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Well, naturalisation in most EU countries would involve some other requirements: language knowledge (you'd have to pass an exam) + civic/constitutional exam or integration test + n…

Can you give some specific examples? I would say that, unless you have some additional qualifications (European ancestors, EU spouse and similar), the majority of EU countries actu…

While each EU country has its own immigration rules, there is an EU-level route for the highly skilled workers, called the EU Blue Card: * https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policie…

Ironically enough, Vilnius is now a very beautiful, safe and high quality of life city that is a better place to live than, probably, quite a lot of American cities.. How times hav…

Nice. Any plans to add support for affine transformations and perspective transformation (warp)?

Well, it is not really a new problem. Stopping-starting nuclear power plants is also slow and costly. Pumped-storage hydroelectricity and industrial batteries are good ways to solv…

For an academic reference, they should have quoted "Code Inflation" (Holzmann, 2015). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=705...

It was the case during the Soviet occupation and briefly during the transitional period, but otherwise - no, it wasn't. For example, in 1990, Latvia simply restored its 1922 consti…

"Removing Russian from their list of official languages"? It was never an official language in the first place.

You are counting from some early planning phases. Compare, for example, how long it took for the UK to build High Speed 1 line. It's worth noting that the non-HS standard gauge (pa…

The work is very much ongoing in Lithuania: 114 km of railway is under construction, with tracks already laid in large parts of it. That is 43% of the initial phase (links to Polan…

Baltic States can disconnect already in case of an emergency. The infrastructure is ready, several tests have been conducted. Lithuania wanted to disconnect already, but Estonia pu…

PDF version here: https://kam.lt/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Assessment-of-Thre...

As a guy born in the Netherlands, you have incredibly poor understanding of the European security and geopolitics. Let me answer point to point: > I don’t want this war to continue…

Interestingly, they didn't talk much about the information domain this year in the executive summary. However, an example from the report: Russia uses cyberattacks to support its s…

Certainly yes, but for debug builds and tests. It can be heavyweight for production.

rvault for small documents: https://github.com/rmind/rvault It uses envelope encryption with one-time password (OTP) authentication. I like to store data on the systems I own and j…

World War II wasn't just Germany. As a matter of fact, Poland was invanded jointly by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. I think you partly missed the point. Anyway.. It is certain…

The civilized world must respond, no questions about that. However, the idea of "WW3" is wrong and helps the Russian regime to instigate the fears in our societies. Unfortunately, …

Russia won't but the West will. If you have a clear cut case of contract breach, then it's pretty straightforward to confiscate the property via courts and so on. The sanctions, on…

Doesn't it? [1][2] suggest that Germany paid $25bn for fossil fuels to Russia in 2021, where a large portion of this must be gas. The cost of building Nord Stream 2 was less than €…

I think they calculated that the Nord Stream projects are pretty much dead in the current circumstances. It was a political project to start with. Also, I think it is a statement t…

As I wrote in the post above, they still retain the levarage through the Druzhba [1] and Yamal [2] pipelines (passing via Belarus and Ukraine). These combined have a MUCH greater c…

Because they would have to pay billions for not delivering the gas due to the breach of contracts. Legally, you cannot turn off the taps just because. Moreover, Russia can still su…