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If Facebook Could Enter China, Here Are Some Of The Hurdles(techcrunch.com)
1 points by nekojima 14y ago|2 comments
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by nekojima 14y ago
The FBI focused on Greenpeace in the aftermath of 9/11. Including adding the names of some members to the 'no-fly' list. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/09/hbc-90007642 An incident that comes to mind immediately with Greenpeace &
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by nekojima 14y ago
I have a Youtube only account, not linked to any other Google services or their hosted email, and I can up or down vote any of the three videos I just randomly clicked on to check this out.
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"If he were moving to a village in Thailand" Having spent a few months in a village in Northern Thailand, I was quite happy on the speed our internet connection was usually providing us. Generally used for checking email, skype, news and th
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by nekojima 14y ago
Yes, BBC allowed some of the sessions to be released. Sessions from 80+ artists, of the 2,000+ artists & 4,000+ sessions recorded, were released on Strange Fruit Records before closing in 2004. List of those releases: http://en.wikiped
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by nekojima 14y ago
From an updated press release on the site: "You will be able to see the hand-typed cards that John diligently typed for every album in the collection, the record sleeves, as well as listening to tracks via spotify and itunes where available
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by nekojima 14y ago
While the article makes mention of new product design and other issues where Apple could become like Sony, perhaps the two biggest near-term future risks for Apple are disruption to its China-focused supply chain and a significant narrowing
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by nekojima 15y ago
I had this thought as a History student twenty years ago, though I was already interested in programming. I wrote up several proposals for my entrepreneurship class on using computing to automate many of the more difficult and time-consumin
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by nekojima 15y ago
Some are job related where I've visited remote locations to check on resource sites or in conflict zones. Otherwise, I often go off the beaten track to find out what its like in remote areas. Originally for the landscapes, flora & fauna
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"with a pc and decent internet connection" Unfortunately, for many people in the world this, and as mentioned in the posting a reliable supply of electricity, is something that not everyone can afford or easily acquire. There are many hundr
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You'd need to separate out different sub-sectors of the tech industry, business and entrepreneurship, as they have varying characteristics which correlate to success and failure. Some may not require university, depending on level and role,
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by nekojima 15y ago
2) Deficiency in the "science" part of Computer Science (Algorithms and Theory) This usually isn't readily noticeable to a student who thinks they aren't learning anything, but in a few years, this will be among the foundations of your skil
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by nekojima 15y ago
Most of the best programmers I've known were initially self-taught, but also have university degrees. Which after they are 30-35 is crucial if they want to move up the ladder to executive within a corporate environment. Having spent the las
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by nekojima 15y ago
Immigration/work visa, even for an American, is important if they want to move or work overseas and lack a university/college degree. Generally, when I interview North American/European job candidates they must have a university education.
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Facebook is such a small part of my online activities that its almost inconsequential. But I would still object to the request as inappropriate on the grounds of personal security (which I prefer to cite over privacy). I'd be much more conc
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by nekojima 15y ago
Sorry, it does show up on the Open Graph Tags, it was the html tags I was more interested in and so was focused on more, and that's where it was showing up. Otherwise great, I love when I can save time doing these tags.
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by nekojima 15y ago
When I was practicing on the link, the keyword would populate the title field, while the title did not appear to be populating any of the tag fields.
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by nekojima 15y ago
"before it goes back in the Neverland vault for good!" I sincerely wish that was an option I could choose!!
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by nekojima 15y ago
What about co-writers, other musicians, producers and so on that create the work who live on after one of their cohort dies? I've always felt that ten years was suitable for copyright fee recovery and then let it be in the public domain.
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by nekojima 15y ago
I had thought the movement to kill math ended long ago with this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfgX0fyNeLc
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by nekojima 15y ago
Aside from distribution, marketing and screen availability (national/city quotas for Hollywood movies) in some countries, until digital distribution started to roll out in North America, EU, Japan and other countries the biggest limiting fa
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by nekojima 15y ago
We have six cats at the house here, hence the username 'nekojima', Japanese for 'cat island'. I have long suspected a parasitic role (either us or them for attention rather than brain damaging) or an element of craziness in our having so ma
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by nekojima 15y ago
For those interested in playing Settlers of Catan, but don't have the game or enough players handy, it is available on BSW, a German site that also has an English interface. The quality of play is generally quite high & competitive, for
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by nekojima 15y ago
From what I understand, its mostly due to the landing approaches being more straight forward, the lack of stacking of planes to land (less circling) and timing between planes is usually slightly longer than in the US. An extra ten or twenty
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That's quite a common time (10-13 minutes) from cruising altitude to landing at most airports in East Asia. America has other issues that interfere with more sensible landing procedures that need to be addressed, but are unlike to be.
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I had thought I might buy the necessary material and write out the required instructions to do this and give them to three six and seven year olds for them to assemble and launch (with adult help to carry the tank & fill the balloon). S
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It might be that the added exposure she and her photos find, and the resulting increase in revenue, substantially offsets the cost of litigation. The attorneys might be in it for an easy payday (or lacked the work volume or experience) or t
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by nekojima 15y ago
There is a temple in Angkor Wat, Cambodia, which like many tourist locations, where many people take the exact same photo. So much so, that I have at least six friends on Facebook, most of whom don't know each other, who have posted the sam
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Photographer Appeals Ruling Saying It's Not Infringement for Similar Photos(techdirt.com)
1 points by nekojima 15y ago|3 comments
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by nekojima 15y ago
"Better to go for paid advertising on your website itself." Usually need a minimum of six months of steady visitors, or growing from a healthy base with no sustained dips, before most paid advertisers will even consider advertising for a re

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