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> What's your source for "Russia is exploring crypto for transfers if they get knocked off of SWIFT"? I assume you mean cryptocurrencies of some kind, because obviously SWIFT, СПФС, and CIPS all use cryptography, so that would be too obvious to mention. Right now I think Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency with enough trading volume to handle Russia's foreign exchange needs.

EDIT: If you're looking for a press release from the Kremlin, no, I'm unlikely to be able to get something official from Vlad, only public news sources.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/business/russia-sanctions...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/russia-bi...

https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-could-bypass-president...
Other comments are making comparisons to asset bubbles or governmental money-printing, which is rather different than immediate bald-faced fraud on the part of a single actor.

Do you really think it's that easy? That *nobody else involved in the system ever was like "wait, what if someone tries to defraud us?"? That there aren't various levels of checks and methods to prevent such easy, easy things?

That, say, the FDIC in the US is just telling banks "sure, we'll insure your bank accounts, don't bother sending us verification, we trust you!"

Whenever you hear someone complain about onerous reporting requirements or other such business regulations, remember that those things get put in place to catch shit like this.
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Preventing a direct America vs. Russia conflict is worth much more than $700B
Thanks a lot for the answer! I feel this is a vulnerability on Western side: essentially we are unable to prevent Russia from benefiting of/using our financial/judicial structure while Russia is directly waging war to a democratic country.
$700K in Bitcoin Donated to Ukrainian Military, Russia Evades Sanctions
French (and probably British, although I know it less) doctrine is not MAD - it is to incur "unacceptable damages" to an offender. And 500-ish combined warheads sure sounds like it can achieve that.
Years ago I worked at a company where many people were using Grammarly. One of the top devs took a look at it, and saw that the text was sent to Grammarly's server unencrypted and warned everyone not to use it. Some still did.

At my previous engagement, a large number of staff spoke English as a second or third language, and Grammarly was prevalent. Even as a native English speaker, they wanted me to use it as a sort of proof reader. I'll admit that it caught some of my dumber mistakes, but I never felt comfortable using it. I could have proof-read my work better is all. Perhaps if I wasn't given mind-numbing work, the quality would have been better.
I'm sure NATO could come up with some way of quickly accepting a country as something like a protected candidate, making a pledge to defend them against retaliation during the democratic process of deciding to actually join or not. There would be a strong incentive to continue joining NATO afterwards (or face the pending retaliation), but it would certainly mitigate this bullying posture.
Besides, while twitter pretend not requiring a phone number to register, they effectively do.

So they can do something, because trolls and bots are not that subtle, and can be detected, and ban is effective, because creating an account with a phone number is cheap, but not free.
This is all playing out the way both Trump and Biden intended it (you can find speeches to this effect).

The US is tired of playing world police. They spend massive amounts of money and put their own people at risk to attempt to stabilize the world, but when things go wrong they get all the flak for it. Trump said in 2018 that the US spends so much money on NATO to defend against Russia, yet EU countries (like Germany) put money INTO Russia by buying their energy. Similar logic for the withdrawal from Afghanistan, started under the Trump administration and completed under Bidens. They intended to stabilize the region but just ended up looking like fools when they withdrew, because Afghani forces became reliant on the US for defence rather than building up their own.

EU is going to have to take responsibility for their own safety now. Although it will be painful, I think it's the only sensible way forwards. The alternative would be US stepping into a conflict that's not theirs once again, bearing the economic and social cost for it from all sides and furthering the EU addiction to having someone else defend them.
The points you made don't apply here, because they were already answered - in an answer you completely ignored and were tone-deaf about in order to type again about the dangers of wikipedia. What you have glossed over is that I was talking not about a wikipedia article but the links in the footnote section of that wikipedia article.
I want to keep the conversation substantive, but I also would like for you to see what you've said and see if you think you've contributed to the conversation so far:

"[Russia] has long history of imperialism and anti-democratic actions. Any sane country knows that only safe way is to have reasonable buffer zone against such well known aggressor."
World War II also started with fighting in a specific single are, until suddenly it wasn't in a single area anymore...
You've missed it, just like Biden did. If you leave the US media bubble, you find that the US gov ( not the people per se) have a reputation. So now Putin - and others - can say "See. Told ya so." Because he promised anti-Russia and we delivered it.
This argument is frankly dumb. By that logic, nato would be entitled to demand that Russia gets away from Ukraine, stop engaging with Belarus and it's soldiers leave borders of NATO countries.

Russia borders with nato at multiple places. It should leave those places and create buffer. After all, Russia ia the more aggressive one.
The first sentence of your paper abstract is:

Cryptographic key exchange protocols traditionally rely on computational conjectures such as the hardness of prime factorisation to provide security against eavesdropping attacks. Remarkably, quantum key distribution protocols like the one proposed by Bennett and Brassard provide information-theoretic security against such attacks, a much stronger form of security unreachable by classical means.

This is not wrong, but in my opinion quite misleading. QKD is no replacement for asymmetric cryptography since it requires exchanging a secret key before the communication can take place. This makes it functionally equivalent to a symmetric stream cipher. So why do you mention prime factorization and cite RSA? The security of QKD should be compared to that of the best symmetric algorithms, not that of asymmetric ones.

I have seen this pattern in many talks and papers from the field. Maybe the issue is that the QKD community seems to have almost no overlap with the IT security community. In my experience, QKD people almost never talk about how you would actually use and/or attack a system in practice.
As a German I was today years old when I learned that sweden isnt part of the nato already … like the current secretary even sounds swedish by name … whelp

Edit: really don’t want to sound ignorant here, just that while growing up and traveling around Central Europe there was a strong belief that we‘re all in the same boat and I even remember maps showing all countries (except Switzerland) in shades of „blue“ but … I never looked more deeply into that - until now
I'm so jealous. I tried to learn French a few years ago. I went after it pretty hard with Pimsleur for at least a year and then eventually hired an in person French tutor but we did not click. Things basically collapsed after that.

It was nice to hear about your success with online tutors. Finding speakers was essentially impossible for me. South Carolina is not exactly a hot bed of French speakers.

You may have inspired me to pick up the torch again. Look out Chamonix, here I come!
Once you acquire the capabilities to do the work efficiently with Rust, it's hard not to use it even for smaller CRUD applications. You'll have a stronger, faster system that uses resources efficiently. It's a good tool for team development efforts, too, as you refactor each other's code and quickly find out what requires fixing (way before releasing to production).
Ukraine repeatedly has being asking for strong air defense. This is their weakest stance against Russia that Russia now takes advantage to the full extend. Ukraine does not ask for soldiers.
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I don't understand why Russia, or anyone else, thinks that Ukraine was anywhere near joining NATO. Ukraine had bits of it that were occupied by Russia, specifically Crimea. There was no way Ukraine would have been allowed to join under such circumstances because such occupations would have immediately triggered Article 5. Letting Ukraine into NATO would be tantamount to declaring war on Russia. It was never a real option.

What Russia feared was some sort of non-NATO but friendly partnership deal that might see NATO weapons in Ukraine. Actual membership wasn't the issue.
That’s a great way to apologize for bad cultural behaviour. Are nazis generally ok as well there are just a few bad apples?

100% of Uk based Muslims think making homesexuality illegal would be ok. Are they all just extremists then?
You are aware that after WW2, there were many wars, from korea and vietnam, to more recent ones, form iraq I&II, afghanistan, syria, libya etc.? If you forget about the balkan wars in the 1990s (because those were our, "internal" wars), the only other war here was the nato bombing of serbia (when i was born, we were still one country, yugoslavia), so the last outside agression in our places was caused by nato, ie. mostly americans.

Yeah, sure, propaganda, "protecting the freedom"... but whose freedom was USA protecting when they attacked afghanistan? Why did they even attack it? Look at iraq for example... and the "weapons of mass destruction", that were never to be found. Russians say that they're protecting their own minority in ukraine, but atleast they have a minority there, compared to nato, who couldn't even plant WMDs in iraq. In the end, we all know that it's for resources and war-strategic causes.

Both historically and statistically, we have more to be afraid of americans here, than from russians.
If you're writing software that will be long-lived with multiple developers, the safety, correctness and strict type system is absolutely necessary for maintainability and refactoring purposes alone. Even for a CRUD app (maybe especially for a CRUD app as you're marshaling objects of different types around, usually), and even when runtime speed is a secondary concern.
Ukraine is not a member of Nato. Reconsider the logic in your line of thought.
> Almost every time I've ever tried to silence the type checker (in any other language) it resulted in a bug.

What does it even mean? You can't silence a type checker.
Thanks for clearing this up for me!

> unless the banks have mutual accounts with each other that they can use to settle instead.

So this is just based on trust that the other bank will keep a truthful score of the transfer, and there won't be a dispute at settlement time?

If the banks are often willing to trade with each other "on trust alone" like that, I suppose that shows why the Feds can't always directly block dollar transfers, but have to rely on threats of account freezes.
Freezing Nord Steam 2 was an obvious consequence. It must have been priced in to what ever calculation Putin is making. It wasn't in operation yet so it's not clear to me that it has any significant financial impact.

Similarly, assets belonging to Putin and his supporters will have been well hidden before this kicked off.

I agree though, the one positive light is the protests and people putting their lives on the line to come out against the invasion.
I'd say Pornhub is also pretty popular too. Don't ask me how I know it.
Ukraine complying with Russia would also stop Putin from attacking Ukraine.
Heh, nice title.

Guess we'll have to start distributing software via magnetic tape again!
Tracking you down retroactively is very different from freezing your bank account so you miss your rent payment. Also, generally, no, fiat-currency cash transactions are not completely traceable, and in practice there doesn't seem to be a Bitcoin-oriented equivalent of https://cdn.occrp.org/projects/suisse-secrets-interactive/, at any rate not yet.
The thing is, the two instances do not "behave" differently. They only output different values based on the same process. Behaviorally they are identical.
The followup question is: how do we prevent the powerful members of the society from abusing the anonymity (fake news, fake support, corruption, other kinds of sybil attacks) that is intended for the weakest ones?
That spanish channel is so awesome!

Do you have any resources for something similar in Dutch?
That blog post is making a fundamental error, taking down the power grid isn’t the same as taking it out.

Things are setup to fail safe which preserves equipment but defaults to turning everything off. Getting significant parts of the grid up again should take days even if your stuck with rolling blackouts for years.

Further, EMP isn’t a magic wand that instantly destroys all electronics, there is a huge range of sensitivity not just based on type of equipment but also if it’s running and the orientation it’s in. Taking out farm equipment that’s off is really difficult. The actual nukes are a much larger threat.
even though the package says 3.6 and up for Python, its using importlib.metadata which was introduced in 3.8. https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.metadata.html

You're using 3.7 here.
what's wrong with that? surely a c developer would know their tools. I wouldn't call it a stretch to ask if a java developer could explain maven
> Putin's now threatening Finland and Sweden should they dare join NATO

do you have a link i can read up on? I would imagine everyone is running to the safety of NATO now and i can totally see Putin saying "if you try then you're next".

> ...then it's basically WW3. If that's what it takes to get rid of this maniac then so be it but the consequences for everyone will be severe.

"severe" would be the mildest term possible to describe what would happen heh
I decided to run a binomial on it, because these sort of things can be quite counter-intuitive, and I was also curious! My only assumption was a lifetime of 80 years. And it turns out the magic rate to get a 40% criminal injury expectation (over a lifetime of 80 years) is if you're in an area with a violent crime rate of at least 6.4 crimes per 1000 people per year.

The FBI gives [1] a national violent crime rate (in 2019) of 366.7 per 100,000, so 3.7 per 1000. However, in the 90s the violent crime rate peaked at 7.6 per 1000 [2] and wouldn't fall below 6.4 until 1996. So the conclusion is that his numbers seem pretty much spot on.

Of course it's also somewhat misleading in another way though. Violent crime is not normally distributed and influenced heavily by demographics and location. Detroit has an aggravated assault rate (which is just one component of the criminal injury rate) of 15.2 per 1000 people, while Irvine, California has a rate of 0.2 per 1000 people. It's one of the many cases where the average doesn't really tell you anything at all about your own chances for an outcome.

[1] - https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

[2] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-...
It wouldn't be the first time two nuclear powers fought in a country bordering one of them. Chinese and American soldiers fought in Vietnam.
Why? It seems like simple, reliable and trivial.

It is not hacky, it is essentially how stateful outgoing-only firewall is supposed to work for UDP.
There are several chemistries that are good for stationary batteries.

Lithium is interesting because it allows to produce lightweight batteries, usable in mobile phones, flying drones, and cars. For immobile land batteries, and even for larger sea ships, using batteries that weigh 2x is not a problem. Especially if they cost less per kWh stored.
FB is reportedly inaccessible in Russia (Roskomnadzor message is shown).
It's not a reasonable position.

It's like me telling my next door neighbor they can't be friends with another neighbor. It's none of my business, and I'd be an asshole for demanding it.

It also places Russia in direct violation of their own agreements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
> A fake guarantee, because it is impossible to actually enforce it for every filesystem in use.

For some time now the situation is that a POC exists which works just fine against C++ programs, but no longer works against Rust programs with current Rust. That seems much more like a real guarantee to me than a fake one.

> If Rust safety goals is to be dependent typed safety language

Rust does not offer full-blown dependent types today, and so far as I know has no plans to do so, although it would be convenient if it was easy (it isn't easy).

But (safe) Rust does have working type safety and this already meaningfully makes us safer as I explained already.
I think anyone with knowledge of how badly Iran has been hit by sanctions would understand that they have a very punitive effect.
>In the 2000s and 2010s Russia lowered bandwidth on Western social media (and webmail) platforms to promote local alternatives.

> It worked and most Russians are not on Facebook, twitter and reddit

As a Russian, it's the first time I'm hearing about it. Do you have a source? My impression was that the early local alternatives became more popular because they were better tailored to local realities (better localization, more detailed maps and suggestions etc.), it happened way before the government started slowing down some social networks in the late 2010's. For example, Google search initially failed to account for grammatical declension of Russian, and Yandex beat it by several years (i.e. Google would simply match words as is). Google Docs wasn't aware Ё is a letter and its spellcheck marked all words with it as a spelling error. Or when it tells you the best shop nearby to buy toothpaste is in Oklahoma. There was simply lack of investment in Russian localization because our market wasn't very important to the US. I was one of the early adopters of VK (Facebook's alternative) in 2006 and I remember Facebook wasn't even on my radar (I don't think I heard about it that much), a friend of mine simply sent me a link to VK, I got hooked and invited many more friends of mine. Zuckerberg visited Russia to promote Facebook in 2012 for the first time (the year they finally started a campaign to improve localization for Russia), but it was 6 years late. Youtube's alternative, Rutube, failed because they had nothing new to offer (in fact, I tried to use it, and it was a miserable experience) and Youtube was already widely popular. I honestly don't know why Twitter never took off here, no one uses it and there are no Russian alternatives either. What I want to say is that the local alternatives became popular long before Kremlin's crackdown on the Internet, it happened pretty organically.
What's the point of NATO if we just defend other countries who don't meet our requirements of NATO?

NATO is _already_ in a tough spot, many countries will fail the 2% spending on defense requirement (though I'm sure Russia is making them reconsider). We can't just be throwing NATO's guarantees around to countries who didn't make it into the alliance yet.

NATO is an alliance, and a defensive alliance at that. The line is literally drawn at Poland and Romania right now. We are debating if that line should include Finland and Sweden.

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There are several requirements to join NATO:

1. The country must want to be part of NATO (and neither Finland nor Sweden wanted to join until recently).

2. The entire rest of NATO must accept them.

3. A few other things, but #1 and #2 are probably the most important. If we get those two things figured out, everything else is cake.

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That being said: support to Ukraine economically and militarily (military aid) is still on the table and looks like its happening. Ukraine will fight its own war, but they can use our weapons while doing so.

That was enough for France when it helped USA during the 1700s Revolutionary war, and the USA certainly remembers France's help in those troubling times. The "Arsenal of Democracy" approach. We likely will offer that to Finland / Sweden if they get attacked by Russia before they join NATO as well.

But getting our blood directly involved in other people's wars is still a very difficult prospect. USA shouldn't overcommit, nor should NATO.
Because if you watched Putin speech, he said Ukraine is not a different country from Russia.
Likely bigger military losses than expected. Likely bigger sanctions coming than expected. China is not staying out of it completely. I'm optimistic for Ukraine delivering a military defeat to Russia, even if it will cost a lot of blood and tears
You can in JS/TS and Python. Technically you could even do it in a language with a fairly strong type system like C# or Java by casting to object or dynamic, though the code using the cast object after that will probably be very unidiomatic.
You'll get nuked if Russia and the West ever are stupid enough to start WWIII.
It’s pretty obvious there are some Russian trolls on here.
>" But I have not heard a really good alternative."

The solution is to enforce your own fucking laws when those are broken by prison stuff and higher ups
"could be valuable as cover for nuclear weapons"

You can't hide a nuclear blast, we have satellites in orbit that detect the flash. Chech the vela incident - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident

"Russia's whole citizenry have been trained and prepared for nuclear fallout, to a much greater extent than most nations seem to prioritize today."

That's not been the case for like 40 years
https://quill.art/ started as a rather unique team at Oculus. But, yeah... Too artsy for FB. So, now it is independently owned by the people who made it.
Chernobyl official: “We are one little step...from destroying our world.”
Thanks for that data point. It makes me feel quite a bit better about eating chickens, and makes me redouble my efforts to wean myself off bacon. I already don't eat pork in any other form, but it's really hard to pass on a strip of bacon at a breakfast buffet.
Who are your troops?
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We generally don't kill animals "unnecessarily". We kill them to eat them. If we could eat them without killing them, we wouldn't kill them.

We also don't kill them "prematurely". We kill them when it's time to eat them, or else to relieve them of pain.

Also, since we're onto wolves, wolves will kill animals and not eat them (see "surplus killing" article on wikipedia). Conversely, wolves will often eat animals without killing them first. Humans at the very least kill our food before we eat it most of the time.
I don't think I was clear in my question. I'm not excusing it, and perfectly willing to call it aggression since that is how I see it. I'm just asking if the standard we apply to foreign aggression is consistent.

In other words, I feel like some people have a consistent standard on what constitutes acceptable aggression depending on who the aggressor is.
I'm in a similar position. Grew up in Denver and then moved to Portland as an adult. Got married and moved to Charlotte. I don't like east coast living as much as I thought I would. Only benefit right now is that a lot of major cities (NYC, DC, Philly, Atlanta) are pretty close that I can actually drive to them in under a day. We're planning on moving back to the west coast soon.