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by int_handler 8y ago
It seems you fully consider cars to be an appliance. Today, manual cars aren't about efficiency. Manuals are about driver engagement and the feeling of connectedness with the car and with the road. You can think. of it as more of a lux
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by int_handler 8y ago
Driving a manual car isn't about efficiency. It is about driver engagement. Yes, you can row your own gears with paddle shifters, but no automatic will ever give you the same kind of engagement or connectedness with the car as a manual
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by int_handler 8y ago
While I agree with you that stories about the plight of the underprivileged are certainly underreported, I strongly disagree with you that most of the hype around this story is due to race. Face transplant is a very new, highly risky, and h
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by int_handler 8y ago
If you want to go that route, then you'll need to also remove the following instruments: * Ropes or any kind of cords that can be used for hanging * Blades of any kind (kitchen knives, scissors, box cutters, utility knives, etc.) * Any
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by int_handler 8y ago
Can you please elaborate on your reasoning?
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by int_handler 8y ago
Kindly do yourself a favor and re-read Zeller's last words in its entirety. While yes, his attacker's actions are utterly despicable, and the experience in no doubt has been more traumatizing to him than we could imagine. At the s
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by int_handler 8y ago
So you enjoy being on hold for long periods of time and having to deal with unhelpful customer service representatives?
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by int_handler 8y ago
I think people are missing the point that one of the reasons why Duplex exists is that there are many businesses such as restaurants that do not offer some kind of online service for booking or reserving a service, and the only interface th
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by int_handler 8y ago
Can you give some examples of popular apps that are not "a fucking pain to use?"
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by int_handler 8y ago
In his video he made for Magnasanti [0] (which I really recommend watching by the way), Oscala did mention that an earlier version of the city was in fact inspired by the Kowloon Walled City. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by int_handler 9y ago
If Waze's police and red light camera indications cause more people to comply the law while driving, isn't that already better than not having this feature at all?
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by int_handler 9y ago
> result is mass deaths and injury Do you have some hard evidence that shows that most traffic accidents are caused by people not complying with speed limits vs. people being inattentive, people under the influence of drugs or alcohol, p
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by int_handler 9y ago
There is a similar reason for why English swear words sound Germanic: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/06/swear-words-etymo...
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by int_handler 9y ago
It's not named after the sky. It's named after the God of the Sky, which doesn't bother me any more than other planetary bodies being named after deities of couriers, beauty, war, thunder, agriculture, ocean, the underworld,
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by int_handler 9y ago
Can we officially rename Uranus to Caelus? Uranus (more accurately, Ouranos) is a Greek god. Besides Earth, all the other planets are named after Roman gods, thus Uranus should be named Caelus to be consistent.
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by int_handler 9y ago
I believe mywittyname is specifically referring to the LinkedIn profile pages that are publicly visible without requiring a login and is not claiming that all LinkedIn's data is public. Thus, the question is why doesn't LinkedIn s
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by int_handler 9y ago
Or other parts of California with plenty of space such as the Central Valley. Unfortunately, similar to how homeowners don't want high-rise buildings in their neighborhood, companies do not want to build additional campuses or allow re
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by int_handler 9y ago
That's not a valid comparison. Different websites can and already charge different amounts of money for their services. However, we do not have Premium Luxury Highways where rich people can drive their Ferraris at 100 MPH while regular
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by int_handler 9y ago
> Liberal western politics are based on individual liberty and free will. > However, mainstream science maintains that we're neither individuals nor have free will. You are conflating government control and social interactions. L
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by int_handler 9y ago
To be fair, this is not the entirety of C++ but C++ following the Google C++ Style Guide, which limits use to a more manageable subset of the language. For instance, exceptions, which can be especially hairy in a language with manual memory
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by int_handler 9y ago
That makes sense. Thanks for explaining!
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by int_handler 9y ago
You bring up a good point that many people might not have realized: relying on the FCC to regulate solely without the backing of legislation will not result in the kind of long-term stable regulations and consumer protections that we are lo
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by int_handler 9y ago
Completely agree. I was wondering the same thing as I read this.
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by int_handler 10y ago
> This coding style is standard practice for Win32 API development. Do you have a public style guide that indicates this? I worked at Microsoft, and while there are teams that (very unfortunately) went with this "diamond" style
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by int_handler 10y ago
Similarly, our appendices, which are useless to begin with, occasionally decides to become infected, swell, and possibly burst, threatening our lives, just because biology a long time ago decided "this is the way to go."
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by int_handler 10y ago
Cool experiment, but holy Tour de France coding style Batman: https://github.com/NathanCastle/BootShellCredentialProvider/...
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by int_handler 10y ago
Please provide some evidence that the majority of Google X projects are "poorly done." Self-driving cars -> Not only has it become its own company (Waymo) but it also motivated many other companies to tackle the same problem an
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by int_handler 10y ago
Except Powershell isn't a real shell in the same way that cmd or any of the POSIX shells are. It's a REPL for a language running on the .NET VM. I'm neither a fan of the language nor having to wait several seconds due to the
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by int_handler 10y ago
Thank you, this is exactly what I am asking and verifies that the _poster_, not the author, came up with the "Aaron Swartz Redux" title and that the author did not describe himself as "the next Aaron Swartz." Excuse my p
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by int_handler 10y ago
Where is the evidence that this title was written by the author of the article rather than just the poster of the article?

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