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Relevant - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17471324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17471324 Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet

• laurent92 6y ago
  “In 10 years ok. Morning or afternoon? — In 10 years what difference does it make? — I have the plumber in the morning.” (Russian jokes told by Reagan)
• rasz 6y ago
  Poland under Russian occupation: https://histmag.org/Rynek-motoryzacyjny-w-Polsce-1980-1989-cz.-1.-Co-jezdzilo-po-polskich-drogach-7965 https://histmag.org/Rynek-motoryzacyjny-w-Polsce-1980-1989-c... Translation: There were also extreme cases. Some of them were so sloppy that they prevented safe participation in road traffic. One of the readers of “Motor” received the FSO 1500, in which a factory defect in the body made its driving almost impossible. In the TV program “Kram”, aired on October 12, 1986, an interview was conducted with a man who found 41 defects in a new car he had bought. After consulting with an expert, it was found that there were 45 of them. There was an opinion that in order to drive the new Polonez without any problems, it was necessary to invest 100,000 zlotys in its renovation (~10% of total value). These cars, however, passed the zero inspection without any problems. The sentence of one of the engineers working at FSM can be considered the best justification for this: “People will buy any car”