https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34027264.

The first actual census in USSR came up 15M "short", but it is unknown how many were killed, vs. previously overcounted because of weird czarist policy inherited from Mongol rule: peasants who escaped were still counted against a town's tax obligations.

Making nukes whose spiritual descendants will be handed over to Putin's insane successors, as Russian Federation splinters, might do in the whole world.

The term is used quasi-ironically on this very site, when people say they will “steelman” an argument. And there are many other people born with that name in various languages, such as Stahlman or, notably around here, Stallman.

I’m not to trying to defend one of the most brutal dictators in history, but since you’re the one who raised the onomastic issue…

b) non-hackers pick names in hopes of glorification by reference; hackers pick names that are pejorative: eg git

Когда называть вещи, щепки летят.