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by vkazanov 10y ago
I believe this is true for all organisations implying hierarchy, explicit (big enterprises) or implicit (as in hacker communities): some people join the ranks only to be able to enjoy domination at the top of the pyramid.
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by vkazanov 10y ago
You should probably check out the "Evolutionary Game Design" book, which does exactly that. The resulting game, Yavalath, was actually published and is indeed quite nice.
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by vkazanov 11y ago
So much for difference between US/UK and, say, China.
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by vkazanov 11y ago
True. Losses in "Afgan" (Russian slang name of the country) weren't too high (15k either killed or died from wounds), even compared to American losses in Vietnam (58k KIA), and technically there were no major battles lost. Vi
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by vkazanov 11y ago
You don't know any not because there weren't any, but because in the end nobody remembers propaganda. In the beginning the society didn't take the war too seriously, it took ten more years for the anti-war movement to gain st
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by vkazanov 11y ago
Yeah, Vietnamese had no Hollywood to force their point of view onto the global society. I lived in Hanoi for two years, and been attending a local climbing club. A friend of mine, an American climber, once shared his thoughts on the war, an
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by vkazanov 11y ago
I should have just bought a Thinkpad :-) It's the Infinity display + preinstalled Linux that caught my attention.
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by vkazanov 11y ago
Yeah, the worst Linux laptop I had in years: 1) the touchpad never worked; 2) the keyboard still has problems; 3) some of the more important programs look just horrible on Linux, as the resolution is just too high; 4) sometimes WiFi just do
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by vkazanov 11y ago
Just a note: there was no such state as "Russia" back then. The whole region was a number a big and small duchies left after the fall of the older feudal state, Kievan Rus'. Later, by the end of the 15-th century, most of the
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by vkazanov 11y ago
I don't know much about Mongols in Central Europe, so probably true: they were far away from the steppes, probably lacked siege machines, etc. Also, in the lands of Rus' stone fortifications were a very rare thing - there's a
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by vkazanov 11y ago
"Huge, flat battlefieds" were a norm everywhere. Medieval battles were ONLY possible on flat surfaces, as the main force of the time - heavy cavalry - requires that. Besides, Mongols completely plundered Rus' and the Grand Du
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by vkazanov 11y ago
Interesting. Although this point of view might be a bit simplified, there's another example of a weapon, which was both relatively cheap to make - and really hard to use unless the whole society was built around the skills required to
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by vkazanov 11y ago
An excellent post, and a great blog for anybody interested in modern dynamic language implementations
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by vkazanov 11y ago
This is a well-known fact, actually. My math teacher in Lithuania mentioned that back in his days (50-s) it was practically impossible for a non-Jewish student to get into any math- or physics-related faculty: Jewish families had a very str
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by vkazanov 11y ago
...you completely misunderstand the reasons for those countries to grow their economies so fast. What is in common between S.Korea, China, post-war Japan and Germany? Democracy?
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Show HN: Elang, Small Python-Like Language for the Emacs VM(github.com)
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by vkazanov 11y ago
Neo-nazi? How so? You mistake nazis for nationalists, don't you..?
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by vkazanov 11y ago
Is that Pentagon asking for more money..? :-)
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by vkazanov 11y ago
Well... "Not happy" - depends on who you ask in Lithuania. My great grandmother was killed by nationalists near Zarasai. So her daughter - my grandmother - was brought up by relatives in Kaunas, and understandably never had any sy
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by vkazanov 11y ago
Surprise-surprise...