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by papersmith 17y ago
Only they were different leaders. Traditionally PRC had two factions. The Maoists and the rivals, let's call them the pragmatists. The Maoists were bent on communist doctrines and making great leaps. The pragmatists were more into what a
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by papersmith 17y ago
For a more comprehensive interview on Charlie Rose, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AA5aIdOqlw#t=22m3s
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by papersmith 17y ago
My grandpa was sent to labour camp merely for being a professor and having relations in Taiwan, he wasn't even very vocal about politics. My grandma avoided it by being on an expedition at the time. From their account, it didn't seem like
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by papersmith 17y ago
Some people who are used to squatting toilet would squat on seated toilets. Sitting down feels too weird for them. With less body contact, it's probably more hygienic as well.
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by papersmith 17y ago
Hmm... http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/bugbear_2037_155503...
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by papersmith 17y ago
Like they said in the article "A few Russians had emigrated to the United States and Israel.", though the number is probably much smaller in comparison. I think it's saying that Russia being more urbanized, the Russians' lives were much bet
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by papersmith 17y ago
What's perfectly whole seems flawed, but you can use it forever. What's perfectly full seems empty, but you can't use it up. True straightness looks crooked. Great skill looks clumsy. Real eloquence seems to stammer. To be comfortable in th
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by papersmith 17y ago
Just curious, do most people here use the email client as the primary interface for the group sites? I personally use the web interface for busy listings just to keep things separate from my actual email, and email client for only very low-
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by papersmith 17y ago
I think they tried very hard to make the place look organic, but you if look carefully everything just seems contrived. I think it's sort of the uncanny valley of interior decoration, which I see quite often these days. It probably serves
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by papersmith 17y ago
"All you have to do to trigger a deep yawn is to fake it six or seven times." Does this work for anyone else? Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
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by papersmith 17y ago
Six Apart.
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by papersmith 17y ago
It's sad that something as fundamental as cleaning up after ourselves is made into a partisan issue.
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by papersmith 17y ago
This seems to reflect the advice often given by hackers to roll your own framework as a learning experience.
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by papersmith 17y ago
I consider it more of a guilty pleasure.
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by papersmith 17y ago
Does anyone know how PostgreSQL's built-in full-text index compare with Sphinx and Lucene?
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by papersmith 17y ago
I don't see how it's promoted as fact. He presented it as "Popper’s principle". I see it more as a general rule of thumb. Have to in this case is confined to context of the principle itself, it indicates that you have to do such and s
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by papersmith 17y ago
I am not very familiar with MacRuby, anyone know if it plays well with Rails and its libraries? It's really cool that 0.5 uses LLVM. Does anyone know how this it stacks up against the other Ruby implementations?
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by papersmith 17y ago
My dad, who is 54, got taller since he started swimming every other day in the past two years.
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by papersmith 17y ago
I think that happened in the 90s. :)
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by papersmith 17y ago
It's not that black and white. It was Deng's regime that crushed the Tiananmen Square protesters. There were other nominal heads-of-state at that time, but Deng had de facto power. His reputation is generally favourable today because of t
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by papersmith 17y ago
After the faction-change and Sino-Soviet split, the US actually sold weapons to PRC. It lasted until 1989 where the Tiananmen Square protest ended it all with a PR disaster. Ironically PRC has more Black Hawk helicopters than Taiwan: http
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by papersmith 17y ago
I think the major passive safety features of this decade are better crumple zones and side-impact airbags. IIRC Euro NCAP made their crash tests much tougher recently to adapt to the improved safety across the board.
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by papersmith 17y ago
Am I the only one who had a good chuckle at the zodiac grid?
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by papersmith 17y ago
I'm curious as to how a second-hand private yacht ($1,200 mil) can be worth more than the build cost of the largest cruise ship in the world ($700 mil). Don't watercrafts depreciate like crazy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary_
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by papersmith 17y ago
Has anyone who also used SproutCore have any thoughts on how they stack up? SproutCore also stabilized into 1.0 recently it seems.
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by papersmith 17y ago
And I was wondering how the other 50% will manage to survive.
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by papersmith 17y ago
Looks pretty cool, though they should probably make the controller look less like a gun.
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by papersmith 17y ago
Just a personal gripe, flash plugin runs subpar in Linux, which I developed flex in for a few months.
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by papersmith 17y ago
"New diesel engines like in the Ford Fiesta are considered to have almost zero carbon emissions" Carbon as in CO2?
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by papersmith 17y ago
Audi A3 will have a 2.0 TDI model for 2010. The Mark VI (2010) Golf will have come with the same engine, which will launch in NA a month from now.

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