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by cynest 15y ago
What constitutes cybersquatting or having the rights to a domain you purchased? When can someone who feels they could better use the domain sue?
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by cynest 15y ago
I was thinking Long Range Foundation, but that works too.
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by cynest 15y ago
I had a similar experience when she visited my AP econ class shortly after declaring her candidacy. She displayed a mixture of being obviously uninformed and having contempt for her audience.
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by cynest 15y ago
This also applies to the over-18ers. It's excess effort to put in a real dob.
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by cynest 15y ago
It ends up promoting kids lying about their birthdates on a regular basis. There's actually no incentive to tell the truth.
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by cynest 15y ago
Lack of exposure to activities like coding is a problem in society beyond HN-types. These activities should be something children are exposed to in school because their home environments will not provide this exposure.
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by cynest 15y ago
I don't think that's a good rule at all. Ender's game a is popular children's novel and is likely remembered fondly in any techie/nerd/geek setting. It just shouldn't belong at the top of a "best of scifi" list.
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by cynest 15y ago
It honestly depends on what's submitted. Do I consider "Never Forget" type posts irrelevant? Yes. However, I suspect there will be a few good pieces analyzing the fallout of that event released soonish. Those can be relevant. Now if only we
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by cynest 15y ago
I'll give you the answer child me would say: presents and cake. In other words, we celebrate because we get something desirable out of the celebration or the act of celebrating.
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by cynest 15y ago
> They are super expensive though, 10x the price of a .com. Not unless a reseller has the .com. This assume you aren't going for something clever though.
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by cynest 15y ago
While there is truth to this argument, like llambda I feel that the ever increasing search for quality subreddits leaves much to be desired. I don't like going to a site and then spending a large portion of the time avoiding a large and gro
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by cynest 15y ago
Republic of China \= People's Republic of China. Given the lack of details in the article, it doesn't appear as if that date system would be used in Beijing.
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by cynest 15y ago
Often it's required of the prof as well. Mandating classroom attendance is a way for colleges to retain students through two means: 1): Making N% of the grade attendance based means that students have to do even less well to fail the course
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by cynest 15y ago
I wonder how long till you can buy something similar that connects with your cell phone from Best Buy.
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by cynest 15y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1588727
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by cynest 15y ago
They also have to be cost effective.
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by cynest 15y ago
I found a picture of an A380 cockpit and it appears to have that design philosophy. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Airbus_A3...
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by cynest 15y ago
I'm assuming it's increasing the long term capital gains tax rate. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_United... , the short term rate is as arjunnarayan suggested, barring any differences in exemptions betwe
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by cynest 15y ago
And that it would take millions of dollars to fix.
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by cynest 15y ago
It doesn't necessarily. It is an object that due to current models of quasar formation should not exist at that point in time. This means that there is something wrong with those or current estimations of the age of the universe. The latter
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by cynest 15y ago
I would imagine Jewish communities push higher education and achievements relating to it at a rate well above the norm. They are also a sizable minority in countries likely to produce nobel laureates. I suspect given a few decades asians wi
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by cynest 15y ago
I was referring only to US tendencies to perceive certain professions as more prestigious. Doctors and lawyers have more prestige compared to other professions if you only include those prestigious professions that mandate higher education.
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by cynest 15y ago
Clovis, CA
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by cynest 15y ago
> That is not the case in the United States ... where the reputation ladder is topped by jobs like doctor or lawyer That would be a sample of environments where higher education is strongly pushed. In the area I grew up in, the amount p
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by cynest 15y ago
I remember when that happened. Cancelled my sub immediately afterwards. The reasoning was to kill real money trading by any means possible. The problem with runescape at the time was that the economy started to revolve around using alchemy
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by cynest 15y ago
Also, Eve especially has problems with continuous commitments to your alliance. No spaceholding alliance would give up defending their space to protest vanity monocles and the possibility of microtransactions.
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by cynest 15y ago
It's less the jeweler and more his suppliers.
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by cynest 15y ago
I think posting it in bad faith would certainly qualify as a hoax, or something close to a hoax at least.
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by cynest 15y ago
Iirc, Watson used voice input.
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by cynest 15y ago
When you consider only the nontrivial applications in each, McDonalds is probably more selective.

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