RandomName2020

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by RandomName2020 10y ago
One thing for sure, democracy is not required to be liberal. West does not seem to understand it.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
Eugene has bad air.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
You still are living near to Richmond (the other Richmond, though).
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
> "forced russification" If you follow the definition literally, then yes. Yet, Russia always was very careful with the culture of the colonies, way more careful than Britain, France and Westerners in General. > But these a
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
You can try to spin it anyway you want. Stalin, as Georgian, had no, absolutely no feeling towards Ukranians, as for example Finnish people have zero feelings towards Portuguese. There was no desire to eradicate Ukranians as ethnicity, in
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
Have you ever been to the former USSR? I am not sure about what you mean by "forced russification" - 15 republics of ex-USSR had two state languages one Russian, one local. Almost every product, produced for local consumption had
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
There was atrocities during Stalin times true. However they were purely ideological by nature; not against ethnicities, cultures etc (those were in fact actively preserved) - Stalin himself was from a tiny minority nation of Georgians. USA
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
It was not directed against Ukranians as ethnos, period. USSR was not a Russian supremacist country. Remember, Stalin, during whose reign Holodomor happened was a Georgian, Khruschev was Ukranian, Brezhnev - Ukranian, Andropov - Russian,
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
Not sure about it...
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
> pro-life atheist, or a pro-gun liberal, I am both. And understand the pain of being a square peg.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
Trump a politician and Trump a businessman are not the same.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
The purpose of high minimal wage is to decrease inequality. It cannot become equal tax on everybody, unless you inject money into the system. The ones who are at very bottom would gain a lot, a lot more than increase in the cost of a latte.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
There was massive amount of questionavle mergers lately: Altera + Intel, Fairchild + Onsemi, now this. We stepping into the age of monopolies, dear readers.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
Yes, but if often was impossible to get insurance with preconditions, Regardless, ACA sucks. So did pre-ACA insurance.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
Quartz oscillators are usually made in at leas 10th of kHz range, for whatever reason. Second most stable oscillators are LC and would require large coils for lower frequencies.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
> EU countries are as a rule quite far ahead on the curve of progress, see: abortion EU (esp. Scandinavia) has much, much more tight regulations of abortion, compared to English world, esp. Canada, which has none. As a socially conservat
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
Dunno, if "drain the swamp" passes, that'de be a very significant change.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
> Sanders forced Clinton very far to the left Not sure about it. Words are cheap.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
For white collars yes, for blue collars - definitely no.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
The point that BUS DRIVERS working for GOVERNMENT make better wages than BUS DRIVER working for PRIVATE sector. Not that bus drivers in general are rich people.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
I do not know how to even reply to that. Bus drivers, post delivery people, municipal construction workers etc. - all have better salaries and benefits than similar private workers. I am not sure how any adult living anywhere in US could ma
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
NASA and Fermilab are also government jobs.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
1. Because US is big. 2. Because it is more welcoming for immigrants. 3. Because of broken H1B system.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
Not sure about this kind of rationalization. Social mobility is a more sophisticated measure.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
Back up claims? It is common knowledge - bus drivers for example, working for Santa Clara county transit make $35/h, bus drivers for (contracted) Google and such make less than $20.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
> (e.g. Federal government jobs and some companies) but these are frequently viewed as undesirable Federal and government (city, state etc.) jobs (perhaps excluding IT) are some of the most desirable jobs in US, with long waiting lines.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
> it's harder to move from a class to another compared to the US. Not true: social mobility in US is lower than in Europe and Canada.
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
Anecdote evidence, but I am currently learning FPGA and VHDL, and find it not more difficult than "normal" C. Way more more expressive, for sure: a complete 8 channel PWM controller under 150 lines. Parallelism without locking f
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
They get it wrong. It is not brutalism is back, it modernism in general; what we are witnessing is the end of postmodernism. Postmodernism seem to be in conflict with the faith into progress, both social and technological, yet we've be
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by RandomName2020 10y ago
> What really makes me sad is that the BSD license allows corporate leeches like Sony to create incredibly successful and valuable products like the PS4 without ever having to give back to the project that produced the software they rely

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