And the novelty is? I mean, everyone fantasized about life in outer space - why would the soviets not? Or is the novelty that it is amazing how the people that wrote those magazines somehow eluded the gulags? Because the answer there presumably is that they probably did not elude the gulags.
This is a case where the leading "How", which HN's software sometimes drops from titles, makes an important difference. The point of the article isn't that they did it.
We've re-howed it.
Please don't post shallow dismissals to HN, though. The article doesn't make it hard to find out what its topic is or why it's interesting, and there's no need to reflexively 'gulag' every Soviet story. The internet pattern of rushing to the cosmic hash table to find the biggest thing associated with any key, then rushing to post about it, makes for lame discussion. We're looking for things that are less predictable here.
Edit: having looked at your account history, I realize that I misread your comment. You've been abusing HN for nationalistic and ideological flamewar. That is not allowed here. I've banned the account until we get some indication that you want to use the site as intended. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22622844.
Things change, I get right now the US does not have the choice but this thing is not going away and choices have to be made as to how to deal with it. Raising awareness of other options that are successful is a good thing. Constructive criticism can help.
Yea. We should have learned when the US unleashed H1N1
Point being .. this is just stupid. You start this and countries will intentionally infect each other next.
The only answer here is more robust international collaboration and response and getting rid of the stupid people sabotaging our preparedness or selling your protective measures to the highest bidder when we already see the wave coming
That’s nonsense and borderline racism.
This comment is the proof that Corona is our generation’s Gravilo Princip. The most likely first order consequence is a lot of dead people but it’s the second and third order consequences that scare me the most.
You can already smell the thirst for blood and the need for escape goats.
Nearly all government leaders' first reaction is try to downplay disasters.. after all they are politicians, not science experts.
Did you not watch Chernobyl? It's literally the same plot.
Even in this particular case, the Chinese govt. wasn't the only one trying to downplay this. The US government did the exact same thing even after China had already come to its senses.
> Nearly all government leaders' first reaction is try to downplay disasters.. after all they are politicians, not science experts.
There is a difference between the capacity of US and EU to suppress information and the capacity of authoritarian Chinese State to do this. The media in US and EU does not take direction from the Government.
> The US government did the exact same thing even after China had already come to its senses.
Did the US govt allow wet markets with live wild animals to operate in China for the political gain of Xi Jinping and China? Did the US govt downplaying this change the reporting of the media? Did the US order samples destroyed and ordered laboratories to not release information? No?
"we" is the generic we, as in whoever is reading this. China is no different, they've been pointing at external influences; typically the US as the bad guys for a long time.
But this response is the kind of thing I'm talking about. I'm sure you have legitimate reasons to have a negative view of China, but discussions just devolve into emotionally charged rhetoric that doesn't go anywhere. How am I supposed to respond to this in a constructive way?
Yeah sure. But I believe that years of experience are useful to compare for the same level/title. For example, is not the same being a junior Backend Developer than a Senior one.
Also, a big factor influencing wages is country. I think is useless to compare your salary with another one of a different country, and that's the reason why I ask for it.
