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I think it will be very interesting to see what happens when the war ends. If there are significant reparations to be paid and if the sanctions remain, I think this easily opens it up for a repeat of WWII. Similar to post WWI Germany, Russia will be fucked. Putin will eventually die (natural causes/bullet to the head) and the next guy will be a bigger nutjob that rallies the people behind him by blaming the West/Jews.

I don't know what the best course of action is right now, maybe the sanactions are the optimal choice. But afterwards, I hope people remember history and what happens when you kick a country that's already fucked.
All the weapons sent, do nothing against the airstrikes. Artillerie without air support, will be a piece of junk as soon as it starts to operate. Haubitzer D-30 from GDR? Strela? I serverd around 2000, and in that time those things were already piece of a museum. What are Germany sending next? Technical mounted on a Trabant?
That's crazy considering that the FSB bombed its own citizens to get Putin into power..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings
What are they gonna do? Arrest everyone. Eventually the enforcers will get tired of it too
Agree completely. May I ask, how big is your anti-war tent? For example, in my experience the most anti-war people are anarchists (sometimes disambiguated to anarcho-socialists) and anarcho-capitalists. However only a small percentage of each group is willing to join with the other for an issue. Are you? Are you part of an organization like this?
I’m starting to think people buy this stuff on purpose to get attention on the internet by complaining about it. Why on earth would i buy an oven with Wi-Fi and NOT think the manufacturer would enforce the use of it…
I've had vomiting and diahrea and they didn't kill me. So that's a counter example. I also eat sprouted potatoes occasionally and have never experienced so much as a negative thought.
Its 2022, you should never believe what you read and seldom believe what you see.

"Camera operator Richie Mockler took two rounds to his body armour"

and never bothered to mention it nor show on the video

", Stuart was wounded."

small scratch on his nose

>It was explained pretty convincingly the order of events and who is responsible

Yes, invisible gunmen were immediately identified, just like in fake Russian video.
Maybe, but Taiwan has a treaty with the US and other countries meaning it’d escalate out of the gate. Ukraine, sadly, had none.
Democracy discriminates based on citizenship, so discriminating free speech based on citizenship makes a clear match.
How is it an attempted insurrection by any stretch of the imagination...?

You choose not to see how hyperbolic MSM's coverage of the whole thing has been.

I weep for how many of you have been blinded by your own flavor of propaganda, while you coyly act as though "only the _other side_ could fall for that!"
How is it a mess?
I clicked the audio version of the story, and this "Trinity Audio" version is so much better than other automated readings I've heard.
China would very much prefer that Taiwan ask to reunite with the mainland. Forcing them back one day might be in the cards but setting the conditions to where Taiwan sees being part of China as being the better option than relying on the United States for its safety is what China would like to happen. Finding ways to drive wedges between the US and Taiwan is a part of this strategy.
We stored them for months in root cellars before electric refrigeration.
a no-fly zone IS an option, the question is when we should use it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/05/no-fly...
I am absolutely no expert in politics, I just spend two days reading and watching stuff to learn how we ended up in this situation. I am now writing this comments to share what I learned but also to be challenged and corrected in case I got things wrong. So I don't mind downvotes, especially if it is because I got things wrong and people correct me and I gain a better understanding. And I am also willing to take a few downvotes because people just don't like what I say, even though it is a bit annoying as my comments end up further down and are probably less likely to receive comments pointing out my mistakes.
Disagree. War with China is worse than sanctioning China. Abandoning Taiwan means deatabilizing the region (Japan militarizes, China opposes Japan. NK does whatever they want. South china see conflict leads to vietnam,philipines joining,etc...).

China is very important but the shipping lanes to SE asia and regional stability is more valuable. You can sanction China and get in a sanction war with them until one side gives in. Or a trade war like trump tried.

Their focus however is to win the war before it starts unlike the US which is to win the war after it starts (imo).

If it gets to a full in sanction like russia, the western economy will tak a massive hit, but it isn' beyond recovery and might actually be good to force resilent supply chains. Especially with silicon fab.
Russia didn't hide their military buildup, they just lied and gaslit the world via their various disinformation channels into believing that Putin would have to be insane to actually invade.
What about a “nullable” double? In C#, you’d use `double?`, Rust would be Option<f64>, C++ would be std::optional<double>. Then any operation would throw upon an unset value?
> So far the Russian protests are pretty anemic (I mean in numbers, not in passion, and I greatly respect those currently protesting)

Well I don't know about passion. I've seen videos where there are a lot of people protesting but when the police come grab a girl, everyone just stands around watching and filming. When the police come running at a crowd, the crowd runs away and it fizzles out. There's none of the Maidan passion.
To light or sunlight ? I have never seen a potato turn green in basement although there is a little light.
Russia invaded Ukraine under Obama in 2014 and again in 2022 under Biden. Russia did not invade Ukraine while Trump was President. So Trump is an asshole, but maybe his approach was more effective than that of Obama and Biden, considering the reality of when Russia chose to invade Ukraine.
I use Firefox on Ubuntu and Android. I love Firefox more than Chromium-based browsers. But security is the one thing that makes me think of switching.

Two minor things that prevent me from switching to Chromium-based browsers:

1. There is no addon functionality on Android for Chromium-based browsers. For example, I can add the uBlock addon on Firefox for Android but not Chrome for Android.

2. There is no option to place the address bar at the bottom of the screen for one-handed usage, as in Firefox Android.
I have one of these and it's an amazing device.
I’m an MIT-educated (vi) paranoid schizophrenic and I can attest that, after ten years of hellish voices lurking behind every real-world cupboard, my “mental palace” did evolve to a tower. This eventually deferred to the ageless and permanent shelter of a pyramid: we’re much more happy with the sand and silence.

My dick size, for what it’s worth, has not changed.
Maybe Taiwan should try to join NATO. See if that speeds up the invasion
Remember, when the market fails, it's NEVER a fault of the market. It's usually due to the stars alignment or some evil government's insane actions. Nevermind that governments are the puppets of the market. It must certainly be the stars alignment then. Perhaps the moon's gravitational pull??
That Envoy doc is... impressive. I'll find a place to link to it in the post.
Sure, it takes less fuel to move a car that moves less, but fuel is an nearly irrelevant fraction of total weight in most cars. A gallon of petrol weighs about 6 lbs.
Perhaps rather than protesting, silently walking around holding signs that use of sarcasm? (To circumvent the anti-speech laws)

“Putin is king! Glory to USSR!”

“Synonyms for conflict may contain the words: war, special operation”

“Is the special operation over yet? My mother wants to see my brother”

“What’s next Vladimir?”

Subtle civil disobedience that the cops will overlook until it’s too late (I’m making a lot of assumptions here)

Make it so subtle that it feels like it’s a waste of time to arrest. Until everyone is doing it
I guess I'm the rare oldie that don't agree that the frontend/html was/is better without modern js frameworks / spa apps.

Maybe because I built SPAs already pre -10 and I think that finally (as Vue entered the scene) even frontend development can be fun, structured, testable, etc.

But the reason I write is this:
When it comes to SSR, I still think node/js is absurdely slow.

Compared to almost any java rendering backends, where I'd expect no more than 50ms response time/thread I see 200-300ms/instance of nodejs.

What are your experiences? I'm I just doing it wrong :-)
Yes, the words they always use are embassy personnel conducting "non-diplomatic activities"

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1498392471851741202

The spy world isn't opaque. Each country knows who most of the spies are. They generally operate out of special sections of the primary embassy in each country.

Almost all spies act under diplomatic cover so that they have immunity when they get caught. Operating without that cover is a risky mission which normally means your host country can't save you and will deny you.

Each country just allows the spies to pretty much go about their business, follows them from the embassy when they can, and then uses them as pawns when necessary, like this.
I partially disassembled my Sony A7ii a year ago to repair it, it's interesting how the A1 is largely similar yet different.
After 7 years being vegan, I've learned that most people actually dislike the idea of eating sentient beings, but years of mental dissonance and conditioning trained them to be fine with eating meat and meat products, so long they don't resemble the able.
Did you even read the article...? We are not talking about a natural evolution of a market, but a change due to various external shocks - which will produce new conditions.
Quantified SAT is decidable. Are you aware of any theories where expressions with quantors over finitely many choices are unsatisfiable but quantor free expressions are satisfiable over the same theory?
> And with more recent technologies like Phoenix LiveView, there is very little need to use any of those front-end frameworks.

Sure, if you choose to buy in to a backend framework.

I'm not knocking Phoenix, but it's a tradeoff. I'd rather be able to write the backend without a framework and use the framework where I want to spend the least amount of time figuring things out, which is usually on the frontend/GUI. But everyone is different.
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Ask HN: A “Schindler's List” for our community affected by Ukraine invasion?
I've been reading with intense sadness about the evacuations of Russians and Ukrainians during this conflict. Even if they get out of harms way, they need to find a new place to live in the short term and then find alternative sources of income in the long term if their company is Russian.

Could we create a technology solution that aids people affected by this conflict in a way that helps both short and long term problems?

Fraud seems like an obvious issue. But when people post here, I can read their profile and see their GitHub contributions and know they are in my community. So I feel like we could help people in a way that limits fraud.

I'm feeling very helpless about this war. I'll happily contribute $500 directly to people if they need short term income or whatever, so please point me to those who need help right now and I'll do it. It's not a lot (I'm in a startup and don't have consistent income right now) but this world seems so crazy right now and I want to take some action to help.
The older generations in the US are demonstrating fluid intelligence by being manipulated to support actions and ideology they would never have condoned in the past and coming up with stunningly complicated rationalizations. And the manipulation is through newer avenues like social media. They keep moving further and further into alternative avenues like youtube and Facebook alternatives that maintain their preferred echo chambers. These people are now able to find millions that agree with them and it it is self reinforcing even without FB's algorithms so that they become increasingly extreme.
What do you mean losing years ? It might be a bit tough depending on visa issues and so on but none of my friends that emigrated describe it as losing years. They are all working in their field, some are progressing insanely in their careers (especially compared to how they were doing back home). I mean I know it's anecdotal, and I've read some horror stories about employer visa abuse but assuming that's the default is kind of cynical IMO.
Formal declarations of war are so early and mid 20th century...
Young people can absolutely be manipulated, it’s probably even easier than with older people due to lack of experience.

However, the thing that works in younger peoples favour is they are less isolated.

Generally people are very social when young and then as life and routine sets in they stop socialising as much and when they do it’s usually with the same people.

Isolated people don’t have the personal experience to be aware that the ads on Facebook are just ads and not the actual conversation going on around them.

And therefore we have this perception that old people are so dumb and easily fooled, while IMO it’s purely the social aspect that’s at work.

(There is also some contribution from lack of technical literacy but honestly even some of my 30s IT coworkers lack that).
I am trying to find a way to escape now, and it gets harder every day. Land borders are still closed for a formal reason (COVID) and most likely will never open again.

Unfortunately state television (the only television available for the most people) has been persistently making an enemy out of Ukraine since 2014. I don't know how it works, but propaganda can erase brains. The elderly and the poorly educated peolple really think that Ukraine is full of fascists and nazis who kill Russians. Orwell as is. it's horrible. On the other hand my friend who was protesting against the war was severely beaten by the police.

The most disgusting thing is that Putin has apparently lost touch with reality and can really press the button. He has absolute power in Russia. He is a psychopath. Things are very bad.
> I just don't feel like catologing every red flag instance on here. It's a more widespread social trend

Fair enough, but since this then becomes fully anecdotal and about personal perspective I should share my own: I am seeing far far less ignorance than i’d normally expect. And certainly far less than i‘ve seen the past few years within the US. But, that said, I no longer use Facebook. And I rarely use Twitter. So…maybe that’s why.

> I think you're drawing conclusions from OPs statement that aren't there.

Maybe you’re right. I’ve been seeing a lot of Russian-invasion-related hyperbole on HN; I’m trying to cut through the BS.

> The populist trend to try and deport/target innocent exchange students is definitely a trend in that direction however.

I’m even having trouble finding reference to this online. I see that Swallwell [1] suggested this, but the same article claims it was the first time the suggestion was mentioned by anyone. And I don’t see any other relevant articles at all [2]

[1]: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/swalwell-floats-ex...

[2]: https://news.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9CExchange%20student...
But AOC's LIFE was in DANGER!

It's pretty wild to see the mass denial of hyperbole... Like folks, do you have any idea what would happen if people really wanted to overthrow the government? You'd be kidnapped before you know what happened.
US has no interest in being beholden to TSMC in the long-term. once that dependency is removed the only reason from a realist perspective to support Taiwan is to provoke Chinese violence, which hopefully never happens.
A heavy car takes more energy to get up to speed. The extra weight also "stores" more energy once you get up to speed, but that's useless when you don't have regenerative braking. Also I'd imagine that rolling resistance would be higher when the car is heavier.
Taiwan might prefer that China ask's to reunite with them? Commit to a free democracy? Didn't think so...
depends on what you listen to, i find that the majority of what you hear takes inspiration from the west or western values, truly unique i'd say are Little Big and Leningrad

wikipedia has explanation for the phrase

https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/да_нет,_наверное

if i'm saying this phrase to somebody, then i'm suggesting that something may not be truth, in plain english it means "probably not" or "i guess not"
But it is so much more entertaining to think they are the same. Just like it is entertaining that the west allowed the current war to happen.
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Why does their nuclear status matter? Are Russian websites a branch of the Russian military?
React is a framework, not a library.
>Or is there an alternative to fighting that you’re proposing?

The alternative was not to have a CIA-financed coup in 2014 that put a regime in power hostile to Russia. This is why they took Crimea, and this is why they're invading now. Even if Putin is in the wrong, it's the height of hypocrisy for us to look all shocked that Russia has responded how they have. We knew they would respond this way.
>Throwing out frameworks is throwing out the baby with the bath water.

Yes. But it's a baby snake.
just out of curiosity, have you tried DeepL, I use it daily for Slavic languages

Yandex has also .com domain, won't your links work through that?
>[...] broad economic sanctions on everyday Russians, most of whom are already poor especially after the collapse of the Ruble [...] Remember, the sanctions against average Russians will absolutely result in shortages of food, medicine and other essential supplies.

You are completely wrong here. The sanctions are against Russia to cripple their war machine, not the Russian people.

And Russia, with its immense natural resources, could easily afford to care and feed its citizens regardless of the relationship with the west, if only their oligarchs hadn't dilapidated the country's wealth for their personal gain. So it's hardly the west's fault that the Russian government steals from its own people (literally) and spends whatever wealth it has left bombing innocent people in Ukraine instead of spending it caring for its people.

Russia is not the victim here, and Russian people starving is not the west's fault but it's Russia's own fault and their leaders' fault. Period.
>do you really feel confident to have hit the right tone here, even after somebody gave you a heads up how a conversation is more likely to be fruitful?

Considering that the person whom I was addressing responded to my post in a productive manner and we were able to have a civil and thoughtful exchange... Yes?

Do you think it's productive to police the conversations of others in a way that is entirely off topic to the threads? I understand that neither you nor hitekker enjoyed my wording. In the future, when I am speaking to you about a topic in a thread, I'll try to imagine what one's reaction might be if they interpret it as meaning offense before I post. I can't guarantee that I'll always be able to align with your preferred style of decorum, especially since I'm not sure what the rules are here; my post was bad and hitekker's post (an unprovoked off-topic personal attack on me under the auspices of speaking for another person who didn't appear to share their sentiment in the first place) was good.

I won't be engaging any further on the minutae of posting best practices in the discussion thread for the future of the wikimedia project. Have a nice day!
That's a common misconception. In level flight, when you align the lift and gravity vectors correctly, they do not expend energy as work. Only 100% symmetric wings (as seen e.g. on acrobatic planes) require a constant positive angle of attack to generate lift. By using "normal" flat-bottomed wings and minimizing air resistance from forward motion, you can effectively glide huge distances using only the energy you get from slightly lowering your altitude in the gravitational field (downward motion component parallel to the gravitational vector equals work done on the plane to keep its forward velocity constant and balance losses from drag). Mass gets cancelled out there, because forward drag doesn't act on it and you also get more energy back from the gravitational field while descending. With an infinitely thin frame (=zero air resistance) or by using thermal updrafts, you could even stay in the air indefinitely. That's how glider planes work without any engine and why commercial jets at cruising altitude (very low drag up there) have some of the best fuel economy per person of all forms of travel. That's also how airlines can offer tickets at prices from which you wouldn't even be able to pay for gas when you drive the trip by car. Ryanair for example can fly you from Rome to London and back for ~40€. You'd be hard pressed to find a car that uses less than 40€ worth of fuel for just one leg of this trip, even if it could drive in a straight line. Flying itself is really cheap - it's everything else around aviation that's expensive.

Edit: I should probably add that this is different for cars. Cars don't just have aerodynamic drag, they also have rolling drag, mostly from small displacements of the tires where they contact the ground. If you ever tried to ride a bike with low tire pressure you'll know what I'm talking about. A heavy car that has the same aerodynamic cross section as a lighter car (think two cars of the same make/model, but one fully loaded and one empty) will have more rolling drag and thus use more energy/fuel. Two planes of the same model but with different mass will roughly consume the same fuel during level flight (there are slight higher order effects that I've glanced over here, but they are neglectable in the big picture).
Or, as happened in Iraq and Afghanistan, these actions could further radicalize an entire population.

I think it is safe to assume that if the west applies broad and indiscriminate sanctions that devastate the lives of everyday Russians, many/most are more likely to blame the west who directly imposed the sanctions rather than their own government who will very likely use propaganda to convince them to hate their western oppressors.

It is similar, in my opinion, to the broader Islamic radicalization that occurred after 9/11 when the US employed extraordinary rendition and enhanced interrogation techniques rather indiscriminately on both known terrorists and suspects captured without charge or due process/fair-trial.

Have you considered the risk that these actions could strengthen Putin’s grip on power and provide justification to the Russian people to escalate conflict further?

I gleaned this hypothesis From a recent Joe Rohan Podcast episode with Maajid Awaz, a former Islamic radical, who turned away from radical Islam and helped educate western leaders how to de-radicalize extremists after 9/11. [0]

[0] https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ugbn7cuab3mNgKbo81ajM?si=N...
Ukraine was a game of chicken where Russia had something to lose from backing down and they do had nothing to lose from backing down
I'm confused about what your argument is here. It sounds to me that your position is that this article is proof that Ukraine's government are Nazis (it's not), therefore Putin is justified both in invading Ukraine and the war crimes he's most likely responsible for during said invasion.

Is that correct?
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