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by BorgHunter 10y ago
> In fact, all of the U.S. airlines (Delta, United, American, and smaller ones) either sold or parked all of their jumbos. This is not true quite yet, although it will be true in a couple years. United and Delta still operate a handful o
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
about:robots is still around, too. That one seems unchanged from when it was first introduced, including using the older style of Firefox error page.
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
This is the exact kind of thing I'd love to see more of. I would still call it a road, though, if it can support limited vehicular traffic. "Pedestrian road", maybe. It's a good point, though, that you can support the us
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
> Light rail is incredibly efficient, and in a system where you are designing the city first, I'd forgo roads entirely. While I'm a firm believer that private cars (at least at a scale seen in the U.S.) and dense cities are fun
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
My girlfriend does a similar thing with Siri. As a result, a lot of the reminders she creates on her iPhone end in "thank you". She's well aware it's a program and not a human being; I think, in her case, something about
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
Even if the noise problem has been fixed, supersonic travel has another huge problem: Fuel consumption. Concorde positively guzzled fuel compared to the jets of its day, and this (among other things) made it uneconomical to operate. The aut
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
A couple weeks ago I got a "please come back"-type email from Duolingo with an identical image, but a more mundane message. Subject of the email is "We miss you!" https://imgur.com/FOJubnI
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
Nokia was doomed before Elop took over. Kallasvuo was CEO when Apple released the first iPhone, and Kallasvuo was the one who decided that Nokia's existing offerings were good enough to compete, just keep minorly refining things every
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
I think that figure likely includes all contributions, not just questions. I took this same class in Summer 2015, and there are 1036 posts[0] and 11074 contributions[1] on the online forum for that class. The number of students is similar (
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
Another take on the same theme: http://www.howtospotapsychopath.com/2009/05/21/a-surprisingl...
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
It really depends on the route. Personally, I live in Chicago, which means I have lots of options going to midsized and large airports, and prices can be very competitive.⁰ Small airports are often served only by one of the three airlines w
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
My family all has Amazon wish lists for exactly this issue, in fact. Before Amazon was popular, we all posted wish lists on a closet door in my grandmother's house, and we either went in the den to look at them or called her and asked
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
The idea that "online classes" are the bullshit, easy-credit classes is false. When I was doing my undergrad years ago I took one class, statistics, online because of a scheduling conflict. The only way my experience differed from
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
But that isn't how it is. Someone who says "um" a lot while speaking doesn't sound stupid. They're grating, to many in the audience, but that doesn't reflect on the speaker's ability (except, obviously
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
What's wrong with, "As a listener, it's very distracting; moreso than you might think. You need to kick that habit to be an effective public speaker."? It's entirely possible to be candid without putting another p
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
One person's gimmick is another person's killer feature. Say what you will about the usefulness of the convertible nature of the Surface Book, but it is thoroughly and competently engineered (unlike some other entries in this spac
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
You haven't really qualified "piece of garbage", so I have no idea what actually happened, but I will note that charger manufacturers have pulled some bait-and-switch tactics in the past. I bought a battery charger based on a
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
It's pretty common to need to do something to your user object if it does exist. As a toy example, it's far better to have something like (using Scala syntax here): def getUserGreeting(userDao: UserDAO)(username: String): St
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
My point was simply never to underestimate the ingenuity of clever people working on something cool. If something cool is possible, then no matter how impractical there's probably someone out there interested and dedicated enough to ma
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
> Second, The likihood that anyone has the time and energy to go and build ECU software and flash it into their car is low. I don't think this is true. There are plenty of enthusiasts who already do exactly this kind of thing. A fri
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
No worries! "Internal combustion engines" might be the best phrase to use, then.
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
The technical debt of petrol engines is not relevant to this article: > The allegations cover roughly 482,000 diesel passenger cars sold in the United States since 2009.
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
It seems to depend on the totality of the circumstances, in Illinois, so I'd imagine the nonvoluntary nature of the termination would be taken into account. But there doesn't seem to be a clear answer. If it ended up in litigation
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
This depends on one's jurisdiction, in the U.S. at least. For example, in Illinois, non-competes are generally enforceable.[0] In California, they are generally not.[1] [0] http://www.isba.org/ibj/2012/01&#x2F
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
I think the point is that the word "girl" infantilizes the women who put in a lot of work and effort to the project.
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
A better analogy would be jitneys, or perhaps airport shuttles that aren't restricted to the airport.
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
The article was moved from its original location to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wi... . Its edit history is intact there; click "View History" at the top there to see it.
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
NiMH cells are expensive compared to alkaline cells. A quick check on Amazon shows that, when buying a decent amount of AA cells at a time, alkalines go for about $0.28 each compared to $1.67 each for NiMH cells.[0][1] Add in a charger (and
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
The trucking industry (among many others) would be badly damaged if roads were not subsidized, and air travel would have similar issues if airports were not built and operated by local governments with the assistance of the FAA. However, tr
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by BorgHunter 11y ago
I've tried this with an old laptop and the site refused to let me download anything. It claimed, for Windows 7 at least, that you need a retail key; OEM keys are not supported and you must go through your OEM. Really obnoxious.

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