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Operation War Diary(operationwardiary.org)
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by knapp 13y ago
Also, the subreddit /r/ethereum is modded by and features a welcome post by "vbuterin".
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by knapp 13y ago
I think it's quite funny because like so many quotation-on-image internet memes, it's not what Franklin actually wrote. This is the actual line: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safe
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by knapp 13y ago
In the middle of this piece, after the spiral diagram, there is some interesting stuff on old text-editing software (XEDIT, Kedit).
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Structure: Beyond the picnic-table crisis(newyorker.com)
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by knapp 13y ago
"Pigeon milk" does exist: it is a type of crop milk, the regurgitated lining that parent birds feed to their young. But "pigeon milker" as pigeon fancier instead is a copy of the Dutch word for nightjar ("geitenmelk
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by knapp 13y ago
"duivenmelker" in English (at least British English) would be "pigeon fancier". http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/pigeon-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by knapp 13y ago
All of the links in the poetry section I can see have "lyrics" appended to the URL. And some of those are not even poems: http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Herman-melville-bartleby-the-scr... This one is particularly we
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Viewable With Any Browser Campaign(anybrowser.org)
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by knapp 13y ago
> If you could somehow decay the value of held currency to encourage spending directly Freicoin has a demurrage fee, based on the theories of Silvio Gesell: http://freico.in/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by knapp 13y ago
He obviously speaks german now quite fluently How do you know he wasn't interviewed in English and his answers translated?
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by knapp 13y ago
One thing that struck me watching that was that the timer counted down from 15 to 0. Since "gamification" is so popular amongst management and business theory these days, I was surprised it didn't go the other way and count u
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by knapp 13y ago
I've worked for a company that did those types of things and I found it awful. On top of the work, you had to negotiate strained, forced, Corporate Fun. After 10 hours working, the last thing I wanted was to be told by the company that
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by knapp 13y ago
Every single card I flipped over had "Stuff you'll need: a Google account" and an early step that was "Sign in." Google is on a real push lately to get people to stay signed into its services all the time. This, to
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by knapp 13y ago
People already have: http://www.10x10bitcoin.com/ http://tenthousandbitcoinhomepage.com/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/h7b0a/remember_mill...
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by knapp 13y ago
You snuck in "irregardless" and I claim my $5 reward. (Maybe you also snuck in "hopefully": http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/hopeful... )
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by knapp 13y ago
Poe's Law strikes again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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by knapp 13y ago
Amazon has also affected independent shops for second-hand books on the high street. As has eBay. But independents also have competitors on their own turf: charity shops -- particularly specific charity bookshops. Charity shops receive tax
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by knapp 13y ago
That Ferrel clip is no more or less disturbing than any featuring Al Murray doing The Pub Landlord. How many of his audience get that it's all an ironic joke?
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by knapp 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruritania
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by knapp 13y ago
By no means comprehensive but there are several speeches archived on this site, set up by academics at Swansea University: http://www.britishpoliticalspeech.org/speech-archive.htm