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It is not exactly about programming language, but rather about architecture. It is the legacy of old constructions which requires refactoring.

It was saved: https://github.com/asalber/books/blob/master/A%20Nanopass%20...

This is not an excuse for China's violation of natural human rights. I'm just putting some attention to idea that Tibet is probably not the most terrified-by-China territory, rathe…

The idea of putting "Tibet" and "human rights" close to each other doesn't look very promising to me based on some historic observations of pre-China Tibet lifestyle http://mastero…

This statement makes sense for some specific ethic systems. For instance, in almost all modern states there are ideas, which are shared by some majorities and considered unethical …

> Even if the majority wants to suppress minority dissent (or do worse things to minorities), it's not the right thing to do. Let me follow your definition, say, in the case of Anc…

Just for comparison: alternative photo set of same Kiev in the same time: http://tema.livejournal.com/1589937.html Photography is a great thing: with a proper selection one could c…

Khodorkovsky was prosecuted partly for his ambitions to move to politics.

There is some rather interesting interview with Vladimir (in russian), which shows a little of his underlying motivation: http://baaltii1.livejournal.com/198675.html http://baaltii…

Not exactly :) If we suppose that entire economy (which is nearly 70,000,000$M) is expressed in bitcoins (there will be 20M of it), then each bitcoin would cost 3.5$M. Started from…

In Russia it's quite opposite: btc-e.com provides a number of convenient ways to withdraw fiat money.

I would like to add an instructive story of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignalina_Nuclear_Power_Plant there. It shows how new and profitable nuclear power plant was turned into a …

Appreciation of reality in Russia is seriously depend on who you are. If you feel bad inside, it rather caused by your own personality.

It's counterintuitive, but now Russia is drifting away from its soviet past. Meanwhile western leaders start to understand that there is a good strategy with uniform democracy: pla…

It is highly doubtful that goverments could plan a century ahead.

I meant you could be sued for public racial statements (corresp. gay propaganda). But you could talk about admissibility of such a statements.

These people didn't negotiate this meeting. This is the formal reason. Informal reason is that they are often organized by the institutions which funded by other countries, institu…

This is how law based states work, do you love it or not. I think appropriate analogy is anti-segragation laws in US.

Well, it could be so de jure in USA. But de facto we see opposite. Snowden mentioned unconstitutional violation of human rights of US citizen. And now he is hunted by US government…

It doesn't make any sense. Gay propaganda is considered to be a crime and it is normal to restrict this crime. Meanwhile one could discuss is it correct to consider such a thing as…

In what sense there is no freedom of speech in Russia?

Well, stereotypical appreciation of reality is the best cure against sudden amusement.

It's not exactly about parsing JS output: JS output is something which is dedicated for user of webpage. Ilands interface of site is something dedicated to search engine from the o…