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by kiiski 13y ago
Freenet[1] does actually have a decentralized social network plugin, sone[2]. It's not exactly user friendly, but at least it seems to prove that if people care about these things enough, they will use a solution even if it is difficul
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by kiiski 13y ago
I don't think that is correct. I can access the page, but I can't see any comments there. I have 393 karma at the moment.
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by kiiski 13y ago
What do you mean? It _is_ an airship. Just a big one.
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by kiiski 13y ago
Suicide like that is not unheard of. EgyptAir Flight 990: 217 dead[1] SilkAir Flight 185: 104 dead[2] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_990 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilkAir_Fli
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by kiiski 13y ago
What makes you think these hypothetical terrorists are after Americans, not Chinese? And why is religion the only reason they could be doing this?
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by kiiski 13y ago
What makes you think that? If their computer came with an OS preinstalled, with Mongolian, for example, as the language, they would not have to ever see any English anywhere. A flag might be more universally recognized way of selecting the
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by kiiski 13y ago
I think the question was, why does changing "girl" to "woman" make it sexist by definition?
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by kiiski 13y ago
It's not like you would just automatically get more money because you speak another language; you have to go work somewhere where they need you to do so.
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by kiiski 13y ago
Not really. They're not creating a new standard, but forcing everyone to use the same one; whether it's the best one or not.
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by kiiski 13y ago
It does if the player can only play as one of the factions. Especially if the factions are really called "Germans" and "Russians". The war was fought between the Axis and the Soviet Union, which included plenty of nation
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by kiiski 13y ago
It seems like in the USA, gifts to a spouse are exempted from the gift tax[1]. I don't know about USA, but here (Finland) any unusually large gifts given just prior to death are considered a part of inheritance. [1] http://en
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by kiiski 13y ago
Maybe it's precicely because of the abstract nature of music that people need to judge it based on something more concrete.
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by kiiski 13y ago
The question is "which country is the richest and most powerful". If we use the per capita statistics, Luxembourg is. That doesn't sound quite right, does it? If we look at the totals instead, the top ranks are USA, China, Ja
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by kiiski 13y ago
We're talking about nations, not people, so I don't think "GDP per capita" is relevant. USA has by far the highest total GDP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin...
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by kiiski 13y ago
US military budget is, what, ~$700 billion? I don't think a $100 million is going to improve anyones odds of survival if spent on equipment/research/something else, but it can have a big effect on morale if the soldiers know
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by kiiski 13y ago
I would actually welcome a unifed interface across all devices I use. I'm not sure if Windows is the one I would use, but the idea itself sounds pretty good to me. I haven't used anything from Microsoft since Vista was released.
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by kiiski 13y ago
I guess I was lucky in that respect. My university taught cs in two different cities (out of the three where they had a campus), and many advanced/optional classes only had a teacher in one of the cities (with an assistant in the other
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by kiiski 13y ago
Most of the time most students attending live lectures are there to just listen. At least that was my experience when I was still studying. I found video recordings to be just as good as, or even better than, attending lectures. With record
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by kiiski 13y ago
No idea. I was just correcting the notion that there is only one "Russian republic".
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by kiiski 13y ago
More than half of the 21 actually. Russia is a federation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_of_Russia
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by kiiski 13y ago
The point is that games require you to spend 100 hours for "ridiculous grind" for no other reason than to motivate you to pay to not grind. If paying was not an option, the game would be designed to not require any non-enjoyable g
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by kiiski 13y ago
I doubt there would be games like that (same as now, but where spending time is the only option). The whole mechanic of spending a long time waiting is there to encourage paying to not wait. But yes, it would not be abusive if there is no w
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by kiiski 13y ago
I understand that it's difficult, but it should be possible by using individual overlay images for each timezone, rather than just highlighting the whole sector. I suppose one might have to tweak the map projection too. As it is right
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by kiiski 13y ago
The time zones don't quite match the map. Finland (where I am) for example should be in GMT+2, but it is drawn in GMT+1 on that map.
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by kiiski 13y ago
Didn't hurt? Perhaps, but it didn't do much good to them either. Just look at Nokia who had a touch only phone in 2004 (7710) and a tablet in 2005 (770). Those techs only succeeded years later with iPhone (2007) and iPad (2010).
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by kiiski 13y ago
I think the problem is more likely to be that people here are so predisposed against PHP that they only see the potential problems, and ignore the benefits.
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by kiiski 13y ago
"Currency being used to trade" :o
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by kiiski 13y ago
Maybe not anymore (at least in the west), but the bible does have that stuff in it too. http://www.openbible.info/topics/menstruation
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by kiiski 13y ago
You seem certain that the truth would favor Ukraine ;) If we hypothetically assume the population ends up celebrating their liberation, how is Ukraine ever going to have any credibility demanding the region back?
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by kiiski 13y ago
How so? Doesn't Crimea have any power plants? I would imagine there was enough power available for all the critical infastructure. Besides, wouldn't it be just the civilians suffering from that anyway? The Russian military must ha

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