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by romwell 4y ago
I'm saying that a catastrophic decomposition through a coup that left most of the Soviet apparatchiks in power (Lukashenko, Yeltsin/Putin, etc) is barely better than nothing at all. The problems it caused to people in Russia, Ukra
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by romwell 4y ago
I was trying to say that there was a way forward for the Cold War to end without the dissolution of the USSR — not that it'd be great for the occupied countries (or people of USSR in general) for USSR to continue existing. The dissolut
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by romwell 4y ago
Some did, some didn't, the way it happened. The Cold War wasn't a good thing, but it didn't have to end with the dissolution of the USSR, and the dissolution of the USSR didn't have to end with a coup, followed by chaos,
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by romwell 4y ago
Yeah right, because the USSR had never before gone through hardship, and it's the "bankruptcy" that led to ousting of Gorbachev in a coup after his reforms (including a de-facto Prohibition, in Russia of all places!). Let&#x2
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by romwell 4y ago
There's no way that comment wasn't sarcasm, right?
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by romwell 4y ago
Which work uniform? Last I've heard, the employment contract of the workers in question specified no such thing. Care to elaborate?
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by romwell 4y ago
He is. And just like every free speech absolutist I've seen, it's about free speech for him .
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by romwell 4y ago
Never heard of? Come on! It's the most interesting thing yet to happen in desktop computing.
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by romwell 4y ago
Sure, I don't disagree with you here. Climate control should be dedicated buttons. There's a place for middle ground though: sequences of button presses. For instance, keying in 1-3-4 to enable this or that feature (where the butt
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by romwell 4y ago
Well, certainly having some buttons with context dependence is still better than having touch screens. Also, hard no to "just as bad". I have no issue with volume control buttons also being camera triggers on my phone, for examp
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by romwell 4y ago
>I am still not sure this search even makes sense. It seems to rely on an assumption that some traveller will compare Koh Lanta with some location in Croatia Well exactly. If anyone ever mentioned Koh Lanta in their review of Croatian de
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by romwell 4y ago
>This is a near impossible query for human beings As is every query that we need computers for (e.g., a SELECT query that goes over millions of records). On the other hand, expecting a search engine to find pages which at least mention
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by romwell 4y ago
Yes, it's decent human decency. And yet, most commentors here would want you to respect such a person. Welcome to HN.
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by romwell 4y ago
> Are we not allowed to talk about a problem if some greater problem also exists? Being facetious, are we? Talking about petty nuisances related to trying to solve the greater problem while not even mentioning what the greater problem
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by romwell 4y ago
"Belief" that there's something wrong with the fact that you might spend your entire career in academia and never see a Black mathematics professor who was born and educated in the US. It's a very radical concept for man
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by romwell 4y ago
Ah yes, diversity statments are the real problem in academia. Not, say, 10:1 PhD student to position ratio. Or exploitation. Or the visa slavery (accept all the crap, or get kicked out of the country you've been toiling for over the
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by romwell 4y ago
Dilbert, sadly, has gone full cuckoo. (That's to say, Scott Addams, the comic's author, went deep into la-la-land, and never came back).
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by romwell 4y ago
It was, and let's keep pretending like the Russian invasion of Ukraine has nothing to do with that (or other tech news about Russia).
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by romwell 4y ago
People in this thread: unlimited means what I want it to mean, and today, it means "limited". Why, that's just how the world works! People who own dictionaries: this is a completely idiotic line of thinking. By which I mean
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by romwell 4y ago
Yeah, and that's better than lying about the guarantees.
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by romwell 4y ago
Well that's nonsense. Words have meanings for a reason. The meaning of the word "unlimited" is not , in fact, "limited, but we won't tell you what the limit is — you'll get to find it out the hard way". W
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by romwell 4y ago
Russian Chess has, and always has been, a tool in their international politics. As is any sport on a national level. The war has affected Russia's ability to participate in sports on the international level. The war has relevance to th
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by romwell 4y ago
One doesn't buy a gun with the intention to kill someone either — deterrence is a commonly cited reason for gun ownership. And if every car owner decided they were going to step outside and run over someone, millions will be dead. Vehi
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by romwell 4y ago
You're almost correct. HN isn't the website for this kind of article . Highlighting the context of the content (which the article carefully omitted) is what HN is all about. Russian tech is used to murder people in my country. It
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by romwell 4y ago
Since we're on that note, Russia is openly oppressive to queer people. It's illegal to say anything in public that suggests it's acceptable to be gay after a recent change in "gay propaganda" laws. Ramzan Kadyrov, t
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by romwell 4y ago
The fact that the article and the discussion are ignoring the war, which is the elephant in the room. Discussing Russian tech and status symbols (like chess-playing robots) is giving that pariah state a veneer of legitimacy it may not have
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by romwell 4y ago
So far
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To be fair, citation needed. 33% of American households own firearms; and there are far, far more firearms owned than cars[1]. Even assuming 100% car ownership, the statement that cars kill people at 33% efficiency of tools whose sole purp
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by romwell 4y ago
Yup, and that's worst-case quadratic in number of links (symlinks and hardlinks). It's still weird they didn't do a hashmap.
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by romwell 4y ago
>Somewhat like how if cars were invented today they'd be deemed insanely dangerous. The cars we have today are insanely dangerous . Cars kill about as many people as guns in the US. That's to say, they are as effective in kill

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