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by ximeng 13y ago
It's not inexplicable including Narendra Modi, he just put all the names down that were in the original thread. The original thread didn't specify tech as being important. Adding additional names because somebody else asked for it
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by ximeng 13y ago
On the other hand there's an article with "N.S.A." in the title at the top of the front page now.
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by ximeng 13y ago
Or open up the system more and allow people to add their own algorithms to weight how they want not how pg wants.
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Throw off the spooks by disguising your web traffic(newscientist.com)
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Bitcoin moves beyond mere money(newscientist.com)
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by ximeng 13y ago
Thanks gbog. To what extent is Baidu just small teams? I would have thought there should be at least a central core team for search? That link using the HN link shortener: http://www.quora.com/Bitcoin/What-will-Baidu-an
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by ximeng 13y ago
I like Mato Jelic's videos - short and regularly released with his own style.
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by ximeng 13y ago
Suggest you find a bar, restaurant, or office that will be willing for you to meet up, invite some tech people to do something techy (maybe give talks on what you've been working on). Companies are more likely to sponsor if you've
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by ximeng 13y ago
It can be transferred more cheaply and easily than traditional government money, particularly across borders, so it does have some advantage.
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US spying scandal starting to hurt big tech firms' sales in China(scmp.com)
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Open data: Unlocking innovation and performance with liquid information(mckinsey.com)
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by ximeng 13y ago
That's why Bunnie's open source laptop is exciting. http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3265
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Thorium backed as a 'future fuel'(bbc.co.uk)
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by ximeng 13y ago
First answer is very stylish.
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Punctuation - Why does the multi-paragraph quotation rule exist?(english.stackexchange.com)
14 points by ximeng 13y ago|2 comments
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by ximeng 13y ago
There are other categories of people who would find this device useful, e.g. the doctor at the bottom of the article.
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by ximeng 13y ago
Ultrabook you can't use as a tablet. For me Surface Pro is a good enough tablet combined with a good enough ultrabook, so it saved me from buying two devices.
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by ximeng 13y ago
Awesome, can play gorillas in qbasic :D
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by ximeng 13y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5798512 for previous discussion on a related article.
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by ximeng 13y ago
How would an automated car deal with this kind of situation: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=17a_1382454285 It's probably even harder to handle if your car starts braking unexpectedly.
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'What is the difference between "lie", "deceive" and "mislead"?'(ox.ac.uk)
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by ximeng 13y ago
Other South
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by ximeng 13y ago
Other Mid-West
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by ximeng 13y ago
Mountain States (Arizona/Utah/Colorado/NM/ID)
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by ximeng 13y ago
OK I've added them, although they don't appear in order unfortunately so people might get confused. The other east coast is only about 10 at the moment. This looks like it might have been flagged down so might need a new poll in t
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by ximeng 13y ago
Non-continental US including Hawaii
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by ximeng 13y ago
Atlanta/Florida
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by ximeng 13y ago
DC/Baltimore/Philadelphia
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by ximeng 13y ago
Changed it to Michigan rather than Ann Arbor, although I realise this is still pretty arbitrary.
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by ximeng 13y ago
OK, done. Thanks. 3 people in Austin are now part of Texas. Hopefully not too many Texans in "other" are missing from "Texas".

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