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https://shkrobius.livejournal.com/401292.html offers a fascinating narrative rooted in cell biology

I will address some of your concerns. Karl Marx was European. His publisher was European. His early adopters were Europeans. The evidence that Europe cannot be communist is not the…

I glimpsed last years of Soviet Union and it was pretty meh. I remember seeing anything in the street (a payphone or a playground for kids) and assumed it will only degrade because…

Hello! This is Moscow calling. What are you doing with these planes of yours now? Can you pass them under the table for an unspecified amount? Regards £ wishes!

As a matter of fact, I didn't.

I have some traffic going in and out on private TLS-enabled ports, including to Russia. I have noticed persistent attempts to connect to my endpoints. I've not shared these endpoin…

https://paulgraham.com/yahoo.html By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's…

I wonder if you can load a font from base64 string like you can with images. Then, one may write a pure js library which generates such font from a set of rules on the fly. Catered…

> killing political dissidents That's a funny perspective. USSR just before that time mostly killed communist apparatus members¥ and with them innocent people. In such an environme…

I wonder how the price of solar panels work WRT mortgage: Is there any government- or bank-approved formula for how much solar panels on a house cost? Otherwise why not sell them f…

I never said that Telegram was censorship resistant , it just does not take proactive steps to delete or restrict content it doesn't like.

I can't remember a single instance where Tg will take down a channel that is too concerning for FSB. After all, Telegram is a worldwide platform and you can directly read Ukrainian…

It can even go both ways: nothing prevents Telegram to be blocked in Russia, as well as being used to harvest potentially life threatening info about Russian citizens at the same t…

For one, perhaps because Telegram does not take sides and does not take down Russian content. Perhaps because they had some agreement in the end, perhaps because they simply couldn…

Telegram is not blocked and is often the main channel through which people get their news. Whatever stuff you want to see, you may consume there. Indeed, news on the web are going …

Russian domestic alternatives grew just fine without any blocking. Blocking stuff just angers people and teaches them to use VPN.

Those for whom these odds increase faster are at huge disadvantage whereas those for whom it increases slower are at huge advantage. As you can imagine it is variative. Of course I…

Evolution at the moment tremendously favors these who can bear children late in their lives. That implies being in full health longer as well. That would surely manifest in a few g…

They've basically lost the market to Zoom due to their failure to have a single stable offering when COVID hit. I hope they're happy with the zoo they have.

Water has huge thermal inertia. Laptops don't. They may freeze quite quickly. Something to bear in mind for the future.

> supply-choked Australia and Canada Made me chuckle as I would imagine these two should be least concern real estate supply-wise along with Russia. "First, a deficit of oil. Then,…

> A nationalistic history is always a mythology For smaller nations. Larger nations receive too much scrutiny to get away with having fake history. Then again, they have more resou…

Looks like a good time to check out these ISS - MKAD 19th km marshrutkas' timetable.

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You can only pull it off if the game is real nice, though. Or if it's real good at milking you. Some movies can also sell you some merchandise and a poster and perhaps a second go …