galadriel

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by galadriel 15y ago
This is amazingly naive to think that we human have practiced anything close to what you state. From advent of agriculture, the practice has been to mix and match various plant species to get the best produce at lowest cost. We have destroy
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by galadriel 15y ago
You just pointed out one of the many reasons that world economies have moved past gold-based currency. Commodity based currency also runs risk to sudden discovery of new quantities of commodity (like South American Silver mines), which lead
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by galadriel 15y ago
Microsoft has already shown a version of Office running on ARM natively. For lot of current Windows app written in .NET or standard Windows API, the transition should be easy so long as MS maintains the same API's across architecture. Only
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by galadriel 15y ago
No, US does it officially. One tenant of American immigration is that all countries around the world should be equally represented. US has a diversity quota, which is essentially a lottery, which is purely dependent on luck. On the other ha
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by galadriel 16y ago
India has no welfare structure, zilch, zero, nada. More than half of population has no sanitation, lot of children are seriously suffering from malnutrition; and good schools are available to few. If you are an entrepreneur in India, most p
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by galadriel 16y ago
Can teachers be bribed in US to pass students ? (Just curious)
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by galadriel 16y ago
This would only work if the top level official wants bribe only for high level project. The approach would fail in India, where every amount of bribe has fixed distribution, from bottom most official to the top. Say for example you wallet g
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by galadriel 16y ago
Is there a HN Script to collapse comments like Reddit? I found a Chrome extension to do that, and I am thus using Chrome only for HN now. PS: This is the extension. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1675861
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by galadriel 16y ago
I can only tell about my field, which is Physics, and a hard science field. No, it is still increasingly hard to find a job (in US) from what I saw. Even getting to tenure track is achievement in itself. For example, any major top school (l
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by galadriel 16y ago
I am a masters student in an developing economy, who will soon join a PhD program in US, and I will do that after rejecting an analyst position at major banking firm. For me, PhD makes sense because it would give me 4-5 tension free years o
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by galadriel 16y ago
Either a) Throw more resources at it. I am not sure how it is done, but cloud can scale on demand from what I know. b) If not using already, use some static page serving plugin for Wordpress, like WP Super Cache or other. This should reduce
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by galadriel 16y ago
They link seems to be down. Anyone has a transcript?
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by galadriel 16y ago
Ah, the joys that being born in right place brings for you. Anyways, that sort of stuff happens all over to million of people travelling everyday. Let me recount my last year experience. My friend and I had to travel to Portugal for a summe
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by galadriel 16y ago
True, but pirated Windows does not allows you to update automatically, and does not updates IE for you. Now, one can always download newer IE from Microsoft's website and manually install it, but chances of that happening are low.