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guard-of-terra

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    Comment #27885309

    There are quite a few rulesets for the board. It's hard to say how exactly the inventors has played it. In this video the basic ruleset is shown. More advanced sets make use of mor…

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    Comment #27885152

    ...especially when played with ruleset where different tiles have specific rules.

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    Comment #13717465

    If a person goes into Tech with the plan to get a quick career advance then this person is not going into Tech, really. You desire to be a manager or executive, but you make it sou…

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    Comment #13712089

    Легко закрывать глаза, легко выдыхать воздух, Всё то, что я хотела сказать - сказала, пока не поздно!

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    Comment #13710373

    If you lie about people long enough eventually you'll notice that they hate you.

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    Comment #13709183

    > The pogroms are generally thought to have been either organized or at least condoned by the authorities. This view was challenged by Hans Rogger, I. Michael Aronson and John Klie…

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    Comment #13708761

    > violent series of pogroms > undertaken by the Czarist government This is a very serious claim right here. Any concrete data on "Czarist government" undertaking pogroms? The whole…

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    Comment #13707125

    Olympics was about bringing the world together. I would say it fails today, because now most troubled countries don't care about sport. But anyway, permanent location for Olympics …

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    Comment #13693554

    There exist some SF set in Strong Heaven, but it's mostly written in Russian :)

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    Comment #13684430

    Men are twice as stronger on certain operations - for example, grip by hand. That's a lot of biological basis, which nevertheless is much less relevant today.

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    Comment #13675928

    How is it any different compared to software wallet?

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    Comment #13673474

    Your private keys have limited attack surface, especially if they're in cold storage. However, your banking account has unlimited attack surface. It's on some remote information sy…

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    Comment #13673357

    Someone steals the control of your banking account, they take everything and there's no way of getting those money back. Credit cards are peculiar in this regard.

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    Comment #13672892

    Law is code until well connected people need a bailout.

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    Comment #13672889

    In a centralized system, sometimes people can help you get your money back, but it is also possible that they'll help taking money away from you. "Spirit of contract" is usually ta…

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    Comment #13672702

    > how superior centralized systems are Tell us? Because around here, I saw a huge number of bank fraud basically unpunished. "Yes those guys duplicated your SIM and stole all your …

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    Comment #13671899

    How fast is that? What's the latency for initiating communication and the roundtrip after the communication is initiated? Because it always irks me with bluetooth and wi-fi, why do…

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    Comment #13671014

    > It's a long-lasting grievance that could perhaps be eased by some diplomacy > There is little practical incentive for either Latvia or Russia to soften first Let me try to unders…

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    Comment #13670909

    You've just highlighted the sort of reward that you get for the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove the Soviet regime and freeing the world from Nuclear War fears an…

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    Comment #13670776

    > and "occupants" (Russian speaking people) Who you also consider "non-citizens"[1], but not in the sense that they're citizens of some other state, you just refuse part of country…

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    Comment #13646389

    I really liked throwing frisbee, unfortunately these days I have neither place nor company to do this.

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    Comment #13645115

    It seems that copy paste from book and the insertion of copyright violation banner were made in the same edit. Why on earth?

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    Comment #13642090

    We're in XXI century, so I think it's trivial to make your company international if you ever have something to gain from it. > can not work offsite Can you elaborate what's officia…

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    Comment #13642054

    I thoroughly hate the idea of exercise. It's when you are pretending that you're accomplishing something that requires physical load, while in reality doing nothing. This whole bus…