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The answer depends on whether or not you are on the receiving end (perhaps as part of an unfortunate "collateral" line in someone's XLS spreadsheet). The crime and punishment issues are mostly solved for individuals and…
Discrimination is explicitly forbidden by Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/against-discrimination Please remember that even according to the official polls, at least 28,000,000 (20%) of Russian citizens do not support the…
This really hurts. I left Russia a while ago, have not paid taxes there since then, and otherwise have no connection to the country, but I still feel like everyone hates me because of my passport and my language. It…
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30632695 (Facebook/Meta made some questionable moderation policy changes, the government decided to block Instagram, people are unhappy).
This is not entirely accurate. European countries pay billions of dollars for gas directly to the state. If they stopped immediately, the damage would be far greater than anything coming from the ordinary citizens.
Apologies for using a throwaway account. It is true that the idea of suffering have been engraved into the Russian culture, for centuries. It is the ever-present fear of what could happen next, based on what has…
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The answer depends on whether or not you are on the receiving end (perhaps as part of an unfortunate "collateral" line in someone's XLS spreadsheet). The crime and punishment issues are mostly solved for individuals and…
Discrimination is explicitly forbidden by Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/against-discrimination Please remember that even according to the official polls, at least 28,000,000 (20%) of Russian citizens do not support the…
This really hurts. I left Russia a while ago, have not paid taxes there since then, and otherwise have no connection to the country, but I still feel like everyone hates me because of my passport and my language. It…
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30632695 (Facebook/Meta made some questionable moderation policy changes, the government decided to block Instagram, people are unhappy).
This is not entirely accurate. European countries pay billions of dollars for gas directly to the state. If they stopped immediately, the damage would be far greater than anything coming from the ordinary citizens.
Apologies for using a throwaway account. It is true that the idea of suffering have been engraved into the Russian culture, for centuries. It is the ever-present fear of what could happen next, based on what has…