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by nekojima 14y ago
This site is the maximum you should pay, as its what travel agents & aggragators pull data from. I've regular found cheaper flights from onetravel.com, but I use the Matrix site to find flights (for years now), as all available flights
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Death of Foodstagram? Restaurants Ban Customers From Taking Food Pics(mashable.com)
2 points by nekojima 14y ago|1 comments
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by nekojima 14y ago
Additional coverage: http://gawker.com/5977130/could-you-be-the-adventurous-woman... http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/genforscher-georg... (in German)
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Wanted: Surrogate for Neanderthal Baby(technologyreview.com)
9 points by nekojima 14y ago|5 comments
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by nekojima 14y ago
Is that why when I got my own place, I never had any xmas presents under the tree? :-(
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Photos of unofficial World of Warcraft theme park in China(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by nekojima 14y ago|0 comments
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'Insulting words' crime ditched(bbc.co.uk)
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by nekojima 14y ago
A second article and more examples: Tencent’s WeChat comes under fire for international censorship practices http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/01/11/tencents-wechat-comes-...
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Tencent’s (China) WeChat App is Censoring Its Users Globally(techinasia.com)
1 points by nekojima 14y ago|1 comments
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by nekojima 14y ago
Same road in Beijing, Jan 9 vs 12, showing difference in visible air quality. http://twitpic.com/buocrx
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In pictures: Beijing pollution(bbc.co.uk)
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by nekojima 14y ago
How are those electric vehicles powered, by coal? Coal is the only cheap and viable short & medium term energy resource solution for China, and a substantial problem (though only not the only source) for causing the pollution currently
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by nekojima 14y ago
This is almost as good as Japan's very controversial 99%+ conviction rate, which is widely seen as abusive, with a high rate of innocent people forced to confess, for varied reasons. This is a decades old paper, but still quite relevant for
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Air pollution in Beijing surpasses 'health hazard' levels (Video, Photos)(rt.com)
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by nekojima 14y ago
Article 9, along with Japan's reduced military spending and lack of a local Military Industrial Complex, or one that was substantially reduced in scope after the Second World War with focus redirected to consumer goods, is a significant rea
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by nekojima 14y ago
Even seemingly modern, developed countries didn't have indoor plumbing in the 1930s. My parents grew up in houses on modern (for the time) housing estates in England in the 1950s/1960s without indoor plumbing. Though it was indoor in the se
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by nekojima 14y ago
A much better series was the original BBC 'Survivors' from the mid-70s, then re-made a few years ago. Though it was a plague not power outage, the basis of society then does look at using mills and other early-industrial revolution technolo
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by nekojima 14y ago
Some of those countries in the bottom ten have quite large populations and land areas too. They are also desperately poor, with inadequate infrastructure, corrupt ineffectual governments, and lack a substantial civil society willing & a
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by nekojima 14y ago
Currency pledges to the IMF are not foreign aid. Some ministers may have asked Britain to stop providing development assistance, but programs are still being coordinated with Indian ministries and assistance being delivered. At least accord
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by nekojima 14y ago
I understand your point. Change can come from the top down (government) or from bottom up (citizens). But if the middle ground (often the government/civil service in India) is stopping change or reform, pressure must be put on it. Usually t
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by nekojima 14y ago
Are these r/ references to Reddit? I had thought it was yet another new quirky unneeded programming language I had intentionally avoided to learn.
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by nekojima 14y ago
India still receives foreign aid, around 60m pounds from the UK alone this year. Though the UK's development aid will be phased out by 2015, when technical aid & assistance will replace development aid. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-pol
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by nekojima 14y ago
Police are civil servants under the direction and policies of ministries within the framework of government. The government is not just the political elite, rather its the civil service as well and that is who the majority of people deal wi
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by nekojima 14y ago
"It's not the government that rapes women, or shelters the rapists." Police regularly try to pressure rape victims into marrying their rapists, or accepting a cash settlement. See below link to another case a few days ago. The problem in In
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by nekojima 14y ago
They might be old examples, but 'East Great Falls' was headed straight to video, until it was "accidentally" uploaded and a few months later, after much internet buzz, was released as 'American Pie'. Similarly, 'The Blair Witch Project' was
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by nekojima 14y ago
You're welcome. I saw the original post more for entertainment value, with perhaps some good criticism of it from HN'ers. I hadn't seen this posting, rather nutty & unhinged.
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10 Signs We Live in a False Economy(theidealistrevolution.com)
6 points by nekojima 14y ago|6 comments
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by nekojima 14y ago
The list is rather short for Germany's allies, with Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Aside from Finland already mentioned, there is Thailand, Iraq and San Marino, who allied with Germany, but did not sign the Tripart
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by nekojima 14y ago
A number of professional footballers in the UK had their houses broken into during matches they were playing in, in the last two or three years. In some cases repeatedly, after new items were purchased to replace those stolen, the house was
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Bolivia's 'fatal lottery' story shown in long lost film(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by nekojima 14y ago|0 comments

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