not_a_terrorist

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by not_a_terrorist 7y ago
It only reaches 35,000 feet.
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by not_a_terrorist 7y ago
They abandonned all development activity of their own rockets, shortly after Allen's death.
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by not_a_terrorist 8y ago
You will be interested by this free and open source software: duplicati.com
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by not_a_terrorist 8y ago
Yes, there are several grading systems. We don't use them. However, when I have to re-read a simple sentence or paragraph 4-5 times, and perharps read the whole text or even search about a product in order to understand what they are t
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by not_a_terrorist 8y ago
I am not trying to start a culture war or to pity the general English skills of recent immigrants and their family, far from it. They do their best, and we can only congratulate them for their efforts. I am not here to spew out racist gener
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by not_a_terrorist 8y ago
Ouch you tell me!! A couple of our customers use high tech products manufactured in China and Japan, for which the manuals were badly translated from the native language to English, and then we have to mop it up from English to French, for
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by not_a_terrorist 8y ago
Excellent answer, except your last paragraph! I have used pretty much any and all cutting edge tools on the market. If anything in some instances, it creates even more proofreading/reviewing work. That being said, as I explained to ano
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by not_a_terrorist 8y ago
1) It's my impression, friend, I am not trying to propose a "New theory of bad English". I tell it like I experience it. We have customers in Vancouver and in some suburbs of Toronto from which some of the source texts are qu
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by not_a_terrorist 8y ago
For quality translation of complex, non repetitive ideas, a human is, and will always be required. I have been in the translation business field for about 20 years now, so I have seen the rise of desktop tools, then server-based solutions,
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by not_a_terrorist 8y ago
> I'm still trying to figure out the best design for such a system. Easy answer: distributed consensus, à la Bitcoin.
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by not_a_terrorist 8y ago
> design trends You are hitting your nail straight on the head, my friend. Main culprit is: Unfinished ceiling/metallic ceilings (usually corrugated steel pannels, either square or triangular profile pattern). It's very trendy
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by not_a_terrorist 9y ago
please read. not necessarily related to this thread. for you own good. this is straight from satoshi. I know you hate him. I don't care. https://fr.scribd.com/document/359522859/Bitcoin-Network-Top...
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by not_a_terrorist 9y ago
Your reply contains several errors, but I will pick one. > D) Bitcoin is still, objectively, centralized. Not only you, but this whole thread is missing one critical word: incentive. Miners are incentivised to play ball, as trying to pla
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by not_a_terrorist 9y ago
there is an international airport in Kitchener-Waterloo (YKF)
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by not_a_terrorist 9y ago
P = Park
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by not_a_terrorist 9y ago
Took a course with a few classes that touched AI. First thing the prof wrote on the board: "Artificial Intelligence = Human Stupidity" Spent a few hours analysing all aspects of that statement. Was entertaining.
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by not_a_terrorist 10y ago
tl:dr 100 pages: 1) People are fucking poor and hungry (extreme wealth inequalities) 2) Salafi/Wahhabi (Saudi) funding of islamism 3) Antediluvian hatred between people (it goes, way, way, way farther back than Sykes-Picot)
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by not_a_terrorist 10y ago
Grit and perseverence, however you call them, are important aspects to success, but not THE secret to success. If you look at the subset of people who enjoy "success" in life, a large number of them will display those qualitites,
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by not_a_terrorist 11y ago
How stupid: "It’s like a backdoor with nine different padlocks on it" It does not make it any harder to remove the hinges. Sigh. Classified in file 13.
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by not_a_terrorist 11y ago
First: Don't worry about. Starting unsuccessful software companies is very useful to other entrepreneurs, as it proves to them that they should not follow those footsteps and allocate their resources to more fruitful endeavours. Second
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by not_a_terrorist 11y ago
wow, reading your comment, one would believe we were in the decade prior the iPhone years, where the carriers were trying to take control of all content, giving priority and exclusive access to their own content and services. Another decade