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by Fins 9y ago
Fascist paramilitaries in 1917 is rather creative reinterpretation of history. So is the idea that forces opposing the communist plague were any less legitimate than bolsheviks. Of all the participants in the civil war, bolsheviks were th
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by Fins 9y ago
Had the allies really been invading Russia, the world would have been a much better place. Unfortunately, their role was very limited.
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by Fins 9y ago
Of course in this case US were rescuing heroes... And just how bloody was their opposition given the very limited effort expended. Besides, would it be US' fault that by 1945 Germans were rather starving, too? After all, armed opposi
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by Fins 9y ago
There is some discussion here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16396554 You won't actually find an argument from me that Damore didn't behave stupidly, assuming he wanted to keep his job. However, whatever de
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by Fins 9y ago
Evidence in Damore's lawsuit has some rather interesting tidbits about antifa, but while they are not very nice people at all, they are not really relevant to this discussion, I think. It also has evidence of physicasl threats. Those m
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by Fins 9y ago
You mean the guy who did what Google wanted him to do -- wrote a reasonably thoughtful essay on a subject that Google had company-wide training on and requested feedback about; had his essay leaked to the outside world, received theats of p
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by Fins 9y ago
This argument would be far more persuasive if it responded to what Damore actually wrotye, not to what people who rail about bogeymen like "patriarchy" wish he had written?
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by Fins 9y ago
Didn't Damore receive threats of physical violence? And he's no Thiel by any stretch of imagination.
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by Fins 9y ago
He well might be, although the accusations of racism all seem to point at some very anciuent and rather vague hearsay. Economically SV may not be too far from the mainstream, because really, if you drive away not only Thiel but the rest of
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by Fins 9y ago
I'm not as familiar with Havana, but sure, in Moscow in "good" old times it was illegal to be a bum, or unemployed. Come to think of it, it would be just as illegal to openly compare the living standard of even a third-rate p
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by Fins 9y ago
You don't need two to break store windows. And as silly and ignorant as Coulter is, at the moment when one starts saying that she does not have a right to speak here, one signs off on his moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
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by Fins 9y ago
When it comes to really big money principles often go right out the window... There might be some diversity of economic matterts; depends on whether you make money on walking through the outer fringes of legality (e.g. AirBnB) or not. O
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by Fins 9y ago
As disgusting and obnoxious as Trump is, there were enough perfectly good reasons to vote for him as a vote against the other major candidate. Until people start actually voting for (a) third party, I am afraid that rather than being a last
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by Fins 9y ago
Gawker was found (not over Thiel's outing, but anyway) guilty by the court. It might be a sad state of affairs that you need to have Thiel's kind of money to take down a gossip rag like Gawker, but... good riddance.
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by Fins 9y ago
>racist/sexist/homophobic/anti-welfare-state politics This is not exactly what "conservative thought" is, but the conflation does nicely demonstrate SV's toxic mix of ignorance and intolerance.
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by Fins 9y ago
To be fair, it was not the salt of the Earth Middle America rioting in Berkeley because they dared to invite Coulter or Milo to speak. And you know, Roy Moore lost elections. How many Republicans did SFBA send to Washington lately?
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by Fins 9y ago
Really, in Cuba, like in old USSR and other communist countries, you just don't see the inequality, which is far greater than anything that ever existed in the US. It just goes off a lower baseline.
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by Fins 9y ago
Well, technically, before communists took over, Tsar had already abdicated and there was something approaching, sort of, a parliamentary democracy.
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by Fins 9y ago
Wasn't that what Btrieve was doing back in the 90s? Or was it PervasiveSQL on top of Btrieve engine you could access directly?..
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by Fins 9y ago
A lot of scientific progress in USSR happened despite communism, e.g. consider Lysenko, fights against cybernetics, and other ideology-based interference with science. Pretty much anything that did not have to do with weaponry, and especi
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by Fins 9y ago
That's a million dollar social policy question. Being to commit people against their will (and having money for it) would be a start.
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by Fins 9y ago
Certainly, one can architect anything, use NoSQL for critical data storage, or use Kafka for synchronizing two SQL databases with the same schema and living on the same netowrk(an actual proposal from a fan of microservices, btw). But whet
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by Fins 9y ago
Well, then Nazis also made some progress in science and industry, but surely you would not defend them. Bersides, a lot of that industrial progress ewas built by Americans anyway, with USSR, at best, supplying slave labor.
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by Fins 9y ago
They really meant both -- the eventual victory of communism, and that they would help, with nukes if necessary, to achieve it.
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by Fins 9y ago
Being a native Russian speaker, I think I do have a pretty good idea of what Khrushchev said and what he meant.
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by Fins 9y ago
Khrushchev promised to "bury you" well after Stalin's death. It took a new generation coming to power and ham-handedly taking USSR apart.
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by Fins 9y ago
Just because something can be done, including the fashionable microservices "architecture", it does not mean that it should be done, or that it is a good idea.
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by Fins 9y ago
> McCarthyite propaganda around Holodomor I am not sure if this even should be dignified with a reply. Leftist talking points about "access to healthcare" only work on those who have no idea or first-hand experience with health
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by Fins 9y ago
30 years old misinterpreted quotes? Not really. Now, he may well be a white supremacist (although I haven't heard any complaints from his Jewish cofounders, FWIW), but these do not prove it at all.
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by Fins 9y ago
If Milo can be a white nationalist, then anyone can be a white nationalist. Maybe it's a good thing, shows how ridiculous the idea is?

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