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abrimo
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Comment #7447075
I agree! My reply would never be endorsed either!
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Comment #6538049
You're trying to blame the victim, which is troublingly common when someone has been raped or sexually harassed but it is never the right response. It is traumatising when these th…
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Comment #5977378
Yea it really is - I have nothing to do with these fellows but I found it interesting nonetheless so I posted it.
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Comment #5977303
When you board a commercial airline you have to show that you have a valid visa/passport for your destination however that is not technically checked until you go through that coun…
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Ask HN: Anyone seeing a significant increase in yahoo/bing traffic?
Normally most of the search traffic we receive is from Google however the past two days we have had 10 times more traffic from Bing/Yahoo than we normally do. All of this traffic h…
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Comment #4114608
The university is paid upfront by the federal government so it can still cover all of it's costs. The taxation office then collects the repayments, which are just taken out of your…
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Comment #4114173
I grew up in the US however I'm Australian and attended university in Australia. The Australian system (HECS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_education_fees_in_Aust... ) of ma…
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Comment #3877389
That's 28 months - not weeks. So assuming you would normally upgrade every 2.5 years then it's about the same cost. If they release a new version each year then the subscription se…
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Comment #3801756
This reminds me of the article gruber wrote late last year about the types of companies that make future concept videos. http://daringfireball.net/2011/11/companies_that_publish_co…
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Comment #3210452
Asimo seems quite a bit more advanced overall than those robots. They are designed for quite specific purposes and domain - it's hard to tell but they also don't seem autonomous. W…
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