VladRussian2

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by VladRussian2 13y ago
in 2000 we bought stainless steel kettle for $70. Buying it i felt it was expensive, and there were cheaper plastic ones. My wife overruled. As usually she was right. In 2013 she said that its time to update (though the old one was still in
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>The law is supposed to reflect the morality of the country. The law has always been reflecting the power balance and nothing more. It reflects morality only as a consequence of and to the extent to which moral people have power.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
Or may be your relationship status ceased to be cool :)
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
best $7K spent: http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/21/impermium/ "Rather than use an internal data services team, the company turned to Kaggle, a startup that hosts data-driven competitions. From around
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
> The episode underlined how many South Koreans regard the human rights struggle in the North as merely a distraction and an annoyance. or may be they just don't want to burn angry giant troll's whiskers with all the downside w
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
it is also reflection of passive position techies occupy in life, ie. the fact that zoning boards and other pieces of government aren't actively affected by the new population. Have salary enough to pay my way through and in good healt
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>Dogecoin has value, like any currency, because a number of people believe it does. In Doge we trust.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
Today it is just a well publicly known feature of modern Intel CPU (officially it is stated to be disabled on some CPUs :) http://www.realvnc.com/products/viewerplus/ "Computers with particular Intel® Core™ v
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>In its ruling against the FCC’s rules, the court said that such restrictions are not needed in part because consumers have a choice in which ISP they use. in theory vs. in practice
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
just googling "club foot brace" seems that there are similar solutions already out there and some look better at first look (not a specialist, so may be missing the point of Wired's excitement). Nothing in all these other bra
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>Sometimes I think about creating an organization that's sole purpose would be to enter bids in on government tech contracts with upper and lower cost estimates. It wouldn't actually do any of the work (to maintain neutrality),
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
well, the healthcare.gov project being the spearhead of the most important policy push by the current President and his party - i'd guess that it is actually the most efficient (less than half a billion) and successful (developed in 2
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
my guess would be that bikes contribute to the pollution by slowing/congesting the traffic (even with a bike lane it means taking driving space away from cars - adversely impacting the flow of cars).
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
the moment somebody comes with a real solution for marijuana sellers may happen to be an "Ice Age" style crack in the banking business. Forcing people to invent ways to workaround the system may be not good for the system in the l
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>Stop giving girls dolls to play with and give them a toy that requires them to think more. actually the first toys i remember are dolls that i inherited from my cousin sister. Didn't help though - top math/physics grades throu
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
that depends on who you blame for development of the differences ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_gender_differen... ), school district or evolution :)
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
stereotypical myth about stereotypical myth.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
140 char limited tweets. So smart. So cool. Wow.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
So right. Sad people. No doge.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>His citation index is not very convincing either http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CU2sU8YAAAAJ >Having published for 40 years with only very few citations means that his works were either irrelevant or only f
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>Am I the only one that noticed that Maxwell Equations are looking like a weired simplified sets of Navier Stokes equation in a case of a very weired perfect gaz? (viscosity = 0, Faraday's original approach was the "flow"
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
the broadcasters says "Aereo retransmits". If Aereo were doing retransmission, even using individual antenna per customer, it would still be a public performance (Zediva case comes to mind here), and thus broadcasters would have a
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>But the "no female programmers" thing is specific to western culture. There are plenty of female programmers in India, and in Russia. So this is likely something about western culture, that has caused this difference. i'd
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>And guys, what could the nursing industry do to make it more welcoming to you? Anything? Or are you simply not interested in it? Nursing would be among the worst professions for me. It requires a lot of simultaneous attention to wide va
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
this post could have been titled "git workflow replicating workflow in centralized VCS (like CVS, Perforce, etc..)"
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>I am unconvinced by "The Europeans[..]did not adapt and subsequently lost the option of smooth land transportation for almost one thousand years." >By the subsequent text, "Roman road infrastructure remained relatively
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>How do the cows eat? I've always been under the impression that raising animals is vastly more resource intensive than just feeding yourself on plants. the cows (and other grazing animals in their group) evolved very special stomac
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>I wonder where you got the idea of "colder European" vs. "warm Asian" climate. No kidding. Oslo, annual average, 6.5C, Beijing : 12.5C. That's 59 latitude vs. 39, different Sun angle, longer days, etc... you kno
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>If one staple food disappears, the country won't just starve; that would be stupid. shortage of staple food will cause price spike with related economical/political/social effects. Staple food isn't just a whimsical
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence#Evolutionar... "Where the C allele indicated lactase non-persistence and the T allele indicated lactase persistence, the study found that women that were homozygous

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