VladRussian

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by VladRussian 15y ago
>Another important property of language is the arbitrariness of the symbols. Any symbol can be mapped onto any concept (or even onto one of the rules of the grammar). For instance, there is nothing about the Spanish word nada itself tha
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by VladRussian 15y ago
killing virtual people in a virtual world - violence, bad. At the same time each and every of us oppresses, brutalizes, tortures and kills in real-life through our hired-for-money agents - governments at all levels. "Come on, let us shoot"
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by VladRussian 15y ago
While R&D at Google may be a geek's heaven, the Operations at Google is a hell, an ITIL hell, 200% Dilbert [the ITIL's blueprint is the Britain's state healthcare IT by IBM in the 1980ies]. No wonder that she's snapped.
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>how would I get caught lets hope that in post 9/11 world dosimeters are deployed at various important (i hope it includes "crowded with normal people") places. >what would I be prosecuted with? >walk around terrorizing people..
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by VladRussian 15y ago
Despite being on land, Guantanamo is a nice preview of non-"libertarian" implementation of seasteading.
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by VladRussian 15y ago
it is clear that author's emotions are out of control in both cases - during the described incident and when she writes the post. She fails by refusing to recognize that. High-tech jobs are very stressful (after all, each of us is immensely
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>Gowalla will bring great engineers and with them a whole bunch of other innovative people to f-book ... "greatest fears" as voiced by their COO last week in NY at the BI Ignition conference (lack of innovation, lack of people i worked
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>I don't think it takes millions and federal loans to make an EV. ... Enthusiasts have been converting small ICE cars ("internal combustion engine" cars) into electrics for many years. Musk for example converted Lotus. I completely shar
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by VladRussian 15y ago
http://www.salesforce.com/chatter/whatischatter/
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>wouldn’t those laws apply equally to IM as to email? In other words, if the law requires that internal communication be logged they’d be screwed either way in your scenario. then how about oral "instant messaging"?
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by VladRussian 15y ago
the're being bought at 20x this year revenue and 15x of the next year one. It is a bit on the higher end of the range, yet nowhere close to the "hot air" based billion valuations everybody knows about.
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by VladRussian 15y ago
the article is "Why Women Don't Negotiate" _with men_. Or do women also treat negotiating women badly? Btw, i also don't negotiate. I just take best offer (last time i refused 2 before much better one came) and change job when i feel the ma
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Samsung Reveals 2 GHz Cortex-A15 Exynos 5250 Chip(tomshardware.com)
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by VladRussian 15y ago
my theory is that slowly and measuredly leaking confirmations to the old, well established conspiracy theories, They create a managed well controlled sideshow ( if They wanted to take Wikileaks down - They would already have ) which takes a
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>Moores law would suggest that todays users would buy 8 to 16GB of DRAM which just hasn't materialized. my half year old 4Gb laptop i'd buy with 8Gb at least. Yet they all still come with 4Gb (and its happening for something like 2 year
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>And data centers can make use of tons of RAM--the main constraint is its price. price through several aspects. Among the main constraints is the number of memory slots (as we have mainly 4Gb and 8Gb RAM modules to work with). And 8Gb E
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>I'm surprised that they didn't include a motion to declare the contract invalid on the grounds of duress. success of such motion would destroy all the "pay for the service" system as you do agree to pay for the service before it is ren
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by VladRussian 15y ago
yep, toothache would make you sign anything on the spot (met the situation several years ago, though it wasn't copyright agreement situation).
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>who don't want to have malware, a broken OS, their personal data stolen, etc. who needs malware when all these locked devices already come with location logger, key typing logger, remote wipe and other stuff we yet to discover.
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by VladRussian 15y ago
instead of 1 single core single cpu PC shared with my wife, we now have (counting only ours, not company issued laptop and 2 Mac desktops) 3 PCs (1 desktop type and 2 are server dual quad cores opterons (and 1 old dual dual core)), 2 laptop
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by VladRussian 15y ago
congratulations to everybody on abolishing of one more instance of legal discrimination on ethnic grounds. While it may seem like a zero sum game (as number of visas is still the same) and thus i have no idea how, yet still lets hope that l
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by VladRussian 15y ago
just a sidenote - if bittorrent software ensure that no peer-to-peer interaction exceeds 30 sec. for any given title, would MPAA/RIAA/etc... still be able to claim "illegal dowload"?
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by VladRussian 15y ago
Seems like tin foil hats, jackets and pants are going to be in fashion
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>we need leaders it is hardly possible to describe the root cause of the problem in less words than that.
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by VladRussian 15y ago
somebody smart said that it isn't that new ideas win, it is a new generation accepting the new ideas replaces the old generation. Couple generations later (i'll be in my 70-80ies :) when current teenagers will be the judges, DAs, ... the is
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by VladRussian 15y ago
how it was managed before the Internet? Did they order to blacken specific phone number(s) in all instances of yellow books?
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by VladRussian 15y ago
sounds like you have never been to the interview in the American Consulate abroad. If the company isn't well known, the amount of paparework you'd need to bring will be impressive, like tax, balance sheets, etc... reports for a nice number
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by VladRussian 15y ago
There are cheap pockets in Bay Area, like Oakland for example. There is a reason why nobody who can afford to not live there doesn't live there. Such pockets would definitely benefit from influx of educated enterpreneurial people.
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by VladRussian 15y ago
>and the money is backed only by the faith and credit of the nation who issues it. another view was that the demand for and value of the money is supported by the government collecting back the taxes in supposedly the money printed by t
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by VladRussian 15y ago
sounds like another "most self-consciously high-minded" firm - Arthur Andersen.

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