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Ar-Curunir
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Ar-Curunir
13y ago
Are you seriously telling me that the internet has NOT revolutionized the world? Everything has changed with the rise of the internet. While Gandhi (learn to spell the name correctly) certainly did big things in India which had effects on M
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13y ago
Interesting, your view of extraterrestial lifeforms is very similar to the approach of colonists in the 18th and 18th centuries - that the people/lifeforms being invaded were inferior to the colonists, and hence could be mistreated
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13y ago
Not on Linux, where the 'previous page' action is mapped to Alt-left by default. After being initially frustrated, I got really used to Alt-Left for going back. The reasoning behind it is pretty smart too, because numerous times b
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13y ago
The author of the article also made a documentary titled "The Power of Nightmares". I recommend everybody with any interest in the recent history of the world watch the documentary. It's available at the Internet Archive: ht
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13y ago
Whitfield Diffie looks a lot like Keanu Reeves. Also weren't most of the questions that the TQP lawyer asked ad hominem? I understand that he asked those to discredit Diffie, but they still seemed very disrespectful. Almost anyone in t
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13y ago
I just find stuff like this really scary. Google basically knows everything about this guy's life. I understand that he isn't personally concerned by this, but I feel that a lot of people would be scared by things like this.
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13y ago
Nah, I don't think the average person will discover the cure to cancer. While access to freely available knowledge is increasing, this knowledge is mostly broad, not deep. So we can have information on a lot of topics, but these topics
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13y ago
Well The software that we use is rather bad, but that's not the problem here. What happened in CS161's case was that the department had originally planned to have a certain number of students in the class, and was looking for TAs.
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lol. I highly doubt that that he was thinking that. You're spouting a lot of nonsense in that post. The consensus here at Berkeley is that this is simply a ploy to get students to drop the class because there isn't enough space fo