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by waqf 15y ago
Outbound/return is standard terminology all over the travel industry. Including in UK and US, and for trains and for planes: I'm surprised you're not familiar with it. "Depart" means something different: it refers to the beginning of ea
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by waqf 15y ago
> If you drove past a restaurant that had a big sign outside that said "no cockroaches here", what would you associate with it? In a town in which I expected from experience to encounter a few cockroaches during any visit to any resta
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by waqf 15y ago
You're thinking of http://freestateproject.org/ . It's moving pretty slowly, but they claim it's not dead.
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by waqf 15y ago
Now I'm really curious what the content of your Slashdot comment was.
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by waqf 15y ago
Re Chrome, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2957201
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by waqf 15y ago
Thanks! The only reason I am still using Firefox instead of Chromium is the availability of RequestPolicy.
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by waqf 15y ago
Thanks, I liked this better than the originally posted article, mostly because it explains higher order beziers.
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by waqf 15y ago
The "analogue" look of genuine teletext that's often missing from emulators is caused by hardware character rounding in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullard_SAA5050 (see the datasheet linked from that page). That said, I don't think t
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by waqf 15y ago
I like to think my HN comments are more likely to be believed by others and useful to them because of my cogent observations or clear writing style, than because of my name which is probably not known to most people, or my degrees which are
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by waqf 15y ago
The correct way to write the quote would have been ">The rioters this week haven't shared the same [...] determination", where the [...] shows you're editing: by implication you're not doing so misleadingly, but the reader gets the cha
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by waqf 15y ago
In tech, innovation and copying are two sides of the same coin. It's really hard to build something better than what's on the market if you're not allowed to start from what's already there.
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by waqf 15y ago
Maybe a delegated voting system, as discussed in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2484995# ?
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by waqf 15y ago
> [W]ithout [the index], you wouldn't be able to create commits from a subset of the difference between your working directory and HEAD. That's a correct argument for why the index has to be separate from your working directory. But I
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by waqf 15y ago
"Non-immigrant visa" is a term of art. It is relatively straightforward to immigrate permanently into the US if you have an H-1B and can stay employed for a few years.
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by waqf 15y ago
I'm just relieved that I can copy their URLs, email them to a friend and have them work ... since there are so many gaps in G+ sharing.
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by waqf 15y ago
That only stops Google+ internal search from returning your profile given your name. Your page is still public (and linked to by, for example, your friends' pages) so any search engine can index it.
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by waqf 15y ago
yes! that was the original convention on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET .
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by waqf 15y ago
For the benefit of those of us who aren't familiar with both platforms, can you explain what "dynamic real-time updating" features Google+ has and what Facebook does instead?
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by waqf 15y ago
It seems to me that to make your argument valid you have to be implicitly claiming the following: we're so confident that no fragment of the current Islamist terrorism movement will target subways that we don't need to put in place the sec
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by waqf 15y ago
No. This is very likely true of the schmucks who blow themselves up, but those people aren't so much Al-Qaeda as they are victims of Al-Qaeda. Did you ever notice how UBL never participated in any suicide attacks? Not saying he wasn't cra
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by waqf 15y ago
It recently occurred to me that we can see what "appropriate" security measures would be by looking, even within the US, at what security is in place at sites that are not targets of mass hysteria. For example, subways are generally known
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by waqf 15y ago
I have figured out what to do about the 404. Your link consists of the address of a Google+ post, followed by ? and some parameters which are your unique invite id. For some reason the post does not resolve, but the invite is good. So ke
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by waqf 15y ago
The following two statements are not incompossible: 1. At each time T, we believe that "machine intelligence", according to the definition in use at time T, is a few decades away; 2. At each time T, we're right. In other words, the fact tha
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by waqf 15y ago
What troubles me about this post is that I've never heard of domain.me before and it's not at all clear what the site is claiming to be. So until shown otherwise I'm assuming it's a hatchet job financed by one of Google's competitors.
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by waqf 15y ago
They did something outlandish with Wave. How did that turn out?
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by waqf 15y ago
Blub : Flub :: BLoop : FLooP?
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by waqf 15y ago
And the tragedy is that nobody else understands the simple explanation once you understand enough to give it.
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by waqf 15y ago
Firstly, you're addressing a different question than everyone else (even though I agree it's the right question), because you're talking about political viability whereas most people get stuck arguing about economic viability. Second, there
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by waqf 15y ago
I think the point is that everyone gets 85% of what they would hope for from a health service, as opposed to a system where only 85% of people have any health service at all.
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by waqf 15y ago
The S and K combinators are simply referred to here as S and K, but the pictures of them resemble a Starling and a Kestrel respectively. This is surely a reference to Raymond Smullyan's To Mock A Mockingbird , a ... unique ... book in whi

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