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> So it would only count as a regime change if he stayed to get killed by an angry mob?

It doesn't count as "been overthrown". Also, there is no evidence that he would have been killed. He might go under a trial in a court though.

There is one important thing you don't mention: the "referendum" was held after occupation of Crimea Peninsula by Russian military. Specifically, the article you refer to says that Russian military occupied Crimea on February, 27 and the referendum was held on March, 16.

Therefore, parliament could not vote freely as its members were not protected from pressure by Russian military authorities. You cannot vote freely when surrounded by enemy soldiers. Also at that time the territory was controlled by Russia and the parliament had no real power anymore.

Also, I do not know if Ukranian law at that time allowed a region to declare independence. You cannot hold a referendum whose outcome would contradict the law. For example, you cannot hold such a referendum in Russia.

> You acting like that doesn't matter, so you can regurgitate "Russian annexation!"

Let's look at the definition of "annexation":

> Annexation in international law, is the forcible acquisition of one state's territory by another state and is generally held to be an illegal act.

Russian army has occupied the territory earlier that anything else happened. Therefore it is an annexation. There was no significant movement for independence of Crimea before occupation.

> it very casually denies the Crimean people, as represented by the state parliament, their own representation.

Do Crimean people or their Parliament now have a right to separate from Russia if they change their mind? They don't. Does it mean that Putin, as you say, "casually denies the Crimean people their own representation"?

I don't think there are many countries where a region has a right to declare an independence. There are things that you cannot change with a referendum.
>Some of the sanctions are definitely too much, as they will worsen the life of regular Russians and Europeans too much,

And no one knew that before introducing them. Considering that they say that they already knew about the invasion a year ago.
Try sending an email to the mods. The address is in the "contact" section.

I went to your site, and it's empty.

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You must kickstart the community making some posts! Invite some friends. If you are not afraid of the dark side, make some sockpuppets.

EDIT: Sockpuppets to post initial content in our site so it's not empty until you have a community. If you make sockpuppets here your site will get banned.
Don’t forget that he also has to send a message to those around him that he can be even more brutal and revengeful than they thought.

There are just so many ways this goes very badly, I don’t see how one can be optimistic.
We have been working on it since around 2015/2016. Most of the progress has been happening the past 2 years.
I don't think you understand the Russian psyche. The Russians care more about imposing suffering than their own suffering.
He might take Kyiv (not 'Kiev'). But he can't hold it. Not indefinitely.

And all the while, the sanctions will destroy his economy. No economy = no money to build more war machine.
Well you can move abroad
A report on exercise and sleep (2021)
I don't understand all this talk of a "no-fly" zone. That idea boils down to: "let's start killing Russians". That is an act of war, and to think he could respond to it with any other interpretation is lunacy.
Good tips again, but I get quite a bit of exercise — 40-50 mile a week runner.

> Why commit to going back into the open office?

Because I like working in an open office with other people. The same as the pro-remote work crowd does not enjoy in an office. Neither is right or wrong — they are preferences. My plan is to find a company with employees who share my preferences.
If the point of nukes is "And then everybody dies", then that sounds like a pretty good argument for that we need to disarm all the nukes everywhere, no one should be allowed to have them.
I am admittedly not even close to an expert to what's going on over there, but my understanding is that Ukraine and its people are very close to the heart of Russia. That makes me think that dropping a nuke people who you consider your brothers is out of the question.
It's pretty obvious. "SEAD group incoming into your position from 220, turn off your radars" simply cannot be used to target. So it's not targeting information.

It's only targeting information if it can be used to attack, which is not what we're talking about here.
I think waaay too many people are unknowingly hanging around other people they like too much and it causes their circle to double down on crazy.
Companies will keep shoveling this kind of garbage out there door as long as people like him are passive enough to deal with it. This may be the limited range of options offered by his builder but if you get an appliance and that appliance does not work contact your builder or contact the manufacturer of the appliance for warranty repair.

Make them send out a technician to manually update the firmware if that's what they require but tell them you have no Wi-Fi and they can take this garbage back and give you your money back and then you can sue your builder to put an appliance that works but until people begin to hit these places in the pocketbook and vote with their dollars this kind of trash will not change.

I don't want to have to buy an "internet of shit appliance" that needs to be on the internet because they shipped it with broken firmware. They can either take it back or they can send a technician to conduct a warranty repair. The only exception would be something that's bold and bright on the front of the box that says internet connection required to function. Most of these things don't say that they just say Wi-Fi enabled. Which is a fine benefit for those people who want that kind of interconnected appliance and spyware lifestyle. For those who do not the correct action is hit the company's in their pocketbook.

The loss of dollars is the only message that companies understand loud and clear. A Twitter complaint is just wasting your time.
One of the replies mentions Samsung's similar requirement frustrating his elderly relative. According to a 2015 OECD computer skills study, <6% of Americans are level 3 (highest) while half have only basic skills and 20% can't use computers. https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/skills-matter_978926...
Neat! I hope you can understand that remote work is my personal definition of hellscape. Neither of is right or wrong — they are our preferences.
Let's hope you are right. Oil prices are way too high for driving right now
The article says they only surveyed 930 Americans, and the survey was done online. They say the margin of error is only +-2% but I think it is much higher given the low sample size, the way the survey was administered, and no information on the geographic distribution of the participants.
Although it supports the Ukrainians and that’s important, I don’t see how sanctions reduce the likelihood of wider war? It is, in its way, an escalation, though a safer one than directly entering the conflict.

It seems Putin sprung this on the rest of Russia as a surprise decision. (Of course the signs were there.) Did he bother to get the support of the oligarchs or anyone else first? It’s not at all clear he has anyone’s support; he just has their obedience.

Morally speaking, this looks rather simple: it’s Putin’s big mistake. To the extent that others failed to stop the invasion, it was by failing to influence him. But a paranoid and isolated dictator isn’t easily influenced.

Punishing other Russians for this, particularly outside Russia and Ukraine, often has no purpose and is a form of cruelty.
It looks like you can, at least in Russia. Sber, Russia's biggest bank, recently evaluated some, and found them lacking https://www.tomshardware.com/news/russias-biggest-bank-tests...
Does it help in any way with designing a better garbage collector?
Yep, and EU is no better... they even banned RT... imagine banning CNN when USA attacked afghanistan.

But this is the start of the war, and there is A LOT of propaganda everywhere... everyone in the west is trying to show russia as losing everywhere, while they're conquering basically everything, on the other hand, they say that russians have destroyed whole cities, and only two short clips of the same building are showed, and now fearmongering like this reuters article.

I live in the balkans, and (obviously) I'm against any kind of war... but what putin is doing is no different than americans choosing a random middle eastern country (or even yugoslavia in 1999), and destroying the fuck out of it... but somehow it's different when americans do it.
Peel them and boil them. : /
Probably zero.

The WSB-types generally do not touch futures contract because the margin requirements can be quite high (a single contract is generally tens of thousands of dollars).

Much of this is also fundamentals. ESG = energy stops growing and as the West continued down its self-destructive energy policies, an energy crisis was basically guaranteed. Recall that energy prices in Europe were at all time highs already. The US has largely been saved thanks to the previous POTUS who prioritized energy independence. Even if the current US Administration threw that away, they haven't been in power long enough to completely sabotage their own energy production.

Where it is now a supply crunch is in agriculture. You have one of the largest producers of wheat, fertilizer components, and a couple of other things; invading another of the largest producers of wheat, fertilizer components, and a couple of other things.

Add to this a backdrop of woke politics and cancel culture spreading into diplomacy and you have the West self-destructing itself over what would - in normal times - be a regional issue at best.

TL:DR we're in trouble. And that's before even talking about how the West has weaponized finance and now fundamentally changed the rules by which globalization worked. That's going to have some really nefarious effects a la 2008 GFC, but much worst.
Or decrease fuel duties to decrease the cost of deliveries - surely an obvious answer in inflationary times, as it will decrease costs everywhere.
The date is off by 2000 years.
In psychology, there's a mechanism that tells us to look for extraordinary causes for extraordinary events. And I don't mean here something seemingly supernatural - just something that affects you in a big way. For this reason some people, when they lose their loved ones, can't simply agree it was an accident and look for some kind of conspiracy, a bad actor, a murder.

My point is, even those russians who know the situation well on the level of knowledge, could be emotionally detached and think that's just how the world works - but now that they see unprecedented response, it can sink in emotionally that their government has really done something terrible.
I was happy to see this but it was difficult to discern what the underlying arguments were, and I think the author maybe overreaches a bit. It took me reading through a lot of what they wrote to understand they seem to be arguing for more researcher-based (as opposed to project-based funding). I although I completely agree, I think a lot of what's cited is a little misleading or one-sided. I also think in general, focusing too much on any single funding mechanism could backfire.

In one of the pieces, for example, they discuss the frequently cited Dutch (?) study showing that people just above and below the cutoff in grant scores (presumably the same in actual proposal quality) end up differing in subsequent funding and probability of attaining full professorship. They argue that citation rates don't differ, though, claiming this is a more important metric, and using it as an example of again, how the individual researcher is paramount.

However, doesn't that pattern just sort of point out problems with the funding effects? That is, it seems to be saying that those with slightly lower scores were more likely to give up trying at all, and were less likely to obtain material resources and recognition, even though they were just as impactful scientifically speaking, at least as far as citations are concerned. It's also the case that this grant funding mechanism is just one way in which structural factors can affect the career trajectories of talented scientists -- there are many others.

I've grown very suspicious of many of the sorts of studies the author cites, mostly because most of the problems I've seen in biomedical academics game the system so subtly but pervasively. That is, many of the hypothetical patterns they point to could just as easily be explained by any number of causal explanations once you start to include corruption and deceit in your models. The models they discuss are largely predicated on different hypotheses about talent, and ignore manipulation of the system metrics dishonestly.

The whole "funding of individual investigators" model seems promising but also should be setting off alarm bells everywhere. Isn't this the point of tenure? If we are talking about funding models like this seriously, what does that say about the actual state of tenured positions and what's going on? It has this comical quality, like "if only there were some system of funding people without strings attached so they could pursue their own intellectual interests..."

You could make the argument that there aren't enough tenured positions, which is fair. But what about how those tenured positions are funded? They are seen now as largely dependent on obtaining funding through typical means, which then means you're selecting based on ability to bring in income through traditional grant projects. But then why not just do that?

It's obvious something is broken.
This is a consequence of poor (starving) vs. rich (affluent) nation histories. The scarcity mindset affects its people long term and sticks to the culture.
Ex: "rich ppl problems"

Hypothesis: Maybe this is why there seems to be a propensity for the affluent to treat animals better than humans.

Note: Please don't downvote just because you disagree, bring meaningful discussion, thanks
> This is one of those "life facts" that I wish we were taught in school, because it's potentially dangerous but doesn't seem like it.

It really isn’t. You need to eat absurd amounts of stuff you’d not want to eat instinctively (green skin and sprouts). Remove those and there is nothing to be afraid of. On top of that the chemicals in question are very bitter. You wouldn’t eat them even ignoring the visual cues.

Same for courgettes [zucchini] and tomatoes. Yes, the plant has some toxic compounds. No, it’s not really dangerous (though the risk is higher with courgettes than either tomatoes and potatoes, but bad courgettes are very bitter).
The internet is one of the crucial things that are needed to solve this.

They should put on the front page of russian google: "current events in Ukraine", or something like it.
It seems like the US gets a disproportionate amount of talent and resources from the rest of the world in return though. It's not like the US will do as well without that and it's to some extent just where the globalization/centralization benefits are paying off the most. The US also does have more resources and advances for its citizens so it looks to me like it's having a plenty good deal.
It's not banned. If you read the source you will see their channel is suspended, meaning it cannot upload for a few days.

From the article:
> The Hill’s channel is unable to upload new videos for seven days, although its older videos can still be accessed.
That makes zero sense. The apartheid government was staunchly anti-Communist.
great post, animation helps a bunch too.

wondering if ip addys are exposed to the other users like with webrtc and if so, could we force conencts to be only through coturn to hide the ips?

Also wonder if there will be a warning for such, especially of encryption is turned on - some may think they are truly anonymous, and where ips are exposed of course that's not true.

Also wonder about moderation, hopefully this does not become a target for the sickening trolls soon - but moderation needs will be coming, so who gets the ip logs to consider blocking? homeserver runners?

I expect the future will need whitelists/blocklists subscription options for clients at some point.
Everyone who's been following the events since 2014 predicted this. This isn't out of the blue, it's been a long time coming and the west could've prevented it.
Hahahaha.. and then article 5 ourselves into a full blown world war?
I’m not sure if that’s a fair cause and effect statement though. Most sanctions were placed to pressure the opposite side without going to war and arguably prevent physical conflict. Hard to say the hypothetical result, but the timeline would of been, no sanctions and go to war anyway or push for sanctions and hope it’s enough to scare the opposite party but if it fails, you go to war anyway
Maybe it has a special permission, to evacuate embassy personnel or such. Maybe it also carries a small nuke.
I think a counter argument is that these measures allow the situation to be described in Russia as a ‘west vs Russia’ situation which lines up well with media narratives people have been hearing for years rather than a ‘Russian army sent to kill Ukrainians’ which is less popular (eg many Russians will have close ties to some people in Ukraine). It feels to me that the best thing western governments could do is to signal reasonable conditions under which sanctions would be instantly lifted and give Russia a way to back down, though it isn’t clear to me what that way would be.
> In the sense that Putin murders/poisons his political opponents and journalists like Navalny & Politkovskaya, tortures and imprisons activists like Magnitsky and Nadya Tolokno.

In that regard, Ukraine is doing much better. But it's nevertheless utterly corrupt, and Zelensky has been closing down opposition media, but as far as I know they're not killing journalists or jailing opposition politicians. But politics are sort of a moot point, since the oligarchs essentially run the country as they wish.

> I can sympathize with anyone who would avoid a government responsible for such acts, granting that I'm ignorant of any Ukrainian equivelancies.

Sure, we all want freedom of speech, freedom of the press etc, but is it worth dying for? Especially if you're desperately poor?
Spending a majority of my workday on Zoom is miserable. It is better than dying in the ICU. But spending the rest of my working life this way is unacceptable.
There's also people who see it this way: world war 2 ended Hitler, world war 3 may be needed to end Putler. A war might be the only way to take out a genocidal dictator-terrorist who threatens the entire world with nukes.
They were all OK with Putin because he was up there, next to the god, doing his tsar things that didn't appear to affect people down here much. He also did populist things and stoked Russian self-pride, which was a welcome development because the pride was all but destroyed during the Perestroika and what's left of it was exchanged for frozen chicken legs generously provided by the Bush administration.

In other words, he was tolerated with some approval. Not much thought was given to the trade-offs and some goodwill was assumed when these were made.

This approval is still there, but now it hinges on keeping masses fed with propaganda bullshit, to keep them believing that their fight (and suffering) is for the right cause. But when your life comforts take a nosedive, it will work only for so long.

So pulling a rug from under the unwashed gray masses is the exactly right thing to do in this situation. It's literally the only thing that could shake them off their consumerist nirvana, force to look around and realize how much they willingly exchanged in past 20 years for something that not only wasn't guaranteed, but could also be completely taken away on a very short notice.
That's easy: y > 0 is False, not NaN.

You may not think this is wise, but this is very much how comparisons with NaN are defined.

And I think this is better than exception raising. Again, I think it would be _really_ weird for simple value comparisons to throw.
If the invasion goes very poorly and Russia is at risk of losing, Putin will detonate a nuclear weapon over a non-populated area (whether in Ukraine or Russia). It's one of the few ways he can escalate up another level, prior to war with NATO and or nuclear war. When he does it, he'll say it's a message to NATO forces to back off and stop supplying Ukraine (he'll need to blame external actors for his behavior).

NATO should immediately begin a no fly zone over the Lviv region (with the possibility of widening it as necessary), in case Zelenskyy needs to leave Kyiv and or the Ukrainians generally need to establish a new base of government. They could shield that region / territory from Russia right now without prompting a Russia v NATO war, as it would require no attack on Russia to maintain near-term. If Russia tries to contest it, they're initiating the war, as they knew the area was protected by NATO forces. It would work as a maneuver. Putin could of course always claim that any move by NATO into Ukraine is an act of war, and or that Russia owns Ukrainian territory so any move by NATO into Ukraine is identical to invading Russia and other blatherings, but he can invent claims at any time to proclaim NATO started a war: the question is, can it be pulled off without sparking a war with Russia, and right now I believe it could be.
Nobody said they had to clear their cookies.

I explicitly didn't use the word "clear" because that isn't what I did.

Regardless, absurd that it's even required for such a small game.
Did you see the "This Really Happened" sidebar next to the article? Sure it's anecdata at best, but certainly worthy of some concern if true.
This was true during the first iraq war... and even then barely.

Now, just china imposing sanctions, would seriously fuck with US economy. Add on EU to that, and the situation would be pretty bad for americans.
If you've seen it in the news or read in twitter - it's truth.
You shouldn’t keep them in the fridge either:

> Toxicity is increased by […] low storage temperature
Because (western) europe seems to be a model group of countries out of nearly every aspect, IMHO.
What life are they trying to preserve? Russia will be living in the Stone Age for the next several decades if this doesn’t end soon.
> Maybe the next US war will be different?

Depends on if there's another incident akin to 9/11. Right now, if you tried to run the Iraq playbook again it would fail. But if something major happens which makes the US populace feel insecure, that could change.

I do think that there's a lesson in how difficult it would be to actually change the minds of Putin supporters in how slow the US reassessment of Iraq has been.

> US propaganda makes Russian propaganda look like amateur hour.

That's because US government narratives get continually sharpened and refined against the grindstone of challenges from the free press. This is different from countries where the government shuts down the press, such as Russia where the ridiculous canard that Ukraine needs to be "denazified" actually flies.
Unfortunately, Russians aren't so lucky. Tiny South Korea is richer than Russia. Can you imagine how well Russians (with their enormous and rich country) would be doing if they were occupied by Americans and not Putin?
It’s rare to find people who truly prefer the open office layout over having a personal office, or a cubicle, or a shared cube with one’s team. That’s a unique opinion that you’re free to have. For many, the depredations of the open office is a driving reason towards remote, but you uniquely do not have that hang-up. Enjoy!