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As a driver here you have to take daring decisions sometimes, something that robots probably should never do due to 'do no harm' rule. That's a real engineering challenge.
Putin brought quality of life in Russia to a pretty nice level, and he keeps doing it, and a lot of people like that. And I see no point in becoming involved in protest movement and revolution rage. We all saw what happened to our neighbour, we need evolution, not revolution.
As much as I love your services, it's not possible to use them here, and ministry of communication even issued a recomendation not to use your services due to your unresponsiveness about takedown requests.
Otherwise both paintings are great.
It's kind of like with bitcoin pools, if any pool gets 51% of hashrate, it can do nasty things to everybody. Same with influence, if US gets, say 51% influence in the world, it can be bad for everybody. It's all very simplified here, and my only politics knowledge comes from playing EU and Civilization video games, so that's only how I see it.
I support 'invasion', which is not really an invasion yet, because it consists only of selfies of native population on the background with unmarked Russian(irony, ha-ha) military. Nobody is dead, and I hope, hope, hope it will stay that way.
I see this as a very calculated move to show Crimea they have our support, which they asked for, and nothing more. All hysterical WWIII comments is an overkill.
However if Putin would enter east provinces of Ukraine, like Kharkiv, and it might be tempting to do so, cause they are somewhat pro-Russian too, but much less than the Crimea, it would be insane, and I'll never fight for him, and I'll go to protests and try to overthrow him, because I don't want a war. So that's my biggest concern.
There is one more thing to keep in mind: even if Russia would do nothing, Ukraine may go downward into civil war because they have some nasty social problems now. If it would happen I really don't know what would be the best move for Russia to take. But I think there was enough violence already, and I want only peace.
However I think news like this probably should be posted on reddit than here.
(Additional irony if text is a Python computer language program)
Same thing with Tesla and car dealerships. Why would I need a dealership, if I can order a car to my door online straight from the manufacturer these days?
http://nabeelqu.com/blog/surprisingly-undervalued-books/
Old HN post now refers to dead link.
10 years for trolling is way over the top, just fine him already and let him go.
I'm an atheist now, and I don't believe in any nonscientific stuff, but my whole teen age I thought "I'll become a computer master", so I had no other choice probably.
Still don't know if this was a deliberate attempt to guide me to computers, or my mother really believed in fortune-telling.
It's cool because you can change everything, even program terrain and blocks distribution over the world.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/25/yandex-founder-idU...