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by veddox 11y ago
My point is that free Internet is the solution to a problem that is not yet ready to be solved. Most importantly, the current lack of a good education means that the Internet as a means of information transferral becomes effectively useless
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We have to distinguish between Internet access for people in the cities and people in rural areas. The benefits for people in the cities are definitely there: better communication, higher flow of information, more possibilities. The benefit
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How many pages on the Internet are written in kiLuba? Lunda? Mambwe? Bemba? Nyanja?
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> This age is of Knowledge and skills that can create things, solve problems. Sell things on internet. Write book and tell the world. Develop softwares for yourself and others. Earn a living. As the OP pointed out, most African villager
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by veddox 11y ago
Having done a paper on cyber war for school, I was surprised to find that the two books that were quoted most often by war theorists were Carl von Clausewitz's "Vom Kriege" and Sun-Tzu's "The Art of War" - one
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Movies can have amazing music tracks - "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" being my favourite there. But as you say, that music was written for a very different purpose.
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I find it sad that people often talk as if everybody who attends classical concerts of the dress-up variety is a cultural snob. Not to deny that many snobs flock to such gatherings, but I find it very unfair to have everybody painted with t
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How cultures around the world make decisions(ideas.ted.com)
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I understand where you're coming from, but your solution wouldn't actually be logical and consistent either. "Fahrschein" comes from the root "Schein" (engl. "slip (of paper)"), which is masculine (&q
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> It's not amped up actually. The degree of butchery that goes on in historical outbreaks of violence is astonishing to the post-19th century mind. Mass executions of enemies and conquered cities (and accompanying rape and pillage)
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While I second your wish that conlangs were more popular (I learnt Toki Pona some time back), I would ask you to refrain from such subjective language criticisms as "it's ugly". I speak English and German natively, and I can&
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by veddox 11y ago
Quote from the HN guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cove
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by veddox 11y ago
Good comment, @hitsurume! OP, I've been browsing your previous HN submissions and I think your biggest problem is a lack of self-discipline to actually get some work done. You've already received tons of really good career advice
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We are a product of our history - and the same goes with the community around any given technology, not to mention the technology itself. Understanding that history helps you to understand the mindset of the people who created the technolog
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Find a book. Seriously. I find books a lot better than the Internet when reading a new language. For one thing, reading on paper is a lot more relaxing than on-screen, secondly, studies indicate that we actually do remember more that way. F
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Different colour themes. I find it a lot easier working with light text on a dark background, others may differ in their preference. The Scratch editor written by the elementaryOS guys has some very nice themes, Gedit for the Gnome DE is no
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Car-free days remind me of the car-free Sundays people tell me about from the 1973 oil-crisis. They used to go cycling on the motorways - wouldn't that be fun to do again?
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Ok, thanks for the corrections, everyone ;-)
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I hadn't realized Aleppo is that old. I'm glad to see an article about the city that doesn't focus on it being a major battleground of the civil war. With the current news coverage that is all you ever hear - destruction, cri
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by veddox 11y ago
Never having been to Paris, I am surprised that it doesn't seem to have a car-free inner city anyway (correct me if I'm wrong). I find this one day already a great idea, but why not make it permanent? Almost ever city here in Germ
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by veddox 11y ago
I think this should have been posted as a "Show HN". https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html (Assuming you're the author. Otherwise it should have been just a normal link submission.)
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The (East) Germans managed - the Stasi (East German secret police) did so for years on end with any number of suspected citizens. Actually there was a joke going around here in Germany when the NSA scandal broke, talking about how jealous a
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by veddox 11y ago
While I share your dread and find your idea interesting, I honestly wouldn't use a service like that. "Local stranger discovery service" - why not just strike up a conversation with the person sitting next to you? I do so fai
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by veddox 11y ago
I'm young, I still find newness exciting. Fortunately I also find history exciting, and one big lesson that has taught me is that it is foolishness to equate "newer" with "better". Often it is, often it seems to be,
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by veddox 11y ago
Same situation here. I find it terrible when I look around a bus or some other public space and see literally everybody bent over their iPhones and what not. (Not only the younger generation, btw, many older people are just as bad.) That&#x
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Go for 3. Most Python 2 projects have plans or are in the process of transitioning, if that is keeping you back. Also, the two lines aren't as different as they used to be, as a lot of features get back-ported from 3 to 2. Python 3 is
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by veddox 11y ago
Wow, respect for a great hack! I wonder if there are any other known actions that give as strong and recognizable an EEG signal as closing your eyes?
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by veddox 11y ago
I love this idea! Just the kind of thing I'd like to invent myself :-) However, some more questions before I sign up: - is there a set time in which the demo runs? (e.g. 1st - 14th October)? - is there a min/max number of particip
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by veddox 11y ago
While I unhesitatingly concede that the article is biased in favour of expert editors, I think you slightly miss the point with the following remark: > In the article, Wikipedians are called, "non-experts", while there are many
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As a cynic, I'd say they have nothing else to do ;-) On a serious note: thumbs up! When are we going to get one in CS or Biology?

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