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by jankotek 9y ago
I think I am reading different NY Times. They never wrote how communist goverment in Romania banned anticonception, abortions etc... But maybe that makes sex more exiciting :( And please educate me what women's rights post-communist go
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Bullshit. I was born in communist Czechoslovakia. It is like celebrating North Korea, because their army has 30% women. Sex was one of a few available entertainment options. It was difficult to get basic hygiene products (tampons, toilet
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No, it is not. The worst shortwave explanation I ever read. From BBC!
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> the Buzzer operates at a relatively low frequency known as “shortwave”. This means that – compared to local radio, mobile phone and television signals – fewer waves pass through a single point every second. It also means they can trav
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wiki: > The term originates from the French word for "raw", as Le Corbusier described his choice of material béton brut, raw concrete. I personally consider this style applies to any building without proper function; no windo
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Top comment under article: > This is such bs. iPhone is one if not the only smartphone the oem support for about 5 years. My son is rocking a 5s currently with the latest os update. About a year ago, I swapped out the battery myself.
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> Carlos Villalobos, 21, who was selling tube-shaped digital antennas ... says customers often ask if his $20 to $25 products are legal. “They don’t trust me when I say that these are actually free local channels, In most countries of
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Some old software had BSD license with clause 'do not use for evil'. It was useless for corporate use. 'Evil' has different meaning for each individual and is impossible to define.
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Better science could be done with automated machines. We could explore entire solar system for a price of single mission.
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Why do you allow websites to set their fonts? Dark Reader chrome extension
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Office97 was binary format, XML comed much latter as response to OpenOffice
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I disagree. I was in hospital around the time some bad stuff happened. My doctor was busy saying sorry, and neglected his other patiens.
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> creator Lucas De Groot, who seemed skeptical of the font's use before its public release. "Why would anyone use a completely unknown font for an official document in 2006?" > Microsoft's website states that ve
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For Java I would recommend to study H2 SQL database. It is small self-contained project, with well written and consistent code.
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With cheap telescopes from china, it is now pointless to build your own.
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> "power gathered from ambient radio signals transmitted by a base station up to 31 feet away" Seems pretty useless. Better would be to use capacitor and crank handle. And first GSM phones were also battery free. It was van stu
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Dell XPS 13, build quality is great, next day on-site service is unbeatable.
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I write performance sensitive code in Kotlin. Most of those issues are common to Java8 and be worked around easily.
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Bulgaria has number of advantages for starting software business which sells globally.
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Hubble resolved this start to a disc 20 years ago.
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Hazelcast Jet, Spark, my project... they work similar way. But as I wrote, I need to read the presentation first.
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by jankotek 9y ago
I have not fully digested yet, but seems very similar to Scala Parallel Collections and Java8 Streams. There are databases which implements such interfaces.
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I ran Delphi 1 IDE on such thing, long long time ago :)
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There is a law that every business/office needs to be accessible for a wheelchair. Why prisons should be an exception?
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There should be a third option "do not know". This was important maybe 10 years ago. Today IDE is handling formatting for me, and I no longer remember what the default settings are. The same about encoding or EOL chars.
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I am not judging Bancor etc. Just saying ETH had reasonable plan for raising money.
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> creators of Ether have already got their share Ether at ICO sold for 30 cents and raised around $30 million for development. Compare that budget to Mozilla or similar organization.
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Check your health, exercise routine, sleep... Talk to doctor. Often it is not a burnout, but bad lifestyle.
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Blockchain already transformed economy; it brought fast international payments with small fees.
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Immigrants generally send money home to their families.

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