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by menato 7d ago
All these small details will be forgotten in less than a year. But association "Navier-Stokes -- OpenAI" will be part of the history. In my opinion, they are thinking about long term PR here.
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by menato 4mo ago
It is not exactly about programming language, but rather about architecture. It is the legacy of old constructions which requires refactoring.
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by menato 5mo ago
It was saved: https://github.com/asalber/books/blob/master/A%20Nanopass%20...
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by menato 12y ago
This is not an excuse for China's violation of natural human rights. I'm just putting some attention to idea that Tibet is probably not the most terrified-by-China territory, rather the other way round.
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by menato 12y ago
The idea of putting "Tibet" and "human rights" close to each other doesn't look very promising to me based on some historic observations of pre-China Tibet lifestyle http://masterok.livejournal.com/
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by menato 12y ago
This statement makes sense for some specific ethic systems. For instance, in almost all modern states there are ideas, which are shared by some majorities and considered unethical in Christian ethic system. But bad_user seems to imply ethic
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by menato 12y ago
> Even if the majority wants to suppress minority dissent (or do worse things to minorities), it's not the right thing to do. Let me follow your definition, say, in the case of Ancient Rome. There is a minority of masters and a majo
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China plans high-speed railway connection to USA (rt.com)
2 points by menato 12y ago|0 comments
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by menato 13y ago
Just for comparison: alternative photo set of same Kiev in the same time: http://tema.livejournal.com/1589937.html Photography is a great thing: with a proper selection one could change opinion of viewer pretty strong.
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by menato 13y ago
Khodorkovsky was prosecuted partly for his ambitions to move to politics.
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by menato 13y ago
There is some rather interesting interview with Vladimir (in russian), which shows a little of his underlying motivation: http://baaltii1.livejournal.com/198675.html http://baaltii1.livejournal.com/200269.ht
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by menato 13y ago
Not exactly :) If we suppose that entire economy (which is nearly 70,000,000$M) is expressed in bitcoins (there will be 20M of it), then each bitcoin would cost 3.5$M. Started from order of 4e-2, it is now traded around 4e2, so it have done
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by menato 13y ago
In Russia it's quite opposite: btc-e.com provides a number of convenient ways to withdraw fiat money.
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by menato 13y ago
I would like to add an instructive story of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignalina_Nuclear_Power_Plant there. It shows how new and profitable nuclear power plant was turned into a money-consuming hole by the political
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by menato 13y ago
Appreciation of reality in Russia is seriously depend on who you are. If you feel bad inside, it rather caused by your own personality.
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by menato 13y ago
It's counterintuitive, but now Russia is drifting away from its soviet past. Meanwhile western leaders start to understand that there is a good strategy with uniform democracy: play with envy (all this stuff "reach people should p
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by menato 13y ago
It is highly doubtful that goverments could plan a century ahead.
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by menato 13y ago
I meant you could be sued for public racial statements (corresp. gay propaganda). But you could talk about admissibility of such a statements.
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by menato 13y ago
These people didn't negotiate this meeting. This is the formal reason. Informal reason is that they are often organized by the institutions which funded by other countries, institutions, which aim is definitely not a prohibition of Rus
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by menato 13y ago
This is how law based states work, do you love it or not. I think appropriate analogy is anti-segragation laws in US.
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by menato 13y ago
Well, it could be so de jure in USA. But de facto we see opposite. Snowden mentioned unconstitutional violation of human rights of US citizen. And now he is hunted by US government, seriously hunted. Russia is way more open in this perspect
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by menato 13y ago
It doesn't make any sense. Gay propaganda is considered to be a crime and it is normal to restrict this crime. Meanwhile one could discuss is it correct to consider such a thing as a crime or not.
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by menato 13y ago
In what sense there is no freedom of speech in Russia?
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by menato 13y ago
Well, stereotypical appreciation of reality is the best cure against sudden amusement.
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by menato 13y ago
It's not exactly about parsing JS output: JS output is something which is dedicated for user of webpage. Ilands interface of site is something dedicated to search engine from the origin and helps to create a new layer between search en
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by menato 13y ago
It looks like Yandex intentions is similar to what JavaScript did to browsers. Initially browsers could just ask for a static content. Later some interactivity was added and sites changed from beeing a [content] entity to a [content, on-act