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New comment by NoOn3 in "The USSR in 100 Photographs"

NoOn3 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:55:08 +0000

I seriously belive that it was possible to vote away Stalin. But I'm Russian maybe I'm mistaken, but I think the accusations against Stalin are exaggerated. He was not clearly only terrible. There were definitely difficult times, and some of his decisions were bad. But he also did things for the benefit of the people. He didn't accumulate any wealth for himself.

New comment by NoOn3 in "The USSR in 100 Photographs"

NoOn3 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:40:28 +0000

These are not just staged photos for propaganda; they are ordinary, everyday life captured in photographs. Life in the USSR was not that bad as it is written here in the comments. Education was free and quite good. Medicine was free. In good times, workers could even get housing (a house or apartment) for free. There were various free additional classes and clubs for children and youth. There were free exhibitions and museums. People in general were less nervous and more happy, even though they weren't very wealthy. But at least in Moscow, the life of an average city dweller was normal. There were bad aspects too, but overall, they are exaggerated in the West.

New comment by NoOn3 in "The USSR in 100 Photographs"

NoOn3 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:11:12 +0000

It's not that obvious.

New comment by NoOn3 in "How to Earn a Billion Dollars"

NoOn3 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:49:20 +0000

Because he sponsored those who already have something really valuable, and not just anyone.

New comment by NoOn3 in "How to Earn a Billion Dollars"

NoOn3 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:20:08 +0000

Most likely that this works in a small number of all cases.

New comment by NoOn3 in "How to Earn a Billion Dollars"

NoOn3 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:17:55 +0000

An obvious calculation. The real world cannot be calculated so easily, It is changing unexpectedly and quickly.

New comment by NoOn3 in "Thoughts on AI and Jobs"

NoOn3 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:31:25 +0000

People often say that things only get better and cheaper with tech progress, but it doesn't always seem so straightforward to me. Does the average(median) citizen own more land, houses, or cars/vehicles than he did ~50 years ago for example?...

New comment by NoOn3 in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

NoOn3 — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:12:00 +0000

The issue is certainly not so simple. But it seems to me, purely theoretically, that the rules don't necessarily have to be the same for living people and non-living machines.

New comment by NoOn3 in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

NoOn3 — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:59:23 +0000

Why should an AI have the same rights as a human?

How about then to grant AI all other rights, for example, to allow voting?(sarcasm)

New comment by NoOn3 in "Tushonka: Cultivating Soviet Postwar Taste (2010)"

NoOn3 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:12:25 +0000

Yes, as far as I understand, canned meat was not so popular among civilians in the USSR before tushonka. And tushonka is usually referred specifically to canned stewed meat, not ham or vegetables.

Old tushonkka was tasty but many of those sold in stores now, especially the cheap ones, are not so tasty and good-quality.

New comment by NoOn3 in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

NoOn3 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:44:27 +0000

If someone create a new MMORPG in which rules changes a little every day or several days in unpredictable manner then no one will be knowing the BEST way to play or at least harder to find the BEST way. But maybe there will be no balance.

New comment by NoOn3 in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

NoOn3 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:11:32 +0000

You cannot rely on a closed source "AI" in someone else's cloud for your work. After all, it can be disabled for you at any time. "AI" can easily steal all your technological secrets. At the request of the owner, "AI" can easily mislead you and insert backdoors into your products. "AI" can even easily incorrectly answer some questions specifically for you if the owner of "AI" wants to remove your competition. And you may not even understand it.

New comment by NoOn3 in "Allegations of insider trading over prediction-market bets tied to Iran conflict"

NoOn3 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:29:01 +0000

Maybe even someone who wants you to get punched in the face. :)

New comment by NoOn3 in "Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026)"

NoOn3 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:33:41 +0000

You know a world without refrigerators? :)

New comment by NoOn3 in "AI optimism is a class privilege"

NoOn3 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:12:45 +0000

The Soviets history is not so simple. ;)

New comment by NoOn3 in "AI optimism is a class privilege"

NoOn3 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:57:59 +0000

Sometimes It is effective, but very unreliable.

New comment by NoOn3 in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"

NoOn3 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:39:10 +0000

But power is not only money.

New comment by NoOn3 in "Chinese AI models have lagged the US frontier by 7 months on average since 2023"

NoOn3 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:21:32 +0000

But companies like OpenAI collected a lot of data about the artificial intelligence through platforms such as OpenAI GYM, and people voluntarily contributed and published their code/models there because they believed that this was not a commercial organization and would act for the benefit of all mankind.

New comment by NoOn3 in "Chinese AI models have lagged the US frontier by 7 months on average since 2023"

NoOn3 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:08:59 +0000

They just lack of performant hardware. They have enough knowledge. And so they choose a more effective strategy without wasting resources on training from scratch.

New comment by NoOn3 in "Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy"

NoOn3 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:25:34 +0000

I don't really know, but maybe drones.