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by jkot 11y ago
This is just public schools, those subjects can be still studied at private schools. Czech Republic has similar system. Education is free, but number of places in public university is set by number of jobs available. We have lot of engineer
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by jkot 11y ago
... and Kruschev was the one who choosed astronauts. Same problem was with Gagarin versus Titov.
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by jkot 11y ago
> Tereshkova did not have a panic attack in space. She had a panic attack before going and was strapped into the seat against her will. Any source? There were two backups, and if there would be delay a few days, she would not have fly
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by jkot 11y ago
Yes, she ruined it for them. Two more women would flight just three years after her, they would perform a space walk, but that was cancelled after her flight. I only mentioned that because she tried to act as victim of sexism, but she was
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by jkot 11y ago
I disagree. You can train for motion sickness and parachute jumps. There were three final candidates: Ponomarjovová graduated at Moscow Aviation Institute, had 320 flight hours as a sport pilot and 10 parachute jumps. Solovjovová graduated
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by jkot 11y ago
She survived but that is not enough. This is not a ride in space shuttle, but ICBM with cannon ball on top. There were other women who would do much better, and she ruined it for them for another 20 years. She almost died three times due to
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by jkot 11y ago
I know different side of story, from Karel Pacner who studied soviet archives, and wrote many books about space exploration history. I do not have English version, but here is a Google Translate link https://translate.google.com&
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by jkot 11y ago
Do you have source for 2.5? I only found 0.5M, but it seems like those are expats who did not moved in recently. > There are 500,000 Syrians in Saudi Arabia, according to Nabil Othman, acting regional representative to the Gulf region a
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by jkot 11y ago
It is just ridiculous. Saudi has capacity to accommodate 2 million people in Mecca, but they would not accept single refugee from Syria. Instead they offered to build hundreds of mosques in Germany and Europe, to export their version of I
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by jkot 11y ago
Harder problem is to find a sequence of turns, where white always wins, from starting position. Anyway this turn is not legal in chess I learned.
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by jkot 11y ago
Some of those suggestion are counterproductive. For example unpaid overtime is great way to eliminate gender pay gap.
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by jkot 11y ago
.. and in next episode Sea Shepherd will ram USS George Washington
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by jkot 11y ago
Holy Roman Empire started around 800AD.
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by jkot 11y ago
> One futurist noted that a 1960s film of the “office of the future” made on-par technological predictions (fax machines and the like), but had a glaring omission: The office had no women. To be fair, most futurist thought work will b
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by jkot 11y ago
This is not just Oracle, but it is pretty common for software dinosaurs (Microsoft, SAP...). We migrated to Redhat since Microsoft was unable to tell us exact price. Managers would risk criminal offense, by using software with unclear licen
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by jkot 11y ago
Look into history, we have this sort of luxuries only last few hundred years. Exclusive diet on corn must be supplemented with salt. Also some of them might have chicken or small garden at home, but wont admit it, because it could be illega
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by jkot 11y ago
There is big difference between elite North Korean army and regular army. Totalitarian regime would never trust their citizens with guns. Regular army is basically forced labor camp. Some of them might train shooting, but at level three sh
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by jkot 11y ago
I genuinely hope he will succeed. Adblocking is becoming too mainstream and too easy. Nerds are loosing competitive advantage. And current ad-blockers are not effectively blocking Adwords, Facebook and other major players. We need something
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by jkot 11y ago
One marwel super-hero has similar magnets inside him. Cowmen or something.
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by jkot 11y ago
Lovely, Germany invites people, but demands other countries to take care of their guests. Social support for immigrants in Germany is higher then median salary in many EU regions.
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by jkot 11y ago
Perhaps its because I grow up in a different culture, but I see completely different use cases. There are already way too much though crimes, and mob lynching over something simple as twitter. Imagine local lynching club which assembles eve
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by jkot 11y ago
Yah, so now we will get DRM on webpages, dont give them ideas.
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by jkot 11y ago
This is just insane. Email communication is completely open, it is like writing on the postcard.
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by jkot 11y ago
Yes, but according to Dublin treaty asylum should be granted in state where refugee enters EU. And Greece is not so sexy. Most people want into Germany because benefits are much higher in there.
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by jkot 11y ago
There is other side of this. Most migrants do not apply for asylum, but hide their identity, so they can not be deported. In that case my country (Czech republic) usually confiscates their possessions to cover their living expenses.
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by jkot 11y ago
Most papers on BTrees I read are not using recursion.
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by jkot 11y ago
> ... Tim said, “This is bad. Someone ought to get over there.” Thirty minutes went by and the conversation moved to other topics. Suddenly Tim looked back at Sabih and asked, ‘Why are you still here?’ Good manager could be more specif
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by jkot 11y ago
> Mayor Ed Lee said this week that the homeless are “going to have to leave” the streets before the Super Bowl comes to town in February China had similar approach for their Olympic Games :-(
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by jkot 11y ago
Good way to compare pre and post revolution Russia is to take number of officers in police and other repressive forces. Tsar had police apparatus comparable to France. Soviets had almost 15% of population in repressive forces.
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Is there some study with correlations etc? I think until recently introverts needed extroverts to run the business, raise money etc. But today cost to run business is pretty low and it is no longer case. All we need today to start decent bu

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