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by wordbank 11y ago
> Peaceful coexistence is hard precisely because it is NOT our most natural, basic state. It depends on what you mean by saying "our". It's "not natural" for an aggressive chemical reaction called "life&quot
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by wordbank 11y ago
> E.g. тайна in Russian is more like 'enigma', definitely not 'classified/secret'. How about "государственная тайна" then?
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by wordbank 11y ago
"Секрет" is more a social thing. Confidential information of bigger entities like government or business will be called "тайна".
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by wordbank 11y ago
ServerFault is super aggressive against any additions and "admin panels". My detailed question was closed because I mentioned Webmin installed.
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by wordbank 11y ago
No, I'm using Lumia 830 and had 520 before. There are all basic apps and many Unity games. And Lumia 5 series are selling like hotcakes in poor countries. Windows Phone OS is smooth and fast on low-end even compared to iOS. (I'm
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by wordbank 11y ago
I believe decentralized Reddit can work quite well in this setup: * Reddit-like engine that supports only one subreddit * data importing tool that can fetch all the previous posts from Reddit sub and feed them to the engine * mods of subred
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by wordbank 11y ago
As a developer, I'm more happy with Apple's closed ecosystem than with Google's 95% piracy rates. I'm not an Apple fanboy though.
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by wordbank 11y ago
Native apps give you many complex native libraries including UIs.
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by wordbank 11y ago
> Eventually, the pendulum will swing the other way. People will get sick of freemium games, and go back to games where you pay $1-$10 once. > Some people made a lot of money with freemium, so everyone is copying them. Freemium was a
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by wordbank 11y ago
Science is not an absolute knowledge. It has many unproved theories and makes mistakes on a regular basis. (Please note that my world view is purely scientific but I'm using buddhist ideas for looking into my consciousness because scie
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by wordbank 11y ago
> There were modest spikes in south africa and brazil. Not many anywhere else. Huh? South America has good overall Internet penetration[1] and Chile is going to 70% right now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o
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by wordbank 11y ago
There's no reincarnation in Buddhism, only rebirth. And rebirth happens to you right now when your consciousness arises again and again from previous states of your mind. Yes, there's also a "fantastic" theory that this
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by wordbank 11y ago
> I changed my mind and accepted the fact that all religions are at best ridiculous or at worst repulsive. You are confusing the ideas with their interpretations by human minds.
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by wordbank 11y ago
Wrong. I'd like to get a cut of the huge tech capitals cake to convert it into charity.
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by wordbank 11y ago
> the way of the East - to focus on inner rather than social development I think it's not the way of the East but more like an image created by westerners. You will break this illusion by simply visiting Thailand, India, Korea or Ja
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by wordbank 11y ago
It would not be a tragedy for me. Well-being of these people is more important than an imaginable entity named "company".
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by wordbank 11y ago
No, I didn't say this. I'm saying that he's making the same mistake as thousands of leaders before him: placing achievements first and people second.
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by wordbank 11y ago
History repeats itself and people who are trying to "change the world" don't care about any casualties on their way. Ironically, world could change so much by everyone being kind and grateful to others. No invention or conque
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by wordbank 11y ago
Gmail became so painful about two years ago. So I moved to Fastmail (wow, web UI can be THAT fast!). New Google Maps were broken for a couple of months. Google's own developer plugins like Game Services and AdMob are buggy and unintuit
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by wordbank 11y ago
http://wenr.wes.org/2013/12/introduction-to-the-higher-educa... "Chilean universities are among the most expensive in the world when measured against per capita income, which is no doubt a factor in the natio
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by wordbank 11y ago
Excuse me, but you're too fast on making conclusions. Also you're totally ignoring the lack of vertical social mobility in the Chilean society because poor people have no chance for education and better jobs for their kids. > I
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by wordbank 11y ago
It's the most expensive compared to the average salary in the country. In response to your other points: Chilean government fails a lot and the president has 25% rating. So at least they're trying to reset the government. Also you
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by wordbank 11y ago
In Spanish? Because here in Chile most people don't have enough education to study in English. Vicious cycle.
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by wordbank 11y ago
But why there's no trend of multicopters replacing helicopters? Big ones, with humans inside.
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by wordbank 11y ago
Why do kibbutzim belong to communism? Communism is based on works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. You can't just attach a "communist" tag on every commune that has shared property.
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by wordbank 11y ago
I have smartphone but I don't carry it everywhere, it lives on my table most of the time. Battery life is not irrelevant because why care about keeping stuff constantly charged when I can charge it once a week?
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by wordbank 11y ago
Communism is a philosophy in the first place. It leads to a certain type of governing and managing economy. On practice it also lead into a totalitarian state every single time.
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by wordbank 11y ago
I wear FitBit for 2 years 24/7, including sleep tracking. It works for a week on a single charge. Can you do this with iPhone or Pebble?
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by wordbank 11y ago
The strongest argument against communism is "How could a man plan economy if he can't plan his todo list app without producing bugs?" People tend to fail in simple predictions but communists and hardcore socialists still beli
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by wordbank 11y ago
The Pali Canon is the first source of quotes like this though.

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