tanyatik

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by tanyatik 5y ago
> I'm describing an effective heuristic to help me accurately predict the future. Accurately predict the future, huh? Are you a fortune teller? What you’re describing is nothing more than a hurtful bias, and please call it as such.
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by tanyatik 5y ago
I don’t understand this logic. How is it in interest of the propaganda machine to make it appear that common people are against Putin? Surely they want to portray that majority like him and support his actions (which is also why they manipu
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by tanyatik 5y ago
Who are “we”? Sure, for an average internet user the joke is nothing, but for people who are the butt of the joke this has series consequences
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by tanyatik 6y ago
Navalny does have a lot of enemies: if you look at this page https://fbk.info/investigations/ (use Google translate), you will see mentions of dozens of people. He keeps investigating into them in great detail and expo
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by tanyatik 6y ago
> I'm from Russia, and I feel pain when people mix my country and my my country corrupt and criminal government +1000 - it often feels that people geniunely don't see any difference.
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by tanyatik 6y ago
It seems that this stereotype is too generic and sweeping to be useful even if it was true. Instead we could use facts that are already known about e.g. Putin -- that he's an individual for whom sowing fear is more important than not b
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by tanyatik 6y ago
We are a lot less different from you than you think.
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by tanyatik 6y ago
> Russians apparently have no appetite for such an uprising today > Many Russians would disagree with you [1]. And would you have appetite if you would be treated like the protesters are treated in Russia? [1]: https://www
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by tanyatik 6y ago
Erica: https://obsidian.md/about
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by tanyatik 6y ago
Is it even ethical to shop on Amazon for non-essentials these days? There are big concerns amid worker safety. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/technology/coronavirus-am...
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by tanyatik 7y ago
I think what helps me the most is trying to focus as much as I can at what I can do and what's in area of my control. For me, it's making sure I have followed the recommendations of health organisations in my country, making sure
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by tanyatik 7y ago
YouTube would be one prominent example; Wikipedia, Google search & hosting, Twitter are all popular. There are also media of a more liberal nature who can’t comfortably host in RuNet / being registered as Russian companies, so they
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by tanyatik 7y ago
This looks cool! 250K players is impressive. Are those real players or bots? Interesting to know more about performance too, what is your rate of update per second? How long does it take to process a tick? Do you have a tech blog? Would be
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by tanyatik 7y ago
> As for my programming skills, I can safely say they are top 1%, as I can often ignore inquiries from say FB HRs. Oh man, I wish this was an accurate measurement of programming skills :D