vanusa

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Uber funds new lobbying group to deny rights for gig workers(theguardian.com)
3 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
There is no "data", let alone primary data about these things. The authoritarian nature of the governing system in Russia makes it nearly impossible to gather such data. Is she suggesting that there is no conflict in Donbas for t
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by vanusa 5y ago
If they stop being neutral soon enough they will stop being global. Right, but then situations emerge when it is no longer possible to be neutral.
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Binance CEO resists calls for ban on all Russia crypto transactions(theguardian.com)
4 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
I'm still not sure if its normal or I'm below average quality. You may be below average at interviewing , but that doesn't say anything about your value as an engineer (or whatever your profession is). The two skill sets (
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by vanusa 5y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by vanusa 5y ago
So we invented this story that Russia was bent on aggression in Eastern Europe. Putin is interested in creating a greater Russia, or maybe even re-creating the Soviet Union. There's no need to "invent" what Putin has very c
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by vanusa 5y ago
https://archive.fo/R04Rn
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Russian Troop Deaths Expose a Potential Weakness of Putin’s Strategy(nytimes.com)
8 points by vanusa 5y ago|1 comments
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Russian attack on Odesa aborted (possibly due to mutiny): for how long?(kyivpost.com)
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by vanusa 5y ago
Flagged for being probably unsubstantiated, and contradicted by other reports.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Obvious troll, as indicated by the inversion of the wording used in the title ("air offensive") into Putinspeak ("demilitarization").
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by vanusa 5y ago
Unfortunately we know all too well what will happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(1999%E2%80%9...
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Ukrainian drone hits Russian missile launchers north of Kyiv(youtube.com)
10 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 28, 2022(iswresearch.org)
9 points by vanusa 5y ago|5 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
Beyond creepy. And if this takes off -- we can be sure that the inevitable reduction in human staff (especially in stores in or near working class neighborhoods) is going to play really, really well for Amazon.
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‘The damage is done’: Russians face economic point of no return(theguardian.com)
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by vanusa 5y ago
Whataboutism, basically.
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by vanusa 5y ago
I would encourage anyone trying to help to make their own decisions and research their own local laws. And be aware also that if such a group is accessible to casual outsiders - it is almost certainly being surveilled and infiltrated.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Almost certainly they are aware of the risks, and the use of these channels is definitely not in accordance with standard operating procedure. That is, to be used only if there is really no alternative available.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Possibly of interest to this thread: Russian bank Tinkoff now offering to exchange rubles for dollars at a rate of 171 rubles per dollar. It was 83 before the European/US announcement about targeting the Russian central bank. Cur
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by vanusa 5y ago
So why should the 4-month future rate (30 percent) determine the spot more strongly than the 1-month rate (20 percent)? When the latter has 100x the volume?
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by vanusa 5y ago
If we define willingness to cram, cram, cram as "conscientiousness" - then sure. The idea that this is a meaningful proxy for "ability to get things done" -- about that I'm not so sure.
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by vanusa 5y ago
The Russians assassinated the Chechen leader on his way to peace talks 26 years ago. Assassinated he was, but he wasn't en route to peace talks at the time.
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by vanusa 5y ago
and then apply that information on-the-fly to questions they won't know in advance But that's the whole point of LC grinding: to claw your way through enough of these problems until, lo and behold... there ends up being an 80 pe
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by vanusa 5y ago
The table describes RUB futures - no the current RUB. And the volume on these settles is quite small.
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Ukraine Conflict Update 10 (Feb 27)(iswresearch.org)
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by vanusa 5y ago
The BBC has a pre-prepared version of the Queen's obituary, for example. Aside from obituaries, we were talking about. I know Australian government departments regularly prepare media releases that never happen (from friends in thos
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by vanusa 5y ago
Locals throwing Molotov’s coctails on passing Russian vehicles And not very effectively, as the video indicates.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Nobody "knew" what would happen. Some had very strong hunches. But that's not the same as "knowing".

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