googamooga

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by googamooga 8y ago
Banned or not, there are ATMs and POSes across whole Crimea, accepting Visa and MasterCard. There was a brief period in 2014 when the schemes withdrew from the peninsula, but they get back pretty soon in 2015.
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by googamooga 8y ago
I wonder why Slack so cares about blocking poor Crimeans from its service and at the same time Visa and MasterCard are accepted freely in any town of Crimea. Why these payment schemes are allowed to work there despite the embargo?
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by googamooga 8y ago
It was popular even in the USSR in mid-80s. MX-80 were brought in the Soviet Union as a part of Yamaha MSX-2 based computer classes for Soviet children. I remember my joy when I was able to print black and white New Year’s postcard with nic
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Yandex began indexing Google Docs with passwords(habrahabr.info)
1 points by googamooga 8y ago|0 comments
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by googamooga 8y ago
What is HyperNews mentioned in your interview?
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by googamooga 9y ago
At my school days in 1980s we used to write programs using RAPIRA (russian: РАПИРА) programming language on AGAT microcomputer. RAPIRA was an original programming language with Russian keywords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by googamooga 9y ago
This article has nothing to do with russophobia. It just explains very clearly why we, Russians, lose the cold war. When you restrict knowledge exchange and set up artificial barriers between scientists you are going to fail the competitio
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by googamooga 9y ago
Are we discussing 1982 or 2017? :-) There were no bathtubs on the trains in 1980-s in Soviet Union...
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by googamooga 9y ago
This is exactly SV ("спальный вагон"). https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C...
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by googamooga 9y ago
No, long-distance trains had four classes: SV (two beds per cabin), Coupe (four beds per cabin), Platzkart (six beds per cabin) and Sitting (no beds, just benches). This classification goes back to Tzar (pre-revolution) times. It has nothin
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by googamooga 9y ago
Nice story, but as somebody who lived in 1982 in the USSR, I should note that there was no first class on flights between Moscow and Leningrad (St.Petersburg), incoming and outgoing international calls did not work in automatic mode - all c
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The Persistence of Progressive Rock(newyorker.com)
1 points by googamooga 9y ago|0 comments
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by googamooga 9y ago
Out of the frustration with AMQP I've started my own ZeroMQ project. I doubt that Martin was the sole initiator of ZeroMQ project. I think that late Pieter Hintjens, the original author of AMQP, deserves some credit as well,
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by googamooga 9y ago
Here is the code: http://www.qb64.net/forum/index.php?topic=12348.0 Though it won’t compile with ordinary QB compiler.
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by googamooga 9y ago
> I'm curious - don't people miss big monitors when coding on a laptop? I've done a fair amount of coding on laptops while travelling and it's okay, but I feel like a big monitor is optimal for most work and wouldn&#x
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Hello Blockstack Tutorial(blockstack.org)
4 points by googamooga 10y ago|0 comments
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by googamooga 10y ago
I'm the one who brought FidoNet to Russia (Soviet Union, to be precise) in 1990. I remember how it was hard to find two more guys with modems and access to automatic international line in order to request a separate FidoNet region for
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by googamooga 10y ago
First stock exchange in Russia called RTS was built originally on Stratus computers. First launch of the trades was done on Intel 960 based Stratus XA/R in 1995, then in late 1996 we migrated to two PA-RISC based Stratus Continuums, if
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Stupefied – a survival guide for a modern enterprise employees(aeon.co)
1 points by googamooga 10y ago|0 comments
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by googamooga 10y ago
Thanks a lot for your very wise and weighted reply. Of course I entered into this business because first of all I wanted to earn some money, otherwise I should donated to charity. And your point that some applications of stents can be usele
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by googamooga 10y ago
It just don't work this way in Russia. Clinics financed directly from the budget for this kind of operations, there is no option in bringing your stent and then get your compensation for it from the state. Of course you may pay for the
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by googamooga 10y ago
They can't prolong life, but they can save life if applied in right time-window after the heart attack. Also they increase quality of life of the patients.
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by googamooga 10y ago
Yes, originally they (Vekselberg/Medtronic) wanted to get $200M loan from a Russian state bank (VEB) to launch the production in Russia, but due to all the mess we have now instead of economy here in Russia VEB went into almost bankrup
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by googamooga 10y ago
The single-source government decree stating that Stentex/Medtronic should become single supplier of stents in Russia in 2017-2022 was signed by the prime minister. See the links above.
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by googamooga 10y ago
> Sounds like an excellent deal for the shareholders of Medtronics. Exactly
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by googamooga 10y ago
Tried, it doesn't work. Mostly because all Russian media directly or indirectly controlled by the state and they will not confront the prime minister. We never tried Western media but I don't think there will be any interest from
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by googamooga 10y ago
In fact, you're right.
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by googamooga 10y ago
Well, everything is public information, so I see no harm in sharing the names: Russian company: Angioline ( http://www.angioline.ru , the site is Russian-only) US company: Medtronic ( http://www.medtronic.com ) Oligarch:
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by googamooga 10y ago
Medicine is probably the second best place after military where we can observe how greed and corruption are literally killing people. I'm living in Russia and recently have been involved in medical devices market here. The local market
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by googamooga 10y ago
I'd like to reflect a bit on your notice how stress relates to weight gain. In my personal case I noticed a while ago that "usual" day-to-day stress in the office or at home indeed increases my willingness to eat more. But! T

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