guard-of-terra

There's more similarity between you and white men in Russia than you might think.

The trajectory of both cultures were at times parallel. Industrialization. Space race. Higher education accessible for middle class. Having to figure out womens and minorities rights, freedom of religion and abortion.

The bashing of white male culture obscures the fact that it's the culture that made universal human rights possible. Not done by Indians, Chinese or Arabs. We invented this idea that women and men, black and white should be viewed from same angle. Was universally unthinkable before.

They were a part of Russian Empire for quite some time. Also Latvian sharpshooters were the driving armed force behind communists.

Soviet state was a catastrophe you don't get to opt out.

Nationalistic of what nation? Russia is not nationalistic, Russia is permanently confused since 1917.

Putin was never elected in competitive election.

Brexit was competitive, Hillary-Trump competitive, Modi perhaps, Putin elections weren't. Not in 2000, not in 2004 and certainly not in 2012.

USSR did that quite a few times. They'll invalidate existing bills and you would only be able to exchange a few of those.

Do this enough times and people will rightfully call the local currency "wooden", and switch to USD for any large transactions.

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

Rouble also became worthless in the following years, Venezuela-style. Accompanied by Venezuela-like poverty.

There are these awesome SF writers, Maria and Sergey Dyachenko, and some of their books' plots are placed in an unspecified "normal" eastern european country. This is when you want to write a book with SF plot but do not want it to be about poverty, banditism and misery, which are the only plot devices offered by real, non-normal ex-USSR republics.

Same way, a lot of Soviet writers wrote e.g. detective stories placed somewhere unspecified in the West, because for proper detective you want bars, whiskey, coated detectives, not Komsomol activists offered by USSR peoplescape.

“Which country do you want to live in, a great country or a normal country?”

The problem is, neither one is offered anywhere to anybody. You end up living in a depressed shard of Russian State with fake history, be it Russia, Belarus or Ukraine.

Russia a bit richer, Belarus a little bit more "normal", Ukraine the third one.

The concept of "normal country" is very Soviet and peculiar on its own. Every country out there stems from its history. You can't really have a blank slate "normal country" where you want it much like you could not have "a democracy" in place of Iraq or Libya. It has to be about something.

Frankly, I'm in software dev and I've never worked more than 45 hours/week.

Half of thay sounds too niche to grow, the other half too vague to ensure success.

Seems like a lousy industry to be in. Lower wages, lower expectations, shooting themself in the foot.

Seems that unlike software devs, hardware devs don't have a say, they're merely drones to their managers. In software, lead dev will say that they need this linter, and his superior will have to either provide or argue. But it seems that ib hardware, management will just say "no", end of storg. You're not getting anywhere with this attitude.

This can also be so in software dev - in defunct bigcos.

He's probably just a Russian who got disturbed on his vacation, you might be overestimating the excitement.

If we're sharing, my longest one to date is:

Cuzco - Lima (long layover, we got to visit Museo Larco and eat pizza) - Panama - Dominicana (technical stop, but we had to disembark) - Frankfurt - Moscow.

It was pretty painless, I only regret missing one lunch by being asleep.

Why specific music for programming? E.g. I mostly listen Caprice (the elvish one) for programming just because I like Caprice.

You can probably try to outlaw international meat trade. Still, colder countries are okay-ish for cattle actually, and you can grow chickens pretty much anywhere.

Then stop talking about crimes about humanity. If you consider yourself a criminal, go and jail yourself.

Personally I don't think "going back" is viable, we should probably be trying to engineer ourself a new climate. Better than we had pre-industrialization.

Our planet was pretty messed up even before humans came. It was going to snowball.

There seem to be a MAJOR problem with your reasoning.

Why do we fear carbon emissions? Because climate change will make swaths of planet uninhabitable and/or underwater, forcing people there to move.

Don't tell me your solution is preventively moving half billion people. Isn't that the result you wanted to avoid? What's the principial difference anyway between land becoming uninhabitably hot and land becoming uninhabitably cold (due to lack of heating)? You lose land either way and have to move people from it, worsening situation everywhere else.

Your solution is basically shooting yourself in the foot to avoid gangrene, and the amount of faith you have in such solution is disturbing. Your position is one big reason why climate change deniers exist: because you scare people with your misdirected zeal.

"Industrial revolution" is a loose concept, it started at different time in different places and didn't really become runaway before mass petrol.

For us colder northern countries, population didn't change that much since the coming of petrol. Maybe 1,5x increase in all. Definitely not sevenfold.

We had meat and heating before petrol, why would you expect it to go away?

Are you in California by chance? Because you seem to ignore the fact that large part of already-inhabitated world is unlivable without heating (and, possibly, meat). Canada, Scandinavian countries, Russia, even then Germany and Poland, and as south as Bosnia.

It's as if you were thinking that warm countries becoming unlivable is tragedy, but cold countries becoming unlivable is desired.

For rebase I can never figure out what should go in all its parameters. It has defaults sure, that are impossible to figure out either.

With cherry-pick you have no parameters and no defaults, it's basically cp <commit> . for SCM.

I don't care about any commits that are not under code review. If I have fifty duplicate commits on different branches in my local, that's okay with me.

Fast-forward doesn't work usually, and rebase is confusing compared to cherry-pick.

Both merge and rebase, but no cherry-pick. Goodbye then, I guess.

I've seen a dozen of those tools wishing to "simplify" git and they all fail my workflow, which is pretty common I guess, team git with central server and source control.

What I use:

    git push with target

    git fetch

    git checkout

    git cherry-pick

    git reflog

    git log, status, diff obviously.

I don't think that mutation rate correlates with evolution speed. Of course, never having mutations altogether would, but if you have some mutations they'll be more than enough given the time frame.

It was definitely disrupted. By TV shows.

Fifteen years ago, TV shows was what housewives view, and something you can throw in when no blockbusters are on the screen.

Today, movies are laughable. Characters are so unnatural. Plots are so old. FX take so much screen time. On top of that they're so awfully long while lacking enough detail and consideration. TV shows are so much superior these days it's not even funny.

My take is - you don't even have to go to wrong websites to be deeply hurt. A lot of niche sites monetize using shady AD networks which serve deeply disturbing semi-porn ads to shares of audience.

Given this situation, I find attention to porn sites misguided. At least a person going to porn hub decided to be there, as opposed to going to a gaming wiki and seeing degenerate ads.

> And there's no way of getting rid of them, short of violence.

And that's where people become really-really cautious about immigration. You can't really change your mind later - after a few years your undesirable neo-compatriot can't be got rid of. It's irreversible. People fear irreversible decisions and don't trust politicians on those.

So the only shot you have is not letting people in at all. Even if it means turning down honest good people.

If you want to make people more immigration friendly, figure out how to track and deport existing immigrants when things go wrong. Not just tell other people what to think.

Maybe we as a society are overcrowded?

"how would it solve anything to listen to the demand of people"

First of all, maybe they'll be less scared?

You see yourself as a filter who will determine which requests are reasonable and which aren't. This is where trouble is.

ЛEBAK, -а, м. (разговорное неодобр.). 1. Политический деятель крайне левых взглядов. 2. Работник, незаконно использующий рабочее время, орудия или продукты общественного труда для личной наживы. Купить! у левака, и прилагательное левацкий, -ая, -ое и лева-ческий, -ая.-ое.

Every guest who chooses to not participate won't spend money at the club. Every guest who chooses to participate will now spend less money at the club. If you're the club owner you'll definitely make sure that paying customers' entrance to the venue is unobstructed.

Well maybe we should stop backing people into a corner then?

For example, why don't back down on immigration? Instead, it sounds like "we're not listening to your concerns, rightful or not, your opinion won't affect how things are done". Hard to imagine how this treatment won't lead to panic attacks.

Actually, countries definitely become harder and harder on immigration but there's a failure to project these changes to fellow voters.

While reading this article I've got the exact feeling that, to the author, it's much more important to reinforce immigration than care about fellow citizens' feelings.

:) Левак is leftist

Extortion makes no sense. Clubs are commercial venues. Everything that personnel extortions comes straight from owners' pocket. So they have huge incentive to figure it out, and I personally haven't experienced that kind of thing.

On other hand, it's usually written in Latin. And it's not so much about your face than about your dress.