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by primelens 13y ago
PCQuest ensured that even though general net connectivity and speed in India lagged behind for a while (due to government restrictions and then for a long time because the state-monopoly ISP, VSNL, priced their substandard service exhorbita
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by primelens 13y ago
I remember his columns in PCQuest in the early nineties quite fondly. Before internet access was widely available in India, logging into CiX - a BBS he ran - over a 2400 bps modem and a noisy (and expensive) interstate connection was an exh
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The Shaggy God | Boston Magazine(bostonmagazine.com)
3 points by primelens 13y ago|0 comments
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by primelens 13y ago
The other guy is sixteen - so he better work from home!
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by primelens 13y ago
The future is ubiquitous online connectivity, cloud storage and streaming — not memory cards. These portable storage cards require careful file management, something Apple wants users to avoid. I agree with most of the points the post mak
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by primelens 13y ago
> Hopefully they'll be equipped with some offensive capabilities as well to combat and dissuade guerrilla and terrorist acts. Um ... Google drones are the last thing we need. Enough problems with the military ones already.
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by primelens 13y ago
I use a yahoo.com email address (created mid 90s) to subscribe to mailing lists etc. But I check it thru Thunderbird or K-9 email clients. I just visited the Yahoo website after several years and it looks like it could have been designed in
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by primelens 13y ago
> Reading that reply is a denial of service attack > on productive thought. This is brilliant!!
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Heritage Analyst’s Dissertation on Immigrant I.Q. Causes Furor(nytimes.com)
1 points by primelens 13y ago|1 comments
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High-frequency stock traders turn to laser networks, to make yet more money(extremetech.com)
2 points by primelens 13y ago|0 comments
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by primelens 13y ago
"But however any religion starts out, sooner or later it enters into a Faustian pact with state power." This. The basic fallacies of any religious doctrine when mixed with the desire for power makes for a dangerous cocktail.
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Why are Buddhist monks attacking Muslims?(bbc.co.uk)
17 points by primelens 13y ago|14 comments
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by primelens 13y ago
The type of bottle in question can be seen in this video: http://www.wtsp.com/news/reporter/article/312878/79/Teen-gir... Words fail me! The top of that flimsy little bottle would pop off if she filled it with grape juice and shook hard.
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by primelens 13y ago
It's to do with intention. Even if she were to set off an explosion she'd not be guilty unless it were intentional and meant to hurt people. The most she deserves in this case is a rap on the knuckle. I'd say not even that - maybe a gentle
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by primelens 13y ago
I am still trying to get my head around talking greeting cards!
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by primelens 13y ago
That's only what he spends, not what he's earning. All his income from his investments get reinvested because he doesn't need to tap into that for expenses.
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by primelens 14y ago
This is a disturbing trend. Increasingly sale is being redefined as "rent under licensing conditions." It shouldn't say "terms of sale," then.
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by primelens 14y ago
Better D3 integration from within Python would be awesome.
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by primelens 14y ago
This is at most an argument for agnosticism, not for theism. To say that with our current state of knowledge we don't know how to explain certain things - or even to say that we cannot know certain things - does not mean that we should gr
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by primelens 14y ago
A lot of google reader replacements seem to be overwhelmed today.