kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@cjd

In general I think what was feasible for outsourcing overseas, already was in 2000's and since then we have a stable balance. Lots of call center jobs for example were moved from UK to Eastern Europe but only to new EU countries, due to the reasons listed above. For a few last years Ukraine has become a popular target for IT outsourcing, but I don't think it actually happened at the cost of job loss in EU because demand there is so high that I guess it was required for growth.

@cjd

This also doesn't work that simple - overseas outsourcing is only possible if sufficient supply chain assurances can be established. This includes a number of factors such as legal, regulatory, financial environment, quality assurance and many other factors. Some processes or products cannot be outsources at all e.g. due to cultural, legal or language differences.

@cjd

> Make all rich people leave the country

Where? It doesn't work this way - rich Russians come to UK or US specifically because of the safety for their assets guaranteed by rule of law even if taxes are high. Nobody moves from UK to Russia because the former has high taxes.

@neil

There was a famous shitstorm back in 2019 related to #TERREG when French police started sending their nonsense referrals to archive.org posing as Europol (which it wasn't).

https://blog.archive.org/2019/04/10/official-eu-agencies-falsely-report-more-than-550-archive-org-urls-as-terrorist-content/

Back then I wrote a comment based on actually reading the regulation draft rather than disinformation from Julia Reda.

More importantly, I see now Article 2(7) was expanded, as were Articles 9, 10, 11 - these are critical to avoid police abusing it such as the French did.

I certainly couldn't miss the "Brazil rejects Sputnik V" shitstorm, but then did an usual reality check that made me wonder: why is vaccination rate in Russia still below 10%?

Did anyone here, or your relatives, actually get invitation for vaccination, or how does that work in real life?

@dump_stack

I didn't think from the beginning it's a good idea to push a crazy conspiracy shitstorm where a Polish checkers (checkers!) federation, that nobody heard of, masterminds a convoluted provocation involving carefully timed removal of stickers and flags in order to... well, actually achieve what?

@dump_stack

That really sounds like something that deserves a final break of diplomatic relationships between Poland and Russia, and possibly even turning Warsaw into a pile of radioactive ash.

@dump_stack I have no idea how WADA is related, but apparently they are part of federation regulated by it. He explains that they were not sure if Russian players can play with their flag or not, because WADA didn't come with a clear answer so they allowed it. Then WADA called threatening removing them from the federation if they don't change to neutral symbols.

As for provocation, I wouldn't get too excited - it's checkers, wtf

@dump_stack

There's a single report of this event in Polish from yesterday evening and they organizer provided a reasonable explanation

They are blaming inconsistent WADA guidance when they started and then the same WADA threatening to remove their club from the federation if they don't remove the flag immediately.

https://sport.onet.pl/ofsajd/ms-w-warcabach-rosyjska-flaga-zniknela-ze-stolu-podczas-gry-co-sie-stalo/gxm85yh

@dsfgs @rysiek @gael

> Sadly most of the world is in transition still, yes

So you invest $5k in a lowest grade ASIC miner whose value depreciates fast with time due to increasing difficulty... and you only run it when there's sun or wind, so <40% of the time?

Sorry, this doesn't make any sense economically and I don't think anyone actually does that.

The idea that people are mining 24/7 on cheap coal electricity is much more plausible.

@dump_stack

Or the Russian team had a duplicate sticker and pasted it over the original one, which was then noticed during the match.

https://m.sport-express.ru/others/news/milonov-prizval-prekratit-dipotnosheniya-s-polshey-posle-incidenta-s-flagom-na-finale-chm-po-shashkam-1783269/

@dsfgs @rysiek @gael

> encourage all to run a full node

I did, like 5 years ago. Can you remind me how much space does a the BTC blockchain take today and how long does it take to download it?

> many places where people run heaters

In case of BTC it's mostly powered by burning coal

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/04/18/crypto-flash-crash-wiped-out-300-billion-in-less-than-24-hours-spurring-massive-bitcoin-liquidations/

Armbian on #pine64 Sopine is screwed up again by an obscure change to DTB - before it broke Ethernet, this time it prevents mounting the root device (!) so basically after reboot your modules are dead.

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17333-unable-to-boot-focal-or-buster-images-on-sopine-clusterboard/

Armbian maintainers raise a valid question of lack of support (=hardware donation) from the maintainers, which results in insufficient testing.