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Calgary man becomes world's most travelled(canoe.ca)
68 points by victoro 13y ago|45 comments
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by victoro 13y ago
This is one of the most unthought-out posts I've ever seen on HN. A) Please do some research and determine if in fact you must cede your US citizenship in order to become a Columbian citizen, plenty of countries have dual-citizenship a
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Democracy After the Shutdown(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
4 points by victoro 13y ago|0 comments
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by victoro 13y ago
There is nothing really that novel about this story to anybody who knows anything about Russian history. Rural Russians have been saying "God is too high and the Tsar is too far away" for centuries now. A strong central governme
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Monsanto Buys Climate Corp for 930 Million(online.wsj.com)
5 points by victoro 13y ago|0 comments
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by victoro 13y ago
Agreed with the 'reading my mind part'. Though it is high time for fantasy season so its probably at the front of everyone's mind right now. Anyway, very excited to get into this.
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To Cut Fees, Public Funds Seek to Take Charge of Investing(dealbook.nytimes.com)
1 points by victoro 13y ago|0 comments
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The Case for Extrasolar Intelligent Plants (forbes.com)
1 points by victoro 13y ago|0 comments
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Detroit Files for Largest Municipal Bankruptcy in US History(wxyz.com)
1 points by victoro 13y ago|0 comments
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How To Travel — Some Contrarian Advice(thoughtcatalog.com)
2 points by victoro 13y ago|0 comments
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by victoro 13y ago
Agreed, but I find scaling Amazon's physical and digital infrastructures in tandem is equally impressive.
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by victoro 13y ago
I agree with you that Zuck deserves praise for taking the idea of Social networking and running with it far longer and more successfully than anyone else. But, I can just as easily make the argument that people were using the Internet to i
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by victoro 13y ago
Agreed. It's really hard to read the rest of the article without questioning every statement after reading that ridiculous paragraph early on. You're telling me Facebook, who's killer app was photo tagging for the first 3 y
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by victoro 13y ago
Yes. A good number of streets are named after famous authors. I used to live on on Poe St. and remember seeing Byron, Seneca, Kipling, and Homer (and others I can't remember). A subsection of streets close to Stanford is also named after
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by victoro 13y ago
The Atkins diet (and almost every other diet I can think of) has been debunked, un-debunked, debated, berated, and praised almost from its inception half a century ago. It has not stopped the companies that promote the diet, produce the fo
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by victoro 13y ago
The Appalachian version of this App in one line of javascript: alert("Don't do it, you're related");
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Chinas Glass Ceiling(foreignpolicy.com)
1 points by victoro 14y ago|1 comments
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by victoro 14y ago
Mentioning "endless SaaS/CRUD" apps in a derogatory fashion and then singing the praises of Kickstarter a sentence later seems a bit hypocritical given that, aside from its large audience, Kickstarter is just a slightly more advanced CRUD a
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by victoro 14y ago
I was gonna say, the extra e in the product name is pretty inconspicuous. I know its probably a working title, but if OP keeps it, seems like a C&D waiting to happen.
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How Bankers Help Drug Traffickers and Terrorists (nytimes.com)
2 points by victoro 14y ago|0 comments
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by victoro 14y ago
One of the best integration of multimedia and text that I have seen in 15 years of being on the internet.
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Senator Wants Apps To Get Permission Before Selling Your Whereabouts(forbes.com)
2 points by victoro 14y ago|0 comments
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LA Announces Tech Corridor Along Expo Line(la.curbed.com)
4 points by victoro 14y ago|0 comments
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by victoro 14y ago
"government shouldn't even have the right to regulate markets in such a way that innovation (and competition) can be stifled by the established players." This statement is completely impractical. I can't think of a single law that does not
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by victoro 14y ago
I lived in California for 10 years, then Seattle for 10 and now I'm back in Cali. You are totally spot on. The OP reads like a typical Seattleite rationalization of the crappy weather situation there. The biggest problem with the rain isn
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by victoro 14y ago
The title of the original article is "Invisible WiFi Signals Caught on Camera." I thought "Invisible" was too Ripley's-Believe-It-Or-Not-sounding so I removed it while trying to keep as much of the original title as possible intact. Proba
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WiFi Signals Caught on Camera(newscientist.com)
101 points by victoro 14y ago|31 comments
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by victoro 14y ago
I'm pretty sure the construction contractors have some skin in the "donating"-to-local-politicians game as well. Its not just one side that gets to hire lobbyists.
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by victoro 14y ago
I had to use a similar system from Amtrak that could barely understand a 6 digit ID number, though it was a number that had 3's, B's and E's in it. When it supposedly understood the number, it for some reason tossed me over to an operator
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by victoro 14y ago
I worked for the office of the "Special Assistant to the Vice Provost for International Relations" (though that title has been changed many times since then) at my public University. Her job consisted of answering emails here and there bet

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