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I also really hate to do this, but no western media gave a damn to label this https://www.rt.com/news/363763-ukraine-belavia-antimaidan-pl... as a state sponsored hijacking etc.

It seems like the years of power created some kind reality distortion field around him so that he don't see all the futility of his attempts to look good. There is no escape from "dictator vs.freedom fighter" narrative. The dictator is always bad nevermind the net effect of his years in power. The freedom fighter is always good and no insinuations about him beign paid by foreing agencies or turning his country into war or just chaos would change that.

What is a point of making a vaccine and then starting antivaccination PR campaign?

Disclaimer: I live in Russia and what is told about Russia here on HN slowly kills me with its striking primitivism.

I believe Google is just an ad business unexpectely found itself to be a media company figuring what standards to adhere. IMO their try to be unbiased is a bit awkward.

its Gergo with Cherry red and XDA keycaps.

It is almost as if I designed it myself to fix well known problems like overloaded little fingers, navigation keys too far from home row etc.

However it looks like it was too many changes at time. Cherry red is good for typing text, however not that good for modifier keys. Ortholinear takes time to get used to. Now I have 5! modifiers and it seems like it is too much - it is not that easy to get used to.

Before buying Gergo I swapped Ctrl and Alt and the change went surprisingly smooth and were very rewarding - Crtl shortcuts are a lot easier now - I felt like I was ready for more radical changes, which I thought would be more rewarding, but it turned out I was not (

> It's that a system where any opposition doesn't fear for their life at least opens up the possibility of viable alternatives.

Not sure, that US system is such a system https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

> Yet he spends 0 effort on finding the guilty parties when journalists/political opponents die.

Yes, you are right this is very disturbing and needs to be dealt with.

> That you actually attempt mental gymnastics trying to explain it in more convoluted ways tells me that the Kremlin propaganda machine works.

This is not a "convoluted mental gymnastics", this is a necessary exercise to resist the very propaganda. Talking about propaganda - could you come up with some particular example of it which makes me perform all these mental gymnastics attempt? I'm honestly curious whether I would be able to distinguish it.

In science we create theories which come form hypotheses. Theories need to be proved. Facts may support, oppose, prove or disprove a hypothesis, this is not at all black or white. Facts are black or white regardles of sience.

Black and white facts are the person murdered, crime commited and some other person guilty. The hypothesis is who this other person is.

The fact that the person murdered is not the most dangerous for the person suspected support the hypothesis that this has been done to discredit him. (but doesn't prove or disprove the hypothesis).

The fact that nobody has been prosecuted supports the hypothesis that the suspect is guilty.

> "Putin will kill or jail anyone who opposes him, but they sucked anyways. As soon as a good challenger comes along we'll for sure vote them in!"

No, the reason I mentioned "they sucked" is that for an experienced politician killing his less dangerous opponent is a very stupid move. It wouldn't give any profit but will definitely harm the reputation. Сui bono tells us to search for another beneficiar.

> I wasn't even trying to be snide, but actually writing out this scenario made it too absurd to signal any other sentiment.

> is waiting for a scenario that can't happen, by Putins/Kremlins design.

I see only two options: waiting and starting your own party. I don't feel qualified for the second option.

> It's not that a bipartisan system fixes any and all problems, it's that a system where any opposition doesn't fear for their life at least opens up the possibility of viable alternatives.

This sounds reasonable. But it is in case a panacea.

1. Incorrect.

a) Not everyone - a lot of people oppose Putin. https://echo.msk.ru, https://novayagazeta.ru Most content on these sites devoted to critisizing Putin and current regime. These people do this for years.

b) Not everyone from your list opposed Putin, for instnace Khlebnikov mostly concentrated on Beresovsky.

2. Correct. We don't have any official evidence. This means that the only thing we can do is to analyze what is available. The links you provided don't help much in this endevour.

That is interesting. Very reasonable approach. The only problem is that they failed to provide the link to the materials they used in the study. And I don't see death rate statistics for 2020, only for 2019 and before. Publication calendar states that the nearset publication is expected on May, 15.

So, you state that:

1. My approach is not pragmatic, but rather naive.

2. You seem to be a defeatist :-)

I don't agree with 1 - people die, Putin's no exception. People in ruling party rotate, change etc. The design you are talking about is, imo, overrated.

So, I don't see any evidence. I see only accusations. Most of them don't make even slightest effort to consider other versions. This makes it very clear that the initial intent is not to figure what is going on, who are influental players, what interests they pursue and what conflicting points exist. Just blame Putin - people buy it.

This is one of my favourite itches to scratch. Initially it was inspired by TermKit and since then I pay attention to such endevours.

Intuitively I feel that we can do better on the presentation side. It is also tempting to refactor pipelines to use structured data - at first sight this would help avoiding all this plaintext parsing glue which hides otherwise elegant logic in your pipelines.

However, digging deeper into possible solution frustration creeps in :( In my case it started when I tried to collect real world use cases for "rich terminal":

cat image.png # that is pretty straitforward

cat *.png | gallery -3 # displays picture gallery in 3 columns

cat some_data | plot .... # hm... not that I use this frequently

.....

psql -c "select * from customer;" # hm.. I do need some kind of grid control here.

Heck, do I really need to bring such a complex thing here? Ok, I'm a bit stuck, lets postpone this and think about the implementation.

The obvious choice to make some shortcut such as HTML. However, here comes JS and I'm totally unsure that this behemot is what I wanted. Improving VT100? Most likely this will end up with a brand new 15th standard. No luck, lets postpone.

Structured data. Lets scratch another itch - model some basic commands using Clojure to build commands and represent structured data. ls, find, cat, grep. After a good start with producing file tree, flattening and filtering it with core Clojure function it becomes clear that I need some kind of DSL for "find" so that it would be as concise and easy type as with "find".

Блин!!!! Lets wait for the next such post on HN to start over.

What lots of covid??? Is there some new source of information I'm not aware of?

Sorry, can't help quoting querez: It would be great if you could link to some sources for your claims.

This. This kind of bias leaves us no way other than participate in this doomed political discussion inevitably loosing karma :( Why don't you ask for sources to support claims such as "Putin jailing and killing his political opponents".

Yes, I know about it. BTW, as a result of this takeover "Эхо Москвы" which critisize Kremlin quite hard now belongs to the state owned company Gazprom. So, this is a way more tricky than you might think. I mostly believe in self censorship - do not touch "dangerous" subjects etc. This is a main force behind censorship rather than directives from some dedicated goverment department.

Sorry, I cannot spend my vote on such a vaguely described person - I live in this country and its my future. My list starts with representation. This person must represent interests of a big group of people wich includes me. This person must represent interests of businesses I find valueable for my country. This person must have a prioritized list of problems to fix with the corresponinding steps he think must be taken. Otherwise, as you correctly stated it is not worth participating. So, sorry, neither Nemtsov nor Khodorkovsky doesn't pass, BTW are there someone else?

I'm not sure I get your point. What kind of non absurd scenario do you imply? Vote for another person nevermind how clueless he is? Overthrow the goverment and start a civil war?

It wasn't just a corruption. I cannot even choose a word to describe these terrible business schemes when all enterprise's income in a foregn currency were syphoned out of the country, workers payments were constantly delayed and the enterprise asked for donation from the state at the same time. Putin stopped that.

As for left or right I would label Putin as right inclined centrist.

I would rather call this pragmatism, not defeatism. There are problems and most Russians are aware of them and as soon as there emerge a political forse which will feel like they may fix them we'll definitely vote for it. The idea that something like bipartisan system may just magically fix the problem we have is deeply unconvincing for us.

I'm courious who do you consider a good alternative from those who were poisoned, jailed or neutralized in some different way?

I was always courious about this "state control". Seriously, I've heard this hundrends of times. And EVERY single person failed to explain how he thinks that happens. At the same time reading all this banned criticism almost always left the impression of very poor analysis of the situation, usually non constructive and biased. The "state controlled" part of media also feels biased but more often than not it looks like a better job done when it comes to the situation analysis.

Interesting, this "nicotine-yellow" make the appearance a lot better IMO.

What about Arbeitt? IMHO, a bit more interesting wordplay.

I believe most HN readers are intereted in the way corruption appears in the first place, how it prolifirates and what can be done to get rid of it. The documentary doesn't add up to any of above. It presents very weak evidence of Putins ownership. I don't see any credible evidence of the civil servant's welth either (I don't say he isn't wealty however). I would really like to hear an informed opinion on the subject, but I'm afraid people who have one just doesn't read HN.

Interesting idea. I like Emacs' approach toward UI building. BTW, why havent' you given a try to EAF first?

Why is this here? What are we supposed to discuss, Putin's tastes, his evilness or what?

Aha, I got it now. Technically you are absolutely correct. The mapping always happens. I was just aiming at cases where original ORM intent was to provide more "smooth" OO expirience, such as having object references instead of foreign keys, 1 to 1 class to entity mapping etc.