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The 1/8th Sleep(near.blog)
195 points by asats 2y ago|54 comments
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by asats 2y ago
>Try harder Why? I have zero interest in yet another utopian idea that will probably result in millions dead, as they always do. The current system works well enough and seems like a miracle to me coming from where I grew up, the fact th
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by asats 2y ago
I grew up in russia mate, I've seen the alternative to capitalism, and I can tell you that capitalism is a damn paradise compared to what that alternative was. Instead of doing drugs just read some history on how those things go. Once
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by asats 2y ago
>Probably not exactly what you expected No, because calling for a communist revolution from your position is a suicide wish then, any entrepreneurs or owners of pretty much anything were considered a class enemy and you being in a leader
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by asats 2y ago
In your profile it says you work for some company, do the founders know you want to expropriate their company? Those damn kulaks, feasting on the fruits of your labor.
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by asats 2y ago
Unironically this kind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chifir
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by asats 3y ago
They have already entered Rostov on Don (a major city in the south, million+ population) and took over a whole bunch of administrative buildings in the city center. Apparently there's another column of his moving towards Moscow. Absolu
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by asats 3y ago
Something is definitely happening, there's lot's of videos of military vehicles on the streets of multiple russian cities and the main tv channel just announced some kind of an emergency broadcast.
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by asats 3y ago
Pre-consumerist russia had incredibly colorful dresses: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=traditional+russian+dress&t=ffab&i... If anything it's the communists that turned everyone into a gray mass, mostly because you
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by asats 3y ago
Alright, if we're talking fundamental research, what about the number of the Fields medal recipients? I feel safe taking that bet, in the last 30 years for one Perelman there's 6 russian-born mathematicians that received it who ar
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by asats 3y ago
>However it's a good argument for distinguishing between simplifications introduced by feelings It's not based on my feelings but on the personal experience and some research I did. All the smartest people I personally know and
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by asats 3y ago
I did not IQ test the million people on the border and I have no objective way to evaluate and compare the brightness of the people that have left vs the rosatom engineers, if that's what you're asking for. "Biased simplifica
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by asats 3y ago
>Where’s that clarity come from? The opposite could be argued as well: those who’ve left are seeking safety and safety isn’t associated with risk taking. There are fewer risks in leaving Russia than in stayin in. It's not about safe
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by asats 3y ago
There's lot of smart people left, that's no doubt, but there is an obvious filter that the ones left behind are on average less risk taking, more conservative, often older, often the ones with the national motto of "от нас ни
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by asats 3y ago
That is a travesty and a loss for everyone, but you cannot compare those two things in good conscience. >All the while they were actively preventing 399 men from receiving the same treatments. And: >The emergent consensus among schola
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by asats 3y ago
Software developers make up maybe a third of that wave, if that. There's also artists, scientists, teachers, journalists, political activists and all kinds of other folks that simply don't see the future in the country. A lot of t
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by asats 3y ago
I'm not downplaying the achievements, I'm saying they could've been a lot greater if the system didn't try to mutilate and murder it's author.
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by asats 3y ago
Exactly. Half of those achievements are space related and the guy responsible for them (Korolev) spent 6 years in the Stalin's gulag that he barely survived, his life was cut short at 59 probably as the result of the traumas he receive
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by asats 3y ago
Well, that's what I mean, a million of the 20-40 age group of a certain socioeconomic class, with relevant skills, a lot of ambition and not many dependents. Those are the exact group to start new things and do a lot of good, and my po
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by asats 3y ago
The russian old believers in Brazil is the first example that comes to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17-3EGQ1aAw
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by asats 3y ago
Most of the brightest ones have left the country, so I do wonder if it might result in being a net positive for the world, moving a million brightest people from a decaying autocracy into the functional countries with good management, poten
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by asats 3y ago
The obvious source of immigrants are the CIS countries, that's where 90%+ of the current immigration comes from. Also in the past it had no problem attracting millions of immigrants as long as the currency exchange was favorable: http
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by asats 4y ago
Not sure if it's all the countries, but I have always heard the normal body temperature in Celsius stated as 36.5, which is 97.7 F. Is 98.6 an american-only thing?
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by asats 5y ago
So what is the endgame here? Covid is not going away. Does that mean that China will become an isolated island with waves of lockdowns for the next decades?
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by asats 5y ago
I admire and support people willing to die for democracy and freedom, but I have serious doubts there is any overlap between those heroes and these armchair warriors telling other people to risk their lives.
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by asats 5y ago
My opinion of the HN and the whole startup / silicon valley crowd got significantly worse because of the predominance of people like mdoms here on HN. Clueless, entitled and often bordering on being straight up evil with their "go
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Tracking PPP: Search Every Company Approved for Federal Loans(projects.propublica.org)
7 points by asats 5y ago|0 comments
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by asats 5y ago
The main criteria was their audience similarity on youtube (youtube recommendations), as I told you in the first reply. I took the obvious pro-Kremlin channels and then pulled all of their top recommendations until I stopped finding new cha
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by asats 5y ago
I'm not sure what's the point of arguing semantics, call them "people with opinions similar to that of the russian state TV channels". My usage of the word was more along the lines of "historically, propaganda has b
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by asats 5y ago
Pro-Kremlin is the info pushed by the Kremlin state channels, "propagandists" in this case are the people echoing that info, they are fairly easy to spot mostly because they use very different vocabulary (constant talk of "de

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