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Peter Thiel’s Quick $1B Facebook Share Sale Lacks Precedent(bloomberg.com)
5 points by 1gor 14y ago|2 comments
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by 1gor 14y ago
In case of Pussy Riot there are no human rights violations, actually. They are jailed not for singing an anti-Pitin song, but for a 'hate speech' crime. They were screaming profanities in a church which scared, offended and upset some beli
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by 1gor 14y ago
Russian Constitution forbids two consecutive terms. Putin served two, then endorsed his close associate for the presidency. The associated gets elected, serves a term, then steps aside. Putin runs again, and gets elected for the third term,
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by 1gor 14y ago
You are being paid by the Kremlin Yep. I registered this HN account five years ago especially to wait for your comments. And my real name is Anna Chapman.
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by 1gor 14y ago
So, you say Russia is another North Korea? And anyone who disagrees with you is paid by Kremlin? With opposition so bright, no wonder why Putin gets elected.
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by 1gor 14y ago
Look, my friend, you cannot deny that Russians overwhelmingly voted for Putin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_presidential_election,_... He got 64% of the total vote (45 million people). His closest opponent was a communist with 17%
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by 1gor 14y ago
In the UK indecent exposure 'with the intent to shock' is punishable up to 2 years imprisonment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indecent_exposure
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by 1gor 14y ago
There were no mass protests after Putin election results. You can check for yourself http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%932012_Russian_prote... There were 25 thousand people protesting in Moscow Pushking square immediately after his
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by 1gor 14y ago
The text of the song is irrelevant. Pussy Riot have not been tried for political protest. They were sentenced for 'inciting hatred' against the religion. I suppose their presence in the cathedral next to altar, kicking air and shouting obsc
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by 1gor 14y ago
There is quite a difference between the US and EU countries with regards to hate speech laws. A guy in the UK was arrested and given (suspended) jail sentence, a fine and 100 hours of unpaid public labour for leading anti-religious cartoons
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by 1gor 14y ago
What qualifies as "hate speech"? I'll give you a UK example ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_the_United_... ) "On 4 March 2010, a jury returned a verdict of guilty against Harry Taylor, who was charged under Part 4
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by 1gor 14y ago
"screaming profanities in the cathedral" - this is factually incorrect, they did not. BBC thinks otherwise, reporting on "Their brief, obscenity-laced performance" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19297373 Listen, I am ac
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by 1gor 14y ago
Nobody knows how many popular votes Putin got - exactly because he did not allow to count the votes fairly. Not many dispute Putin's personal election results, even the opposition. The parlamentary elections before that -- is ano
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by 1gor 14y ago
In Iceland they would get 2 years for simply insulting a religion group ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech ), as well as in many other EU countries (but not in the US). That's what Pussy Riot have been jailed for - hate speech, not
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by 1gor 14y ago
Pussy Riot performance looks like a planned provocation. There are many ways to get yourself arrested, if you really want to. In Europe, you can get jail for hate speech, for example, (though not in the US, where it is constitutionally prot
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by 1gor 14y ago
One fragment from a BBC documentary by Adam Curtis explains rather well the mechanics of current Russian pro-democracy campaign in the Western media. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v... The video deals with PR
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by 1gor 14y ago
The organized and overblown reaction to all of this is much more about ruining Russia's reputation as a democratic nation than anything else. Because there is a political PR campaign going on aimed at shaping public opinion. It
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by 1gor 14y 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: "Advisory Council members have
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by 1gor 14y ago
Hmmm, would a link to BBC, a UK propaganda TV channel, be less silly?
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by 1gor 14y ago
There is little doubt it was the Russians There is a lot of doubt. The most obvious suspect is oligarch Boris Berezovsky, a London refugee from Russia, accused of embezzlement at home, who is waging a fierce propaganda war with the
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by 1gor 14y ago
Any _robust_ C program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Erlang... http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming
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by 1gor 14y ago
Can you share, which of Arthur Schopenhauer's stratagems have you used in your reply? ( http://coolhaus.de/art-of-controversy/ ) From the last paragraph I got you're OK with having an unregulated surveillance system in the US which records
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by 1gor 14y ago
Original WIRED article looks like argumentum ad hominem attack on a technology company for its alleged links to Russian government. It is sad that propaganda war between the US and Russia is spreading to 'technology' news media. We are be
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Silicon Valley's Floating Incubator(bloomberg.com)
1 points by 1gor 14y ago|0 comments
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by 1gor 14y ago
Thinking about it, this is the same model as the app store. Here is an analogy with WWW vs. Minitel case. Does Apple allow multiple alternative app stores? If not, then Android should eventually make it obsolete, since you do not
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by 1gor 14y ago
I wonder if Facebook will be tomorrow's Minitel... But seriously, why some network system layers failed and others thrived? It is not protocol. Gopher was also TCP/IP based, and it has disappeared...
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Minitel: The rise and fall of the France-wide web(bbc.co.uk)
69 points by 1gor 14y ago|21 comments
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by 1gor 14y ago
Ah, SIRC is great. Their British Pub culture guide ( http://www.sirc.org/publik/ptpintro.html ) is the best and I think the only available research on the subject. It really helped me when I moved to the UK...
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Fluxflex PaaS shuts down citing profitability, stability issues(fluxflex.com)
1 points by 1gor 14y ago|1 comments
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by 1gor 14y ago
You don't get Nobel prizes for stating something that's common sense. True. You get Nobel prize for assuming that returns follow Normal distribution, which goes against common sense.

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