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by drinian 16y ago
Apparently I'm an old fart now, I used Godzilla every day and I only graduated four years ago. And I scored some neat stuff off of triangle.forsale, too -- but even five years ago, the Duke Usenet server was having stability problems that i
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by drinian 16y ago
It's a nice-to-have, for when you don't know exactly what you're looking for; I just wish that there were a way to make more people aware of things like Gnome Do as a complementary solution. http://do.davebsd.com/
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by drinian 16y ago
Zoloft stopped panic attacks for me after a similar series of absolutely crippling panic attacks. It's about as close to normalcy as you can get on a psychiatric drug -- also an SSRI like Lexapro, Prozac, etc. Reaction to each SSRI varies b
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by drinian 16y ago
I'm using Callcentric and am very happy -- have also switched over my parents. I'm traveling the world and their call-forwarding feature (to my local SIM card in country X) works very well. http://www.callcentric.com/
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by drinian 16y ago
Last year the government banned imports of Chinese handsets without the International Mobile Equipment Identity, or IMEI, number, again citing security reasons such as the use of stolen handsets to make terror or hoax calls. Chinese manuf
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by drinian 16y ago
Despite my copious use of credit cards[1], this is one reason I really like to use prepaid SIMs. Shame that there's only one semi-viable prepaid data option in the States; the rest of the world is generally better. [1] Then again, I don't g
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by drinian 16y ago
As a SIP user, this disappoints me; it's just one proprietary network to another.
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by drinian 16y ago
Bingo -- my parents' street, which is comprised mostly of successful professionals with post-graduate education who work full-time jobs, has excellent community spirit. It's pretty much a given that any Friday evening with warm weather, mos
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by drinian 16y ago
These editorials always make me wonder if my friends, cousins, and I are some sort of statistical outlier in my generation, or whether, maybe, it's just that the good workers my age don't get comment. Then again, I've been told I'm too crit
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by drinian 16y ago
I've mentioned bits and pieces in relevant stories here before, but haven't put a coherent account of my five days in the DPRK anywhere online. Paul Karl Lukacs' somewhat colorful account was what inspired me to go, and starts here: http:/
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by drinian 16y ago
I saw the Mass Games in Pyongyang last year. This interview is spot-on that the North Korean ideology is tightly tied to race. Hitler would have loved to have the ability to put on such a show, and it was so beautifully done that by the end
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by drinian 16y ago
Just, wow: So, I get to the building and nobody's there. I find the superintendent, give him a fifth of scotch, and he opens up Einstein's office so I can take some photos.
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by drinian 16y ago
Mozy used to include "DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY FUN BALL" in their T&C...
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by drinian 16y ago
Recently, I read an article about how soccer balls, most of which are made in a certain town in Pakistan, were no longer sewn by children, thanks to pressure from Adidas and other international firms. The children now work making bricks. Th
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by drinian 17y ago
Actually, just about every notable authoritarian regime in the world has a Linux-based OS these days -- Cuba, China, Russia, North Korea, Iran (?) You would too, if you were worried about using US-based Microsoft's software. No foreign back
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by drinian 17y ago
Iraq is a very dangerous place for journalists: from 2003- 2009, 139 journalists were killed while doing their work. That seems like an enormous number given that about 4,800 US soldiers died in the same time period. At about 250,000 US t
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by drinian 17y ago
While this isn't on the same scale, we spent several weeks in high school studying My Lai[1] as a lesson in personal responsibility and morality. It seems we've learned nothing, not even to be honest when these things happen, but, then agai
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by drinian 17y ago
On the other hand, the authors of this article are implicitly placing trust in the statistics presented by the various arms of the US government, and criticizing the police, for instance, because they punished officers for corruption. Would
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by drinian 17y ago
I use Etrade, which has not-great customer service, simply because they have a 0% foreign exchange fee policy, and reimburse for all ATM fees. (And I have a Capital One credit card for the same reason). If this is important to you, you shou
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by drinian 17y ago
Someone registered that domain name just to host a pirated copy of a book? (Mind, it's one of my favorite books).
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by drinian 17y ago
My biggest complaint, among many, is that their ubiquitous Flash intros have a "skip intro" button -- inside the Flash animation . Why do I have Flashblock, again?
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by drinian 17y ago
AirBnB and Couchsurfing both do pretty well with mixing strangers; the bigger problem is probably that the users would have to keep updating a rideshare site with their own plans, and the site would have to battle jitney drivers' attempting
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by drinian 17y ago
Also see: http://tombakersays.com/
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by drinian 17y ago
Is there anything that you do in the office or within your home LAN that you can't do remotely? Extremely large video files, transparent network storage, etc.? Then you'll find a use for 100 mbit Internet.
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by drinian 17y ago
Just wait until Wegmans comes to your area. They're fantastic, except for the fact that it takes an enormous number of customers to sort one, and so are usually surrounded by parking-lot oceans.
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by drinian 17y ago
That list makes me think that you just finished reading Cory Doctorow's Makers . If you haven't, you should. It's available online under a CC license.
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by drinian 17y ago
FTA: It also estimates that an additional 1.1 million children could be saved with the rapid introduction of a malaria vaccine beginning in 2014. Are we that close to a decent malaria vaccine? I might have to delay some travel plans if th
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by drinian 17y ago
CJK adaptation has been slow, not only because I suspect those countries tend to have a more insular Web, but because of the Han unification issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
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by drinian 17y ago
As a FSF member, I can tell you that their entire (print!) newsletter has the tone of a DPRK press release. Interestingly, the last actual piece that I read by RMS was considerably more reasonable -- it concerned the licensing of Javascript
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by drinian 17y ago
My general impression is that doing business with the DPRK is easier than generally thought; it's just that they don't really offer that many competitive advantages to doing so. Someone once posted a link on HN giving a price list for DPRK

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