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I don't. I can't get a single hit on duckduckgo from tass.com. I tried "site:tass.com bucha" and variations there of.

Tell HN: DuckDuckGo and Bing removed tass.com from their search results

Around a month ago DDG announced they would be "down ranking" Russian disinformation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30627892&p=3).This sounds like it should just be lower in the search results, however that is not the case.Searching for "tass bucha" has no results from tass.com. In fact "site:tass.com bucha" gives zero results.Meanwhile Google has no issues displaying these...

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For example removing tass from their index
Re:Ask HN: Where should I live? on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @07:57AM (#30684249)
Dubai fits the climate criteria.

It has some tech scene, would love to have someone comment on this.

80%+ of Dubai are expats so it is probably diverse.

Its a bit car centric though with only one metro line.

Re:Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace? on Sunday February 06, 2022 @08:40AM (#30232382)
In a lot of countries your phone number is tied to your passport.

Ask HN: Advice for running a trading side project

Hi,We are 3 people (2 developers + 1 trader) who are making trading tools intended to trade our own capital.So far we have a desktop application which is a UI for the trader to interact with. And a modular monolith for the backend with MongoDb as a database. We also have a number of jobs that need to be run on the regular (mostly to keep required data up to date in mongo). All the source is in...

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Re:Ask HN: What’s your goto website for finding work? on Thursday October 28, 2021 @05:39AM (#29024074)
If you plan to work in Russia or other post soviet countries the nothing beats hh.ru
This is an example of living with broken windows

Ask HN: Working Remotely Abroad Workaround

So with covid everyone is working remotely. However life is life and due to personal circumstances I need to be in Belarus for a few months. My work has already said that I can only work from Ireland.My question is, theoretically if I was to get a VM in Ireland, remote to it from Belarus, and then remote into work. That should work as my work PC in Dublin will get the connection from some data...

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In the Russian language they actually removed a lot of letters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_Russian_orthography
Re:Ask HN: How do you organize your playlists? on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @04:48PM (#25203329)
For me its mostly "Spring 2020", "Summer 2020" etc. Which is what I was listening to around that time

Ask HN: Have you used or wrote custom software for use within your friend group?

I am an active member in a number of overlapping friend groups. Some as small as 3 best friends, others are 10ish people we go on holidays with.I was thinking has anyone set up or even better wrote software/ systems where the use case is private usage by a group of friends?I have had two ideas, but looking for stories and inspiration.My first is a holiday planner that we can fully customise to...

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Re:Self Studying the MIT Applied Math Curriculum on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:12PM (#19813887)
If you post a serious attempt to math stack exchange, they are usually very helpful in telling you if you are right, or where you went wrong.