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by awarzzkktsyfj 15y ago
my username is 'awarzzkktsyfj'
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by awarzzkktsyfj 15y ago
'building' is not optional.
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by awarzzkktsyfj 15y ago
Lovely, downvotes. Guess we don't have too many New Yorkers in the readership here. FYI, you can't shorten the Chrysler Building to 'Chrysler' either. That's a corporation.
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by awarzzkktsyfj 15y ago
The Empire State is New York State: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State Or did the article headline really mean the empire state BUILDING? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building
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by awarzzkktsyfj 15y ago
http://www.economist.com/node/16636101 ... outside Germany and Switzerland, Europe’s freight rail services are a fragmented, lossmaking mess. Repeated attempts to remove the technical and bureaucratic hurdles at national frontiers have co
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by awarzzkktsyfj 15y ago
The article is about a company named Lytro. 'Refocus Imaging' is the previous name of Lytro.
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by awarzzkktsyfj 15y ago
While the car example is decent enough in explaining how preferences can be absurd, "distant food" is a pretty poor example. It is not driven by customer preferences, but by economics.
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by awarzzkktsyfj 15y ago
New York is still full of schemers, compared to SF Bay area. I lived in Mountain View for two years, San Francisco for three, and NYC for two -- I am in the process of moving back to Mountain View. I love NYC as a place to live, but found
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by awarzzkktsyfj 15y ago
Google's Dutch auction IPO pricing looks even more appealing after seeing this. Too bad it took a recession for them to get the bargaining power to demand a Dutch auction.
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by awarzzkktsyfj 15y ago
"Classmates.com has agreed to refund nearly $10 million to users who were told that long-lost school chums were looking at their profiles, only to find, once they’d ponied up a subscription fee, that no one they knew was looking for them at
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by awarzzkktsyfj 16y ago
Really? You can plot them together, and it appears 'quorra' spiked about two weeks before 'quora'. Tron released December 17th 2010, according to wikipedia, correlating nicely with 'quorra' searches. What happened January 1st to cause
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by awarzzkktsyfj 16y ago
Just because people are making a lot of money in finance does not mean they are smart, or would be capable working as an engineer or scientist.
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by awarzzkktsyfj 16y ago
.. open records be damned.
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by awarzzkktsyfj 16y ago
It's just hard to believe and sad that in 2011, a major taxpayer sponsored university releases a statement explaining that an open-records request is totally reasonable, and compliance in no way affects academic freedom.
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New York City is home to more than 626,000 post-secondary students(nycedc.com)
2 points by awarzzkktsyfj 16y ago|0 comments
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by awarzzkktsyfj 16y ago
It is justified in the context of the Stanford Daily. HN is in a totally different context, so this headline, copied verbatim, is misleading.
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by awarzzkktsyfj 16y ago
In fact, 18 universities _applied_ to an invitation by NYC. The HN headline is rather misleading, making it sound like Stanford has independently decided to branch out into New York.
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by awarzzkktsyfj 16y ago
... from 2006
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by awarzzkktsyfj 16y ago
> If I call a local number by only using its seven-digit number, WP7 never, ever figured out to map it to the relevant contact. My old Motorola RAZR phones did that. What part of the country still allows 7 digit dialing?
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Messaging App Roundup: The Finals(canadroid.com)
2 points by awarzzkktsyfj 16y ago|0 comments
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by awarzzkktsyfj 16y ago
Word definitions matter, significantly more than grammar and spelling.
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by awarzzkktsyfj 16y ago
Find yourself covered in slime? You're being thefted.
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by awarzzkktsyfj 16y ago
That's not a mugging. I think you mean robbed: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mugged to assault or menace, especially with the intention of robbery. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rob to take something from (someone) by