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ceasarbyon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

It's sad fact :(

ceasarbyon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

I think you came to this thread to troll, so I'm stopping to feed you. Bye.

ceasarbyon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

So, you believe that Minsk jail looks like Osvencim and populated with Gestapo cops then? I don't need opposition journalists to tell that his story full of shit, I can see misconceptions myself. F.e. he claims that you not allowed to read books in jail and I know for a fact it's not true.

What I think happened, after he was released by Azerbaijan he decided to make as much profit out of this story by generated hype as possible. And wrote the fairy-tale about this jail. Don't get me wrong, those jails are bad, but things that he says in the story are simply not true.

Jails are bad in any country, read here about American jails if you think Belarusian jail is bad:

romanvega.ru

10 years without trial, how about that?

ceasarbyon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

Like who? Can you provide tax rates and track record, please?

ceasarbyon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

The same case is for Belarus. Building this station is part of becoming energy independent from buying Russian gas. Lukashenko will build it even if it's non-profitable and Lithuania won't buy energy from it. He's stubborn SOB when it comes to independence.

ceasarbyon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

He didn't ask for independent sources, he asked for any source. Also if you've studied them carefully, not just trolled, you could see the document in English created by EU commission that is part of info he's looking for.

I'm actually open to see any documents saying that station violates EU standards from the other side if they exist.

ceasarbyon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

Well, by now on you've read the article by Belapan where you saw the quote that arrest was made based on the Interpol warrant by request of Azerbaijan. Belapan is independent news agency, at least they claim so on their website. It's not state owned, Belta is. How is my evidence is partial then?

P.S. Also he's a blogger, not journalist. And the story of Belarusian jail that OP referring to is full of shit, even some Belarusian opposition members who spent some time there, not few days like this guy, wrote in comments to the article that he wrote mostly bullshit. Of course it's not a resort, and for someone who got there first time it can be tough and shocking, but it's not as bad, as he describes.

ceasarbyon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

Actually, there will be risk takers on top of existing ones.

Belarus is the source of great engineers that created Viber, Juno, MSQRD, WoT to name a few. PVT revenues will reach $1 bln. in 2017. This decree just added more perks to already existing tax privileges.

The system is stable and growing, why kill the cash-cow? IT enterprise is not and oil factory that you can nationalize. Engineers will take the laptop and fly away same day and your seized company will turn into empty building with zero profit. Even dictators understand it.

ceasarbyon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

Right, Armenian sources obviously not independent in this case. Azerbaijan has a beef with Armenia about non-recognized territory that this guy visited and wrote in his blog how he fooled Azerbaijan military and same crap that he wrote about Belarusian jail. Azerbaijan started criminal case for Lapshin using fake Ukrainian passport (renounced in 2011) to enter the country and of course Armenia supports him for visiting the territory that they consider it's own. I don't want to dig into this conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia and take sides, but I understand why Armenian sources will be writing anything against Azerbaijan.

I think decision to transfer this guy to Azerbaijan was the right one. He violated the law, used the fake passport and wrote crap about them as a country. Why Belarus should cover up his shit and decide who's right and wrong in this story? They got the warrant and send his ass there. Done deal.

Next time when you travel, use valid passport, be respectful to the locals and you get the same treatment in return. Always worked for me. He did totally opposite and got burned. Good thing he's doing OK now, at home and hopefully learned the lesson.

ceasarbyon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

The construction spot complies with all MAGATE standards:

http://www.belta.by/economics/view/ostrovetskaja-ploschadka-...

MAGATE SEED mission external risks report is overall positive:

https://news.tut.by/economics/546471.html http://minenergo.gov.by/wp-content/uploads/Report-SEED-missi...

Here's interview with vice-minister of energetic where he answers a lot of questions and concerns of Lithuania: There's 7 more MAGATE SEED missions planned to visit the station and security tests are going according to the plan.

https://news.tut.by/politics/486906.html

Here's info that crush-tests were made and results provided to EU commission and everyone who wants to know.

https://news.tut.by/society/567848.html

What I see is that Lithuania takes totally nonconstructive position. They concerned about security of the station, but at the same time want to pull off the scientists from EU commission that will be working on implementing EU security standards on station.

https://news.tut.by/economics/562015.html

Reality is this station will be build, because Belarus needs it for energetic security to diversify it's energy consumption from dependency russian gas. Belarusians are the first who interested in high security standards. But Lithuania wants Belarus to stop building it, it's ultimatum and it's not going to work. It's not to late to find compromise decision and Belarus is open for dialog and Lithuania tries to take unfriendly steps like twist the facts and mix up the question about station with the other things. Even swedish deputy said you guys shouldn't bring Europe to two-sided conflict:

https://news.tut.by/economics/550112.html

ceasarbyon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

https://belapan.com/archive/2017/02/07/887716/

Belapan is one of the biggest informational agencies in Belarus.

Российско-израильский блогер Александр Лапшин был задержан в Минске 14 декабря 2016 года по запросу Азербайджана, который объявил его в международный розыск за незаконное посещение Нагорного Карабаха.

The Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin was detained in Minsk on December 14, 2016 at the request of Azerbaijan, who declared him on the international wanted list for illegally visiting Nagorno-Karabakh.

Лукашенко заявил, а Шуневич подтвердил, что Лапшин был задержан в Минске не по инициативе Азербайджана, а потому, что находился в розыске по линии Интерпола. "Мы согласно решению Интерпола его задержали. И согласно всем законам и порядку мы должны его передать Азербайджану.

Lukashenko said, and Shunevich (Minister of Internal Affairs) confirmed that Lapshin was detained in Minsk not on the initiative of Azerbaijan, but because he was wanted by the Interpol line. "We, according to the decision of Interpol, detained him and, according to all laws and order, we must transfer it to Azerbaijan.

Belarus had no interest in this guy and his destiny. He has 3 citizenship (Russia, Israel and Ukraine (denounced)) and got himself in the middle of Azerbaijan-Armenian conflict. All this countries, except for Ukraine wanted Belarus to do something different, release him, transfer him, etc. Belarus just did what international law says and washed the hands off. Right after he was transferred to Azerbaijan he apologized for wrong-doing and was released by the president of Azerbaijan and sent home to Israel.

ceasarbyon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

The reasons are well known, budget needs money and rich people are good source of it.

ceasarbyon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

2049, not 2019.

ceasarbyon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

Yeah, Lithuania making big deal out of this nuclear station. They aren't happy that it's based close to the border and they trying to say that it's not safe, blah-blah-blah, nobody will buy electricity and so on. Other countries don't have issues with this station though, EU checked it and found everything within norms. But every time something happens at the construction, like they pour concrete at the wrong spot, Lithuania blows the whistle. Lukashenka said that it will be build no matter what, and neighbors will have to deal with it.

ceasarbyon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

This blogger was arrested because Interpol issued warrant for his arrest. Belarus as law-abiding member of Interpol just complied with rules, he was extradited to the country that made request, afaik.

I wouldn't trust the guy who broke the law on purpose. What he did is entered the territory using a fake passport, after he was specifically told by the government the he can't do this. And he did it not for any valid reason, but just to create hype in his blog. Pretty idiotic thing to do.

Anyway situation with this blogger is totally irrelevant to the Decree of Digital Economy that was signed today.

ceasarbyon Ask HN: Why do companies buy ads when they are the top result in search?

1. I don't think that you can buy ads using other company's trademark. It's against Adwords policy.

TS using "Squarespace" as example, not "web shop".

ceasarbyon Jetbrains: The unicorn Silicon Valley doesn't like to talk about

Head office there, right.

But main development happens in St. Petersburg and Moscow, co-founders are Russian as well.

ceasarbyon How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity

I went to Instagram address he mentions and looks like all photos are still there. I'm not sure how designer guy looks like, but it's definitely not football players' headshot: https://instagram.com/ainiesta/

ceasarbyon How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity

What could be the grounds of taking account away from him? This guys is not a spammer, everyone who sees photos there can figure it's not a football player, but different Andreas Iniesta. Football guy could get verified account with nickname Iniesta official or smth. Very sad story, I feel for the poor guy :(

ceasarbyon My Immigration Story

Actually if we talk about post-Soviet countries some degrees there have value. They teach physics and math really good, otherwise, why would there be so many talented Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian programmers? When it comes to social studies, economics, law, not so much, but if someone got degree from place like MFTI it's probably gives that person more credit that degree from average US university.

ceasarbyon Why are there few courses in Soviet literature at American universities? (2014)

I was born and raised in Belarus and all these books: Evgeny Zamyatin, We Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog Andrei Platonov, Foundation Pit Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Valentin Rasputin, Farewell to Matyora

were in high school program for Russian Literature in 10-11th grades.

Except for "Fyodor Gladkov, Cement". Never heard of it until today, had to look it up. Appears that this writer was in his prime in Stalin's times. Without reading his books can't say it's 100% crap, but the fact that he received 2 Stalin's Awards makes me think that the quality of literature there is not that good and he was more ideologically right for the communists than got recognition for writers talent.

You can check http://www.briefly.ru/school/ for list of mandatory Russian Literature for School Program. I'm sure, that for Foreign reader it will be more than enough to start with these books first, because they quality is tested by ages.

ceasarbyon Why are there few courses in Soviet literature at American universities? (2014)

"Cement" looks like an odd choice to me, it's not even in a school program in Russia itself. Perhaps, they limited by the books translated into English..

ceasarbyon Why are there few courses in Soviet literature at American universities? (2014)

"Nu, Pogodi" is "Tom and Jerry" on steroids ;)

ceasarbyon Soylent 1.0 arrives at Ars: We mix it up and slurp it down

"Take vitamins, take fish oil and you'll be fine." <-- this was an answer for that: "You can't live off those products alone, you would miss out on important nutrients."

Again if you have a problem with fish oil it doesn't mean that it's useless and everyone else is wrong about.

ceasarbyon Soylent 1.0 arrives at Ars: We mix it up and slurp it down

Not giving any nutritional advice here, you just misinterpreted. If you don't need it, don't take it. It works for me though. I mentioned fish oil because it's technically not a vitamin, so the message was Vitamins + Protein/Carb Supplements > Soylent. Own it in any dimension (price, taste, variety, etc.)

ceasarbyon Soylent 1.0 arrives at Ars: We mix it up and slurp it down

I'm not saying it's not possible technically. You can. But it's just miserable. Soylent taste bad, it's pricy and you can do same (live on just protein shakes + vitamins) with the other products. It will save you money and supplements like Muscle Milk taste way better than Soylent.

But still I'd rather eat balanced diet than just Soylent or just protein shakes. Personal health is too important to turn myself in lab rat for Soylent CEO.

ceasarbyon Soylent 1.0 arrives at Ars: We mix it up and slurp it down

Take vitamins, take fish oil and you'll be fine. You can't live on just Soylent either. (Unless you chained up in dark room with Soylent as the only food available)

ceasarbyon Soylent 1.0 arrives at Ars: We mix it up and slurp it down

How is Soylent any different than mass gainer products or protein+carbs supplements like muscle milk?

Yeah I know, it cost 5 times more, taste worse and gives you tons of gas.

So why should I buy it over well known products?

ceasarbyon A New Codecademy

Here's the HUGE list of websites teaching all types of code:http://habrahabr.ru/company/mailru/blog/215487/ I'm sure you can find something interesting there. Use translate.google.com if you don't understand Russian, but all links are in English.

ceasarbyon A New Codecademy

Cool beans! Will defly sign up for it. ;)