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But over the phone you have to talk to a person. When I use an app, it's not because I want to save time. It's because I want to avoid having to talk to people. English is a second…

A poor translation. From Russian wikipedia [1]: """ Competent authorities are executive authorities endowed with jurisdiction and power to perform any specific tasks (“competence” …

> this is comparable to bad flu year Maybe he means the Spanish flu /s

Next you'll be asking whether lockdowns caused more harm than good. Oh-oh. I think we are 10 years too early for that particular discussion. This is a fascinating topic, though, an…

My impression was that the extra hours are due to the factories being on a 24/7 uninterrupted production cycle. Having people work 12 hour shifts instead of 8 reduces the headcount…

"Horseradish" aside (lol) my favorite Russian euphemism for this is: "[I] spun [this] on my dick" (на хую вертел). Spun as in "to spin", "to rotate", "to twirl." The imagery is a b…

"Horseradish" is a euphemism for "dick." Whatever translation tool he was using didn't pick up on it ;/

This is a nice tool. I wonder, if with some additional bells and whistles, like machine translation, bookmarking, and tag search, this could be a product people would be willing to…

"These people don’t last long and I have gotten pretty good at screening out this personality in interviews after having it cause huge issues at two different places I worked." Wel…

Well, for one, the US government prevents private actors from buying all sorts of things. I am surprised that selling tools which potentially "enable cyber crime" hasn't triggered …

Who buys this stuff? Other things in the shop: > Screen Crab: This covert inline screen grabber sits between HDMI devices - like a computer and monitor, or console and television -…

"The 'publish or perish' mentality makes it easier to put blinders on when faced with something that's inconvenient." I'd like to provide a competing take on this. In my experience…

I am still using a MacBook Pro from 2013. The battery doesn't hold charge as well anymore (down to ~2-3 hours), and I had to replace the rubber feet at the bottom of the case, but …

You are right. We do need systematic trials to confidently makes statements like the one I made. Thank you for pointing out the error in my logic.

Russia isn't the only country to have trialed Sputnik. From a recent Nature article (July 2021) titled "Mounting evidence suggests Sputnik COVID vaccine is safe and effective" [1]:…

Perhaps, I am a bit naive, but what qualifies as insider trading? If I work at a company, I am bound to know things that are not public knowledge. This means that any trade I make …

"This doesn’t even include the costs... " that the locals paid. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/ I am sure Brown exaggerates the number of people killed and displaced, but even…

This sounds like something from a sci-fi novel. The only tangible new thing in production is the Angara heavy rocket that will replace Protons. It's an actual thing that exists and…

Here is a piece of commentary from a Russian insider covering the launch of Nauka, but not the docking, in Russian [1]. There was a litany of smaller issues with the launch, probab…

I am curious as to how you would remove us from the ISS. A third of the pressurized modules on the ISS are Russian [1]. Do we just take them with us when we leave? How do we achiev…

I dunno what the author meant, but probably alluding to the fact that the electricity powering your EV comes from a plant burning fossil fuels. I've been curious about this topic f…

"well developed economically (punching far above its tiny weight)" I am being a nitpicker here, but I think there is no correlation between country size and level of economic devel…

I have not been to Japan, but I have read several fairly detailed accounts coming from multiple travel bloggers. One thing they all pointed out is that Japan is full of what by our…

WoW has been my main game since I was a teenager, and for the past decade it's been lurching up (Legion) and down (WoD), but mostly down (BFA, SL). It seems like Blizzard is out of…