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Not anymore. It is no longer "just an encyclopedia" and yes for many things it is very close to being the "replacement for the internet". What with spam and ads cluttering the web up. I think that pr…

Alice has influenced programming languages and programming language research. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/440 being just one example. PL researchers are most excited about the ideas in the l…

I have heard that babies do not realize that their thoughts are private and they assume that thinking by itself is a form of communication. I have always been skeptical of it and never understood how …

There has been some very nice discussion on deafness here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2111278 I picked up helpful tips from there. I have limited hearing on one side and lost it fairly late …

Could you elaborate ? Did you have any particular parameter in mind. To me the model seemed strikingly simple with just 6 parameters. All assumptions seemed very mild, benign and sensible. Furthermore…

Oops my bad. I know, 'cause I am running one. What the hell was I thinking.

Debian and Arch are my two favorite Linux distributions. If only Debian distributed a version compiled for an i686 also. I know it probably wont make a huge difference for most programs. But it niggle…

In my opinion there is a difference. A webpage author links to another as an act of conscious recommendation. The one who added the link added it for the sole purpose of others to make use of it. It w…

Whoa! No way India has 226 million "native" speakers of English. It still would be under a quarter million. But upvoted for checking. Tongue was very much in my cheek in my previous comment, so all ca…

Oh please! In US we have i) constitutional declaration of rights, Israel does not ii) I can drive on any road that an American civillian can drive on. I dont need to be a citizen or a resident or conv…

Heh! I had so far restrained myself from adding to the thread. But it tickles me a great deal to see how just an observation can fuel nay-saying and name calling. I never made a moral judgment and nei…

After a quick search: Israel's High Court has narrowly upheld a law denying Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza married to Israeli citizens the right to live in the country with their s…

No, I would rather trust the first person accounts from people whom I have zero reasons to disbelieve. If you would look at my post I mentioned rights on traveling on the same street, equal rights on …

http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html and apparently legal as well.

If i get:- * $500 in donations, i'm willing to put together a blog post outlining the specifics of what i did differently to what i would normally do , and will respond to all comments…