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by rmind 5mo ago
Well, naturalisation in most EU countries would involve some other requirements: language knowledge (you'd have to pass an exam) + civic/constitutional exam or integration test + naturally, no criminal record, etc + some countries
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by rmind 5mo ago
Can you give some specific examples? I would say that, unless you have some additional qualifications (European ancestors, EU spouse and similar), the majority of EU countries actually don't make it that easy. Of course, it depends on
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by rmind 5mo ago
While each EU country has its own immigration rules, there is an EU-level route for the highly skilled workers, called the EU Blue Card: * https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/migration-and-asy... * https:/
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by rmind 5mo ago
Ironically enough, Vilnius is now a very beautiful, safe and high quality of life city that is a better place to live than, probably, quite a lot of American cities.. How times have changed..
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by rmind 11mo ago
Nice. Any plans to add support for affine transformations and perspective transformation (warp)?
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by rmind 11mo ago
Well, it is not really a new problem. Stopping-starting nuclear power plants is also slow and costly. Pumped-storage hydroelectricity and industrial batteries are good ways to solve it at the grid level. In addition to the possibility of so
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by rmind 1y ago
For an academic reference, they should have quoted "Code Inflation" (Holzmann, 2015). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=705...
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by rmind 1y ago
It was the case during the Soviet occupation and briefly during the transitional period, but otherwise - no, it wasn't. For example, in 1990, Latvia simply restored its 1922 constitution (still in effect today, although with some amend
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by rmind 1y ago
"Removing Russian from their list of official languages"? It was never an official language in the first place.
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by rmind 1y ago
You are counting from some early planning phases. Compare, for example, how long it took for the UK to build High Speed 1 line. It's worth noting that the non-HS standard gauge (part of Rail Baltica I) between Poland and Lithuania (up
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by rmind 1y ago
The work is very much ongoing in Lithuania: 114 km of railway is under construction, with tracks already laid in large parts of it. That is 43% of the initial phase (links to Poland and Latvia). Let's keep in mind that it's not ju
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by rmind 3y ago
Baltic States can disconnect already in case of an emergency. The infrastructure is ready, several tests have been conducted. Lithuania wanted to disconnect already, but Estonia pushed for more conservative approach: they want more synchron
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by rmind 4y ago
PDF version here: https://kam.lt/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Assessment-of-Thre...
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National Threat Assessment 2023 by the State Security Department of Lithuania(vsd.lt)
2 points by rmind 4y ago|1 comments
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by rmind 4y ago
As a guy born in the Netherlands, you have incredibly poor understanding of the European security and geopolitics. Let me answer point to point: > I don’t want this war to continue. Nobody wants, but it's Russia who started it. Russ
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by rmind 4y ago
Interestingly, they didn't talk much about the information domain this year in the executive summary. However, an example from the report: Russia uses cyberattacks to support its strategic objectives (e.g., causing fear and weake
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by rmind 4y ago
Certainly yes, but for debug builds and tests. It can be heavyweight for production.
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by rmind 4y ago
rvault for small documents: https://github.com/rmind/rvault It uses envelope encryption with one-time password (OTP) authentication. I like to store data on the systems I own and just run backups regularly.
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by rmind 4y ago
World War II wasn't just Germany. As a matter of fact, Poland was invanded jointly by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. I think you partly missed the point. Anyway.. It is certainly important to de-escalate, but it cannot happen under
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by rmind 4y ago
The civilized world must respond, no questions about that. However, the idea of "WW3" is wrong and helps the Russian regime to instigate the fears in our societies. Unfortunately, it was echoed even by some top politicians. Let&#x
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by rmind 4y ago
Russia won't but the West will. If you have a clear cut case of contract breach, then it's pretty straightforward to confiscate the property via courts and so on. The sanctions, on the other hand, are more complex, they might invo
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by rmind 4y ago
Doesn't it? [1][2] suggest that Germany paid $25bn for fossil fuels to Russia in 2021, where a large portion of this must be gas. The cost of building Nord Stream 2 was less than €10bn and some of that was probably covered by Germans.
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by rmind 4y ago
I think they calculated that the Nord Stream projects are pretty much dead in the current circumstances. It was a political project to start with. Also, I think it is a statement to EU: your underwater infrastructure is not safe.
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by rmind 4y ago
As I wrote in the post above, they still retain the levarage through the Druzhba [1] and Yamal [2] pipelines (passing via Belarus and Ukraine). These combined have a MUCH greater capacity than Nord Stream 1. [1] https://en.wikipe
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by rmind 4y ago
Because they would have to pay billions for not delivering the gas due to the breach of contracts. Legally, you cannot turn off the taps just because. Moreover, Russia can still supply very significant quantities of gas via Belarus and Ukra
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by rmind 4y ago
So far the most plausible theory is that Russia sabotaged the pipelines for two reasons [1]: 1) to claim force majeure and avoid massive penalties Gazprom would have to pay for the breach of contract (we are talking billions here; now they
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by rmind 4y ago
I have to say "Eastern European" is a quite poor and unhelpful generalization nowadays. It is ethnically and linguistically diverse: Slavic, Baltic, Finno-Ugric, Romance (Romania) as well as Albanian and Hellenic. It is religiousl
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by rmind 4y ago
https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/Vim.html
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by rmind 4y ago
It is very easy to say, retrospectively, in year 2022, that the decisions were horrible. You are talking about the language and decisions made in 1970s. The knowledge was different. The computers were different, their capability was differe
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Lithuanians crowdfund €5M to buy a combat drone for Ukraine(businessinsider.com)
13 points by rmind 4y ago|0 comments

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