w1ntermute

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by w1ntermute 14y ago
Well, a lot of those people are going to die before long if they don't do something to change the destructive aspects of their culture. So I'd say it's worth it (though highly infeasible).
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
Bush's justification of the invasion of Afghanistan was completely flawed. Whereas the Israelis have a geographically tethered foe, Al Qaeda can move its operations to another country (which they did by going to Pakistan). In reality, the p
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> One is the one you gave, which is based on Japanese, and the other got imported along with kanji from China. Wrong. "hachi", "ni", "roku", "shichi", "go", and "ichi" are Chinese-origin (on'yomi), not Japanese-origin (kun'yomi). The on
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> And that's what we tried, but then the Taliban set up a safe-haven for Al-Queda and we got 9-11. There are far easier ways of preventing another 9-11. For example, why don't we start by enforcing intelligence sharing between the vario
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
They should get Ashton Kutcher involved in this, he's one of the few actors who has actual real-life involvement in Silicon Valley (he's already doing the SJ biopic).
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
This is bullshit. The first example with memorizing the numbers doesn't work with Japanese - "hachi, ni, yon, roku, shichi, go, ichi" isn't faster than "eight, two, four, six, seven, five, one", but the Japanese are no different from the Ch
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
This is true. However, as you can see from my screenshot, I'm using Chrome, so all my information is getting collected by Google anyway ;/
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> All you have to do is open your eyes and ears and figure out what they want the most. The Indian masses want food, shelter, and an education for their children. Oh, and they can't afford to pay for it. Doesn't sound like a very good b
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
Yep, this is why I try to avoid IDEs whenever I can. The best "IDE" is Vim running in Screen in urxvt.
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> You don't often encounter the kind of gnarly concurrent algorithm stuff where Clojure shines in mobile dev. Perhaps this is an issue specific to me. I've been working on algorithm development for an Android app, and being tethered to
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/... MS itself says here (from 2010) that about 1/3rd of all installs are pirated.
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> Can you recommend me a setup for using Arch as a desktop? Eg: which UI should I install? xmonad is probably the best option. > Do things like sound, video, usb, etc work fine? USB works by default. I'm not sure why people even ask
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> Microsoft actually sold those > 1 billion copies of windows. No, it didn't. A very large portion of those 1 billion copies were pirated.
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> a more modern and flexible language would certainly help. I hope Clojure for Android gains popularity. It would make Android development a hell of a lot more tolerable.
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
By that token, neither is cash money - every bill has a unique serial number.
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
Who says we have to lose our privacy because we use digital payments? Just take a look at Bitcoin.
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> That is something that didn't happen with Windows. Baidu dominates on the desktop in China as well. China is a unique situation, since the government actively encourages domestic copycats of foreign companies while preventing/making i
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
There are a lot of things you could pay for if you gutted the TSA. Unfortunately, most people (including many very intelligent and educated individuals) continue to believe in security theater, and the companies that profit off of it know h
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
For those who want to avoid this crap, there's a simple solution: come to Xubuntu. You can avoid spyware and at the same time get a simple, straightforward desktop UI without any modern "tablet" or "phone" UI flourishes: http://i.imgur.com
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
And the funny thing is that they ended up looking like tools even when they used (use?) CP + B, the same ad agency as Apple (and a very good one at that). But as anyone who has watched Mad Men knows, the clients can completely screw up a
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> Poverty is a grave issue in Japan. When compared to America, this is a grave exaggeration. Whatever poverty you might see in Japan, it doesn't come close to matching the utter hell that many urban Americans live in at this very
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
> People are absolutely right to stay away from such salesmen. Which is mentioned halfway through the article, actually. > Bunting and such is actually a pretty good strategy I don't think the point was which strategy is better, it'
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
Nope, never done DS homebrew (or even had a Nintendo handheld since the GBA).
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
It doesn't sound like you're the target market then. The Steam Box (at least in its current form) is targeted at PC gamers, who don't expect to have a single, static hardware platform that exists for a half-decade or more. This is more abou
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
Yeah, the culture is fascinating and they have so many basic urban problems that we can't solve in America down pat (public transportation, crime, and poverty, to name a few), but economically they just don't have that spark, and their educ
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
It's a problem all across Japan: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-06/japans-fear-...
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
There's a great guide on The Verge forums about building a Steam Box on the cheap: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/30/3706718/forget-the-ps4-an... For all those gamers out there who are familiar with building their own gaming PCs, the S
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
You're making the assumption that we need to buy new phones every two years. Now that the smartphone spec race is starting to slow down, we're going to see less of a need for frequent smartphone purchases. You could easily use the same phon
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
The only reason T-Mobile is doing this is because they have a ton of unused bandwidth due to low subscriber numbers, so they're trying to differentiate themselves from their competitors. Ultimately, it's much more profitable to use the
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by w1ntermute 14y ago
I don't have a problem with this. I hope the GOP fails entirely, so it can be replaced by a new party that advocates social liberalism and (true) fiscal conservatism. Trying to get young voters when you're talking about legitimate rape and

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