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Technically, Estonia is not the successor state of the USSR, Russia is. If a person was born in the USSR, and only speaks the official language of the successor state of the USSR, then that person should probably be a Russian citizen, not Estonian.
It should only be possible, if that person was born in Soviet Union (that is, before 1990), and doesn't speak the official language of the country he / she is living in.
It would be interesting to see any reputable sources claiming that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are "far from true democracies".
And there is a good reason why you would like to do that[1]:
> For the ninth year in a row, Estonia has the best tax code in the OECD.
For instance, if you live in Estonia, you can use an Estonian limited liability company to manage all your investments without paying any taxes at all, as long as you don't withdraw any money from it.
[1] https://taxfoundation.org/publications/international-tax-com...
No.
> Because if not, consider that we do private communication over mere HTTPS all day long. Me loading the HN web page and having my own personal rendering of it with my user cookie header and all my upvote/downvote/karma/profile state is private communication, for example.
Because there is a good reason for it: it wouldn't work well with E2E encryption.
My point is very clear and simple: all private communication on the internet should be E2E encrypted by default, unless there is a good reason not to.
> [...] say "if they are doing it, it must be easy" - Ignoring that they are literally using the difficulty of doing it as the distinguishing factor for their product.
I am not claiming that it's easy, but there has been plenty of open-source projects launched with E2E encryption by default in the past few years.
https://standardnotes.com/ is a good example.
https://stingle.org/ is another.
https://ente.io/ is one more.
In theory, that's only the case if you are unable to review the code yourself.
In practice, it's like saying that TLS encryption is pointless, because one needs to trust every single person who implements it.
In 2022, there is no need to invent anything new about E2E encryption. There are many successful open-source examples, including Keybase and Firefox Sync.
There is no question that it adds development overhead, but I personally wouldn't even run a public service for others without E2E encryption.
> Or should you just stop whining - accept that this is free - and take the authors advice and host it yourself?
I am not attacking the author, nor do I currently care about this particular service he is providing.
This is Hacker News, a discussion platform, and I am raising a question about software development in general.
I think that Fedora Workstation[1] is a #1 alternative to Ubuntu in terms of smoothness and ease of use. And if .deb is a requirement – then simply Debian.
Again, there could be a rule, that after the first 30-50% tickets are sold, all the remaining tickets are sold at the base price (let's say, $50).
It's just a trick to force resellers out of business: because there is a limited number of people who can afford to buy tickets at heavily inflated prices.
No, that's what the promoter should do.
> Now you have increased profits short term and increased risks. And only rich fans can attend. This works for some stars and against other star'a brand.
No, it's doesn't have to be this way. Price could start at $1000, but the minimum could be as low as $50.
Yes, the rich fans would get their tickets first, but after the first 50% tickets are sold, all the remaining tickets could cost $50.
This way, at least theoretically, all the rich fans would get their tickets directly, and the resellers would go out of business.
No, I am not interested in maximizing profits. I am only interested in eliminating resellers.
> Circumstances such as the fact events are generally a part of tours, that the artists likely want a diverse audience, that event sales have side effects on future sales and marketing, etc etc.
That's exactly my point: if currently tickets are grabbed by automated systems and resold for much higher prices, none of these goals are reached by the artists.
What if tickets were sold using a reverse auction system[1] instead? For instance, tickets could start at $1000 and then go down by $1 every hour until the minimum price set by the promoter is reached – or all the tickets are sold out.
This way, even if resellers bought a huge number of tickets, it's possible that they wouldn't be able to resell them for a large enough profit to cover the risk.
US reports are worthless, because it has no soldiers on the ground.
The extremely high Russian casualty rate has been reported by multiple independent sources from inside Russia.
For instance:
> "Everyone went to the SVO," Astashov told RFE/RL, using the acronym for "special military operation," the euphemism the Kremlin has insisted on using when discussing the war in Ukraine.
> According to Astashov, the size of the brigade when it deployed was about 1,500 troops. The total number of dead, by Astashov's estimate: "At least several hundred."
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-army-casualty-rate-64th-briga...
Also, many huge Russian loses in Ukraine were confirmed by NATO countries with visuals:
> The British defense ministry on Friday said satellite imagery has confirmed that Ukrainian forces decimated a Russian battalion as it tried to cross a series of pontoon bridges over a river in northeast Ukraine earlier this week, a dramatic setback for Russian forces already struggling to make significant progress along the eastern front.
> Russian battalion groups generally have between 700 and 1,000 men.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/world/europe/ukraine-russ...
(Maybe because Ukraine's Ministry of Defence is only counting complete "liquidations".)