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by face 16y ago
I think it's relevant to point out that this is not a news article written by a reporter; it is an opinion piece written by someone who has a very specific viewpoint. This is not ad hominem, I am not claiming anything about the correctness
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by face 16y ago
Perhaps you are thinking of a "Relational Database"?
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by face 16y ago
Why this is being downmodded is beyond me. Edit: seriously, the parent's explanation is reasonable, well stated and relevant to the discussion.
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by face 16y ago
And are those all of the things that were built, created in the USSR at the time? To the extent that it allows you to claim that "The Soviet Union was quite literally built on slave labor?" Were they even a fraction of a percent? You seem
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by face 16y ago
If it's the famine in Ukraine [1] that you are talking about, absolutely. But, are you saying that it was done as part of industrialization? My great grandfather was one of the peasants you describe (his land was taken away). Although the
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by face 16y ago
Heh, I've heard that argument before, my family and everyone I knew was "elite" somehow. No, we were certainly not. Or are you saying my problem is being Jewish? Sergei Brin, who you mention, was his family also shot? If you applied for
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by face 16y ago
Saying something very contrary to the establishment always had consequences (and still has, even in the US). Under Stalin, the consequences were lethal. At other times, plenty of people disagreed with the establishment and were just fine.
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by face 16y ago
So, it's fine to jail millions, as long as they're people who sell or smoke pot and not people who you consider important?
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by face 16y ago
Wikipedia says the Great Purges had over a million and a half victims, with close to seven hundred thousand shot. This was in the 1930s under Stalin. USSR has more history than that; when I lived there, no one I knew was shot, no one was e
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by face 16y ago
In the 80s, I went on field trips to learn how to plant vegetables. This was hardly slave labor. In the 90s in the US, I had to spend 40 hours "campaigning" for candidates, if I wanted to graduate highschool. I wouldn't really call that s
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by face 16y ago
The US jails far more people today than the USSR ever managed to. It seems to be working out okay for us.
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by face 16y ago
Totalitarian societies have existed for thousands of years in Europe. Socialism seems to be pretty popular in the US (Medicare, SS) and seems to be working out okay in EU.
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by face 16y ago
Can you back your claims up? In particular, say, the Trans-Siberian railroad? Its construction began in 1891, two decades before the formation of the USSR [1]. While certainly prisoners were used in its construction, saying that it was "b
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by face 16y ago
Are these reports from first hand experience or can you site your sources? In particular, I'm curious how you'll back up the "but a notable part of it was due to decreasing the number of people as well," considering USSR's population grew d
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by face 16y ago
Amazing that the propaganda campaign has been so successful that people make idiotic statements like that.
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by face 16y ago
This sort of propaganda bullshit is popular in the US. That's like saying the US was built on slave and prison labor. Sure, they contributed, but, at what scale?
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by face 16y ago
The Soviet Union shot you and your family if you tried to leave? Huh, that didn't happen to me or my family. Or any other person I know. I guess it's popular to spout bullshit like that though.
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by face 16y ago
I'm glad that there are at least some people on HN who still understand the type of company Microsoft really is.
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by face 16y ago
Kind of like how I cannot watch netflix on my linux machine, despite mono and moonlight?
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by face 16y ago
So does everyone. Now they'll use less of it.
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by face 16y ago
I've never had those problems that you mention with Chrome or Firefox. On the other hand, I've had a lot of fun cleaning up Vundo and other malware due to the use of IE.
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by face 16y ago
They remain on top due to anti-competitive and monopolistic business practices (for which they were convicted of), as well as other business tactics such numerous Linux/FOSS FUD, patent trolling, etc. Certainly not due to the quality of th
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by face 16y ago
I have met some of their engineers. There is a lot of bureaucracy and politics. There is innovation (microsoft research is great), but, considering their resources, it is not really all that impressive. I've met some sharp developers, bu
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by face 16y ago
I agree with the rest of your point entirely.
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by face 16y ago
An Xbox 360 has a 3.2GHz Xenon (three cores) and 512Mbs of ram [1]. Saying that it has the power of a supercomputer is a bit of a stretch (by about three orders of magnitude, #500 on the top500 list has five thousand cores [2]). [1] http:
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by face 16y ago
Not to mention that usually the second part is left out, where he actually warns people that Google might be legally obligated to provide some information to the authorities.
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by face 16y ago
This is just a few quotations taken out of context. It seems that it's been particularly popular to do this with Schmidt lately; I wonder why that is.
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by face 16y ago
I do not think he is arguing against property rights. I think that forms of anarchy allow for property rights and other individual liberties.
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by face 16y ago
The difference is, Azure locks you into a closed platform.