That's the immediate result. But what about later, when the war is over? Military expense is non-productive, economically it's the same as just giving people money for free while they are sitting on the couch (nobody is killed in the latter case though).
Military overspending literally killed Soviet Union, and people returning from Afghanistan war made guaranteed the unforgettable social climate after that. I don't see any reason to be bullish on Russia, even if Trump now gives up Ukraine for Putin.
It's a different case. People who didn't want to move anywhere were virtually forced to, and after realising the struggles of being an immigrant decided to return.
People who made the decision themselves and have already settled in the new place seldom come back.
Didn't know about that side of his talent. Among broader Russian audience Stiver was known as a maintainer of the largest pirate library in Russian (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41634780).
That might explain why the article is so light on personal details - either he asked them to keep them private, or maybe they're not aware of his real identity at all?
They're aware, that's why they presented him as a "German programmer" and completely avoided his flibusta endeavour. The author from JetBrains is Russian himself.
> If you defiantly refuse to say who you are, it can make people angry that you’re upsetting social reciprocity. You know who they are, but they don’t know who you are. It feels rude. An obsessive personality might make it their damn mission to figure out who you are!
To be frank, fuck them. I’m not inventing an entire persona and stuff just to make some weirdos happy.
Many people base their judgment of somebody on the person’s ideals rather than actual accomplishments. My gut feeling is that gp wanted to evaluate Stiver on something else rather than personal accomplishments.
It’s another sign of the performative society we live into, where work and accomplishments don’t matter but virtue signalling does.
Didn't realize that! His death sent shocks across the Russian speaking internet because he was the maintainer of Flibusta but noone spoke about his other passion.
you can leverage not only a reaction, but also its object. increase the pressure, increase the resistance, propose solution (and hide other agendas behind it).
> Overcrowded cities, erosion of quality of life, strained services, competition for housing, suppression of wages, the complete abandonment of on-the-job training, falling tertiary education standards,
Pretty sure the ever wealthier owner class is to blame for that, not immigrants.
> minority enclaves with values that are fundamentally incompatible with the West
And this is a massively overblown problem mostly pushed to distract voters from those listed above.
Most of America 100 years ago was minority enclaves with values fundamentally incompatible with the "old" America. Worked out in the long run because we had a good run of a strong middle class. Money makes everyone merge.
But, the Republicans will just attempt to make the rich richer, and keep the poor and others isolated, then sell the story that the others are the ones keeping the middle class down, not the rich.
I don't claim perfect knowledge of the 30-ish countries in Europe, but I've not heard of any of us reelecting a double-impeached convicted felon where the impeachments were for (1) abuse of power and obstruction of Congress and (2) incitement of insurrection; and the 34 felonies he's been convicted for were related to misreporting finances related to hush money relevant to a potential scandal that could have influenced the 2016 election, while also being on trial for another 54 related to mishandling of classified documents.
Details might differ, the big picture is pretty much the same. The left-wing are shy and try not to annoy the voter base by being too radical, while the right-wing are getting more aggressive and outspoken. And still the right-wing mostly win the elections. Literal fascists in Italy, right-wing populists in Hungary, Slovakia and Netherlands. And the upcoming elections in Germany is not going to be very good either - we basically get to vote between right-wing traitors and just right-wingers. People en-masse don't value freedom, human rights or rule of law any more, I wouldn't think there are any hurdles to get Europeans to vote convicted felons either.
> In this situation it is fairly obvious there are legal implications to having these people as maintainers
It's not really obvious to me, and looks like to some other people too. It would really help if gkh explicitly said what law prohibits collaboration with Russia-based maintainers or what specific legal consequences they are avoiding in this manner. The vagueness just creates a sense of uncertainty for every non-Western contributor
If you want to make your own fork and put those maintainers back and it's not against the laws of your country then go ahead. Linus is almost certainly not in that position.
Well, yes, and what do you think the impact of it is going to be on the economy?
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