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by Anechoic 15y ago
> Air-condition after sunset? Maybe, but that's an edge case for sure. Not at all. Here in the northeast we run the A/C on occasion during the evenings at times in July and August. I can imagine that humid areas in the south run A/C at
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by Anechoic 15y ago
"Get the music blaring [...]" This piece of advice will get people fined (and possibly arrested) for violating noise ordinances in many municipalities. You're better off marching silently.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
If passengers had to pay fares commensurate with the true cost of the service, it would not be competitive. The same can be said about driving. I read a few months ago that all 50 states now receive more in highway funding than they pay o
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> but if I lived in a hurricane-prone area I would probably investigate it and consider it a cost of living there [..] those who choose to live in the safer areas of the country are essentially subsidizing the risks I assume by living
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by Anechoic 15y ago
Wouldn't this just invite retaliations in the form of a massive deluge of pro-SOPA television commercials ? There are a lot of folks who use Facebook/Google/Wikipedia, but I'd bet there are many more who watch TV, especially among the demog
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by Anechoic 15y ago
Google makes it very easy to leave and take your data with you. Google contributes as much of their internal software to the Free Software community as they can. They do need to make money, but they're trying to do it the old fashioned way
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by Anechoic 15y ago
While I'm just as annoyed as other frequent fliers in having to turn off my devices, it's not as simple as this article would have us believe - for example, it's not just power output, it's also the frequency of the radio emissions (do elec
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by Anechoic 15y ago
I think this might be an overreach - the GoDaddy boycott worked because there are plenty of alternatives. For much of the country (and my hometown) Comcast may be the only game in town for cable TV and they are almost certainly the only gam
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by Anechoic 15y ago
I've been seeing a lot of recommendations for NameCheap, but there is one thing that makes me hesitate: I get a staggering amount of spam from domains registered by NameCheap with the Whois info shielded by WhoisGuard. Yes, I've used thei
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by Anechoic 15y ago
At that point you may as well just attend your local community college or state institution.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
In the long run they can NOT justify to give those remote learners not a "real" MIT degree (and I am sure they know this). The remote learner won't be getting the same experience as the residential learner. If nothing else, the remote lea
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by Anechoic 15y ago
i still think football should be played on a grass (preferably muddy) field As someone who had football-related knee-reconstruction surgery, I respectfully disagree. Yeah, there's something nostalgic about 22 players slogging their way th
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by Anechoic 15y ago
What makes the shifts potentially groundbreaking is that major-league sports are famously technophobic. The NFL outlaws computers and PDAs on the sidelines, in the locker room and in press-box coaching booths within 90 minutes of kickoff.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> Our "strength" gives us the privilege to be drafted into wars and be generally disposable to the hazards of society. This isn't an example of privilege, it's patronization - it was a male-dominated society who declared that women we
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by Anechoic 15y ago
I wrote "football fans and Baywatch viewers aren't generally holding up their communities," IOW I was referring to fan/viewers, not the players, cheerleaders & actors/actresses themselves. (and I count myself as a rabid NFL fan)
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> How is this different/worse than having cheerleaders on the side of a football field? Or Baywatch? It's not, but (as mentioned in the article) football fans and Baywatch viewers aren't generally holding up their communities as beaco
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by Anechoic 15y ago
It's San Francisco, so between the hills and the traffic, an average of 43 minutes for 5.7 miles (~8mph) doesn't sound unreasonable.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> I would have absolutely hated that in school. Agreed. I was the smart kid on the high school football team, so I was tasked by the coach to tutor some of my lesser-performing teammates and it was an absolutely miserable experience.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> The one thing I always wonder about these stories is if they are true why haven't we in the United States been surpassed? According to one of my college professors (back in the '90s), the simple answer is "our colleges are better."
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by Anechoic 15y ago
I'm reminding of how one HN poster referred to John Dvorak as a "curmudgeon" and I responded that, essentially, JD was a troll: http://scripting.com/2006/06/09.html Gene Marks just trolled the internet yet again for dollars. Well played.
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Trolling The Internet With 'If I Were A Poor Black Kid'(forbes.com)
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by Anechoic 15y ago
To be honest, I don't know that this article is HN material (but I didn't flag it). That said, thank you for posting this. Poverty is not just something you can "The Secret" your way out of.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
edit: I can't respond to your response, so I'll post it here > have known more than one women who quit her job after being told she couldn't take a year off following childbirth and never known a man to do the same. I have also known f
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> Women often want to take more time off after having babies, scale back on work, etc. Men usually don't. Is there data or research to support this statement that women want to take more time off and (by implication) men don't want
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> Ok so you can't as an employer treat your [women] employees having babies as a life-changing [and work-productivity reducing] event Read the next section after the part you quoted - since the passage of the Family and Medical Leave
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> If men want to become nurses, then they will become nurses, if women want to become open source software developers they will become OSS developers. That's true only if there are no institutional or cultural barriers. From reading t
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> Stereotypes exist. Women like this. The specific problem she is addressing is that when a woman promulgates a stereotype about women, that makes it more believable (and acceptable) to men and, therefore, makes her life worse.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
I've known that women often complain about how uncomfortable mammograms are, but looking at the picture of the machine Xeni tweeted made me realize for the first time how medieval the procedure actually is. I've seen pics of women going thr
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by Anechoic 15y ago
Wouldn't the same be true of any diagnostic software?
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by Anechoic 15y ago
still I'm concerned that Apple would integrate a third party binary on its system Really? Based on the "Legal" section of my 3rd gen iPod touch, there appears to be a bunch of third-party binaries integrated into iOS.

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