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by Foy 10y ago
Ebeling...
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by Foy 11y ago
Riding the public interest wave about the attacks in Paris makes making click-bait easier than ever! Additionally the article can be summarized as: "We don't know how the attacks were co-ordinated... so maybe strong encryption, an
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by Foy 11y ago
There are some strange superstitions w.r.t. death in Japanese culture. In Japanese the number 4 sounds sort of like death so it's a number they avoid a lot (it's missing from many elevator options, similar to how 13 is skipped som
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by Foy 11y ago
The only real "issue" that article seems to take with the movies was that (A) it used a term that doesn't exist to describe a condition that does have an actual name and (B) it was a cheesy romcom. But I mean, do you really e
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by Foy 11y ago
Fighting a somewhat reasonable request with fraud seems right out of the gray zone and solidly in the territory of immorality.
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by Foy 11y ago
Out of curiosity what are some of the things wrong with it?
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by Foy 11y ago
>he wakes up every morning believing he is still in Germany in 2005, waiting to visit the dentist. Without a record of new experiences, the passing of time means nothing to him. Today, he only knows that there is a problem because he and
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by Foy 11y ago
Just today I was actually thinking laziness was one of my greatest assets as a developer. Always trying to find a way to make my work do as much of itself as it can, haha.
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by Foy 11y ago
"I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in Science." - Charles Darwin Understatement of the millenia?
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by Foy 11y ago
Anecdotal, but I chat with a friend from San Francisco and he was telling me recently that he was feeling down because a funeral was coming up. It was about the 6th or 7th death of someone close to him that he had experienced, about half of
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by Foy 11y ago
High school guidance counselors strongly encourage students into pursuing university. When I was in high school it didn't seem like there even was a viable option other than Computer Science, which I know now is largely unrelated to mo
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by Foy 12y ago
Oh man... https://www.google.com/search?q=tilt#q=ling+rush&safe=off
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by Foy 14y ago
>Boo, scary websites want to know where you are. Nothing wrong with being alarmed by a site that automatically plays music and wants to know where you live. If the cashier at Subway or any other stranger with whom you had minor contact
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by Foy 14y ago
Don't forget they told him this after they had rejected it twice previously on technical grounds. I think that this was clearly their issue but they tried to dissuade him with bogus technical reasons first to give him the runaround. After h
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by Foy 14y ago
Clearly, having your password on the clipboard is a security issue. Storing your password in plain text, however, isn't. Gotta love half-assed security measures. :)
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by Foy 14y ago
Kind of funny that the most perfect sphere ever observed in nature was staring us in the face this whole time. :) Also, how is it that this was only measured just recently? Astronomers suspected it was wider at the equator, like Jupiter, bu
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by Foy 14y ago
Anyone who argues that because it costs $0.99 it should just be free isn't worth debating with. On the other hand there are documented cases where charging more like $9.99 instead of $0.99 increase sales because the higher costs increases i
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by Foy 14y ago
It actually is about Starbucks, not the coffee or the price. It's about you knowing that Starbucks is Starbucks no matter which street, city, state or country you find yourself in. Whether you love or hate it, it's at least consistent. That
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by Foy 14y ago
But it's not a gamble because it's the same every time. It's high quality every time. It has the weight of a quality brand behind it. Maybe it's a small gamble the first time you buy it, but after that it's not a gamble. The argument isn't
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by Foy 14y ago
Yay Opera! Also, if you're really using >= 256 classes in your CSS you may have more systemic problems than just cross-brwoser compatibility.
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by Foy 14y ago
This is the kind of rage-inducing stuff that makes you want to choke a flight attendant. I cannot even imagine what it would feel like to be told over the phone that the company lost your child, and the baggage, and that they don't really c
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by Foy 14y ago
It'd be neat... but it would certainly be awkward to have to "empty" the toilet every week or so... I wonder if it's possible to make it fertilizer but with a minty fresh smell...
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by Foy 14y ago
Playing devil's advocate here, but in his defense, he DOES usually answer the questions in the first sentence or two but then goes on to support his point of view as a whole in the next paragraph or two. (Keep in mind I do not support Paten
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by Foy 14y ago
... and people wonder why Canadians are largely happy with health care and don't like the idea of health insurance... Insurance companies scare me. To think they'd defend their client's killers in court after you've been paying them for yea
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by Foy 14y ago
While I wonder about the specific numbers (his "150" is probably more like 20 for me) I have to admit it's certainly not much of a controversial statement to say that the person with >200 friends on Facebook isn't really friends with al
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by Foy 14y ago
Scary! How dare they try to take such a nice approach to employee retention.
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by Foy 14y ago
I guarantee you that I have a book I have loaned out more than once.. a couple times, in fact. Amazon only lets you lend it once, for up to a maximum of, what, 2 weeks? In meatspace I can sell my book to a friend... or give it away. Why is
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by Foy 14y ago
But those lendable books could only be lent once, right? So if you buy a book that's lendable you'd be able to "trade" your lend for someone else's lend. At best you're only getting one free read for every purchase. That's a far cry better
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by Foy 14y ago
This technology "inventor" made no money. He merely ran an unprofitable service that helped lenders lend their books in exchange for being lent a book. Also, he got lynched for it. I almost cannot imagine the amount of stress this must be c
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by Foy 14y ago
If this is used for anonymity it is completely understandable for potential customers to want to know EXACTLY how anonymous this makes the number. That's like Sony saying "give us your personal info, CC numbers, etc... don't worry we'll tak

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