwy 3y ago
That's absolutely true - you become a member of a global club and can bond with people who will be walled away from you otherwise. Your own parents also make a reappearance in your life.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
When you need to move in temporarily, you can always rent a flat from a person just like yourself who bought one and is renting it out individually. In the absense of rent control and abundance of constructions, offers are plentiful.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Why not have private companies build and sell apartments? https://youtu.be/mav_Y0ZcVpw showing a random purchasable apartment in Russia.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Once being skinny becomes a sign of drug ingestion rather than fitness, its desirability would vanish fast. People will choowe whatever form they are comfortable with.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I don't believe gorillas lift weights daily and their muscle mass is great. We just need to toggle the correct knob.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
These dodecahedrons with bumps could also be used for rope making of not for the absense of mechanical wear.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
That's exactly what I'm talking about: injecting one specific strong political position into a pop sci text. Moreover, I would also downvote an article filled with American messiah complex for a single reason that I don't liv
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Encouraging open borders and mass immigration is not the only permitted immigration policy. Most countries in the world, including large and economically developed ones like Japan and China, do not have this policy. In fact, even developed

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