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by sdm 12y ago
How is this "moving to turn Russia into another China"? While China has been pushing the economic reform agenda and cracking down on SOEs -- as was seen at the report of the Third Plenum -- Russia is going in the opposite directio
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by sdm 12y ago
Why wouldn't they just use a portable reader like food delivery guys have been for over a decade? I mean, in Canada if you order food the driver shows up with a machine you insert your card and enter your pin. These machines do all com
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by sdm 12y ago
Square's expansion in Canada last year doesn't appear to have gone anywhere meaningful. It's not just Interac; all cards are now Chip based. Credit Cards still also have the swipe but it's mainly used for cross-boarder s
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by sdm 13y ago
None of what you addresses what's really going on. This is not about politics; especially for us non-Americans. Rice is integral to warrant-less wiretapping. As such she should be kept as far away from my data as possible as she has pr
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by sdm 13y ago
Science and engineering are already "balkanized" by language -- at least with respect to Mandarin, Russian, and German. I remember in uni taking "German for technical and scientific reading" courses just for that purpose
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by sdm 13y ago
What? No Hootsuite? I'm sure they are missing a lot of others as well...
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by sdm 13y ago
It's more because any TOS will have to be written in Chinese and take into account Chinese law. You can't use an English TOS or just translate a foreign one. For a developing country, the Chinese legal system is actually very good
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by sdm 13y ago
History: - The History of Byzantium - History of Rome (finished) - Revolutions - The China History Podcast - Ancient Warefare Podcast - A History of Hannibal - A History of Alexander (finished) China: - Sinica Podcast (Part of Popup Chinese
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by sdm 13y ago
Very interesting. The main issue I see is it assume all desktops to be equal. Responsive design is about supporting a range of viewport dimensions and not about about a range of devices. If I'm on a desktop browser and my window size i
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by sdm 13y ago
You mean like Golden Rice? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice ) The anti-GMO crowd seem to be anti-GMO for the sake of it, not because any rational reason.
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by sdm 13y ago
No, you have to keep in mind that the first iPhone was really just US only. It took off when it went global with the iPhone 3G.
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by sdm 14y ago
This is an existing feature. You watch a tv show or movie, it shares it on your FB page. It's very annoying to have what I'm watching shared, but I must admit I like how Netflix shows you what your FB friends are watching. Edit: Turns out t
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by sdm 14y ago
A little local focused, but do you have plans to include real time information in Vancouver, like NextBus does? I'm avoiding upgrading to iOS6 until I know there is a usable transit option.
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by sdm 14y ago
No one who "really knows what Philosophy is" takes Ayn Rand seriously. Actually, taking Ayn Rand seriously is a pretty good sign you don't really know what Philosophy is... or at least that understanding is 80 years out of date.
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by sdm 14y ago
How is this about copying? This is a company taking a long hard look at how their product stacks up against the competition. It's called capitalism and competition. If you're not taking a hard look at how you compare to competitors then you
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by sdm 14y ago
What does this little bit of local news have to do with Hacker News?
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by sdm 14y ago
Ahhh... you have to be pretty careful with what you eat if you eat meat as well to. Just walk down the street for examples. Generally, the length of our digestive system is sited as one of the main reasons we are so poorly adapted at eating
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by sdm 14y ago
I completely agree. I do love veggie burgers, but the last thing I want them to remind me of or taste like is meat -- that would be just repulsive. In my experience this is the norm for vegetarians and is why many companies that make meat a
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by sdm 14y ago
Interesting to see this coming from such a staunchly conservative university as SFU.
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by sdm 14y ago
It's not so much that the header is stuck there, it's that the logo hangs down further than the bar. While reading the post, several times I started reading a sentence only to see the middle of it and having to adjust the scrolling. Also, i
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by sdm 14y ago
Can we stop with the sanctimonious bullshit posts like this now? It's not immoral to choose to have a different citizenship than the American. Get over it! Flagged.
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by sdm 14y ago
While some of the author's criticisms are valid, some of them are completely wrong: > Having no option to perform an operation comparable to UPDATE table SET foo=bar WHERE.... What? db.collection.update does exactly this. See: http://w
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by sdm 14y ago
Since when has not being an American citizen made you immoral?
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by sdm 14y ago
Very cool! But what does "accessibility" mean? The tool tip isn't helpful. What's the scale? Is it linear, exponential, or logarithmic? What are the end points? I.e., does a bigger number here mean it's more accessible or less accessible th
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by sdm 15y ago
It seems all a startup has to do these days to get media attention is do something sexist... In all seriousness, there have been many of these lately. It's a positive sign. But if startup was looking to get our name out, this seems like a s
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by sdm 15y ago
It should tell me what it does and why I want to open it in a supported browser. If your just going to block unsupported browsers, there is a lot friction to the user -- give them a reason to continue.
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by sdm 15y ago
This only covers radio and television. The CRTC has been very clear it can't/won't regulate online services. See it's decision a few months back about Netflix.
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by sdm 15y ago
Ahhh. POF isn't American. It's Canadian.
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by sdm 15y ago
The tour fits beautifully on my iPad's Safari. Do you just have a ton of tool bars?
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by sdm 15y ago
The title of the HN post is clearly wrong and inflammatory. China hasn't done anything -- a Chinese company has changed their rating. Likely done as a publicity stunt to differentiate themselves from the big three and gain business. It's go

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