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Humanitarian aid of late capitalism.

But Git is a distributed VCS. They could just as well cleanly merge pull requests into the main branch as hosted on GitHub and then merge GitHub's main branch into their canonical …

This isn't Reddit.

> 2) because China's population is heavily concentrated in the west I know it's likely just a typo, but anyway: it is heavily concentrated in the east .

Norway isn't part of the EU but is part of the EEA. It is through that membership that it's bound by the same as other EU countries economic agreements that through simplification …

Meanwhile, Russia just today announced it is starting the release of the first batch of its own vaccine to the public. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/sputnik-russia-corona.…

It's interesting to see modern-day “certified forgiveness coachers” transmit the millenia-old Christian teaching on sin, resentment and forgiveness.

HN is also probably not the place where calling a person a "Russian troll" constitutes a valid counter-argument.

The city was wiped off the surface of the earth during the World War II, it suffered much worse than Warsaw or Dresden. And you wouldn't expect the Soviets to rebuild it in anythin…

The mobile application from Yandex.Taxi is in my opinion the best taxi app in existence, much better than Uber. And it's not like the quality of the service can differ between apps…

Yes, Euro is a disaster. It's a predominantly ideological project that economically is totally unsound. Okay, it was conceived as a way to boost the German economy (before Euro the…

Ludwig Wittgenstein: the borders of my language are the borders of my world . English is a language many young Slavs learn in preparation to or in the course of their professional …

A video encouraging people to participate in an illegal gathering could in some jurisdictions be considered a form of incitement.

There's room for building instruments like this at a state-sponsored level in, say, the EU. The EU has already been working on a special clearing house that would help European bus…

Well, seeing we already talk anecdotes… I was there myself this year in May on a week-long hike and a few days at the sea, and they're doing alright. The year of 2014 was quite rou…

By that wording, who is a national of the Crimea region? Did they mean residents ?

Sure, and falsified all the votes? The Crimean parliament proclaimed sovereignty against their will and so was the Ukrainian navy chief forced to switch allegiance? When it comes t…

After the Ukrainian air traffic control spent weeks bringing the same flight closer and closer to the war zone, even though a ban on air traffic over that territory should have bee…

There's hardly any military work that would involve using code from GitHub in Crimea. All the R&D is done in mainland Russia. This targets common people who use GitHub for their pe…