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According to Wiki "Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group...".

The initial goal of this war was to change Ukraininan government to a more friendly one. I have no idea what the current goal is, but it's very clear it's not killing people. Propaganda is trying very hard to deny any killings of civilians that do happen, if the goal was genocide they would try to portray Ukrainians as less than humans, the way some Germans considered jews to be vermin during Hitler.

Russians identify deeply with Ukraine, many have relatives and roots there (myself included). For this reason propaganda is trying to say that they are not fighting Ukraine, but NATO mercenaries. Again, this is horrible but does not sound like genocide.

I hate Putin and completely oppose this war, but there's no genocide.

Putin's words are that Russians and Ukranians are the same people and Ukraine is not a real country, but a part of Russia.

There are many casualties among civilians because of how idiotic this war is, but nobody is killing Ukrainians on the basis of their ethnicity.

I turned this poll into a chart: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IEfNjs_IoS3K3sG3W3Xh...

I remember when I was starting out (~2 years of professional experience at the time) I was contracting as a ROR fullstack developer for a San Francisco startup for $17/h. Local salary in Russia as Java developer before that was around $2.6/h. So that I felt pretty rich doing that.

I remember I used to only bill for like 70% of hours I worked because I felt bad if there was some task that I couldn't implement right away or a bug I had to figure out.

These days my rate is about $60/h working for a US company with 9 years of experience.

I remember when I was starting out (~2 years of professional experience at the time) I was contracting as a ROR fullstack developer for a San Francisco startup for $17/h. Local salary in Russia as Java developer before that was around $2.6/h. So that I felt pretty rich doing that.

I remember I used to only bill for like 70% of hours I worked because I felt bad if there was some task that I couldn't implement right away or a bug I had to figure out.

These days my rate is about $60/h working for a US company with 9 years of experience.

the founder is from San Francisco, our codebase was in Ruby / React

The founder never told it in great detail, but he did say he thought "they started on the wrong foot" with the interviewers.

Now that I think about it, you mentioned you had a laugh together.

Like with everything in life, there's probably a big subconcious bias towards people you like that extends to products they build.

The founder was jewish in his late 30s :-)

Isn't running a business and especially a startup is supposed to be risky?

"We have an idea that's not materialized yet, give us money so we can live comfortably and reap all benefits it it works out and not lose anything if it doesn't." - sounds like a wishful thinking.

Very strange hearing such stories.

I remember a company I worked for went through a YC interview.

We were rejected with "we are not sure you can deliver".

At that point, we had built 2 mobile apps, a big customer wesbite, rich portals for partners, contractors and admins, had thousands of customers, were almost profitable. Our CEO had a history of delivering in that he sold his previous startup.

I must sound bitter, but it's pretty gut-wrenching when someone gets throgh by making UI mockups during a zoom call.

Can't believe how spoiled we have become with open source. I see that a license purchase is required here and is immediately taken aback.

many people jokingly say that their work stops if StackOverflow is down. Surprisingly I barely use SO, I refer to docs and Github source code and issues much more often.

Pomegranate is my favourite one, but only if it's fresh. 99% of supermarket wine has a black-ish color that appears as wine ages and tastes completely different than fresh.

I would include this abandoned theme park on Bali - Taman festival: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Taman+Festival+Bali,+Padan...

Been there a year ago, amazing how quickly nature can grow back.

Got some Jurassic park vibes in there.

30 y.o. male, (ex-)Russia.

First time I went on a date I was 23 years old. Before that with all the studying and work I had no time whatsoever for any kind of a relationship.

Some people on this thread bring up that dating let's you develop a skill. In my experience dating is pretty easy if your goal is a long-term relationship, you just need to be yourself. If the other person likes you for who you are and not appear to be it's a very good sign. It is also incredibly easy being yourself, less mental gymnastics. If you are after casual hookups... Here you do need a skill (unless nature gifted you with good looks). I suck incredibly hard at this.

Another thing is that once girls get older (25+?) they start to value other things, so all these hookups you missed in your younger years don't matter that much.

My self-diagnosis doesn't come from this alone. But you might be right, I constantly feel like I have not achieved enough.

How do you find on the backend if a page is the last one? The trick I used to avoid extra SQL queries is if a user asks for 10 records I load up to 11 and then return 10. If there were 11 then I return a cursor for the next page, otherwise next page is null. Is there a better way?

Do they allow apps they extend Stripe's functionality but charge for it?

What do you guys think about making an SMS bot?

did they do that to find what political views people have?

It is meant to intimidate others. They can't possibly jail everyone, but they can scare them by arresting several thousands.

to people asking how police chooses to arrest / inspect people:

police arrests you if you try to be a "leader" - shouting, organizing others, or if you have a poster, or stand out in some other way. If there are no such people they arrest at random to keep everyone scared.

taxes that Russians pay are largely stolen by the government and given to oligarchs, who are friends of Putin. For example Rotenbergs want to build a new road, they say it's going to cost them 10x times the market cost, but they are going to win this government contract anyway because they had the same judo coach as Putin.

Any time West puts sanctions on oligarchs Putin makes a law so they can pay less taxes, meaning ordinary people keep paying taxes for them

you are right, there are still a handful of companies that fly to Russia. For now. But it's going to be close to impossible to buy tickets for them soon due to 90+% of other flights being cancelled and the high demand.

Also, the situation changes literally every hour, these companies may be next. Putin realises that people with money and education are trying to run away and actively fights it.

that's what's happening in Russia, there are all kinds of benefits to being in police. You kids have priority over others when going to college. Despite not having education you are being paid better than the most. You have early retirement and etc.. Many are hired from low income rural areas.

If an average Russian is being brainwashed, for police it's much worse. They really think that people coming to protest are being paid by the "West" and show no mercy.

Anyone who supports opposition, like following someone in Instagram, is immediately fired.

It's definitely a better deal than those 300+ civilians and many more military whose lifes were lost, I am not gonna bloody argue about that.

And yet I don't like when people discount broken lifes of Russians who had to flee their country leaving everything behind. Both Ukranians and Russians are refugees in this case. One difference they may not experience is being afraid of passing strangers in a country they fled to.

So much suffering... Everything because of one crazy guy. As far as I've heard even most of Putin's generals were shocked by his decision to invade. I hope one of them can muster courage and get close enough...

"Black lives matter" and "Moscow election protests" happened around the same time. I have nothing against BLM, but I can say that many Russians got plenty upset, that all countries had huge protests around the world (even New Zealand) to support BLM, while Russian protests were completely ignored by the international community. Nobody is asking to come to Russia, but we've been alone in our fight with Putin all along, the "West" haven't tried to help us fight his propaganda. I guess he is our problem now, but it's a little too late.

it may be selfish, but I don't want to sit in prison and be beaten by police. If you are against Putin, why haven't you supported Russians in 2019 when they took to streets against him? Came to our country with Molotovs? Or was it too far away from you? Everybody was just "concerned" by it and now you and me are paying the pric, because since then it's even harder for us to organize and do anything about this crazy shithead.

> Catching trains to Finland

When rumors about borders closing started to appear me and my GF had to grab clothes and medicine, enough to fit into baggage, book ANYTHING that flies from Russia within the next day. I had to leave all my savings that I've been saving up for years (banks stopped giving money), I had to leave a newly bought apartment, I had to leave my parents and grandparents that I may never see again.

Sorry the news are in Russian: https://yandex.ru/news/story/Rosaviaciya_rekomendovala_perev...

As for the "interview", thankfully no, but FSB does stop a lot of people to inspect their phones and question them, which can take 40 minutes.

I had to clean my social networks and direct messages of any posts against the war and the government.

it doesn't sound like you enjoy fighting Russian military, why should I? As for silence, I've been helping Russian opposition financially for years (even when it became illegal, through different channels), talking to relatives and friends to make sure they know what's going on. At some point risks become too great. Imagine Maidan, but if Yanukovich won and had 8 years to surround himself with 100 times more military and propaganda. Call me a coward for wanting to have a normal life.