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by nsns 14y ago
Somewhat ironic to find this post two links above the one about lab rats getting tortured for "science". I guess rats are uglier.
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by nsns 14y ago
Any thoughts on why this does not seem to be happening in the humanities as well?
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by nsns 14y ago
Well, ancient South India is indeed full of riddles (some of which will probably never be solved), but there is good research going on about it. e.g. a recent very interesting study: http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/SouthernRec.pdf (P
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by nsns 14y ago
What "lack of history and reasearch"? This field is full of amazing works. Three great examples (there are many more): http://books.google.com/books/about/Symbols_of_substance.htm... http://books.google.com/books/about/Languages_and_Nati
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by nsns 14y ago
Could try talking to an actual bug.
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by nsns 14y ago
Gates' donations are invested in problems that should have been dealt with by governments, whose tax money is spent instead on the semi-corrupt self interests of their leaders and their business cronies,[0] an economic-social structure whic
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by nsns 14y ago
Agreed! A comment with many replies is essentially a new "sub-post" with a life of its own.
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Hyper-consumerism: Apple Stores Get Almost as Many Visitors as Disney(theatlantic.com)
1 points by nsns 14y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 14y ago
You're confusing a single conversation with the ongoing presence on the forum. Karma is an imperfect but effective way of assessing a user's position within the community based on her/his previous actions and reactions. It can be looked at
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by nsns 14y ago
Please don't be so gullible as to take the Western media's narrative without a grain of salt; The only reason for burning the manuscripts is as a provocation, that is, because they are highly valued. Not to mention the fact that it now se
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A Renaissance in Economics(adbusters.org)
1 points by nsns 14y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 14y ago
Rainbows?
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by nsns 14y ago
But not for a politician...[0] [0] http://www.mediaite.com/tv/robot-politician-in-bbc-interview...
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by nsns 14y ago
Liberté, égalité, fraternité?
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by nsns 14y ago
Well, all of the persons you cite belonged to unprivileged minorities, unlike Aaron, whose state of mind must have been quite different. This comment however does not negate the fact that he was driven to his suicide by his prosecutors, fo
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by nsns 14y ago
Instead of purging the vocabulary, they shuld have tought it/she/him the concept of registers[0] and code switching[1]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_%28sociolinguistics%29 [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_switching
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by nsns 14y ago
There should be a name for this strange ultra-capitalist subjectivity, perhaps iI ? The first, little, i masquerades as a self, but is actually a corporate identity.
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by nsns 14y ago
What strikes me most, is the fact that most of these popular entries would'nt fit so well in traditional encyclopedias, either because they're too ephermal and "lowbrow" (related to mass media trends), or because they require constant updat
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by nsns 14y ago
Mobile apps?
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by nsns 14y ago
Rest In Peace. Silver lining: perhaps Annapurna Devi will start playing publicly now.
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by nsns 14y ago
Submitting random articles from favorite sites (TechCrunch, Ars Technica, TorrentFreak, etc.) as soon as they're published (i.e. before anyone else), would probably get you a few thousand Karma points in a month or two. From my point of v
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by nsns 14y ago
Which might simply mean that this is the approximate amount of non-Apple laptops (and desktops?) sold since Win8's launch, because most of them are now sold only with Win8 licenses [0]. Hardly a mark of success, but of MS's (doomed?) pervas
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Gas tanker Ob River attempts first winter Arctic crossing(bbc.co.uk)
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by nsns 14y ago
From reading all these reviews, it seems that simply adding a way to disable "Metro" on desktops and bringing back the Start button, would please everyone. There's only one recurring complaint - one that could be easily fixed. It's not real
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by nsns 14y ago
And your Second its cause for constant anxiety.
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by nsns 14y ago
This comment can be slightly rephrased to fit Apple as well.
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by nsns 14y ago
"It's on Google Earth and other maps so we went to check and there was no island." (Scientists) "The world is a constantly changing place, and keeping on top of these changes is a never-ending endeavour." (Google spokesperson) "...though i
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by nsns 14y ago
Shouldn't we use technology to stop exploiting animals?
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Reddit Risks Upvoting Itself Into Political Obsolescence (tnr.com)
1 points by nsns 14y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 14y ago
- and the Redditization of HN comments...

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