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   by ash 13y ago

   I currently have 2 SIMs for 2 different Russian regions. Calls via local SIM are cheaper. Even for the same operator. And I think I have 5 or more abandoned SIMs for more regions I've been to. And this is a norm. I'm surprised the
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   by ash 13y ago

   > Passport information is collected upon purchasing a SIM-card Not always. You can purchase anonymous SIM too. I did it two years ago on a train station. Price for calls is a little higher this way though.
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   by ash 13y ago

   Thank you! Upstart was released almost 4 years earlier (Wikipedia): Upstart initial release - 24 August 2006 systemd initial release - 30 March 2010
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   An open letter to president Obama(blog.rongarret.info)

   2 points by ash 13y ago|0 comments
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   by ash 13y ago

   From the audio recording of the message (starting from 30:40): "Not that I wanna be their official messenger." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNQSVurlAak&t=30m40s
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   by ash 13y ago

   I don't think it's known where he is staying exactly. But there's an article by CNN reporter investigating different places where he could be living: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/11/world&#x2F
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   by ash 13y ago

   Full audio recording of the meeting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNQSVurlAak
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   by ash 13y ago

   Last year?
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   by ash 13y ago

   > I thought they had an English version, but I can't find the link :) http://www.yandex.com/
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    by ash 13y ago

    > … Mr. Snowden later sent him a homemade video with step-by-step instructions for installing [encryption software], which Mr. Greenwald watched but never completed… In late April or early May, he and Mr. Snowden began to talk over an en
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    by ash 14y ago

    "The law of minimalism" was recently changed to "law of responsiveness": https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/612
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    by ash 14y ago

    It's not about overloading. JavaScript language doesn't have integers, only floats. JS engine has to use floating point add for (x + y). It's slower that integer add. But (x + y) | 0 truncates any float values that could theoretically come
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    by ash 14y ago

    > a trick we discovered to communicate over LAN between your phone and PC Wow! Could you please tell a little more about the trick? How does a LAN connection between your web app in the browser and your iPhone app work? Do you create a
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    by ash 14y ago

    I think you have the advantage of hosting the forum on the low ranking site. The forum would be more tasty target if it was on (higher ranking) SumatraPDF site. P.S. Thank you for SumatraPDF!
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    by ash 14y ago

    I'm excited about Firefox OS and would love it to succeed. But I'm sceptical about this announcement. In this list are Megafon and VimpelCom (AKA Beeline), two of the three leading operators in Russia. But their commitment means nearly noth
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    by ash 14y ago

    2. Is it really easy to spot? Note that Superchargers are at the very end of the video. No signs, no marks, no lights, just a few white columns near plain looking parking spots. 3. I've just measured with Google Maps ruler. It takes about 0
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    by ash 14y ago

    I've read the article, but I still don't understand what happened to Dell and why did they make the buyout. Could you explain it?
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    by ash 14y ago

    Or use Coral cache: http://blog.23andme.com.nyud.net/news/one-million-strong-a-n...
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    by ash 14y ago

    Seems to be overloaded. I had better luck with (Coral) cached version: http://thezikomoletter.com.nyud.net/2012/12/10/you-are-natur...
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    by ash 14y ago

    It would be nice if browsers added '▶' themselves. Or even had "show me pages that play audio" feature. Are there browser makers planning to implement it?
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    by ash 14y ago

    Some speculations: I suspect FCC simply allowed Raytheon to use whatever frequency its "Radarange" oven used. After all, Raytheon was the main radar producer for the US military. Presumably the military had a strong influence on FCC. Rememb
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    by ash 14y ago

    > It would have been Russia if it hadn't been Germany. You are technically correct - Germany invaded Poland first. But German and Soviet invasions of Poland were just 18 days apart: 1 September and 17 September 1939. All according to Mo
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    by ash 14y ago

    Switching layout is not an issue when typing code. You just type in English because keywords and API are obviously in English. The problem exist only for markup languages where you type prose. Still (in addition to English letters) these ar
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    by ash 14y ago

    Nice experiment. There's an issue with curly braces { }. When typing in Russian (and in other Cyrillic languages) you need to switch keyboard layout before and after each curly brace. It quickly becomes tiresome to do: type-in-russian, swit
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    by ash 14y ago

    Here's the color version of that surface image: http://mo-www.harvard.edu/microobs/guestobserverportal/Galil...
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    by ash 14y ago

    Auto-playing video, beware.
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    by ash 14y ago

    Unfortunately this RSS ends at issue #10. And the latest is #20...
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    by ash 14y ago

    Well, you can't do this: from __future__ import python3 (via http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/python3 )
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    by ash 14y ago

    Thanks for a better wording of my question! Even PyPy project doesn't have a goal of running py2-compatible and py3-compatible modules inside one interpreter: > At the end of the project, it will be possible to decide at translation tim
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    by ash 14y ago

    Why can't I use Python 2 modules from Python 3 program? Is there any effort to make it possible?