baha_man

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by baha_man 6y ago
Pint-sized cans of beer are rare, many beers come in 500ml cans. 330ml cans are common, especially for craft beer.
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by baha_man 6y ago
'Almost everyone needs reading glasses by 40' I think it's more like 45 than 40.
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by baha_man 6y ago
He's not on a ventilator yet as far as we know
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Failing to secure DNS is 'savage ignorance': Geoff Huston(zdnet.com)
11 points by baha_man 8y ago|1 comments
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by baha_man 10y ago
Source?
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by baha_man 10y ago
"Toilet" is not a euphemism: "Toilet" was by etymology a euphemism, but is no longer understood as such. As old euphemisms have become the standard term, they have been progressively replaced by newer ones, an example of
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by baha_man 12y ago
According to Snopes[1]: "Practically anyone famous for his knowledge can be offered up as the virtuoso in this tale... Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, George Washington, the electrical genius Charles Proteus Steinmetz... How long this sto
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by baha_man 12y ago
"Guns are, somewhat counter-intuitively, one of the more survivable suicide methods." Source? This study gives a 'case fatality rate' of 85% for firearms, 69% for suffocation, and 2% for poisoning: http://www.
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by baha_man 12y ago
..."the NHS in the UK. Its the largest organisation in the world with 1.4M employees..." It's big, but it's not that big, fifth or sixth largest employer in the world according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedi
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by baha_man 12y ago
"On an unrelated note, are there areas that use a [lʊv] pronunciation of "love" today? That might explain the to-me odd use of "lurve" in humor." According to http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/d
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by baha_man 12y ago
There's actually more useful information in the Independent article submitted previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8281741
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by baha_man 12y ago
Well, perhaps a hole in one is a bigger deal for amateurs, so they are more likely to honour the tradition. The article give the odds of getting a hole in one as 7,500 to 1 for a pro and 12,500 for an amateur, which doesn't seem like a
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by baha_man 12y ago
Surely betting on yourself to win is fine?
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by baha_man 12y ago
I would guess the main reason is that it would be too gruesome for anyone watching the execution. Also, decapitation seems almost like desecrating the condemned person's corpse, which might be considered a cruel and unusual punishment
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by baha_man 12y ago
Or Chocolatey: http://chocolatey.org/packages/paint.net/
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by baha_man 12y ago
Surely the diesel and oil could be removed very easily? Anyway, this comment on the article you reference is interesting: "The truth is somewhere in between, if the JCB's were mini diggers and secondhand it would make economic sen
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by baha_man 12y ago
From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium ): "In game theory, the Nash equilibrium is a solution concept of a non-cooperative game involving two or more players, in which each player is assumed
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by baha_man 12y ago
i) "Isn't it a winner/loser pair for each game?" Yes, if both players chose the same side, the 'matcher' wins. If they chose different sides, the 'mismatcher' wins. "How can a pair "outperfo
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by baha_man 12y ago
No they didn't: "The most common explanation for why fancy hotels charge for wifi is that their customers are not sensitive to price: rich customers, especially business travelers who charge everything to the company, don’t care a
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by baha_man 12y ago
"...the growing interest has partly been caused by genealogist who were initially studying the genome of e.g. humans..." Do you mean geneticist rather than genealogist?
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by baha_man 12y ago
"I wanted to tell you about his private-eye trick, which he learned from a hard-bitten partner. It wasn’t a blackjack-, brass knuckles-type thing. “It went like this,” Morris explained. “He’d knock on a door, sometimes of someone not e
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The return of the dimpled pint glass(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by baha_man 12y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 12y ago
http://www.floattheturn.com/dictionary.php?word=d&page=3 "Degenerate, often simply 'degen,' is a well-known appelation for players who behave in a self-destructive manner away from the poker table."
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by baha_man 12y ago
Small typo on this page: https://www.truckplease.com/how-it-works "TruckPlease doesn’t employee anyone..."
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by baha_man 13y ago
Yes, definitely silent.
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by baha_man 13y ago
"For future reference you can compile VS projects from the command line if you want using MSBuild, that's all building in VS does." Not necessarily true, I believe some versions of Visual Studio have their own compiler which
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by baha_man 13y ago
"80% of the population is not normally the same as 80% of households." Sure, but I was surprised by how low the figure was. I would have expected it to be more like 90-95%.
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by baha_man 13y ago
"Overall ownership of kettles has declined from 83 per cent of the population in 2008 to 78 per cent in 2012." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262020/Humble-kettl...
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by baha_man 13y ago
"Answer a survey question to continue reading this content..." Flagged.
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by baha_man 13y ago
"Amusingly enough, Stack Overflow still has a (broken) Clickpass button on its login page." Where? I can't see it.

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