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It seems to me there are three options available when it comes to YouTube. One can allow the ads to play, block them, or pay for a subscription.

I've never not blocked online advertisements.

I’m not talking about semantics nor about the international legality of it.

The difference between your assertion and this situation Is that in addition to asserting that Crimea is now a part of Russia they also control and govern it. I don’t think there is a lot anyone can do about that.

I don’t think that’s a contentious claim to make, it’s simply just the reality of it.

What will be more interesting will be to see how far Western/NATO countries will go to change that reality and how far Russia will go to prevent that.

If I remember the story correctly the neighbour killed his dogs. That’s a pretty strong motive.

Yes, Crimea does indeed de facto belong to Russia, although de jure it is recognised by most countries as belonging to Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_jure

Crimea de facto belongs to Russia now and that isn't going to change to no matter how many warships cruise past it.

Realistically it's difficult to imagine any scenario where Crimea ends up belonging to Ukraine again.

Now that Biden has waived the sanctions against the Nordstream 2 project, Ukraine will lose it's strategic importance as a gas transit country. At the same time Russia's importance as an energy supplier to Europe will increase. It won't be much longer before no one cares about Ukraine or Crimea anymore.

Yeah even back then the population density is way higher than anywhere I've ever lived.

However I still take issue with the original argument of:

> just in case anyone was falling for the romantic falsehood this line was selling.

I don't think it's misrepresented anything. The original comment in the article is:

>Narashino, a small town in the largely rural Chiba Prefecture

Whatever it's population density is, 175k people is still a small town.

It might be a dense suburb now but what was it like 40 years ago when he moved there?

Star Trek TNG basically predicted this in 1991 in the episode The Game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_%28Star_Trek:_The_Nex...

I always sort of thought that calling yourself a CEO or managing director of a small company sounded pretty lame and pretentious, but that founder worked quite well as a modest but accurate job title.

I don't know if that was ever true or if it was only true in my head but either way I think that the term founder has picked up some baggage in the last decade.

- A simple Static webpage for general information. This is updated about once a year.

- email for writing to customers. No automated emails or boilerplate.

- smartphone for speaking to customers. We use a combination of FaceTime, WhatsApp, and Signal so the calls are free but also because the audio quality is way better than a normal telephone call. We also use IM’s. This seems to mostly happen on WhatsApp and is customer driven.

- Word, Excel, and Keynote for documents.

- Pixelmator Pro for graphics.

It's also ikra in Romanian.

Coincidentally a friend of mine was just attacked and bit by a large Alsatian. Luckily he is mostly okay!

The dog was on the lead (or leash for you American English speakers) at the time of the attack though.

I would take the decision based on tax law in your country.

If you live in the UK the answer to this is almost always yes. Even if that means making a personal loan to the company so it can pay your salary (at least up to the roughly £10k tax free allowance).

Additionally the UK does R&D tax rebates and since almost all of your salary can be attributed to R&D in the early days you can get cash back from HMRC even if you are pre-revenue. But if you don't pay yourself a salary you can't claim this back as R&D.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/corporation-tax-research-and-dev...

Anyway no matter where you live the answer to your question is probably best answered by an accountant.

You get plenty of sleep, exercise, and manage to take breaks. You read books and are in a good relationship. And you like what you do. It sounds like you're living the dream.

Maybe try to spend more time outside in nature.

Would any person in any country argue that their leaders aren't incompetent?

A friend of mine is building a framework for Unity that allows for easy multiplayer. I haven’t tried it because I don’t work on games but it seems like a cool idea.

https://gameplumbers.com/

Walking dogs off lead is totally normal in the UK as well.

>This is definitely a new low for the Russia-Western relations

FYI Belarus is a country rather than a region in Russia.

Yeah I totally agree. The only one I’ve played recently that recreated the magic of childhood for me was Breath of the Wild.

FYI the most recent version of macOS (Big Sur) is v11.3; but I know what you mean.

>I guess I don't get your point, if a user wants to sideload fortnite or facebook, good for them?

This will result in a few "must have" apps being side-loaded to start, and finish with people having to reinstall their phone operating systems every 6 months; to the detriment of the vast majority of users.

Do you not remember what the computers of regular people were like in the late 90's and early 2000's? I remember pretty much everyone non-technical having at least a mild malware infestation and at least one extra toolbar in their browser.

I'm quite happy that the free market created a solution that is more secure.

Final Fantasy 1 for the NES (spoiler alert) has a plot twist at the end where you save the world by undoing a time travel paradox created by the villain. This results in no one being aware that you've just saved the world, or that it even needed saving.

As an 8 year old I learned that one shouldn't need or seek out praise or recognition from others for doing something that I felt was good.

A few years ago a replayed an old video game that I hadn't played since childhood. There are a few parts of the game that were quite difficult and involved a fairly complicated sequence of events, one of them being the final boss battle.

When I got to the boss I remembered the battle being quite complicated and intense but I couldn't remember where to move, when to jump, or when to attack. But after a few tries as if by magic my fingers took over and executed the sequence of buttons flawlessly. It was amazing because I didn't consciously know what came next but my fingers did. I also felt a sense of euphoria as the memory came back to me; it was a really interesting thing to experience.

I've been doing a bit of that although I'm not quite sure if I'm looking in the right places to make an accurate assessment of that. Rust seems to be winning out by this metric though.

I actually just got an M1 Mac since that post and I've decided to start from scratch again for the exact same reasons as you've mentioned here.

People like to be outraged and outrage generation makes for good clickbait.

The only reason I’m interacting on this post is because I feel a mild sort of outrage about the author’s mild outrage. And I feel like a bit of a sucker because of that.

With Big Sur I finally did my first fresh install of macOS since Jaguar (10.2). It took me an entire weekend and while it’s nice to have a clean out I think I’ll just do a time machine restore when I finally get an M1 Mac.

Check out projecteuler.net those are fun too.

To be fair that first gen iPad is too slow to browse the web at all unless it's a really lean site like HN.

I can't fathom why and how any company owners would allow HR departments to wield such power.