I know that one is (was) 100k people, and the other is (still) 23mln people, but this has the “Artsakh has never been part of independent Azerbaijan” vibes.
“The world” doesn’t care for such arguments, only for who is tastier when killed and meat shared.
They also say and substantiate that the casino always wins, but people still go to casinos. More than half would go to casinos if they had enough money and a casino in convenient proximity, probably.
(Yeah, about Bitcoin - that’s the genial idea of using casino tokens as means of normal exchange and as an investment asset. The value attributed to Bitcoin grows faster for those with bigger sums and transfers and in bigger pools and with better information for prediction of its fluctuations. That would be the founders with their sleeper coins, and also not sleeping coins long ago mixed out of possibility to trace them. The result stands.)
So. The computer industry has been turned into a casino. The visitors were first upset, then suspicious, then kinda disoriented, and then got used to it.
Addiction is the source of enormous profits in our world, between drugs, prostitution and gambling. Now the Internet has become part of it.
Which is not an unprecedented change. There were times when drugs (in the form of maryjane and other weeds and various mushrooms and alcohol) were possible to make for anyone and not prosecuted on most of the planet, and not an industry. There were times when prostitution was not an industry, but just a normal situation. There were also times when it didn’t make sense for gambling itself to be an industry (making gambling cards and such was, though).
To good or to ill.
One can clearly see that when these industries are transparent and competitive and legal, they are not harmful. One can also see that it’s very hard to make them transparent and competitive and legal. Transparency hurts cheaters. Competition hurts abusers. Legality hurts people like the competent structures in most countries getting their share.
So, IRL there are “haven” countries with laws legalized for certain things and with proper regulation in place, and the rest where such things serve the previously listed trio.
For the Internet this would be a really sad situation.
So honestly Briar and other multi-transport offline-ready delay-tolerant systems are the future IMHO. But it’s a long evolutionary process.
I mean, it maybe wasn’t gay, but was definitely a reference to something hellish, depraved, opposed to common morality, weak, like that.
Because back then it clearly meant protest against authority, against hierarchy, against stereotypic masculinity, against war, against evil covered by normalcy.
In some sense it’s an intentional show of vulnerability, that look.
And I’d take that over Kipelov in Russia every day, that moron who doesn’t fucking understand what rock music is.
I dunno, Java to native code compilers exist. Maybe one can compile Bramble into that with some interface wrapper, and then use it under iOS, but I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about.
Russians are typically more tech savvy than you would expect.
Well, as someone living in Russia, I don’t really feel this so much
Is “better than Zuck” a valid argument?
Well, that Bitchat thing of his may (after, eh, fixing a lot of it) turn to be not so bad.
Though I went to the Briar site, and apparently it’s not just Briar, but also a framework for virtually everything communications-wise offline-enabled.
Why is he so hated here? Twitter model is one thing that is kinda fit for global-open-decentralized approaches without much difference for the user. I could never use it, but plenty of people do and seem to have a feeling of hivemind over it.
I’m not sure he’s the one who fucked it up.
140 symbols and the whole atmosphere I don’t like, but I have my own fair set of disorders.
Hashtags are honestly a good idea, just like a social system organized around them.
Except I probably would prefer that to be similar to modernized Usenet. Actually going to pressure my family members to install Briar, want to start using it, and apparently it has such a functionality. Not sure yet. Anyway, the framework under it (right now Briar itself is the only application, but authors have ambitions) definitely would support such a thing. Maybe I’ll finally have an incentive to learn Android development.
When at school, I was being told this is illegal. Public offering and all that.
That is, I wouldn’t mind with something like ancap in place (to preserve things like competition and privacy), but I see no good things from ancap being implemented anywhere, while the bad things seem to not be meeting any resistance at all.
So, 1) how’s this legal, 2) … oh, have read in the comments that it’s still not. Thanks.
Yeah, but not about utterly degenerate webpage design
OK, it just has utterly degenerate webpage design. I thought those were voluntary additions by users telling what they use, not common format. Inconvenient.
Yes, I do that too, except different things work and don’t. And making tweaks for Proton in Steam seems more bother.
Like I said, similar quality to googling for Windows problems. Reports on WineHQ are sorted by Wine version, OS version, usually involve specific actions taken.
I, on the contrary, prefer it when everyone uses mainstream Wine with winetricks and prefixes so if something doesn’t work, you can at least fix it using someone’s advice posted on winehq. With Proton it seems that everyone expects stuff to either just work or doesn’t bother. The Proton advice is usually as valuable as Windows problems advice.
That’s because western elites are generally fine with Putin. Him being the adversary is business as usual.
While us boors not liking him they are less tolerant about.
Which is also why the main group of Russians with no impediments in Europe are Putin’s friends and propagandists and all that kind.
Ex-Soviet everything since 1991.
Including Kaya Kallas.
Yeah, McCarthyists working together with Bolsheviks-turned-mafia to turn the world into shit. That’s just wonderful.
He’s a Russian businessman who became one in the last 35 years. He’s “dissident” in the sense that he picked the wrong side.
Khodorkovsky’s close associate has been named by French, I think, police as the main suspect for ordering an attack on a Russian opposition figure recently.
Look up Navalny’s organization’s opinions of all those people. Navalny was a controversial figure for many intents and purposes, and I really hope he didn’t return to Russia because of getting desperate and tired of idiots like me mentioning those controversies. His organization might not parrot the western narratives the way Khodor and others do, but it is genuine.
Wha-ha-ha? If you mean their archaic dead Chinese variant that was mostly used for poetry and feudal prestigious stuff, it may not be a good comparison to mandarin as the main language. Actually many of the kanji pronunciations are how it would sound, or even whole phrases. I speak neither of the three (third being Japanese), just repeating what my sister would say (she studied lost of languages).
I think the situation is similar to Japan, except much of their vocabulary is Chinese in origin. But, ahem, the variant is too a very specific dead idiom.
But not in what you say. Their argument is flawed in the sense that one country is somehow obligated to all be under one state.
(Has a bit of reminiscence with Kremlin goblins thinking that every Russian-speaking area is their slaves and belongs to them.)