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Dang where are you?
This is obviously hyperbole and you're well aware you haven't read 100 million Hacker News comments, let alone that many with exactly the same basic message.

But I was curious what this might be equivalent to in terms of time investment. A quick style guide check recommends 15-20 words per sentence for English language written communication. Assuming the low end of that, and minimal single-sentence comments, that is still equivalent to reading the entire 14-book Wheel of Time series, which tends to take most people several years, 369 times.
I think this is merely an attempt to regain territories that Putin and Russian leadership see as "theirs". These are territories that were previously part of the Soviet Union or Warsaw pact and before that were part of the Russian empire. This is an old and deeply seated belief about what they consider their traditional sphere of influence. This likely includes nations like Poland and Finland which were under the thumb of Russian hegemony until recently in historical terms.

However not all of these nations are within their grasp because many have joined NATO since the fall of the iron curtain. The ones that haven't have mostly been for the most part brought back within Russian influence through political manipulation. Belarus is a good example. The leadership there a little more than proxies for the Kremlin. Ukraine was like that until 2014 when its people chose self determination and overthrew their Russian puppet. This invasion is the result. If Russia can't have its puppet states through non-violent means then it will take them by force.
That might not necessarily be the case.

Look at where they sit strategically. The amount of resources they supply to an increasingly resource hungry world. The amount of math and science talent. The possession of advanced nuclear weaponry.

Look at what they are doing militarily right now and how effectively they are doing it.

They are an extremely significant country. This is true no matter how you feel about their government.
One is a form of government, the other is an economy.

You can have a Socialist Democracy or a Socialist Dictatorship, just like you can have a Capitalist Democracy or a Capitalist Dictatorship.
I think yes. Estonia is part of NATO. Failing to defend them would lead to the collapse of NATO and the end of US hegemony.
You could also sell a few of them every year to petromonarchy to finance the support.
That's the point: nuclear weapons are a much better guarantee of safety than treaties and assurances. Compare what happened to Libya and Iraq to Iran and North Korea and it's clear that the only way to be secure in the modern age is to get nukes as fast as possible, and ignore any threats or offers to the contrary.
> Only a few countries have been electoral democracies for a long time. Eight countries — Canada, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States — have been electoral democracies for a century or more. And according to this data, just two countries have been electoral democracies even longer: Australia and Switzerland have been democracies since the mid-19th century.

Am I missing something? By which measure was the US (and possibly another among the first eight in this list) not an electoral democracy for as long as Australia and Switzerland? All three had significant restrictions on suffrage, with Switzerland particularly regressive in this regard in the late 20th century.

EDIT: I was thinking of Iceland as well, which has a very reasonable claim to be the oldest (continuous and current) democracy along with the US and possibly the Isle of Man, depending on how democracy is defined.
On my banking website I enroll my phone’a TOTP app and my wife’s TOTP app. If I drop my phone in the toilet I can authenticate with her phone.
Ask HN: How do you start researching for a project idea?
How do you start researching for an idea you have? How do you look for if it is even worth the effort, what innovation can be made if a similar app exists?

If you completely don't have an idea, but want to work on one, how do you look for ideas? Do you have a process that works for you, or some resources that help you generate ideas?
> I recommend a different strategy when you encounter annoying processes like this—insist upon following these processes, to the letter, and going through appropriate channels until the system collapses under its own weight.

This is usually not what happens. Case in point: Our company had an easy means to share files with anyone at the company. You could specify exactly who is allowed to see it.

Suddenly IT took that means away, citing security reasons (people were not using it properly). However, all the alternatives they provided were unworkable - and I mean that literally. They only worked within people in the same department, but you couldn't send something to people of other departments.

The files (text) I needed to share were classified as top secret, so sending them via mail attachments (unencrypted) was a no-no according to IT. Encrypting them made them not work on the receiving end (the decryption process was somewhat faulty - although you could view them in the tool, it wouldn't save it properly to disk, so the tools that acted on them failed.

I made a fuss about this and for a few days complied with IT policy and work came to a halt.

But only my work. Everyone else just said "Screw IT" and sent the files unencrypted over email in violation of company policy.

My management isn't going to be sympathetic with me if none of my teammates are on board. And in general, this is how it plays out. Those who find non-kosher workarounds will utilize them, and you'll be in a small camp fighting IT. At your annual review, you'll be the least productive and will get the boot.
If you're main focus is to mostly receive 1-2 video streams while sending 0, then, yeah, I guess bundle vs non-bundle doesn't matter much. I'm pleasantly surprised to hear that 25 PeerConnections work well for you.

About simulcast: why would a sender not support simulcast? Something to do with VP8 hardware encoders?

I'm still interested to hear what you have learned about AQM and the like.
The charging infrastructure is the real killer, you need 1:1 charger to vehicle or some kind of smart charger that can plug into X vehicles and charge each up overnight. There's also the power draw requirements that will take, so it may not actually be able to install sufficient charging on existing sites. There's also the maintenance on the chargers, which is admittedly small. Switching to EV means for the same budget you get say 20% less vehicles (assuming same cost), just because you have to spin up the charging.
It is far less unlikely than it is was month ago
Interestingly one of the things they proved out in this experiment was a new core lining that doesn't get anywhere near as radioactive as the carbon walls they were using before. That was a bit of a big deal in itself: if it hadn't tracked theory as well as it did, it would have invalidated one of the material choices for ITER and knocked it back a fair bit.
That’s pretty close to what Wikipedia says: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine

> The United States would also not have made Ukraine an exception when it came to the denuclearization of other post-Soviet states such as Belarus and Kazakhstan.[9] The deterrent value of the nuclear weapons in Ukraine was also questionable, as Ukraine would have had to spend 12 to 18 months to establish full operational control over the nuclear arsenal left by the Russians.[9] The ICBMs also had a range of 5,000–10,000 km (initially targeting the United States), which meant that they could only have been re-targeted to hit Russia's far east.[9] The air-launched cruise missiles (ALCMs) left by the Russians had been disabled by the Russians during the collapse of the Soviet Union, but even if they had been reconfigured and made to work by the Ukrainians, it is unlikely that they would have had a deterrent effect.[9] Had Ukraine decided to establish full operational control of the nuclear weapons, it would have faced sanctions by the West and perhaps even a withdrawal of diplomatic recognition by the United States and other NATO allies.[9] Ukraine would also likely have faced retaliatory action by Russia.[9] Ukraine would also have struggled with replacing the nuclear weapons once their service life expired, as Ukraine did not have a nuclear weapons program.
The easiest way to do this is to use the inode for naming the link.
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Which becomes a nightmare to look at with no styling: https://jsfiddle.net/wdqjyvsu/

and then it gets complicated very quickly: https://jsfiddle.net/wdqjyvsu/1/

You also have still undiscovered problems: How to let people filter the options if you have lots of them (and don't say ctrl+f because it doesn't restrict the search within the element)? What about lazy-loading if you have lots and lots and lots of them?

Usability is not improved, it takes too much space now. API is even worse. Accessibility is improved contrast-wise but all the tabbing is not very friendly, and try using that with a screen-reader. It takes ages to make a selection.
Ukraine, of all places, appreciates the staying power of radioactivity.
> The young generation who don't appreciate having democracy are bulking at democracy and choosing socialism.

Contrary to what some people argue, "democracy versus no democracy" and "capitalism versus socialism versus communism" are separate axes. For example, there exist capitalist countries with very little democracy. And there exist socialist countries with relatively robust democratic institutions. And the opposite combinations exist.

(There have not, as far as I know, been very many self-proclaimed communist countries with robust democratic institutions.)

The questions that I care about are, "Can the people of the country make a comfortable living?", "Can they successfully petition the government for a redress of their greivances?", and "Does the country protect minorities of various sorts from the tyranny of the majority?" Achieving all three of these can be a challenge, and different countries may vote for more or less safety net.
NK is also a totalitarian regime that does not ask for anyone's consent.

Ukrainian politicians would have to explain the cost of maintaining nukes to their population for the entire time since 1992 to 2022. There were plenty of times when peace seemed eternal.

My own country isn't willing to spend 2 per cent of its GDP for defense, even though it should.
The only way to be safe without nukes is to have some kind of "world police", but nobody wants that (especially naive populists).
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The fallout from air bursts really isn’t that bad. There were 65 above ground tests in Nevada before they went underground and then were stopped all together.

The destruction on site is of course horrific, but far afield the concerns are fairly minimal, unless you’re actively trying to cause fallout.
So Ukraine agreed to denuclearization in exchange for having it's borders recognized and protected by the US and Russia.

It is rather clear the an agreement written by the US is not worth the paper ot os written on.

Iran learned this about denuclearization. Ukraine learned it in 2014.
So basically copy Klarna?
If Ukraine had kept its nukes it would have been destabilizing. It was a big concern at the fall of the Soviet union about all the "loose nukes" in the unstable, newly free former members. It was wisely deemed best to not have a bunch of new (unstable) nuclear states in the club.

We keep calling it a "democracy" to invoke sentiment and sympathy. The fact is that they're quite corrupt, and them having nukes would have been foolish for Europe and everyone.
This attack has been planned for months… EU sanctions have nothing to do with that.
Methinks mental illness is a prerequisite for playing realpolitik on the global stage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
They absolutely will, I have zero doubt. Because otherwise NATO would be completely pointless and this would strengthen Putin even more, making him an even bigger treat for western countries.
> Perhaps I was wrong to expect mention of explicit discsussion of spectral graph theory?

Agreed... if you're going to write down the Laplacian at least demonstrate the null space <-> connected component relationship.

Edit: looks like maybe an undergraduate paper?
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I'm curious what the article's source is for this claim. Naturally, democracy can be defined differently, but there are reputable sources that disagree with this [1], and even if considering limited suffrage to preclude democracy, Australia and particularly Switzerland perform poorly as well.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/countries-are-the-wor...
Of course, but them saying "unless they pointed it way inside Russia" has me thinking they think a single one would look like in a game of Civ
> You can accomplish this with dual licensing (e.g. GPL and commercial), where the user decides which license to fulfill.

This is a good solution, but you have to make ultra-certain that all of your contributors, who may have chosen the GPL, understand that their contributions will be dual-licensed, too. It introduces a barrier to contribution that may be more harmful than good.
> Are the Russian people all willing to die for Ukrainian territory?

Are the NATO people?
Can explain how it works from a user perspective? The website is slim on details. It just has one sentence explaining what it does. I don’t want to install it to find out.

EDIT: I guess the Apple App Store description has the info I wanted
My two cents here is that senior doesn’t mean the same thing at every company. But title inflation is a good way to snag great hires away from other places and retain employees
Russia sold gas to the EU way below spot prices. Nordstream 2 was in focus because of this.

Now that the project is suspended, the EU is importing very expensive Gas from the US.

So basically: the USA gets money for gas, and Russia gets the eastern Ukraine. They both get what they want.

Enjoy the show.
This was pre-invasion to be fair so it'll be telling whether the author will change his mind or be able to perform enough mental gymnastics to find more justifications
>"Believe me, I grew up in a military town."

This of course makes you the ultimate authority. NOT. Actually it means zilch.
"Open source" is an established term, so CC rider in fact breaks it.

Under CC-like conditions the source is accessible, as it is hackable, derivatives are permitted and they are usable. So it is technically "open" in a conventional sense of the word. There are however strings attached, so it's not free or libre. You can't do whatever you want with it, your freedoms are restricted.

On the other hand, it is still more permissive than what's described as "shared source", because the latter doesn't usually allow for changes or even usage.

So there's basically a distinct license category that lies between the "open source" and "shared source". There's no established name for it, but clumping it with "shared source" is not just.
No, that for instance China is free to take Taiwan and that we won't do a thing about it.

The world's police has abdicated a while ago. This is the kind of thing that happens in the vacuum left behind.
Maybe Europe should be spending more money on defense rather than socialism.

The US should absolutely leave and defund NATO of which we pay the vast majority for.
I'm not sure if I'm taking a bait here but the young people talking about socialism almost universally mean the Nordic style social democracies, which represent the most free and stable of all democracies. It's a deliberate misunderstanding and derailment of discussion to equate it with some autocratic communist societies like USSR or Venezuela.
What's the reason ? Spinelessness ?
NATO has no obligation to Ukraine and it'd be a huge defensive liability. And, as we see, Putin would go to war before seeing Ukraine a part of NATO. The chumps here are the Ukrainian leadership and people. NATO made it clear they wouldn't be admitted. Russia made it clear that he'd invade if they tried. Ukraine did it anyway and this is the unfortunate result.
What is illegal from the lockdown?
can you tell me what pro-Putin Russians think about this? The ones that are not brainwashed? Like, how does Russia gain anything from this action? It only stands to lose economic ties in an ever increasing interconnected world. When Oil and Gas won't be king in 20 years, Russia is doomed without more cooperation with advanced countries. What are people thinking? What is the reason behind all this?
Desperation is often used as an opposite of hopelessness, but frequently close to one another. Desperation is typically resorting to careless or carefree means with the hope that a goal is achieved. It usually comes about when the typical or expected avenues of that outcome are closed, but there is still a strong desire for that outcome and a belief that it can still be achieved.

For example, an employee is shooting for a big promotion. He's hopeful that he's going to get it. But his boss tells him that he's still not doing enough and won't get the role. If he was hopeless, he would simply give up, believing that there's no chance that he's going to get it this time. But if he was desperate, he would take additional uncouth or unexpected actions, like begging and pleading, or sabotaging the coworkers who also have a chance at the promotion. If those desperate attempts failed, then it would be hopeless.
I'm a young fellow and I would generally agree with you. I'm sick of the rejection of people's opinions because they're "old" (aka more experienced). Beginning to take the advice and views of my elders seriously is what I think has helped make me so much more happy in my day to day life. I feel like I've been able to skip over many of the troubles my peers face.
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Maybe they'll manage to hold on long enough that Europeans/Americans will decide it's a cause worth fighting for.

Or, less high-minded, maybe the Estonians/Latvians/Lithuanians will finally be able to convince the rest of the NATO of the blindingly obvious fact that the next invasion is coming for the Baltic states (NATO) to reconnect Kaliningrad and the Baltic Sea to Russia, and the response to this invasion determines when and if that happpens.

Maybe Ukraine will convince Pacific allies of the blindingly obvious fact that China is intently watching this to see if NATO (and so, it would follow, Pacific alliances) is the house of cards that many suspect it to be.

It's all out in the open now. Russia has attacked NATO (bombed a Turkish vessel) and invaded NATO (jointly-held Snake Island); the equivocating will be seen for exactly what it is. Whether the US should be getting involved in foreign wars is a question long in the past, when we made our alliances. Now, Taiwan, Eastern Europe, and probably the world's faith in US credit (dollars) are in the balance. It's not looking good.
He just skipped his daily dose of meds. Not the first time.
schools are constant social pressure, comparing yourself, and feeling inadequate. no wonder so many kids felt relief , ignorance is a bliss while you are young at least. But i m afraid they will invent new stupid games with online tools too.
Yeah, I agree with you here, and not the source article. Process is scar tissue. It's there to prevent the same mistake from happening twice, but yes, sometimes it can be inflexible and make it hard to effect change. Sometimes that's a good thing.

It's all a balance right? Sometimes process helps you guide decision making and make decisions faster. Sometimes it helps keep people from making the same mistake in the past. Sometimes it keeps you from tinkering with something that's working (i.e., don't fix what isn't broken).

Process can also be wrong, it can keep you from exploring needed changes. It's a fine line to walk between preventing "fixing" a not broken system, and being tomorrow's ice shippers.

Take for example, the US government. The process to pass laws is extremely complicated and difficult. That's on purpose. It keeps the government from meddling without cause and often forces compromise. Is it perfect? Absolutely not. But it's better than a dictatorship or simple majority rule.
When data was reviewed, the effect in suicides among school age children was that it was significantly lower despite anti-lockdown spokespeople claiming it was higher. The shocking thing was that thisj was not even close in the data.
so does Romania
Feudalism lives on in all spheres other than narrow semiannual popularity contests.
I'm worried too, and I don't have a good answer to that. Let's just hope that there are some trace of proportion inside that mad mans brain.
Nuclear weapons come in all shapes and sizes. Hell, there was a bazooka with nuclear warhead once. Such things can come handy when you need to, for example, destroy few dozens of Russian tanks at once, and since they are not ballistic missiles you do not risk starting Armageddon with them.
Sadly this is the "right" way, and as many other commenters in this thread have pointed out, the sad state of default browser components is to blame.
Yeah I can see what you mean. There are currently 20 open pull requests [1] that hasn't changed in over 28 days, which accounts for 53% of all open pulls that are less than 4 months old.

1) https://oss.gitsense.com/insights/github?q=pull-age%3A%3C%3D...
Yes and:

> would destabilize NATO

Trump is also hostile to NATO. For him, win/win.
I haven't done the age verification in my youtube account, so I avoid those videos too and I don't think there are so many of them fortunately. The more established channels will avoid it to not lose viewers.
Do you genuinely believe that if that second option said "status quo" that the vote share would have jumped from 2% to > 50%?
I had a similar scenario happen, where my domain expired without me realizing and my incoming emails slowed down as DNS caches expired. I finally realized it after a few days when I hadn't received an email that I was expecting, and once I renewed the domain I got a flood of emails that I had missed.

After that, I was much more careful about where my domain registration emails go.
Why do you conflate socialism and a lack of democracy? Am I wrong in thinking there can be a democratically elected socialist government?
It’s making me crazy to see so many in this thread attempt to have a conversation about the motivations of the Russians without talking about the central point of this conflict: the independence of the Donbas, their natural right to secede from Ukraine and join the Russian confederation, and their recent pleas to the Russians for recognition of their state and military defense.

The Russians did not just simply decide to up and bomb Ukraine. The world is not that simple. A majority of Russians support Russian support for the Donbas region. They are culturally and ethnically Russian in the region.

I’m not defending Russia here but if you don’t talk about the core of the conflict you’re not coming any closer to a real understanding.
Name Brand generally refers to something not being a White Label Brand. So, "Apple" is a Name Brand, but "TALK WORKS" iPhone chargers (on Amazon) are probably a White Label and, therefore, not a Name Brand.
Free moment is guaranteed by the Spanish constitution it can only be set aside for martial law . Government never declared martial law only state of alarm (we have 3 levels of exception) so they did not have the right to restrict movement.

We were all locked in our houses for 6 weeks. So yeah I want people to go to jail.
> ). Most European democracies have only been so for a few decades.

you might want to revise this claim