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by thriftwy 2y ago
EU was doing civil war in Syria, by astroturfing, endorsing, arming and financing "democratic opposition". It's not even the case of me doing the thinking.
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I don't view the creation of Russian Empire in a bad light - quite contrary, most other historical options would likely been worse, up and until 1917 at least. And as a Russian I believe that Russian Empire is a part of essential legac
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Interestingly enough, the century XX saw a tremendous shift of agriculture from northern, wet lands to southern, sunny land. You could drain your aquifer but you could not add extra sun up north. I wonder if the trends reverses as aquifers
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> Russian shells hit the Plant Genetic Resources Bank in Kharkiv. Founded in 01908, the gene bank preserved the seeds of 160,000 varieties of crops and plant seeds Founded by Russian Empire, propped forward by the USSR. Both of these ent
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I wonder what's the payout for individual soldier to do this to have somebody die after the battle has already ended with win or loss.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Obviously I do not see any way for Russia to enter EU as a member state. Like Norway, as you said, it could only be integrated while being outside of the bloc. But, it would be a two-way road and there has to be EU goodwill to do so. But th
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by thriftwy 2y ago
There was no war in Crimea from 2014 to 2022 and even today it's mostly spared. Some other parts of Ukraine has went through a meat grinder, which reinforces the opinion that overrunning and firewalling it was a good idea. The Russian
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Yes, one may be thinking of it as "not losing something". But it's much easier to not lose something when it's in your possession than when you depend on goodwill of some third party. Actual Russian Federation experience
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The problem is that EU needed to find a way to integrate existing Russian Federation as a neigbour, and not some "true Scotsman" Russia that only lives in your imagination. EU didn't want to integrate with existing RF for a
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by thriftwy 2y ago
As Eador quotes, "dying is the way of men". Ukraine's reduction is someone else's problem. For some reason, Russian Federation did act like it was a nursery home for ex-Soviet independent states, but there's no obli
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by thriftwy 2y ago
You can obviously travel there and see all the Imperial palaces and gardens, swim the sea, visit the museums and have a really good time. In awesome weather, which is of short supply in what's left of mainland Russia. On the other hand
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by thriftwy 2y ago
That's why I always use git cherry-pick for specific commits that I want. It's essentially a "cp thing-i-want ." Combined with git reflog your repo becomes as understandable as a floppy disk.
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That's why reasonable projects limit their usage to the smallest reasonable scope, and use rebase/squash. You don't have to adopt a hard problem. It actually escapes me why Linus decided to make git a merge-first VCS in the
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Yes Europe made efforts to integrate and collaborate peacefully between yourselves, but these plans didn't include Russia. There was literally no place for Russia in your layout other than "you stay here with your mouth shut, buy
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And that's one of the reasons why I advocate against merges in the codebase on every project I work for and in every HN thread where the topic of merges is mentioned.
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We're not alone in this - globalized world does not need pikemen and I can see folks complaining about it under any home prices piece on HN. And in Russia where people have few illusions about their government. Russians also been throu
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by thriftwy 2y ago
That's true, we are more of Russian Empire survivors than heirs. Most of my ancestors are unsurprisingly peasants with serfdom (and then, kolkhoz ) background. Still, if there are any possibilities to "cash out" the paltry b
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by thriftwy 2y ago
As it is known, Russia has only two friends: its army and its navy. And if you ask me, even the latter is in doubt. Prior to 2014 I don't remember any serious prospects of EU-Russia integration. EU did not even bother to have visa waiv
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by thriftwy 2y ago
If you ask me, "what's better, do business with EU/USA or have Crimea", of course I will pick Crimea every time. It's just feels pragmatically more useful to me, like how co-owning a bungalow on a sea shore is bette
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I don't think that Russians are obliged to act imperialistically, especially to their loss. It's just I don't view the creation of Russian Empire in a bad light - quite contrary, most other historical options would likely
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by thriftwy 2y ago
But it was you who started it. You've attacked my identity by bringing up things that are not directly related to me. Then you complain about hypocricy. I've not asked you to assault me based on my ethnic identity.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
That's Strugatsky brothers: > когда носорог глядит на Луну, он напрасно тратит цветы своей селезенки When a Rhino looks up the moon, he just wastes the flowers of his spleen
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by thriftwy 2y ago
It's one of a stockpiles in a small country (out of many) which doesn't even border Ukraine, and the one who had a lot of economic integration going on with Russia. That also predated the axtual war 10 years. A Russian would say t
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Seems implause that a Russian speaker will drop a soft spot in the word витязи. I would definitely search for somebody who is named VITaly and whose last name starts with AZI.
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That's not stupid. Perhaps you could only place orders to be traded "at start" or "at end" beforehand, and they will be all processed at once.
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Attractiveness is 2/3 skill. It is very trainable.
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Why would you want to board first, though? What's the fun to be stuck in a plane? I try not to hurry in boarding line to board just in time.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Why was it ever a problem? Perhaps this is US issue, (in Russian and EU airports) everybody lines up first come, first board. Then the process is really fast. Everybody just takes their seat and that's it. The landing wait is annoying
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by thriftwy 2y ago
What if you could get hungry, broke people to a restaurant but they don't eat any food there, that would solve... Oh, wait...
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by thriftwy 2y ago
The question is "why don't lonely people interact with each other". The answer is that being in need of emotional comfort does not imply the ability to provide it, so after some time they are bad fit even for each other. The

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