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by sown 17y ago
From what a Russian co-worker tells me, Moscow is the only really safe place for any foreigner to really be.
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by sown 17y ago
The report the article is based on http://www.jointventure.org/images/stories/pdf/2010%20Index-...
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by sown 17y ago
> If you have even the slightest sense of how the Valley works you would know that these articles are horseshit. Well, that's kind of harsh. :( I submitted it for general discussion. You don't have to direct your anger at me. I'm just t
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Silicon Valley's innovation engine at risk, report says(csmonitor.com)
1 points by sown 17y ago|4 comments
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by sown 17y ago
I kind of agree. I hated History all through school but I found a copy of Paul Kennedy's "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" I all of a sudden found myself engrossed by it. It was a bit above my level when I first picked it up but I kep
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by sown 17y ago
Rude people in a major international alpha-city? I never.
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by sown 17y ago
People like to screw. shrug
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by sown 17y ago
There is a veritable flood of tutorials nowadays that you can download or buy on DVD that can teach you how to draw or paint, even sculpt. And the materials needed for drawing are pretty minimal. Time + practice. :)
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by sown 17y ago
This reminds me of one time in one of our school's labs we somehow rebooted all of the SUN machines and some weird things happened and the log-in screen's wallpaper picture was of a young lady on a beach in a bikini. My first thought, as we
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by sown 17y ago
i wish i was smart enough to work at google. :(
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IPad is not turning complete(reddit.com)
1 points by sown 17y ago|0 comments
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by sown 17y ago
The last paragraph about marathons reminded me of a PBS Nova documentary about a dozen people who just picked up running to compete in the Boston Marathon starting off from basically couch potato status. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/marath
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by sown 17y ago
PBS Frontline did a very fascinating documentary on this http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tentrillion/view/ And terrifying, too. In the long run, not only are we all dead anyways, but I think that the government will come alive and
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by sown 17y ago
If he had molested a child he would probably serve less time.
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by sown 17y ago
On the surface, it has all the makings of a neat sitcom episode. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Promotion_%28The_Office%29 To spoil it for you, the Oscar character summarizes it as: "Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that every org
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by sown 17y ago
This is an issue when uninformed persons tried to present a "complete" and fair coverage of an issue th ey k now nothing about.
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Questions for iPad skeptics(the.sockdolager.net)
4 points by sown 17y ago|5 comments
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by sown 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1076534
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by sown 17y ago
As an aside, is there a gentle introduction to prolog?
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Ask HN: What do you think of grammatical inference/induction
1 points by sown 17y ago|0 comments
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by sown 17y ago
I'm wondering if we're in a another bust or boom. Probably bust so I'm not eligible. :(
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Paper map zooms in as you unfold it(gizmodo.com)
3 points by sown 17y ago|0 comments
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The World's Most Southerly ATM(needcoffee.com)
38 points by sown 17y ago|10 comments
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by sown 17y ago
>We recently received an email from you. However, the email did not include a text message. Kindly re-send your inquiry with a text message so that we may respond to your request. I'm going to remember that one. It was pretty good.
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Free Checking Could Go the Way of Free Toasters (nytimes.com)
1 points by sown 17y ago|0 comments
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by sown 17y ago
The market in general took a hit.
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Supremes: Corporations, Unions have free speech regarding money(msnbc.msn.com)
2 points by sown 17y ago|0 comments
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by sown 17y ago
In the same vein as "Statistics Hacks" I'm sure those same fans will be fond of "Numerical Hacks". :)
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by sown 17y ago
It depends how well glued solid it is. Ever since I read about these a few years ago I got into the habit of pushing and trying to move around parts of the ATM, like windows, the card reader, brochure boxes, etc to see if they can come off.
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by sown 17y ago
There has to be a real strategic serious reason they're doing this. Something along the lines of self interest. I just can't believe that a 187 billion dollar US company with millions of shareholders would just go out and do what it appears

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