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by josai 12y ago
I find it profoundly dissonant that, while reporting the last words of people who were then legally murdered by the state (an inexcusable, brutal injustice, to my mind), the functionaries responsible yet found prissiness enough to cut out t
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by josai 12y ago
Can I take this response as a sign AMS is not abandonware? Some of us are getting concerned...
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by josai 12y ago
> Do you feel despair when you step on ants on the sidewalk? Well no, but neither do I go out of my way to step on them. And I don't see that we'll be so very, very far behind these beings that they're not even capable of
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by josai 12y ago
> The good news is you and I likely won't be around to care when we find out what aliens are really like I've never understood this sentiment. I would most certainly like to be around if and when we find this out, for better or
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by josai 12y ago
Interesting question. Reducing it further, is the concept of mathematics, as we understand it, required to develop high technology? I would have thought the answer to be yes.
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by josai 12y ago
I agree that some "audiophiles" are susceptible to ignorant beliefs, which they then zealously defend. I used to work with a guy who bought a CD player with a weighted turntable for the CD to sit on, on the grounds that it increas
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by josai 12y ago
China's birth rate is above a huge number of countries, including Holland, Switzerland, Germany and Canada. It's a problem, yes, but let's not overstate it.
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by josai 12y ago
image_urls = images.map { |img| "illos/#{img}" } Even better :)
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by josai 12y ago
All business-class planes (and airlines) have been extensively tested as an idea. They tend to only work on the longest routes (1). I too try to get business class on anything above maybe 6 hours and certainly on overnight flights, but I th
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by josai 12y ago
yemyat91, a disclaimer noting your affiliation with the submissions you post would be polite. http://nexlabs.co/team/ye-myat-min/
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by josai 12y ago
While as a fellow Australia I bemoan the woeful state of our internet, I don't think it makes it "impossible" to start a startup, in fact I know many startups in Sydney and elsewhere. It makes it more difficult, yes, and limi