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by oddx 13y ago
I don't think it's significantly related with modern Russia/Soviets or any recent events. You can found description of same behaviour made by Turgenev (here for example, in russian, http://european-book-review.blog
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by oddx 13y ago
If you are interested I recommend "The Moral Animal" by Robert Wright, book has more details on subject.
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by oddx 13y ago
Another effect of "single child policy" is significant prevalence of number of men over women. And it's known for making society significantly more aggressive.
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by oddx 13y ago
If you want understand what communists did in China it's better look on other numbers. For example, rise of life expectancy was incredible (especially if you look at comparable country like India) http://www.google.com/
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by oddx 13y ago
From my personal experience I can confirm p. 1, totally disagree with p.2 (there are plenty of good and well payed jobs for IT specialists in xUSSR countries). About p.3 - exploit-selling is not a respectable profession, but in recent 20
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by oddx 13y ago
Because Amazon doesn't want to confirm it I'm pretty sure they don't use ECC.
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by oddx 13y ago
i7-920 works with 48GB http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/313665-30-48gb#4425619
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by oddx 13y ago
SORM is used for selective surveillance (by adjudication) and not even close for total monitoring programs like PRISM.
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by oddx 14y ago
I look at the numbers because they are something that can not be speculated and manipulated easily. Lets take a claim "a random chance could land you in jail". I've seen numbers that percent miscarriage of justice in US is about 5-10% (not
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by oddx 14y ago
1. Healthcare was avaliable in GULAG prisoners. And it was free of course 2. Yes, GULAG workers get 3 meals a day (often part as dry ration) 3. Workday in GULAG was about 10 hours, so yes they have about 6 hours leisure time. But this isn't
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by oddx 14y ago
V-2 is progenitor of all modern rockets, but it's difficult to call it "minimal modifications": compare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fus%C3%A9e_V2.jpg , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:V-2_rocket_diagram_%28with... and http://en.
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by oddx 14y ago
Yes, United States stopped using penal labor at twentieth ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labour#United_States ). Soviet Union at fifties. I think 30 years lag is not soo bad considering level of social-economic development of USSR and
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by oddx 14y ago
May be it was no best model, but about "hundreds of thousands to forced labor camps"- it was about 1 million people in GULAG before second world war (0.59% of 170 millions population). For modern USA incarceration rate is 0.74%. Are you sur