thriftwy

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by thriftwy 2y ago
Statistics come after "lies" and "damn lies". I can also confirm that adolescence sucks. You have many important experience but quality of life just isn't there.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
GDP is a poor signal because these huge middle class salaries for breadwinners in the US, Japan and S. Korea actually held gender balance back for decades. Wife will be expected to quit her job and dedicate herself to the family when her hu
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Unless he broke any laws explicitly I don't see a problem. Dating in Russia is not forbidden.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
So are they going to take Tiraspol in three days? I believe that Moldavian central government is very cautous. PMR already plays ball so why rock the boat.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Which countries? Arguably, women of post-socialist (Slavic) countries have comparatively higher socioeconomic status and comparatively more even gender dynamics that these in the West. For a dedicated sexual predator, it would be much easie
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I think it's obvious that unrecognized states are hot contenders for "least visited".
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by thriftwy 2y ago
They will also not be considered vodka in Russia, rather 'nastoika'.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37055388 My own take on AI as a short SF story co-written by AI.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
These were sufficiently expensive that many people got some form of Spectrum/PC before their first calculator, bang for the buck it made more sense. Then there was a post-soviet wired phone design with Z80 in it which had a built-in ca
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Between 2000 and 2020 slope was lousy. Or, frame it the other way, the rest were catching up with the best.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Lankov has described the coupon system in some detail. I believe Cuba has a similar system with CUC or had it until recently. I'm not sure at which point NK ditched coupons for Euros.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
https://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/ Artemy Lebedev, a known Russian web designer, visited North Korea and posted his notes with pictures (in Russian, should not be an obstacle these days). There are three mo
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by thriftwy 2y ago
They likely go to specialized shops for foreigners where you may only pay with US$-backed coupons, and can purchase most of stuff you can commonly buy in Japan.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I think it is a misconception that some baby name is boring. Nothing is less boring than a name embraced by a small energetic human confident that's who they are. I imagine you might want a funky name for a toy to convinve yourself - t
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> rule of law, civil liberties, fairness and freedom of elections, wide representation of interests (instead of narrow groups), and equal access to resources across various groups within a society, Russia was already at the bottom of glo
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> never chose to participate in European initiatives That's not true, Russian Federation did "participate in European initiatives" > refused to accept loss of their special privileges and fought back against opening Rus
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> national borders do not have any meaningful impact on everyday lives of Europeans At the same time they do have great impact on the lives of ex-USSR citizens. We deal with it. That's what we have to do and that's what we do.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I just don't see how that would prevent you from doing that bicycle trip of yours. Remember that I didn't mention visiting any other countries, just the USSR, which totally did not have these domestic borders that would prevent th
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> Russians never had anything comparable Russians had something comparable in 1990. You could take a bike from St. Petersburg through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, then enter Belarus, go over Ukraine, back into RSFSR, then bike through Soc
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Egypt is Russian Federation worth of human lives on a Volga region worth of land, most of which is desert. That does not sound sustainable to me.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
This seems to be an issue with USA where the only infrastructural things seems to be mounting debt. China was building roads, rail and metros like crazy in the last 20 years. Moscow has got second metro ring and some highways are finally ma
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by thriftwy 2y ago
You can eat salmon in sushi rolls or just cut it into pieces and put on the bread. With other fish, you typically have to fry them first, which is a complex affair. The result is also much less predictable. There are also bones and fish ski
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by thriftwy 2y ago
It does not look like our numbers are increasing anymore, so I don't see how the latter is applicable. Middle East and Africa are booming and this is not ending well, but I just don't see what can be done about it.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
We also leave the future with all the infrastructure we build, and you may provide your children with some direct inheritance if you manage to save instead of wasting capital on trinkets.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I don't believe the African situation is stable or sustainable hence we will see large scale tragedies on that continent in this century, that will make everything happened in the century XX a cake walk. I enjoy farmed salmon so I can&
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Why is it an excuse? USSR occupied Berlin in 1945 not because it wanted to annex it, but because that was obviously conductive to the victory. Russia wants a land bridge towards its 2 million strong Crimea and that's why Genichensk is
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Kherson oblast, unfortunately, is spoils of war and a bargaining chip. The part that Russia now holds is essentially an empty steppe with, IDK, perhaps ~150k population in total and most of its territory evacuated.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Why then do you preach to me instead of just waiting for your victory to realize? Karelians has never made dominant part of the population of what is now republic of Karelia. The problem here is that the name Karelia comes first and Karelia
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> I am speaking about the 1990s that people actually lived through. Hyperinflation, shortages, poverty, crime. Breakdown of social order. Life's savings losing value almost overnight. I can see that happening easily if Putin loses h
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Methane is a fossil fuel replacement. A good fraction of Moscow's bus fleet run on methane. In general, ICEs run just fine on natural gas as gasoline replacement.

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