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lisivka
10y ago
I 90% sure that "Volga" means "(Vol) ... (Ga) Water/River", "Oka" means "(O) ... (Ka) Water/River", "Moskva" means "(Mos) ... (Kva) Water/River" in native language o
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lisivka
10y ago
There is no "Old Russian" language. You are talking about Old Church Slavonic language which is created by Saints Cyril and Methodius to translate Bible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic PS.
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lisivka
10y ago
Latin texts from 2000 years ago are quite clearly intelligible to modern Latin speakers. ;-)
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lisivka
10y ago
Yep, you are right. -in, -yn, -ian, -an: "he"/"they". -yaki, yaky, -aky: "which is/which are". Pol - field, "farmer". Polyak - which is Pol (Western Slavs). Polyan - he is Pol (Eastern Slavs
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lisivka
10y ago
Yep, Great Epidemic ("Великий Мор") is Plague of Justinian. Army of White Ugric (Hungaries?) was in 898: В год 6406 (898). Шли угры мимо Киева горою, которая прозывается теперь Угорской, пришли к Днепру и стали вежами: ходили они
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lisivka
10y ago
Sources about that period of colonization of Eastern Europe by Slavs are Greek (colonies in Crimea, Byzantine), then Arabic (traders), then Slavish (church chronicles, recorded stories). There are very few documents to read (few dozens only
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lisivka
10y ago
No. It was about 1 thousand of years earlier. Documents and recorded stories are referred to two major events, which caused to abandon cities and colonies: Great Epidemic, then army of White Ugric.
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lisivka
10y ago
Russians (Great Russians, Russish, русские, великоросы) were speaking their own native languages. For example, Putin is Uyghur. He is Russian and his native language is Russian, but Russian is not native language for Uyghurs. The longer exp
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lisivka
10y ago
Russian (Russish, русский) language is example of success of artificial language. It was language of books, used mainly in Orthodox churches, like Latin in Western Europe, but now it is spoken by hundreds of millions.
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lisivka
10y ago
When Russia will truly invade Aleppo? Two weeks were passed year ago.
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lisivka
10y ago
Yep, when one side fires whole village with habitats - it is just military operation. When other side does same in response - it is genocide. When Russians killed 7 millions of Ukrainians (Holodomor) - it was minor economic problem. When Uk
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lisivka
10y ago
I assume that trhway is from Russia. It is law in Russia.
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lisivka
10y ago
Previous war was between Ukrainian People Republic and fake Kharkiv People Republic createded by Russia. OUN/UPA does not collaborate with Nazi after declaring of independence of Ukraine in Lviv in September 1941. More than 600 of OUN
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lisivka
10y ago
> Now, when the country is again fighting against Russia—the conflict between Ukrainian forces and Russia-allied separatist that started in 2014 is still ongoing, despite an official ceasefire—these wreaths are doing the same symbolic wo
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lisivka
10y ago
IMHO, they are managing more complex projects/workflows. Complexity arise -> professionals are in demand -> salary grows.
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lisivka
10y ago
I recommend to use "ladder" technique instead of simple repeats, because it adjusts itself, so no need for app, spreadsheet, or personal trainer to calculate proper weights and number of repeats, moreover, it has lower risk of inj
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lisivka
10y ago
3 teams on 3 continents is not a problem. Moreover, when teams are separated strongly, i.e. no video and/or voice communication between teams, it helps to create healthy team, because non-realtime text-based communication causes well-w
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lisivka
10y ago
AFAIK, West governments (USA, West Germany) supplied only dual-use pesticides to Iraq, but then, after Iran-Iraq war with use of chemical weapons by Iraq, these dual-use chemicals were banned [1]. Do you know any other facts about supplying
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lisivka
10y ago
It is very sad that chemical weapon used by Iraq against Kurds is still not found. Moreover, it was used again year ago in Iraq against Kurds. PS. Moreover, large quantities of mustard agent were found in Syria in 2013.
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lisivka
10y ago
If price per bug will be increased, then there will be motivation among developers to create bugs and sell them to bug hunters.
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lisivka
10y ago
Yeah, it's time to kill all communists, otherwise free world may not survive this time.
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lisivka
10y ago
Yep, it will be hard to conduct. IMHO, it still possible to adjust slit experiment in such way, that slight increase in speed will break interference, i.e. at speed X electron will behave like wave, but at speed X+1 electron will behave lik
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lisivka
10y ago
IMHO, PWT can be proved with two slits experiment and FTL electrons: they will behave like particles, because their wave will be unable to interfere with itself. PS. To clarify, if double slit will be put in a medium where speed of light is
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lisivka
10y ago
The only way to complete it in Russia is to buy it. But it is impossible to buy it because nobody completed it. So it will fail. If you want to understand why every big government projects fails in Russia, just look at salaries of workers i
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lisivka
10y ago
There is nothing new in your link. See https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=m5wLgC546hMC&pg=PA24875...
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lisivka
10y ago
The answer in link is already answered years ago. Publisher cannot stop piracy because it cannot control user device, because user has full access to device. So the only solution to problem is to gain full control over user device, which is
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lisivka
10y ago
DRM pushes people against legit outlets, often because legit version is of lower quality (e.g. HDCP), bound with malware (e.g. Sony rootkit), or arrives later or even never, because market too low to care about (e.g. Linux/BSD, or loca
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lisivka
10y ago
IMHO, you should use term "Planet Earth Propaganda", because more than half of our planet is against NK. ;-)
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lisivka
10y ago
I hate Go for exactly that reason.
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lisivka
10y ago
I had small battle in Wikipedia and won. Now page says correct information.
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