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by _nedR 11y ago
To be fair , the market niche for a phone that doesn't try to imprison you or ransom you to the highest bidder, hasn't yet been served. In the internet-landscape, Mozilla is the one that tries to intervene on the user's behal
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Oh ok. Looking up what you told me i learnt that what I thought was 1 concept called conciousness, could be defined as 2 separate but related concepts - Qualia and self-awareness. Looking up the wiki article, it seems most animals don&#x2
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Definitely they were not as culpable as the guys in unit 731 (Hell even Hitler was probably less sick than those guys). But their involvement (they used slave labour with people possibly tortured or worked to death) was strong enough for so
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by _nedR 11y ago
"Animals doesn't have any You." How can you possibly know that.
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Iran is a signatory to the 1951/1967 convention ( http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/3b73b0d63.pdf ) Saudi arabia (along with most gulf states) is not. As a result they are not included in UNHCR statistics
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Indeed. The fact that NASA chose to patent it seems to be evidence that patents are not used to protect innovation (of sensitive technologies at least). If it was innovative, they would have probably kept it secret as a matter of national s
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by _nedR 11y ago
Not just Unit 731, but a lot of America's rocketry experience was imported wholesale from Nazi Germany. We are talking 1500 scientists, technicians and engineers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip )
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by _nedR 11y ago
I think a lot of wars, murders, suicides, as well as a great many companies, inventions, organisations, movements happened at least partially to avoid embarrassment. In such cases, people prefer terms like "honour", "principl
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by _nedR 11y ago
This huffpost explains the discrepancy (and how western media organisations choose to ignore the reasons in their self-absorbed vilification and chest-thumping) : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anhvinh-doanvo/europes-cri
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Many of you might have faced this issue, but it was pretty weird facing it the first time. Problem was with the realtek soundchip on my card. Headphones stops working on windows (even though it detects it), but still works on ubuntu. Try al
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Here's one (behind paywall unfortunately) by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development that "found significant gray matter (GM) increase in right hippocampal formation (HC), right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and bi
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by _nedR 11y ago
>So your opinion that Muslims are in the same position I didn't say we were. I said wewere moving to that position. > I think that implying that what Israel does today is similar to the barbaric acts of constant mass murdering, e
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by _nedR 11y ago
>I don't see how temporary alliances with a secular regime indicate lack of true religious conviction. Group C that claims to be defenders of group A against group B, secretly allies itself with B against A. How does that not indica
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by _nedR 11y ago
>Except that the Jews of 1915 were not blowing up, mas-murdering nor terrorizing people, nor were they waging war on non-Jews. You are saying that if a small subset of Jews were blowing up, mass-murdering and terrorizing people (which th
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by _nedR 11y ago
Not exactly what you asked for but Here is an article that IMO better describes ISIS's actions : ( http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-file... )
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by _nedR 11y ago
Here is an article that IMO better describes ISIS's actions : ( http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-file... )
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by _nedR 11y ago
Such a loaded article (Quote from article "The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. ") making its way to the top of Hacker news (which shuns political articles like the plague) is very troubling to me as a M
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by _nedR 11y ago
This Der spiegel article has IMO provided the best model to explain ISIS's actions :( http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-file... ) I don't agree with the parent article. They are basi
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by _nedR 11y ago
Citation please. And a more trustworthy and neutral one than what you have given. Which battle are you referring to? edit: Perhaps the Battle of the Trench. If so, your comment is misleading. The Jews were forced into a surrender after havi
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by _nedR 11y ago
Should have (1995) in the title.
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>"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". I am a software engineer, and I think its black magic. Probably inside your nvidia chip there is a ouija board summoning spirits to conjure images onto yo
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>I have some thoughts on how to learn the latter, if anyone's interested. gimme, gimme.
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I have said this before and i'll say it again. The legend of the prowess of German engineering is one of the longest-standing and most successful corporate marketing campaigns pulled of, right up there with DeBeers 3 month salary rule.
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Nice idea. This is the advantage of having a huge fanbase. You can count on the fans to plug all the plot holes and patch up whatever poor writing the studio throws out.
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by _nedR 11y ago
I am not concerned as much by the loftiness of the claims (i honestly don't have much reference to judge them by), as i am worried about the lack of sources cited for the claims.
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I am also wondering whether this a submarine PR piece for the startup mentioned in the article - TPTQ Arabic. The founder was the primary source for pretty much the entire article. If there were other people quoted (like actual arab newsp
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Perhaps. Although lot of articles seem to claim that he was from a lower-middle class family, and i was basing my statement on those. His upbringing probably wasn't uncomfortable but still it was modest.
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GDP is not necessarily strongly related to poverty. But you are right. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_states_and_territories_... Tamil Nadu is above the midddle when you rank by poverty. I stand corr
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by _nedR 11y ago
I wouldn't conflate lack of ego with lack of drive or ambition or an averseness to risk. Especially for someone who went from a lower middle class family in one of the poorest states in India to becoming the CEO of Google. When a group
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by _nedR 11y ago
Yep. Like the WWII Japanese General said : "Just went we learn to play poker they change the game to bridge."

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