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Re: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

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Post by bvrmn »

throw_a_grenade wrote: post #732
bvrmn wrote: post #548

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There is no such thing like Russian soul. But Bolshevist legacy and Checkist persons in control. See how Korea was split and become completely different countries from the same people.

> There is no such thing like Russian soul. There is: https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%... . That you don't understand it does not make it less real. As I understand it (I'm from Poland, not exactly Russia, but we share enough culture and history) it's a way of describing something between culture and attitude to life. It's not limited to a phenomenon of extreme political apathy combined wi…

BTW I'm Russian, 39 years old. I was grown in typical Russian family with engineer and financial specialist parents. I was taught in usual school and university. But I hate all past 20 Putin years and all Putin's supporters. And I know I'm not alone. There is no mythic soul or mentality.

Re: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

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Post by account42 »

codebolt wrote: post #712
c-c-c-c-c wrote: post #639

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Why do that when you can make sure to undermine their trust in you :)

Are you guys even parents? Because you sure make yourselves sound like experts. The truth is I know my kids will make absolutely terrible choices if I leave everything up to them. I myself made a lot of bad choices growing up with unsupervised internet access. And on todays web it seems the pitfalls for a curious young person are even deeper and more plentiful. I'm simply trying to spare my kids some of the same prob…

Did your parents restrict or monitor you to that extend when you grew up?

Re: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

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Post by account42 »

rmind wrote: post #570
hnov wrote: post #438

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Maybe as a person living in the Baltics you need to endure the cold and not fund the Russian war machine through natural gas. An unfortunate reality really

Baltics have LNG terminals and can fully supply themselves from alternative gas providers. Tell it to Germans who addicted themselves to the Gazprom drug needle.

Agreed, absolutely shameful of us to refuse to stop paying for russian gas immediately. That Russia not cut off the gas in response to the other sanctions shows how important that cash flow is to them, which is exactly why it must stop.

Re: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

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Post by roguas »

ev0lv wrote: post #924
jarek83 wrote: post #821

It's so bad for Russian people and companies. We generally should not give any advice to them since their rescued incomes pour money into killings of Ukraine civilians. I hope you guys could cut off from the devastating powers in your country in some way.

>>We generally should not give any advice to them I disagree completely. Putin's decisions aren't the decisions of everyday Russians. And the Ukranian conflict is more complicated than the single-side narratives you are fed. Giving people advice is the morally right thing to do.

It is more complicated obviously. However any side that initiated military force against another country should be condemned. This should be plain and simple.

Every conflict has sides and perspectives. We should put a certain veil of "I dont care about your side anymore" once military force is used. Otherwise we promote military force as a valid response.

Re: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

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Post by CRConrad »

5ESS wrote: post #966
CRConrad wrote: post #964

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> I wont discriminate based on nationality. When a whole nation turns evil, you should.

According to your logic the whole entire nation of Ukraine is evil because some Ukrainians decided to shell schools and homes. https://youtu.be/PGl5USbBLIo Calling a whole nation evil is bigoted and ignorant as it gets. The Ukrainians deserve to be invaded but even if they didn’t, there are countless brave Russians risking their lives speaking against an evil murderous government, and you call these people evil? Sham…

Troll troll trollety troll.

Re: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

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Post by CRConrad »

ceilingcorner wrote: post #976
CRConrad wrote: post #960

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> If the sanctions didn’t work before, I don’t know why they would work now. Because these are different and harsher sanctions. That's why people are complaining more about them now, and why they might might perhaps finally work. > I don’t have the answers, Yeah, that's becoming abundantly clear. > but ...you like to bloviate? > certainly any move toward more militarization of the world is usually a bad thing. "Every…

Judging from your other comments, you haven’t bothered to educate yourself very much on this situation. Please, be trollish elsewhere and waste someone else’s time.

"Be trollish"?

I'm not the one spouting the Kremlin's talking points.

Re: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

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Post by CRConrad »

Yoric wrote: post #961
CRConrad wrote: post #925

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> Oh, please, let's not start blaming most Russians. Any regime can only stay in power as long as it has the support, active or passive, of a majority of its people. (That's why the German people was held collectively responsible for having abided the Nazi regime, and had to go through collective de-Nazification after WW2.) The fact that, with the exception of short periods of anarchy (most recently: the 1990s), Russ…

Have you ever been risked your life and that of your family by being part of a revolutionary movement? I haven't. I don't know that I would if I lived in a dictatorship. I'm not going to start blaming people because they haven't either.

Sure, they may have, from their viewpoint, valid reasons not to do anything about it. And sure, I couldn't swear that I would do any better in their situation. But: So what? Still doesn't mean it's not their fault, just like it would be mine in the same situation. The two are not logically related.

Re: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

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Post by xunn0026 »

codingkev wrote: post #203
inglor_cz wrote: post #145

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Interesting. JetBrains, s.r.o., producers of IntelliJ (and a bunch of other IDEs such as Android Studio, PhpStorm and CLion) are incorporated in the Czech Republic, but in practice, all the development is done in Russia.

It assume it depends on how things are structured. If you are effectively running everything from Russia and are just using a EU corporate entity on the "frontend" with no actual business operations within the EU, that type of setup would likely be illegal in most countries. But if you have two separate entities with clear split responsibilities things should work just fine. For example the EU-based company takes car…

They have like 100 people in Prague, another 100 in Munich and then 1000 in Russia. Safe to say they are a Russian company with an EU "presence" for tax purposes.

It's amazing how much people will close an eye if they like the product!

JetBrains should be boycotted too.

Re: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

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Post by Yoric »

CRConrad wrote: post #997
Yoric wrote: post #961

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Have you ever been risked your life and that of your family by being part of a revolutionary movement? I haven't. I don't know that I would if I lived in a dictatorship. I'm not going to start blaming people because they haven't either.

Sure, they may have, from their viewpoint, valid reasons not to do anything about it. And sure, I couldn't swear that I would do any better in their situation. But: So what? Still doesn't mean it's not their fault, just like it would be mine in the same situation. The two are not logically related.

Victim blaming? I'm not a fan.

Re: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

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Post by CRConrad »

Yoric wrote: post #999
CRConrad wrote: post #997

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Sure, they may have, from their viewpoint, valid reasons not to do anything about it. And sure, I couldn't swear that I would do any better in their situation. But: So what? Still doesn't mean it's not their fault, just like it would be mine in the same situation. The two are not logically related.

Victim blaming? I'm not a fan.

The victims here are the Ukrainians; the Russians are the aggressors.

What you're not a fan of is aggressor-blaming. To most of the rest of us, the aggressors are precisely the ones who should take the blame.

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