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by 1gor 13y ago
> starving ukrainian farmers Stalin starved as many Russians as Ukrainians (if not more) in the process of forced collectivization and bread expropriation. This crime/tragedy happened throughout Soviet Union in 1932-33. ht
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by 1gor 13y ago
> It is very clear that the decision to prosecute ... was politically motivated. No, the opposite is clear. The ECHR court "found no basis that the case against the two was politically motivated, as Khodorkovsky and Lebedev alleged
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by 1gor 13y ago
The European Court of Human Rights said there was no violation of the defendants' right to a fair trial. This is from the linked article on Radio Free Europe site.
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by 1gor 13y ago
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Mikhail Khodorkovsky's trial was not politically motivated. ( http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-european-court-khodorkov... ). This means Khodorkovsky was
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by 1gor 13y ago
Relevant XKCD: http://dynamic.xkcd.com/random/comic/
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Singapore Exchange wants more High-frequency trading (HFT) to improve liquidity(bloomberg.com)
1 points by 1gor 13y ago|0 comments
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by 1gor 13y ago
This coverage reminds me Soviet articles from my childhood about hard life of common people in the USA. Funny to see same propaganda being produced for domestic consumption in the USA now.
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Bitcoin Mining Rush Means Real Cash for Hardware Makers(bloomberg.com)
2 points by 1gor 13y ago|0 comments
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by 1gor 13y ago
j1z0 So, out of the countries you mentioned, where one could engineer the best bootstrapping lifestyle? Why have you chosen Malaysia?
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John McAfee: Addict, coder, runaway(bbc.co.uk)
10 points by 1gor 13y ago|1 comments
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Imagine a world without shops or factories(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by 1gor 13y ago|0 comments
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by 1gor 13y ago
constant, evidence-based accusations of widespread electoral fraud There are conflicting views on that. Accusations of fraud are mostly aboutRussian parliament elections of 2011. Pro-Putin party was accused of fraud in many distric
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by 1gor 13y ago
I am not aware of any "extra judicial killings" by Putin. There are claims that Dr Kelly was killed by Tony Blair for opposing Iraq war. But I am not believing it either.
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by 1gor 13y ago
Has it ever occurred to anyone, that Putin's Russia today is a conservative's "paradise"? I mean, if you do not agree with everything that the 'progressive left' stand for, you may feel quite good in Russia. Pu
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by 1gor 13y ago
Think Osama bin Laden granting asylum to Snowden in some remote Taliban camp. Strange, I am Russian and have been living in Russia for 5 years now (and before that for 20 years in the UK and Holland). And I cannot agree with your Ta
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by 1gor 13y ago
Kasparov is a totally manufactured 'Russian opposition' figure. As late as 2004 he was a member of a US "Security Advisory Council" (NSAC). It was funny to see Kasparov's name on the website under the slogan: "
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by 1gor 13y ago
From the website: Zotonic’s data model can be seen as a pragmatic implementation of the Semantic Web: a mixture between a traditional database and a triple store. I can imagine how to create a CRUD-like webapp with simple mappin
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by 1gor 13y ago
https://github.com/seattlerb/rake-remote_task is all you need if you use ruby. require 'rake/remote_task' set :domain, 'abc.example.com' remote_task :foo do run "ls" e
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CNET Founder Halsey Minor Bankrupt 5 Years After Firm's $1.8 Billion Sale(dailyfinance.com)
2 points by 1gor 13y ago|0 comments
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by 1gor 14y ago
That's British "rhyming cockney". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang http://www.phespirit.info/cockney/slang_to_english.htm
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Apple is developing Pebble-like smart watch connected with iPhone(businessweek.com)
1 points by 1gor 14y ago|0 comments
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by 1gor 14y ago
If you have been living in a cave for the past few months... I want to stop reading right here.
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by 1gor 14y ago
Webby ( http://webby.rubyforge.org/ ) Branch with ruby 1.9 fixes is at https://github.com/namelessjon/webby It is not under active development, but is for me feature-complete, stable and incredibly flexible. Advantages are: - pure ruby (n
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BBC debunks claim that there are 100 North Sea cod(bbc.co.uk)
43 points by 1gor 14y ago|20 comments
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GM crops found causing cancer in rats(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by 1gor 14y ago|1 comments
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by 1gor 14y ago
Padrino (www.padrinorb.com) is a sinatra-based 'rails without the bloat' framework. It provides generators, basic helpers (link_to etc.) and, most importantly, it gives project a sane structure. Oh, and it does not tie you to any fixed set
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by 1gor 14y ago
After you have init'ed and updated your submodules, the argument holds fine.
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by 1gor 14y ago
> No one is smiling Don't forget, this was an official photographer mission, sponsored by the Tzar. I think most people on the photos were stressed enough to be asked to pose in front of unknown equipment, probably with some local offic
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by 1gor 14y ago
What goes around comes around.
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by 1gor 14y ago
What are 'blended threads'?

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