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16y ago
Couple of gems... An environment that’s alive at all hours, populated by all types, and is, most of the time, pretty safe. What he was saying, really, was that New York had become the Web. Or perhaps more, even: that New York was the Web be
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And what if PGP were modded to use combinations of words out of the dictionary (human readable) as public keys? I have no idea how that would even be possible, but it seems to be theoretically possible, and that would satisfy all three requ
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16y ago
here is some video of the guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOdCiuf5tvY&feature=chann...
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16y ago
And many prefer Native American, but so what? Thats not at all what I was pointing out. This story actually takes place in Brazil. He should be referred to by the name his people would use for themselves, for God's sake people, have some r
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I dont think one would go wrong by using the word indigenous Native as a word is a noun, easy concise and neutral. Indigenous is not a noun. Other than that i'm not going to argue the difference between using indigenous over native. Its
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16y ago
"every native person whom I have met (I think without exception) has used 'Indian' rather than 'Native American'." I grew up in Nebraska and I went to primary school with a number of Native Americans. It was considered very disrespectful t
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There is no real authority on whom should call whom by what name except for the one that has to wear said name. The term Indian for a native to the amaerican continents has carried a lot of derogatory meaning. Notwithstanding it is just p
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I disliked the way the reporter kept calling the man an Indian It almost made me want to stop reading, but the story is quite interesting. I wonder what the 5 foot deep pits he digs are really for. Pit fall traps for.... vehicles?
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16y ago
Except of course that life itself cannot be sustained without the abundancy of the stars
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16y ago
things like this http://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1sNOzHa2orgpK5BIp4eE...
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16y ago
This article is really copy pasta. It's already been through HN Original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1587983
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16y ago
did anyone else think this was really smirky at the end?
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16y ago
make it WATERPROOF already
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16y ago
this idea as a web app is probably MORE viable if you could add in some other conversion services... but it is all kind of muddy waters
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16y ago
You come to me for the good stuff...
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16y ago
amber lamps has got to be the best eggcorn of all time
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16y ago
Usability on facebook is "truly horrific" ...? lol..
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16y ago
Possibly some kind of instinctual trigger. Think about the moment where the entire body was fully EXPECTING a lung full of air... and ready for it... but for whatever reason you become submerged and cannot get it. You aren't unconscious ye
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It's surprising how many people have had a close call with this. I'm not sure exactly on my recollection, however, I had a similar incident and my reaction was not anything calm. I was angry and very frustrated. My guess is that it probab
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16y ago
When I was a child (about 7 years) I nearly drowned at a public swimming pool full of people. My family was there including my mother, smiling at me from all of 5 feet away. After I ran out of air and strength... it was actually my (then 9
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16y ago
well this guy really loves to employ stereotypes to make his points. i suppose to some extent he has to other than that, though, i didnt get much from this
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This article lost my respect at.. "So, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to go against their natural evolutionary tendency to believe in God, and they become atheists." "Young adults who identify themselves as "not at all
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Wow, this was a gem.. What illusion does that person, fat with pot-belly, give you as you see him? What do you think of as you see him walking along? Does he look like a bowl of jelly? Does he look like an inflated balloon with arms and leg
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I'm from Omaha... and my money is on Buffet
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16y ago
People are moving to New York and Dallas.
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Holographic data storage
(en.wikipedia.org)
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Its not showing any flights to Buenos Aires??? I am going there in a few months and I have a ticket for $800 out of LAX but the system doesn't want to show anything..
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This is a great link... My father is a Radiology Engineer and I will defiitely be sending this his way.
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16y ago
Zuck isn't a celebrity? Gates? Jobs? This article is finnicky
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Off topic, but, why do all of losethos comments go dead? It was nice reading his perspective. Almost like I could see into his brain. Weird.
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