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by nmc 13y ago
I think you mean "both would not be considered inertial in GR". An inertial frame of reference suggests the existence of a homogeneous, isotropic region of space; in general relativity, gravitation shapes space and, since gravit
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by nmc 13y ago
Irony is a lot less obvious in written form. Also, I am not American, so I fell into the trap, thinking Richelieu was actually "supposed to be known" by the average American. Retrospectively, I see it know.
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by nmc 13y ago
My mistake then.
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by nmc 13y ago
I totally agree with you; my comment was intended as a joke. I also wanted to point out that "not knowing about science" cannot be brought down to a handful of True/False questions.
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by nmc 13y ago
"the Cardinal was somewhat influential figure during the uneventful times known as the 30 year war that shaped modern Europe and set in motion the processes that culminated in WWII" I am going to take this point by point. - Card
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by nmc 13y ago
"Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth?" Fortunately, Americans are not stupid. They know that "A goes around B" and "B goes around A" are equivalent because there is no real
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by nmc 13y ago
A nice compilation of webdev documentation: http://devdocs.io
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by nmc 13y ago
Totally. However, in case said "things" are not from the current year, it is a habit on HN to include the date in the title — at least the year, like so: I challenged hackers to investigate me and what they found out is chillin
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by nmc 13y ago
Created 6 years ago. Actually: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lmgtfy+creation+date
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by nmc 13y ago
So maybe "maybe" was not enough for you? Or did it really seem like I was calling them on picking the wrong domain name?
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by nmc 13y ago
I personally found it funny, but I agree with you, it kind of kills the conversation.
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by nmc 13y ago
I disagree with you analogy. From my perspective as from xerophtye's, Americans have American representatives, non-Americans do not. There is no different perception involved. Thanks for the "worthless garbage" mention, alw
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by nmc 13y ago
I think — I mean, I am not sure, but I strongly believe — that VeejayRampay was simply being ironic.
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by nmc 13y ago
> "how many HNers [...] made a call to their representatives" I believe you mean "how many American HNers" . On the website, you were asked for an American ZIP code anyway... maybe should have been called thedaya
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by nmc 13y ago
When will BBC writers learn the nuance between "hack" and "attack" ?
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by nmc 13y ago
Would not surprise me at all. Despite the well-known image of the street filled with coffee-shops, really a few Dutch people smoke: less than 5% of them use the coffee-shops, and less than 10% of 15-24-year-olds.
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by nmc 13y ago
> "it would be (IMO) pretty foolish to turn down double the salary" Why is that? Is life always better with more money? If the OP is happy with the amount of money he is already making, why should he look for ever-higher sala
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by nmc 13y ago
Original title: "Kazakhstan Devalues Amid Outflows From Emerging Markets" This "How to make money" is just ridiculous link bait.
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by nmc 13y ago
Yeah, we will be so much better off, when those F-ing froggies and sauerkrauts start fighting again like in the good ol' 40s. And Polish and Romanians should die instead of "flooding our streets" . Seriously, there is a lot
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by nmc 13y ago
Good examples, except for downloading: Dutch law recognizes intellectual property, broadcasting/selling copyrighted material is forbidden, but obtaining it is not illegal.
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by nmc 13y ago
As dsl pointed out, this filtering is already enforced, but it presents caveats and limitations: http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc3013#section-4.3
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by nmc 13y ago
Seriously? BTW, there is no "A" in "experience".
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by nmc 13y ago
Seems to be blocked right now: http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=news.ycombinator.com
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by nmc 13y ago
Please get your dates right. The outage happened on Friday the 7th of February, and only lasted until Saturday afternoon. Of course, the link is now working fine again.
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by nmc 13y ago
I cannot believe it took me so long to realize there is a side-joke in the "title" attribute of each strip's <img> tag.
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by nmc 13y ago
Huzlers is "a combination of real shocking news and satire news to keep its visitors in a state of disbelief" .
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Cobalt intoxication diagnosed with the help of Dr House(thelancet.com)
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by nmc 13y ago
Thank you for sharing. Care to elaborate? — industry sector, company size, type of analysis...
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by nmc 13y ago
No problem with German news, but please remember how poor Google Translate is. When you have the option, try to pick an English article — or do a proper translation yourself. http://world.time.com/2014/02/06/v
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by nmc 13y ago
By such a definition, any form of expression is encoding, isn't it?

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