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by nicolapede 7y ago
May I ask you where you ordered them?
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by nicolapede 7y ago
>> No ideological purity survives the myriad of real world circumstances Just wanted to praise the way you've been able to summarise something I find so true.
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A call for a democratic AI?(theguardian.com)
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by nicolapede 8y ago
With respect to windows phone, I really miss the tiles, the consistency of the metro style gui and other little details, like automatic do not disturb mode while driving or face recognition well before it became mainstream.
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by nicolapede 9y ago
Would you mind elaborating a little on the Columbine shooting and where to look for trustworthy reconstruction of the event?
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Top Italian party wants to use blockchain for voting(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by nicolapede 9y ago|0 comments
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Financial Markets Scholar on Cryptocurrencies(voxeu.org)
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Microsoft Links LinkedIn to Office (Word)(theverge.com)
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by nicolapede 9y ago
Wow, thanks a lot for sharing. It looks wonderful. One thing that I am wondering is: as much reluctant as I am in using Google services, I must admit that Google Map is unbeaten -- in my own experience -- in finding the quickest route in tr
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by nicolapede 9y ago
For people using boost, this feature has been available for some time: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_60_0/libs/optional/doc/html/...
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Bill Gates is using Android phones(bbc.com)
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by nicolapede 9y ago
Counterexample -- happened near London. I asked to the cab driver if he accepted card payments and he says no. I asked him if we could stop to an ATM machine on the way and he said no and had me leave the cab (it was raining and there was a
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by nicolapede 9y ago
> The old desire of building your identity around what you own instead of what you do is not going anywhere. And so is the old desire of looking down on people that see life differently from us.
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Harold Bloom (The Western Canon) on Harry Potter (2000) [pdf](1xn.org)
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by nicolapede 9y ago
Fascinating, I didn't know the babylonian method -- it sounds equivalent to Newton's.
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by nicolapede 9y ago
Fascinating questions. I am an applied mathematicians by educational background, while I am working more and more as a developer in my day-to-day job. The answer that my personal experience gives to these questions is that programming has h
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by nicolapede 10y ago
> dynamically-typed ones Why you consider C# to be dynamically-typed?
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by nicolapede 10y ago
The referendum gave the What. Parliament would give the How and When.
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by nicolapede 10y ago
And if Theresa May thinks that taking back board control is worth leaving the single market, can she do that, just because of the referendum? People also gave Tories majority in the Parliament and Tories' manifesto committed to stay in
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by nicolapede 10y ago
I think it was quite arrogant from Theresa May to decide not to involve the Parliament in the first place. People did not give a blanket mandate to her for implementing whatever she thinks Brexit means.
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by nicolapede 10y ago
High-Frequency Trading, I'd think.
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by nicolapede 10y ago
> Wouldn't you expect, if tech kept draining employees out of banking, that it would disproportionately drain introverts away and leave banking more extraverted than before? Sure, in fact my additional hope is that this being over-e
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by nicolapede 10y ago
Working in investment banking here. I sincerely hope that tech companies will continue to thrive -- the reasoning being that at some point IB will be so much short of talents that it will have to adjust to working practices/policies mo
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by nicolapede 10y ago
Thanks a lot for sharing it. I have just looked it up on Amazon and found that they say something like 'before Freaknomics ...'. What is the link between the two?
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by nicolapede 10y ago
Also, what if the new PM has to pass through general elections? You might end up having someone which promises to trigger article 50 and someone who does not. A second referendum.
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by nicolapede 11y ago
Because to learn Latin you usually (at least in the country where I learnt it) have to read Virgil, Seneca, Tacitus and so on. They are not mandatory if you instead want to learn Python.
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by nicolapede 11y ago
Thanks a lot for sharing it!
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by nicolapede 11y ago
In Win10 you can also do Super+U (or Super+D) after either Super+L or Super+R to move the window into the upper (lower) right or left quarter.
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by nicolapede 11y ago
I think quite good although I haven't tried to write anything in Universal Windows Platform yet. Sorry for the late reply.
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by nicolapede 11y ago
Under this classification what makes the bombing of Dresden or Hiroshima different from any other terrorist attack? I mean, who is to decide under which circumstances unarmed civilians are a legitimate military target?

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