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by pliny 13y ago
This is almost certainly not the case, given that the Likud under-performed heavily in the last elections, and was outmaneuvered politically by it's three main coalition partners/rivals.
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by pliny 13y ago
There is a glut of white heterosexual male role models in science and technology, and that shapes cultural perceptions regarding what a programmer should be like, and causes discrimination against people who do not fit this mold[1]. This mi
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by pliny 13y ago
Not everyone here is from the Bay Area.
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by pliny 13y ago
You can set an upper limit that is total/price, I guess he chose 0..10 since it's obvious that 10 of anything is already too much, and I think minizinc tightens the bounds anyway, since that's something it can do independently of giving a c
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by pliny 13y ago
How is that relevant? Liberalism and Republicanism are part of French culture, the revolution spread those elements of French political thought and they were embraced in most of Europe and North America (and to some degree in the rest of th
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by pliny 13y ago
>certainly not politics Right, Liberalism and Republicanism never really caught on following the French revolution.
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by pliny 13y ago
From the site: >Google has done a mistake by recognizing the old city as part of “Israel” and this is expected to damage its image among Muslims worldwide. >It is worth mentioning that the Current CEO and the other cofounder of Goog
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by pliny 13y ago
>The "piracy is a gateway to purchase" argument is asinine and only believed by people trying to justify their own thieving For my benefit, please explain what is wrong with his rationale.
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by pliny 13y ago
These people applied to die on Mars, or possibly on the way to Mars.
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by pliny 14y ago
>because a large portion of the Cyprus population are of Greek descent. Thus, when the banks were figuring out where to invest, a large portion of the funds went to Greece What a responsible investment strategy. 'What should we invest a
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by pliny 14y ago
I read some other pages in that thread and I think you are right, I assumed that since he claimed he would move his money to an account in the Caribbeans that the Cyprus account was used for tax evasion. If he is a Cypriot, or his account w
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by pliny 14y ago
I don't know what country OP lives in specifically, but what you quoted is wrong for the majority of European countries, who are neither tyrannical nor are they run by 'political and family dynasties'. Perhaps whoever you quoted was making
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by pliny 14y ago
>I'm not Russian oligarch, but just European medium size IT business I fail to see the difference, honestly. The OP, by running a business within a society where many services essential to that business are provided by the government an
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by pliny 14y ago
Is there a difference between you approaching someone, and someone approaching you?
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by pliny 14y ago
The entry for Lebanon is Syria and many European colonies are labeled the identity of their former masters.
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by pliny 14y ago
Your analysis is incorrect because A and B are allowed to decide on a strategy ahead of time - and there are two simple and similar strategies that allow A and B to guess correctly, together, half the time. The first is described by: 'If I
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by pliny 14y ago
I assume your parent is referring to the Flynn effect [0], and that by an increase in IQ he means that the average person today, taking a test normalized for the average population a few years in the past or more, would score above 100. [0]
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by pliny 14y ago
>The Israelis even treat the Gazans they bombarded the day before. They also treat the Gazans who bombed Israelis a day before: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/08/world/in-israeli-bed-faile...
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by pliny 14y ago
He probably didn't swim there.
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by pliny 14y ago
Could Iran filtering the internet be more dangerous than a conventional war between Iran and Israel or Iran and the US? No, absolutely not.
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by pliny 14y ago
No.
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Bitcoins?
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by pliny 14y ago
He stores your information on a spreadsheet, but the spreadsheet is in the cloud, so it can't crash.
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by pliny 14y ago
I think the 'problem' was that you need two wires to close the circuit.
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by pliny 14y ago
Controlled current source Ic = (-R)*var
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by pliny 14y ago
Beside the point: why do the pictures lean when I mouse over them? Who thought this was a good idea? What does this accomplish?
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by pliny 14y ago
I, for one, was surprised by the lack of PHP related vitriol.
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by pliny 14y ago
Is there a reason why you can't legislate that every electric car that can use ubiquitous wireless charging be fitted with a meter that reports usage, just like house have?
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by pliny 14y ago
Recently added: Bitcoin mining gear, gems hand picked by a thai GIA graduate for sale on bitmit, Nazi paraphernalia and 'The Israel Lobby' on audiobook.
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by pliny 14y ago
>start working at 10:30 >day ends at 18:20 >working more than 8 hours in a day is "start-up life" I feel cheated.

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