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by danielodievich 5y ago
A great - and chilling - read is Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices_from_Chernobyl ). It had a very strong impact wh
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by danielodievich 5y ago
I don't know what ad keywords are hooked up to this, but when opening it on mobile it the ads I get in the middle are for planning my cremation, with happy and distinguished looking gray haired people congregated around the rose bushes
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by danielodievich 5y ago
One of my favorite sci-fi authors is Ian M. Banks (discussed here on HN with regularity). His Culture series describe a post-scarcity interstellar society of human(oid)s who among many, many things can change their own gender just by thinki
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by danielodievich 5y ago
Take a look at the https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/george-... for a similar viewpoint, articulated much more deeply, and check out the "elite overproduction" concept.
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by danielodievich 5y ago
Interesting tidbit, this painting was one of the required pieces of Soviet school in late USSR, I think in grade 4 or 5 in the Russian language curriculum. We were assigned this painting - and a few others over the school year - as a topic
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by danielodievich 5y ago
I have long wanted to read this, and am glad to see this as a prompt to finally buy the book. Thanks for posting this great article. My grandfather was a teen during the war, spending most of it under the occupation as a cow herder in Grodn
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by danielodievich 5y ago
I have similar perspective and it is very depressing to see the world marching towards destruction of the modern civilization. I was speaking about this to a friend and he recommended to read book called Drawdown to lift me out of despair.
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by danielodievich 5y ago
I read The Economist which every year publishes their list of notable books. That is how I found Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis of The Financial Times. That book describes how the richest people get there (
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by danielodievich 5y ago
Nice! I'd say these guys are going to be MetaCops and a soon to be discovered competitor will try to be Enforcers.
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Burbs of Moscow. But my family traveled extensively, more than usual for average soviet person, so I've been to every republic but Tadjikistan (all of course now countries) before the age of 14. It sounds like a lot, but it was just a
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by danielodievich 5y ago
I was born in USSR and Mongolians were our Asian brothers, together with Uzbeks, Kazakhs and Tadjiks and all the other tribes in the 'stans. I remember perusing Uzbekistan main daily in Tashkent as a young child, seeing gobbledygook in
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by danielodievich 6y ago
Star Control II was THE defining game of my childhood. After completing the quest - with difficulty, since my command of English then was not what it is now - my brother and I spent countless hours in Melee mode. I remember being really bor
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by danielodievich 6y ago
Very true. Years ago I tried canning italian plums. I didn't think anyone else in my househoold will like them, so I decided to experiment. I thought I'd try for a light syrup so I used 1/3 of the sugar - some recipes in the
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by danielodievich 6y ago
Glad you liked my review. This is a big part of my own and my family's identity. I've calculated this before and should be able to reproduce. This year, we've bought 14 flats of organic strawberries at $16/ flat = $224.
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by danielodievich 6y ago
My grandparents in what is now Belarus grew everything that is possible to grow and canned most of it. Pickles, tomatoes, carrots, strawberries, cherries, apple juice - those were all in the cellar. Ever since we were little, my brother and
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by danielodievich 6y ago
So I work for an APM vendor. COVID-based unemployment has been excellent for our public sector sales (as well for other APM vendors who are the competition). One of the sales people went to (I think) every unemployment insurance department
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by danielodievich 6y ago
Solution Architect/Engineering Manager Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C#/Java/JavaScript, Azure/AWS, APM/DevOps, Performance Tuning, System Integration, Data Min
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by danielodievich 6y ago
SNL take on the MasterClass lampooned it perfectly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U31rKSYX07E . Having said that, I watched a couple of Neil Gaiman's lectures and because I love Neil's work, I loved what he had to