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Saudi extremists are treated to gourmet meals and saunas in jihadi 'rehab'(businessinsider.com)
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by globuous 11y ago
Honnestly, I wouldn't be surprised if both knew about it. They just have to appear to care and to do something about it ("hey Obama, this isn't cool, stop spying on us") because if they didn't, the opposition would
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The Confederate Battle Flag: Heritage or Hate?(wsj.com)
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No Sex Jokes Please, French Government Advises Travelers to U.S(bloomberg.com)
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by globuous 11y ago
Wow, I would never have guessed British didn't use pounds as a unit when weighting themselves. I thought you were just making fun of how there are always so many units in English for the same measurements, so I went an mentioned yet an
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by globuous 11y ago
And 5.16 slugs
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Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85(nytimes.com)
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by globuous 11y ago
Some people dislike Apple solely based on the fact that it makes highly popular devices, calling everyone that likes Apple "sheeps". Now what's funny is that if someone doesn't like a product not because of the product i
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PythonOCC: a 3D CAD/CAE/PLM framework for python(pythonocc.org)
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by globuous 11y ago
Honestly, i don't mind the window focusing on mac. What I absolutely fucking hate though, is working on Windows and not being able to scroll on a window that's not active. By default on Mac, if a window's focused, you can scr
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by globuous 11y ago
I believe Jean-Baptiste Douemeng, a French communist, made millions exporting subsidized surpluses, including butter, to communist countries in the 40s-50s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Doumeng
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Apple Releases new MacBook Pros with Force Touch Trackpad(apple.com)
91 points by globuous 11y ago|125 comments
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by globuous 11y ago
For those interested, there actually a sub field of mechanics called Tribology [1] that deals with friction, lubrication, wear, and more generally interacting surfaces in relative motion. I was surprised when I took this class in grad schoo
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by globuous 11y ago
Well, that just means that an regular (x/k)ubuntu isn't necessarily the distro you're looking for. Back in the days when I was using Linux on my main computer, canonical shipped a stripped down version of ubuntu (ubuntu serve
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by globuous 11y ago
I always hated that "cup" measure in the US... Anywho, I don't think the volume of coffee one drinks in a day is relevant without stating how concentrated it is. I'm assuming 6 oz of americano coffee doesn't have qu
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by globuous 11y ago
I actually hear many many times that the game starts when you reach the top level ^^ I've unfortunately never played the game enough to confirm though
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Alibaba Names New CEO as Revenue Tops Views(wsj.com)
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by globuous 11y ago
I watched it a while ago and I believe the movie talks about Aaron possibly investigating on the correlation of results found in JSTOR's academic papers database in order to conclude on the influence of financing on their results (hope
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by globuous 11y ago
That's actually true (I wasn't aware of it), turns out there's even a wikipedia article about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Weap...
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by globuous 11y ago
I did not know you could dissolve gold in mercury, pretty cool. After a little research, I found out that the process can also be reversed (obviously, since it's used for gold extraction), like it was with aqua regia to recover the dis
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French President: Full Access to OpenClassrooms MOOCs for Jobseekers in France(blog.openclassrooms.com)
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Imperial Tobacco blamed ISIS for falling cigarette sales(businessinsider.com)
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by globuous 11y ago
> 11:54 UTC We've finished emergency maintenance and are monitoring closely. it's back
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by globuous 11y ago
There's raypidscript also: http://www.rapydscript.com/ which is a python like JS precompiler ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9385596 ) I haven't had the time to try it yet, but maybe it'
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by globuous 11y ago
I'm not sure this is relevant to computer science, but as a mechanical engineer, I've used differential equations and topology quite a bit in my coding. Topology has its important role in CAD and CAE softwares (particularly when d
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by globuous 11y ago
There even are one-handed versions of Dvorak, pretty cool I thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard#One-...
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by globuous 11y ago
Can't you download it for free, look through it and then "re-purchase" it for a price you feel is fair ?
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by globuous 12y ago
You probably charge your phone everyday though, and I know my dad never sleeps with his watch on his wrist and isn't the only one with this habbit. So why couldn't you charge your watch every night ? Also, charging your apple watc
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Introduction to Multilinear Algebra and Applications [pdf](math.ethz.ch)
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Milankovitch cycles(en.wikipedia.org)
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