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And now try to imagine which opportunities it gives to some political forces in Russia to say: "Look, they all against us, they are our enemies".

No, it isn't. Sign says only "paper". It isn't clear what they mean, can be interpreted differently.

In russian it simple "paper", not "toilet paper" [1]

[1] http://translate.google.com/#ru/en/%D0%A3%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B4%....

As of "do not flush toilet paper", I have seen such signs in many places around the world (but I don't know reasons behind it), and it isn't only my experience [1]. It's intresting that it was a new for journalist who travels a lot.

[1] http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/20967/how-to-deal-...

Here [1], for germany [2], Table 6: Q8. Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?

- United States 17%

- Iran 16%

1. http://www.wingia.com/en/services/about_the_end_of_year_surv...

2. http://www.wingia.com/web/files/news/97/file/97.pdf

Actually regions harmed by mass famine in 32 and 33 are mostly pro-Russia, and most against-Russia regions weren't part of USSR at that time.

> just posted a donation link

Poster trying to represent link as donation for ukrainians, and this is lie. This is help for specific political forces. Someone may think they a better than current government, but they for sure isn't "the people" as poster trying to represent. I wont go into political discussion anyway, it isn't topic for HN.

I'm not speaking about politics here. You are calling to support one side and I just want to make very clear that when you are helping one side you are not helping "the people", you are not helping "ukrainians", you are helping conrete doubtful political forces to take power.

There are corrupted but legal government on one side and opposition that tries violently take power on other side. Sure it isn't obvious choose as you try to present it.

Just don't be naive and understand that you are supporting not ukrainians but some (minor? worst?) part of them.

> downvote

Maybe it because you become personal instead of bringing arguments?

And 1.9 was about twice as fast as 1.8. So it should be 400% percent improvement compared to 1.8.

Then you have enough developers to do salesman's work. This sounds even worse.

Another difference is relations to annexed territories.

Territories, annexed from Poland, had majority of population Eastern Slavs (Ukrainian and Belarussian), not Poles, were part of Russia for hundreds of years (except Galicia) and were annexed by Poland from Russia (Galicia from Austria) 20 years before.

This hole allows server (or somebody who can control connection between client and server) to read "encrypted" messages between clients.

How it's different from same implicit Terms for accounts in USA?

But most of their talents are in St. Petersburg, so this point has no logic. You could use this reasoning if their (small) headquaters were in St. Petersburg and most of development offices in Prague, but in reality opposite is true.

You are right mostly, here the full story (in Russian) http://www.xakep.ru/post/60338/.

In short: 90% of employes (including founders) in JetBrains are Russians, and founders moved to Prague in 1999 because of economic reasons. Headquaters remains in Prague mostly because of it was founded here and, probably, because of reasons you are mentioned.

BJORN DANIEL SUNDIN can be counted as representative of western world in this list.

Given that he has russian (slavic) first name that sounds plausible.

Five:

- ALEXSEY BELAN: Belan has Russian citizenship and is known to hold a Russian passport

- PETERIS SAHUROVS: Sahurovs is thought to be in Rezekne, Latvia. He may also visit Kiev, Ukraine

- ARTEM SEMENOV: Semenov speaks both Russian and English, although his English may not be that good. He tends to stay close to Russian communities.

- ALEXANDR SERGEYEVICH BOBNEV: Bobnev has a Russian Passport and has ties to Russia.

- ANDREY NABILEVICH TAAME: Taame speaks both English and Russian. He holds a Russian passport and Russian citizenship.

They think that best way to democracy is topple legitimately elected government.

You should also add that everybody wants to have well payed job. Question is "Which move would be better?". I think problem is that Ukrainians split in two roughly equal parts: pro-EU and pro-Russia (Yanukovych would not win recent election otherwise) and it's almost impossible to have consensus.

It is not about deserves or don't, it's about influence. Yousafzai influence to the World is negligible in comparison to Snowden.

Can you provide quote for your interpretation? For me "You cannot stop it if it’s a good idea broadly held" sounds more about global technological and ideological shift.

I'm not native english speaker, so sorry if I wrong. But does Schmidt actually means '10 days'? If I understood correctly Schmidt mean that if we (all people who do internet) starts to encrypt everything (http 2?) then it will be more difficult to do censorship. And he unlikely mean 10 days, probably 10 years.

In this definition yes, modern Russian people are individualists. But in sense > Extreme cold and very dark days tend to bring people together That is in the sense of small close group they are more collectivists than many of western countries.

> Also, this is probably the last thing that comes to mind about Russians in general. For the most part, they are notoriously individualistic.

You understand "individualistic" in some specific (probably american) way. Russians may look individualistic if you don't know them well, but actually in Russia close friends and family means much more then in US.

I don't think it's significantly related with modern Russia/Soviets or any recent events. You can found description of same behaviour made by Turgenev (here for example, in russian, http://european-book-review.blogspot.com/2006/04/blog-post_1...) in XIX century.

If you are interested I recommend "The Moral Animal" by Robert Wright, book has more details on subject.