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by osipov 12y ago
>>toothless Don't know who you are but I'll happy if citizens of the West will be under an impression that nuclear weapons will never be used. For many reasons.
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by osipov 12y ago
The situation about gays in Russia, i.e. "being a homosexual will land you in jail" is a meme that Western Corporate Media wants you to believe. Read the facts: http://gallery.mailchimp.com/d0e55f319709994434570865
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by osipov 12y ago
That's plain wrong. The OP is arguing that US violations of civil rights are far more significant and consequential than the ones in Russia. OP is right because US claims the mantle of world leadership, has the world's largest mil
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by osipov 12y ago
>>The West was bringing Russia closer As part of bringing Russia closer, the West decided to shred Russia of its defense interests inherited from the Soviet Union. There was a systematic attack by the West on Russia's interests i
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by osipov 12y ago
That's a very myopic view and here's why -- virtually all governments in the world are becoming increasingly authoritarian because of the global economic crisis and the civilian unrest that it provokes. For example, replace Putin
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by osipov 12y ago
Handing back a prize to a Nobel winning scientist? $4.7 million. Keeping your wealth safe from Western governments? Priceless.
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US president Barack Obama gets 3D scanned by a Russian scanner(artec3d.com)
1 points by osipov 12y ago|0 comments
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by osipov 12y ago
All governments oppress people. The real issue is to what extent they do so and what fraction of the people consider themselves oppressed. Unfortunately the frontlines after WW2 where redrawn and Czechoslovakia was in the unenviable positio
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by osipov 12y ago
A very naive view targeted at equally naive Western audiences. Repression in USSR after WW2 was negligible compared to 1930s.
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by osipov 12y ago
Both Zuck and Durov were approached by secret services by their respective countries. Zuck caved in and gave up Facebook information to NSA. Durov decided to fight and ended up exiled.
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by osipov 12y ago
Pavel is widely seen by the Russian developer community as a sort of a douchebag who flaunts his wealth in ways that would seem crass to someone from Silicon Valley. Just look at the guy throwing paper planes made from money at a crowd of o
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Today the richest of the rich will strip San Jose's homeless of a place to live(nationaljournal.com)
4 points by osipov 12y ago|1 comments
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by osipov 12y ago
>>heroku compatible PaaS Are you based on Cloud Foundry?
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by osipov 12y ago
Check out Softlayer. It has been more reliable than AWS in my experience.
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Any Googlers out there? Need help getting YouTube channel unblockedThanks(youtube.com)
1 points by osipov 12y ago|0 comments
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by osipov 12y ago
Don't panic. It turns out that someone committed a text file with instructions on how to commit suicide and then reported him/herself to the Russian oversight agency. Typical bureaucratic stupidity. This will be unblocked shortly.
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Ukrainian journalist's YouTube channel got suspended. Who can help?(youtube.com)
1 points by osipov 12y ago|0 comments
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by osipov 12y ago
Actually I get paid in United States.
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by osipov 12y ago
The biggest problem of the Russian nation are its intellectually lazy intellectuals. Lazy enough to uncritically parrot foreign propaganda.
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by osipov 12y ago
Correction. It is a must read for those who want to MISunderstand Putin's Russia. Kasparov is against the Russian constitution and openly called for a violent overthrow of the current Russian government. Russians do not approve of Kasp
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Any Googlers out there? A popular channel was suspended due to false reports.(youtube.com)
1 points by osipov 12y ago|0 comments
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by osipov 12y ago
sounds like "in Mars" is the proper expression...he wants to bury them there :)
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by osipov 12y ago
...and conversion of HN into 4chan is complete
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by osipov 12y ago
he is constantly lionized on HN but what did he personally accomplish besides getting acquired by PayPal?
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by osipov 12y ago
We recently moved to Softlayer due to availability issues with Azure. Has anyone experienced any significant Softlayer issues that impact availability?
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by osipov 13y ago
History is written by victors. Your image of Stalin is based on the history that was written about him after his death by people who openly declared themselves as victors over Stalinism. Remember, Stalin's image in 1930s was very diffe
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by osipov 13y ago
As a side note, HN is increasingly turning into reddit and with offtopic articles like this one has become a place for political propaganda.
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by osipov 13y ago
The causes of the famines in US and SU were related. The policies to deal with them were different. Note that the OP implied the famine under Stalinism was directed against an particular ethnic group in the SU. My argument refutes that. You
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by osipov 13y ago
Have you ever read "The Grapes of Wrath"? Did Stalin cause the famine in the United States? It is purposeful selective attention to call out the terrible famine in the Ukraine in the 1930. My ancestors died of the same famine in R
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by osipov 13y ago
...and in the morning to all the boots on the ground

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