jevgeni

> This is an illusion.

The search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Qunanbaiuly” (major Kazakh author) yields no results.

The search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Shevchenko” (major Ukrainian author) yields no results.

The search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Gogol” (major Ukrainian author that russia tries to appropriate) yields 1 article about russian theater!

The search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Taamsaare” (major Estonian author) yield no results.

But the search “site:https://news.ycombinator.com/front Dostoevsky” yields 5 results.

5 > 0. Not an illusion.

Russia is known for using Russification as a method of oppression and genocide [1]. Dostoyevsky’s views are also pretty well known and their existence is not a matter of partisan opinion. If you are talking about Dostoyevsky, you are talking about core beliefs of russian fascist thought [2].

By preventing criticism of this, you are not neutral. This is not a political or ideological issue. It is a moral, humanist issue. And you know that.

> ... but we can randomize the username and/or do other things.

Please do those things in my case.

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[1] - https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/the-forcible-transfer-an...

[2] - https://war.ukraine.ua/articles/origins-of-rashism-ideology-...

My last comment before this one was 56 days ago. You are not exactly making a case for your argument.

As to the ban - I asked you to delete my account years ago and you refused. So it's not something you can credibly threaten with, if I don't care. What I do care is you retaining my personal data against my will. But if I need a ban for you to purge it - please go ahead.

Maybe some helpful feedback for you: I would be more inclined to pay attention to the guidelines if those were not used to reinforce the site's obvious political biases. Yeah, you *say* HN is neutral, but for some reason only a certain kind of opinion gets promoted. I've read this site for 12 years in one account or another and the groupthink has only gotten worse. How are you going to solve this?

With HN’s fascination for fascist artists, I’m surprised Leni Riefenstahl isn’t featured more prominently on the front page. But it’s only Dostoyevsky.

You know, as a Ukrainian, what I appreciate the most is someone claiming to both be "in a comfy chair" and lecturing me on what is going on in my country of origin.

You have three potential explanations:

(1) The agressor, who:

- Has a history of using the very same tactics in Ukraine and sacrificing thousands of its citizens in burnt Earth approach,

- Has shot down a commercial airline "by mistake" several years ago

- Has a history and culture of endemic lying, which they also foster in Western countries through soft power and social network campaigns

- Who have started shelling the very citizens in Kherson they claimed to have liberated once they lost the city

- Benefits from the flooding massively, because it blocks off the looming counteroffensive by Ukraine

(2) The victim, who:

- Gains nothing on the battlefield by doing this and actually makes it more difficult for them.

- Has to sacrifice the lives of its own civilian population to achieve this.

- Has no history of such misinformation tactics.

(3) Force majeur.

But wait, here come the enlightened HN commenters to assign equal probability to all three explanations, disregarding all of the above, because:

- They haven't bothered to actually inform themselves (thinking that *oligarchs*, even with a Ukrainian citizenship, have nothing to do with russian secret service is another level of naive)

- They feel entitled to have an uninformed opinion

- Imply that the lives of Ukrainians are worth so little that their government would willingly sacrifice them.

Thanks, but I'll keep the outrage.

Russia is the invader, Ukraine is the victim: there is no common standard that is applicable to both of them. Be better.

The fact that the victim is not credible to you is already appaling.

if when a rogue state invades with kill lists[1], burns books[2] and it's still a "incredibly complicated situation" for you, you are an idiot.

[1] - https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082096026/russia-kill-list-u...

[2] - https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-military-russia-burns-...

most people here are not achieved software developers.

russia invaded, end of story. keep your pedestrian whataboutism to yourself, please.

This is not about code, it's about standards. As long as I don't have to have 2 Rusts to deal with, I'm fine with this, but right now at least the branding isn't supporting that.

The knots HN ties itself into bashing "EU regulations", but then easily deciding to impose arbitrary regulations on payment companies is a sight to behold.

Remind the rest of the class please.

No, of course not, a company with a policy to sweep accident data under the rug can't possible be unsafe, can it?

1900s also had child labor and black lung. Not a standard to aspire to.

Their claim IS the data.

How are you going to *proove* in advance that a certain economic or social measure is doing what you expect?

Nobody outlawed cars.

It's not the wrong use case. I need you guys developing apps to listen:

- I *want* more details on a separate, linkable URL.

- I *want* it to open in either the same window, or a separate window if I ctrl+click it.

"Subscribe to newsletter" use case is just the worst use case.

They ARE pop-ups mostly. Just ones that are harder to block as compared to the 1990s pop-ups.

I am one of those people whose user experience will drastically improve if modal windows are accepted for what they are - an anti-pattern at best and a dark pattern most of the time. I as a user make the decisions if I want a separate window or not, not the application developer.

As a principle, I don't read any website that has a modal window, especially a modal "subscribe to our newsletter".

Thank you. :D

Shameless plug, but I've designed my own website as a love-letter to the honest, content-first design of very early 90s: https://jevgeni.tarassov.ch/

Ok, so according to this, to one should EtherCalc web service for productivity. Why? What are the guarantees here that no surveilance is taking place.

Hey.com solved the problem pretty easily: just have a positive list of email addresses that reach your inbox and the rest are sent to a screener folder.

Estonia is 300 EUR per capita.

https://vm.ee/en/estonias-aid-ukraine

Expecting people to adhere to humane values is not a power trip fantasy.

Where do they commit this money? As in: what does it pay for exactly?

Bucha is ethnic eradication. Irpen is ethnic eradication. Prigozhin saying that they have "eradicated most of the active male population of Ukraine and therefore achieved the goals of the war" is a straight up confession.

Just because russia's strategy is ethnic eradication through assimilation does not make it less ethnic eradication.

Pretending that it's not is lying.

I just read your comment and it makes no sense.

EDIT: I think I understand now, but the amount of brainworms you have to have to equate a victim with someone silently supporting the aggressor is pretty big. russians are not the victims here.