yakireev

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by yakireev 6y ago
> Trains are designed to serve city centers, and they do it well. Moving high speed train infrastructure to airports just for the sake of fliers would kill train experience for everyone else. Would it? If you ever visit Netherlands, take
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by yakireev 6y ago
> "my intake is content isn't based up on hate speech" > admits to posting a thinly veiled death wish for a government official on a public message board in the previous paragraph > is surprised when banned for it, f
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by yakireev 6y ago
Out of my head: * Obama: Libya (in ruins), Syria (in ruins) * Bush: Iraq (conquered, then partially reconquered back by ISIS), Afghanistan (yet another never-ending Afghan war) * Clinton: Serbia (ended up relatively OK, had to elect
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by yakireev 6y ago
Like the other guy said, that was not a war. The casualties were minimal, and Iran is still where it used to be. That was a scary moment indeed, but luckily nothing serious came out of it. Also, I'm quite surprised that someone else is
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by yakireev 6y ago
> More please? Like I said, I'm not his supporter, go ask them if you're actually interested. As a foreigner, I'd mention that he did not start any new wars around the globe, the first U.S. president since... Carter, I gue
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by yakireev 6y ago
> No, it wasn't about him, it was about the soldiers. It wasn't. But a bit of a context wouldn't hurt, right? Why did Koreans choose to return the remnants, out of the blue? You wouldn't have guessed it unless I told
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by yakireev 6y ago
> Maybe the reason you don't see anything positive about T where you describe is because there isn't a whole lot to say in that regard? Maybe. Or maybe not. How do I know? Not reddit, but I bookmarked this example a few years a
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by yakireev 6y ago
Go to /r/all and try to find the first pro-T. post and the first "orange man bad" post. If you don't find any pro-T. posts quickly, then this is your example. We know from the election results that about half of the
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by yakireev 6y ago
> they can do absolutely nothing to stop you from creating a competing community on the exact same website, leveraging the existing userbase. Admins can though. I see a recurring pattern of this in U.S. politics or politics-infested part
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by yakireev 6y ago
> But yeah, for every polite person in some isolated corner there were 50 screaming about politics on the front page. I checked the front page, and they're still screaming, with only difference between now and 2016 being the lack of
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by yakireev 6y ago
Honestly, I'd prefer if Whatsapp had some monetization. Because the current way of them making money is "belong to Facebook, give them all the data", and I don't like it.
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by yakireev 6y ago
> I live in place swarming with rich folks, both old rich and new rich, while being neither. Most of them live such boring lives it would be sad if I cared for them. I was half-expecting the next sentence to be "Sign up for my webin
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by yakireev 6y ago
"Windows telemetry can be easily disabled", you said, but what you're talking about is the opposite of easy, isn't it?
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by yakireev 6y ago
Harmful for whom? For common folks, who are trying to download a movie but get a virus instead - yes, very harmful. For the parties who have a say about the situation - not really: Google/Bing/DDG lose nothing (given that all sear
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by yakireev 6y ago
Same story BTW. I held back to Windows 7 for as long as it was feasible, and then switched to Linux. Was painful at first, but freedom has a price.
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by yakireev 6y ago
What? It's the opposite of this, in Windows 10 telemetry can not be disabled at all. All you get is a choice between "Basic" / "Enhanced" / "Full (recommended)" modes.
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by yakireev 6y ago
First, that wasn't a hyperbole. Second, you don't have to be a holocaust denier to be pro free speech, and the guy you're replying to probably isn't one. Holocaust denial is a very bad thing, why would you smear someone
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by yakireev 6y ago
Well, at least you learn that before paying for the book, not after, and it does not cost you a few hundred €. Airlines know exactly what they're doing, and the governments are looking the other way. Sad.
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by yakireev 6y ago
"No true Scotsman"
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by yakireev 6y ago
This is completely off-topic, but you either seriously overestimate the amount of censorship in Russian internet (which includes not only Russian citizens, but also Russian speakers elsewhere, of which there are many), or - more likely - se
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by yakireev 6y ago
> Facebook is not a 'communications infrastructure', is not a 'public square' and they have no obligation to do anything other than act lawfully De-facto it is both a 'communications infrastructure' and a &#
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by yakireev 6y ago
No, it isn't. Also, censorship is bad, and the fact that there's so much public demand for it nowadays is sickening. Even here at HN there are plenty of people who'd praise FB for this move.
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by yakireev 6y ago
The most recent example is probably Crimea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Crimea#Declaration...
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by yakireev 6y ago
iOS is literally the only major consumer OS which does not allow its users to install arbitrary software. I guess Hey would be happy not to use "services" of App Store and offer their users an installer to download or a link to so
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by yakireev 6y ago
Apple has a monopoly on distribution on their platform. There is no second competing distributor which "Spotify and likes" could do business with, neither they can do distributing themselves (as desktop software producers have bee
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by yakireev 6y ago
Actually, yes, there was a lack of ventilators in hospitals in my home country at some point. Luckily, not for long, as it's one of the countries which produces them. I can imagine that some of the neighbouring countries had it worse.
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by yakireev 6y ago
> Unlikely, as he has no need for it. Are you sure? PPE might be a bad example, but back in March rumours have been circulating in my home country about ultra-wealthy "private persons" buying ventilator equipment to be put in t
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by yakireev 6y ago
Please share a routine!
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by yakireev 7y ago
For the record: not to all nations. In Russia, a really cool technical university (Bauman's, PhysTech, some faculitis of MGU) will give you some advantage in the early stages of your IT career, but not that much. Source: am a dropout o
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by yakireev 7y ago
> Let's give everyone free food and housing too. They're even more important. Call it "social fair use." Yes, you're right. Let's do this. This is more or less what governments are supposed to do in the time

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