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by V-2 8y ago
Aside from the discussion on to what extent are these pictures actually representative of the overall conditions of the era, it's worth noting that the 1980s in Poland were particularly gloomy even by communist standards. The system wa
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by V-2 8y ago
That's true, but my parent commenter referred to the entire North West (which is, generally speaking, more well off in Poland) not being "real". Not just Warsaw. Ciechanów or Piła, both rather small towns, could hardly be con
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by V-2 8y ago
It's better than nothing, but please note that a lot of these are unfortunately inaccurate. Eg. even sizeable cities such as Wrocław are referred to as "towns"... Poznań is supposedly located in the Silesia region... Sopot is
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by V-2 8y ago
Both - as they're commonly referred to - "Poland A" and "Poland B" comprise of significant portions of the population. I can't see why life in one should be considered "real", while in the other, not.
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by V-2 8y ago
Well: before communism Poland was more or less on par with Spain in terms of wealth and general advancement. (Not to mention eg. Korea). The economic growth in communist Europe was on average 4 times slower than in the Western part of the c
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by V-2 8y ago
Kind of "to sort out", but the more specific meaning is lost. The history has filled our vocabulary with quite a lot of such terms that don't lend themselves well to translation. Eg. "chałtura".
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by V-2 8y ago
This plays nicely to the Western stereotype, though. (Not the pictures in and of themselves, but pretending the outliers to be the typical). I remember the outrage over Microsoft Encarta which used photos similar to the Barbey's ones t
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by V-2 8y ago
https://skatter.com/files/2006/11/windowszunetheme.png That's the one.
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by V-2 8y ago
I liked the non-standard, black Zune theme on XP. The default blue one is indeed timeless, but not in a positive sense, imho. It was a textbook case of the UI drawing attention to itself for the sake of it. When the dominating colour is so
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by V-2 8y ago
Now you need to look up what 1001, 1002 or 1003 are. It takes time and makes you unable to skim-read the commit history. Also projects are often migrated, offshored etc., and it's not rare for repositories to get uncoupled from the tic
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by V-2 8y ago
Poster's user handle is petar, and petar happens to have merged the latest PR in Ko repository, so I'd say there's a pretty good chance it is the same person.
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by V-2 8y ago
I switched away from Firefox years ago, because it felt very bloated, plus they'd break backwards compatibility pretty often, and every other update meant one or more extensions would stop working. Over time I grew tired of the "e
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by V-2 8y ago
The odds will vary greatly depending on whether we mean any life (microbial or unicellular life seems most likely), or complex, let alone sentient life. Technically the term encompasses the former too, but all too often people seem to equat
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by V-2 8y ago
> My dad used to work in local government and likes to call the automatic opposition, "People united against anything." Today we call them NIMBYs. I love the BANANA acronym, which stands for "build absolutely nothing any
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by V-2 8y ago
> And do not pass too quickly over the fact that a car company hires car thieves for consultation. If you are a businessperson, do you regularly engage those who wish to do you harm? It hardly shocks people when it's about cyberse
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by V-2 8y ago
For what it's worth, it reminded me of a passage in a novel (I can't remember which one) by an Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan. In the story he contained an observation on how in blockhouses people on the first floor secure their
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by V-2 8y ago
Who does inconsistent typos on purpose? And what's the purpose?
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by V-2 8y ago
Yes. Thanks. Well, these indeed don't look particularly inspiring...
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by V-2 8y ago
It's supposed to be "comprehensive", but all the designs in the gallery appear to be of iOS apps. I haven't found a single Android sample in the gallery. Is it me, or is this the idea behind the collection?
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by V-2 8y ago
> There is a movement to completely eradicate these different forms to make the language a little bit easier, especially for kids. As a Pole too, I'd be against it. There may be no difference in pronunciation, but the spelling is
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by V-2 8y ago
I'm not excusing anything (especially being a native Pole myself), just pointing out a difference between a 19th century authoritarianism and 20th century ones.
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by V-2 8y ago
Although there are exceptions to it, eg. "budżet" (or budget) is typically pronounced as if it were spelled "budrzet", apparently owing to the French origin of the word.
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by V-2 8y ago
However oppressive the Prussian Partition could have been, they did recognize the law, in this case at least. Under communism Drzymała wouldn't be unlikely to get threatened, beaten up or even killed by "unknown perpetrators"
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by V-2 8y ago
These stylistic experiments on breaking away from the 'by the numbers' routines immediately reminded me of Vonnegut's "pity the readers" advice, acknowledging the inevitable limitations of artistic liberty of a writ
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by V-2 8y ago
Not to sound mean, but I'd prefer all websites looking generic (as uninventive as it might be), if this is supposed to represent the alternative.
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by V-2 8y ago
Right; although to be fair to Napoleon, back in his era chess was generally on a much lower level compared to nowadays.
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by V-2 8y ago
In fact even those adults who do play chess more often than not don't really know the rules beyond a passing familiarity ;) There was this funny piece at chess.com quoting some of the complaints they receive from angry users about ca
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by V-2 8y ago
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1250610 Although the authenticity of the game is disputed. Regardless, the consensus among chess historians seems to be that Napoleon was a rather mediocre player.
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by V-2 8y ago
How strong a player is Mr. Dvorkovich though? While he did become the president of FIDE, he doesn't seem to even have a rating: https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=34404449
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by V-2 8y ago
Napoleon played poorly. His "taking on" The Turk was an atrociously misplayed opening, and falling into a rather basic tactical trap. The game was as good as over after a mere 10 moves (in fact it was already a forced mate at this

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