kwoff

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by kwoff 9y ago
It's this kind of research into extremes that drives technology forward. Let's explore Venus!
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by kwoff 9y ago
The things you mention are easily turned around (I certainly don't support the CCP, however). Maybe the Chinese are very efficient with their money (try living on $4 a day in the US; or what does $4 mean in China?), or don't need
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by kwoff 9y ago
Mercury was also a silver bullet, back in the day.
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by kwoff 9y ago
"It is not uncommon to hear of transmen who talk about always knowing they were male and were really confused when their penis didn't grow at puberty." Slap me with a citation, please. I had no idea what was awaiting me at pu
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by kwoff 9y ago
"transformed the Chinese keyboard into a 'smart' peripheral, much more sophisticated at taking instructions from the user than its static, rather stupid alphabetic cousin" - also can ensure what you type conforms to CCP
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by kwoff 9y ago
All of my addons are "Legacy" in Firefox now. How do we get updated versions of these?
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by kwoff 9y ago
Also the way people received information was different. The development of the information age. Newsreels. Learning how to appeal to a lot of people with new media. I try to imagine how Einstein got famous. Even now hardly anybody, relative
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by kwoff 9y ago
Eye in the Sky. Now I have a worm in the ear, thanks a lot! :P
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by kwoff 9y ago
Interesting. I've thought basically the opposite for years. At one point it seems that the web was standardizing, more applications were able to run in the browser, things like XUL were developing; but then along came mobile devices an
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by kwoff 9y ago
Anyone else learn of Perl in the footnotes of the "sed & awk" book? :)
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by kwoff 9y ago
Please explain how you think the womb is connected to the intestines.
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by kwoff 9y ago
I'm not convinced that you're really worried about that. You seem fairly dramatic, to be honest.
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by kwoff 9y ago
offer some proof of this?
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by kwoff 9y ago
just a twist in my sobriety
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by kwoff 9y ago
Exploiting a power law. Search it with content marketing. The article, like others on that site, also has a listicle, which you might also search with content marketing.
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by kwoff 9y ago
How many fingers is Big Sister holding up?
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A Mind Is Born (256b C64 demo with technical description)(linusakesson.net)
1 points by kwoff 9y ago|1 comments
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by kwoff 10y ago
I'm an American working in the Netherlands. Filing US taxes has improved, a lot last year in my opinion, since it got easier to file electronically for free... But compare: I got a letter from the Dutch government a few weeks ago say
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by kwoff 10y ago
digital electronics, hardware programming
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by kwoff 10y ago
yep, that's where I closed the tab
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by kwoff 10y ago
Like headlines that are questions (answer: "no"; next), I tend to skip over headlines that say "written in $language". Usually means they've copied something that already exists, or it doesn't have much else di
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by kwoff 11y ago
How can they copy our comments from here to there and sell queries on them...?
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by kwoff 11y ago
There seem to be a lot of bloomberg articles recently.
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by kwoff 11y ago
The article linked to is promising. http://www.alternet.org/noam-chomsky-why-americans-know-so-m...
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by kwoff 11y ago
That was my impression as well. My guess is the banner is young and unable to cope with people having ideas other than his own, or possibly has a mild paranoid/delusional disorder. The two examples didn't seem at all unreasonable.
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by kwoff 11y ago
"We don't pay much attention to race issues here" is precious. (50-cent army or thinks meiguo (America) means beautiful country.)