FlorinAndrei

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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Water too: http://www.blingh2o.com/ (link is NSFW in stuck-up places and cultures)
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Right, so then the definition of racketeering is starting to become inadequate, is the way I see it.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Sarcasm. Whoosh.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
So, who killed the electric car again?
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
I stand corrected.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Some dis-advantages, I guess. Since it's beta, it won't run plugins (yet). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
It's the MS Windows of programming. Everybody uses it, nobody brags about it.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
I just use http://is.gd/ when twittering. Shorter by one character. ;-)
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
I'm still holding back, in large part because most of the books I read tend to be non-mainstream, while the stuff on Kindle so far is largely new releases, etc. That will probably change at some point.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Terrible idea if you're like me and have calibrated your monitor and now can detect minute changes in the color temperature. :-) Turn down brightness and/or contrast if you like, but don't mess with the color.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Hm, I'm having trouble parsing that. It's not just the religions of the Book which use that metaphor. The whole Buddhism, the whole Hinduism (to the extent that such a thing does exist) - they all say: man = spirit, woman = matter.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
There's something in your observation that echoes old mythologies and models of the world: men represent Spirit, women represent Matter. I always thought there was some kernel of truth to that metaphor, but couldn't quite put my finger on i
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
One more reason why TV-delivered news are fodder for morons.
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
Or it could be a different kind of fusion. Maybe protons fuse in a different way in a metal lattice.
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
My recipe for efficient writing: - Put laptop in backpack - Go someplace where you can be "lonely in a crowd" (e.g. local coffee shop) - Log out of your Google home page, so all those applets won't claim your attention all the time - Don't
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
Good points. That is also the theme of the book - the mystery beyond comprehension. The echoes of Borges (the staggering fictional encyclopedism) serve the purpose of suggesting the titanic struggle of the mind to grasp the unknowable anywa
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
Oh, BTW, the movies are good too. The one by Tarkowski is a classic and has an almost cult following (almost impossible to criticize it in certain circles). It is a remarkable movie, but I've found it a bit bombastic at times. The other one
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
The being with the fully-cryptic (or almost fully cryptic) consciousness is described in the novel "Solaris" by Stanislav Lem - two movies were made after it, one by Andrei Tarkowski, the other by Steven Soderbergh. It's a great book anyway
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
In places like the SF Bay Area, that's kind of a moot point.
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
"EBay plans IPO for Skype, citing limited synergies" http://www.physorg.com/news158949373.html Captain Obvious called, wants his headline back. I'm surely not the only one who thought the Skype acquisition by eBay was a huge WTF. Now they
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
Privacy is dead, move on.
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
How many FPS in Quake? (just kidding)
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
650 billion is a small number. A microgram contains much more particles than that.
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
Balls of steel. This topic is so poisoned after Fleischmann and Pons, nobody touches it willingly. Well, looks like almost nobody. But seriously, it's like the bugbear of research nowadays. No matter whether it would be possible to do fusio
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
white noise? yuk! it's like chewing broken glass. Pink noise is much more smooth.
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
So glad I'm not living there.
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
Because "they" is Stephen Wolfram. :-)
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
Ah, yes, the sweet sweet sound of FAIL!
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
Millions of citizens with camera-equipped cell phones linked to Twitter. ;-)
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by FlorinAndrei 18y ago
Yup, running your own local DNS cache is almost always better than the ISP-supplied resolvers. Note: I used to run DJB's software a lot, back in the '90s especially, when there was no secure alternative. But nowadays there's no point in doi

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