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by thriftwy 3y ago
Lebedev's design bureau had hanging punctuation since 2005. https://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/120/ Not submitting this one since it is light on technical details.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I disagree, they have some stuff to think through, even if they're not as shiny as the first one. Perhaps he did himself a disservice by showing all he's got at the very begining of the series, though. That stuff has the Star Wars
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The bad side of MS was pretty bad with SCO case and VFAT patents and OfficeXML.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It's way behind of population growth since new construction is going on like crazy. Still better than nothing and important places became accessible, such as 300 years anniversary park with its waterfront. Also shaved 30-40 minutes fro
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by thriftwy 3y ago
A ring is an important traffic egress/ingress source. More often than not, your destination is directly on the ring and you're not using it to make two connections, just one is sufficient. Moscow inner ring has around the same num
756.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Yes, the Metro trains were chock full (think Tokyo), and you could only board a train if it skipped Vykhino if you needed to do so on some later station. I don't think it is possible to be physically unable to enter the train in 2023 (
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I think you are too harsh on the Russian railway - it did carry a lot of people on their daily commute from their satellite towns to Moscow. The schedule is also quite reliable. It wasn't used much for intra-Moscow travel due to the
758.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I guess you've not experienced the Metro (and Vykhino effect) around 2003 if you think it is over capacity now . It is a cakewalk now. I, too, dislike the new connections, and the lack thereof, but the speed with which the new lines s
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by thriftwy 3y ago
At one point (for quite long actually) you could ride local trains to go from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok. It would take a month, though.
760.
by thriftwy 3y ago
It is a very advanced book from literary standpoint. The new wave is now an "old" wave with all the weird stuff, but Niven would read as fresh today as back in the 70s.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Weird that it does not have the route map of the expansions - see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris_Express Speaking about rings, Moscow metro now has three of these.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
There's no Mote In God's Eye... It seems to match the time frame and it's one of the best books known to me.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> The XPAK 400, translated from Martian, means air car When my daughter was five, she also enjoyed translating all kinds of nonsense words from Martian and back.
764.
by thriftwy 3y ago
The obviously fun takeaway would be that if we put North Korea as a 9 on the Dear Leader scale, and USSR under Stalin at 8, then the USA will rate 4 its President cult, and that would be much higher than the rest of Western world. Is that a
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by thriftwy 3y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2aZU2jhNE for the song referenced in the article.
766.
by thriftwy 3y ago
That anxiety is because you're living in a country which did not see bad stuff happening in it for a long time. Other places (from Europe downhill to places such as Syria and Iraq) had really bad stuff happening, and it is known that p
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> globally There is no longer such thing in 2023. Try to do anything "globally" and get ridiculed out by China and Russia. Rest of the team being AFK. That's especially significant in light of pretending there's a &qu
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories Regular Russian credit and debit cards‡ now work there, thanks to the magic of NSPK. I don't think Crypto had any significant market share there. ‡ Including the ones which were previously br
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The latest claim sounds disingenous. I'm too painfully aware that no partitions of USSR were redone with regards of actual ethnic occupancy (especially when talking about Russians, that's Serbs in case of Yugoslavia). So all the n
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I thought what drove Serbs to war was the Bosniak's desire to create a Muslim state and treat everybody else (Serbs, Croats) as second class citizens; and the Kosovar Albanians desire to create Albanian ethnostate and treat everybody e
771.
by thriftwy 3y ago
That's a civil war. People die on all sides and lose their homes. In Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian population was so sure of its upcoming fate that it packed its bags and left as one, in about two weeks period. Bosniaks just considere
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It is difficult to all sides of the conflict to return to their homes while being dead. This is why fuel should not be put in the fire of ethnic civil wars. By encouraging your party of preference to score a win you encourage the other part
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Not many has died, but they have all left and have no hope to ever return to their homes. Contrast that to Balkans where a lot of people already returned to their homes, and way more could return if the hatred could be held in check, to whi
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> the Serbian ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats We've just seen a massive, 150k people ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh and nobody in the whole world went so far as lifting a finger to stop it. Except Russia
775.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I know only a couple of non-ferry scheduled passenger boats (no car deck) and half of these are easily hydrofoils. I guess that depends on the region, though.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
They will not have to work with relativistic effects. Nobody is going to fly faster than 0.1C. It is prohibitively expensive energy-wise and there is no point of doing that. Just accelerate to 0.01C, and arrive at the neighbouring system in
777.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Boats are, in general, an unpopular way to carry passengers these days, and of those, hydrofoils have a significant share. It's debatable whereas anything ense has "taken off" if hydrofoils didn't.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I was seeing these Napoleonic depictions of artillery piece being transported on a donkey's back and never stopped wondering if they ever tried to fire directly from that poor donkey's back.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
China loaning USD to Africa is even better for the US. They get to consume the equivalent of that amount of cash - it will not be redeemed for some time now.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
They will lose employees and will have to offer more to the new ones. The state will stop bleeding so much cash.

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