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Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by guard-of-terra »

danabramov wrote: post #39

UPD: Ilya is in coma with no brain activity, but not dead yet. ( http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre... ) -- Ilya was very vocal about his contempt for falsifications in Russian elections. He went to protests and helped develop an app for election observers. This app helped volunteers submit proofs of violations during the elections. http://webnabludatel.org He adopted several children and ha…

This sounds defamatory to his colleagues. Most of whom also watched those elections and participate in political activities. It's just that Ilya was the most brightly burning among them all.

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by danabramov »

guard-of-terra wrote: post #41
danabramov wrote: post #39

UPD: Ilya is in coma with no brain activity, but not dead yet. ( http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre... ) -- Ilya was very vocal about his contempt for falsifications in Russian elections. He went to protests and helped develop an app for election observers. This app helped volunteers submit proofs of violations during the elections. http://webnabludatel.org He adopted several children and ha…

This sounds defamatory to his colleagues. Most of whom also watched those elections and participate in political activities. It's just that Ilya was the most brightly burning among them all.

Thanks, I didn't mean to imply this. I edited the post.

Re: Yandex CTO and co-founder has died

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Post by josephpmay »

Until today, I had never heard of Yandex. I do have to say that their search quality appears to be very high, and I may use them as a Google alternate in the future. Is there any specific reason why they don't have much traction in the US?

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Post by mjolk »

jentulman wrote: post #35
mjolk wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While platitudes generally go over well on hacker news, I'm curious how one can "make life proud that you are a part of it." Should one also try to "make time notice that you exist" or "make gravity work for it?"

I intend to give all these a go by buying a self winding watch and hopping to work everyday and remembering to take a moment to wish everyone I pass a good day and good health.

10:50 status: left home 3 hours ago, almost at the train station to go to work. number of times maced: 1. number of children hurriedly pulled away from me: 7.

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Post by omgtehlion »

josephpmay wrote: post #43

Until today, I had never heard of Yandex. I do have to say that their search quality appears to be very high, and I may use them as a Google alternate in the future. Is there any specific reason why they don't have much traction in the US?

Yandex specializes mostly on Russian-speaking countries and neighbours like Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan. Recently Turkey. AFAIK, they never tried to market the service in the US.

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Post by TeMPOraL »

nikster wrote: post #40
microb wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please. Give Einstein, John Von Neumann or Francis Crick another 50 years on this planet and tell me the world would be worse off because of it.

Maybe none of these guys would have done what they've done. Maybe they'd never even have been born, their parents being to lazy. Maybe we'd never have evolved from being pretty comfortable monkeys sitting around - why would we have evolved to breed, to love sex, and to make babies at all? Babies are just competition to an immortal being. Bottom line is, none of us would be around to mourn the passing of an apparently…

> Maybe we'd never have evolved from being pretty comfortable monkeys sitting around - why would we have evolved to breed, to love sex, and to make babies at all?

But we are here now, and we don't want to die. Death might have been useful in the past, but now it's the high time for it to go away.

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Post by TeMPOraL »

jschuur wrote: post #15
f902370 wrote: post #12

What's wrong with 2013?

Without death, would we be as motivated to live life?

I think yes, maybe much more. If you could plan for hundred years in the future, not for few decades, if you could realistically hope you have so much amazing things to see and do in front of you... I'd say it's much more motivating than knowing you already lived (for most of us here) 1/3 or 1/2 of your life, and things will soon start to get worse for you.
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