PerfectDlite

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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
Sorry, your defensive arguments are very weak. Like "if they had leaks related to Russia they'd publish them. But they don't. Probably because Wikileaks isn't necessary for Russian leakers" - really?
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> I don't think Russia is planning on annexing any more territory That was wishful thinking in 2008 and the result was Crimean invasion a few years later.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> The Nazis concealed and eliminated any traces of Babiy Yar before retreating, there was nothing there at all already. Please brush your history knowledge. Pretty please.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical So somebody would imagine that he will publish Russian data as well, to make Russian capitalism more free and ethical...
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> Why would Russia (or other anti-US entities) need to create such a climate Because they're following Soviet playbooks. And if they'll create enough FUD they will be able to freely annex neighbouring countries.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
Moonbase will be a lavish boondoggle designed to blow up and then activists will argue that this boondoggle must be scraped and money redirected to world hunger/saving whales etc.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
So, you're ok with Turkey and Syria being included in Europe?
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
USSR tried to hide all the "gory" details of WW2. For example, Babiy Yar (a place in Kiev where Germans killed tens of thousands) was a garbage dump until 1970-s. Or (which is ironic, given their "Nothing is forgotten, nobody
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
If you think that USSR "praised progress and science" for 70 years, I have some grim news for you...
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> That was true 20 years ago but no longer true today. It is still true for _native_ Russians, not Russian-based immigrants from neighbouring states.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
Last time I've checked the map, most of the Russia was in Asia.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
JFYI, first female pilot was from Turkey.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
More like equal poverty for both men and women.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> It's not only Russia, either, which I find to be a bizarre point of focus here That's still repercussions of calling Russia the whole USSR. Now most post-Soviet republic are kind of shadowed.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
This makes all programmers liking to write code with maximum level of comfort - e.g. using IDEs.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> USSR definitely deserved 3/4 of it for their sacrifice If only USSR didn't enter WW2 on Hitler's side...
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> `npm --help` at least gives you a list of commands `mvn --help` gives you a list of commands too.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> because Java is unusable without them This is like saying 'Javascript is unusable without IDEs', you know.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> what's modern Russia's attitude towards its own history? Looks like they're beginning to rewrite it. "Russian state is 1000-years old", "Russia singlehandedly won WW2" and so on. Combined with "W
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
What makes you think that?
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
IDEA has separate TODO tab, which can also display TODO regarding your scope - e.g. your current changes.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> US Military budget alone is allmost 10x higher than russias Because, you know, Russia is trailing waaay behind US in GDP. And if we will take a look at military spending in % of GDP, Russia actually spends _more_ than US. [1] https:&#
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> It might be buggy and make you say "wat?" a lot but in exchange you can build insanely complex apps Insanely complex apps on a buggy foundation? What could possibly go wrong...
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> Almost noone believed it. As an ex-Soviet citizen - you're very wrong. And for innovations vs copying - most of the Soviet industries were based on copies from "decadent West" (legal or illegal).
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
Really? So if life in North Korea is comparable to US "for some people", you will happily draw an equal sign?
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by PerfectDlite 10y ago
> Stalker and Solaris are brilliantly imaginative masterpieces But definitely not science and hardly fiction (as in fiction books). They're in same category as Twin Peaks or Lost - an unencumbered and hardly explained flights of ima
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by PerfectDlite 10y ago
So they've created a garbage dump in the Babiy Yar... for what? To "properly record" it?
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by PerfectDlite 10y ago
Wonderful. He presented you the facts... and you've dissmissed them since they didn't fit your agenda.
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by PerfectDlite 10y ago
> And threatened with nuclear attack by the US, after Japan surrendered. You know, if they wouldn't try to capture Iran for themselves, they wouldn't be threatened with nuclear attacks. Don't portrait USSR or Russia as pur
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by PerfectDlite 10y ago
After 1991 they have a lot of other entertainments to spend a time on - pirated videos, more than 3 state-approved TV channels, spread of BBS, FIDO and Internet...

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