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Fun fact: Recently FSB database on border crossings from 2014 to 2023 was leaked online and Durov visited Russia 50 times since 2015. In fact, he was in Russia the day the telegram was unblocked. I wonder why?
On a similar note, i always wanted to contribute to Firefox, but every time i looked at how to compile it i noped the fuck out of it. It's probably is doable on linux but it's sounds like a nightmare on windows.
How arresting Durov restrict free speech?
And? I use TG everyday. I know about the times when TG is down. as YOUR OWN links show, usually it's not just telegram who is down, so it's clear it's mass block.
>After a while they just stopped trying and decided that it's less reputational damage to just let it be.
That's not true. It's legally unblocked. the reason why it was unblocked was never published. "It was unblocked because they gave up" is just your interpretation of the events. Pretty naive one, in my opinion.
You're the one who is spreading FUD. Telegram was officially (legally) unblocked in 2020. There is 0 evidence there is an active force trying to block Telegram in Russia. Which is very busy blocking every non-russian platform btw. As you yourself pointed out, most likely the reason why TG was down is because of attempts to block other platforms.
>It was unblocked because of the backlash from people, incl. Russian politicians who are heavy Telegram users. FSB has nothing to do with it.
Saying Russian government would give a shit about people opinions, funny joke.
Except there were multiple different groups that magically happen to go private at the same time.
I'm not even going to mention how many people were arrested over telegram messages in russia.
Obviously FSB is not going to make a press release and be like "We have the keys LOL" so there would never be definitive proof.
Fun fact: Telegram at some point was blocked in Russia for not giving FSB access to data. Later telegram was unblocked and is used extensively in Russia. It's not hard to figure out why it was unblocked.
>I can easily guess that assholes in secret service would probably like very much to use that to blackmail him to add backdoors to telegram
Do you unironically believe it's not already backdoored for Russian government?
i'm pretty sure ALGOL allowed spaces in identifiers. Probably some other old programming languages too. For the most part, it's just a tradition at this point.
>No, people only invest if they see a return.
I'm talking about banks. That's literally their business. You know, to lend money.
> If the return is too low they will simply hold onto the money since interest rates can't go negative too deeply.
Who talked about interest rate? Why banks cant use THE MONEY THEY HAVE to lend/invest?
You dont need "helicopter money". Just create money and spend it on something. Build roads, rails, tanks, whatever.
>That money will not end up in the hands of those who need it.
Yes, but it's irrelevant for this discussion.
>With deflation once you reach zero there isn't anywhere realistically else to go.
Huh? just literally print more money.
>Everyone starts to hoard money instead of spend it, and the economy goes into a tailspin
Ok, imagine people start hoarding money, where are they going to store money? In Banks. Which would use that money to invest in things, like always.
Modern economics are nothing like economics in 1930, but somehow we still base our science on that era.
>Deflation means that (on average) people can't afford to buy goods. They simply don't have money to do that!
I'm pretty sure Japan never had big unemployment problems, so your claim is BS.
>Japan has essentially zero GDP growth since 1990-s as a result.
GDP is a useless metric, only useful for politicians to brag about their "achievements".
Why seize a domain when you can just block it country wide?
So you took asm code that had no SIMD instructions in it, made your own version in c++ with intrinsics and figured out that, yes, SIMD is faster? Realy?
I think you're completely missing what are we talking about here.
It's funny reading comments here, Hackernews bros really think they're smarter than the guys who made ffmpeg/x264/x265 etc. Dunning–Kruger effect in action.
Except LTO is slow to compile and SCU is fast.
It pulls runtime from FSF, which has GCC Runtime Library Exception.
It would be interesting to see comparisons, since afaik it's the only compiler front end that has llvm and gcc back end.