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I think it's relevant to point out that this is not a news article written by a reporter; it is an opinion piece written by someone who has a very specific viewpoint. This is not a…

Perhaps you are thinking of a "Relational Database"?

Why this is being downmodded is beyond me. Edit: seriously, the parent's explanation is reasonable, well stated and relevant to the discussion.

And are those all of the things that were built, created in the USSR at the time? To the extent that it allows you to claim that "The Soviet Union was quite literally built on slav…

If it's the famine in Ukraine [1] that you are talking about, absolutely. But, are you saying that it was done as part of industrialization? My great grandfather was one of the pea…

Heh, I've heard that argument before, my family and everyone I knew was "elite" somehow. No, we were certainly not. Or are you saying my problem is being Jewish? Sergei Brin, who y…

Saying something very contrary to the establishment always had consequences (and still has, even in the US). Under Stalin, the consequences were lethal. At other times, plenty of p…

So, it's fine to jail millions, as long as they're people who sell or smoke pot and not people who you consider important?

Wikipedia says the Great Purges had over a million and a half victims, with close to seven hundred thousand shot. This was in the 1930s under Stalin. USSR has more history than tha…

In the 80s, I went on field trips to learn how to plant vegetables. This was hardly slave labor. In the 90s in the US, I had to spend 40 hours "campaigning" for candidates, if I wa…

The US jails far more people today than the USSR ever managed to. It seems to be working out okay for us.

Totalitarian societies have existed for thousands of years in Europe. Socialism seems to be pretty popular in the US (Medicare, SS) and seems to be working out okay in EU.

Can you back your claims up? In particular, say, the Trans-Siberian railroad? Its construction began in 1891, two decades before the formation of the USSR [1]. While certainly pris…

Are these reports from first hand experience or can you site your sources? In particular, I'm curious how you'll back up the "but a notable part of it was due to decreasing the num…

Amazing that the propaganda campaign has been so successful that people make idiotic statements like that.

This sort of propaganda bullshit is popular in the US. That's like saying the US was built on slave and prison labor. Sure, they contributed, but, at what scale?

The Soviet Union shot you and your family if you tried to leave? Huh, that didn't happen to me or my family. Or any other person I know. I guess it's popular to spout bullshit like…

I'm glad that there are at least some people on HN who still understand the type of company Microsoft really is.

Kind of like how I cannot watch netflix on my linux machine, despite mono and moonlight?

So does everyone. Now they'll use less of it.

I've never had those problems that you mention with Chrome or Firefox. On the other hand, I've had a lot of fun cleaning up Vundo and other malware due to the use of IE.

They remain on top due to anti-competitive and monopolistic business practices (for which they were convicted of), as well as other business tactics such numerous Linux/FOSS FUD, p…

I have met some of their engineers. There is a lot of bureaucracy and politics. There is innovation (microsoft research is great), but, considering their resources, it is not reall…

I agree with the rest of your point entirely.

An Xbox 360 has a 3.2GHz Xenon (three cores) and 512Mbs of ram [1]. Saying that it has the power of a supercomputer is a bit of a stretch (by about three orders of magnitude, #500 …