copula4

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   by copula4 1y ago

   There is life outside major population centers. I have pings in excess of 200 ms to many major websites; if every DNS lookup requires doing several queries with 100-300 ms of waiting for each one, the web becomes unusable. From reading HN,
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   by copula4 1y ago

   His name is not Vlad, it's a familiar form of a completely unrelated name. If you want to demonstrate contempt by using a familiar form, use Vova. It sounds about the same as if I used something like "Joe" to refer to a Willi
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   by copula4 1y ago

   The answer is boring — massive corruption: the country has been making very good money by selling oil and gas to the West (along with some other things like uranium and coal), but most of it goes to vanity projects like building out Astana
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   by copula4 1y ago

   Welcome, I hope you have a good time. You don't hear about Kazakhstan here every day, and rarely in a positive light. If anyone else comes to Kazakhstan and wants to see "the real country", I'd humbly suggest looking out