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by Fins 8y ago
I've earned a decent living doing DTP on Ataris (1040STFM first, TT030 later) all the way through 1995 or so. Back then there were some DTP/graphics software that was miles ahead of anything available on Mac,let alone PC back then
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by Fins 8y ago
I have yet to see an AWD Jetta with all the features same generation A4 has. But from the purely branding point of view BMW does have that advantage of not sharing their parts bin with "lesser" brands. If you look purely at the sp
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by Fins 8y ago
Possibly, because Bose has been doing "Beats" thing since there were Beats. They sound pretty bad regardless of the price, and for the price they are atrocious.
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Facebook Algorithm Flags,Removes Declaration of Independence Text as Hate Speech(reason.com)
3 points by Fins 8y ago|0 comments
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by Fins 8y ago
Exactly. Although the point isn't necessarily what you think it is.
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by Fins 8y ago
Panel gaps say a lot about construction quality, and how well it will hold up going forward. And if paying $60K+ for a car, I would expect something with amenities of a $60K+ car, not something with terrible ergonomics (touchscreen, right..
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by Fins 8y ago
Social Darwinism or anything like that has never been appointed as the one and only TRUE THING with scientific opponents sent off to labor camps. Also, soviet high elementary through high school education was... I'm not sure if "b
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by Fins 8y ago
Sorry, but even model S will not outclass any of these on the interior. A 10 years old A4... maybe. Which does not stop it from being greatly popular with "urban commuting professionals" but by being a better car.
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by Fins 8y ago
Sorry, but no, didn't do anything for me. Especially and particularly driving a Tesla, which felt almost like getting into a Yugo. Except Yugo was at least priced appropriately for its quality and comforts, and Tesla isn't.
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by Fins 8y ago
Don't Lambos cost slightly more than even the fanciest Tesla?
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by Fins 8y ago
For which ones? Like smartphones I can install any software I want on, or cars that do not actively try to kill me? Or we could just settle on a car that has build standard slightly higher than a used Yugo (although Tesla might need to stre
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by Fins 8y ago
You could have read the entire sentence -- while there were some remnants of the pre-revolution education teaching in schools, there were Nobels. Once they had died out, and the new generation educated in Soviet schools by Soviet-educated t
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by Fins 8y ago
Lots of things, it's just Apple (or Tesla) do not happen to be among them, I want something that actually has real advantages/benefits.
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by Fins 8y ago
But they are selling very well! If you want something computer-related, Windows is clearly the greatest, bestest OS of all times. Electronics? Bose must sound really well. Etc., etc.
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by Fins 8y ago
By that logic, McDonald's burgers are so magic, Jobs would have dropped his reality distortion field and ran home crying. And Osteria Franciscana must be selling complete crap because they will never achieve sales not only of McD but e
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A Little Formaldehyde with Your Milk?(theamericanconservative.com)
2 points by Fins 8y ago|0 comments
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by Fins 8y ago
Certainly older than Tesla. Or Apple, for that matter. By the way, any feature phone is much better than iPhone as... a phone, you know, to call people and stuff. Even as smartphones Apple products aren't unicorn magic. Neither are Tes
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by Fins 8y ago
Do you have something more substantial to offer? Or will you suggest that a country where communism is "scientific" and whole areas of science can be banned is actually capable of developing homegrown science? This is laughable on
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by Fins 8y ago
"Defense" seems to be a strange choice of word here. And seriously, iPhone isn't just a phone, seriously?
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by Fins 8y ago
Most of them either were educated in (old, pre-USSR) Russia, or by people who had Russian education. Once the generation changed, people educated in/by Soviet system achieved... well, you've listed it.
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by Fins 8y ago
What, is it being pulled by magical unicorns, while you blissfully float on a cloud of unicorn farts? Eh, no, it's a car. Not particularly great or luxurious at that.
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by Fins 8y ago
As long as it is something that can be handled by throwing customer a bone, it is OK (nothing outstanding, though). Anything else, and Amazon would happily lie to you and promise things they know they can't do. That might be legendary,
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by Fins 8y ago
It lasted as long as Soviet troops were stationed nearby and ready to roll in at a moment's notice. As soon as it became clear that they wouldn't, the Wall fell, and the rest followed. In most places even relatively bloodlessly. A
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by Fins 8y ago
Ah, but was it really that effective? Sure, Eastern European countries stayed within the Soviet sphere (Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 showed what happens if you don't) but they split at the earliest opportunity. While Russ
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by Fins 8y ago
For sure. Voynovich may not be quite as profound as Solzhenitsyn but his writings are actually pleasurable (IMO) to read. I've heard ерфе the real Karnavalov was not amused.
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by Fins 8y ago
Baptists, pentecostals and other non-traditional denominations are usually termed as sects in Russian/Soviet usage. Old Believers (schismatic Orthodox) would be included too.
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by Fins 8y ago
Original word is сектант which literally means a member of a sect. Generally, that would imply a believer from a smaller/non-traditional Christian denomination (i.e. baptists, pentecostals etc.) as opposed to Russian Orthodox.
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by Fins 8y ago
No, not everybody had passed through camps. Pretty much everybody had a relative who did, though. That's not even counting entire nations summarily sent to balmy Gulag resorts. And even in the 80s (hell, even now) a lot of national cul
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by Fins 8y ago
While it did get quite a it better after Stalin's death, in a sense that people wouldn't keep an "emergency bag" of things one could take to prison by the bedside, with pretty much everyone knowing someone who had passed
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by Fins 8y ago
If Russian is not you native language I can see how it can seem to flow nicely. Unfortunately, if it is, Solzhenitsyn reads like a foreign language. Even words, let alone sentence structures, are very much not Russian. Words, really, he was

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