LordNight

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by LordNight 5y ago
Just an office clerk from Moscow. 1. Absolutely no one expected an actual war with Ukraine. When the first news in english press were published (in November I think) about the coming war between Russia and Ukraine, everyone I know just simp
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by LordNight 5y ago
Isn't it a paraphrase of Bertrand Russell? "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt" — from The Triumph of Stupidity, 1933.
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by LordNight 5y ago
>The constant nonsense UI redesigns that come about with every new update. The instability, and ridiculous resources consumption. The slowness and slugishness. >I want a browser that works, respects my privacy, stays out of my way and
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by LordNight 5y ago
Goodreads has been around for ~15 years now and it's still lacking the basic search functions. E.g. I'd would like to see a list of books published in 1965 in Science Fiction genre with at least 1000 votes, sorted by the number of
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by LordNight 6y ago
>Spotify and co have obliterated music piracy on the internet. It's hard to find torrents for music these days and even the best private trackers can't compete with Spotifys ever growing catalog. Eh? Maybe it depends on a music
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by LordNight 6y ago
It's very niche but Philharmonie de Paris has some brilliant visualized analysis of some classical music scores. For example: https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100008800/defaul... https:/&#x2F
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by LordNight 6y ago
Besides yandex there are also rambler.ru (less popular, but even older) and mail.ru dic.academic.ru allows you to search through several dozens encyclopedias. And bigenc.ru adds onother one (the largest and the most recent). fantlab.ru is t
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by LordNight 6y ago
I am a casual internet user and have no connection to IT industry, but i've been using Firefox practically since the very beginning - I installed v. 1.0.0 back in 2004. It's main selling points for me were: 1) it wasn't IE; 2
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Rick Roderick on John Stuart Mill's on Liberty (1990)(youtube.com)
1 points by LordNight 6y ago|0 comments
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by LordNight 6y ago
Well, to the best of my knowledge, these are nice additions to my list of recommendations :-) 1. I agree, that final scene in An American in Paris is just mindblowing (for the lack of a better word). I've seen it at least 20 times and
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by LordNight 6y ago
Although I am an avid reader and have been reading on average 1 or 2 books each week for the past 15 years, I don't think I've ever read a book than "changed my life". Looking back, I think the most impactfull book for m
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by LordNight 6y ago
Well, I myself is an avid concert goer (before Covid at least) and I probably know more about classical music than I do about classical cinema :-) Although I mostly prefer music written c. 1900-1950 rather than Beethoven or his contemporari
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by LordNight 6y ago
Ok, I'll try, but keep in mind, that there were a lot of well known films that I didn't lile (for example, I didn't like any film with Katharine Hepburn in it; although i've tried it three times, I've never finished
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by LordNight 6y ago
No, obviously out of ~300 films produced in 30s and 40s each year, 90% or more were dross. What I've meant is: 1. The best films of this period far surpassed my expectations from the technical point of view. And there were a lot of dec
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by LordNight 6y ago
>A lot of people watch it with no background knowledge and subsequently don’t quite understand the “best film ever” label, but Citizen Kane is indeed a fantastic film. Just read about Orson Welles first. Interesting. About 10 years ago I
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by LordNight 6y ago
It's actually much easier. Some time ago YouTube added a new tab 'Watch history'. You can open it and manually delete any 'junk' videos from your history with just one click. Algorithm changes accordingly, I've
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by LordNight 6y ago
Isn't it essencially Karl Marx XIth thesis? "Philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways. What is crucial, however, is to change it."
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The Tyranny of Bad Journalism (1917)(en.wikisource.org)
3 points by LordNight 6y ago|0 comments
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by LordNight 6y ago
The correct command is -inurl:pinterest. Additionally, for those, who likes to add reddit in the search query, i'd also like to recommend " inurl:forum OR inurl:board " (note also that forum and forums gives different results