There is life outside major population centers. I have pings in excess of 200 ms to many major websites; if every DNS lookup requires doing several queries with 100-300 ms of waiting for each one, the web becomes…
His name is not Vlad, it's a familiar form of a completely unrelated name. If you want to demonstrate contempt by using a familiar form, use Vova. It sounds about the same as if I used something like "Joe" to refer to a…
The answer is boring — massive corruption: the country has been making very good money by selling oil and gas to the West (along with some other things like uranium and coal), but most of it goes to vanity projects like…
Welcome, I hope you have a good time. You don't hear about Kazakhstan here every day, and rarely in a positive light. If anyone else comes to Kazakhstan and wants to see "the real country", I'd humbly suggest looking…
There is life outside major population centers. I have pings in excess of 200 ms to many major websites; if every DNS lookup requires doing several queries with 100-300 ms of waiting for each one, the web becomes…
His name is not Vlad, it's a familiar form of a completely unrelated name. If you want to demonstrate contempt by using a familiar form, use Vova. It sounds about the same as if I used something like "Joe" to refer to a…
The answer is boring — massive corruption: the country has been making very good money by selling oil and gas to the West (along with some other things like uranium and coal), but most of it goes to vanity projects like…
Welcome, I hope you have a good time. You don't hear about Kazakhstan here every day, and rarely in a positive light. If anyone else comes to Kazakhstan and wants to see "the real country", I'd humbly suggest looking…