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> I played on release for the free month, hit lvl 60 and sold my account for ~$750.

Might be the fact that you just power leveled through it.

I played UO and remember when starting on WoW it felt "dumb".

Like people or monsters didn't steal your items when you died like in UO. In UO that mechanic would make me very careful to venture outside of cities but also lead to interesting situations when some random monster steals your stuff and you need to go back to find hunt it later. But in the end, it also meant that in WoW I could focus on the adventure and not worry about someone stealing my stuff.

I think WoW did well by simplifying the mechanics and having more developed storyline which then helped people immerse in it more approachable or enjoyable way. I even read the lore on the internet and the books later, and I think all of that added more. I always enjoyed the questing and adventuring to new places the most, not that much about trying to min-max every aspect of the process.
It was a bad idea in the 1930's and it's an even worse idea now, with the globe being more interconnected than ever.
just ask to be arrested.

i guess they can cuff you and scan your face anyway then. but maybe not.
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It is also getting much harder to do controlled burns because of climate change. The ideal weather conditions are getting rarer.
Half of Russia supports an invasion. A minority is opposed. Was a poll
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Idol temptations on the Adriatic: On two great twentieth-century poets
Case in point: Last year, 18-year-old Andrey Esipenko beat Carlsen in classical time controls. It was Carlsen's first classical loss against a teenager in 10 years, and his first loss to a sub-2700 player in 5 years. It was also just 3 months after Carlsen's record-breaking streak of 125 classical games with no losses came to an end.

There was a big buzz in the chess world at the time, but it was hardly front-page material for mainstream media.

That said, of course, newsworthiness is not a competition - so congrats to both youngsters for their awesome achievements. The upcoming chess generation is looking promising! (I expect we'll see similar headlines for Alireza Firouzja someday soon)
I'd be surprised if the USA started an all out nuclear war no matter what Russia did to Ukraine.
No. The Russian people are accountable.
How exactly is saving your crypto passphrase, passcode in a password manager disappointing?
Russia and China have a deal to back each other’s despotic regimes on the UN security council. No matter what Xi says, he will back Putin.
>I wish US security services didn't spend last 6 years working hard on having their credibility on anything regarding Russia sacrificed to near-sighted political goals. I wish US politicians didn't use "Russia" as a cheap smear to throw around when they couldn't think of anything better. Maybe if they didn't spend 6 years crying wolf, when the real wolf came, we'd be a bit more ready.

Heck, you still have dragonwriter elsewhere in this discussion connecting this war with Brexit, Trump, and even Catalonian separatism. Catalonian separatists will be amused to hear that they are all Russian stooges, or something.
If the war is seen as something distant that has no impact at all on the average Russian's life will they actually care about it or will they just ignore it?

To be clear I don't wish anything bad for the general Russian population, among which I have many friends, let alone Putin's opposition. And this may not be the best strategic idea, but it's a possible one that fits the theme of this community - so I think the snarkiness is uncalled for.
Well I'm curious what you're doing to help Ukraine?
We aren't sending troops to Ukraine so that's irrelevant.
It's possible for nuclear powered thugs to be beaten off. Just look at the Taliban. Destroying things is easy, but maintaining control is hard
I think you will be fine unless you are over trained. As long as your cico is balanced, I don't think there is anything wrong with that.
What you're witnessing right now are the deathroes of the dictatorships like Russia and China with its aging leaderships. These dictatorships know that their time is limited; the democratic countries are getting stronger and more united. China, the one dictatorship that is supporting all the other dictatorships like Russia or Iran, is going into the final stages of debt/demographic/economic collapse. This is a pivotal time for the citizens of the free world to fight against these dictatorships.

And you can help by asking your government to sanction China. And stop buying goods from China
It's complicated, because the government position on it is a few 'valid' concerns backed up with a lot of irrelevant bullshit about long-dead history. Practically, nobody is going to be stopping this. By deciding on sanctions, everyone in the west made it clear that it doesn't want to fight a war, and the regime is currently too secure to be threatened by internal dissent.

The best realistic outcome at the moment is something similar to what happened to Georgia - occupation of the two territories, a referendum, annexation, and an end to the proxy war.

Whether we are going to get that outcome, or something worse, is, of course, unclear.
Putin has been busy cracking down hard on any descent for the past two years of his bunker dwelling. This round included not only the usual opposition organizations but independent news orgs and even the elites. I believe whatever his plans are it’s been at least a few years in the making
The similarity is that the both the Russians and the Taliban do not allow for self-determination by the citizenry.
Ukraine never had the codes to use those nukes. They didn't give up a functioning deterrent.
Are you suggesting that neighboring countries should go to war to defend Ukraine? If I see a street mugging then I'll call the police but I'm not going to risk getting shot in order to intervene in a random street crime.

This is obviously a terrible situation for the Ukrainian people but at the same time they could have done a lot more to prevent it. They essentially let their military deterrent collapse years ago through a mix of corruption and apathy. If they had had a real combat effective military back in 2014 then Russia probably wouldn't have invaded in the first place.
My understanding is that no one (serious) is defending Russia, but claiming that Ukraine is a new battleground for the West vs. Russia and that the NATO membership proposal/the 2014 coup was antagonistic like the annexation of Crimea. What is wrong with that claim?

Of course what is happening is tragic. We can all agree it should have been avoided, and I am curious if it could have been avoided.
In his 1997 book The Grand Chessboard Zbigniew Brzezinski did say that if Europe went to war again it would start in Ukraine.

Some choice quotes:

“Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.”

“However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.”
Kharkiv, 25 miles to Russia.
Just want to say that we are strong, we are confident about our army and I hope that everything will be fine.
I'm sorry that I share content like this on this platform, but that's my reality
The fact that a portion of the US political population is under active measure psyops compounds the current circumstances.
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I have a strong feeling that the US has missiles stationed in both Japan and Korea, which is about the same as putting them in Taiwan for this comparison
I just learned about the Azov battalion about 15 minutes ago, but I can't find any sources online that indicate them having more than a few hundred volunteers.

The US has a knack of dumping weapons on countries and having those weapons eventually end up in the hands of reactionaries, but I think at present those reactionaries make up a vanishingly small fraction of the weapons recipients.
US has something to lose. That logic doesn't apply to a caged animal.
OTOH, why does china even allow Apple or Google devices today? Because Chinese people want to purchase these products and at this point there would be pushback if they were suddenly banned.
The key point, whatever incentives exist, is that it was the choice of Ukraine. Fundamentally they had to take the first official step.
While he may be looking for profit, there are many people that are just trying to preserve retirement nest eggs.

It's a valid concern, but probably no point in asking here since there's no guaranteed safe haven.
Please don't take HN threads further into hellish flamewar. This is the last thing we need here, and with comments like this one, what chance is there to avoid it?

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
"... as few web requests as possible..."

That depends on what we agree should be the minimum functionality. On computers with physical keyboards I have always searched YouTube and downloaded from the command line. No youtube-dl, no scripting languages, just a couple of tiny Bourne shell scripts. YouTbe has always made this very easy. The functionality I need is (a) search (b) retrieve textual video information and (c) retrieve video. The only domains required to do that, IME, are (1) www.youtube.com for (a) and (b), and (2) googlevideo.com subdomains for (c). It is possible to use these tiny scripts on an Android phone with Termux. It was surprising to see NewPipe, installed from F-Droid, trying to make requests to the following unnecessary domains:

speech.googlepapis.com
clients3.google.com
clients4.google.com
app-measurement.com
growth-pa.googleapis.com
deviceintegritytokens.growth-pa.googleapis.com
firebaseinstallations.googleapis.com
android.googleapis.com
www.googleapis.com
play.googleapis.com
android.apis.google.com
youtubeei.googleapis.com
suggestqueries.google.com

NB. I block all these and the app still works fine.

I have never tried to use a YouTube app. Perhaps NewPipe is meant to be compared to a YouTube app not to use of the YouTube website. The scripts I write for YouTube are in response to the annoyances of using the YouTube website, including all the gratuitous requests to unnecessary domains.

"[A]s few web requests as possible" depends on what functionality the user wants. For example, if the user must have thumbnails then we must make requests to ytimg.com subdomains. Otherwise there is no need to make requests to ytimg.com subdomains. Because I only want to search, read JSON and download video, I do not need to make requests to the above domains that NewPipe tries to reach.
Why are you saying that? Not all Russians are brainwashed by state propaganda. I think very few Russians who read Hackernews actually support what is going on right now, if any.
To be honest, me and all of the people around me thought that this is too crazy to happen, but here we are.
No innocents are being maimed or killed at the moment. They are striking military targets.

Also, just because an all out war breaks out doesn’t mean life stops. Even during WW2 when Nazis were killing off Jews, people still had to wake up everyday and go to work and make a living just like always. They didn’t just sit around and wait for the war to pass. Hell they even went to parties and danced and fell in love, even as Jews rotted in concentration camps. Life doesn’t stop.

Soldiers still fought and even died on bright sunny days perfect for going to the beach.
Thurb off Google Russia. Looks to be one of their more popular websites.
History doesn’t start in 1930.

Many have argued that it was US intervention in WWI that created the economic and political situations that allowed such a bad outcome to take place in WWII.
For example, here's Nihal Sarin beating Magnus at a blitz game at 16 years old: https://www.chess.com/events/2021-magnus-carlsen-vs-challeng.... Sarin is currently rated #5 on the chess.com blitz leaderboard with an absurd rating of over 3100. Online speed chess is just a different animal - ratings are different, everyone plays lots more games, and even Magnus loses fairly often. These players are all rated high enough to be competitive with Magnus at certain speed time controls, which is my point.
Give it 72 hours. The news cycle is leading the announcements tomorrow and the announcements that will inevitably come next week. If the news is already talking WW3 (and yes, they are) then it won't be long before the UN deploys it's own "peacekeeping forces" and the world goes hot.
Stay safe, brother, my thoughts and prayers are with you. I'm Russian and wholeheartedly despise this outrageous war crime act of our so-called government.
The US would not retaliate militarily if Russia used nuclear weapons against Ukraine. That is not part of US nuclear doctrine. Ukraine is not a treaty ally.
So it boils down to exploiting peoples knowledge and when you look at the dire educational system in many parts of the world, all I can conclude from it, is its just good enough to make you a slave.
Created an account real quick to post this. I would have him look into getting to Romania. They said they will take about 500k refugees from Ukraine. From Romania he might be able to get to the US or wherever your company is.
Any abject suffering that occurs over the next hours, days, and weeks doesn't excuse the historical record of abject suffering imposed by the US military.

It's perfectly consistent to be opposed to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and also reject the myth that the US's military is the only thing that maintains world peace.
Russians who read HN are probably in the minority though, right?

And yeah not everyone listens to propaganda, and there is going to be a lot of diversity of opinion, but propaganda does work and a large percent of the population are going to get duped.
Thanks for the comment, in no way is this meant prejudiced and derogatory, I have worked with many excellent Indian colleagues.
Does anyone have any projections for how this war will go? Is the Ukrainian military powerful? Will this turn into a guerilla war, or will it go the way of total war? Or will it result in total capitulation?

And another key question. What will Western governments actually do? What if the war gets really bad? Does the West actually have the balls to put real, biting sanctions on the regime? And will this crash the economy?
> 1) It matter but not that much. There are 92000 physicians in Canada. Of course, most of them are involved in many other healthcare activities. In general, hospitals have 1 physician for 10 patients which means that only 200 more physicians are required during this time. Probably vaccine mandates have prevented more than that number to even work. Staff availability was one of the reasons why the UK decided to revoke vaccine mandates even for healthcare staff.

Most of this is guesswork. Please provide evidence to back up any of these claims.

> 2) “Trust in government” is something that is thrown around but mostly it is speculation. It was said that Sweden didn't need mandatory lockdowns because Swedes trust in the government but people in the UK do not. And yet, with vaccinations both countries have done well without vaccine mandates. Is Canada really so much different from the UK? I really doubt it. It is probably more similar to the UK than to the USA.

Again, portions of the UK did have vaccine mandates, just not the most populous part. "Done well" is also a difficult pill to swallow given that the UK as a whole saw COVID-19 death rates of 2,359/1M people, Sweden had rates of 1,666/1M people, while Canada has had a rate of 948/1M people. The UK and Sweden also both lag behind Canada in terms of vaccination, at 85%/81% in Canada vs 77%/72% the UK and 77%/75% for Sweden,[2] despite the UK starting their vaccination efforts before every other country.

> My original argument was that vaccination uptake by elderly is that matters the most. And data clearly shows that it is true. For example, Israel despite strict vaccine mandates have poor vaccination uptake by elderly. It could be even argued that vaccine mandates may decrease vaccination uptake by elderly. As you say, Canada introduced vaccine mandates when majority of elderly where already vaccinated so that there was no noticiable slowdown in this group but other countries may have even made this worse by pointless vaccine mandates.

I'm not sure how making proof of vaccination a requirement to do things is going to prevent people from getting vaccinated.
Also, you appear to be completely wrong about Israel, as according to [3] the 60+ crowd are driving the bulk of their vaccinations at 80% with two doses.

If you're going to continue to debate this, please at least research the things you're going to respond with.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_...

[2]: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

[3]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/israel-vaccination-by-age...
How do you make people think?
Thanks for your feedback and questions! Constructor is a great choice for teams using Trello that are feeling the pain of its limitations but don't want to sacrifice its glorious simplicity, or teams using GitHub Issues for similar reasons, or non-dev tools like Notion or Asana looking for something that understands software dev but isn't extremely complex to configure and use. We've been building it for a little over a year now, having onboarded our first customers in Jan 2021 and raised our first round shortly thereafter.

Our differentiator is lightweight flexibility, supported by conceptual models that reflect reality and don't impose one particular way of doing things on teams. Our goal is for teams to be able to "start simple and evolve easily" because for many teams their process is always being adjusted as they grow and mature. Our approach is essentially "Trello is like 90% of what many teams need, let's redesign it from the ground up for software teams and get it to 100%". It's early days but it's an approach that seems to resonate with many teams. At least partly this is because PMs and designers readily understand Constructor instead of being annoyed/overwhelmed, so everyone is happy using the same tool, and that's pretty important (to avoid tool schisms).
This video is what got me into SS13! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ__73b7FUE
Even if they could I think this is a pretty stupid idea if you think about for a half hour or so.
A more reliable option might be to use Firefox for Android with ublock origin. The site UX is not as good, though.
These are laughable numbers, trust me. It's the opposite in reality.
Libya was invaded after giving up nuclear in 2003. Clinton pushed for the invasion as Secretary of State, then she joked about the death on TV.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/11/27/clinton-po...

It should not be a surprise that North Korea refuses to disarm.
This is happening because the sanctions put in place on Russia during the Trump admin were undone haphazardly by Biden. Russia is moving strictly because it knows it has the EU by the short hairs on energy and after the afghanistan exit the US is in a very strategically weak position.

We should be grateful Ukraine does not have nukes. 12 hours ago the world might've gotten 4000C hotter if they did.
It does break YT/Google TOS. Which is why it isn't allowed on the play store.
I can't claim to be intimately familiar with Ukraine, but based on the US's history of funding the most violent psychopaths imaginable, I really doubt it's an accident.

I will also note that in the past, several elements of NATO's high command were former Nazi generals, so I really doubt there's a ton of angst about it internally.
> I remember that idea and unfortunately it is not possible to reach herd immunity with vaccines that do not protect from infection. You need to update the current scientific knowledge. That's why I am saying that vaccine mandates are anti-scientific because they ignore hard scientific facts and are based on la-la land ideas.

Please provide any kind of source or citation for this claim, rather than simply dropping "you need to update the current scientific knowledge" as though what you are stating as fact.
Seems like an exageration. Do you think any country armed with nukes is dominating people as much as British empire, Romans, Mongols did? The fact that Russia (or China with Taiwan and Hong Kong) actually has to fight so hard for one country kind of shows they can't dominate whoever they want.
A “terrible beauty” references Book 2 of the Iliad. Helen of Troy is described as possessing “terrible beauty” - terrible, because it is a cause for war.

The “terrible beauty” (cause of war) here is the martyrdom of his good friends at the hands of the English.

For most of the UKs existence, it included Ireland. Even after the Republic of Ireland was granted independence, the UK sought to treat the ROI as an extension of itself.

Winston Churchill offered Irish President De Valeera Northern Ireland if he committed Irish troops to WWII. De Valeera refused.

Ireland consistently sought to distance itself from the UK military.

To this day, Ireland has refused to join NATO, partially because it would obligate them to defend the UK. (The Irish are less fussy about UK fighter jets defending Irish skies from Russian interlopers).
Once again, things that are trivially bypassed by people who are active in this space, and their programmers should know better than using this line of reasoning that must just be ancient procedure at this point, especially considering the cargo they are tasked to ensure is safe.
...Afghanistan isn't a nuclear state
As far as I can see, only the overhead of throwing exceptions is measured. Not error-checking if's (which might be quite hard to measure).
> who wants the right to express dissent with government policies without being bullied, harrassed, harmed or killed for it.

This is the whole reason we have separate countries and government. Setting your own policy as a country is not supposed to result in war.

Ukraine is standing firm on its sovereignty. A belligerent adversary has started a war because it feels the sovereign country isn't sovereign and can't be friends with certain countries. That upends the whole concept of countries, which further erodes Putin's credibility, if he had any left. He first upended self-determination in his own country, then internationally, and now seeks takeover of an entire foreign country.
nobody is helping ukraine with any military so far. nor NATO nor any other allies. it is sad, but whole ukraine can fall within days.
What decline in soft power?
Also this https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2554
If you are Russian in Russia right now I'd love to hear what the majority public sentiment in the country is.
Thanks for sharing. Good luck, stay safe, and do whatever you think is right for you (which may well be inaction, flight, or that other response).
Absent any evidence that NATO arms were specifically directed towards neo-Nazi groups (and not just groups affiliated with Ukraine's national police, which Azov unfortunately seems to be), I think there's nothing to support anything except it being an accident.

And again, this is from someone who exercises extraordinary skepticism in the context of US international action.
Agadmator is a gem of a content creator.
I think it boils down to this:

1) Some parts of the Ukraine (the Crimea and Southern regions of the Ukraine) have a significant pro Russian population, e.g. they wouldn't protest a lot against Russian influence.

2) On the other hand the Western parts of the Ukraine are more EU/Western aligned, hence they don't want to do anything with the Putin's regime.

From Putin's perspective an independent Ukraine is no-no.
And the West isn't willing to start WW3 over the Ukraine.