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by huxley 11y ago
Being represented at the UN doesn't necessarily mean being an observer at the General Assembly, lots of NGOs have consultative status on ECOSOC, the UN Economics and Social Council.
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Wish it was that certain. The US and Canada once had almost 100 municipalities with streetcar lines in the first half of the 20th century, there may be a dozen or so left now. One could blame GM [1] but many municipalities abandoned their s
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No, in fact it's becoming less common as time goes on. In the US by 2008, maternal sole-custody had declined to 42% of custodial arrangements (from 80% in 1986), while equal shared custody rose to 27% (from 5%). http://psych
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If you like audiobooks, EscapePod did a reading of it: http://escapepod.org/2009/04/10/ep194-exhalation/
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The article was so full of weasel words that I think it ripped my flesh Has the DoJ or FTC actually put out a comment or press release saying there is an investigation or is it all an echo chamber from a Verge article citing unnamed sources
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Love the line: "Sartre reviewed the film in 1945, meaning he took four years even to bother seeing it." One would think German occupation of Paris and wartime censorship might have contributed to that delay.
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It's actually total Mac revenue.
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It's a pretty recent development, but have you tried Django 1.8's Conditional Aggregation and Conditional Expression features? https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/models/conditional...
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Which businesses were these? I thought the plaintiff was Amazon.
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As much as it pains me to disagree with Borges, Kafka had already burnt almost 90% of his unpublished work [1] before his health declined due to starvation from a then untreatable laryngeal tuberculosis. I think Kafka did truly want to burn
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> To program any more was pointless. My programs would never live as long as [Kafka’s] The Trial. I found it a touch ironic considering that Kafka, on his deathbed, asked his friend Max Brod to destroy all of Kafka's unpublished wor
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I don't think there is any evidence that Kurosawa borrowed from Joseph Campbell
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Not to mention that Campbell's monomyth borrows liberally from Otto Rank and Lord Raglan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank-Raglan_mythotype
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The story behind the remakes is pretty interesting all by themselves: John Sturges' The Magnificent Seven (1960) was based on The Seven Samurai (1954) When first released in America, the title for Kurosawa's film was "The Mag
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I don't think Richard Fontana did the analysis, in his 2012 presentation entitled "The decline of the GPL and what to do about it" [1], he does refer to an analysis of Debian packages but that was done by John Sullivan (which
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That was Linksys not Netgear. re: GPL/LGPL being the most successful software licenses, that seems to be changing in favour of permissive licenses like MIT/BSD/Apache Back in 2013, Aaron Williamson of the Software Freedom Law
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Wow, Python 2.4 was last updated on October 18, 2006. Since Centos 5 still has about 2 years of life but fewer and fewer Python packages support 2.4, it might be worth looking at Pyenv: https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv Go
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I'm not sure about nicer, but we are certainly more apologetic and prone to queue up in orderly lines. The tendency to reflexively apologize when people bump into me is a quirk that has caused a lot of confusion in other countries. And
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Just to help those that aren't familiar with the acronym: IRB = institutional review board, which commonly also includes ethics committees http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board
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People who don't think you deserve a job will find a reason, any reason for their belief, even if you are the smartest person in the room, you will always be the "token black guy" for a significant percentage of people with o
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Note, story is from 2005. Heck, Hitchens died in 2011.
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It's fascinating to think of Shakespeare reading Don Quixote and adapting a story from it for one of his later plays. I knew that Shakespeare and Cervantes had died within 10 days of each other but was surprised to find out that Cervan
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Ahmadinejad never said that, though ironically it was an Iranian news agency that mistranslated him. He was talking about three previous regimes that had fallen: the Shah of Iran, the Soviet Union and Saddam Hussein, saying that they had &q
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Reminds me of Milo Minderbinder and the Maltese eggs from "Catch 22" [1] "But Yossarian still didn't understand either how Milo could buy eggs in Malta for seven cents apiece and sell them at a profit in Pianosa for five
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SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell compared Falcon's cost of low orbit "on the order of $80 million to $90 million" and "$150 million to $160 million" for a Falcon Heavy with all the trimmings. "In contrast, ULA charge
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Not to nitpick but the lower order digits in those bids are orders of magnitude higher than the US$185,000 evaluation fee.
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My favourite Think Geek April Fools was the 2001: A Space Odyssey Monolith Action Figure: http://www.wired.com/2010/10/2001-a-space-odyssey-monolith-a... (which they did end up selling due to demand) "It&#x27
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I wouldn't be so sure they wouldn't do that, after all: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/02/us-dealtalk-nortel... "At the auction for Nortel Networks' wireless patents this week
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I used to use .foo, Google acquired that one last year: http://icannwiki.com/.foo
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BTUs are used a lot in Canada, but Canada only made about 9 years of progress toward metrification between 1976 and 1985, I was still in high school when our Metric Commission was abolished along with most legal requirements to use metric u

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