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Re:Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young (1989) [video]
on Saturday December 07, 2019 @08:53PM (#21733912)
Lot of closed caption is not even close to what Chomsky is saying.
Re:Cross-border credit reporting is at last becoming a reality
on Sunday April 14, 2019 @03:30AM (#19658053)
I would rather have police follow through on this rather than private businesses.
Re:Ask HN: How can I stop forgetting “things”?
on Sunday January 03, 2016 @11:05AM (#10831026)
Also know as triple tap or 3 point check. I am now so used to it that I feel uncomfortable if I intentionally leave one behind.
Re:TSA Body Scan? Just Say 'No,' Leading Expert Says
on Monday December 28, 2015 @10:32AM (#10801519)
I am surprised that speed at which this article fell off the front page. There are older article with fewer comments and points that are still on the front page.
Is it due to the downvotes for the forbes link?
Re:Firefox 42 will not allow unsigned extensions
on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @08:26AM (#10040447)
I don't think what chrome does is relevant in this discussion at least not in the context of defining what is the the correct way for mozilla to go forward.
Re:Help, I’m Trapped in Facebook’s Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory
on Sunday June 21, 2015 @12:46AM (#9752224)
I think that is an other can of worms. I would assume there will be some law to not allow that esp if it is a govt. issued document. Right now they might not be connected to govt database, but if they ever do then one can be in unnecessary trouble. All for an useless (imo) account.
Re:“Thank You” in Hindi and English Mean Very Different Things
on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @06:11AM (#9684945)
Similar to the cultural difference when Russians do not smile [1].
[1]: http://www.russianlife.com/blog/why-dont-russians-smile/
Re:Uber Closes in on Its Last Frontier: Airports
on Monday May 25, 2015 @09:55PM (#9602572)
There is a direct MARTA train connection from Atlanta airport to Sandy Springs. And compared to NY and Chicago subways, I have found MARTA to be lot cleaner. It would have been more time and cost effective to take the train and then a hail a cab to your final destination. I doubt money was your primary concern if the cab driver was going round in circle. Also I believe that uber drivers are more tech savvy than regular cab drivers.
Re:Passport Index – How much power does your passport have?
on Sunday May 03, 2015 @11:04AM (#9481530)
it comes down to trust. if i were to guess you lock the door to your house. why would you do something which limits the movement of people who want to be in your house. but at the same time you do not have problem giving access to your house to specific people (people you trust). it is same with countries just more complicated as now you are dealing with bunch of people rather than an individual.
visa free travel exists before countries agreed to trust each other for whatever the reason may be (economic/social/etc.). other countries can workout ways for travel but they do not think of it as a priority.
Re:Passport Index – How much power does your passport have?
on Sunday May 03, 2015 @10:55AM (#9481488)
yes of course :)
Re:Passport Index – How much power does your passport have?
on Sunday May 03, 2015 @10:06AM (#9481319)
Would be nice if it also listed the countries that you could travel to.
Re:The Last Line Effect
on Thursday April 23, 2015 @02:56PM (#9428986)
kind of like the error check excel does when it finds inconsistent equation in an array or cells
Re:Hertz puts cameras in its rental cars, says it has no plans to use ...
on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:34PM (#9215757)
Additional fine print. It is your responsibility for informing your guests that there is an active camera in the car.
Re:China's Great Firewall Gets Taller
on Saturday January 31, 2015 @01:42PM (#8977558)
just like in every other country in the world ...
Re:How Grigori Perelman solved one of math's greatest mysteries
on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @08:11PM (#8665512)
It might be he is burned out with all the politics surrounding the claim of his work but not with the work in general. People who enjoy doing something rarely get burned out doing it lifelong.
From the newyorker article linked by deuill:
The prospect of being awarded a Fields Medal had forced
him to make a complete break with his profession. “As
long as I was not conspicuous, I had a choice,” Perelman
explained. “Either to make some ugly thing”—a fuss about
the math community’s lack of integrity—“or, if I didn’t do
this kind of thing, to be treated as a pet. Now, when I
become a very conspicuous person, I cannot stay a pet and
say nothing. That is why I had to quit.” We asked
Perelman whether, by refusing the Fields and withdrawing
from his profession, he was eliminating any possibility
of influencing the discipline. “I am not a politician!”
he replied, angrily.
Re:Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet
on Thursday August 14, 2014 @06:44PM (#8180229)
Last I checked Gmail allowed me to create an account without providing an email address or phone number.
Re:A Problem With Amazon’s Fire TV
on Sunday June 29, 2014 @09:30PM (#7963222)
jun 7 and 8 happen to be sat & sun. so it is possible the author was browsing different shows and the tv trying to keep up with it.
Re:Massive increase to Onedrive storage plans
on Monday June 23, 2014 @12:28PM (#7932806)
There was also some discussion about metadata being changed once the files were uploaded to OneDrive. So if you plan to use it just for plain file storage then it might be an issue.
Re:Essential LaTeX packages
on Thursday June 12, 2014 @12:13AM (#7881782)
From stackexchange: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/553/what-packages-do...
Re:U.S. may act to keep Chinese hackers out of Defcon
on Saturday May 24, 2014 @01:07PM (#7793780)
Ignoring the NSA debate, do such actions achieve anything (from security point of view)?
Re:Fine Line Seen in U.S. Spying on Companies
on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @09:25AM (#7778039)
Time fixes everything. We have a short term memory. But what I feel the problem here is that there is no government will to stop what is being done. Which means that such acts will keep repeating. They are being sold as securing national interests which is a bit vague term in itself.
Re:Earnest – A writing tool for first drafts
on Friday May 16, 2014 @06:48PM (#7758354)
Browser zoom (Ctrl + +) works fine for me.
Re:A fridge that is more tolerant of power interruptions
on Friday May 09, 2014 @05:20PM (#7723306)
There is also pot in pot refrigerator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-in-pot_refrigerator) based on evaporative cooling, which does not use electricity. Although it will not work well in humid places, it is still a much cheaper option.
Re:Why we don't sell ads (2012)
on Friday April 25, 2014 @11:38AM (#7647145)
I agree. I thought there was some change in the policy given the recent event.
Re:Mathematicians find way to put 7 cylinders in contact without using...
on Saturday April 05, 2014 @03:46PM (#7538190)
Yes, length to radius is important factor. Here's a discussion on 7 cylinders touching (using their end) ...
Re:What India Is Doing To Stop Cheating At Board Exams
on Saturday March 15, 2014 @10:43AM (#7404734)
Cheating would hypothetically cease to exist if students didn't feel like they have a need to prove themselves on paper by a score
I can bet that it won't happen. As long as people need to complete, they will try to cheat.
Re:Solution claimed for Navier-Stokes equations, one of the millennium...
on Saturday January 11, 2014 @08:48AM (#7042562)
Basing opinion on citation index is like saying if this person is not widely cited he is likely to be wrong. From what I know, it is common for researchers in US and EU to cite each other. However work from say China or other Asian/African nations is not cited as often.
I know many (well-established) professors who don't bother updating their webpage. In fact some of them wouldn't have eve bothered keeping a webpage had it not been for the courses.
That said I will take this news with a grain of salt because it is not an easy problem and definitely needs a through review.
Re:French-UAE Intel Satellite Deal in Doubt – US Parts Raise Security ...
on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @07:00AM (#7022969)
Wake me up when US decides to sell it military tech for security and not money. I agree that financial consequences might not be a priority in decision making, but at the end of the day US (or rather the corporations, which can no longer be attributed to just US) are interested in money. I don't think UAE will stop buying stuff just because it is know to be tainted, but they get upper hand in bargaining the price.
Also I don't understand your analogy to staplers fully. If US is a house of staplers and UAE (or any other nation) is not an employee there then the only reason they are not stealing is because they lack the skill.
On an individual level it is relatively easier to make decisions regarding moral issues like stealing but that doesn't work for a group.
Re:Show HN: LightPaper for Mac – Free Markdown editor
on Friday December 27, 2013 @05:05AM (#6970105)
I agree but then again everyone uses the superlative adjectives as a default.
Re:If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet
on Monday December 16, 2013 @10:41AM (#6915360)
Lets see our options are 1: do nothing, 2: involve the military through use of force.
I wonder what happened to plain old diplomacy. I guess that is too slow and seems ineffective. So is training the locals to fight their war. After all they all live in dark ages and only know how to use stones and sticks to fight. But we cannot put forward these options to general public so we are left with just two.
Even then I feel that more than Obama or any other politicians or military official it is the general public to blame. The public wants democracy but does not understand that democracy does not work out of the box. One needs to get involved to make it work properly. It is a good system but needs fixes. The problem with democracy is it treats my stupidity same as your intelligence and my apathy same as your concern. And as long as people like me hold majority there is not much others can do.