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Re:Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm ...
on Friday November 17, 2017 @02:42AM (#15719943)
Lisp machines.
Expert systems.
Functional languages: Scheme, Ocaml, etc.
Itanium.
OpenStack.
Re:Translator's Note to the Odyssey
on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:25PM (#15649290)
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 phalanx of cranes – Foam of the gods on the heads of kings – Where do you sail? What would the things of Troy, be to you, Achaeans, without Helen? The sea, or Homer – all moves by love’s glow. Which should I hear? Now Homer is silent, and the Black Sea thundering its oratory, turbulent, and, surging, roars against my pillow.
Re:Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network (...
on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @02:27PM (#15604091)
Reselling Western goods such as jeans that weren't available in stores is a very different story.
Re:6 best Russian vodkas
on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @11:11PM (#15398029)
According to a friend who is a vodka expert, several years ago Flagman and Russian Standard were the best.
Re:Why Some Cultures Frown on Smiling (2016)
on Sunday October 01, 2017 @09:19PM (#15381031)
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 comment had a different idea and, perhaps, felt it's too close to home for comfort.
Re:Why Some Cultures Frown on Smiling (2016)
on Sunday October 01, 2017 @07:39PM (#15380567)
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.
Re:A glut of PhDs who can’t find academic jobs
on Sunday October 01, 2017 @07:31PM (#15380537)
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.
Re:Photos of Soviet control rooms
on Friday September 29, 2017 @08:35PM (#15370423)
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
Re:Levandowski started an AI religion non-profit in 2015
on Thursday September 28, 2017 @11:52AM (#15358078)
Sounds like a page from L. Ron Hubbard's playbook. The guy doesn't miss a step.
Re:For Shame: Why Americans Should Be Wary of Self-Esteem (1992)
on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @04:54PM (#15352254)
So psychoanalysis is not dissimilar to a startup.
Re:When I asked Tinder for my data, it sent me 800 pages of my deepest...
on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @10:30AM (#15338945)
Self-reported preferences and experimentally observed preferences are not the same.
Re:Russia used Facebook ads to exploit divisions over Black Lives Matt...
on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:34PM (#15335508)
You should not wonder - they did. There is a reason Ambassador McFaul was so much shunned by Russia he had to be removed.