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by thirdusername 16y ago
It depends a bit on what iteration they are on, it's been changing like mad for me over the past couple of days. At some point during all of that I had the knee jerk reaction of landing on a spam site and to overcome the instinct of navigat
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by thirdusername 16y ago
At least Volvo aren't claiming they are the safest car in the world in Sweden anymore, after our courts ruled it was non-verifiable: http://www.thelocal.se/25492/20100312 :)
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by thirdusername 16y ago
.. Or how teleportation is the same as walking. :)
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by thirdusername 16y ago
I'm guessing you are referring to the Swedish Democrats ( 2,93% in the last election) as the extremists, but I really don't think (against the popular opinion) it's a an accurate description of them. Yes they are nationalists, very conserva
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by thirdusername 16y ago
Identical twins don't have the same DNA. Random link of Google: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/health/11real.html
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by thirdusername 17y ago
I'm not sure where you deriving that fear from especially after the initial fire from the helicopter. All I was hearing was the gunner being excited he got to shoot something. I realize Americans grow up late but there's also a big differen
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by thirdusername 17y ago
Those Facebook notifications were being abused to send your friends notifications that looked like normal Facebook notifications "You've been tagged in a photo", then in the event they were clicked it would do the same to their friends. I'm
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by thirdusername 17y ago
There was an iGNiTE talk where someone visualized how the different groups have voted through time and it seem to also agree with you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8I5iMa_VV0 .
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The Democrats Are Doomed, or How A ‘Big Tent’ Can Be Too Big(blog.okcupid.com)
32 points by thirdusername 17y ago|7 comments
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by thirdusername 17y ago
Us non-English Europeans follow and tweet in both English and our native tongue fairly often. Then there's Belgium that has three official languages and Finland where a small minority speaks Swedish (as opposed to Finnish). So I wouldn't be
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A new species of human: The old man of the mountain(economist.com)
3 points by thirdusername 17y ago|0 comments
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Social financial engineering(economist.com)
2 points by thirdusername 17y ago|0 comments
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by thirdusername 17y ago
If you feel like the material you are finding is too basic for you it probably means you are looking in the wrong places for your knowledge level. At some point there won't be many records available for the things you don't already know and
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by thirdusername 17y ago
Random thoughts I've had that I'm probably never going to get around to doing: * Something that will let me automatically backup all my data that is on various services like Facebook, Youtube, Hacker News etc. * An app that will join and ma
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by thirdusername 17y ago
Starbucks don't sell weed in Amsterdam either. I think they are quite attached to their image of being clean and smoke free. :)
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by thirdusername 17y ago
Vanguard made a piece about porn industry and the what the effects of the internet has on it that had some relevant bits on innovation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LsO5uNVCWI . One of the porn company's tech guys claimed they were the
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How to replace yourself with a very small shell script by Hilary Mason(youtube.com)
1 points by thirdusername 17y ago|0 comments
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by thirdusername 17y ago
ISO Dates are in the form yyyy-mm-dd. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso_date
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by thirdusername 17y ago
The only way that graph could be accurate for Sweden is if any non-canned beer counts as refillable. I say that with absolute certainty since we have a state monopoly and government stores with the same stuff in them across the entire count
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by thirdusername 17y ago
I hate the ones that don't let you unsubscribe because they need you to login first. Then you don't have the login information so you need to do a password recovery, which you can't do without supplying the town your mother was born in/a ph
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by thirdusername 17y ago
They did away with the first class metro wagons in '91 in Paris and unless they've reinstated them since this summer (when I was there), I think you are mistaken.
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by thirdusername 17y ago
There's http://github.com/jamespadolsey/prettyPrint.js
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by thirdusername 17y ago
In Swedish: () == Paranteser (Parentheses) [] == Hakparanteser (Hook parentheses) {} == Måsvingar (Gull wings) Klammerparanteser (Brace parentheses) Krullparenteser (Curl parentheses) Spetsparanteser (Tip
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Green.view: Trading down(economist.com)
1 points by thirdusername 17y ago|0 comments
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by thirdusername 17y ago
Dear sir, you seem unaware of the commenting guidelines for Hacker News that in short state that our community cares about tone and civilized discussions with supporting arguments as opposed to the reddit-style blatant unsupported statement
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by thirdusername 17y ago
Understanding that you are allowed to do random access and skimming is crucial not only to enjoy reading many papers but to technical books as well! You got taught to read something from cover to cover before college and doing otherwise is
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Cultivated Play: Farmville(reddyeno5.com)
2 points by thirdusername 17y ago|1 comments
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Training the Butterflies: Interview with Scott Berkun(alistapart.com)
1 points by thirdusername 17y ago|0 comments
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by thirdusername 17y ago
I'm really curious how the Distribution of singles by age is about the younger people being more comfortable with the Internet. Being 24 I know that I belonged to the last generation that had to discover the Internet, unlike my twelve year
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by thirdusername 17y ago
I get 100 Mbit/s through SUNET (Swedish university computer network) like almost all students in Sweden, which these days don't even raise an eyebrow. About €20 every six months. It's also worth mentioning that in Sweden download caps in an

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