kutakbash

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by kutakbash 13y ago
>Lots of them were banished from the island by Russian Empire. You either use this as a very politically loaded term for Stalinist Soviet Union (which is a problem with your post on its own right), or you are wrong. >- But russians us
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by kutakbash 13y ago
>countries crying for help That's a huge stretch. The 'cry for help' isn't unanimous by very far.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
>starts to eat more money for social subsidies than it produces >Crimea has been always unprofitable even with its lucrative tourism industry Not a marker of anything, there are only a few oblasts in Ukraine that are profitable (taxes
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by kutakbash 13y ago
Do you guys consider federalisation as an option? Ukraine seems like a sufficiently big and diverse country for that. It sure as hell won't resolve the problem of which trade block to join though.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
Probably no unrelated people at all were executed or imprisoned in 1917 or 1905. Even for the most frantic career revolutionaries it wasn't uncommon to flee from the deportation and live illegally in Russia or to emigrate. I don't
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by kutakbash 13y ago
That's so very simplistic though. You by no means kept your head low in 1905, and 1917 since those were years of revolutions, the later two pretty successful, which brought freedoms unmatched in that time. In what other army was an ord
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by kutakbash 13y ago
I am talking about people who immigrated as adults. The way he talks about his experience in Russia cues that he belongs to that group. His post may be too harsh, but it is certainly not in the same league with truly ignorant knee-jerk comm
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by kutakbash 13y ago
>"serious people are the rulers, because if you do stupid crazy things you are dead" over thousands of years that forge a culture. This is the pinnacle of all the BS political mythology in this thread. Stalin and his best frien
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by kutakbash 13y ago
What's your point? Russians don't smile because they are chimps, but Lithuanians don't smile because they are true to themselves and others? Ok.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
That's pretty interesting and bears some ramifications. Like the fact that Americans might have been not a smiling bunch before dentistry became widely accessible (this might have happened not too long ago). Or that before advent of ca
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by kutakbash 13y ago
You mean people in America don't feel this way about street preachers? Even the kind that walks around with a sign and shouts REPENT! and all? > I could give a $100 bill to a cashier at the grocery store without getting in trouble.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
So somehow before 1930s people trusted one another better? I believe it seriously lacks evidence. What about people in Western Europe who don't smile all that much really? Is this some knee-jerk reaction or something? Russia-gulag and
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by kutakbash 13y ago
To be frank, he does sound like a Russian-American. They are often pretty dismissive of their heritage. Rightfully so, judging by your comment.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
>they're more utilities for managing multiple framework instances. Still, you're likely to find tutorials that use them as a de facto standard, which only adds to noob confusion. That sounds more like a problem of php. Tools li
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by kutakbash 13y ago
I'd say this whole regional distinctions thing is utterly mythologized and politically motivated. It's more like branding than anything tangible. No one wants to be associated with the less well off parts of the world and some wan
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by kutakbash 13y ago
I guess typical solution is to come up with a new word with desired meaning. This way 'programmers' became 'developers' and 'system administrators' are becoming 'dev ops'.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
Ha ha good one. Being pedantic is a curse, yes.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
I guess it would also ruin compatibility with previous polls. Sigh.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
>Southern North America (eg. Mexico) >Northern part of South America >Souther part of South America Looks needlessly fragmented and imprecise. What is 'Southern part of South America'? Cono Sur? Then Brazilians from Minas
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by kutakbash 13y ago
>Почему? Все просто: ты зарабатываешь в Москве 50 тысяч рублей и снимаешь квартиру за 30. Так зачем там жить, когда в родном городе ты сможешь зарабатывать столько же, только жизнь будет спокойнее? Сразу видно москвича. Проблема с регион
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by kutakbash 13y ago
Voting system is a great cleaning mechanism (akin to current in a pond), something that keeps mediocre submissions and poor comments out of sight. If this feature is rationed (eg flow of the current is weakened), comments and posts ought to
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by kutakbash 13y ago
Is that, like, Russia Today channel on Hacker News?
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by kutakbash 13y ago
Охуительная рационализация.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
That 'cartographic' parallax is seriously cool. They even increase scale indicator accordingly.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
Well, that's correct; Nevertheless, I think people should have been reminded that Gini coefficient exists someplace ITT.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
So… bottled water is superior? I thought it's essentially filtered tap water…
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by kutakbash 13y ago
You are not supposed to drink water off the tap (well, actually you can, if you don't value your kidneys in the long run), you are supposed to filter it through $40 device or boil it, then you can drink it. That's something that e
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by kutakbash 13y ago
The irony of this is that lack of 'proper processes' occurred because the new government had to do this ASAP, before the 'red managers' (actual management of properties in question), backed by labour collectives, assume
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by kutakbash 13y ago
The problem with this comparison is that choice of size of the wealthiest share of population (top 110, top 400, top one family, top 20%) greatly influences the outcome of comparison. Why won't we all just refer to good old Gini coeffi
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by kutakbash 13y ago
That's a bit dodgy of you. Presumption of innocence is obviously used colloquially here. About Politkovskaya and Litvinenko: The version about Politkovskaya murder I find the most plausible is that her murder is linked with Putin'

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