egao1980

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by egao1980 6mo ago
Grob is either Slavic cognate for "coffin" or German for "rough" :)
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by egao1980 10mo ago
Well written. Straight to the point. When poor is a rat race and no room for risk. Any mistake and you're done. Even if you see opportunity you can't afford to try. And hopelessness.
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by egao1980 3y ago
Latvia and Estonia are allowed to have Nazi parades and repress Russian speaking population i.e. non-citizens, language police and criminal sentences for pro-Russian activists. EU looks some other way all the time. See for example https:&#
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by egao1980 4y ago
So now when the government hacks your website it's called - "scanning for vulnerabilities".
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by egao1980 4y ago
Big city life is too busy, too hard, and too volatile to have a space and time for a decent hobby. But people still manage to have it occasionally.
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by egao1980 4y ago
Barcelona's blocks are nice but won't work as a mostly pedestrian self contained urban unit. People have to work and get social services outside those blocks. If you scale them up a bit, add infrastructure, add workplaces and make
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by egao1980 4y ago
USSR had implemented this idea and it worked fine while factories / companies were providing accommodation in the walking distance along with all the necessary services - schools, hospitals, kindergartens and shops. I doubt that it wou
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by egao1980 5y ago
Unfortunately lower indoor temperature leads to excess mortality as stated in UK report - https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/excesswintermortalityinengla...
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by egao1980 5y ago
There are some people who would see this as an opportunity to abuse EU migration laws. Some people fear to lose their outsourcing jobs. But the numbers are low. Also West is definitely attacking Russians and not Russian government now. How
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by egao1980 5y ago
It's actually not the last day but a temporary suspension. Russian market is quite large and attractive to likes of IKEA and they will try to return when the hype is over. But some would be displaced by that time by the other companies
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by egao1980 5y ago
Only false information will get you a fine or a criminal conviction. If you report facts backed by hard evidence you'd be safe. To get 15 years you'd need to create some fakes on purpose that led to for example mass casualties at
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by egao1980 5y ago
1) It's not forbidden to control foreign company - you have to report it in 3 months time. And potentially pay taxes if there's no double taxation agreement. 2) That 80% is for corporations bringing funds into Russia as foreign c
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by egao1980 5y ago
Not really. SWIFT is just helps to make transaction fast. There are alternatives that include Russian and Chinese systems. And you can always use phone, fax, etc. Disconnecting Russia from SWIFT will a) create short term hiccup in transacti
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by egao1980 5y ago
SARCASM: ON It's time to cancel Quantum physics and wave equation in particular. Almost nobody understand it anyway. Along with macBooks and iPhones. SARCASM: OFF
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by egao1980 5y ago
The Navalny's team promised to remove personal data tracking only on 8th of September 2021 (i.e. https://www.dw.com/ru/umnoe-golosovanie-otkazhetsja-ot-sbora... ). And the case against the app was opened way before
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by egao1980 5y ago
For curious - LinkedIn is banned in Russia for exactly the same reason.
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by egao1980 5y ago
As far as I understand those apps were illegally gathering and storing personal data - real names and addresses - storing them abroad - which is no-no not only in Russia but in EU (GDPR). In terms of voting - people can still lookup candida
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by egao1980 5y ago
Seeing increasing number of non-tech related political posts here. Is it HN or ZH?
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by egao1980 5y ago
Though bears are not koalas I wonder why there's no compassion campaign in the worldwide media? Nobody gathering financial aid and doing any other such things.
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by egao1980 5y ago
So basically Capitalism silently kills 745k in a year. If this figure raises up to 1910s levels we'll see Socialist revolutionary wave once more.
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by egao1980 5y ago
In 2016 Ukraine downed Belorussian plane using fighter jet threats. Nobody cared. https://www.refworld.org/docid/58407f0a4.html
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by egao1980 5y ago
On 21st of October 2016 Ukraine did the same to Belavia flight, including fighter jet etc. I haven't heard of any international uproar or calls to ban Ukrainian air companies / avoid airspace.
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by egao1980 5y ago
In Bolivian case the search was highly illegal and constituted casus beli. In Belorusian case all formal legal procedures were followed.
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by egao1980 5y ago
My daughter plays guitar and violin and this is a very common issue. Moreover Youtube automatically labels some original performances as if they use third-party soundtrack. Both annoying and flattering.
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by egao1980 5y ago
How dare they use humour! Sarcasm is a secret weapon of Russian trolls and should be banned. When group of people is eager to punish dissent but stopped by Irony Curtain.
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by egao1980 6y ago
more responsibility under US and other nations' laws. Basically publisher is liable for publishing hate speech - platforms are not.
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by egao1980 6y ago
yep, you can still post whatever hate inciting texts about Russians for example.
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by egao1980 6y ago
HP x360 13 with Ryzen - 799 and you have a 2-in-1 that you can use at work and play recent games at home. Install Docker and run Linux if you like that option.
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by egao1980 6y ago
Lenovo and Microsoft had started to release ARM devices way before Apple.
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by egao1980 6y ago
M1 pushes users further to mobile phone mentality - no more universal computing, data interoperability. Welcome to a massive vendor lock. I doubt it will run any modern games.

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