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And nothing in the Budapest Memorandum requires or even permits a signatory to defend Ukraine against another signatory or anyone else. Obviously the Ukrainian government would ask for help in such a case, but there is no current treaty obligation to provide it.

Complicating this is that Russia claims Yanukovich is still the legitimate leader of Ukraine and that their actions thus far have his blessing, meaning their troops are not attacking Ukraine but supporting it against an armed insurrection. Nobody outside Russia's circle of friends believes that, of course, but its the fig leaf they are using.
The Russians have a lot more to lose in this situation than we do. The Russian Mediterranean fleet is based out of Sevastopol, hence their movements into the Crimean Peninsula. While I sympathize with the people of the Ukraine Obama wasn't smart to bet our credibility in a situation where the Russians could not back down.
You are usually free to leave your country (the GDR likely being one of the few exceptions…), but other societies obviously have the right to reject you entry into their countries. And if you don’t like the choices you have at your elections, nominate yourself.
Assuming it is embarrassing is a baseless attack on Tim Cook. We could equally assume that it was an irrelevant line of discussion that would allow extremists to distract the meeting from important business. This was a shareholder meeting, not a trial.
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Who would it be a major problem for if Cuba was ostensibly part of another state, yet had a population of 60% Americans and a newly anti-American government?
we need a politics flag and it needs to be removed. I agree.
I would avoid this "can you imagine if US" thing. US has done all sorts of things, maybe even that one, I don't know. Most of the time, US has done so without any repercussion. Let's hope things go for the best this time in Ukraine, as Candide would say.
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I doubt Americans would stand for a US intervention in Ukraine after all the crap the country has been dragged through with Iraq and Afghanistan.
We fight at the only ground it ever mattered: Politics!!!

Behind the scenes politics: GCHQ intercepts internet backbones, records millions of Yahoo video chats.

Front of house politics: Every UK company with a website has to put a warning on their website that they use cookies.

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This could have justified a referendum. Not an occupation. That IS an act of war. Or you think that France could occupy the French-speaking part of Swiss and that wouldn't be an act of aggression?
Same thing happened in Serbia in 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo

Only in this case it was NATO who invaded, and it is viewed quite differently from the western media then what parents have cited.

The worst thing in world today is to become the rope on which the imperial forces tug to prove their strength.
Thanks Chuck!

Really appreciate the feedback and we have indeed looked at 42floors

The other points you mentioned are things we are thinking hard about at the moment and building out solutions using a lot of customer discovery
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This press release is put out by an anti-science climate change denial group (yes, there are still people this dumb in the world) and shouldn't even be posted on Hacker News. Downvote if you can.
I suspect it's just a formality so they can increase the security around their base, without yet having formally requested authorization from their parliament. In both international law and the law of many countries, there are substantial distinctions made between troops in uniform wearing their country's flag and those not.

I don't think that there was any intent of being secret or saving face, just that because formal authorization from parliament hadn't yet been made, they couldn't move in under Russia's flag.
"Self help" is a vague term, but they tend to be rooted more in New Age concepts than in Western monotheism. New Age concepts tend in turn to be linked to Eastern religions or spiritual practices. So no, I don't think that self help books have filled the void of Western religions. It might be only in the existential questions that they answer, but then again, the Buddhist idea of an "afterlife" is very different from the typical Christian one, and has a very different appeal.

(I think that this is more of a Maslow's Hierarchy kind of thing. But oh well.)

Perhaps the typical self help consumer is too wide-eyed and expects too much of life. It might also be that they are turning to un-scholarly, unlicensed authors because no established science or human institution has been able to give them the kind kind of knowledge that they want. In such a case, these psychologists in this article might be wise to think of their professions monumental failure to inspire confidence in the general population. If psychology had found results that were relevant to the common person, I expect them to have been incorporated into the common vocabulary. Instead, psychology is not associated with anything that a healthy person might be in need of; only the 'crazy people'. Of course these psychologists think that self help is too optimistic, when the field has historically been so pre occupied with illness (how old is 'positive psychology', again...?).

We might know how a good life is lead, but there is no authority, currently, on how to achieve it (taking into account human motivation and all that). Some will turn to bestselling authors because, really, having sold a lot of books is about as good of a mark of quality in this field at this point. Then perhaps start to proclaim that we are all ONE, because quantum physics. What these might have in common with the archetypical religious person is wishful thinking.

These people should consider just giving up on this whole self help thing, anyway, as there are simpler alternatives. Our understanding of the world - at least the world outside of ourselves - is so well understood that we can use this as a sleeping pillow. Gone are the days when a rationally inclined mind would have to also be a philosopher, in order to fill in the gaps where the obvious models of the world don't make sense. Now, you can just 'like' "I fucking love science' on Facebook, make the occasional off-hand joke about homoeopathy, and you're safely in the in-crowd of modern, pseudo intellectual rationalists. "If I can't see it, I don't believe it" is as simple as "If there is no study about it, I don't believe it". What these people have in common with the archetypical religious person is close-mindedness.
People said the same thing on Slashdot after 9/11, and they were wrong then, too.

Once-a-generation events, with major impacts that last for decades across an entire region of the world, transcend "news for nerds" guidelines.
More likely, you will just see the proportion of foreign students increase dramatically. College these days is already mostly made up of semi-rich kids from America and actually-rich kids from China. With loans at least some middle class American kids get a shot.
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This is getting serious. Soon we'll find out how much human politics have progressed in the last ~50 years and what we have learned.

Let's see how this crisis will get solved. Hint: armed forces, not a good sign already.
Don't apply formally, but just send your personal information straight to my personal gmail? I'd figure security focused folks would rather see a more formal corporate email address.
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Also in Cyprus in 1974: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus
It runs almost entirely on black market dealings (weapons, human sex slaves) and criminal enterprises. It's often called "the black hole" of Europe. It's very difficult to live there.
Just wanted to point out that Ukraine is not half ethnically Russian; large parts of the country speak the Russian language but only 17% are ethnically Russian. Even these ethnic Russians are still Ukrainian citizens, making any claim by Russia to be "protecting" them rather dubious.
You mean like the thousands of mystery troops that showed up without any logos in Kiev, took over government buildings, the airport, etc. without any identification, simply guns to insist "do as we say"?

Which means they had this kind of force all prepared.
apologies, his post was edited.
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Was anyone really offended/annoyed by that? He was just pointing out he wasn't cheap. I don't see a problem here?
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It's most likely you'd fall into a range of $85,000-$120,000 and 0.1%-1%.
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No. I think private schools are destructive to the fabric of democracy. I also think the 'best education' line is a fallacy propagated to serve the interests of the rich elite and resolve their cognitive dissonance.
Do they still hear artillery shots there in daily life?
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It would be helpful to know the costs of tracking these transactions, and how they may grow or be maintained over time.
I wouldn't say it's the same as the number of Russians living in South Ossetia was and is really small (2 to 3%?). There are some similarities but even the way the war started seems different from what's happening in Ukraine. But it's useful context to have though.
C, Go, Erlang, Python -- none have this level of drama and immaturity. Passion people who are immature create drama. Passionate people who are mature don't create drama.
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It is more expensive now to teach calculus than it was thirty years ago, simply due to inflation. But of course the problem is that college has outpaced inflation by a large margin.

Another unmentioned factor is simply how nice many university campuses have become. Lots of state of the art buildings are being built in often quite expensive metro areas as parts of college campuses. New dorms are often really surprisingly nice, even upscale. Consider that the dormitory that I lived in even had maids who would take out your trash daily and clean your bathroom and shower weekly!
It sounds like the bigger problem you're facing is being able to successfully argue with each other. That's what you have to figure out.

I have gotten better at it. I find arguing and this aggressive attachment to ideas that are obviously half-baked tiresome. My strategy in some cases has been to wait weeks for the bad ideas to prove themselves unworkable in practice, rather than argue. Deflecting an aggressive, argumentative and often gratuitously rude style takes energy.

Not launched, still, but I dislike repressing an instinct to improve. If it has taken me years to get to this point (we have tried other projects that have failed--this one seems to be succeeding, partly because I have managed to learn how to negotiate with my co-founder, at least to a point), I wonder about anyone else who might join the project.
How much of a typical student loan is tuition and books, and how much of it is room, board, computers, Starbucks and partying?

I know tuition and books have skyrocketed but at the same time I know people who spent student loan money on flat screen televisions, computers, spring break trips, and used cars.
Security isn't binary.