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by seesomesense 10y ago
ICQ is still around ? Impressive.
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I am trying to learn Finnish and I have found that the colloquial, literary and poetic registers of Finnish are poorly translated.
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"There is more to the transfer of capital than what is generally written. It is believed that Tughluq wanted to make Daulatabad an Islamic cultural centre, thereby helping him to have better control over the region, reducing the number
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by seesomesense 10y ago
This story is a testament to the poor quality of current journalism.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
I am far to the left but I believe that demonising someone for political viewpoints different from mine is wrong.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Brilliant strategy, starting your message by insulting those whom you want advice from.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
I have a cheap robot vaccum from Aldi. It cleans 90% as well as a hand held vaccuum cleaner and requires less than 10% of the time (total of time to switch on, occasional monitoring and emptying). For me, this means that my environment can
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by seesomesense 10y ago
The series looks at the ideas, lives and historical context of the major philosophers as well as the lesser-known figures of the tradition. Episodes 1 - 14: The Presocratics 1 - Everything is Full of Gods: Thales 2 - Infinity and Beyond: An
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History of philosophy, “without any gaps.”(historyofphilosophy.net)
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by seesomesense 10y ago
"Ephesians be rich. There is no greater curse" Heraclitus
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Perhaps you are their backup if their preferred candidate bails.
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"The oracle bone script (jiǎgǔ wén 甲骨文), which dates to around 1200 BC, represents the first-known stage of the Chinese writing system. Mysteriously, it seems to have arisen full-blown, without any as yet identifiable local precursors
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Decipher an oracle bone character, earn $14,700(chinadaily.com.cn)
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Issac Asimov's later works are known to have been ghostwritten. Hiring other writers to write under your byline is the easiest way to be prolific.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
" If there is good news, they chose 'nice', attractive photos. If there is bad news, they look for worse ones. " Thank you. I found that insightful. I must confess that I never noticed that before ( but I am not a people
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by seesomesense 10y ago
"During his time as Defence Minister, notable controversial events included a military raid inside Ecuador's territory that killed FARC leader Raúl Reyes on 1 March 2008. In 2008 the 'false positives' scandal was uncover
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by seesomesense 10y ago
"Maybe it's just because I'm not the target audience for this paper, but I'm finding this very tough going." The paper consists of lecture notes for 2nd year computer science undergraduates at Cambridge.
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"She also controls a majority voting stake in the company and can’t be easily removed from her position, according to people familiar with the matter." From the Wall Street Journal.
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The initial plan was to sell the technology to the Defence Department for use in battlefields. Theranos might still be able get a few billion out of them.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
From John Carreyrou,the Wall Street Journal writer who wrote the investigatory series on Therano: "Patients are finally safe tonight. I did my job. #theranos"" Carreyrou will probably get a Pulitzer for his work on this story
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Pichai Sundararajan has brought some much needed discipline to Google's M&A spree. Good to see that he is not plowing more money into ego driven acquisitions.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
" All-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) was identified in 1901 individuals who donated a kidney during 1963 through 2007 with a median follow-up of 15.1 years. A control group of 32,621 poten
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by seesomesense 10y ago
If you have seen Shrek or How to Train Your Dragon, you have seen some of the work the student produced after graduation. See http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0996697/
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by seesomesense 10y ago
TLDR: 9front is a fork of Plan 9. Plan 9 was probably the finest operating system in the world.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Time to replace the humans in the logistics chain with robots.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Class action suit starting...
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Tesla (TSLA) CEO Musk 'Most Deceptive CEO I've Ever Seen,'
4 points by seesomesense 10y ago|1 comments
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by seesomesense 10y ago
My wife ( a doctor ) had to attend to a patient who had a medical episode on Singapore Airways (might have been the a Sydney to Singapore or a Singapore to London flight ). According to her, things went well, the air crew were professional
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by seesomesense 10y ago
"Tesla is a battery company " That is common misconception. Tesla repackages batteries bought from Panasonic.
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by seesomesense 10y ago
Good short potential on Musk's bonds.

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