throw-away-8

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by throw-away-8 9y ago
Lisp machines. Expert systems. Functional languages: Scheme, Ocaml, etc. Itanium. OpenStack.
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by throw-away-8 9y ago
What would the things of Troy, be to you, Achaeans, without Helen? Insomnia. Homer. Taut canvas. Half the catalogue of ships is mine: that flight of cranes, long stretched-out line, that once rose, out of Hellas. To an alien land, like a ph
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by throw-away-8 9y ago
Reselling Western goods such as jeans that weren't available in stores is a very different story.
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by throw-away-8 9y ago
According to a friend who is a vodka expert, several years ago Flagman and Russian Standard were the best.
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Understanding Russia(newrepublic.com)
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by throw-away-8 9y ago
Nice try but not at all: governments come and go while cultures have a much longer lifetime. Witness "grim and gloomy" russians under prescriptive eternally optimistic communist dictatorship. I think those folks that downvoted my
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by throw-away-8 9y ago
Same question in a mirror: why some cultures promote phoniness and avoid true feelings? Actually I wonder why some cultures are prone to inflicting genocide.
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by throw-away-8 9y ago
What does an education system have to do with academics? It makes way more sense when educators provide education and education managers run the system.
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by throw-away-8 9y ago
Soviet mission control center: (1973+) http://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/energia46-96/357-1.jpg (1980) http://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/energia46-96/357-2.jpg
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by throw-away-8 9y ago
Sounds like a page from L. Ron Hubbard's playbook. The guy doesn't miss a step.
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by throw-away-8 9y ago
So psychoanalysis is not dissimilar to a startup.
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by throw-away-8 9y ago
Self-reported preferences and experimentally observed preferences are not the same.
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by throw-away-8 9y ago
You should not wonder - they did. There is a reason Ambassador McFaul was so much shunned by Russia he had to be removed.
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by throw-away-8 9y ago
http://silentcircle.co.uk/zero-hedge-hacked-emails-confirm-n... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard