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by monochr 12y ago
>One of the worst aspects of Australian business The only way you can say this is you know nothing about the businesses in other countries. The reason why Australian car makers needed those concessions was because America gave much bigge
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by monochr 12y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about, have you thought about not believing everything the Turkish nationalist news papers print about ethnicity they don't like? You might have a hard time fitting into polite company when yo
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by monochr 12y ago
In 681. By that logic France was established by Germans, more so since the Carolingian Empire didn't even exist for another century after the creation of the first Bulgarian Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi
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by monochr 12y ago
The history of the place is quite interesting. It was the location where one of the numerous Bulgarian uprisings against the Ottoman empire was crushed. The people leading it were quite similar to Che Guevara of the 1860's. For educate
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by monochr 12y ago
Why are any of those things interesting? Bulgaria was a Turkish colony until 1908 with decolonization not finished until the end of the First Balkan war in 1913 when all Turkish territory populated by a majority of ethnic Bulgarians was abs
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by monochr 12y ago
I'm sorry but I just don't buy this. I'm Eastern European and when I was growing up I still had the cult of personality around Stalin in living memory. The sorts of claims they make about "short sleepers" there are
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by monochr 12y ago
Which is my observation too. For the sake of Yahoo I hope Marissa Mayer is just a liar because they might be still getting their moneys worth, even if she personally needs to feel like a hero by making claims about self sacrifice etc. If sh
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by monochr 12y ago
We aren't horses or cows, which do exactly as you say and nearly never sleep. Our species has evolved for at least 50 million years to sleep on tree tops in nests for the full night within a colony, viz all higher primates and many les
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by monochr 12y ago
>I'm not going to say everybody needs the same amount of sleep. I am going to go one step further and claim that anyone who says they work 10+ hour days regularly and are still productive is full of shit. I have seen too many of tho
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by monochr 12y ago
"First world" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
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by monochr 12y ago
As the dailyshow asked a while ago. Are Jews really white? The answer in America is that they are white+, the answer in Europe is one of guilt and resentment. The idea that you should check the same privileges the world over is incredibly A
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by monochr 12y ago
Surely I can't be the only one here who has dealt with actual flesh and blood average users? This would do nothing form them. It requires that you pay attention to the tab, which most don't do, read where they are, again something
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by monochr 12y ago
If someone, anyone, asked me to suck their dick or clit, yes, I would go for the nuclear option. You have to be a really well beaten down cubicle slave to think that someone trying to own your body outright like that isn't grounds for
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by monochr 12y ago
And there are states, such as Liberia, where sexual harassment laws aren't applicable. Just because you live in a medieval jurisdiction doesn't mean the rest of us are.
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by monochr 12y ago
"and she used to tell me lots of stories like this about places she had worked at previously. Vice presidents calling her to their room and offering her promotions if only she would give them weekly blowjobs, prospective customers turn
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by monochr 12y ago
He didn't. It's just the (full set) of lectures he gave here in book form. There is literally a one to one correspondence between the two. The only difference it could make to you is if you like your material presented by a person
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by monochr 12y ago
It's worth mentioning this is just one of around 30 lectures that cover a lot of indepth material on design, theoretical computer science, systems engineering and what in 1995 he thought future technology will be like. You won't g
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by monochr 12y ago
"Not sure what Rogozin thought about them apples, but this sure isn't boring!" Probably nothing. The Soyuz rockets they use are so old they are literally still named after the Soviet Union. This might seem like a bad thing bu
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by monochr 12y ago
The funny thing about articles like this is that the same articles were popping up a century or two ago for farmers forced of their land and made into "salaried slaves" where they had no choice but to hire out your labor in ways t
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by monochr 12y ago
It's always funny when you see old masters of the universe become Marxists when someone is about to eat their lunch. Doubly so when it is a business that has spent the better part of two centuries appropriating the public space into a
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by monochr 12y ago
This just a numerical simulation on two (simple) models of the human sleep cycle system that tries to find a more efficient way of shifting the cycle of those methods. I've only spend 40 minutes reading the paper so far and only have a
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by monochr 12y ago
He might have been rich by Chinese standards but he was still poor by Western ones. He seemed to be vastly more interested in finding a job outside the university so he could stay in the country than actually trying to study for the classes
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by monochr 12y ago
Only if it's based on race. You must be American since you missed the part where I said it's the _poor_ Indians and Chinese that are desperate and most departments want nothing to do with them. That isn't racism, that is weal
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by monochr 12y ago
Have you had to deal with the number of Indian or Chinese students trying to push into a program they have no place being in? I get it's the poverty back home that makes them desperate and nothing to do with race, but the one time my f
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by monochr 12y ago
I am reminded of Churchill stopping the plan to kill Hitler after they had done pretty much all the hard work apart from killing him because he was afraid someone competent would rise to the top and (rather easily) fight the war to a stands
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by monochr 12y ago
>The novelty of this particular famine, what made it so diabolical, is that it was the deliberate creation of a bureaucratic mind As opposed to the Indian and Irish famines where strong state intervention would have saved the majority of
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by monochr 12y ago
Which has nothing to do with what I asked about my freedoms as a user. Developers think that licences that let them charge for binaries, restrict resales and keep competitors out are wonderful. The same way that banks think that debtor pris
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by monochr 12y ago
> Notice how "public domain" is in the less harmful category? And all the licenses in that category as more free than the GPL? That's a very odd definition of "free". Can you explain to me how my computing freedo
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by monochr 12y ago
Now you just need to design a balanced ternary computer which uses lambda calculus instead of Boolean logic and you will be a quarter of the way to getting rid of the gunk left over from the birth of computers when people were arguing if re
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by monochr 12y ago
Then those people better not be programming on x86 hardware because that platform is so bloated the mov command is Turing complete by itself: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf

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