throw-away-8 | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?
Lisp machines.
Expert systems.
Functional languages: Scheme, Ocaml, etc.
Itanium.
OpenStack.
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throw-away-8 | 8 years ago | on: Translator's Note to the Odyssey
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.
throw-away-8 | 8 years ago | on: Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network (2008) [pdf]
Reselling Western goods such as jeans that weren't available in stores is a very different story.
throw-away-8 | 8 years ago | on: 6 best Russian vodkas
According to a friend who is a vodka expert, several years ago Flagman and Russian Standard were the best.
throw-away-8 | 8 years ago | on: Why Some Cultures Frown on Smiling (2016)
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.
throw-away-8 | 8 years ago | on: Why Some Cultures Frown on Smiling (2016)
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.
throw-away-8 | 8 years ago | on: A glut of PhDs who can’t find academic jobs
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.
throw-away-8 | 8 years ago | on: Photos of Soviet control rooms
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
throw-away-8 | 8 years ago | on: Levandowski started an AI religion non-profit in 2015
Sounds like a page from L. Ron Hubbard's playbook. The guy doesn't miss a step.
throw-away-8 | 8 years ago | on: For Shame: Why Americans Should Be Wary of Self-Esteem (1992)
So psychoanalysis is not dissimilar to a startup.
throw-away-8 | 8 years ago | on: When I asked Tinder for my data, it sent me 800 pages of my deepest secrets
Self-reported preferences and experimentally observed preferences are not the same.
throw-away-8 | 8 years ago | on: Russia used Facebook ads to exploit divisions over Black Lives Matter, Muslims
You should not wonder - they did. There is a reason Ambassador McFaul was so much shunned by Russia he had to be removed.
throw-away-8 | 8 years ago | on: Russia used Facebook ads to exploit divisions over Black Lives Matter, Muslims
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