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Despite the massive evidence of prior art, it was found not to be original and the patent was granted.
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"Corruption is probably the largest roadblock to growth, as evidenced by China's relatively slow rise to power" China's slow rise to power from 1949 to 1979 wasn't because of corruption, but incompetence and policies, practices & ideolo
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Here are the BC requirements, bit different from Federal government. $400,000 investment and at least a 33.3% stake in the company. Plus a net worth requirement of $800,000. http://www.welcomebc.ca/wbc/immigration/come/work/about/busi... ?
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"Related topic: The Hong Kong Chinese don't want their kids to learn about about China" That's a very wrong interpretation of the current events in HK. The parents and students are opposed to the National Education plan because it inaccurat
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There are several books about the MS-13. Here is one of them: http://www.amazon.com/This-Is-Mara-Salvatrucha-Americas/dp/1...
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If anything, that piece probably understates the problems mentioned. Though there has been recent moves to provide pension schemes for urban and rural workers, even if the programs are underfunded, it still covers a huge portion of the popu
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Foreigners Allowed–Hotel Registration Tutorial (Chinese state security software)(lostlaowai.com)
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Facebook used thefacebook.com to begin with, because its original name when founded was Thefacebook. This was changed a year later to Facebook when it purchased facebook.com.
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I would probably have read this page for the first time in January/February 1993 when I was writing my first html page. Too bad there are so many broken links now.
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There are very successful Japanese and other Asian gaming companies on other networks and for mobile which could have been noted as alternative examples in the article. They seem to provide a better gaming experience for their users, though
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Then count me as an addict. I have HN as a tab.
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There goes most of my afternoon. I'll be looking at Google Maps for the next few hours. Maybe its an affliction, rather than addiction, but I really enjoy looking at aerial & satellite photos. This is the link for the updated lists of l
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> Everybody needs to understand formal symbolic systems. Everybody does not need to understand this and I dare (with fingers crossed) say a good percentage of those on HN don't either. There needs to be rationalization within the educat
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CTV coverage in Canada titled him on-screen as the "Founder of the World Wide Web" then the commentator called him the Father of the Internet... so half marks, if possible.
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Its been a few years since I last checked, but having 'real-time' quotes is better than 15-minute delayed, which I seem to remember it was before. As well as the graphical overlay of the news bulletins on the share ticker graph is good too.
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This posting is a great advertisement for Google Finance. I hadn't realized it had been improved so much. I may well move over from other sites and begin using it more often now.
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There are regular "crackdowns" on internet cafes in Beijing, as they are an easy target for the security establishment to justify their existence to find hostile forces against stability and harmony. Many of the internet cafes are operating
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A joke that (if you are Chinese in China) can get you jailed, put under indefinite house arrest, fired from job, kicked out of school, banned from professional associations, removed from your home, have savings confiscated, beaten by securi
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As Zynga copies games with some success, why has it been able to copy the Japanese model of social gaming? Gree and DeNA have been able to make money for several years now and it appears are growing sustainably. Gree's most recent quarterly
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Fairtrade tea – from £2.00 Fairtrade coffee – from £2.60 Rather expensive for a cup of hot water. Does that price include a teaspoon of fairtrade sugar and a dash of fairtrade milk or cream? Then again, its not very fairtrade for coffee far
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There was (and supposedly still is) Corel, which in the mid-late 1990s, was one of the few companies to rival Microsoft & others for office & digital design/drawing/photo software.
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Having a full suite of products to compete against competitors and providing alternatives to 500px, & other similar sites, is a good enough reason to maintain or rejuvenate Flickr and many of the other products & services Yahoo! has
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There are just too many product posts to be made where Yahoo! can "please make awesome again".
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"I just find myself wondering to what extent the YC interview gives the startup team a chance to get their initial burst of "stuff" out before starting to take them off on tangents." I believe Paul answered this in a comment on the thread.
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From original post: "mud samples taken from the seabed around 5,600 metres (18,300 feet) down" The techniques to extract these deposits would likely be similar to deep sea oil extraction. Their proposed timeline of production in five years
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Yes, that's what I've been doing (aiming for Consultant instead of manager). Another issue which is largely unsaid, but was in one interview when I made final round interview with the Partner, was that I was possibly "too old" for Consultan
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As much as I've enjoyed working in several start-ups, I've been looking to go to consulting for more than a year and finding it tough. In part its the level I'm "expected" to go into at (Manager), when I don't have consulting experience and
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"the new iPad starts at $500. Premium Windows 8 tablets will likely run between $800 and $900." Which is why I am more than happy to stick with a much more functional & useful laptop, that's slim and has a long battery life. With the ad
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Nixon acknowledged the "One China" policy, not two, when the US shifted diplomatic support from Taiwan (Republic of China) to mainland China (PRC). Taiwan is not a "major" US ally, rather the US is Taiwan's major ally. The US has several ot
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The change will come through digital distribution of the movies to cinemas, instead of the physical reel method that has been used since movies were first shown in cinemas. The main reasons these movies take so long to distribute outside of

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