osmsiberiano

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by osmsiberiano 13y ago
I think this is the direct consequence of the way IT is taught in many places. The guy was truly a researcher, a scientist. He was able at doing theoretical tasks well, and this is also an important work and good calling. But as I understan
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Criticism of Hyperloop from 2005(emdx.org)
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by osmsiberiano 13y ago
As a Russian citizen I can only add that in the same days Putin accepted the new digital copyright law, more severe than SOPA, lobbied by media corporations, allowing domains seisure (like the 3-letter agencies do in the US), and other ridi
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by osmsiberiano 13y ago
I'm glad to see this comment from a Brit, because it's exactly what I was telling to the Western friends for some time: formal procedures do not make democracy. (I think Iraq and Afganistan are clear examples.) It's a whole c
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by osmsiberiano 13y ago
There is a famous whistleblower now running in the elections for Moscow mayor office. And there are a lot of such people, although they haven't dug as deeply as Snowden. Unfortunately, the story here in the media has boiled down to int
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by osmsiberiano 13y ago
> Putin's government has been working constantly to undermine America's foreign influence Can you elaborate on that? Any concrete examples of how they were doing this? From the same Putin's regime we hear the same about th
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by osmsiberiano 13y ago
He _is_ cooperative. Inside, he claims we're under an attack of US spies or US propaganda, etc. But when it's time to act abroad, he is too weak to make anything substantial that would annoy the neocon US President. Just as Italy
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Ask HN: Those who have troubles orienteering, how do you orient outdoors?
1 points by osmsiberiano 13y ago|0 comments
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by osmsiberiano 13y ago
He was not just an inventor of the mouse, but of almost all things we use in development today: collaborative editors, video calls, hypertext, versioning. A Great Man he was.
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by osmsiberiano 14y ago
There's a nice book about positive attitude, "Bright Sided" by Barbara Ehrenreich (IIRC). Follows the history of positive thinking from the epoch of calvinism up until today. Will be useful to read for you.
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Videos of Chelyabinsk Meteor on Map. Photogrammetry Hackers Are Welcome(forum.openstreetmap.org)
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