Russian aggression will likely end when the Russian populace gets fed up with their psycho leader. That is a lot less likely to happen if they get cut off from the Internet.

In fact, during the Cold War, the US policy was to try to connect the USSR to the world to force regime change - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Libert...

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Things that used to be hard and are now easy 4 years ago

NLP with HuggingFace

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Ask HN: How do you start a new career with minimal qualifications? 5 years ago

YMMV, but this worked for me. Find an industry you want to work in. Find a small but quickly growing company in that industry. Email the CEO, try to make yourself look as relevant as you can to that company and ask to get coffee. Come prepared with a pitch of what you can do for them.

If you reach out to CEOs directly, you skip HR, so you skip profile screens. Reaching out to medium-large company CEOs doesn't work because they have assistants/are too busy.

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How credit cards make money 5 years ago

Why not write on Substack? I'd love a comments section for your newsletter.

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Hertz orders 100k Teslas 5 years ago

Tesla surges by over $100B on a $4B (revenue) deal, likely at very low margins. Memes galore.

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If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020) 5 years ago

Substack is driving a blog renaissance. A ton of high-quality niche blogs popping up everywhere.

See, for example, https://antonhowes.substack.com/ (I'm not affiliated with the writer, though I am considering switching from free to paid)

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Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul 5 years ago

Your regular reminder that the Taliban offered to surrender in 2001, but Rumsfeld refused.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/07/news/rumsfeld-rejects-pla...

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Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors 5 years ago

I am a big fan of IBKR, but if you want someone who will be there in the morning... Pick someone bigger. Fidelity, for example, is Too Big To Fail. They will get bailed out if something happens. Not 100% sure that Interactive brokers will be.

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Ask HN: How many hours per day do you work? 6 years ago

I am on Slack ready to answer questions for 14 hours a day.

I attend meetings/review PRs/toss ideas around on Slack for 4-5 hours.

Productive work - varies wildly. Some days, when I'm resting after an insane week it's 0 or close to it. Other days it's 8+ hours when it's mad crunch time. A regular day is about 3-4 hours of productive work. My employer is very happy with me, keeps promoting me/giving me raises. I've found that my contributions are generally less measured in LOCs, and more in finding business problems, designing technical solutions for them, and communicating them to non-technical stakeholders.

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