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Redditors share the way the world was 20 years ago(reddit.com)
83 points by socratees 16y ago|55 comments
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by socratees 16y ago
And the law still favors women by a very wide margin when it comes to divorce. I don't exaggerate it.
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by socratees 16y ago
Every university, scientific and social community, and research organization that think they have to pander to the requests of corporations and those in power, must make note of this. We have had enough "Dark Ages" in the past. Let's lea
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News Corp. Open To Sale of MySpace, Reuters Says.(blogs.barrons.com)
2 points by socratees 16y ago|0 comments
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by socratees 16y ago
Tangential to the conversation. So theoretically, Google will be able to count the number of trees in a given city right?
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by socratees 16y ago
This is certainly a good news for both Microsoft and Google.
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by socratees 16y ago
"All Earth turned off its burning coal, its fissioning uranium, and flipped the switch that connected all of it to a small station, one mile in diameter, circling the Earth at half the distance of the Moon." A line from "The Last Question"
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by socratees 16y ago
A different perspective - but definitely worth being analyzed. What do you think?
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by socratees 16y ago
Bug: Looks like the text field doesn't handle comma properly. Any character beyond the first occurrence of a comma gets truncated.
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by socratees 16y ago
A totally random note - but 8 decades later, most of occupations listed are still valid. Except for "Messenger" which isn't an occupation anymore I guess.
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by socratees 16y ago
Time travel? Is that an habit? Aren't you supposed to analyze things, understand reality as it is, then make calculated efforts to achieve your goal? Anyways, I'm happy the author didn't add "The Secret" to the list.
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by socratees 16y ago
Stay away from social networks as much as possible. The world will be a better place if personal data stays personal.
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by socratees 17y ago
The window buttons on the left side work out well for me - my monitor has a high resolution and most of the time my focus is on the top left of a window. Now there's no need for me to get my focus the top right.
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by socratees 17y ago
Just flagged this. Meta-meta discussions and talking about HN way? not to up vote April Fools related stories, and then get in to arguments about it? Not definitely worth it.
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by socratees 17y ago
Nice try Google!!!
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by socratees 17y ago
Can't agree more. It's all about following your heart.
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Robotic fish powered by fuel cell consumes ~10mW(youtube.com)
17 points by socratees 17y ago|4 comments
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by socratees 17y ago
Thanks for the post. Do we have the video of the talks or materials used in the camp hosted somewhere?
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by socratees 17y ago
He probably doesn't know anything about .Net Framework in the first place.
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by socratees 17y ago
Sites similar to twitter are worried about Read/Writes and up time rather than concurrency and locking mechanisms. All flavors of NOSQL databases are best suited for this. Sites like amazon.com, or any transaction processing site can't thin
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by socratees 17y ago
Assuming you're at work, and you spend 30 minutes of a day where you could be caught on camera, and assuming Google streetview vehicle passes through your road once every year, what is the probability of you getting caught on camera? Also w
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by socratees 17y ago
Why do they even propose this? Do they have any arguments in their favor? We should never let this kind of thing happen to the internet.
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New Security Enhancements in Chrome.(infoq.com)
2 points by socratees 17y ago|0 comments
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The next Citizens United.(balkin.blogspot.com)
1 points by socratees 17y ago|0 comments
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Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+(presentationzen.com)
4 points by socratees 17y ago|0 comments
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Analysis of Processor Cache Effects(igoro.com)
128 points by socratees 17y ago|23 comments
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by socratees 17y ago
Who would've thought of multi-core CPU's at that time?
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Autonomously flying robotic penguins.(youtube.com)
2 points by socratees 17y ago|0 comments
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by socratees 17y ago
Now iPad becomes a phone - and you don't need to have a cell phone subscription. May be what we're seeing is the future model of the telecom. Wireless carriers still make money, but its up to us whether we buy a regular phone or go with an
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MK-Configure: Lightweight & easy to use replacement for GNU Autotools.(mova.org)
1 points by socratees 17y ago|0 comments

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