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by borism 15y ago
seriously? even if those personal electronics are priced at a hefty premium over their counterparts?
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by borism 15y ago
guess what, country is no private citizen. it isn't even a family or a company, so pictures like this are deeply flawed: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/318450_...
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Citizens' Testing Finds 20 Radioactivity Hot Spots Around Tokyo(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by borism 15y ago|0 comments
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by borism 15y ago
still haven't sold me on that one...
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Paul Allen and Mark Greaves: The Singularity Isn't Near(technologyreview.com)
2 points by borism 15y ago|0 comments
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An Open Letter To The Occupiers From A Veteran Troublemaker(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by borism 15y ago|0 comments
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by borism 15y ago
in case of search, wouldn't law enforcement agency seize ALL your equipment, not just the one box you point them to saying: "here's my diskless tor relay. take it!" ?
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by borism 15y ago
why Lion-only then?
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by borism 15y ago
free software isn't a religious movement like Stallman would like it to be. it's just a social concept (one of many) of how we humans should organise our interactions with regards to software. I believe it's an useful concept and probably s
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by borism 15y ago
probably nothing to do with monetary damage itself and everything to do with reputation damage.
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by borism 15y ago
> tech companies can fizzle into nothingness in seconds their products and services can. but the people who made them and their ideas usually don't disappear without a trace. so if you see a service that was quickly shutdown by parent
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by borism 15y ago
it's missing some important items like Paul Graham's 101 Start-up Commandments and something YC-themed I couldn't come up with yet.
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by borism 15y ago
if anything, google search for "gravitational wave astronomy" returns UTB CGWA as the 2nd result. Besides, even OP states that affirmative action was only "in part" responsible for funding success.
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by borism 15y ago
dunno what he means by "engine management system", but FADECs most certainly don't run Solaris, but very specialized real-time OSes. maybe he means Flight Management Computers? those don't have direct control over avionics anyway, AFAIK.
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by borism 15y ago
Yes, but they do it on paper? I mean, even the static scan of paper maps with dynamically resizable labels will often times do better than what we have on screens right now.
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by borism 15y ago
maybe I just want to see contour and topo information, and don't want to see political boundaries. well that's the thing - very few if any digital maps allow you to do simple things like this. possibilities of digital cartography are much
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by borism 15y ago
why nobody has managed to create digital cartography as beautiful as this yet? I mean, ability to pinch zoom into satellite photo of my neighborhood is awesome and such, but I'd change it any day for beautiful (and correct!) offline cartogr
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by borism 15y ago
It's not like in startups founders sit in a closed room and "envision" strategy and plan, then come out and hand it over to their minions to implement. Startupping is a creative process in which all levels of company should participate, goo
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by borism 15y ago
dunno, never calculated total amount. maybe few years' salary worth at most, spread over a few years. nothing to write home about, yet :)
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by borism 15y ago
don't forget the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
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by borism 15y ago
Funny, cause if the Spanish crown didn't fund Columbuses search for alternative route to East-Indies, we wouldn't be talking about American science right now.
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Steve Jobs' patent for the UK plug?(google.com)
4 points by borism 15y ago|2 comments
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Hookers and Skype(jackmarchetti.com)
2 points by borism 15y ago|0 comments
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by borism 15y ago
You don't agree that it is existential for HP to be in tablet business, even if it generates negative or close to zero margin (much like their PC, printer etc. office equipment businesses do now)? How long do you think will they be able to
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by borism 15y ago
These sorts of articles always smack of cargo cultism. Not this article though. It proposes pretty clear solutions, and no, they don't involve money or anything political you talk about. In fact quite opposite, it talks that both right an
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by borism 15y ago
Not all of company's products need to be profitable all at the same, especially for the beast like HP. Obviously they need to be in the tablet business as it's direct threat to almost everything else they've got (well, except servers). So d
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by borism 15y ago
What is more "tech" than 6-magnitude earthquake in the middle of Virginia!? Is the only topic permissable here these days another software patent debacle or something?
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by borism 15y ago
They write in the article it's not about the money - they spend third less than the USA. Taxes have nothing to do with how children are being taught.
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by borism 15y ago
Not necessarily. But think about it logically. Earthquake is a quick release of kinetic energy of a tectonic plate in one relatively small location. But the whole plate moves! So yes, earthquakes happening on the same plate's boundary can v
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by borism 15y ago
what car costs million dollars anyway? Lamborghini Gallardo is "only" quarter of a mil... And Veyron is way above (couple of) million.

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