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by gspetr 10y ago
Do you seriously doubt that <50% of Crimean population would have voted to join Russia? If the population is hostile to the supposed aggressor there's usually guerrilla warfare that starts almost immediately after the invasion. Hist
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by gspetr 10y ago
Such a careless whisper.
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by gspetr 10y ago
- Facebook account is like herpes, it stays with you for life. - No, Facebook is worse. - How? - Herpes goes away when you die.
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by gspetr 10y ago
> then every past player at Borgata and the Attorney General and dealers should sue Borgata I'm probably missing something obvious, but why would the dealers of all people sue Borgata?
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by gspetr 10y ago
May I ask what does MOO stand for in your comment?
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by gspetr 10y ago
You should seriously look into Minoxidil. It stopped hair loss for me, I'm in my late 20s, only had to adjust my hairstyle and none are the wiser.
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by gspetr 10y ago
What good would someone's eye do to you? Is eye transplant a thing?
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by gspetr 10y ago
Trump did AMA there. Imagine when next time Trump does AMA on The_Donald subreddit: - Mr. President, are you going to deport american citizens? - No, I am absolutely not going to do that. That gets ninja edited to: - I am absolutely going t
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by gspetr 10y ago
I wouldn't put it above Zuckerberg himself to do it. http://www.theweek.co.uk/facebook/14625/are-users-dumb-fucks... From that article: During the conversation, Zuckerberg writes: "Yeah so if you ever ne
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by gspetr 10y ago
That comment was directly at odds with HN's guidelines: "Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." And when Colin Percival, a widely respected member of community qu
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by gspetr 10y ago
Spoken like a true footballer.
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by gspetr 10y ago
I made the original comment in this thread, let me attempt to clarify. The person you replied to thought that I was referring to humans exclusively (Close enough, I had not only humans but most primates in mind), while a comment above that
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by gspetr 10y ago
I'll refer you to this book by a female writer, it is a light read and she presents the point that I made far more eloquently and persuasively than I could in the limited space of a HN comment: https://dontmarry.files.wordpr
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by gspetr 10y ago
Small sample might be at fault here. For a counterexample: has the embargo on Iran worked?
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by gspetr 10y ago
I thought HN welcomed diversity of opinion. Starting flamewars was not my intention. When I posted the comment the title of this posting was quite different and it made more sense in that context. If you wished to ask me to substantiate the
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by gspetr 10y ago
Males have evolved to extract resources from the environment. Females have evolved to extract resources from males.
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by gspetr 10y ago
I worked there in Moscow HQ. Now it's just a generic BigCo with all it's corresponding problems and Dilbertesque bureaucracy with lots of meetings to get things done. There is a history of the company suing ex-employees and vice v
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by gspetr 10y ago
This is proprietary. Source: ex-employee.
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by gspetr 10y ago
I believe this book will help you to understand: https://archive.org/stream/MightIsRight_966/MightIsRight#pag...
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by gspetr 10y ago
I have read your comment's link. I wish I hadn't. Why? Because you haven't read mine. You replied to a strawman. I was talking about female CEOs, not female employees. Where are the female Zuckerbergs and Bill Gates' who
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by gspetr 10y ago
You voted for an open borders, no Non-agression Principle libertarian who does not, actually, hold libertarian views?
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by gspetr 10y ago
> The media are not the left. They most definitely are. Consider the media closely working with the White House now, Obama's "entourage". Not one of them is Republican.
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by gspetr 10y ago
You are out of touch. Silencing people you don't agree with by calling them misogynist, racist, sexist, etc. and expecting them to convert to your side does not work. Marginalizing them does not work. Not in Europe. (Brexit) Not in the
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by gspetr 10y ago
The most privacy-conscious people really don't. Kaspersky Lab's CEO and his phone: http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6719/26720365.10e/0_a119d_872...
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by gspetr 10y ago
This is an interesting analogy and there is evidence that it works, as long as you somehow negate the gatekeeper: Biases from interviewers. Does it still hold when there is no gatekeeper? I'm not seeing that many minority or women as e
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by gspetr 10y ago
> but it needs to learn the relevance of such pixel-sized mistakes, which is unlikely to have as much of an impact in a poker game or Go game as it would in StarCraft. I agree with your point, but you need to look no further than the gam
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by gspetr 10y ago
I think the issue here is that society sets a taboo on certain views, no matter if they make sense or not. In a sense we have gone back to believing that the Earth is flat when we deny uncomfortable conclusions based on society's (impl
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by gspetr 10y ago
What kind of murders are you talking about? Historically, most people have been killing each other for resources. Ultimately, food and water are the most important ones, so there had been historic precedents of cannibalism among groups of p
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by gspetr 10y ago
As luck would have it I'm Russian. Do you think it would take off if I would do it for real? Should we poll the community in an "Ask HN" thread to see if people want this?
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by gspetr 10y ago
I wonder why there isn't a new incarnation of it. Are people afraid of lawsuits?

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