thriftwy

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by thriftwy 3mo ago
https://shkrobius.livejournal.com/401292.html offers a fascinating narrative rooted in cell biology
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by thriftwy 3mo ago
I will address some of your concerns. Karl Marx was European. His publisher was European. His early adopters were Europeans. The evidence that Europe cannot be communist is not there. Soviet Union is a pinnacle of socialist achievement. It
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by thriftwy 3mo ago
I glimpsed last years of Soviet Union and it was pretty meh. I remember seeing anything in the street (a payphone or a playground for kids) and assumed it will only degrade because as a general principle, things in the streets are unmaintai
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by thriftwy 5mo ago
Hello! This is Moscow calling. What are you doing with these planes of yours now? Can you pass them under the table for an unspecified amount? Regards £ wishes!
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by thriftwy 6mo ago
As a matter of fact, I didn't.
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Ask HN: How do I make UK and US hosters disown Russian Firewall?
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by thriftwy 10mo ago
https://paulgraham.com/yahoo.html By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in n
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I wonder if you can load a font from base64 string like you can with images. Then, one may write a pure js library which generates such font from a set of rules on the fly. Catered to a specific use case.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> killing political dissidents That's a funny perspective. USSR just before that time mostly killed communist apparatus members¥ and with them innocent people. In such an environment, there naturally won't be too many dissident
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I wonder how the price of solar panels work WRT mortgage: Is there any government- or bank-approved formula for how much solar panels on a house cost? Otherwise why not sell them for $9.99 along with the house?
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I never said that Telegram was censorship resistant , it just does not take proactive steps to delete or restrict content it doesn't like.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I can't remember a single instance where Tg will take down a channel that is too concerning for FSB. After all, Telegram is a worldwide platform and you can directly read Ukrainian news feeds there if you wish so. What would a concerni
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by thriftwy 2y ago
It can even go both ways: nothing prevents Telegram to be blocked in Russia, as well as being used to harvest potentially life threatening info about Russian citizens at the same time. Same for YouTube. If it gets blocked for good, does not
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by thriftwy 2y ago
For one, perhaps because Telegram does not take sides and does not take down Russian content. Perhaps because they had some agreement in the end, perhaps because they simply couldn't. In any case, it is now vital information infrastruc
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Telegram is not blocked and is often the main channel through which people get their news. Whatever stuff you want to see, you may consume there. Indeed, news on the web are going the way of newspapers.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Russian domestic alternatives grew just fine without any blocking. Blocking stuff just angers people and teaches them to use VPN.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Those for whom these odds increase faster are at huge disadvantage whereas those for whom it increases slower are at huge advantage. As you can imagine it is variative. Of course I should have said "those who can bear healthy children
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Evolution at the moment tremendously favors these who can bear children late in their lives. That implies being in full health longer as well. That would surely manifest in a few generations, sans some big civilization collapse. Or artifici
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by thriftwy 2y ago
They've basically lost the market to Zoom due to their failure to have a single stable offering when COVID hit. I hope they're happy with the zoo they have.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Water has huge thermal inertia. Laptops don't. They may freeze quite quickly. Something to bear in mind for the future.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> supply-choked Australia and Canada Made me chuckle as I would imagine these two should be least concern real estate supply-wise along with Russia. "First, a deficit of oil. Then, a deficit of sand."
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by thriftwy 2y ago
> A nationalistic history is always a mythology For smaller nations. Larger nations receive too much scrutiny to get away with having fake history. Then again, they have more resources to try and tweak the history as a science...
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Looks like a good time to check out these ISS - MKAD 19th km marshrutkas' timetable.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
You can only pull it off if the game is real nice, though. Or if it's real good at milking you. Some movies can also sell you some merchandise and a poster and perhaps a second go to cinema. More important, they can also sell IP rights
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by thriftwy 2y ago
The target for AAA is also moving fast so they're not catching their breath.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
I do enjoy some games, but it seems I was never into AAA titles or their 90s equivalents. After all, HoMM3 HotA got an update just this year.
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Дорогой Мартин Алексеевич![1] 1. https://languagehat.com/sorokins-norma/
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by thriftwy 2y ago
The problem is that they are competing with TV series and books. Why pay $200 for a game when that buys a year of premium Netflix subscription or smth like that? Or ten e-books? Only huge hits will be sellable that way. Also, imagine what w
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by thriftwy 2y ago
Most games do not give you near-endless dynamic content anymore. Gone are the days of Master of Magic/Orion. Most "single player" games are basically interactive movies. There's maybe 20 hours of content and that's
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by thriftwy 2y ago
That's just the regions with best economics getting treats of Baumol's effect[1] Countries with mediocre economies often afford child care and gamedev without much trouble, since their productivity is also mediocre hence their wag

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