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by geoka9 11y ago
> This accusation is very vague and it could mean anything. Oh, it's pretty bad. Basically all television is state-controlled. All major papers as well. Any opposition site that becomes prominent is quickly banned. Unsanctioned stre
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by geoka9 11y ago
Since the oil prices dropped, Russia has lost a third of its reserves. How do you think they are going to keep it together for as long as two more decades?
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by geoka9 11y ago
Yeah, in the movie Buck was one of the "better" (or less bad) guys, although a bit crazy, too.
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by geoka9 11y ago
Forget keto (or any other diet for that matter). Just maintain a calorie deficit if you want to lose weight. The easiest way to do that is to lower carbs and compensate with higher protein/fat intake. Treat carbs as fuel - if you exerc
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by geoka9 11y ago
I'm afraid Solzhenitsyn is a bit naive in thinking that would've caused the oppression to stop. The authorities would have just moved in the troops and introduced military law, shooting people without hesitation. After all that&#x
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by geoka9 11y ago
Just curious, are you a vi/emacs user by any chance? Just because a UI is powerful does not mean it has to be unintuitive. Unity is a very powerful game engine and it has a very intuitive UI... Let's not confuse the power of a s
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by geoka9 11y ago
Why patchouli of all things?
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by geoka9 11y ago
There's a book[1] written by a Russian guy in the US about his efforts to escape from the USSR by... swimming the ocean! It's a highly entertaining book, although there's a chapter in which he describes his incarceration in a
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by geoka9 11y ago
I'm not familiar with golf but I'm pretty sure I've seen pudgy golfers... A bit of googling turned up Keith Horne who doesn't look like an athlete.
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by geoka9 11y ago
Much of it depends on the person writing the textbook/commentary and their political affiliation. For example, just yesterday the speaker of the Russian parliament suggested trying the US for the attacks. I'm pretty sure that the
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Everybody poops(vox.com)
2 points by geoka9 11y ago|0 comments
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by geoka9 11y ago
> The advantage of poly isn't that it grips, but that it's elastic enough to deform and snap back quickly. Sure, I should've put "gripping" in quotes - what I meant is the top spin potential, not the actual physi
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by geoka9 11y ago
The idea is that because of the poly in the mains you can generally string your racket at a lower tension (including the gut in the crosses), which increases power (without the gripping poly you couldn't use low tensions because the ba
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by geoka9 11y ago
Several factors: Rackets - they got more forgiving and powerful. I think even Mac now serves faster with a modern graphite racket than he did 30 years ago with a wooden one. Strings - with the invention of polyester strings which snap back
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What It’s Like to Face a 150 M.P.H. Tennis Serve [video](nytimes.com)
60 points by geoka9 11y ago|14 comments
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by geoka9 11y ago
That's right, Blender has made a lot of strides in recent years. I was a Blender sceptic, having tried it many years ago. But recently I tried it again and had my socks blown off! I've since started using Blender exclusively for a
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by geoka9 11y ago
Oh yes, a very good point. McEnroe himself said that Connors was the best returner before Agassi. And of course Mac's can opener serve is a weapon still to this day (I watched him play live recently and it was a beauty).
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by geoka9 11y ago
Probably Nishikori? :) But with the rise of gluten-free, that figures - plenty of carbs with none of the gluten.
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by geoka9 11y ago
Well, he (she?) probably meant 'best male player'. But if you want to compare them on pure tennis ability, head to head, Serena would have no chance of taking a set off of Pete :)
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by geoka9 11y ago
All other things being equal, one-handed backhand can generate more pace than a double-hander. However it is vulnerable to high bouncing balls (it's hard to generate much pace on those and they wear you out) and getting "jammed&qu
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by geoka9 11y ago
> What was the rivalry like? It was pretty close in terms of wins against each other. However Sampras has won more matches that _really_ mattered (in Grand Slam tournaments). Also, they had 2 completely different styles of play (on top o
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by geoka9 11y ago
I would add burnout to the list of things that made Sampras retire. I would not include Roger Federer, because it's not like he's ever been Pete's nemesis - they've only played one match and it was a close one, but that&
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by geoka9 11y ago
Well, it is strategic to him, as he would have probably gone on to win the match and the tournament (a 'major' which is a very big deal) had he won that one point.
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by geoka9 11y ago
I did the same, until I saw a tip that somebody posted here :) Since then I've been using the same Gillette cartridge (it's been over a year) and it's still as sharp as it was when I bought it. The trick is to rub it against
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by geoka9 11y ago
Actually it does. C was shaped to a large degree by feedback from the original Unix programmers, including Ken Thompson and Rob Pike.
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by geoka9 11y ago
Maybe because I'm an emacs user, I find it pretty intuitive. As a ratpoison/conkeror/emacs/tmux user I often find myself juggling at least 4 sets of prefix keys. It works surprisingly well, I just made sure they are in d
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by geoka9 12y ago
Actually, as long as you don't install things like Gnome, you can blacklist systemd and run Jessie as any other Debian before it.
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by geoka9 12y ago
It is kept around because of older folks who pine for the good old days of which it is a symbol. It'll take another 20-30 years until those folks are no more and the body will probably be buried.
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Growing Vegetables (John Steinbeck)(blackhillsgarden.com)
1 points by geoka9 12y ago|0 comments
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by geoka9 12y ago
Debian, both desktop and servers. I find it very convenient to have the same distro everywhere, and Debian is very well suited for it.

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