Afforess

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by Afforess 13y ago
Fuck you, Tom Wheeler. That is all.
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by Afforess 13y ago
The problem with Yahoo is that it doesn't really serve a purpose. I haven't been to the website in years, because there is nothing that it offers that fulfills some need. If I want to search, I use Google (or less likely Bing or D
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by Afforess 13y ago
What? You didn't take 1 in a million odds because? The challenge was free . I took the challenge (and lost). To dismiss the challenge because of the long odds is silly. You left a free lunch on the table.
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by Afforess 13y ago
I live nearby a older grandparent right now. I was over at her house a week ago. While I was there, she asked if I could help her change the light-bulbs in her garage. Actually, she could change them herself, she just didn't want to us
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by Afforess 13y ago
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it
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by Afforess 13y ago
Great post. However there is 1 great utility missing: Clover: Chrome-like tabs for your file explorer. No more having dozens of file windows up. Just one. http://ejie.me
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by Afforess 13y ago
They are not discontinuing it. It is simply not available for new purchasers. I imagine once the FDA is appeased it will return.
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by Afforess 13y ago
Your DNA is pretty much public domain anyway. You drop tons of it all over the place.
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by Afforess 13y ago
This seems to be the nuclear option. As a (now fortunate) previous purchaser of 23andme, I still have my health information. The information is really valuable, and considering the price ($99!) it is cheaper than a lot of standard medical e
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by Afforess 13y ago
No, that is pure FUD. 23andme provides a confidence assessment for the associations and risks. Here is a screenshot from their site: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49805/confidence.png
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by Afforess 13y ago
Agreed. From a business perspective Joylent's actions in this matter make no sense. Do they hope to gain sales from people impressed with their extreme name-calling? I for one will not be recommending them or using their services in th
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by Afforess 13y ago
Seems like you could create a startup to help other people do the same thing.
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by Afforess 13y ago
No, Satoshi would not say anything...
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by Afforess 13y ago
That sounds like every penny-stock investor ever.
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by Afforess 13y ago
Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful -Warren Buffet I'm not touching bitcoin while there is this kind of hype around it...
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by Afforess 13y ago
I would have mentioned the Jquery-UI built in autocomplete function... http://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/
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by Afforess 13y ago
Nope. I deleted it and I still login to stackoverflow just fine via Google.
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by Afforess 13y ago
Current agricultural practices are highly unsustainable. We are mere decades to depleting all groundwater aquifers in North America. Fertilizer pollutes most waterways. Pesticides are seeping into most groundwater in the central US. And you
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by Afforess 13y ago
Except the "glop", as you put it, is nutritionally healthy and McDonalds is not.
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by Afforess 13y ago
I guess this is just me, but I feel humble bundle lost their way a long time ago, when they started selling games with DRM and that we're not multiplatform. I stopped buying from them after that, and this store seems a continuation of
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by Afforess 13y ago
Not if you also offered a method to pay cash for the tickets. No discrimination then.
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by Afforess 13y ago
Given your username, I can't tell if serious or jest.
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by Afforess 13y ago
I know lots of people complain about Paypal being shitty for orders, but this is why I still prefer to use them. They have great consumer protections.
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by Afforess 13y ago
> All three inventors explicitly denied being Satoshi Nakamoto Obviously if the inventor was not a single person, but the result of a group effort, one could truthfully reply that they were not the inventor.
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by Afforess 13y ago
>Minecraft springs to mind. Minecraft is an example of a game at the right place, at the right time. Indie when indie was the hot new thing, 3d voxel, when gaming was tiring of FPS's, and cheaper than most console games. It is not a
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by Afforess 13y ago
This seems like a good example of where a website targeted for mobile interfaces would have been best.
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by Afforess 13y ago
> (Back in those days this is how programmers worked, there was no “agile” and “daily stand ups”, everyone understood that things take time. I miss those days very much) Hear, Hear! As much as I think Agile is an improvement over more m
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by Afforess 13y ago
> QWERTY is deeply, gut-wrenchingly broken. Source?
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by Afforess 13y ago
In addition: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/the-li...
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by Afforess 13y ago
> QWERTY was supposedly designed for typewriters to solve a very specific problem–to keep the types from jamming against each other. The most frequently used keys were placed apart from each other to prevent them from jamming. This resul

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