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by igivanov 10y ago
Perhaps in theory... http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-News/Terror-victims-ki... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-01/sept-11-widow-first... http://www.historycommons.
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by igivanov 10y ago
>Russian submarines have been spotted in Swedish waters. this bullshit has acquired a life of its own no matter how often it's debunked. Please educate yourself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_submarine_in
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by igivanov 10y ago
I know about this one and others, thanks. The problem is TopGrid, it is further customized, so flexible and so entrenched in my code that it would be an enormous undertaking to replace it. Even if UI was perfectly separated from the busines
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by igivanov 10y ago
Hey Marco, I still have your Delphi 5 book :-) FWIIW, where I work, I started using Delphi 5 when it came out. As of now we have about a dozen D5 desktop applications all essential for the core business that are in active use and supported
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by igivanov 10y ago
I don't know if anyone should trust such a Russophobic outlet. https://medium.com/@dominicbasulto/russophobia-and-the-dark-...
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by igivanov 10y ago
By calling Iraq a disgrace you are effectively calling the 9/11 a micro-disgrace. That's how these two differ in the order of numbers of lives lost.
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by igivanov 10y ago
You don't need to look there, at all. Just look at the US aggressive wars and subversive activities in this century, e.g. Iraq, Libya and it becomes clear that the value of human rights abroad from the US point of view is exactly 0.
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by igivanov 10y ago
Huh? I don't use facebook, and yet it knows about me because I am in other people's contacts and some of those people had to share their contacts with facebook. Fuck facebook a thousand times over.
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by igivanov 10y ago
Regarding the presumed meddling of Russia, what is conveniently left unsaid, is that whoever made the leak possible should be awarded a US medal for Advancement of Democracy or something along those lines.
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by igivanov 10y ago
"Who benefits?" The hawkish neocon establishment, as can be easily observed. "evidence" You mean, "code with comments in Russian"? Then I presume if the comments had been in English, it would be evidence of a B
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by igivanov 10y ago
Almost exactly my experience, and with programming as well. I solved a bunch of problems while hiking in the mountains. Except that I don't miss coding because they are more architectural problems than pure coding.
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by igivanov 11y ago
I still actively use Pascal/Delphi 5. I wrote a lot of software in it for the company and I'd say the bosses are quite happy about it and couldn't care less that it's not something "mainstream". Looking back I
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by igivanov 11y ago
If you read your link you'd see that it couldn't actually launch the weapons, only the RF could.
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by igivanov 11y ago
It's not an agreement that requires anything. It's just a memorandum (IOW a memo) no more binding than the famous verbal promise not to extend NATO towards Russia's borders.
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by igivanov 11y ago
1 mag 8 = 1,000,000 of mag 4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale#Richte... On top of that major quakes happen deep below, not where humans do their thing.
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by igivanov 11y ago
He said later (~2-3 years ago) that he may change his attitude exactly because of possible liability.
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by igivanov 12y ago
I am not sure how blocking gmail has anything to do with democracy and "western values". OTOH the "western values" on the Internet as we've recently observed include total worldwide surveillance, hacking everything
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by igivanov 12y ago
What is even more remarkable is how often the winners (including the current ones) have nothing to do with the original intent of the Prize. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize "According to Nobel'
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by igivanov 12y ago
So if you have a 1s (or 1min) trade window, it somehow makes stock market non-liquid and would kill a lot of companies? Is that what you are saying?
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by igivanov 12y ago
From Wikipedia "In business, economics or investment, market liquidity is a market's ability to facilitate an asset being sold quickly without having to reduce its price very much (or even at all)." That's as much as I k
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by igivanov 12y ago
Why do you need millisecond(or is it microsecond?)-fast liquidity? What's wrong if there's a 10s or 1min window?
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by igivanov 12y ago
It's all fascinating all right in many respects, but doesn't the noble business of fast trades and hedge funds give anyone on HN creeps anymore? After all it's moneymaking in a form of taxing the society as a whole (if you th
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by igivanov 12y ago
With all the praise of self-experiments (or experiments on a dedicated core group), there is this fact: we know that even a single use of a psychedelic drug may be "a life-changing experience". We also know that some substances ma
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by igivanov 13y ago
I'll go with end result: the discussion has shifted from the manipulation stuff GG wrote about to censorship. Doesn't it look like a perfect example of successful manipulation?
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by igivanov 13y ago
"The U.S. central banking system ranks among the finest of its kind." I'll take it as a fine example of satire. The Fed officials' conflict of interest, the financial crisis, using it as a tool to achieve political goals
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by igivanov 13y ago
This is more relevant in the context (i.e. RT broadcasts for foreign audiences): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC "Though sharing some of the facilities of the domestic services, particularly for news and current
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by igivanov 13y ago
According to common sense, any news organization is funded by some means. Which means it's biased by its nature in some way. BTW, BBC is mostly government funded. Does it mean you disregard everything it reports about the government of