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by ilyak 17y ago
Well, doesn't it seem strange to you that they SUDDENTLY discovered that there's corruption. There's two branches: - It's really the first time they ran into corruption; it would be a cool fairy-tale, but neither I nor you beleive this. - T
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by ilyak 17y ago
Money aren't the problem when you sit on a sea of oil. However: employing 140M people is a problem; distributing those money between regions is a problem; not turning into banana republic is a problem (already failed that one). Those proble
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by ilyak 17y ago
I argue that IKEA uses "free press" as a lever to get whatever it wants from government, for cheap. Then I say that if we don't like IKEA that much, we shouldn't buy into that.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Because every big corporation uses corruption unless proven otherwise. Sorry. Especially global corporations are known for doing it in less economically developed countries to own them as they wish. Example is South America: there were some
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by ilyak 17y ago
The problem with comparative advantage is: For what products do Russia have comparative advantage? Besides oil, because being an Oil banana republic suck, and also all kinds of banana republics gravitate towards corruption and despoty. If
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by ilyak 17y ago
How would IKEA ever interest us outside of the context of its products? "In other news, IKEA, after operating in Russia for 9 years, suddently discovers that there's a massive corruption there". IKEA uses press to bash government for bad pr
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by ilyak 17y ago
If it's just corporate-vs-political games, why are there on HN?
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by ilyak 17y ago
It does. But I don't think they deserve some special rights because of that or because of their size; that is, a right to use corruption (when trying to do something questionable) and blame corruption (when it gets in their way) at one time
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by ilyak 17y ago
Well, did the article provide any data on how much are they expected to bribe, in $, and how good their mall building is? No, instead we've seen some bashing. It's okay to bash, it's okay for me to troll. Face with it: IKEA drains money fro
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by ilyak 17y ago
Sure! Where did I say that corruption is a good thing? But I'm saying that they feed the corruption. By paying bribes.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Well, you know why they still do business here? The answer is M O N E Y. So, they bribe to make it happen, thus feeding the corruption loop, and don't see any problem with that! Until they do. Then, they brag the "ikea generation" crap in n
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by ilyak 17y ago
What I'm interested in is telling some truth about what's really happening. I guess that's just not interesting enough. Truth is overrated.
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by ilyak 17y ago
However, traditional Russian furniture is fine compared to Ikea's chinese crap. Crap's cheaper, tho. I know that on the basis of having some. As for retailers: if it wouldn't be an IKEA mall, it would be some other kind of mall, it's not li
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by ilyak 17y ago
It's interesting being downmodded for being there and having a clue. I'd be to Samara in three weeks, would YOU?
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by ilyak 17y ago
Well, you can either accept "practice of corruption" or circumnavigate around in some way, or not have a business. About the Moscow accident; I'm sure it was, partly. But I don't see how is this fact going to help if their mall in Samara ha
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by ilyak 17y ago
And as of their "investments". Those "investments" just build huge malls that sap away money and life from small busines and local furniture making factories, instead introducing a wave of cheap Chinese crap. Why care? Such investments aren
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by ilyak 17y ago
Ну и пусть пиздуют со своим китайским барахлом ломающимся. Seriously: you want to have a business in the country, a profitable and fast-growing one, yet you have complaints about the process. I guess, either shove it or leave. In Moscow, th
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by ilyak 17y ago
Are viruses organisms? They aren't, but they only have RNA.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Bjarne Stroustrup is, indeed, the problem with programming. As you can infer from the article title.
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by ilyak 17y ago
It's nginx that eats so little RAM. Apache is a huge!
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by ilyak 17y ago
He didn't say that opensource is better ; he just said that you always get the best, 100%, full edition of it. However, this might be not true for dual-licensed software.
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by ilyak 17y ago
I don't want to do anything with my hands, thanks you. Maybe reconsider robotics?
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by ilyak 17y ago
For embedding and scripting, I'd take python too. It'a s known value here, and I've heard ruby isn't so much. When NOT talking about embedding or scripting, I'll probably take ruby.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Discussions rarely or never result in one "right" answer. Questions, on other hand, often do.
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by ilyak 17y ago
The morals of this story: If you're that smart as Charles is, do this program in two weeks and move on. You'll get respect and raise, and get to solve more interesting problems.
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by ilyak 17y ago
USENET is for discussions; SO is for questions and answers. Those are orthogonal.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Programming is boring; unless it's not. If you have something to say on a non-trivial subject, you better write an article. Stack Overflow deals with boring, gadfly-style problems. You can get some specific bits of knowledge there, not the
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by ilyak 17y ago
Docs sucks. Prototype's docs are great, btw, but they're going trash them, unfortunately.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Avoiding SQL injections is so easy that I don't understand why this topic still lives on.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Windows CE on a netbook downsides: - No software that can work more than on 800x480, also every program thinks it's on a tiny touch-screen, full-sized, with two control buttons. - No drivers. Maybe USB storage would work. No serial cables,

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