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by rospaya 14y ago
You can counter that with European soldiers coming home to dead families and destroyed cities. The US was prosperous and had unmatched conditions to help returning soldiers.
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by rospaya 15y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but what does "post-pay" mean?
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by rospaya 15y ago
> When politicians sing about "bomb Iran" these are the innocent people they are talking about killing Isn't that every country?
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by rospaya 15y ago
Nokia (Ovi) Maps was always the best built in GPS solution for smartphones.
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by rospaya 15y ago
> 1 - They were stupidly late to market Which would explain Xbox. > 2 - Both the Windows brand and Microsoft's imagine are at best mehh..at worse very uncool and bad. Which would explain Xbox. Edit: sorry for being obtuse. The point
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by rospaya 15y ago
> There are a lot of comments saying that the blackout should spare non-US countries as it does not affect us. For those who feel this way, please read holmesworcesters comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3235431 But there's
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by rospaya 15y ago
> To expand, in the USA most (all?) of the data produced by the US Federal government is public domain I doubt it's all, since there's a lot of confidential stuff in there.
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by rospaya 15y ago
> What happens when — and this is inevitable — a generation completely comfortable with remix culture becomes a majority of the electorate, instead of the fringe youth? What happens when they start getting elected to office? (Maybe "I d
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by rospaya 15y ago
The bigger issue with Wikipedia is the bad UI and tons of bureaucracy that make everybody except hardcore users beware of editing.
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by rospaya 15y ago
It already exists and is called Deletionpedia. http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page
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by rospaya 15y ago
I lost it at "Sole Ownership of MySpace.com".
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by rospaya 15y ago
> There was not a single ad in the issue. I would say it's the other way around.
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by rospaya 15y ago
Wonder if they'll be selling it internationally, like a Kindle. The major difference is that this probably won't have a 3G connection so it should be even simpler.
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by rospaya 15y ago
It's not just independence, but international recognition. Croatia for example became independent in 1991, but got recognition from the UN, US, UK, Germany and Russia in 1992.
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by rospaya 15y ago
Which doesn't have to mean anything. If I don't post on Facebook, my feed is still full, the same can't be told for Google Plus, at least from the author's perspective.
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by rospaya 15y ago
Obligatory "what about Opera?"
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by rospaya 15y ago
The Digg implosion is the worst thing that happened to reddit, as a community.
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by rospaya 15y ago
The UN mission, UNFICYP is multinational, and talks about withdrawal are serious. The British bases there have nothing to do with peacekeeping.
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by rospaya 15y ago
Let's bury Nokia when they are no longer the biggest mobile phone vendor in the world.
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by rospaya 15y ago
John Gruber, is that you?
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by rospaya 15y ago
Some people just don't have the need for a computer, I don't see why that would be a problem if they are happy with how they're life is going without it.
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by rospaya 15y ago
Unpolite yes, but not enough to warrant a visit from the Secret Service.
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by rospaya 15y ago
Xbox 360 and the related services are great. Xbox Live is the industry standard.
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by rospaya 15y ago
How about practicing self control? I have an Xbox one meter away from where I work, but don't use it unless I have friends over and we have fun. Something probably unknown to a person that sold his bike because he dislikes comfort.
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by rospaya 15y ago
On what parameters? Both have hundreds of languages, ethnic groups and religions. Both are huge and somewhat federated. OP was saying that democracy doesn't stand a chance in highly populated countries. According to the Democracy Index [1],
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by rospaya 15y ago
How do you explain India then?
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by rospaya 15y ago
Very interesting. Makes me think if there is any knowledge or technology that we lost in the process? Is there something we knew but don't know anymore?
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by rospaya 15y ago
What is your problem with the Economist?
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by rospaya 15y ago
She gave money to somebody to film her doing stupid stuff.
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by rospaya 15y ago
I don't really see the comparison here. Germany is a successful country and Germans enjoy a high standard of living. Is there a trade off between welfare and entrepreneurship? I don't know, but I don't see the issue, as Germans are doing pr

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