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Grob is either Slavic cognate for "coffin" or German for "rough" :)

Well written. Straight to the point. When poor is a rat race and no room for risk. Any mistake and you're done. Even if you see opportunity you can't afford to try. And hopelessness.

Latvia and Estonia are allowed to have Nazi parades and repress Russian speaking population i.e. non-citizens, language police and criminal sentences for pro-Russian activists. EU looks some other way all the time. See for example https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/outrage-as-s... or https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2019-03-16/ty-arti...

This is not how human rights and democracy should look like.

So now when the government hacks your website it's called - "scanning for vulnerabilities".

Big city life is too busy, too hard, and too volatile to have a space and time for a decent hobby. But people still manage to have it occasionally.

Barcelona's blocks are nice but won't work as a mostly pedestrian self contained urban unit. People have to work and get social services outside those blocks.

If you scale them up a bit, add infrastructure, add workplaces and make it 10-15 walking distance and add public transit links to other such places that will do it.

USSR had implemented this idea and it worked fine while factories / companies were providing accommodation in the walking distance along with all the necessary services - schools, hospitals, kindergartens and shops.

I doubt that it would work in a modern Capitalist society unless we all work from home.

Unfortunately lower indoor temperature leads to excess mortality as stated in UK report - https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/excesswintermortalityinengla...

There are some people who would see this as an opportunity to abuse EU migration laws. Some people fear to lose their outsourcing jobs. But the numbers are low.

Also West is definitely attacking Russians and not Russian government now. How on Earth cancelling Dostoevski, Chekvhov and Tchaikovski is going to stop the war and change Russian government policies? It resembles more to me some early XX century antisemitism that was rampant in Europe.

It's actually not the last day but a temporary suspension. Russian market is quite large and attractive to likes of IKEA and they will try to return when the hype is over. But some would be displaced by that time by the other companies. We've seen this in 2014-2015.

Only false information will get you a fine or a criminal conviction. If you report facts backed by hard evidence you'd be safe. To get 15 years you'd need to create some fakes on purpose that led to for example mass casualties at the war zone.

1) It's not forbidden to control foreign company - you have to report it in 3 months time. And potentially pay taxes if there's no double taxation agreement. 2) That 80% is for corporations bringing funds into Russia as foreign currency. For an individual you'd need ruble to buy things in Russia anyway so it is not a thing to care about.

Not really. SWIFT is just helps to make transaction fast. There are alternatives that include Russian and Chinese systems. And you can always use phone, fax, etc.

Disconnecting Russia from SWIFT will a) create short term hiccup in transaction clearing, b) reduce SWIFT revenues c) force Russia to switch oil/gas contracts to rouble or yuan. This in the long run is not good for euro as a reserve currency and will hurt petrodollar.

SARCASM: ON It's time to cancel Quantum physics and wave equation in particular. Almost nobody understand it anyway. Along with macBooks and iPhones. SARCASM: OFF

The Navalny's team promised to remove personal data tracking only on 8th of September 2021 (i.e. https://www.dw.com/ru/umnoe-golosovanie-otkazhetsja-ot-sbora...). And the case against the app was opened way before that.

For curious - LinkedIn is banned in Russia for exactly the same reason.

As far as I understand those apps were illegally gathering and storing personal data - real names and addresses - storing them abroad - which is no-no not only in Russia but in EU (GDPR).

In terms of voting - people can still lookup candidates proposed by Navalny's team online without breaking the law.

Surprisingly most of them are from Communist party of Russia.

Seeing increasing number of non-tech related political posts here. Is it HN or ZH?

Though bears are not koalas I wonder why there's no compassion campaign in the worldwide media? Nobody gathering financial aid and doing any other such things.

So basically Capitalism silently kills 745k in a year. If this figure raises up to 1910s levels we'll see Socialist revolutionary wave once more.

In 2016 Ukraine downed Belorussian plane using fighter jet threats. Nobody cared. https://www.refworld.org/docid/58407f0a4.html

On 21st of October 2016 Ukraine did the same to Belavia flight, including fighter jet etc. I haven't heard of any international uproar or calls to ban Ukrainian air companies / avoid airspace.

In Bolivian case the search was highly illegal and constituted casus beli. In Belorusian case all formal legal procedures were followed.

My daughter plays guitar and violin and this is a very common issue. Moreover Youtube automatically labels some original performances as if they use third-party soundtrack. Both annoying and flattering.

How dare they use humour! Sarcasm is a secret weapon of Russian trolls and should be banned.

When group of people is eager to punish dissent but stopped by Irony Curtain.

more responsibility under US and other nations' laws. Basically publisher is liable for publishing hate speech - platforms are not.

yep, you can still post whatever hate inciting texts about Russians for example.

HP x360 13 with Ryzen - 799 and you have a 2-in-1 that you can use at work and play recent games at home. Install Docker and run Linux if you like that option.

Lenovo and Microsoft had started to release ARM devices way before Apple.

M1 pushes users further to mobile phone mentality - no more universal computing, data interoperability. Welcome to a massive vendor lock. I doubt it will run any modern games.