heyitsnick

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by heyitsnick 11y ago
"1% may not sound like a lot, but it's more than the typical casino edge in a game of blackjack or slots." The house edge for slots games is anywhere from 2% to 15%+ and is one of the worst bets you can make in the casino. Bl
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
"I met a man on the street, he said he had two children. I asked him, is at least one of them a boy? He said yes. What's the probability both of them are boys?" This removes the whole ambiguity of why he would assert "at
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
I guess you're being purposefully obtuse? Hipster: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hipster Ism: highly active and well-understood suffix that means, among other things: "manner of action or behavior
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
Having following this story since July, it was almost certainly an inside job and the perpetrator had access to the rooms (cleaner or other staff).
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
Agree, but you're only criticising the submitter, not EFF. There's no mention of "2x matching" on the page; it only says "you receive a 2x powerup," which is accurate. There's no ambiguity and the page cle
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"Forest Made" Blockie.io on IndieGogo(indiegogo.com)
2 points by heyitsnick 13y ago|0 comments
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
Perhaps more accurately put, the " English language has no master." Many--perhaps most--European languages, do have prescriptivist masters. Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and dozens more. https://en.wiki
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
Poker
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
Nope, I meant irony. The word has multiple definitions. In its most popular - "the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect" - sarcasm is gi
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
It's funny, i so rarely browse reddit, but i somehow happened upon this story this week - i guess it came up in some kind of mega "what are you most ashamed of" thread or somesuch. Ultimately it was as GP described; a reddito
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
If anything, the woosh would be for you. I'm sure conductor understood the irony of the statement.
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
"Based on my training and experience" seems like boilerplate for whenever a supposition is introduced.
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
Minor nitpick: Very often editors pick the click-baity titles, not those writing the articles.
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
I'd love to know what the use-case is for a page with 6000 form items!
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
Thanks, that clarifies a lot. Different worlds.
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
Good point :) Grocery shopping is such a small part, maybe 5%; going out to eat once or twice a week would be part of recreation budget.
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
A 4x factor sure sounds very high, though maybe the costs in SF (or in the US in general) are different to my own;from my experience over the last 6 years, living in a variety of setups in different cities in Europe, I spend 50-60% of my mo
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
If memory serves, this will install it side-by-side with existing install, whereas doing it in-app upgrades (windows). Could be wrong though.
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
I see it as common marketing strategy. It's all about shifting the conversation from "do I really need an incremental smartphone upgrade?" to "are you getting the gold or sticking with white?" I realise its signifi
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
I've tried a lot of IDE's for python development in the past and always went back to a basic text editor; the extra features never outweighed the bloat. But then i found PyCharm and never looked back. I feel i develop at least 50%
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
The first time I saw this was Human Planet, in an episode about Kazakh hunters training Golden Eagles to hunt foxes for them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y3Dl0BGFfw The extras part of the documentary includes a behind-
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
I see there's lots of insightful comments here from "digital nomads." Are there any good forums or communities online where you congregate to discuss these issues?
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
> So you might say you allocate additional "privilege" to this subset of the population's opinions? Not in the slightest. I checked the definition of "privilege" - a special right, immunity - and I have no idea
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
I do not think the opinion of a person who works with computers for a living has a more privileged opinion than anyone else. I do, however, enjoy coming here very day and reading the opinions of that subset of the population. That's wh
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Researchers reverse-engineer the Dropbox client: What it means(techrepublic.com)
147 points by heyitsnick 13y ago|45 comments
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Kent businessman jailed for seven years over fake bomb detectors(theguardian.com)
1 points by heyitsnick 13y ago|0 comments
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
What are you using for stripping the content from the links?
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
And, according to Greenwald, there's a lot more to come. From the comments: "There are thousands upon thousands of documents and they take time to read, process, vet, and report. These are very complex matters..... there is a lot
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
They partnered with bwin.party for RMG both for their poker and casino products.
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by heyitsnick 13y ago
>"Subscribing in the first place" almost always consists of forgetting to uncheck the "default opt-in" Citation needed. Mail Chimp strongly recommends double-opt in, I think it's the default. I very much doubt it

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