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by jimmies 9y ago
Entropy man. You think that a whole bunch of neatly aligned atoms would stay that way over time?
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by jimmies 9y ago
Then take their deposit and ban them from the system when you come to inspect and found the chip without the umbrella...
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by jimmies 9y ago
I have a Linux computer (Dell Chromebook 13) connected to the Microsoft Mouse 3600 Bluetooth (BLE 4?) and it was rock solid. The mouse picks up immediately whenever the computer is on. It was almost miraculous how well it works. The mouse i
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by jimmies 9y ago
>Umbrellas are too cheap to defend with technology. Something like GPS wouldn't help recover umbrellas in a cost effective way, maybe in some future where GPS receives are a penny apiece, but not today. I wouldn't go as far as
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by jimmies 9y ago
Thank you for the advice - I'm moving (to the coast). I'm just staying in here for my education (college and post-graduate degree). What is sad was the town I'm living in is a college town, and I can't imagine it being u
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by jimmies 9y ago
I agree. That's a choice, but regardless of whether he decides to put on an oxygen mask or not, he has a huge emotional baggage he has to carry. That example is only used illustrate the difference with an immigrant who has no money but
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by jimmies 9y ago
>As a really poor immigrant to the US who succeeded financially, I can tell you with absolute certainty, poverty in the US (barring mental illness cases or health issues) is the result of poor choices. I'm an immigrant too, and I us
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by jimmies 9y ago
Regarding blaming each other for their misfortune, I have an anecdotal experience I want to share. I don't know if that's just me or this phenomenal happens to everyone else as well: That's the "fuck you/who cares&#
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by jimmies 9y ago
>1. This sounds very useful both as a backup capacity to make calls when your battery died; a smartphone could run in a restricted, super-power-saving mode off that. Could be handy in cities, where there's lots of RF background. Jus
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by jimmies 9y ago
As an immigrant, I see the "American pride" a lot, which is not necessarily healthy. That attitude of American doing everything right or better than everyone else is apparent specially first generation immigrants who are still rid
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by jimmies 9y ago
The Thinkpad line has a cult-like following like Apple products. It would help in difficult times, but the brand needs to reinvent itself like how Apple did. I would certainly love to see new products coming out with Thinkpad quality, durab
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by jimmies 9y ago
Ah, sorry for the confusion. I meant they were printed in Russia, in Vietnamese. The USSR had a big pocket subsidy for smaller countries under their umbrella, so they printed books, gave aids, brought people to space, etc. to help smaller c
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by jimmies 9y ago
I was born in late 1980 in North Vietnam, at that time the society and education system was still under the heavy influence of the Soviet-era propaganda. Other than the USSR, Vietnam at the time was also under some influence from the commun
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by jimmies 9y ago
You already can. Just don't install any apps on your phone.
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by jimmies 9y ago
You can ask why aren't Amtrak tickets cheaper than airplane tickets. Flip phones have certain audiences in mind and I don't think they are meant to compete with smartphones. I used to use an equivalent of a flip phone for the last
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by jimmies 9y ago
If your friends don't care to check on you personally, why do you think that they care about your post (that you say you're fine) that doesn't get shown to you on facebook?
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by jimmies 9y ago
There was also the sudo-UAC thing. I totally think it was the right thing to implement and improved the security for the power users a lot, but pisses everyone off for being annoying as hell (and it taught people to "approve" ever
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by jimmies 9y ago
If you want to read the paper, type in your address bar sci-hub.cc and a slash, and then paste the DOI after the slash.
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by jimmies 9y ago
We will deliver salt refills to your door every two weeks with an easy 9.99/mo subscription. Each bag is QR-coded so you know exactly where the salt comes from. We also only sources from local, organic, gluten-free farms. In the rare c
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by jimmies 9y ago
In the same spirit and format of OP's link, I also enjoy Thompson's paper "Reflections on Trusting Trust." It's so dead simple yet was an ah-ha moment for me. Materials like this are the reason why I love security
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by jimmies 9y ago
What's your story? :)
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by jimmies 9y ago
I was not involved in the Anime/Manga scene so I cannot say for sure, but from my understanding, the people who know Japanese and could translate it from Japanese were the minority. There was a blend of English and Japanese sources in
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by jimmies 9y ago
Chinese wuxia novels are great. Vietnamese people call it "tiểu thuyết kiếm hiệp" here, the author 金庸 (Jin Young - Kim Dung) is someone everyone in Vietnam knows. They have to be among the most popular items people searched for wh
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by jimmies 9y ago
The publishing house at the time bought the rights to translate JKR's work, so I think it's probably a gray area at best. I don't think people would make as big of a deal now as they did in the past, though. It was novel - be
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by jimmies 9y ago
Thanks! One thing good came out of it, so the indie translation on the book 5 made the 'blessed' translator work around the clock. She has to release her unfinished translations as they came out. She wasn't sure how to transl
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by jimmies 9y ago
Holy shit, this bring back memories. I did something similar with the Harry Potter series about 15 years ago - beat the publisher to translating the book. Doing that, strangely, is the one event that shaped my life the most. I discovered
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by jimmies 10y ago
I really can't stand the style of this comment. You didn't even to bother why you don't like it. Why bother commenting, then?
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by jimmies 10y ago
Sorry, I can no longer edit my comment, so I am adding another comment here. I'm in no way criticizing your way of communication. I think Facebook is an excellent communication tool. However, to me, there is something special about ema
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by jimmies 10y ago
I am an immigrant. I've been living mostly away from home for 10 years. I have people (friends, relatives, family, people that I know and love) that are easily reachable on Facebook. I deleted my facebook account and realized that I ca
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by jimmies 10y ago
>The Undoing Project I heard about it on Freakonomics. I will check it out as I have time now ;-)

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