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Arab women's rights group: Why is Facebook censoring this photo?(globalpost.com)
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Geek’s Guide to the Election 2012(election.princeton.edu)
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by nekojima 14y ago
The rather famous 'Top Gear tries to kill a Toyota Hilux'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&... The part when the Hilux goes in the English Channel (which is salt water).
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by nekojima 14y ago
I've never had problems in Osaka. Though the mamasans and bar girls in WanChai in Hong Kong can be quite aggressive. Leave a hand for them to grab and you'll be yanked into the bar very quickly!!
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by nekojima 14y ago
I've been going to China for more than a decade and lived there for a while too. I use the opportunities to practice my "street" Chinese and try to understand rural dialects. But I've never been taken in by any of the scams or folks coming
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by nekojima 14y ago
If you're in China and are having finding prostitutes, you haven't either walked through you hotel lobby, onto a main shopping street, or really been anywhere. They are quite literally everywhere in the cities and larger towns. I can not th
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by nekojima 14y ago
It may not be an epiphany, but watching just a few seconds of the news coverage I thought of the number of times many of those things had happened to NYC in summer disaster movies. If I had cameras, boats/kayaks, a few actors & friends
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Anthropologist: Apple is a religion(news.cnet.com)
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by nekojima 14y ago
What would seemingly be my ISP's router is mentioned here as having 100% packet loss for the last 24 hours. I had great speeds yesterday and the last few hours, been downloading large files. Perhaps I'm just lucky? Or there is issue with ho
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A Soviet missile base in Germany that spy planes never saw(bbc.co.uk)
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Boarding pass barcodes 'can be read by smartphones'(bbc.co.uk)
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Web host for SumoTorrent site 'liable for damages'(bbc.co.uk)
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by nekojima 14y ago
Which was a ripoff of the classic mid-1990s SimFarm.
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The maths that made Voyager possible(bbc.co.uk)
96 points by nekojima 14y ago|27 comments
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by nekojima 14y ago
This product would be handy on toll roads that use cameras to bill you. Like the 407 in Ontario. My somewhat educated guess is that the product would very likely be illegal because the flashes intentionally obscure the license plate from be
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by nekojima 14y ago
As well, I'd generally think a 6-0 team should be ranked above a 6-1 team, does not currently appear that way.
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by nekojima 14y ago
There is a high correlation in the NFL between turnover margin and winning.
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by nekojima 14y ago
I often skip the articles, or skim very quickly, and read the comments much more closely, leaving those tabs I found most interesting open for the day and refreshing for updates.
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by nekojima 14y ago
"stealing her passport and return tickets so she couldn't go home would be a kind thing to do." A kind thing to do for her or for the students?
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by nekojima 14y ago
I'm somewhat surprised there wasn't a mention of how valuable this would be for deaf users. For instance, they might be able to use it to synthesize voice through hand commands to talk more easily with non-deaf people (those who don't know
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Microsoft's Digits hand-gesture sensor bracelet detailed(bbc.co.uk)
20 points by nekojima 14y ago|8 comments
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by nekojima 14y ago
No offense taken. Having worked in that role, I knew how most companies would react. I was more interested in which companies would respond and how.
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by nekojima 14y ago
I bought those books when I lived in Asia. The savings are huge, upwards of 80%. On the cover it does say "Not for Resale in North America & Europe" or "Not for Resale outside of (country)" on the cover. One note though, these books are
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by nekojima 14y ago
It most definitely isn't enforceable, but for the last five years when I have bought something of value that I might want to resell or infringe in someway on copyright, I have emailed or mailed the company a two paragraph letter. I include
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by nekojima 14y ago
"it's been over 7 years since we've had a new lineup of multifunction printers," I have one of those 7 year old MFPs and it has worked great, but HP has kindly sent me a new replacement printer because of a cartridge issue I've had in the l
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by nekojima 14y ago
I'm disappointed to see that the earth maps from Google and Nokia of my town are three years old. I saw the copyright 2012 and had heard they'd been updated through a Google posting a few weeks ago. But checking a few new construction devel
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by nekojima 14y ago
"(I think he wanted rid of "www." at the start of URLs too)" I am rather surprised the "web." movement never really took off to replace "www.". Just glad folks no longer include the "http..." part when saying URLs now on radio and tv, and a
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by nekojima 14y ago
"300 days/year" Why does he get 65 days off a year? This is not North America, Europe or industrialized Asia. Most of day labourers I've spoken to in Asia consider themselves lucky if they get two or three days off a month. At that low leve
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by nekojima 14y ago
Hope no one using Apple's iOS6 maps tries to land a plane at the "Airport Strip" in Mississauga. Its a strip club.
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by nekojima 14y ago
Post an Ask HN next August (or however its appropriate) and if I see it, I'm in.

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