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Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer an Actual Democracy(talkingpointsmemo.com)
4 points by honzzz 12y ago|1 comments
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by honzzz 12y ago
Honestly, I am not sure about anything related to this law. I am also not UK-based so I don't know haw exactly is the EU directive implemented in UK. I live in the Czech Republic and here you can become so called "person identifie
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by honzzz 12y ago
But you will be WAT-registered entity as soon as you register in a first country. I still think the law is badly written but I think it does not require registering in all 28 EU countries.
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by honzzz 12y ago
I was using the simplification "EU laws" as a set of laws of the member states (as a citizen of one of those states I know there are no EU laws per se) and what I was asking was how could anyone who has nothing to do with any of t
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by honzzz 12y ago
Maybe I am missing something but how could you be subject to collecting taxes for a country that you have nothing to do with? AFAIK, EU laws apply to EU entities. If you are not EU citizen and do not own any EU-registered company, how could
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The amazing brains of the real-time interpreters(bbc.com)
4 points by honzzz 12y ago|0 comments
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by honzzz 12y ago
I used to use Google Notebook and Google Reader. I saved many notes and tagged many articles. Google suddenly discontinued both. I am not going to invest any effort into learning/using any Google service without some assurance that it
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Bitnation – a fully inclusive governance system(bitnation.co)
4 points by honzzz 12y ago|1 comments
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by honzzz 12y ago
In my experience dogs can handle bees pretty well. I've never seen a dog get stung by a bee but on many occasions I saw one of our dogs eat a bee flying near him without any problem. They just clap with their mouth and the bee is gone.
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by honzzz 12y ago
I used to work as a care assistant. I basically agree with the parent but while reading about massive psychological toll of being rejected I could not help but think "try to observe a half-conscious guy in terminal stadium of cancer mo
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by honzzz 12y ago
but you're not kidding anybody when you take the shoes off... Your reasoning seems logical... and yet according to my lifelong research, at least 50% of women (even confident and hot women) use some kind of padding in their bras. I g
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by honzzz 12y ago
There is going to be a lot of "10 Fotopedia alternatives" 'listicles' on a lot of blogs whose authors will target Fotopedia ex-users looking for a replacement; articles like http://unexploredparadises.eu/
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Sentiment Analysis on Movie Reviews(github.com)
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by honzzz 12y ago
It's caused by multiple factors (some of them are based on Israel's technological advantage) - shelters are everywhere, Israelis are trained really well (even falling to the ground before a rocket impact reduces casualties), they
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by honzzz 12y ago
I like the book, especially images. There is one weird thing though - the text in images is written in capital letters except the letters 't' and 'f' - it was really surprising to me how distracting it was. Maybe it&#x27
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The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz(documentary.net)
1 points by honzzz 12y ago|0 comments
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by honzzz 12y ago
I have lived through a communist regime and I believe that accusations, surveillance, and keeping files on innocent people can destroy a lot more than just their careers and lives. It slowly creates some kind of "let's just do not
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The simple link building technique most SEOs get wrong(wordtracker.com)
1 points by honzzz 12y ago|0 comments
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How not to do freelancing(crawlingout.eu)
3 points by honzzz 12y ago|0 comments
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Carb Controversy: Why low-carb diets have got it all wrong(precisionnutrition.com)
1 points by honzzz 13y ago|0 comments
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A New Twist On Steganography From The Creator Of BitTorrent(techdirt.com)
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by honzzz 13y ago
This reminds me of the book Where the Dog Is Buried by Czech dissident and activist Pavel Kohout. It is basically a book about various tactics that the police in communist Czechoslovakia used to harass and intimidate him and his fellow acti
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by honzzz 13y ago
I think it's a good idea to give something that the person would never buy, something totally different than the things they encounter on daily basis. I got an art book once - 'woman as an inspiration', a collection of famous
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Redis as the primary data store? WTF?(moot.it)
3 points by honzzz 13y ago|1 comments
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Eliminating Code Smell with Grunt(flippinawesome.org)
18 points by honzzz 13y ago|11 comments
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by honzzz 13y ago
I can only speculate about her motives. But the system that is set in such a way that prisons can be privately owned and prisoners exploited for personal gain is a recipe for disaster. Stakeholders making profit from prisoners have a strong
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by honzzz 13y ago
The chemist did something horrible and I am not trying to justify her actions. But I think that the true culprit of this is the system of incentives typical for US penal system. If the prosecutors are rewarded based on the number of convict
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by honzzz 13y ago
There is a lot of finance literature that studies price trends Could you please recommend a book about this accessible to a curious layman?
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by honzzz 13y ago
Why would you say 'western europe'? I am not saying you are wrong. It's just that I was surprised to see stuff like 'blocking porn' coming our of UK, I have not seen anything like that in any other European country
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by honzzz 13y ago
Here is an interesting video where you can see how they are testing jet engines before they can be certified for flight - they chuck various stuff inside including dead birds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jfXX7qppbc

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