PerfectDlite

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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> Tu-144 flew before Concord. "The aircraft was introduced into passenger service on 1 November 1977, almost two years after Concorde, because of budget restrictions." Yes, they've managed to "overcame bourgeous West&
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
This is good, but I've asked about achievements "made in USSR" which ordinary people still use in their daily lives. Not sure that many people are using deciphered Mayan glyphs in their daily routines.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> There were no questions In Soviet Russia question marks aren't marking questions!
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
Sputnik was a proof of GPS concept? That's... amazing.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> excerpts from the magazine "Trud" from 13 June 1941 Those excerpts miraculously appeared only in 2013, when another wave of Russian nationalism sweeped over. Consider me suspicious. > Soviet scientists did a lot contributi
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
Ok, let's talk about scientific success in USSR. I'd like to see sources to lasers, microwave ovens and TVs which were invented by Soviets.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
So, GPS wasn't invented by Soviets and nobody is listening to Soviet radiobeats. What's your point then?
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> save on having to grind prescription glasses for people Are you implying that removing cornea and re-attaching it will be _cheaper_ than grinding prescription glasses?
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
And I'm still wondering about that mysterious Soviet microwave oven in 1941.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> The Obninsk power plant has been connected to a grid in 1954 Are you aware that Obninsk was a "closed" city and wasn't marked on the Soviet maps initially? So whole town was classified, among the power plant.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> Are there any? Yes. A lot. > Making iPhone copies will probably be prohibitively expensive, otherwise China will already make those in numbers. According to iPhone 7 teardown [0] there's 3x difference in components price and re
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> it's hard to defend the idea that nothing of value can be made there So you can provide examples of those "values"? But not mythical Soviet microwave ovens in 1941, please.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> And of course Russians perfected rocket technology way in XIX century, using solid rockets as a weapon. Russians? Not Chinese or British or Americans, but Russians? I'm amazed on number of Russian myths here.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
I've said "scientific achievements "made in USSR" which ordinary people still use in their daily lives" So, yes, basically - commercial achievements for ordinary people.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
Sure. Good luck trying to sell iPhone copies.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> The USSR's nuclear espionage helped their bomb project, but it was not essential. Definitely! They've steal US nuclear documents just for laughs, comrade!
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> Everyone's smartphone listens to radio beeps to geolocate Are you telling me that Soviets invented GPS?
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
Soft contact lenses were invented by Czech scientists. Synthetic diamonds were created by French chemist in 19th century.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
1. Lasers? Invented by Soviets? 2. Vladimir Zworykin was a Soviet scientist? Really? 3. First soviet nuclear power plant was highly classified. First commercial nuclear power plant was created in US. 4. Artificial heart - for a dog. Not for
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
For stealing Western tech? Look at glorious Soviet cars, for example. Now look at glorious Soviet massframe computers.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> F-117 stealth technology is based on research done in USSR That's like saying that all Soviet technology is based on research done in UK and France. You know: Newton, Lavoisier, Pascal, Boyle, Joule... > happily took a ride in
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> a lot of excellent engineers and scientist that worked on technology in USSR. Name me THREE scientific achievements "made in USSR" which ordinary people still use in their daily lives. No, AK machine gun will not do. And sput
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> That is probably why USSR had nuclear weapons Blueprints stolen from USA. > and space technology _borrowed_ (wink, wink) from Germans.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
What numerous factors are you talking about? Did they got a mention in emperor's address?
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
Yes. But if atomic bombs were mentioned as a reason for surrender, why you're calling it a myth?
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
Ю it disproves the myth (used to justify the atom bombs) that only being nuked forced them to consider surrender. How is this a myth if nukes were mentioned in emperor's address as a reason to surrender?
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> fashion on HN is to complain about the US at every opportunity -- even within an article about North Korea See "Whataboutism"
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> then ended up accepting the Japanese condition anyway What?? Japan was forced to accept Allies' condition.
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> The US response was to carpet bomb Japanese cities full of civilians, carpet bomb foreign cities held by Japan holding civilians and citizens of foreign nations, etc... then to top it off, they felt fully justified to drop two nuclear
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by PerfectDlite 9y ago
> The point of Wikileaks is to publish, after all. So how many anti-Putin materials were published there?

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