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As John Green once wisely said: "Do not go to war with a noun; you will always lose."

Well, I just blocked functionalclam.com in my OS hosts file, try to DMCA that

AFAICR there is still no evidence that North Korea attacked Sony, but everybody seems to think they did.

Read about the incident in Deep Survival, absolutely stunning survival story.

Your articles were SUPER helpful when I added multiplayer to my game, you may be the reason I succeeded in it, alongside Valve documentation. Thank you so much for writing them!

Living in Russia, I always tried to conceive how Google cars would behave here, especially in winter.

As a driver here you have to take daring decisions sometimes, something that robots probably should never do due to 'do no harm' rule. That's a real engineering challenge.

This is awful, 1 game on Steam can weight 40 Gb now (see Injustice), here in Russia I pay only 12.5 EU/month for 30 Mbit/s and unlimited traffic. I hope telecoms won't start reimplementing traffic caps.

I think you're painting everything black and white here. I'm Russian, I have no TV at home, I get all my news from reddit and twitter, and I still support Putin, though I don't like him a lot. You're right about mass media, but that doesn't mean you can't have sources of information you like. Russia is not North Korea.

Putin brought quality of life in Russia to a pretty nice level, and he keeps doing it, and a lot of people like that. And I see no point in becoming involved in protest movement and revolution rage. We all saw what happened to our neighbour, we need evolution, not revolution.

Trust & Safety maybe, but it's still impossible to use CloudFlare in Russia, due to harboring some drug-selling websites at your services. ISPs ban them by IP, and taking whole subnetworks of websites that reside on the same IP down with them too.

As much as I love your services, it's not possible to use them here, and ministry of communication even issued a recomendation not to use your services due to your unresponsiveness about takedown requests.

No, it's not better, Tim got it wrong with the shadow under the cello—it looks like it's floating, and tilt of the mirror looks way more natural on Vermeer's painting.

Otherwise both paintings are great.

A sample of something containg testosterone, flu, inflammation, vitamin D and fertility! Not sure how something can contain fertility, but still.

This article is boss. TCP vs. UDP holywar is not going to end any time soon, it's nice that some people can actually explain the differences in simple manner.

I hate monopolies, and currently see US as trying to gain a monopoly on world power, so I want it to have competitors and live in a strong and powerful Russia. But both Russia and China are far behind US for now.

It's kind of like with bitcoin pools, if any pool gets 51% of hashrate, it can do nasty things to everybody. Same with influence, if US gets, say 51% influence in the world, it can be bad for everybody. It's all very simplified here, and my only politics knowledge comes from playing EU and Civilization video games, so that's only how I see it.

I support 'invasion', which is not really an invasion yet, because it consists only of selfies of native population on the background with unmarked Russian(irony, ha-ha) military. Nobody is dead, and I hope, hope, hope it will stay that way.

I see this as a very calculated move to show Crimea they have our support, which they asked for, and nothing more. All hysterical WWIII comments is an overkill.

However if Putin would enter east provinces of Ukraine, like Kharkiv, and it might be tempting to do so, cause they are somewhat pro-Russian too, but much less than the Crimea, it would be insane, and I'll never fight for him, and I'll go to protests and try to overthrow him, because I don't want a war. So that's my biggest concern.

There is one more thing to keep in mind: even if Russia would do nothing, Ukraine may go downward into civil war because they have some nasty social problems now. If it would happen I really don't know what would be the best move for Russia to take. But I think there was enough violence already, and I want only peace.

I'm Russian, I hate Putin, I support our troops in Crimea, and the article is right that Nato just doesn't want to lose influence right under the Russian border, that's all western hysteria is about.

However I think news like this probably should be posted on reddit than here.

Redesigning them is actually a very good opportunity for someone in need of a good portfolio.

Say, if someone posts some text on a website like Pastebin, and another person copies and pastes it in another country, would it be considered as an import?

(Additional irony if text is a Python computer language program)

I must've misunderstood the article then.

I'm not American and I heard of this company for the first time, but it's obvious for me that 'over the air' is the progress, and 'over the physical cable' is not, and it seems to me that physical cable owners want to block progress, and an unreasonable toll solely for owning the cable, because they know they will never own the air.

Same thing with Tesla and car dealerships. Why would I need a dealership, if I can order a car to my door online straight from the manufacturer these days?

Sushi story is about a man named Jiro. There is a wonderful, wonderful documentary about him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiro_Dreams_of_Sushi

I tried to squish a warning like "You won't become a good artist after reading only one book, you still need 10000 hours of practice" into the post, but couldn't find an appropriate place for it.