optimalonpaper

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by optimalonpaper 5y ago
> I'm just a normal person, I want to live a normal live with my wife and kids, I didn't choose any of that. That's what 2000+ civilians who died since 24th of February felt and wanted. They didn't choose to die. But
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by optimalonpaper 5y ago
> Would you, personally, put your life at risk just to be one more protestor? I could share you a video of unarmed Ukrainians protesting against russian invasion today in Kherson in front of russian tanks. If I felt I was responsible for
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by optimalonpaper 5y ago
This might be true (as horrible as it sounds - and many people in Ukraine think exactly this), but I still hope that a vocal minority acting together could start something new - and then we could see another, better Russia (Russia that retu
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by optimalonpaper 5y ago
To the same degree that russians are responsible for the political regime they live under -- it's the result of their inactivity and tolerance of the horrific things that are happening right now, no? Of course if you're in North K
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by optimalonpaper 5y ago
> if you’re an average Russian with few/no international ties, would you really risk protesting against a government with a demonstrated track record of murdering dissidents and imprisoning protestors? I think one has to decide what
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by optimalonpaper 5y ago
No one thinks that a regular Ivan from some russian city (on his own) is responsible for the war and should suffer. And I see how you could (and probably should, at some level) feel sorry for russians fleeing the country. But this is the on
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by optimalonpaper 5y ago
I started with R, but then switched to Python because all pipelines were already written in Python (web-scrapers, some data-processing scripts, REST APIs), so I just learned pandas and it's been fine, although I do think dplyr's s
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by optimalonpaper 5y ago
Then again, when you live near Russia, it's a constant stress. So the last thing I'm worried about is my job haha
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by optimalonpaper 5y ago
Changing the perspective helped a lot, as others have said: treating job as just a job. 1. Remove stress - as I'm working with data, I tried to automate as much as I could, so I really don't have situations when you need to build
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by optimalonpaper 5y ago
I'm reading all these comments and keep asking myself if I'm missing something, because I honestly sort of like pandas' API? Sure dplyr is nice -- it felt that way on rare occasions that I got to use it, at least -- but you g