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by _nedR 9y ago
If a Chinese sweatshop in Hangzhou, was able to make a perfect replica of a F1 race car or a jet engine (that performed to the same standards as their contemporaries) i would be in complete awe and give total respect. If a similar Chinese s
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by _nedR 9y ago
I am pretty sure that wiring your house is (rightly) illegal in many countries unless you are a licensed electrician, because of the fire Hazard and all.
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by _nedR 9y ago
Seriously? Lego has been in business for almost a century. They should have recuperated their initial costs for their molds by now.
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by _nedR 9y ago
>Japanese civilians at the time weren't really innocent. Wow, Its fascinating, the mental gymnastics people perform to rationalise the atrocities their side perpetrates while in the same breath deploring the atrocities committed by
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by _nedR 9y ago
Also, I am not really sure about the "quality" aspect. All that complexity, all those moving parts, high power components next to low power components - seems a lot could wrong down the road. Ofc they seem to be well built so the
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by _nedR 9y ago
So military dictatorship overthrowing democracy= good. Democratically elected islamist government = bad. Got it.
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by _nedR 9y ago
Europe and America caused this problem. Europe and America invaded iraq. Europe killed Gaddafi and then abandoned Libya to the vacuum. On Syria, i guess Europe and america and share blame with their middle eastern allies. But again Europe w
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by _nedR 9y ago
Cassava too, native to South America, a staple food or costaple in much of Africa especially in drought susceptible parts like sub-Sahara. Its also quite important to many parts of Asia. Edit: the impact of the columbian exchange on the wor
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by _nedR 10y ago
The idea isn't new but it never really took off. http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM_SafetyPIN_software
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by _nedR 10y ago
It seems to be game over for diesel cars in general, even if you ignore their eventual replacement with electric cars. They have been getting a lot of bad press lately. Their popularity was due to their higher fuel efficiency; But for diese
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by _nedR 10y ago
How many government employees were arrested since Modi took over? Don't see the corruption angle. The measure was primarily to improve governments tax receipts and to eliminate the cash economy (thereby increasing governments control
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by _nedR 10y ago
I like it!
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by _nedR 10y ago
Yeah, but Uber and Lyft are not restricted to one city or country. No Taxi company (of the kind that actually owns and operates their own fleet of cars) could do that.
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by _nedR 10y ago
Sorry. This is the first time I am hearing about this tech. Why couldn't it be practical at the scale of a home? Say if you have a large backyard?
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by _nedR 10y ago
For me session manager sessions (in firefox) are the new bookmarks. i try to split different fields of interest into separate windows. Then i save that window as a suitably titled session and close the window. If i need to add a new tab to
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by _nedR 10y ago
No. Since WW2 was the most deadly conflict in human history. https://vimeo.com/128373915
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by _nedR 10y ago
True. But the relationship has spanned many decades into the cold war, with Pakistan leaning towards the US and India leaning towards Russia. There was little trust or love or shared values involved, but it was still one borne of necessity,
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by _nedR 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Lib... The Rwandan genocide was in many ways a grass roots movement - Most of the killing was perpetrated by normal everyday people using farm implements and th
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by _nedR 10y ago
>Make no mistake, it's always been all out information warfare. If you look at evolution, it is just a fight over whose genes get passed over to the next generation. Genes are just biological encoding of information. Viruses are alm
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by _nedR 10y ago
The thing i like about Al Jazeera, is if 20 people die in the west and 50 people die in say Sierra Leone, almost all major media outlets (including international ones) will ignore Sierra Leone and plaster the western incident all over the f
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by _nedR 10y ago
apropos of this, Al-Jazeera has an interesting documentary on this topic: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/rebelarchitecture/2014/0...
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by _nedR 10y ago
While we are on the subject the UK has a law that states : "No extracts from parliamentary proceedings may be used in comedy shows or other light entertainment such as political satire" So political satire shows like Jon Stewart a
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by _nedR 10y ago
The only reason i know these countries have a history is from watching this video a couple day back( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5LY4Mz15o ). It is strange but i never really thought of Russia as neighbours with China o
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by _nedR 10y ago
Also most guys wouldn't care in the least about rings (unless you know it has bluetooth or zigbee or something). Agree grandparent comment truly made me understand the woman's side of thing. It's easy for men to dismiss them
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by _nedR 10y ago
Wow, This is an interesting idea. It looks like using wires for I/O will be be outmoded in the not too distant future and who knows, maybe in 50 years they may be outmoded even for recharging. So this could truly be the last universal
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by _nedR 10y ago
Life pro tip : The correct orientation in which a usb-cable is to be connected is usually indicated by the presence of the usb symbol.
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by _nedR 10y ago
Paper : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-... Or Article : http://gizmodo.com/5919818/why-nigerian-scammers-say-theyre-... Quite clever and counter-intuitive re
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by _nedR 10y ago
I am not too familiar with it, but gridcoin ( http://gridcoin.us ) apparently verifies and rewards people donate computation power to BOINC.
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by _nedR 10y ago
Why don't they track the comings and going of non-dictators? Why not expose wrong-doings of leaders whose people actually have an ability to right the wrong?
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by _nedR 10y ago
Fwiw, this article was posted was just the other day on hn : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12626314

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