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  • “Oil deliveries to Pakistan have begun. There is no special discount; for Pakistan, it is the same as for other buyers,” Russian state media quoted Shulginov as telling reporters on the sidelines of an international economic conference in St. Petersburg.

    That’s not what economists are usually talking about with discounts in this context. When talking about oil, or any commodity discount, it typically means against a baseline product. For oil you compare to the price of Brent. Think of it as the price difference between buying generic vs name brand at a grocery store.

    There’s no details on the actual trade in the articlebut comparing Urals vs Brent shows it’s still trading at a roughly 20% discount today vs the ~2% discount preconflict.

    I actually think the article titled misses the bigger part of the story.

    agreed to accept Chinese currency as payment

    I would expect increased trade between the three countries of this becomes the norm.



  • No idea. I can see not up voting it. I think it’s a bit of a non-story. Country looks to maybe join a group containing it’s some of it large trading partners. This group might or might not do something on the future. Only interesting bit is it’s the BRICS.

    But a down vote just feels unnecessary. The story is factual. The source is fine. It might be relevant to someone.


  • I wouldn’t call it selfish. They want tools for more granular control on their instance. That’s perfectly fine. If they limit who can post or comment based on the instance they are from. The other instances are perfectly free to limit their users as well in response or for their own arbitrary reasons.

    There seems to be a distinct lack of controls across lemmy as a whole. The only option for them is all or nothing at the moment.

    I think the big take away is for users to think about what instance they create their accounts and communities on.




  • It’s not their data. If you scrape Reddit for the comments are reposted them somewhere else Reddit wouldn’t be able to come after you with a copyright violation lawsuit.

    Any potential copyright is still owned by the original user with Reddit having a license to sublicense for “syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit.”

    They would have to come after you with a ToS contract violation or maybe some kind of Computer Fraud and Misuse allegations.