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they have interest in maintaining the story

Yes, it happens sometimes, but most of the time there is no need to invent a story that was true. Embellishments of true stories are more typical.

As far as the comparison with others, including other ethnic groups as well as individuals: indeed, Jews were far from the only target, and often were targeted not as Jews specifically. Several (more than 20) ethnic groups suffered much worse under the Soviet system than the Jews did. However, when we talk specifically about college admissions, Jews were targeted as such, and in this aspect they (I guess I should say we) suffered more. Here too Jews were not the only targeted group (or in many cases not the only non-privileged group) but it was much more widespread against the Jews, and I would say more cynical as well.

When in the US I am asked if the stories about Jewish persecution in the USSR are true, I usually say "the short answer is yes but the correct answer is yes but". In addition to the above, I usually also point out that this is almost nothing compared to, say, the way the Nazis persecuted Jews, and all of the families that were targeted by the Soviet system were (directly or indirectly) also targeted by the Nazi system, and here the Soviet system takes a very distant second. Not such a great achievement, of course.
Yes. There are plenty of large data centers that are non-Cisco and I'm not aware of any performance requirement that can only be met by Cisco.
Yup. But Sauron did not expect a hobbit to be an adversary. That's a salient difference, in the context of Tolkien works.
What's interesting is that according to several narratives from those close to the central committee under Stalin, anti-semitic policies in the Soviet Union started from geo-political maneuvering rather than any inherent personal sense of racism.

Sudoplatov, an NKVD agent who worked for Beria, wrote in his memoirs that the original Soviet post-war plans were actually to establish a Jewish republic in the Crimea, with the hope that they would be able to use it in order to get money for Soviet post-war reconstruction from Jewish organizations around the world.

When they failed to gain world traction with the idea, and were cut off from British/American planning of the alternative (Palestine), Stalin moved to a policy of anti-Semitism (the "Doctor's Plot" and a campaign against "Rootless Cosmopolitanism") so that the Arab world would turn to him instead (in their dissatisfaction with the plans for Israel).

One passage from Sudoplatov's memoirs:

"Stalin and his close aides were interested in the Jewish issue mainly to exploit it politically, either for use in a power struggle or for consolidating their power. That's how the flirtation with anti-Semitism started in high party echelons...Stalin's efforts after the war were focused on extending Soviet hegemony, first over the countries of Eastern Europe bordering the Soviet Union and then everywhere he was in competition with British interests. He foresaw that the Arab states would turn to the Soviet Union when they were frustrated by British and American support for Israel. The Arabs would appreciate the anti-Zionist trends in Soviet foreign policy...I was told by Vetrov, Molotov's Assistant, what Stalin said: 'Let's agree to the establishment of Israel. This will be a pain in the ass for the Arab states and will make them turn their backs on the British. In the long run it will totally undermine British influence in Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Iraq.'"
I think this issue is a bit overstated — though certainly true to some extent. The most prominent case I've seen made here focuses on PSAT scores and a few other categories which (a) aren't necessarily indicative of success and (b) are biased towards some ethnic groups which prioritize standardized tests. The PSAT in particular is an odd one, since it is mostly irrelevant for any applications -- most Asian-American groups wildly outperform everyone else on the PSAT, but the gap is much narrower on the SAT, which has greater relevance for college admissions, and thus sees more preparation from across ethnic groups.
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Well segregation is segregation, with positive or negative overtones depending on the context like how we still to this day segregate restrooms by gender norms.

Affirmative action does not necessarily mean segregation either. The NFL's "Rooney Rule" requires a minority candidate to be interviewed for head coaching vacancies but doesn't require one be selected. We'd still call that affirmative action.

Rather it means merely that instead of just stopping the negative action applied against a minority and letting history take its course, that some positive action is taken to repair the damage done to the minority group, in order to actually have a chance at real equality in the future. This could include means such as segregated advocacy groups but encompasses much more.
This is EA we are talking about. Each new release is just as likely to completely fuck up the core gameplay mechanics as it is to marginally improve them.

Actually, now that Bobby Kotick has completely destroyed everything that Blizzard stood for, you can say it about pretty much every large game development company other than Valve Software.
This is Google Sets, and I recall Google making a big splash about that, seemingly as a way to respond to Wolfram Alpha, which had just launched.
This is slightly off-topic, but I worked on a Ruby project where we did something just like this:

"It was easy enough to work around the leak by adding monitoring and restarting the process whenever memory usage grew too large"

I was surprised, because I can not think of any other language and/or framework where "just restart the process" is done so often. I mean, this is not a common attitude among Java programmers, I don't think it is common among C programmers, and I don't think it is common among Python programmers. But it does seem to be fairly standard in the Ruby community. David Heinemeier Hansson admitted this used to happen with Basecamp:

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/posts/31-myth-2-rails-is-...

Can anyone else tell me of a community where this is done so commonly?
I don't really have a use for the split myself. But I definitely understand that it could be easier than cash.

I never have cash. Ever. My paycheck is direct deposit. Almost everywhere I got accepts debit cards - even vending machines and meters. I occasionally get money out for a farmer's market or similar event, but it's always for something specific and very much the exception to my spending habits.
The original comment was meant for another article with a similar premise did not mean to impinge your credibility specifically.

Regarding the second point, it is perfectly illustrated in your first point. The narrative of antisemitism in Russia was used by the Anti-Defamation League to petition for increasing immigration quota.

About the Jewish Problems List, yes I have seen it, and have serious issues with it. I also have serious issues with oral exams as done in Russia. Both the Jewish Problem List and oral exams are big topics and should be separate discussions.
What? Fortunately I wasn't talking about me, just men victims of rape. And doesn't matter if they follow my logic or not, we are discussing what's right, not the logic of the organizers of such meetings.
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I don't do hourly rates because I don't like trading time for money. I trade value added to the business for money though.
As far as I remember, Firefox only supports H.264 on Windows. So it's not quite supported by all browsers.
I have to agree with jmhain. If this is your opinion on the "difference" between them, then I would call into question whether you really are even considering Android as a possible phone for yourself.
On that note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast
It would be more accurate to say that SC4 is not optimized for today's hardware. It relies entirely on single-threaded performance, which has not improved appreciably since the days when it was released. Furthermore, it is 32-bit and not large address aware, which means it is limited to about 1.5GB of memory. Needless to say, this would max out a Pentium 4 single-core system with 2GB of RAM circa mid-2000s, but it will leave your (not too) modern 4-core desktop with 8GB of RAM sitting mostly idle with lots of free memory. The game may run slow with large cities, but that's because it doesn't know how to take advantage of modern tech, not because that modern tech is being pushed to its limits.
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Nooo. some of these games (simcity 2?) aren't even online. It looks like they shutdown the always online DRM server. you can't even play single player on it anymore.

EDIT: sims 2 (auto typed city given the article as context) whoops
It doesn't. The game can survive without a connection for 20 minutes. The only logic run on their servers is save/load.
Really? You're suggesting they use a software renderer instead of the GPU? Even if 70% of the CPU was wasted on a modern machine, that's like a quarter core per user that they'd need to rent from Amazon. I don't think so.

As far as the multiplayer, I don't think anyone has a problem needing servers for multiplayer.

All I'm saying is that the suggestion that computations need to be done online to save local CPU, even on a singleplayer game, is obviously ridiculous.
The game sold more than a million copies and gamers are notoriously short term memory combined with short term attention span. Not only will this game start working fine after half the people who bought this game forget about it in a week. But the people who bought it and are mad about it now, won't be in a week.

The same thing has been happening for a long time. If you are a gamer, you are sharing space with petulance. You can pretend all you want that games are designed and built with an adult in mind but adults aren't the target market.
I did something similar to this a few years back, email me at tialsotaish@dunflimblag.mailexpire.com if you'd like to discuss in detail.
I actually laughed out loud at how incredibly clever and awesome that is. This is such a great idea and kudos to the person who designed this!
Ha, what an interesting disagreement! One of the commentators said "it's huge", and I was just about to say that it is generally less than it used to be and has more of the legendary than practical status. Things can easily change back to what they used to be, but currently they seem to be okay. However, I need to mention that I have not lived in that country for 20 years now, and although have been visiting often, sometimes more than once a year, my view is not of the one who has to make a living there. I may not notice some undercurrents.
I don't know where you are but it helps to document your accomplishments ahead of time and socialize that. I'm not talking about being an obnoxious self-promoter but making sure people acknowledge your (actual) contributions.

I find that many wait for their managers to automatically do the right thing and then get disappointed. I've always advocated being more proactive about this.

Let's say I want a raise and a promotion this year. I outline it in my goals, and as the year progresses have meetings with my manager to make sure I'm doing everything possible to reach that goal as well as documenting things along the way. When it comes time for review, one of two things will happen: either you have communicated clearly what you want and you get most of it, or you get screwed either by your manager or his/her manager. If that's the case, you then need to decide if something went wrong, or if it was not in good faith. If so, it's time to leave.

Also, protip: find out when budgets are being set, that's the time to push/remind for more money/whatever. Usually by the time reviews come around, things are pretty much set in stone.

Don't be sad. Keep kicking ass and follow what I've written. I'm willing to say that you will likely have a more positive experience next go-around.

PS. This only works if you do actually work hard and get shit done. If you like goofing off and just want more $$, it will NOT work.
you're assuming they weren't already a cisco network before the announcement, which would disassemble your entire comment
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I actually think there's something more remarkable about figuring this out by hand, in the command line. And writing about it, just the fact that you can capture the exact steps taken with a simple copy and paste blows the GUI approach well out of the water.

This was the work of someone who knew what they were doing, of course. Had it been, say, me, then the effect and utility of the piece would have been considerably lacking.
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its more than that. I remember being bullied and called little jew by kids, by teachers, by school principal, by janitors, by strangers on the subway when I was 7 or 8 because I have soft Rs and curly hair, and I am not Jewish.
Most people, not all people. Pretty tough on those who forked out and wanted to keep playing online.
While I largely agree with what is said here, the author highlights 131 characters like it's an absurd amount. That's not even a tweet.
Really? Wow, what a bunch of jerks. I am surprised that anyone even wants to buy a game from them after something like that.
Even further on this tangent -- Mass Effect's problems began right at the setup. It starts too big. You begin as a hero, chosen by Earth to be, in essence, the representative for all humanity. (Recall your choice of back stories each points to your character having a past more interesting than anything that happens in the actual story -- always a bad sign and indicative of lazy writing.) It's a terrible way to start a story, it's a cheap trick (raising the stakes by giving them really big important labels). It's a testament to the game's execution that it is as good as it is despite this quite awful setup.
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A social feature that isn't even relevant in solo play. You shouldn't need a network for single play.
> Precisely the opposite. If MPEG-LA thought they had VP8 dead to rights, they would never have agreed to this deal -- they would have litigated to the bitter end.

Huh? Whether or not they had VP8 dead to rights, they would agree to a licensing deal. The MPEG-LA's purpose is to make licensing deals for the patents in their pools. They litigate when they cannot get an agreement for a licensing deal.
The drawbacks of the Ring that we become so intimately familiar with over the course of three books are all perks in Sauron's mind.

The approach of the Ring is thus the approach of an adversary, using Sauron's own power against him. Sauron was probably wondering why Aragorn didn't brandish the Ring the moment he arrived at the Black Gate to challenge him.
Anyone with private key access has control over my user account and has better access than what my private key + passphrase would provide.

I understand layers (probably moreso than most), but this is something that always bothers me a lot from a practicality perspective. My passwords are encrypted at rest via encrypted filesystems. If you are running things on my personal machine as my user account, I'm already being keylogged and/or am executing arbitrary code for you. If I'm logged into somewhere via ssh (hint: I am whenever I have a network connection), you can just scan my ssh config and use my ssh key anyway. From there, you can probably do a lot of other nasty stuff. ssh-agent won't really prevent this. It will prevent the malware from working again when I reboot until I log into another remote host (which I've established I do a lot) where the keylogger now gets me.

It's possible, but extremely unlikely that I have might have completely read-only media. I could be using my TPM device to protect from from booting and executing modified system states. Some of this might prevent you from easily persisting the keylogger threat across reboots. I might also have a module or something that calculate checksums on startup of critical things, have ridiculous anti-exfil outgoing connection policies, etc that prevent all but the most targeted attacks.

I don't have all of that in place. (In particular, to anyone generating a profile for me, I don't build detailed outgoing packet filter rules (you are welcome).) But what I do have in place will probably prevent me from getting my initial passphase keylogged if I used ssh-agent since it's likely (although this isn't strictly necessary) that I'm going to get attacked again after I start logging into remote hosts. So they can't steal my password, but they do have unrestricted access to my user account and the remote users I can log into. That complicates things, but is still a major security failure, to the point where them having the passphrase to my key isn't super important. I mean, in this scenario, they already have the absolute best input vector (a history of me logging in so they can execute attacks at the times I'm supposed to be logging in, as well as direct access to the systems from my ip addresses) to the point where using my ssh key from elsewhere is probably a worse a idea.
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Sorry. Looks like you wanted an argument. I just thought you were asking for examples. Have a good one.
This is a "parody site". It is not a real article.
Maybe the case for non EA games, but considering people won't get to play Simcity within the next 2 weeks or so, there'll be a cracked version out by then. EA have brought themselves nothing but trouble in this situation and being the out-of-touch company they are, they deserve every loss of sale they get.
Some did hate. Reportedly, the current rector of Moscow State University was quite happy to participate, among many others whose career, as you can imagine, did not suffer.
I was surprised to read about that too. The same guy, Sudoplatov, was involved in that, though, and writes:

"The establishment of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Birobidzhan in 1928 was ordered by Stalin only as an effort to strengthen the Far Eastern border region with an outpost, not as a favor to the Jews. The area was constantly penetrated by Chinese and White Russian terrorist groups, and the idea was to shield the territory by establishing a settlement whose inhabitants would be hostile to White Russian emigres, especially the Cossacks. The status of the region was defined shrewdly as an autonomous district, not as an autonomous republic, which meant that no local legislature, high court, or government post of ministerial rank was permitted. It was an autonomous area, but a bare frontier, not a political center."
It's hard to measure emotion and brand loyalty, especially since you can't A/B test something as long term as the latter.

I'm a data scientist, but I'm the first to admit that data isn't always the answer. I'll take sound data-informed intuition over mechanical data-driven decision-making.
>I never quite understood the love for premium vps like linode

This is true now (Linode is a premium vps provider) but it was not always true. Linode started out cheap, like almost everyone in our industry does. Linode was one of the first in the market; they've been selling VPSs longer even than I have.

>Its nice that they are now increasing the bandwidth cap, but it was on the low side to begin with. My takeaway from this is that "linode finally joins everyone else in network speed and bandwidth."

Eh, the way the industry works is that price pressure is applied by new entrants. Linode used to be that 'incredibly cheap provider' - but generally speaking? as you develop a reputation, you increase your resource allocations more slowly than moore's law would allow, and Linode has a pretty good reputation, so they get to charge substantially more than new entrants to the market.

So yeah, if the new entrants aren't a way better deal in terms of resources? something is terribly wrong (and that new entrant probably won't gain the traction they need to survive long enough to be able to let their prices rise to a higher margin level)

I mean, personally, I would think I have been letting my own prices rise (comparatively, I mean, by not increasing resource allocation) more than my reputation would allow me to... but I'm still gaining customers (though not at an awesome rate) - Linode announcing a network upgrade is putting /incredible/ pressure on me to upgrade my network. I can be okay with a new entrant flying below me, but Linode has a better reputation than I do; I have to provide more resources per dollar than they do.

Now, the big counterexample here is slicehost. Slicehost started out fairly expensive (compared to the industry standard at the time) and they went from zero to twenty thousand customers in like two years. It was incredible. I don't know exactly what they did, but they had a reputation for providing managed hosting level service for (premium) unmanaged hosting prices.

Now, how much of that reputation was marketing, and how much of that reputation was that their support really was that good, I don't know, but I do know that was their reputation.
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> "celebrate the work of some of the most passionate women in our industry."

> "share one of their nearest and dearest passion projects with our community."

> "to hear about some positive experiences from other women in our industry doing what they love."

Yup, I'm pretty excited about all of these things. Don't know why this is a problem.
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