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by gandhium 8y ago
My main concern about that - I'm not 100% sure that Google will not discontinue that in couple of years. And for example: recently they've announced that 'Save to Google' extension will be discontinued in nearest weeks,
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by gandhium 8y ago
As I can remember previous video of their 'super' nuclear-powered missile proved to be a complete render, since prototype flew without any nuclear propulsion and therefore for a short time.
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by gandhium 8y ago
Looks like they just choose a wrong library. Wkhtmltopdf is intended (as name implied) to convert HTML to PDFs, like 'we rendered this nice page in browser using D3 and fancy set of CSSs, now we need to export it to PDF'. And thei
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by gandhium 8y ago
A lot? It was about ~50% and increased by a couple of percents.
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by gandhium 8y ago
Officially they were protecting western lend-lease route and fending off possible German incursions.
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by gandhium 8y ago
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact "green lighted" the invasion of Poland and invasion of Baltic states. It's all was described in secret addendum to that pact - two biggest socialist countries decided to split Eastern Europe and agreed
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by gandhium 8y ago
> Significant Soviet forces stayed in Iran until 1945, to prevent Germans from attempting to capture the oil fields. Significant Soviet forces stayed there until 1946 - and they've tried to annex parts of Persia/Iran.
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by gandhium 8y ago
Since nobody recommended them yet: Alastair Reynolds's "Revelation Space" and "Poseidon's Children" are wonderful sci-fi series.
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by gandhium 8y ago
If you liked Banks, I can recommend Alastair Reynolds's "Revelation Space" and "Poseidon's Children" series.
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by gandhium 8y ago
_Active_ WMD program turned to be a total fabrication. WMDs were a-plenty in Iraq: "American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs" from https://www.nytimes.com/
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by gandhium 8y ago
There _was_ a government operation like this recently: "Russia spied on foreign powers at last month’s G20 summit by giving delegations USB pen drives capable of downloading sensitive information from laptops" - https:/&#x2F
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by gandhium 8y ago
This. Having lived in Soviet Union (which was even grumpier) I cannot agree more with you.
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by gandhium 8y ago
From your link: > “It’s not just apples and oranges,” said Kenneth Wollack, president of the National Democratic Institute. “It’s comparing someone who delivers lifesaving medicine to someone who brings deadly poison.” I think this is ri
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by gandhium 8y ago
> You mean in an uncontested airspace, with no AA to speak about ... and Russia still managed to lose about 1/3 of their carrier's planes.
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by gandhium 8y ago
I'd expected to see a mention of Korean Boeing that was shot down by Soviets, which prompted Reagan to make GPS available for civilians. As in [0] "President Reagan announced on September 16, 1983, that the Global Positioning Syst
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by gandhium 8y ago
He also said "real fighting was in the east", so you can guess the source. Edit: also the claim "most of our casualties on that day was friendly fire and accidental drowning" is pretty ridiculous.
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by gandhium 8y ago
> The scale and savagery of war on the eastern front is so mind boggingly incomprehensible Logistic and thought behind the D-Day is also mind-boggingly incomprehensible. Can we stop glorifying Stalin's butchery, please? Yes, they&#x
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by gandhium 8y ago
> We allied with the Soviets during WWII, but then we quickly started the cold war So, about starting the cold war. USSR meddled in Poland's elections USSR basically invaded Persia and tried to annex a part there. USSR tried to forc
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by gandhium 8y ago
Add North Korea and Abkhazia to the list and you will get your answer.
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by gandhium 8y ago
> What makes you think this source is credible? This is an international investigation team. I think it's credible enough.
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by gandhium 8y ago
You've even bothered to create a specific username? Nice. So, mr skeptic, here's dozens of articles about investigation: https://www.om.nl/onderwerpen/mh17-crash/ They even had a separate presentation in
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by gandhium 8y ago
> creating a very serious and very public international incident Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, sent mercenaries to Donbass and Syria, bombed hospitals in Syria, shot down MH-17, killed dozen of journalists domestically... but you&#x
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by gandhium 8y ago
Soviet regime got to stop those 'enemies of the state fleeing wrath of the proletariat'. Soviets introduced exit visa back in 1925, so probably that was a reason of that drop.
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by gandhium 8y ago
"Move fast and break things" doesn't sound right, when "things" are your own citizens. But it's only my opinion, probably.
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by gandhium 8y ago
As true as they can get.
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by gandhium 8y ago
> Is unsourced rumor that literally more than one out of 5 Soviet citizen died in the war really worth to mention? Are you aware of their reluctancy to show true numbers? In 1946 they've declared the number of losses as 7 millions.
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by gandhium 8y ago
So, Russian historian _translates_ Eisehnower's words into his own narrative? Color me surprised.
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by gandhium 8y ago
Did you reaed historian Mark Solonin? Or Eisenhower memoirs? He mentions a quote from Zhukov: > There are two kinds of mines; one is the personnel mine and the other is the vehicular mine. When we come to a mine field our infantry attack
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by gandhium 8y ago
Yeah, definitely no idea. Several years spent researching into WW2 history - and all are for nothing. Thank you, good sir, I will drink myself out. But before I indulge myself into drowning myself in beer, can you please elaborate, where yo
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by gandhium 8y ago
> communism establishment industrialized Russia enough to produce war munitions and equipment They lost most of the munitions and equipment in first _months_ of war, and lost half of the factories as well. So they had to rely on lend-lea

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