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versale··on Kimi Claw
> Yes Moonshot AI is a Chinese corp. So?

Obviously it means the product contains less democracy than required for many.

versale··on 4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin
Just google for Household Food Security in the US. You might get surprised.
versale··on The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice
Well, a company has to grow. If it doesn't, it'll be devoured by those who do and show pleasing YoY metrics to their shareholders and prospective investors. Simply imagine you are an investor. Which company would you put your money in? And since the world is limited a company cannot afford not growing if it wants to survive. Government regulation is impossible, because there are other governments which happily let their companies to grow and outcompete foreign companies.
versale··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
You'd better report your wrongthink. We, Oceania, have always been at war with Eastasia, Eurasia was always our ally.
versale··on Making a system highly available isn't just about adding redundancy
You must be in Russia? Just switch on VPN.
versale··on A Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union
Basically the absence of sources supporting the stories is the problem here.
versale··on Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems
On the other hand projects named this way are not easily googleable.
versale··on Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place
Intel’s P/E is 7 right now. So, the other ratios do look inflated.
versale··on CPU Pinning and CPU Sets (2020)
Is your setup open source? I'd love to know more about upsides of erlang/otp on top of k8s. Do you use hot code reloads?
versale··on Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
This is clearly an idealistic approach. A materialistic view is better explained in Fernand Braudel's "Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century".
versale··on Lite-weight Embedding API for Mozilla based applications with native UI (2014)
This is what is used currently in the browser of SailfishOS.
versale··on Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency
> Our model predicts that transparency reduces the individual bargaining power of workers, leading to lower average wages.

So, it's in employers' interest to make the salaries transparent, isn't it? I bet the model is incomplete.

versale··on [dead]
> 53% of Americans think a good government should favor the freedom of its citizens over the safety of its citizens.

Again they don't bother to define what freedom is. Whereas the young people know first hand that "It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper." (c)

versale··on Protasevich Street? Bucharest mulls changing address of Belarusian embassy
I was interested in his earlier pieces: it’s been stated that Protasevich joined Azov as a journalist, not a neo-nazi combatant. Did he write anything about his experience in Azov?
versale··on Protasevich Street? Bucharest mulls changing address of Belarusian embassy
> being a journalist that even somewhat challenges the system

Would be nice to read his articles if there are any. He's a journalist after all. Right?

versale··on Protasevich Street? Bucharest mulls changing address of Belarusian embassy
What? Wait, but they said he's just a journalist.
versale··on Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says
Actually this tactics was tried once with Guaido in Venezuela.
versale··on Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's greatest living poets, comes to America
I've never heard of Maria (though can't say I'm an expert in poetry). That's why I decided to do some research and found this.

Hm, I had to read the lines three times, slowly, to reconstruct the image the author tried to convey. And this was the first layer. Apparently there is another one inside, but I presume this second layer resembles a Rorschach test: everybody is welcome to see what ever she/he wants to see. That's quite an achievement for those who care about pumping up readers' self-esteem. Especially if the readers see poetry as gymnastics for brain.

versale··on Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's greatest living poets, comes to America
For those who reads Russian this is the best her verse as rated at [1].

  Утреннее солнце восходит утром –
  Столько соблазнительных вероятий!
  Что же ты, девка, ходишь по квартире,
  Тапками стуча, пятки печатая?

  Что тебе, голубка моя лебёдка?
  Поворотись-ка, сними последнее,
  В золотое зеркало полюбуйся,
  Это и то вперёд выдвигая.

  И чу! Я слышу глухое биенье.
  Тепло бокам и шея удлинилась.
  Ноги не радуют, но белым перьям
  Многие подруги позавидуют.

  Достаточно сделать движенье крылом –
  В животе ухает; паркет остался
  Далеко внизу; родные, простите,
  Пишите мне до востребования.

  – Бессмертная, навеки бессмертна я,
  Стиксу не быть для меня преградою!
[1] https://readrate.com/rus/news/luchshie-sovremennye-russkie-s...
versale··on President of Chad Killed on the Battlefield
I'd like to add that it is France who controls Chad's currency policy with CFA francs [1]. Some people say it's a modern mean for wealth extraction from Africa.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFA_franc

versale··on President of Chad Killed on the Battlefield
"He was one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders and a close ally of western powers..."

So, it depends on how you view "western powers", I guess.

versale··on Soviet children’s books became collectors’ items in India
There's a movie (1956) based on the book. The movie is available on Youtube with English subtitles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCqXBTBzilY

versale··on Soviet children’s books became collectors’ items in India
Kinda true. The Soviet children knew there was no communism in the SU. But the book could give a clue on how it's supposed to look like.
versale··on Soviet children’s books became collectors’ items in India
“Dunno in the sunny city” and “Dunno on the Moon”. The latter is rather an anti-capitalist satire.

I really love them and managed to buy both books with the original illustrations for my kid.

versale··on Among the Rank and File: Gogol in the Twilight of Empire
The table of Ranks wasn't Peter's innovation. He borrowed it from Sweden.

His biggest mistake though was omission of regular 1:1's, annual perf reviews, goal settings from the established HR practices... ah, and "values" of course.

versale··on Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years
Actually it is a theater adaptation, but aired on TV. I remember that time. The Leningrad TV made plenty of similar TV-plays for children featuring actors from Leningrad theaters.

I find it funny that such production is compared with Jackson’s trilogy now.

versale··on The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies
I believe you’ll like it: “Passion of Spies” (Шпионские страсти) 1967
versale··on The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies
“The most charming and attractive” 1985

“The irony of fate” 1975

“Winter cherry” 1985

versale··on KGB Manual: Training the Operative for Psychological Influence of Foreigners [pdf]
> it is prudent to use the following formulas: "I understand you...", "I am not surprised that you have said this...", "I predicted your concern...", "It is good that you have mentioned this...", If I were in your place, likely I would feel the same way...", "There is much that is just in what you are saying..."

> ...

> The best way of letting him know that in fact he has asked a question is to say something like: "You have raised a very interesting question". "Your question gets right to the point." "I wasn't surprised to hear this question from you," and so on

Hm.. I hear this from my corporate superiors every now and then during All-Hands Q&A sessions. Better check their background...

EDIT: formatting

versale··on How Yevgeny Zamyatin shaped dystopian fiction
The USSR didn’t exist in 1920: the civil war was ongoing (until 1922).
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