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by alexro 14y ago
In London too
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by alexro 14y ago
First of all: why airplane toilets called bathrooms?
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by alexro 14y ago
The best concise system to avoid having these 5 regrets I've heard of is 'SSS' : sport, sex, sleep. Everything else is optional.
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by alexro 14y ago
>> The only way not to regret anything is never dream and be happy with whatever hits you and with whatever comes out of your efforts. << It is also non-accidentally the only way to live for a religious person. The thought t
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by alexro 15y ago
What web server you're running on? I've had very bad experience with xsp
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by alexro 15y ago
IndexTank had one appealing option: it allowed to change associated statistics, like number of votes, without re-indexing the document. It also allowed to dynamically use ranking functions. Also, other solutions allow indexing in different
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by alexro 15y ago
This has actually went into a wrong place; should be an answer to the question about facets.
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by alexro 15y ago
From the article: Amazon CloudSearch has a number of advanced search capabilities including faceting and fielded search
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by alexro 15y ago
I'm at risk of sounding offensive, but I don't mean it. I just want to point out that to me many recent accomplishments in the realm of web frameworks sound similar to how Microsoft was making noise back in the day with their frameworks. Th
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by alexro 15y ago
Steve Blank seems to answer it the best http://steveblank.com/2012/03/29/nail-the-customer-developme...
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by alexro 15y ago
And, if I get it correctly, that way you can tether the iPad via the android where there is no wifi?
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by alexro 15y ago
The famine wasn't specific to Ukraine wasn't it? Southern areas of Russia suffered the same if not worse. Currently the Russian population is degrading without any purges and people die from poor conditions and criminals (including police
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by alexro 15y ago
Holodomor was part of the Ukranian political agenda during Yushchenko ruling and is a made up 'fact'. During same Holodomor times people dies through out Russia as well, and the event was caused by coincided mismanagement and bad seasonal c
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by alexro 15y ago
You take bold statement too literary. 20 million died in the WW2, they were murdered by Germans.
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by alexro 15y ago
By pretending to work you don't usually get first into space, build huge cities and otherwise achieve anything.
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by alexro 15y ago
Funny enough how otherwise objective HN community tends to support bold statements like this, which usually come up in a brainwashing activities. The only fact that gets tossed out is that Russia was never a peaceful country, and there were
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by alexro 15y ago
I hope you are right. But back in the days with never-ending wars there were never times like ours with the possibility to blow up the world in a go. So, the wars get smaller but have bigger impact.
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by alexro 15y ago
What scale shall we use to compare the results of, say, Hirasima/Nagasaki nuclear bombing with what, say, Mongolians did? Or is it all about being able to manage the public image?
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by alexro 15y ago
Even if you are right 'technically' how about being right 'psychophysically' - what are these willing to occupy the wall streets do not understand?
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by alexro 15y ago
In Soviet Union people had no property rights but there were millions enthusiastically working for the future. Now there are property rights and everybody fights for them. Also, investment bankers economics is killing the West too.
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by alexro 15y ago
Historically this is a proven strategy exercised by all empires and there is nothing new to it: expand and enrich your citizens in good times and milk them in tough times; rinse and repeat.
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by alexro 15y ago
The whole 20th century was total mess for Europe and the East. That there were no global wars after 2000 doesn't mean 21st century will be less horrible, given the amount of warfare present.
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by alexro 15y ago
Add to this current monetary system which favours the US dollar and is backed with tons of gun power. Not exactly the ideal world of free trade I'd say.
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by alexro 15y ago
Most of the USA wealth is due to the monetary system with the dollar on top. Call it trade if you like.
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by alexro 15y ago
Is it the HN version of "go kill yourself" that intelligent people should use?
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by alexro 15y ago
You really believe they did just fell down, one after another, starting with Tunisia? I envy your good spirit.
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by alexro 15y ago
Why, on the other hand, you take your Economist and go show it to the folks mentioned? Alone in the evening. Scared?
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by alexro 15y ago
It isn't true. The calculations are done for some "average" group. And the group is selected based on the research goals, can have nothing in common with say your family.
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by alexro 15y ago
That's it. And even if the poverty was still the same or better, what we as a whole get after such interventions is excess amounts of hate. Better let the countries alone, you Barak
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by alexro 15y ago
Frankly, to this exactly moment the greater part of rich people doesn't help us to get less suspicious.

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