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by tmptmp 10y ago
A small correction: The communists (Stasi and KGB) would have made it compulsory to not broadcast it but to unicast/multicast it to servers owned by the Party politburo. Communism is horrendously corrupt and inflicts great control on a
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by tmptmp 10y ago
No, Trump has made many important and crucial things about USA. The matter of shoddy trade practices by China is one such thing. I guess, Trump is a right candidate for USA now given the situation of Islamist immigration and China and such
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>>Well, not really representative of Asians at large then. I didn't tell that I am representative of Asians. I did tell that thing to emphasize the fact that I am NOT a westerner English speaker. >>There are always people t
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>>English the language of the internet? It is perhaps the language of YOUR internet. The Chinese internet is as big -- and there's the Indian internet, the Spanish speaking internet, and tons more besides. These other internets t
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>>Meanwhile, my friend wrote his code only after thoroughly understanding the problem. He used almost all the allotted time to think about the problem. He did not write code until minutes before the deadline. I fully appreciate this.
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>>Because large parts of the muslim populations live in places like Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, China, Bangladesh - and from bird's eye - they don't seem to care much about sectarian struggles. Not so much anymore.
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>>As long as the countries remain governed by religious politics and inflict God's so called will on others, there cannot be an end to the conflict. This is very important. The people from the Islamic countries should rise above
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>>It's good for_some_ workers. I do say, it is good for many workers in today's knowledge based industry. I have mentioned it earlier also. As far as cohorts informal interaction, there are ways to facilitate that too: maybe
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>> If remote is so superior, then everybody should already be doing it. I guess, you are missing here something very important. Onsite-work got entrenched in the society because of the earlier industrial revolution, which mainly invol
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Indeed, you made a very sharp statement. It might be driven, to a very large extent, by the crazy novelty-seeking ideas of the website owners and devs. Then if some equally stupid "journalist" gives praise and publicity to their f
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by tmptmp 10y ago
Very well said. Indeed, I could not have put it so better.
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You have raised a very important issue here. Today's web has been festered with such sucking UI/UX. It just caters to the demands of novelty-seeking users with no concern for usability/discoverability.
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Then we can say it is a rather poor hack.
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>>The main component one has to not underestimate is that in the automobile industry the technology/engineering problem of the car is less important to the technology/engineering/process of the plant itself. What you sa
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>>Nature doesn't have an enemy. How are you so sure? Have you talked with Nature by any chance? Has Nature given you this statement, say, in English? I am not trying to be sarcastic here, I am dead serious. I for example, think t
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>Nature by default doesn't have nuclear weapons.... While I agree with your sentiment, just would like to point this out that nature does have nuclear weapons, pretty scary ones for that matter: the stars. Also, if we take these
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>>People are moving into London at a huge rate. That to me suggests that the city is doing something right, and should keep doing what it's doing rather than try to radically shake things up. It's actually a failure of UK an
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I understand, but as academics become "administrators" and their goals shift, there is a non-zero chance of the academics metamorphosing (or gradually transforming) into "clerks".
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These are mainly the administrators ( read clerks ) who are in the charge of the funding purse(s). You can contact them via your senators and other elected members. Tell your representatives the following: The clerks that you have put in
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>It was expanded back in 2013 to all federal organizations that spend more than $100M in research. Why some arbitrary figure like $100M? why not $1M or $1K or for that matter even $1? It should be other way round, if any research get
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>>Does this not enrage people? Elsevier and closed-access journals like them, are doing all they can to impede human progress while leaching off of tax-payer dollars to do so. Something should be done to make what Elsevier and the lik
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>>Should publisher's work be free? I think not. What exact work these publishers are doing? How much are they demanding for that? Who is funding the research? Who is doing the work? These publishers are just mean middlemen who ar
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>>"life has greater value than property"... This I agree. In fact, I am of the strong opinion that there should be very hard limits set on the ownership of certain types of properties (e.g. land, water, food). No one should
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by tmptmp 10y ago
The problem has already occurred, at least for the owner who lost the goods.
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from the article >>Stealing small quantities of food to satisfy a vital need for food did not constitute a crime, the court wrote. What about the loss sustained by the owner? Or perhaps if the "not-so-rich clerk" at the supe
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Looks great, will try it out.
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great, thanks for the url.
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I agree. >>Learning these things is not as difficult as trying to use an RDBMS without learning them. Very aptly put. But I guess mastering SQL is a rather difficult task as SQL is a very high level language (may be even higher than H
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From the article: >>Among the few things she would not disclose is her current location, because she is at risk of financial ruin, extradition, and imprisonment because of a lawsuit launched by Elsevier last year. Elsevier should be c
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This is quite a good response. Even though I criticized you for depicting overly positive picture of Japan, I praise you to bring this point out. I am not an American but I like America and its open culture. But what you are saying is also

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