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by paganel 2y ago
I was actually taught Analysis I and II in the former HQs of the Romanian Communist Party's Cadres Faculty (the infamous A250 classroom, for those that attended Computer Science school at Bucharest Politehnica), that was happening towa
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by paganel 2y ago
Is there any European alternative for Hacker News? And if yes, what's its URL/web address? Preferable in French or Italian, or maybe even German, which I wanted to learn for a long time and this would be a good enough motivation,
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by paganel 2y ago
Communism gave my parents and (younger) me free Education, free Healthcare and very cheap Housing, I don't care about its supposed totalitarianism, I just want that back, can I?
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by paganel 2y ago
The reactionary spirit among the Western technical elites never ceases to amaze me, it shouldn't by this point, but it still does.
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by paganel 2y ago
That means I’m nuts, or what? The OP was right, Yandex is way better compared to Google when searching for politically sensitive stuff, and they don’t seem to have that much of recency bias as the Google search index has, which I found to b
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by paganel 2y ago
From the video's comments: Comment from 9 years ago: "This man is worth 22.7 billion dollars" Comment from 1 year ago: "112 billion now" It's financial turtles all the way down, until it isn't.
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by paganel 2y ago
They’re already in prison, applying extra pain with no trial or anything like that is not very civilized, to the contrary.
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by paganel 2y ago
Long-Term Capital Management [1] was run by PHDs and Nobel laureates. And as far I understood you basically need to be at least at the PhD level in order to be a quaint on Wall Street, and for better or for worse Wall Street runs West'
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by paganel 2y ago
> there is more to an economy than manufacturing And what would that be? "Services"? The author tried to explain how that is basically a scam. And, getting back to our present, hobbes-ian world, services won't help you put
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by paganel 2y ago
It's all because of the crazy regulations and insane taxes that normal people have to pay in order to own a car, and not a refrigerator on wheels, that's the gist of it. Basically the laptop classes (all actual or wannabe EV-owner
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by paganel 2y ago
How can one “financially educate” himself out of the prices doubling in a matter of a few years? And that’s until we get to basic stuff like the cost of housing. Which is to say that neo-liberal patches like “you’re poor because you’re fina
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by paganel 2y ago
Nothing snarky about a guy worth $100 billion telling his minions that they should work for 60 hours per week, instead of the usual 40. Maybe he should remember from what country his parents came and what happened to the billionaires there.
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by paganel 2y ago
Because we’re cuckolds and a politically dead society. Also very old. After you’re passed the age of 40 you’re more interested from your pension is going to get paid for when the day will come, not in abstract things like “freedom” and what
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by paganel 2y ago
He's the got ear (and more) of the President of the United States at a time when the Executive Power in the US is the strongest it has ever been, if any "aspiring founder" sees that as a thing not to emulate then they should
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by paganel 2y ago
Maybe of the "liberal" Europeans techies are commenting on this American website and complaining about how bad America is, apparently with no self-awareness and how European governments and not only should boycott American stuff.
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Fiber-optic drone flew past civilians and later hit UA Pickup truck in Sudzha(old.reddit.com)
1 points by paganel 2y ago|0 comments
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by paganel 2y ago
Still a former elected president, isn't he?
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by paganel 2y ago
> Zelensky defeated Poroshenko And yet he still felt the need to start politically repressing Poroshenko with sanctions and branding him a traitor, that's the mark of having a dictator in command of things.
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by paganel 2y ago
Alphabet is working in tandem with the Ukrainian SBU? Interesting choice, just as the US President has called Zelensky a dictator (and for good reason, Poroshenko, the previous Ukrainian president, has basically said the same thing a few da
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by paganel 2y ago
> Remember the Arab Spring and how Twitter was hailed as a tool for the masses to fight against their oppressors? That was a pure US State Department/the Blob move, as soon as social media turned against them they were very quick in
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by paganel 2y ago
The defense was much more on point back in the ‘90s because the defenders were allowed to be more physical without fouls getting called left and right. Nowadays it’s all a travesty, you’ve got scoresheets like 145-135 and nobody blinks an e
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by paganel 2y ago
It may sound like a bad thing for the American citizens that cherish imperialism and for the compradors here in Eastern Europe who directly profit from said American imperialism, but for the rest of us, normal people (both in the US and in
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by paganel 2y ago
Just saw a social media post of a guy here from Romania going with his first generation Logan all the way to Eastern Siberia / Mongolia. Great cars.
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by paganel 2y ago
So this is the guy I have to swear at for the very regression tax of paid parking. I would say some strong words against him, but then he's already dead, and the damage he has caused is already done. At least the gentrifying middle-cla
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Unpacking FPV with Plastic Explosive Inside(old.reddit.com)
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by paganel 2y ago
Who knows? He might have been blonde-haired for all we know, after all the Duchy of Spoleto set up by the Lombards was also located in Central Italy. You can get an idea of that past Lombard presence from this map [1]: " Percentage of
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by paganel 2y ago
Also, "everybody" knows their zip-code/postal-code is mostly an American/British thing, I still remember my British former boss asking me about my zip-code about 20 years ago (I live in Romania, we were implementing the
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by paganel 2y ago
Why in God's name would I share my personal data with the authorities here in the EU?
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by paganel 2y ago
There is no use in staying "informed" in the current societal environment, there is no propaganda-free information floating around anymore, if there ever was. As long as one is aware of that basic fact then things will fall into l
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by paganel 2y ago
So you see nothing wrong with the Government paying the media that is supposed to be independent? For what it's the worth the NGOs supported by American institutions like USAID have been raising hell accompanied by cries of "democ

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