tossaway1

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by tossaway1 8y ago
0.016%, not 1.6%
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by tossaway1 8y ago
> The backwards-compatibility is probably an institutional thing. And the apparent routing of all bug reports and feature requests to /dev/null -- er, the recycling bin -- certainly seems to be an institutional thing. I have no
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by tossaway1 8y ago
Unemployment numbers in the US don't include students.
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by tossaway1 8y ago
> The first is an actual prize for scientist works This article is about the Nobel prize for literature .
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by tossaway1 8y ago
Did you forget in the past 7 hours that already posted this to this thread...?
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by tossaway1 8y ago
The article addresses this: Of course, if you don’t have a DVD burner (remember, this was a while back — these days you’d use a USB drive), you’d have to get one from a friend who has one, a licensed refurbisher, or your manufacturer (for
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by tossaway1 8y ago
What makes you say it's weird and different? Match.com lets you filter by ethnicity and faith...
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by tossaway1 8y ago
Well, if it's being marketed to an English speaking audience, they will need to consider whether the name has negative connotations regardless of where it originated. American companies have to be sensitive to this when expanding into
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by tossaway1 9y ago
> Couldn't they obtain a 7khz tone by mixing any two tones seperated by 7khz and applying a low-pass filter? I don't understand this comment. Are you implying that a low-pass filter would shift the frequencies of part of the si
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by tossaway1 9y ago
> Toys 'r' us is amazing for kids - but go back as an adult. It kind of sounds like you're agreeing with the GP. Kids love mountains of cheap plastic crap so for them it can be exciting even if parents detest it...
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by tossaway1 9y ago
Ambulances do a lot more than transport patients. It's already the case that you can usually get someone to the hospital faster than waiting for an ambulance. Typically if you're using an ambulance you're going to need someon
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by tossaway1 9y ago
>I have consistently done better retail interesting on individual stock than my IRA well ever do Your comment doesn't make sense to me. Don't IRAs allow for investing in individual stocks...?
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by tossaway1 9y ago
> If natural light matters, shift society to do everything earlier! Shift society so we can have the shortest shadows closer to noon than 1? No thanks. Depending on where you're located in your time zone, DST might actually put the
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by tossaway1 9y ago
I think opensourcenews was just pointing out that "is" (in the article title) is more absolutist than "can be".
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by tossaway1 9y ago
I assune you can patent part of an overall process (certainly that's the case in virtually all software patents), which could be a way to prevent others from replicating your process without explaining the whole thing, no?
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by tossaway1 9y ago
I didn't criticize kids for their naivete. I was pointing out that I don't think that sort of naivete is something to aspire to. If a kid breaks something because they didn't think through the foreseeable consequences, I don&
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by tossaway1 9y ago
I don't avoid those things because of social pressure. I don't try random doorknobs because I wouldn't want people intruding on my space if I happened to leave a door unlocked by accident -- the fact that kids (and some adult
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by tossaway1 9y ago
Are you sure about that? Is that the Chicago crash your talking about? The reports I was able to find indicate that the investigation did proceed but there was limited communication to the public about it because the office was closed.
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by tossaway1 9y ago
Well of course it sounds ridiculous when you use an absurd analogy. A more reasonable analogy was something like muscle fatigue, or even mental fatigue, and it seems reasonable to believe that willpower can be depleted in a similar way. In
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by tossaway1 9y ago
I thought he faded away... (?)
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by tossaway1 9y ago
I'm gonna do the same but sell when it gets to 10x. Have fun being half as rich as me!
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by tossaway1 9y ago
"staff this week told salary payments will be delayed until February 10, 2018" For real?? What sane person would continue working for them at this point? Might as well say February 10, 2028...
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by tossaway1 9y ago
Your level of exposure to science fairs and debates sounds about the same as mine (an American). Yet we still know what they are from media portrayals, etc. I think that was fastball's point.
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by tossaway1 9y ago
I thought the responses in the Facebook thread were the most interesting/disturbing part of the submission...
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by tossaway1 9y ago
Edgar forgot the comma that was mandated to appear between his state and country.
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by tossaway1 9y ago
I commute 60 minutes each way (give or take depending on traffic). I wish the commute was shorter but I personally wouldn't work from home regularly even though I technically could. Between a chatty wife, active kids, and unfinished pr
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by tossaway1 9y ago
Maybe you're already aware of this but being in a gilded age would not be a good thing. The gilded age described a society where serious problems were masked by a thin veneer of gold.
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by tossaway1 9y ago
Copyright does have a time limit. In the US, I believe the work just had to be older than Steamboat Willie.
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by tossaway1 9y ago
Doesn't look like Greenspun has any affiliation with Harvard. They just host his blog for some reason.
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by tossaway1 9y ago
I think they have to be better than you in something you care about (or aspire to be better at) for it to matter to you. Seems like you're overcomplicating this... :-)

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