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by Fins 9y ago
I think "directly benefits a vast portion of the world's population" is a vast exaggeration. And when Russian scientists (real ones, not the ones who write fake dissertations for Putin's ministers) needed that benefit (s
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by Fins 9y ago
Her viewpoint contradicts pretty much everything that is good and decent in the world (and really, being a communist in XXI century is just as inspiring as being a neonazi). Sci-hub is there to "expropriate the expropriators" in L
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by Fins 9y ago
Obviously, not because of where she's from, but because she actually is anti-West. There's an example posted below of how she is a Putin stooge. Blocking access to everyone in your own country because scientists (you know, ones
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by Fins 9y ago
One could easily come up with quite a few ethical arguments against Sci-Hub -- it's there to stick it to the "West". It has nothing to do with science, human progress, or anything as lofty. Basically, just another department
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by Fins 9y ago
I am not sure if the Bay Area is that (or any) better, food-wise, than Chicago, and I've tried most of the well-rated places in both... Matter of taste, of course. For the difference in cost of living, I probably could fly myself from
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by Fins 9y ago
Crime in Chicago is very much concentrated. In areas where your average HN reader would live, I very much doubt that your chance of being a crime victim would be any higher than in SFBA. And in most suburbs (from which you can get to Chicag
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by Fins 9y ago
Chicago didn't seem to have that great a real crime problem (as opposed to perception) when I lived there. There probably would not be much to do in Nebraska, but then I can't see Bay Area as being exactly an epicenter of cultur
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by Fins 9y ago
All of that will certainly help you build a... Juicero, say. Something very high-tech but absolutely useless. To solve real-world problems it very much helps to be aware of them, which isn't something SV has been particularly good late
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by Fins 9y ago
It is entirely plausible, though (no opinion whether this particular case is true, though). At least the radioactive cattle part of it.
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by Fins 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what exactly is wrong with Kochs' "agenda"? And where does Reason follow it blindly?
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by Fins 9y ago
You don't necessarily have to be a self-promoting a*hole either, though. You're welcome. Haven't really checked if translations of Shalamov into English are any good, but originals are. Not something you would read for pleasu
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by Fins 9y ago
I am not sure how readable Solzhenytsin is in English, but his Russian is atrocious (he was also obviously not a nice person). For sheer horror of life in worker's paradise, I think Varlam Shalamov's [0] Kolyma stories are much
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by Fins 9y ago
Is that why Cubans swim with sharks to get out of there?
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by Fins 9y ago
1. Because these are the best numbers available for crimes of communists. And really, arguing whether communists killed 5 times as many people as nazis, or only 3 times as much might be an important discussion, but not in this context. 2.
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by Fins 9y ago
> I'm not sure what point you're missing here. If you invade another country, particularly with the intention of commiting genocide there, and you get killed for doing so, you are not a victim of the country you were trying to
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by Fins 9y ago
>>Anti-Semitic Ukrainian mass murderers don't count, no. Nor do Ukrainians, Russians, Kazakhs or any other useful idiots (that the Nazis considered untermenschen) who signed up to help Germany carry out the Final Solution and Gen
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by Fins 9y ago
>You didn't mention "Kazakh famine of 1919", you mentioned "Russians, Ukrainians and Kazakhs" in reply to my posts about Nazis being classed as victims by the The Black Book Of Communism. And you replied with &qu
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by Fins 9y ago
Dear Lord! What does Kazakh famine of 1919 [0] has to do with Germans??!!Maybe you should not be the one talking about useful idiots. Really, Ukrainians (and Jews) killed by MGB troops operating under OUN-UPA flag have nothing to do with Ge
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by Fins 9y ago
So I guess neither Russians, nor Ukrainians, nor Kazakhs, who probably have not even heard about Jews' existence, nor other millions of people slaughtered by communists count. Only Jews? That's not much different from making excus
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by Fins 9y ago
Oh, I am sorry. I did not realize that you are defending communists. I guess killing more people than Nazis is OK, as long as they were the wrong kind of people... And seriously, if the best criticism of The Black Book is that it compares
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by Fins 9y ago
From the link above: "According to the official Bolshevik position, which is still maintained by some modern Marxists, the rich peasants (kulaks) withheld their surplus grain to preserve their lives;[2] statistics indicate that most of
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by Fins 9y ago
I had to study Soviet textbooks. They definitly did mention it. Of course as a completely necessary response to those naughty Whites, and they completely glossed over concentration camps, mass executions etc. etc., but they did mention Red
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by Fins 9y ago
Uh, the same Wiki? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921%E2%80%9... Given how many other famines communists had unleashed, pretty much none of which was caused by big bad American intervention, it is sti
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by Fins 9y ago
I did not know that Wikipedia was a Nazi resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan_famine_of_1932%E2%8... https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by Fins 9y ago
That looks like it came straight out of a Soviet textbook... Even assuming high-end range for White Terror and low-end range for the Red one, it is not a given that whatever White faction might have theoretically won would continue to engag
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by Fins 9y ago
It is also quite possible that without USSR to run interference in Weimar, and Stalin's support for NSDAP, nazis might not have come to power, or would have fewer resources to work with. It is also not a given that Russia would not hav
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by Fins 9y ago
It is quite unlikely that any part of the Whites would have engaged in mass slaughter of its own citizenry at quite the same scale as communists.
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by Fins 9y ago
It was a forced famine, this is a common historical knowledge. Of course the link does not talk of it because is is about entirely different thing.
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by Fins 9y ago
Possible. When Berkeley invited Milo to speak, antifa showed up first and broke quite a few windows, same way antiglobalists reliably start riots anywhere G-7 meets. [0] After that alt-right brought in their own thugs as well, which might b
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by Fins 9y ago
It is actually very questionable if communists did improve the quality of life for anyone other than themselves. For tens of millions of Soviet citizens their life had improved straight into the afterlife.

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