throw-ru-938

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by throw-ru-938 3y ago
If you're paying, you're still the product.
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by throw-ru-938 3y ago
In Beirut, almost every place that's not a hole-in-the-wall falafel joint has a QR menu. It was sad to see just how much society has bent to cope with the crazy inflation.
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by throw-ru-938 3y ago
Also known as "the Blub paradox". https://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox
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by throw-ru-938 3y ago
In my experience, real-world Go can be just as complicated as real-world Python or C++. The lack of abstractions is making the problem worse, if anything.
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by throw-ru-938 3y ago
How is this kind of extremist speech even tolerated?
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by throw-ru-938 3y ago
You probably don't hate planes, you hate the TSA. What's to stop a populist gov't from mandating TSA-style "security" on the railway?
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Can you imagine that public transit does not have to triple your commute time, as rhaway84773 is saying?
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
When you're a renter in a market without much regulation (like here in the ex-USSR), your homes probably last less than your jobs, kids or no kids.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Being close to many people is a draw in itself. I'm sure I just don't understand something, but all these pro-WFH arguments here at HN give me almost hikikomori vibes.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Your username does check out here.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Many apps don't bother separating their notifications by type.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
A better idea would be getting of everyone's lawn -- no ML required.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
If it's an arms race, then the solution should be a strategic education reduction treaty?
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
I wonder why inlining the function makes it that much unsafe.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
> The West in general can't endure much because it's no longer used to it, <<unless>>, and this is super important, that pain comes from a clear, mortal threat. In which case democracies are at least as resilient, p
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
The non-Slavs in the army are more likely to be picked up by the media because of racist attitudes, both in Russia and, apparently, in Ukraine. There's even a common slur for them, "бойові буряти"/"боевые буряты&quo
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
> Putin doesn't want a "new USSR". During the first months of the invasion when the Kremlin was searching for powerful symbolism, one of the symbols they tried to use was a Red Flag Granny: https://rg.ru/20
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Independent polling agrees with you: https://www.rbc.ru/politics/18/05/2022/62825a8f9a794718a6e85... And the Russian leadership certainly is gerontocratic: https://meduza.io/en/featu
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
The present border is more like 80 year old, it was adjusted by the USSR (favouring Russia) after the Baltics were annexed in 1940. However, it generally follows the pre-1917 borders of the Governorates of Estland and Livonia.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Yeah, in Russia the society is quite racist towards the Caucasus Caucasians. How's that for affirmative action? /s
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Could you expand on this?
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
On all of my machines, Caps Lock has to get mapped to switching between keyboard layouts. Saves me so much time every day, not having to do the Alt+Shift dance dozens of times every hour. If only there were more non-US people making decisio
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
The Baltics probably would, but Georgia is literally swamped with Russian émigrés right now. By the Georgian official data, more than 100k Russians arrived in 2022 alone, which is 2-3% of the country's population.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
> He was pro 2014 invasion back in 2014 https://lenta-ru.translate.goog/news/2014/03/12/navalny/?_x_... (On the other hand, he did say the infamous "Crimea is not a sandwich" thing late
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
> No anti war/regime protests to speak off There were some in February and March, even though they were not very impressive. But then again, just today a leader of Russian opposition was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison for p
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Yep, Prigozhin is a bullshitter on the level of Elon Musk. The guy spent years publicly denying the existence of the Wagner group, then opened a patriotic co-working space literally called The Wagner Group Centre. (meanwhile, the group itse
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
That's a statement of fact, but the GP was asking why it is actually so.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Yet many of us here are lurkers and don't bother to write.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Tangentially related: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3936 .
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Genuinely glad for you! In Moscow I don't know anyone who has a dedicated office room, even in a rented flat. (And don't even get me started at buying.)

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