Yep, it's online in Russia too

What do you mean? In the last 25 years life expectancy in Russia has risen by almost 10 years

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.MA.IN?locat...

What's the fine for not registering your move? What time do you have to update your location?

In Russia in the 90s we had 5 days and now it's three months. The fine is 3000 rubles (~40 euro) and zero if you moved in the same region (most of them are bigger than Switzerland:) or live at relative's or spouse's place

I used to think that what we have in Russia is Soviet legacy (albeit relaxed) and it's something people in Europe are not burdened with

>(for example, his catchphrases "So it goes, Misha"[13] and "Kill, Kill, Kill" have been plagiarised all over the Russian web)

I remember him more than 20 years ago colorfully expressing his disgust for the hygiene standards of gypsy women and girls, ending the post with that cute "catchphrase" of his.

I'm no fun of stereotypical gypsy lifestyle, but that "Kill, Kill, Kill" was enough for me to form an opinion about him.

>Van den Hoven did not condemn battlefield VPS outright. If it helps Ukraine win a just war against an aggressor, he said, that is a good development. His worry is the system falling into the wrong hands

The professor is quite flexible with his "ethics"

Along with padding bytes.

> Why should people complexify and uglify their C++ code with the uint8_t pointer (or std::byte), when void* works just fine??

That was the intention of reinterpret_cast - make ugly code look ugly.

No, it's a feature that was there from the beginning - you don't always choose the location you are currently at.

>They don't give a fuck.

But yes, we don't give a fuck

Quite the opposite, the West welcomed weak and crumbling Russia. To a limited extend, of course, but still Russia joined G7 and many European organizations. Western companies were busy buying privatized Soviet assets pennies on the dollar.

Why obviously?

The USSR invited cosmonauts from all over the world to fly and work at the Salut-6, Salit-7 and Mir stations.[0]

That's France, Britain, Austria, Japan, India, Soviet block countries, Mongolia, Vietnam, Syria and Afghanistan.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interkosmos

Except you forgot to mention an epic leak in Destiny just three years after it was attached to the ISS: "At its highest rate, the station was leaking about 5 pounds of air per day overboard." [0] Imagine that happening on the 4th year of American Mars mission.

Also, if you on American mission to Mars, it would be reasonable to worry about cooling system dying mid-flight requiring three spacewalks to fix it: "We'd lose cooling capability to half of the electronics on the U.S., European and Japanese part of the space station." [1]

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3882962

[1] https://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1007/31station/

Why? It doesn't remove complexity, it (partially) hides it and makes the whole thing even more complex.

"Russia remains marked by some of the developed world’s harshest mortality rates. Average male life expectancy in Russia today is about 68 years, according to official statistics, compared with roughly 76 in the U.S. and over 80 across much of Western Europe. Death, unlike elections, remains difficult to manage even for the Kremlin."

Now look at the World Bank data [0]: Russian male life expectancy has risen during Putin time from 59 to 68 years.

Why would free, independent and objective Western media fail to mention that?

Male life expectancy used to be 65 in the USSR but dropped to 58 during "democratic" 90s when Russia was ruled by sick and drunk Eltsin beloved by the West.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.MA.IN?locat...

Implying it is Putin's personal multi-billion quest for longevity is just disgusting.

Why are you trying to spread such crude propaganda?

[0] http://government.ru/rugovclassifier/926/about/

The West didn't think Putin would escalate in 2008.

The West didn't think Putin would escalate in 2014.

The West didn't think Putin would escalate in 2022.

The West thinks Putin won't escalate in 2026.

Do you see the pattern?

Even if you accept the most charitable estimation of the number of people on Maidan in 2014, it's less than 2% of Ukrainian population. Hardly a majority.

>against their Russian dominated government

It is the government that the Ukrainian people democratically elected not a long time before the coup.

>it's a hard sell for me to believe it was not inevitable

The Ukraine was evenly split between pro-Russian South-East and pro-Western, well, West. The only chance they had for stability is respecting the democratic principles when people respect the authority of the president who won an election even if they voted for a different candidate.

The US supported the coup and broke that system. Despite famous Bush Sr.'s speech in Kiev in 1991[0] that warned of 'suicidal nationalism', the successive American administrations nurtured Ukrainian nationalism, supported and fed it.

>its existence as a buffer state controlled by Russia

Ukraine being neutral was enough for Russia, but not for the West.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkjxf76xRTw

My value definitely depends on my practical utility. Everyone is capable of joy and suffering. A chicken is capable of joy and suffering.

Tell me this: in a hypothetical situation where you are going to end up on an uninhabited island and you can choose one person to go with you, who would you peek? An elderly disabled one or a person that has necessary skills to survive? Maybe utility matters?

The first thing the Ukrainian parliament did after the coup was passing the bill that repelled the law protecting the Russian language in the Ukraine. [1]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_Ukraine#Att...