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by entropy_ 14y ago
With various laptops I've owned over the years, this almost always fixes the problem when the laptop refuses to boot(except when there's actual hardware failure). It's usually pretty straightforward to do too.
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Well, if you are interested in visiting the area then I would definitely recommend Lebanon(I'm obviously biased, but still). Most people speak English or at least understand it, though fluency does vary quite a bit. So you shouldn't have to
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Well, I live in Lebanon. Very far from being a magical place. Instead of being obsessed with sports, people are obsessed with politics. And not in a good way. It's all sectarian, religiously racist bullshit. But if you do decide to visit, l
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by entropy_ 14y ago
The emphasis on sports in US high schools has nothing to do with the fact that everyone can do it and everything to do with the entertainment industry built around sports in the US. The fact that you can get a scholarship to college just fo
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by entropy_ 14y ago
I'm guessing that's because saying something like "X signatures needed" creates an easier metric for people to know when a petition will get responded to. "Top X/month" would assume that they would choose a time of the month when they would
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Well, maybe he meant that very few people are actually really good at formal arabic? I know I suck at it even though I'm Lebanese and it's supposed to be my mother tongue. Arabic speakers tend to have a colloquial form of Arabic that they s
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by entropy_ 14y ago
My impression was that they are trying to remedy that with the store(whatever they're calling it) in windows 8. Yes, I know it's not the same because that's only for metro apps but I guess it would be close enough. Honestly, I haven't used
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by entropy_ 14y ago
LISP maybe?
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by entropy_ 14y ago
I honestly like the album format. But then, that's because most artists I really like tend to have coherent albums that are best listened to as a whole(eg, Pink Floyd or Dream Theater). I agree that for most music the album format doesn't m
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by entropy_ 14y ago
That's a false dichotomy. It may simply be that America has a worse way of dealing with troubled/insane/dangerous/etc... people. I'm not saying that's the case necessarily, but it's definitely a possibility you missed. I live in a country(L
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Are serial killers sane? Their crimes are not crimes of passion. Lots of serial killers kill complete strangers to them. Do they get to plead insanity in court? Should they be sent to mental hospitals or prisons? I'm not being facetious, I'
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Downloaded that file, removed the JS and took a look in a browser. The Arabic is here(I hope HN can handle the unicode -- I've translated inline -- editorial notes between brackets): بسم الله رب المجاهدين والشهداء ،،~ In the name of God, lo
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by entropy_ 14y ago
I am speechless... What appals me the most though is the applause and cheers at the end, even one person -- that I could see -- standing up while clapping. As far as I could tell this talk was generated by a bot(something like this: http:/
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by entropy_ 14y ago
I ran into to this, but I noticed that the site was loaded anyway, just covered with a <div> on top. Just open up the developer tools/firebug/etc.. and delete the div#globalerror.
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Well, Syria already does have a spying chokepoint in place. It's had it for years(at least since late 2010 when I was there). They have something similar to China's in that it also does filtering. Also, at some point when I was there around
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by entropy_ 14y ago
The only form of stock exchange in Syria is the Damascus Securities Exchange. And that's it. Syria is pretty much a Socialist nation. Under Bashar it had been slowly moving toward a more capitalistic model but that was pretty much just cron
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by entropy_ 14y ago
> What is Syria's cellular data infrastructure like? Well, there are 2 cellular providers. One is completely state owned and called "Syriatel" and the other is MTN( http://www.mtn.com/ ). Though MTN is extremely heavily regulate
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by entropy_ 14y ago
International phone access in Syria is abysmal though. I've been there and to call my parents in neighbouring Lebanon would sometimes take me ~20 attempts to get a successful phone call through. It almost never worked in less than 5 attempt
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Shit, I did. No clue how that happened...
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by entropy_ 14y ago
I never formally learned how to type. I had no clue what "home row" meant or where you're supposed to keep your fingers at any point in time. However, I do touch type -- I never look at the keyboard while typing, even for symbols used when
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by entropy_ 14y ago
They just posted this notice: Google Play is currently experiencing very high traffic. Nexus 4 is not sold out and will still be available for purchase. Please try again shortly. Thank you for your patience. There is hope yet
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Has anyone been able to buy this? I've added it cart like 20 times now. Half the times I get an error and it's not added, the other half I get an error when I click "proceed" and then it's automagically removed from my cart. I was there at
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Nexus 4 available in the US as of 12pm PST today(November 27th)
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by entropy_ 14y ago
I live in a country where living together while not married is very much frowned upon. Those aren't my views, but they are the ones of the society which surrounds me. Therefore I'm just curious about lifestyles which aren't even possible he
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by entropy_ 14y ago
This is off topic, but I'm just curious. If you've been together for 17 years now, why are you not married? This is not a criticism/flame/whatever, just curious.
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Conversation... More like public poo flinging. I mean seriously? Use email or something, it's really unprofessional to "talk" these things out over twitter
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Well, this conversation: https://twitter.com/koush/status/268836995890028544 has a guy called Ahmet Deveci who seems to be going at it with Koush about giving back DNS domains. His profile on twitter says "Entrepreneur, with a passion for
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Given your description I'm sure I'm lucky I'm not familiar with that. I've never worked at any place that has > 40 employees. If I can manage, I hope never to have to.
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Longer than two minutes, definitely! More than 2 hours to investigate and fix? very doubtful. 3 months? That's a bit much...
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by entropy_ 14y ago
It's not a client-side fix. Just stop the server from sending the token/link to the clients. Sure, that might degrade the client experience a bit(assuming that the client isn't just displaying a webview in which case no degradation would oc

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