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Reminds me of the scene with the Mortgage Brokers in The Big Short - "They're not confessing, they're bragging"

On Nordstream explosion "Russia denies responsibility for the explosions. But few doubt that the Kremlin did it."

I can stop reading at this line to know that this isn't journalism, it's opinion at best and propaganda at worst. I expect better from HN.

At this point if Moscow gets obliterated in a Nuclear Mushroom cloud, I expect the next mornings headlines to be "And here's how Russia benefits from this"

The legal class is the big winner in these things - win or lose. Lawyers get paid

“There will either be Russian land, or a scorched desert,” Major General Valery Vasiliev is reported to have told his troops.

Energoatom claims that Ukrainian intelligence services are aware of the fact that Russian forces had rigged the site of the nuclear power plant with explosives.

It sounds terrible....but it's all second hand sources, specifically the Ukrainian Intelligence. The whole story of the nuclear power plant doesn't pass the sniff test and the Guardian article is a bit more critical of it. Why would Russia bomb their own forces that they hold? Why would Russia blow up a nuclear plant in territory it wants to own, next to the Southern heartland of their country.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/08/how-dangerous-...

There are two narratives being told - one to the top brass to increase investment and one to gen population of not to worry we're going to win so don't be a defeatist/pacifist/collaborator.

I've heard this dangerous narrative down playing dangers of nuclear war from people who have never experienced a total war before & are leaning into narratives spread by the military-industrial complex.

However many failures the Russian military may have, all it takes is 1 missile hitting a major city and you'll see more deaths in the US than have been seen in all the wars it fought combined.

I agree - but the decisions on the recruiting process is not on the team, assuming this is a mid-large sized company - that decision could be made miles away from the people interviewing you.

You can write them off based on this, but it's not pragmatic. Downside another hour of their life vs $$$ increase from the role. That 60 mins could be the difference between X00k!

I've seen that happen when they are either

1 - Uncertain about something about you (I imagine technical aptitude), and want to rule out their concern 2 - There are 2 close candidates

Either way you should confirm that it is the final stage, confirm what they'd need to see to hire you and if you are feeling confident maybe use it to negotiate salary!

Sounds like you are close to getting the job though so I wouldn't dismiss it especially if you have no doubts about the company!

I'm saying it's a broad term - forget Russian news. Go ask take a Fox watcher and a CNN watcher to point out what they interpret as "Fake News" and you'll get 100s of differences.

You're splitting hairs when you say down ranking is not censorship - you know full well the impact to a websites traffic once it gets out of the top 3 results let along the 1st page of results.

The fact you started censoring "Russian media outlets" right after the start of the war shows the political nature of your decision, those "limited press freedoms" weren't a concern until Mar 22.

Do you publish the decision making process for how the "non-partisan" decisions on censorship are made - or is this another blackbox? I'm sure Dailymail, New York Post and Al Jazeera are all down-ranked too, considering they meet your "non-partisan factors" right?

Your last statement directly contradicts your tweet on March 10th.

"Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. #StandWithUkraine

At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation."

We get it - you are making these moves because of financial reasons or political pressure....but don't try and play to both sides with the corporate speak.

https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318

This is a quote from you

“[W]hen you search, you expect unbiased results, but that’s not what you get on Google,” @matthewde_silva quotes @yegg"

Seems you're backtracked on being unbiased with the recent announcement of DuckDuckGo censoring sources on the back of the Ukrainian War. Any comment on that - seems like the bigger DDG gets, the further you stray from your initial values

https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1114524914227253249

DuckDuckGo showed face when they start down ranking "fake news".

"The assailant fled up to the street and has not been caught, the police said. He was described as a dark-skinned man, heavyset with a beard, wearing a dark sweatshirt, an orange T-shirt, gray sweatpants and white sneakers."

In one of the most heavily policed areas in the world (Manhattan) how was the shooter able to get away.

Depending on the political leaning of the writer - different types of Mass Shootings are lumped together.

Buffalo was a terrorist event, no one lumps in 9/11 with plane crash figures and writes an article saying "We have high point of X plane crash deaths in 2001" - because that would be intellectually dishonest.

Of the 198 events, how many were related to criminal/gang shootings & how many were random/terrorist type events.

It annoys me when they compare countries and don't consider income tax - you don't pay with pre tax income...

If you earn 150k in High Tax Euro Country you're losing 50% of that. In low tax US state you're closer to 33%. Thats the difference between 75k and 100k.

Blaze it

Yet

Seeing more of this Revisionism of WW2 since the cooling of US-Russia relations (adding to the long time downplaying of Chinese suffering in WW2 vs European suffering)

1 - While Russia was the biggest component, it was the Soviet army - which included Ukraine (and led by a Georgian). So you're tarring both sides of the current war in your comment.

2 - It was a World War, tragic for all parties involved. You look at each side and they had moments of brilliance and absolute disasters. The Soviet Union (nor the UK) didn't have the luxury to sit back and scale their industry because the Axis forces were literally on their front, not separated by an Atlantic Ocean. Would the SU have won without American supplies? We don't know, but to downplay the player who was involved in the biggest military operations of the war that made D Day look like a side battle (Stalingrad, Kursk, Seelow Heights, Leningrad, Operation Bagration, search any one of those) shows a lack of historical awareness.

Edit - Adding to the above - more Civilians died in the Soviet Union than the total combined military deaths of the other Allied Powers. War is hell and shouldn't be romanticised or seen as a solution.

April Fools?

"The fact that the regular replacement of leaders has turned out to be democracy’s strongest feature underscores"

That also assumes power is concentrated in the Leader as much as it is in Russia/China. In the West the President/PM is more of a face than the person with the final say.

If we look at US Policy, the policies that effect the common man, hasn't changed much between Republican/Democrat leadership - especially contentious policies - Erosion of wealth of the lower/middle class, Regime change/Expeditions in Middle East, Reduction of civil liberties/press freedoms/internet.

Serious question - Is putting PoW in front of media a violation of Geneva Convention?

I looked up this fellows Wikipedia, which reads a bit like a marketing blurb, and came across a business I recognised - TransperantBusiness. The reason I recognised it was they were blasting ads on LinkedIn on investing into their pre-IPO company & getting X00% returns - basically read like a scam.

https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/i27oqr/transpare...

Googling his name returns business bandwagoning on every hype - Bitcoin, Remote Working etc. I am fairly certain this is another marketing act.

Pornhub, Onlyfans and Twitch blocked in Russia - surely this is a positive thing for Russia.