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This is a very bold statement. Care to provide any evidence? I was there. What about you?

It is interesting how you only have purely visual "signs" on your list ). It can't be only this for a tech crowd. There is so much more about the way software is shipped, configure…

It sounds like it is possible to justify the invasion, if you have a good enough story... It is still not clear if the threat was real or imagined, I'd the "deescalation" propositi…

Coffee brewing. Both pour over and classical barista world championships are possible once you win your nationals. I know someone who came 2nd in higly competitive nationals in my …

Any proofs?

On the Kramatorsk train station attack. No, Russia had Tochka U officially in use (and of course we're also able to bring them up from storage, as it does with other old equipment …

Being in Ukraine, I appreciate such a cencire and public view on this war from a Russian citizen. I have two major objections, though. 1) Solzhenitsyn & Brodskiy are very anti-sovi…

This is not only about current headlines, it is the very same list of hybrid war tactics shared by two figures. https://texty.org.ua/articles/105990/putler_en/ Originally published…

A surprisingly long list of hybrid war tactics shared by two figures. It looks like history have taught us almost nothing. Originally published: 21 December 2018. Translated into E…

Good points. But I somehow hope we underestimate the moral aspect here (and the WWII lessons) that EU leaders and people take into account. Also, hasn't Russia proved to be an unpr…

> [...]a no-fly zone that no one will enforce given it would mean engaging with, guess what, the air force. Oh, and starting a nuclear war at the same time. A thought experiment: -…

Do you really think there is no difference for US/EU with what kind of regime to cooperate _now_? Purely economical short term gains proved to be too risky even for Germany. Moral …

Real Nazis are as close to Stephan Bandera's groups in 1940s as they are to IRA, for example. Don't mess these movements, motivation and historical context. It was more about getti…

Good point about public perception. But there's a deeper problem with this: people _want_ to believe it is a justified and necessary act of violence. And this is really hard to cha…

> large Neo-Nazi supporting population in Ukraine Do you care to list those sources? It sounds exactly like a successful work of Kremlin propaganda. Please, ask anyone, any foreign…

I wonder, what is the current state of satellite technology available to military? Can they stream near real-time hi-res images that would "prove" that one side or the other is eff…

This kind of a very short-term thinking is what brought us here. In the recent history: look at how "effortless" the Crimea invasion was for them and what they did a few months lat…

I would be very surprised if that is the real "high" point there. Maybe, the country is very small or lacks tech universities & engineering/math "tradition". Tax systems are very d…

As someone born in Crimea and moved to Kyiv in 2014, I can tell you that a preventive strike is the last thing people in Ukraine really want now. And that is exactly what Russia wa…

Regardless of the content, it should be noted that Pozner had (and probably still has) a very nice broadcast time on one of the most popular Russia's channels. He is smart enough n…

> There was no imminent danger to those inhabitans when Russia annexed. Please tell this to many thousands of people who moved out and never looked back. Also, hundreds of Crimean …

Thanks for doing this! It would be very nice to know the list of countries where you will ship this year. I was very excited and ordered it to an US address. But that means: I pay …

Seems now we need a perfectly PC-correct newspeak. That will a be a subset of all words in all languages that excludes any words that _could_ sound like a different word in a diffe…

Elixir seems to be quite pragmatic choice despite being a niche tool (most Erlang OTP pros and cons are is still there). Rust has already passed point of no return by gaining so mu…