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Nosotek -- North Korean software development(nosotek.com)
3 points by drinian 16y ago|1 comments
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by drinian 16y ago
More to the point, The Diamond Age basically describes an intelligent hypertext book.
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by drinian 16y ago
I spent two summers working in the international services department of a major American medical school, helping with visa applications for foreign medical students and doctors. I can tell you that we had Iranian nationals studying there. (
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by drinian 16y ago
It's great that some of these issues are actually being discussed, now that the LDP is out of power. I have to wonder how much longer the current government will remain, though. By the way, the 6 PM news in Tokyo carried these pictures on F
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by drinian 16y ago
This article, "No need to know the law, but you must obey it," is an excellent introduction to the topic. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20100629zg.html
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by drinian 16y ago
Nothing is easier to find than a gift shop in Washington, DC... You're right, but I'm trying to illustrate that this irrationality exists, to some degree, in most countries (and it's depressing).
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by drinian 16y ago
It's not only Germany, but lots of other countries as well. I remember, several years ago, noticing that the White House had been pixellated out of Google Maps. Later that day, I used a rest-stop bathroom near Washington, DC... and noticed,
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by drinian 16y ago
There's also an upscale clothing chain in Malaysia and Singapore called "British India," oddly enough.
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by drinian 16y ago
Right, I also paid off my loans within two years, and it doesn't seem to have affected my (very good) credit rating negatively. I've also had a credit card in my name (with my dad as guarantor, at first) since I was about 16 -- and he has s
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by drinian 16y ago
If you're going to switch search engines, you should start blocking out Google advertising and analytics services as well; AdBlockPlus and an /etc/hosts killfile are good places to start.
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by drinian 16y ago
The court reporter did a heroic job on this transcript. Not very many misspellings. Can anyone tell what the cross-examination is getting at?
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by drinian 16y ago
On the other hand, one of the reasons for Net Neutrality in the first place was to encourage an open market for services like video. The fact of the matter is that it's 2010, and I still have to subscribe to UVerse/Comcast/whatever if I wan
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by drinian 16y ago
Seems like a good time to resurrect /etc/hosts as killfile. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
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by drinian 16y ago
I find your single example of "unfreedom" in Europe to be entirely nonsensical. Your friend was sued for defamation, and folded rather than take it to court, in one of the fairest court systems in the world, where she likely could have won
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by drinian 16y ago
Not there until the 20th. Good luck with your launch!
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by drinian 16y ago
You've summed it up pretty well. I saw a survey recently that said the number of young Japanese who have no desire to live abroad is going up quickly. The very next day, I read an article about a big auto show in China, where one of the sen
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by drinian 16y ago
I live on the Skytrain. My experience, shopping for electronics on my round-the-world trip, is that the US (especially Newegg) is the cheapest place in the world for quality electronics, thanks to a combination of competition, large market,
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by drinian 16y ago
I have to say, I haven't seen Matsuya. (I'm also a fan -- had a number of meals in a Matsuya near Asakusa). But you should be able to find donburi pretty easily in any of the big mall food courts. Oddly enough, Yoshinoya doesn't have much o
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by drinian 16y ago
I'm in Bangkok right now, and I can tell you that just about anything available in Tokyo is here as well, for a considerably lower price. Most of the big Japanese food chains are here, even. It's not surprising that there are Japanese compa
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by drinian 16y ago
Malaria is a serious economic drain on endemic countries. It's likely that without this disease burden, living conditions would improve, and the birth rate would go down in these places. Also, I've had dengue fever, a relatively mild case t
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by drinian 16y ago
And that's the point, really -- don't let your metadata get locked into one service! We should have been supporting exchange standards for this stuff years ago. That's the downfall of the Web age of the Internet; we (the public) reverted to
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by drinian 16y ago
Just a plug for Somersets shaving oil rather than shaving cream or gel. Works quite well, and you can carry it on planes without any hassle (I went around the world with it). http://www.somersets.com/
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by drinian 16y ago
If only the Internet Fax specifications were written in a more sane manner...
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by drinian 16y ago
The school was in Nicaragua, and it's been of great use to researchers: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/06/2...
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by drinian 16y ago
Every federal government since the second World War, and especially since Reagan. Deficit spending is closely tied to currency inflation.
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by drinian 16y ago
I agree with you, except perhaps on the "no advertising" bit. Advertising often serves a useful purpose in a community. How to translate to the Web, I'm not sure.
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by drinian 16y ago
These are all rebranded versions of the SheevaPlug and GuruPlug, manufactured by Marvell. So, if you're looking to write your own software stack on top, just buy from Marvell... https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/SheevaPlug
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by drinian 16y ago
"HTTPS Everywhere Possible" just doesn't have the same ring. A few years back, I looked into making an extension that relied on an RFC that was never widely implemented, allowing a user agent to request an upgrade to HTTPS whenever possible
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by drinian 16y ago
My experience in other developing-world places where nearly-free foreign money has allowed a few people to short-circuit the civilized-society-building process (e.g. tourist areas like Bali) is that, culturally, many people will begin to lo
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by drinian 16y ago
Untrue. (See above).

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