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I completely agree. I was trying to say it’s okay to be wrong if you are able to acknowledge it instead of doing mental gymnastics to justify it. I don’t know where Paul Graham stands in this regard.

Yeah it’s even embarrassing for Microsoft, having to lure people into using edge. That may be the raison d’être of these inline web search results.

It’s a crappy feature anyway, I never use it. It doesn’t get in my way so it’s not a big deal to me. In any case if that’s all there is to this ad thing, the drama around it is surprising to me.

> Ukraine was supposed to be neutral

According to? It was supposed to be sovereign. It gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for guaranties of never being attacked... Russia can't be trusted.

>there has been a faction that has wanted to push NATO boundaries east

Well, NATO membership works like this: Countries ask for membership. It's not "NATO" deciding "hmmm, let's expand east". You must be confusing with Russia expansion, forcibly annexing land, with all the war crime and deportation. Ex-soviet countries know what it's like to be occupied by Russia, so they want to be part of NATO. I'm sure you can see the difference.

> Putin has been responding to the antagonism with bold and efficient use of force to advance Russia's national interest in the face of such aggression.

Bold and efficient use of force??? Like, bold torture? Efficient killing and starving POWs? Smart kidnapping and re-education of Ukrainian children to draft them to fight against their own people? Yeah, what a genius. You're nauseating. You're talking just like a nazi would.

I think I'll stop there, I don't think it's worth discussing with people who casually admire war criminals.

I don’t even know what people are referring to exactly when they say Windows is full of ads. Windows 11 is my main OS, it’s the basic Home edition.

The only ads I see are when I mistype in the start menu, and get some web search results including ads, just like when I google something.

Inline web search results is a crappy feature to me, but it didn’t bother me enough to go regedit mode and disable it. It only appears when the computer search can’t find anything, it kinds of fall back on web search.

It seems the most outraged people are those who never use Windows and rage at the fact that it’s still a popular desktop OS.

Or maybe I’m just lucky and I don’t get the horrible in your face ads everywhere, for some reason.

It’s ok to be wrong. I’m having wrong insights all the time. You just have to acknowledge it and move along. As long as you don’t try to make it look like you were actually right given some amount of mental gymnastic.

Is there any far right political party that’s not supported by Russia ?

Most of my projects are like this. I’ve lost hope of convincing anyone of the usefulness of anything that’s not trendy.

I’m most confortable with modern C++, win32, boost, and I love templates. Everything everybody loves to hate.

So you hate C++. Great, thanks for your informative insights.

The talking points I'm mentioning is not this list of names, it's the good old "NATO agression/expansion", "Russia was threatened", "US forced Russia into war" bullshit.

So let's see, how was Russia threatened? Who on earth was going to invade Russia? They have enough nukes to destroy the planet. They were supposed to be the 2nd military power after the US. There already are 3 NATO countries right on the border with Russia, so if the invasion was about preventing NATO getting too close, it was a failure before it even started.

It's crazy the amount of mental gymnastic Putin apologists have to come up with.

So, if it's not about Russia being invaded, what else was so unacceptable with Ukraine not being barred from joining NATO?

Well, maybe, I know it's crazy, but bear with me, maybe, Putin had great plans for Ukraine and Russia, which would have fallen appart if Ukraine suddenly could not be invaded.

But that's too simple, right? It must be about US agression, CIA biolabs, nazi organ-trafficking pedophile satanists, combat pigeons, and Russia survival.

Seriously, what would have happened if Putin didn't invade Ukraine? Nothing. Russia would be fine. But Ukraine refused Putin's ultimatum to sign a treaty disallowing it to ever join NATO. Of course they refused. How could a sovereign country accept it? I mean, if you had a neighbor, already grabbing some of your garden, which insisted you agree to never get a bodyguard, would you accept it? Russia: WE DEMAND YOU STAY WEAK AND VULNERABLE TO AN INVASION. What a joke.

So of course Ukraine refused, even though it wasn't even in the process of joining NATO at the time. That provided Putin with an half-assed pretext to invade, so he did, and he made sure to lie about it, while the world was witnessing the amassing of 150K troops on Ukraine border. He lies. All the time, every time. That's who he is, that's what he does. He lies, we know he lies, he knows we know he lies, we know he knows we know he lies. But it doesn't matter, it's just the Russian mob way.

Anyway, you're also saying Putin is a 'superb' strategist? yeah, sure, but is he as superb as Hitler? If you admire Putin's strategy, you must be in awe when it comes to Hitler strategy, right? It's just too bad the guy is the worst war criminal of all times. Or maybe it's all Western lies too?

Now, the US is deep troubles internally. But it's not due to their wars. It's not about money. The Trump cult is just out of control. They are so close to become a full blown failed kleptocratic state it's mind blowing. If Trump gets back in the white house, it's basically over, he and his friends will literally loot the US, selling state secrets, selling the sabotage of the country. You must be deeply impressed by Trump as well, right? How can someone make the 1st world power self destruct like this, in just a decade?

"Low level of openness to ideas".

Oh, so _you_ have an open mind, I see. You must be a free thinker, free from propaganda and bias.

proceeds to parrot Putin talking points

Give us a break.

Yeah, I know too well that rhetoric. That doesn't hold scrutiny unfortunately, and I think you know it, but it doesn't stop you from spreading it. You _sound_ wise, but you just assert things, like the "aggression by US Neocons", but you don't say what is the aggression. "Ignorance of history"? You don't say what history. You mention payments from Hunter Biden and Rudy Giulliani, but did you deduce this all by yourself, or do you have credible sources?

And then, I'm curious, what makes you think that Putin is a patient and reasonable strategist? What is patient and reasonable, exactly? Not only invading, but _annexing_ other nation's land? Throwing in jail for 7 years anyone who criticize the war? killing/poisoning your political opponents? Airing fake demonstrations of people demanding "we nuke Europe NOW"! Turning your country into a fascist military dictatorship, proudly putting assault rifles in the hand of children in kindergarten? Letting state-sponsored TV hosts say the most ridiculously fascist things like “Life is highly overrated”, "Ukrainians are not humans", "Ukrainian children should be drowned in the Tysyna", "We will kill 1 million, or 5 million; we can exterminate all of you". Pretend Ukraine is filled with nazi organ-trafficking satanist pedophiles? While you torture and starve POWs? Rewriting history? Pretending they fought the nazi since the beginning, while they invaded Poland hand-in-hand with the nazis, and were best friends until Hitler betrayed them. Only then they fought, for their survival, it was never a choice. Pretending they defeated the nazis alone, while the US helped them a lot with their logistics.

It's a sea of lies. You just have come up with big lies, repeat them again and again, and somehow it'll work. Textbook fascism, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie. And now, with open western social networks, it's super easy, super cheap. So, yeah, Putin is certainly not reasonable, he is just a "strategist", but he's just applying old fascist propaganda techniques, and let the useful idiots, bigots and opportunists do the rest.

I’m all for pointing out bad actors. You want to bring Israel to the party, fine.

But then, you should stay on topic. Did Assange publish any leaks on Israel?

Yes? That’s fair. No? Then we’re allowed to wonder why. But clearly you don’t care, it was just to throw whataboutism at me to show how biased I am.

Notice how I didn’t say that the US can’t be evil.

US certainly can be, but, why stop there? Why not mention other evil powers while you’re at it?

Why focus on the US while Russia is going for textbook land grab à la Hitler?

Invading a country is very concerning, annexing it should considered unacceptable. Russia is doing the later.

Have anything to bring to the discussion?

Let me ask a question to downvoters. Actually, wouldn't it be stupid for Russia not to have folks monitoring popular social sites, like HN, subtly (or not that subtly) pushing their views? Western sites are open to the whole internet, anyone can comment in here, it's easy, it's cheap. Why would they not do that?

Things? Correct me if I'm wrong but you're linking to 1 single publication. It doesn't seem they have anything else about Russia. From a quick glance a it, it reveals that Russia have infrastructure to control and monitor who in Russia is accessing what over the internet. Looks like a rather weak, insignificant leak to me. Which is what I was saying to begin with.

It depends, if you can convince people that it's the other way around, with counter-facts, embarrassing leaks and loud speakers... I'm sure you know the rhetoric, in which the US is the actual aggressor, supported by some big names, like Musk, Chomsky, Trump, and others, and then there are martyrs like Snowden and Assange.

Well, maximum transparency on why he never published anything significant on Russia would be great.

To me it's a very bad smell when you pretend to fight for press freedom and democratic values, but never say anything bad about regimes where presidents-for-life are extinguishing the free press and poisoning opposition leaders.

It's like these all the crazy conspiracy theories that flourished online during the last decade, that are somehow never hurting Russian interests...

But I must be paranoid, right?

Yeah, sounds like overwhelming positive opinions...

JULIAN!! The guy that embarrassed evil powers all over the world!

What evil powers? Well, the US, the US, and... the US.

I got down-voted by just mentioning he didn't release anything significant on Russia for some reason.

I wouldn't be surprise if some of the massive support we're seeing here in this thread is not completely legit.

His role in Wikileaks wasn't to personally raid servers. He was receiving leaks that were delivered to him via his platform, and then he decided what was worth publishing.

Either he never had been handed any significant leaks on Russia, either he chosed to not publish them.

He didn’t expose anything significant on Russia, for some reason.

Not sure if it's true, but I've heard than WNT is VMS + 1, so to speak, with each letter "incremented". I believe the team behind WNT had previously worked on VMS.

You created a new account just to spontaneously share your love of Orban? He must be a great and very convincing person.

Ah, I see what you mean. Yes the sample you get comes from a distribution determined by the interference.

My point was that 1 sample in isolation won’t give you information about the underlying distribution, except that it’s non zero at that point, maybe?

I would say, they move like waves but they interact like particles.

I don’t recall from where I’m stealing it, but I thought it captures the "paradox" quite well.

If you fire a single particle just once, you don’t get an interference pattern, right? You get a single impact.

Again, not paying attention to your chauffeur and the road situation is the point of having a chauffeur.

Still paying attention? With a "chauffeur" you don’t have to, that’s the point. Isn’t that a obvious??

Also you’re not personally responsible if your chauffeur has an accident.

The Elon miracle, he scams you, but you still defend him and pretend like you’re happy with the scam. "In less than a year you’ll be able to get from New York to San Francisco during your sleep". That was in 2016. 8 years later, he says "robotaxi" and people still believe him.

It’s a world scale Stockholm syndrome.

No, they also try to attract non-pro developers with a free OS, free programming suites and languages, free web frameworks, free web server, all that with a home edition. They also claim to embrace open source, etc. They care about their image as a relevant and alive Linux and Apple alternative for developers, and I don't mean the ones forced into it because of their job.

Now they also want to attract the "masses" so in the end on Windows you'll get a lot of crappy "user-friendly" stuff. There is the ad situation also, but is really not as bad as I keep hearing about, I'm not even sure what it refers to exactly. The only times I see ads is when I mistype something in the start menu, and I start getting irrelevant web search results from bing or whatever, with ads, just like when googling. I guess that's what I "deserve"? It didn't bother me enough to try disabling it anyway.

And finally, obviously if I'm using Windows it means I accepted that I implicitly trust Microsoft, just like anyone with an iPhone/Android implicitly trusts Apple/Google. I try to minimize the number of actors which I trust. Actually Microsoft doesn't scare me too much because they are always under the spot lights, with lots of harsh criticism, so they have much more to loose than smaller/more "reputable" players. So, anyway, I don't really see why I should care that some new crappy feature could help them spy on me, as they could spy on me anytime anyway.

Russia has had Baltic states right on their borders for 20 years since they joined NATO. So if this was their plan it’s out the window regardless.

Russia wants to regain its "lost" territories, started with annexation of tchetchenia (2 wars), annexation of parts of Georgia, and annexation of Crimea. Ukraine was next regardless. They already annexed the break away republics of Ukraine, and even land that they since lost.

No need for pretexts (NATO, denazification, biolabs, or protection of Ukraine ethnic Russians) to explain Ukraine invasion. Ukraine not ruling out joining NATO meant they had to invade while they could, or let go the dream of a glorious Grand Russia.

I mean, they don’t even hide it, it’s all over their state TV networks, with propagandists telling things like "Europe will be ours", "To Berlin", and "The world belongs to the superior Russian race". It’s textbook fascism, state-sponsored, casual, on modern TV shows. I find it disturbing that some still think they are the victim and it’s all about NATO imperialism. When was the last time some NATO country annexed some land?