throw-ru-938

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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Allow me to introduce you to the concepts of 'roommates' and 'children'. (Some of my colleagues returned to the office as soon as it was allowed, just to spend some time away from their families.)
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Here on the European continent having enough space for a dedicated office is literally luxurious.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Not the GP but yes. Not everyone lives in a luxury house.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
> Only in third world countries, or for third world visitors. Why did you feel you actually had to say this?
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Being Russian, I really wouldn't recommend moving to Russia. Yes, if you're a foreigner you won't be conscripted, but the economy has been severely destabilized. We might actually be in for 1990's scale social upheaval,
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Accidentally commit a huge video to a code repo (stupid as it sounds, this actually happened at a past employer). Make commits with unreadable messages, huge-ass commits with tens of logically different changes, split a single logical featu
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Which is why I don't love Mercurial, because once you mess up your repo, it's messed up forever. IMO "easy to break but easy to fix" is better than "hard to break but impossible to fix", and there ain't no
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Come on, getting comfortable with a couple of incantations takes people a whole _year_? Because you don't need much more when you're starting out.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Also Tajikistan, which was pretty much destroyed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistani_Civil_War . Also Transnistria.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
The rouble is not pegged to gold reserves. That was just a proposal, coming from one of the least relevant members of the State Duma. (Not that the State Duma actually has any relevant members.) Edit: sorry, that was actually Nikolai Patrus
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Before the invasion you could buy gold coins/bars for RUB from most major banks, but the cut the bank took was of course large. I have no idea how it is now.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
> The ruble is stable because it's exchange rate is purely theoretical. If you are an oil exporter, yes, but if you're an average Ivan in Moscow/Petersburg, it's not. You can buy USD cash once again, and even though t
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
> They can buy virtual USD, but can only physically withdraw up to $10k per year. This applies to withdrawing cash from bank accounts. AFAIK there is no limit on exchanging RUB cash into USD/EUR. > And if they receive USD, they
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
With the sanctions, imports have fallen but exports are still going strong. The Central Bank now requires all exporters to exchange at least 50% of foreign profits into roubles. So, there's a lot of demand for RUB, not so much for USD.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
Russians are in fact allowed to buy USD (provided the bank actually has the physical dollar notes). The earlier prohibition on buying foreign currency has been relaxed.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
YMMV, but I got completely used to a mask after a couple of nights.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
One of my best investments ever was a good sleeping mask. These do not let any light in (even around the edges if it's a good fit), and unlike blackout curtains they're portable.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
> Because, honestly, you can't be so ignorant .. YES: The WEST DOES have political persecution the way Russia does. With all due respect which is none, I don't think you personally know someone who was persecuted in some way or
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
My cat's hair is even more scarce. Does not mean it has more value than gold.
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
The Assange affair is certainly disgusting, but does the US have widespread political persecution the way Russia does?
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
The Norwegian border may look remote on a map, but it's close to Murmansk which is an extremely important seaport. (Not claiming Norway is a legitimate threat to Russia, just pointing out it's not that remote.)
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by throw-ru-938 4y ago
> Until Ukraine there hasn’t been a war in Europe for 75 years. You forgot the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s.
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by throw-ru-938 5y ago
...the sources said Macron had been struck by how different Putin was to the man he had met in his summer residence on the French Riviera three years ago. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/moscow-macron-found-
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by throw-ru-938 5y ago
Being a Russian citizen, I think absolutely nothing coming from the Kremlin should ever be trusted. If they actually say something true, that's more likely to be an unhappy coincidence.
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by throw-ru-938 5y ago
> He also said he was going there to de-Nazify Ukraine ...meanwhile Russia's very own Wagner Group ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group ) is composed of literal Nazis, swastika tattoos and all.
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The “Voyage of the Damned”(en.wikipedia.org)
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by throw-ru-938 5y ago
The US, UK and Russia all claim the Budapest Memorandum is not legally binding. So in that respect, a new treaty would indeed be better (although I can see a legally binding treaty being broken by Putin as well).
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by throw-ru-938 5y ago
Americans haven't been abused the way Russians have been, simple as that.
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by throw-ru-938 5y ago
No you cannot, all land borders have been closed by Russia since 2020 because Covid.

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