can somebody tell me why pretty much any (even random) configuration sounds kind of good?
Inside Putin's Circle
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#53I read an incredibly thorough book about Putin a year or so ago, and what stuck with me is how political his career in the KGB was. In those final years of the USSR, everything was in shambles, and any position of power became so through-and-through political. That makes his rise so interesting and frightening. He has been forged in a dark web of covert slush funds, power projection and kompramat. He was obviously ve…
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Business, despite all its press and media to the contrary, isn't war. People are not dying and suffering and you don't really face any repercussions from your actions. War is a totally different thing so asking people to "move fast and break things" doesn't really make sense in that context especially when there are actual physical repercussions. Also why should the people on this site really care? Honestly I get it…
> I don't recall Ukraine sending f*ck all for them.
so, you're holding against Ukraine that they were peaceful and didn't participated in other countries destructions all this time?
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#55> These men are known in Russia as the “siloviki” — “men of force”, or perhaps even, in the Irish phrase, “hard men”. Just to clarify. The word "siloviki" made from "силовые структуры", which may be translated literally as "structures of force", or less literally but preserving some meaning "armed organizations" (maybe "armed forces", but I think that in English "armed forces" doesn't include the likes of police and…
yes, definitely not "hard men", more like what you described, except various intelligence agencies who don't always wear a gun, are also included.
We get what you are trying to say, but people carry guns, they don't wear guns.
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Business, despite all its press and media to the contrary, isn't war. People are not dying and suffering and you don't really face any repercussions from your actions. War is a totally different thing so asking people to "move fast and break things" doesn't really make sense in that context especially when there are actual physical repercussions. Also why should the people on this site really care? Honestly I get it…
> Also why should the people on this site really care?
This war is the closest we've been to a nuclear war since the Caribbean Crisis in 1962. Especially if Russia wins.
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I reckon the population of hacker news has drifted tremendously over the last decade. More content about the general grind of corporate tech industry, less focus on entrepreneurship. Many people in the tech industry who read and comment on HN are focused on exploiting the status quo and enjoying salaries offered by roles in large corporations Perhaps one consequence of this drift is that people with more radical acti…
Where else?
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Business, despite all its press and media to the contrary, isn't war. People are not dying and suffering and you don't really face any repercussions from your actions. War is a totally different thing so asking people to "move fast and break things" doesn't really make sense in that context especially when there are actual physical repercussions. Also why should the people on this site really care? Honestly I get it…
That severely underestimates the consequences of this war in business
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I'm thankful that HN is (kind of) remaining an island of politics-light STEM discussion, differentiating itself from the angsty college protestor vibe of places like Reddit. The response is muted because 1) increased maturity, and 2) moderation.