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by enko 15y ago
Hm. Main source on this article seems to be Florian Mueller, a name I recognise from his performance on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428123 Maybe the article itself is still good, but just FYI.
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by enko 15y ago
>While that may be true, you don't hear it nearly as much when a Repub or Tory is in the executive office. Well, that's a textbook example of confirmation bias. There was an awful lot of news about NSLs & friends when GW Bush was in
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by enko 15y ago
Not to sound disrespectful, but it's been obvious for some time that these issues are systemic and have very little to do with who is democrat or republican, labor or liberal, tory or whig.
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by enko 15y ago
On the one hand, I'm happy to hear this. There is so much we need to work on, technology which needs to be invented and move forward, that such a hearty warchest makes me excited. Maybe I will actually be able to get that genetic therapy I
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by enko 15y ago
The japanese I know don't need auto-translated moral support, they need petrol. Or, if north of tokyo, they need petrol and electricity. Or, if even further northeast, they need a time machine so they can go back and tell their past selves
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by enko 15y ago
This looks like a graphical interpretation of the well-known quote: "We tend to overestimate the short term impact of a technology and underestimate the long term impact." (Dr. Francis Collins - Director of the Human Genome Project)
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by enko 15y ago
I happened to need a new vacuum a few months ago, and I asked a professional cleaner friend for her advice (don't laugh - it's a very lucrative business here in Sydney). She said, basically, Nilfisk or Miele, whichever's on sale. I asked
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by enko 15y ago
Australia, where metered access (XX GBs per month) rules, may provide some insight into how net non-neutrality plays out on practise. Here, it's not about speed limiting to "non-favoured" sites, but about whether consumption from those site
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by enko 16y ago
Now I'm even more confused. What was stopping you redeploying the server side app onto a new box and changing the hardcoded IP over to the new machine?
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by enko 16y ago
If that turns out to be the case .. I wouldn't go so far as to say they deserved it, but my sympathy would definitely be pretty limited.
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by enko 16y ago
You invoke "the science" as if it is some infallible magic spell which always shows truth. Unfortunately, "the science" is too often a set of results commissioned by imperfect humans juggling budgets, grant proposals, biases and conclusions
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by enko 16y ago
If nanotech is in full effect then yes, flying cars all around, in fact we shall have to do all we can do stop those lighter than air buggers drifting off willy nilly.
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by enko 16y ago
I, uh, don't suppose you noticed who that report was by? Certain parties, namely oil companies and OPEC members, have an extremely strong vested interested in "business as usual". BP being one of those parties. A measure of common sense, ho
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by enko 16y ago
My first thought is that it may not be necessary. Petrol will be so expensive by 2030 that only the rich will fill their collectible cars with it, and they are about as likely to drive them around the cities as the Baron Montagu commuting i
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by enko 16y ago
What a land of contradictions - on the one hand you have world's best companies like Apple and Google and on the other, these awful, badly run, penny wise pound foolish crapfests like AT&T. I actually just got back from a month in the U
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by enko 16y ago
Let's have a break from the incestuous cross-pollination on HN please. Frankly if HN had an option to ignore all posts from the top 10 leaderboard I would opt in to that; I am sick and tired of this entirely irrelevant person-specific drama
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by enko 16y ago
> No, you misread me. If one person "misreads" you, it's their problem. If everyone "misreads" you, it's your problem.
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by enko 16y ago
Not in Japan, where my clients still insisted on them, on new sites, in 2010. And would then beg me to start it from a decently high number ..
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Beijing opens five new metro lines in one day(news.xinhuanet.com)
2 points by enko 16y ago|0 comments
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by enko 16y ago
>> the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, in which Ronaldo played for Portugal, was broadcast in more than 200 countries, to an aggregate audience of over 25 billion Something's wrong with that final number, unless the world popul
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by enko 16y ago
This article reminds me to ask: why do Americans call pizza "pies"? Numerous times, the article refers to pizzas as if they are a variant of pies, and I have heard it elsewhere, too. To me, an Australian, a pizza and a pie are completely di
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by enko 16y ago
It would be interesting to know if those numbers apply in examples overseas, eg in Korea or Japan, where you have a single dominant mega-city in which basically 30% or 40% of the country live. Far too many for a strong selection bias to be
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by enko 16y ago
Damn, I'm on the list as well. This is the straw that broke the camel's back - I'm buying 1passwd, and converting to it wholesale.
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Another appeal from Jimmy Wales(danwei.org)
11 points by enko 16y ago|11 comments
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by enko 16y ago
His speeches may be weird, but he has an eloquence and a rhetorical flair which seem most at odds with any experience I have had with stroke-sufferers, admittedly not a lot. Well, I guess I disagree with how implausible it sounds. I suppose
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by enko 16y ago
Well, seems to me the reason you'd think that is because you're stupid. It's not your fault - you were probably just treated roughly as an infant. Wait, what's that, you don't think casting aspersions on someone's mental capacity is a valid
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by enko 16y ago
> Are you seriously saying those who argue AGW is NOT real don't have a financial interest in that? Are you seriously saying that every single person who has ever questioned the establishment line on AGW has a financial interest in some
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by enko 16y ago
I think what you say is wrong. I am reasonably confident that in any middling govt job, eg school teacher, in which advancement relies on lip service for the status quo, you would be sure to see 95% support for same. "Trying to make money o
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by enko 16y ago
Funny you mention JWB. I was at my local liquor shop on friday night grabbing a bottle of JW Black, my normal "non special occasion" scotch. The guy in front of me bought four bottles of Blue, all the stock the shop had. I felt so jealous
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by enko 16y ago
> if Americans did indeed know "the truth", we would already be at war with half of the middle east and possibly Russia That's a pretty big claim. Elaborate? What's this big truth? Not that America could possibly win such a war.. >

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