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Par:AnoIA: Anonymous Launches WikiLeaks-esque Site for Data Dumps(wired.com)
2 points by nsns 14y ago|0 comments
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Should Twitter entertain millions with public rows?(guardian.co.uk)
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by nsns 14y ago
I agree, but I also believe a little ambiguity and heterogeneous modes of use are actually beneficial, make the place alive. I tend to up-vote people who make efforts and contribute important information or opinions, not necessarily those
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by nsns 14y ago
And please make the up-vote button larger than the down-vote one. (They're not really logical opposites and their use frequency is quite different.)
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by nsns 14y ago
While I support his fight, I believe this simply adds to a long tradition in politics of offering "tempting" concessions the other side can never accept, for publicity and other purposes.
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by nsns 14y ago
I have spent years in India, and it's one of my favorite places on Earth. One thing I quickly discovered is how much Western visitors like to (ab)use their experiences to misconstrue a sense of superiority. Such a sense would immediately di
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by nsns 14y ago
Good luck to him. The specs for his "legs" - http://www.ossur.com/?PageID=13462
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by nsns 14y ago
I agree with both of you, for technical language a technical approach to machine translation works.
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by nsns 14y ago
OT rant: I can't read these Google machine translations, language is not a collection of words, not even words + syntax, it's full of idioms and collocations and hidden associations and stylistically motivated violations of accepted convent
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by nsns 14y ago
I believe you mean, where the common good triumphs over personal agendas. IMO, in a democracy, we have only ourselves to blame, it's our indifference that manifests as our leaders' arrogance and ignorance.
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by nsns 14y ago
That's true for almost every field of academic research and work; around 70-80% of the words are not in any dictionary (or, if they are, their standard definition has nothing to do with their professional meaning).
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The Higgs bit we know. But the boson? (guardian.co.uk)
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by nsns 14y ago
While errors will always happen, the main concern, IMO, is that slowly it will become intentional and accepted. This hasn't happened yet outside certain countries. For example, we could still access Wikileaks, despite the US government's vi
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by nsns 14y ago
"politics is the fact that the weakest cat in the street can become the leader of the pack" (paraphrasing Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe in their Retreating the Political )
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by nsns 14y ago
The main problem is the PDS [1] in certain Indian states. In other states, where the PDS works (e.g. Tamil Nadu), things are better. The article is very simplistic and alarmist. Things are much more complex, and it's high time Western reade
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by nsns 14y ago
Making a legal decision based on your own personal gains and not the data?
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by nsns 14y ago
...and probably killed this thread. I wonder why its done, there's no reason for it.
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by nsns 14y ago
Nice quote: Graham Linehan, the writer of sitcoms The IT Crowd, Black Books and Father Ted, also signed the petition. He said: "It just seems to me that people like Richard are being punished for being able to navigate the modern world. The
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Richard O'Dwyer petition hits 160,000 signatures(guardian.co.uk)
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Researchers use spoofing to 'hack' into a flying drone(bbc.com)
3 points by nsns 14y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 14y ago
The problems might have been due to your (mis)communication with your Chinese partner, I wouldn't rush into accusing the entire Chinese manufacturing sector for your problems. In fact, an accusation like this proves you have problems of per
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by nsns 14y ago
Because it should be true! Ignoring for the moment the veracity or falsity of the rumor, the fact that open-source code is a better choice, even from the economic angle, should be the main point for discussion here, tangentially spurred b
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by nsns 14y ago
Nice article, even better comments. But am I the only one who thinks explaining stuff by "it's because your brain tells you that..." doesn't really solve anything, simply relocates the mystery?
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by nsns 14y ago
Am I missing something? Why is this made by Asus and not Motorola Mobility?
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Nielsen.com's figures for website usage in the US during May 2012(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by nsns 14y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 14y ago
Am I the only one who thinks of both Microsoft and Apple as simply two of the biggest gamblers in the game? No one knows yet how the recent technological changes will look when the market becomes stable, it is too early to tell. Apple has g
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Apple violated a Samsung patent, Dutch court rules(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by nsns 14y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 14y ago
You can sum most of it up with: the belief that calendrical (human-conventional) time is identical to, or acts the same as, or is inherently related to, physical time.
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by nsns 14y ago
I think, basically, the OP's request is to start distinguishing between "spins" of titles for polemical and other questionable purposes (which should be reverted), and titles that are honestly modified in order to call attention to aspects
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The Space Idli Mission(openthemagazine.com)
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