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org3432

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    Comment #21729124

    I used Duolingo for about 1 month to learn Portuguese and was close to the end of the tree. I learned quite a lot, the grammar drills were useful introduction and basic vocabulary,…

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    Comment #21661087

    How much UV light is emitted?

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    Comment #21559564

    So they went off and implemented a brand new fancy service discovery tool for I bet a problem they didn’t have, but couldn’t do the basics of tracking 2kb of data for the CA. I don…

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    Comment #21556511

    > After looking everywhere, and asking everyone on the team, we got the definitive answer that the CA key we created a year ago for this self-signed certificate had been lost. The …

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    Comment #21288803

    No sense of humor?

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    Comment #21288721

    These depictions of JS Bach as a rebel and a bad boy are from people who don’t recognize or connect with the timeless underlining genuineness of Bach. His goal in every writing was…

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    Comment #21236941

    Works with plain old lemon juice too, the soybean process sounds over engineered.

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    Comment #21133994

    Pictures of the cave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisova_Cave

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    Comment #21108970

    That's the difference between working for a company vs. starting a company, the lower risk of being an employee comes at a high price unfortunately.

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    Comment #21057660

    Ironically film tools have some of the most stringent copy protection systems, and big studios break the licenses agreements without hesitation when they need to get something done…

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    Comment #21056994

    Dish is almost an archaic term a this point. So either someone's pretty old grandparents are working for MT, or people are translating a term from another language using an old dic…

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    Comment #20904684

    I'm for space programs, but India is one of the poorest countries on earth, and spending that kind of money on social programs would actually have an impact on it's population. And…

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    Comment #20904580

    > In short, to your point: AWS is for builders... who pay. And right now all the growth is in enterprise, where we don’t know how to make API calls from a command line. Infact AWS'…

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    Comment #20901260

    That's surprising since afaik it's a plug door that presses up against the airframe when under pressure. So sounds like a major failure of the door or the airframe itself.

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    Comment #20611559

    I've seen that, and the opposite as well, where you have a huge team of people constantly working and yet mysteriously nothing gets done and managers aren't sure what people are do…

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    Comment #20493023

    Because it discourages people from creating works then if they can't be free. Why would you want to write something valuable for humanity if in the end someone is going to steal it…

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    Comment #20492982

    Obviously at the time the texts were written, they were in circulation, but it predates modern copyright law. So maybe there's a loophole in the law they're exploiting, but regardl…

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    Comment #20492605

    For the Buddhist texts, how could they own the rights to works written hundreds of years ago? They're simply digitizing the work, no translation. Here's an example: https://archive…

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    Comment #20492144

    The problem is these work owners are using archive.org to play both sides of the argument, even worse consider the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Centern they digitized works they didn’…

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    Comment #20492123

    Here’s one example of DRM: https://archive.org/details/inlibrary?sort=-publicdate They have collections they don’t let you download, they should just refuse those collections to fo…

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    Comment #20491970

    I can’t get past the DRM they allow, if they stopped doing that and raised the bar I’d likely support them.

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    Comment #20489441

    Time to buy air filters for when the smoke drifts into your city and you have to close all your windows for a week.

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    Comment #20456088

    Oh god, that web page is in the format of a ranting crazy person. Is there a quicker explanation somewhere?

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    Comment #20437802

    I think it's also due to having a population that has nothing to lose.

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    Comment #20432358

    They used to think black people don't feel pain too, it would be good to do a long term study to determine if they feel pain since they clearly can't determine if others do.