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by ommunist 11y ago
This illustration style can often be seen in British pubs. These are not really visionary works, this is art deco to bring more fun and cheers when you are having your pint. I am sure Washington Post author stripped out all sexual jokes typ
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by ommunist 11y ago
To be honest, try to compare overall expenses with outcome from good studies, over relatively long period. You need ecosystem of bad studies, because this is the agar from which bacteria of good studies can propagate.
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by ommunist 11y ago
That picture with block chain can be facelifted. Also it looks very much alike those imprisoned inmate entry pictures, except user is self-policing. My 5p, use steganography on picture to embed actual blockchain piece, to add protection ag
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by ommunist 11y ago
Mate, before Planet of the Storms there was no SciFi. This is the hollywood rip off I am telling about - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059887/?ref_=tt_rec_tt This is the original movie - http://www.imdb.
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by ommunist 11y ago
It is even in wikipedia. http://www.shadowlocked.com/201203302484/opinion-features/th... Documentary: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xthyi5_the-star-dreamer-rus... During one of his visits
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by ommunist 11y ago
that I like. It is good to see sane people like you at HN.
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by ommunist 11y ago
To those downvoting - what are you watching? You missed Hannibal Lector, and all of the Zombie apocalypse things.
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by ommunist 11y ago
If this disease is induced by prions, living in human brain, I suggest cooking elderly brains properly. You should not only heat the dish, but also apply more than 100,000 psi pressure simultaneously. This require a special oven. Glad, the
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by ommunist 11y ago
Never heard of ЗХВ-type plant in CHernihiv. There was one in Cherkassy, one in Svetlogorsk (Belarus), one in Sillamae (Estonia), one in Daugavpils (Latvia). Later two were sold for $1 to Tolaram Fibers, which basically shut down plants the
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by ommunist 11y ago
You wont't believe, but driving chains plant in the same location was capable to produce and fix damaged T-72s. Actually it still can, and current owner has a collection of Soviet tanks, driving on small parade on the 9th of May each y
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by ommunist 11y ago
I was a zealot of it in my early school years. Much of my later disappointment with modern days Russia was allowing the Soviet space research programmes to collapse. Its a pity humanity will never again have Energia rocket. That one could r
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by ommunist 11y ago
Man, he is mostly right. Almost everything industrial in the USSR was either military, or dual purpose. E.g. in my home town huge chemical plant was supposed to produce chemical fiber, however if needed in 24 hrs it could be switched to pro
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by ommunist 11y ago
Hollywood directly ripped that one off - Планета бурь by Pavel Klushantsev. It strongly influenced both Spielberg and Lucas, and Cameron too.
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by ommunist 11y ago
Stanislaw Lem imho is one of the most accurate futurologists. Drone armies, spaceflight psychological problems, he had that all, and his Futurological Congress is also hilarious.
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by ommunist 11y ago
Well, some British bus stops may be not that beautiful, but are well furnished and equipped with TVs http://www.shetnews.co.uk/news/6564-bus-shelter-joins-online...
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by ommunist 11y ago
It truly is. What amazes me is what this anxiety is all about? Tennis is not life and death, his mind makes it so. Why, what chemical bounds makes human mind to attach co tightly and cruelly to really unimportant things?
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by ommunist 11y ago
That I do not understand. Why he could not just calm down and carry on? Like normal Londoners did under Nazi bombs, which was not exactly tennis.
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by ommunist 11y ago
The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger, contains a revelatory research upon nature of human consciousness, makes me question about what existing AIs do wrong, and what is exactly the human intellect, feeling and emotion.
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by ommunist 11y ago
I know why. From the advertisement in this article it is clear that antelopes did not washed their hands.
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There is another one in Kamchatka, I've heard.
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by ommunist 11y ago
Well, climate always changes. And so does the soil.
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by ommunist 11y ago
Fertile soil was always a limited resource. I assume this is one of the reasons of the current civil war in Ukraine. Someone wants that soil.
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Barclays started to accept Bitcoins(thesundaytimes.co.uk)
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by ommunist 11y ago
You can rarely see a comprehensive effort in the field of designing fonts for code. Hack is quite satisfactory with a wide range of glyphs. I especially admire the "i" glyph.
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by ommunist 11y ago
Well, for Win 7 MS had a "special co-operation agreement" with the modern Russian analog of the KGB agency, and disclosed Win 7 OS source code in full. There also was co-operation around Win 8 http://www.gazeta.ru/
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by ommunist 11y ago
Well, citing my friend professional toxicologist, who spent some time working for big pharma in Swiss, and delivered relevant course at Bristol Uni, "Modafinil is not even nootropic, you can only compare it to ladasten". This guy
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Russian parliament asks to prohibit Windows 10 use in state organizations(translate.google.com)
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Here is report of one life ruined by modafinil https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=92932
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by ommunist 11y ago
No, dear. They are just putting childprocesses into existence. If there is no state, there are no citizens.
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by ommunist 11y ago
Dear Alex, although this may sound like a revelation, but governments do not fear. They are fictitious entities. Non-humans. One may think about them as a software.

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