"he was an uneducated idiot,"
The above statement is not true based on any number of authoritative accounts.
By saying that you have undermined any value your comment otherwise may have had.
The above statement is not true based on any number of authoritative accounts.
By saying that you have undermined any value your comment otherwise may have had.
So yeah, he did go to school but he was not what you call truly educated (just like other self-important, arrogant people suffering from Dunning-Kruger effect). That he was an idiot can also be seen from his posing in advertisements while his countrymen were starving in the long lines for bread--something unthinkable during any USSR year.
As an uneducated idiot, I apologize for having made the post (sorry, Dunning-Kruger had gotten the better of me).
Only yesterday, I posted a HN comment based on my machining experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32654203