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by Udik 12y ago
Strange, I would call these preoccupations BS if not for the source. This was a common concern some 20 to 30 years ago, when the internet was practically non existent and people still used old floppy disks and cds. Today, a good part of our
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by Udik 12y ago
I don't really think that native English speakers have a problem in knowing how a certain sequence of characters should be pronounced. This kind of problem is usually typical of people (of any native language) with high levels of liter
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by Udik 12y ago
>Making stuff that people use exclusively to show off is such a great business that the only reason everyone's not trying to do it must be some misguided faith in humanity. This must also be the reason why this kind of manufacturing
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by Udik 12y ago
I was about to complain about the constant, ubiquitous and severely annoying (for me) confusion between "it's" and "its". I'm finding it more and more, everyday and everywhere, in articles and posts. People, wh
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by Udik 12y ago
So I guess this means that the whole 'consensus' thing around global warming is pointless. "What matters isn’t what people thought the answer was- since they only had incomplete information- but rather that this debate was a
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by Udik 12y ago
I agree. When salaries are not public, there is just one factor that influences them, that is, the value that the company puts on that employee and the fear of losing him/ her to a better offer. On the other hand, it's much easier
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by Udik 12y ago
Hmm. I started messaging using ICQ, then probably Yahoo, then microsoft messenger, now it's Skype. The first three offered exactly the same service. The other day I tried to convince someone to contact me on Whatsapp but he has already
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by Udik 12y ago
I saw many people using this argument of the "small value but for many people". But I think we should take in account also the replaceability factor: the hundreds of millions of users of Whatsapp could switch at any time, with no
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The maximum number of bitcoins is capped at 21 million. The current number in circulation is around 14 million. Now, my intuition tells me (but I might be wrong) that if a currency is used to pay for goods (and not just for speculation), th
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by Udik 12y ago
Yesterday the Guardian published the best opinion I've read so far about satire, Charlie Hebdo, the terrorist attacks and our reaction to them. And it's a short comic strip by the cartoonist Joe Sacco: http://www.thegua
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by Udik 12y ago
Hmmm. The only verified case of sophisticated, organized sockpuppetry in the wild mentioned by the article seem to be related to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict and anti-semitism, and in every case they seem to be orchestrated to favour I