namdnay

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by namdnay 16y ago
TIL it is correct in American to use the verb "rent" for both parties.
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by namdnay 16y ago
To be honest, I prefer your "Cat & Mouse"...
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by namdnay 16y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority of Wikipedia users don't know, and don't care, about Wikipedia politics If they don't care about the "politics", they shouldn't complain if the direction chosen by the project does not suit
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by namdnay 16y ago
Once he matured to become a responsible adult, yes.
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by namdnay 16y ago
I agree with your point, but we shouldn't forget that this article is clearly sympathetic to the kid. Maybe he isn't quite as cute and cuddly as they make out.
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by namdnay 16y ago
> a project that contains all human knowledge, on all subjects, without any constraint I would have said that's (one of) the role(s) of the internet.
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by namdnay 16y ago
Unilaterally? Anyone can !vote on an AFD.
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by namdnay 16y ago
Lots of European countries have very powerful teachers' unions and tenure (off the top of my head France, Germany, Sweden, Norway). Yet their results (for secondary education of course) are far better than NYC. So I doubt that's the major c
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by namdnay 16y ago
I wouldn't say they're "completely independent". There's still a correlation.
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by namdnay 16y ago
huh? Tons of people have changed their name for their facebook account (e.g. "Rob FromManchester" instead of "Rob Smith"), so they don't pop up in employer searches. I've never seen or heard of a verification system.
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by namdnay 16y ago
For older (<=2ghz, 256Mb) laptops I strongly recommend switching to Lubuntu. You'll never look back.
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by namdnay 16y ago
LXDE now comes pre-packaged: http://lubuntu.net/ I cannot recommend this distribution enough.
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by namdnay 16y ago
xubuntu became very bloated very fast. From v8 onwards I never saw any advantage over vanilla ubuntu. I think at one point they even announced that they weren't aiming to be "light ubuntu" any more. Lubuntu, however, is the best thing since
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by namdnay 16y ago
"It's not quite true that no mass market product uses Lisp. Microsoft's "Bob" environment for naive computer users was developed (and delivered) in Lisp." ...
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by namdnay 16y ago
While I agree with your general gist, "Capitalism and free enterprise produced everything good" is a bit of an exaggeration. Capitalism didn't "produce" labour rights, it didn't "produce" national parks, the sexual revolution or the aboliti
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by namdnay 16y ago
There was a very interesting article in the Economist about this. The gist of it is that 24% is indeed steep, but bear in mind that: a) These are very small sums of money, so the proportional overhead is much higher b) Microfinance loans re