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by borism 15y ago
Cold war wasn't a war. Work on jet engine began long before WW2 (and it failed to accelerate during WW2). So did the work on nuclear fission (if it wasn't for top scientists incl. Einstein convincing US President to fund it, there wouldn't
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by borism 15y ago
yeah, two guys all of us might or may not be related to... one have domesticated deer, offered good conditions for it to breed (protected it from other predators including hunters like himself) and then he and his children prospered off the
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by borism 15y ago
I sure hope that's not what OP meant...
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Start-up soup(aljazeera.com)
1 points by borism 15y ago|0 comments
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by borism 15y ago
What are the Norwegian govt plans for the long-time future when their oil is over? second largest sovereign fund in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund#Largest_s... plus all the investments into its' own people
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by borism 15y ago
Anyone who subscribes to the FT can attest to just how great their ipad site is. I thought it was HTML5 site?
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by borism 15y ago
it's 300+ km above you and passes at ~10km/s. how much more health risk does it pose than your neighborhood cellular tower or even your home wifi box for that matter? not to mention that there are definitely more than 1 radar in 300km radiu
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Dan Loeb Wants Jerry Yang Off Yahoo Board(allthingsd.com)
2 points by borism 15y ago|0 comments
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by borism 15y ago
I wouldn't think getting HD-making-factories flooded is such a good thing for HD-manufacturers. I'll be the other side of this trade.
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by borism 15y ago
what is VGA adapter used for?
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by borism 15y ago
well then we wouldn't be talking about acquisition but a team change, would we?
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by borism 15y ago
The acquiring company causes the liquidity pref to vanish regardless of the currency, if they're sensible. huh? and how exactly would they do that in a legal way?
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by borism 15y ago
Can you? Is it possible to be friends with someone who says that anyone who disagrees with his ideas is evil? Yes. Depends on definition of evil , I guess. P.S. in Stallman case I guess definition of evil goes something like this: "I
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by borism 15y ago
As you have correctly noted, there is NO below-class in this vision (well maybe except hotel concierge). We may only imagine how we might arrive to such future.
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by borism 15y ago
Why would time be of any value if nobody is ageing after 25?
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by borism 15y ago
* for a similar enough definition of heaven, hell and multiverse. Have you read the article?
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by borism 15y ago
I think it's a she in the second link.
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Egyptians march from Tahrir Sq to US Emb to support Occupy Oakland protestors(boingboing.net)
4 points by borism 15y ago|1 comments
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by borism 15y ago
making that sphere not interfere with airflow from the rotors is not trivial.
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by borism 15y ago
People have mentioned a lot of great apps here for both Android and iOS. What they forget is that all those apps get their information from somewhere and a lot of it is coming from hobbyists and amateur astronomers putting it up on http://
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by borism 15y ago
thank you!
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by borism 15y ago
if there is such thing as too smart, then HN is the place to find it.
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by borism 15y ago
Newer thin-film solar panels represent a jump in paradigm isn't this what Allen said in his critique? scientific achievement doesn't just grow exponentially - there are those "jumps in paradigm" that move us forward, but they're relativel
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by borism 15y ago
Haven't heard about Warren Mossler before, but yeah, he does seem pretty important figure in MMT circles. But this so called refutation seems to be totally missing the point. No wonder - it's coming from Austrian. This is like asking Aristo
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by borism 15y ago
You might find a higher sticker price on a Mac, but it is a pretty safe assumption that the added cost is to get you into OS X. Which just so happens to be the only reason why you would consider purchasing a Mac in the first place. You mi
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by borism 15y ago
People just compare any junk say Dell with the same hardware specs (memory, processor, disk, chipset, etc) to a MBP. you prove my point. To you computer isn't just a piece of commodity. It IS a status symbol, a thing to revere. I guess it
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by borism 15y ago
For example, why hasn't China invaded the USA yet? Perhaps they are waiting until they get their ~$4T back! :) theoretically it is fairly easy to repay those $4T. you would need some large container ship to transport all of them back to C
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by borism 15y ago
Province is not a country - they don't issue their own currency. Comparing Alberta's AAA to US or whatever sovereign AAA is nonsense.
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by borism 15y ago
I always get dizzy when I try to understand the monetary system. It seems insane. It really shouldn't work at all. you use wrong/incomplete models to describe it (incidentally so do policymakers). try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_
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by borism 15y ago
US Dollars = US Treasury Bonds. they are freely interchangeable! money IS debt!

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