Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma...
by Bost on Sunday July 24, 2022 @05:41AM
(#32211788)
In Russia, losses up to 4% are fine.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma...
by cpursley on Sunday July 24, 2022 @06:44AM
(#32212106)
Bigotry is against hn policies.
[dead]
Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma...
by cpursley on Sunday July 24, 2022 @07:29AM
(#32212386)
Are you suggesting that since Russia has a position on gays that you don't agree with, bigotry and hatred of Russia is justified?
Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma...
by Intermernet on Sunday July 24, 2022 @07:51AM
(#32212539)
Bigotry, no. Hatred, perhaps (it depends on how much it effects you personally). Criticism, certainly.
Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma...
by thorncorona on Sunday July 24, 2022 @07:42AM
(#32212473)
Yep, you can have a distaste for a country because of its backwards laws.
Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma...
by cpursley on Sunday July 24, 2022 @08:25AM
(#32212763)
Regarding your Edit:
Really? Guilt by association, purity test questions and projection/assumptions towards me?
Speaking of fascist attitudes...
[dead]
Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma...
by cpursley on Sunday July 24, 2022 @12:35PM
(#32215052)
I haven't answered you because I'm afraid, but because you're way off topic & behaving like a bully.
The last time I was there, even the Russian airport security interrogators were more polite than you...
Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma...
by mdp2021 on Sunday July 24, 2022 @06:52AM
(#32212163)
Any reference?
Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma...
by Etheryte on Sunday July 24, 2022 @07:09AM
(#32212260)
This is a common saying or trope with the number varying to a degree. The original version I know of is that in the Soviet military it was an acceptable loss to lose two people out of a hundred during a regular training operation.
Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma...
by mdp2021 on Sunday July 24, 2022 @08:26AM
(#32212767)
Some may have put a number somewhere, but the general idea is not unique. And of course, there is that """detail""": «during a regular /training/ operation». This is the humour of Crock (Bill Rechin, Brant Parker and Don Wilder): «Losing fourteen men on patrol bothering you Poulet? You are thinking of bettering it, but we do not have twenty-eight to spare».
More to the glacial reality, it is said that the notorious dictator who made the move in '39, once presented with a report of particularly heavy losses, after a pause said "After all, this is what the young are for". Some people can have so debatable ideas.
Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma...
by lotusmars on Sunday July 24, 2022 @05:52AM
(#32211838)
There is a quote attributed to Zhukov, Stalin’s army general:
“No sparing soldiers, women will give birth to more of them!”
Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma...
by KuiN on Sunday July 24, 2022 @06:46AM
(#32212120)
This is a falsely attributed quote. There's zero record of Zhukov (or anyone, particularly none of the various people this quote has been attributed to) saying this. It's a lazy stereotype of the CCCP's strategy during WWII and absolutely incorrect.
Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma...
by lotusmars on Sunday July 24, 2022 @02:57PM
(#32216502)
Yet it is still valid for their strategy during the invasion of Ukraine.
They don’t need sophisticated weaponry or artillery. Just a slow push until the opponent is exhausted.
Losses are irrelevant: they can always be hidden or denied because you control media.