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by jdmitch 13y ago
at 12 seconds in the video: "How come these virtual desktops are about as common as bacon in a vegan sunday brunch" ha ha!
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1979 Revolution game(kickstarter.com)
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Future site of Intel's 10nm chip manufacturing plant likely to be in Israel(zdnet.com)
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The pinch of pumpkin: how this mysterious artificial flavor is made(mobile.nytimes.com)
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Google attacked for Remembrance Day poppy tribute(independent.co.uk)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
How is it that they can say "Our research" about publications from 1951, like: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6500... and http://research.microsoft.com/apps/
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Death penalty dropped against former black panther Mumia Abu-Jamal(nydailynews.com)
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Jamal Edwards: Amateur film-maker turned multimillionaire(bbc.co.uk)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
According to the BBC coverage of this story(and what is actually shown in the video), it was squats rather than situps: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24873180
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by jdmitch 13y ago
It seems like a lot of this comes down to simple confusion of how to identify individuals who have been broadly known more publicly under one self-identification which they no longer identify with. Most people came to know about Manning u
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by jdmitch 13y ago
I don't think any Lords Spiritual (whom one would be hard-pressed to qualify as extremists in any case), or other Lords for that matter, could be construed as having significant influence on Parliament.
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by jdmitch 13y ago
This is related to a broader international anti-slavery campaign, as the exit visa system is essentially the instrument for enforcing wage slavery in Qatar. cf. recent Guardian articles related to the world cup construction: http:/&#x
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Wonga is the symptom, not the problem(ft.com)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
Love the "Simon Says" app from Los Noders: http://los-noders.2013.nodeknockout.com/# brought back some memories (and smiles!) :)
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Dolphins' Story Is About Race And Bullying, But Not The Way You Think(npr.org)
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Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? A linguistic analysis(plosone.org)
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U.S., Israel lose UNESCO voting right(haaretz.com)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
only 17 pages - very short compared to the much-discussed report yesterday from the Swiss: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6684314
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Russian forensic report on Arafat's Death(aljazeera.com)
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Driverless cars to be introduced in Milton Keynes(bbc.co.uk)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
> What, in the end, is this new currency? It is a list of authorized transactions, beginning with the creation of the unit by a miner, and ending with the current owner. Eloquent summary from a skeptic :)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
> This will break cross-browser compatibility. That kinda ruined all the excitement for me :( Good of the OP to include all of the alternative techniques that might be better for cross-browser or other specific situations. Seems like t
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How Twitter changed the world, hashtag-by-hashtag(bbc.co.uk)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
Very sobering, and an inspiring stance against big pharma by India. I always had the impression (fuelled by big pharma propaganda?) that there was some debate around the effectiveness of generic ARVs, at least initially. Unfortunately, it s
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by jdmitch 13y ago
Interesting that on p. 59 they discuss the theory that the Po-210 was because of smoking, as smokers have twice as much. Conclusion: smoking still wouldn't account for the total amount in some samples, and he wasn't a smoker anywa
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by jdmitch 13y ago
I think a lot of people may agree that "of course he was killed," but it is particularly interesting because of the poison used (polonium-210) which has only been confirmed in one other poisoning case, that of Alexander Litvinenko
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Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death(aljazeera.com)
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Star Wars sequel: Open auditions to be held in UK(bbc.co.uk)
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Ever, Jane: MMORPG of Jane Austen's world(kickstarter.com)
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by jdmitch 13y ago
It's interesting that the OP says this: > When we think of entrepreneurs we stereotypically expect them to have extroverted traits. and then near the end of the article essentially agrees that he had to learn those "extrovert

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