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by epi16 12y ago
Are letters taken more seriously than emails? That's good to know, thanks.
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by epi16 12y ago
I say the same thing every time I read a "slacktivism" post, but here we go again: if this is useless, what do I actually do to help? Seriously, I'm not posing this as rhetoric. I've already filed a fairly long, unique c
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by epi16 12y ago
This is a known problem with C's (and other functions in languages based off C's) "rand" function. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10984974/why-do-people-sa...
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by epi16 12y ago
That's a good point. That said, I still take objection to the tone of the article. The author didn't motivate his solution in the way you just did; it was more of a "this is the obvious solution, and I don't really care
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by epi16 12y ago
> I have rarely had anyone complain to me about my seat recline, and nobody has ever offered me money, or anything else of value, in exchange for sitting upright. I bet no one has ever made that offer. Saying that "oh, no one has of
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by epi16 12y ago
Well, putting aside the endless war between cars and bikes... Several of my friends who bike regularly (hasn't happened to me, thankfully) have been hit by cars while biking, even though they were following the law and had all manner o
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by epi16 12y ago
That's very different than being able to examine the source code and the data to see where everything is going. Also, though I'm not a rabid proponent of FOSS software, in this case, I would prefer to have many eyes on this code,
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by epi16 12y ago
I think you're placing too much emphasis on genetics. Genetics play a major role in determining the traits of an individual, but the way the individual was raised and the culture they grew up in also play a major role. The exact balanc
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by epi16 12y ago
Poor customer service? That would be enough for me, in the purely hypothetical scenario where I had a choice other than "no internet", "hook up an antenna to steal internet from the Starbucks down the street", or "C
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by epi16 12y ago
What were you trying to do? I don't understand your original post at all.
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by epi16 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand. It seems like you're implying that the two people would be moving away from each other faster than the speed of light, but I was under the impression that that's not the case. I thought that each pe
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by epi16 12y ago
From the abstract of the actual study: - "Cool" => "Pseudomature behavior—ranging from minor delinquency to precocious romantic involvement" - "Lose" => "Early adolescent pseudomature behavior predic