hamai

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by hamai 9y ago
The root epidemics is of people only focusing on themselves. Do voluntary jobs with sick and old people. Replacing your problems with other people's problems makes you think better.
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by hamai 10y ago
Altruism is about to get a new meaning. Thanks, science!!
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by hamai 10y ago
> What will the moon landing conspiracy theorists do then? :) they say NASA has changed Mars colors in the photos, it is more Earth-like, because something
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by hamai 11y ago
Wonder if TPPA and CISA are related somehow.
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by hamai 11y ago
Judging by my occasional reading of /r/bestofoutrageculture, overreacting is a thing for some time now.
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by hamai 12y ago
Sure it would, but isn't diversity a good thing too? Specially if you consider long term scenarios.
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by hamai 12y ago
(Engrish ahead...) I have great memories from a Montessori School I went to as a kid. Spent most of my childhood education there. It was a big house, each room was dedicated to a subject and students would change rooms, big shared tables an
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by hamai 12y ago
I noticed if I search "Zappa" it only shows one album that have artist name exactly "Zappa". Would be nice if it also showed the other albums by "Frank Zappa"...
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by hamai 12y ago
It's both. > Through the math competitions, Avila discovered IMPA, where Brazil held its Olympiad award ceremonies each year. There, he met prominent mathematicians like Carlos Gustavo Moreira and Nicolau Corção Saldanha, and while
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by hamai 12y ago
It was on Globo's Jornal Nacional a few hours ago: http://g1.globo.com/educacao/noticia/2014/08/pesquisador-bra... That's as prime time as you can get on brazilian TV. He'll get a lot of c
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by hamai 12y ago
Simple and engaging. Nice graphics engine.
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by hamai 12y ago
Wouldn't prioritizing packets at routers create slower queues for low priority packets? Murphy's Law tells me there's a good chance these low priority queues will slow down exponentially at random times. Routing nightmare if
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by hamai 12y ago
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2515569/
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by hamai 12y ago
Yeah, you usually don't go asking strangers for a good dentist, you ask friends, or maybe their friends. That's the whole point of recommendations.
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by hamai 13y ago
Mozart's symphonic works alone are more complex than what Gaga does. Take the 40th, the harmonies, the transitions, the sheer beauty of it. Despite the huge technical challenges of composing for a Symphony, still add that much beauty t
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by hamai 13y ago
>There are more jobs around now than there was at the dawn of industrialization But the population also exploded since then.[1] I believe there are possibly no jobs for every one and a basic income of some kind should be considered. Just
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by hamai 13y ago
If we're going to judge people's contributions by personal issues they have, nothing is of use anymore, including your advice. How can we be sure everyone is "pure" before we consider their creations? Unless we all start
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by hamai 13y ago
Minimum salary won't get you out of poverty either. It means 2-4h in a packed bus, work for someone else, see your kids only when they're sleeping, have no alternative but public health and education, which usually is hellish.
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by hamai 13y ago
This post made me realize "Bad Faith" was translated to something different in my language.
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by hamai 13y ago
Thanks, not only it's fast but easy to install and user friendly.
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by hamai 13y ago
I think we are still living in times where some parents would rather deliver a person in a society where the chances of being a porn performer are reduced, compared to the chances of being a sports performer.
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by hamai 14y ago
I'm mainly a guitar player but spend most of my time on piano lately, and this instrument reminds me a bit of both. You can slide and vibrate like a guitar, but with the clear musical vision of piano.
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by hamai 14y ago
User iwwr summarized well the problems with the "nothing to hide" argument: "The ability to gleam private details about people is having some power over them. The entire modern theory of government rests on limiting and dividing up the po
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by hamai 14y ago
Would be nice to use Youtube as sound too, but I guess it's to avoid legal issues.
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by hamai 14y ago
I guess they could be using "partials": >Any complex tone "can be described as a combination of many simple periodic waves (i.e., sine waves) or partials, each with its own frequency of vibration, amplitude, and phase." A partial is any
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by hamai 14y ago
USA requested the extradition of a young student[1] from UK over copyright laws, for sharing links. UK Home Secretary approved the order and the outrage ran the world. Without the attention the story got that young student would be in an Am
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by hamai 14y ago
It's relieving to read pieces like this. That last paragraph was spot on. The top comments got me laughing at "Those poor old bosses need all the help they can get".
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by hamai 14y ago
Aaron was founder of Demand Progress, organization that actually fought laws like PIPA/SOPA, and many other things, and the laws didn't pass. This is a list of campaigns by Demand Progress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Progress#Camp
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by hamai 14y ago
Problem is Aaron wasn't the average kid. He had enemies, and he was a major annoyance to people wanting to tame the Internet.
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by hamai 14y ago
couple of years is enough to get you the full "prison experience"...

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