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by zeynel1 16y ago
"When it became clear Victoria was prepared to defy her father he capitulated and a team of courtiers were hired to school the commoner in royal etiquette." She is doing her part for global feminism.
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I just find this interesting. the fake military uniform of the father, the bride rebelling against her royal roots by marrying a commoner and so on, what do you think?
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" Is it not remarkable that 6 sheep plus 7 sheep make 13 sheep; that 6 stones plus 7 stones make 13 stones? Is it not a miracle that the universe is so constructed that such a simple abstraction as a number is possible? To me this is one of
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"The prince and princess merely change forms and show up on TV sitcoms, movies and fill the roles in novels, plays and even songs. The same story is being re-enacted over and over again for all ages." I think if we recognize that human orga
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by zeynel1 16y ago
I don't think so. He is a great writer. I use HN as my home page and if I did not know about Saramago this post would have introduced me to his writing and I would have been grateful for this.
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by zeynel1 16y ago
I just saw this in HN. I was reading the History of the Siege of Lisbon today at work. I think All the Names is his best book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Names What a great writer
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Xbox 360 slim can't red-ring by design(e3.gamespot.com)
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by zeynel1 16y ago
What happens if I want to create another posterous blog with the same email, is that possible?
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I would like to know how google compares with Apple rather than Microsoft. Apple is a different culture both from google and Microsoft yet it is a dynamic corporation that designs and markets new successful products efficiently and for prof
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by zeynel1 16y ago
"My manager explained that we needed to set stretch goals that seemed impossible to fully achieve." I wish he gave some specific examples of "impossible to fully achieve" goals that were achieved.
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How Google sets goals and measures success(dondodge.typepad.com)
8 points by zeynel1 16y ago|2 comments
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by zeynel1 16y ago
"22. Without adequate funding, an idea won't get off the ground." Maybe this should be the first law?
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by zeynel1 16y ago
His mystery-heuristic-algorithm cycle is equivalent to how humans perceive nature. We first perceive a repetition. Something that repeats -lightning- this is the perception -it is a mystery- next the repetition is named - this is the myth -
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by zeynel1 16y ago
"So Dad was a banker but he couldn’t bear talking about money..." I think bankers deal more with "debt" than "money." I don't know if this has any relevance to the article and what the author is saying.
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The Evolution of the World Cup Ball(nytimes.com)
29 points by zeynel1 16y ago|14 comments
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The Art of Fiction No. 35 - Simone de Beauvoir(parisreview.com)
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by zeynel1 16y ago
Is this a duplicate submission http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1416811
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by zeynel1 16y ago
"What could define God [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature." I don't understand this sentence. Does he mean " We could define God as the embodiment of the laws of nature." "When you look at the vast size of the uni
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Ask HN: When was the last time you used print edition of yellow pages?
3 points by zeynel1 16y ago|5 comments
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I wrote about the "end of men" about 4 years ago. http://1women1.blogspot.com/2006/12/i-am-writing-this-for-yo... We are now at the inflection point and from now on it is downhill for men.
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Suffering Elephants Worldwide get their Day(freewpzelephants.com)
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And also to execute you need to have an idea. Idea and execution are not independent. Idea has value by definition because it is the starting point.
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"I decided to create a fake job listing..." He, in turn, wasted serious applicants' time who took time to write good cover letters to reply to his fake job listing. I guess, researcher's dilemma.
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The hemline indicator flashes bearish(ritholtz.com)
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Thanks for posting this. It was a pleasure to read it again.
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by zeynel1 16y ago
from comments: "Another one, not yet ripe in 1943, is to require non-job-related mandatory annual training in such areas as diversity, sexual harassment, ethnic sensibilities, etc. Especially as critical deadlines approach. Use outside cons
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by zeynel1 16y ago
"I called it Zero History because one of the characters has had a missing decade, during which he paid no taxes and had no credit cards. He meets a federal agent, who tells him that that combination indicates to her that he hasn’t been up t
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by zeynel1 16y ago
I have no idea how the broken pipe looks like, but cover it with an inverted funnel connected to the remaining pipe to the surface. This way at least some of the oil will be recovered.
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Is there a need to emphasize that the website referred to is an "internet" website and not an "intranet" website? Should Yahoo! say "visit our internet website at yahoo.com?" Or even the least sophisticated user knows that yahoo.com is an "
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by zeynel1 16y ago
This is off-topic, but I see in some legal documents the phrase "internet website" as in "The comment summary is also available on our Internet website at < http://www.sec.gov/rules/extra/s71002commsumm.htm>. http://www.sec.gov/ru

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