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by D-Coder 6y ago
They weren't watching _every_ customer _all the time_, were they?
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Okay... why _don't_ they just make hips out of bone, and why _can't_ you just wrap LEDs in blue film?
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by D-Coder 6y ago
I hate to get political, but perhaps some of this is due to certain parties that always want to reduce taxes, or to even pay for collecting those taxes...
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Car alarms should go off inside the car.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
It's about 10% larger than an Imperial assload.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
"The first successful experiment happened on December 16th. I remember the date. It was the birthday of Cynthia, my former wife from Kansas City, who had encouraged me to write fiction and bore us two fine sons. I had strayed from Cynt
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by D-Coder 6y ago
This assumes that every single intelligent species fails this way. We only need one that is smart enough or lucky enough to avoid this problem. Similarly for other problems that can block interstellar travel (bureaucracy, nuking themsel
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by D-Coder 6y ago
The article is about bison and mammoths... don't think they are getting funeral rites regardless of gender.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Because an object's colour is more likely to be a permanent, intrinsict part of the object; its age is going to change (all the time!).
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by D-Coder 6y ago
but it helps
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Heart disease is not contagious and spreading exponentially.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Use the One-Joke Mensa Test: "Did you hear the one about the cannibal who passed his friend in the street?"
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by D-Coder 6y ago
"Procrastinate later — there's always tomorrow!"
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by D-Coder 6y ago
> The phone company isn't allowed to block you because you said something politically incorrect to my friends and tech companies should be no different. The phone company normally connects two people at a time. That's not a pub
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by D-Coder 6y ago
"I continue to regard the decision of Twitter and Facebook to block and suppress the ability to disseminate The New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s laptop as one of the most shocking and alarming events of the last four years: politi
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by D-Coder 6y ago
I read it. How does this article even make sense?
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by D-Coder 6y ago
The web site does at least include chapter titles: CHAPTERS — SALES OBJECTIONS • Just send an email, I will look at your offer • Similar product is cheaper in your competitor • It will be hard job to switch to your product • There is a cris
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by D-Coder 6y ago
I think he means that a lot of pure-spam emails include an unsubscribe link that actually proves to the spammer that they've reached a live person, and then they'll resell your address to everyone. It can be difficult to tell if i
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Panix.com has a feature that sidesteps that problem. It accepts any email address that looks like: hackernews@myname.users.panix.com, where you can customize "hackernews" to be a mailing list, company, or any text; and "mynam
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by D-Coder 6y ago
> Can you put the same person for all of your choices? No. That would invalidate your ballot. Unless you mean the degenerate case, where you only vote for one person.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
I did a similar thing with a Star Trek program many years ago. One of the commands (22? 23?) was to detonate the warp engines in the hope of taking the enemy with you. After hitting the wrong number once, I added a confirmation that present
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by D-Coder 6y ago
"Apple Doomed!" I have seen that headline every year since 1984. Every single year.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
No! Don't go there!
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by D-Coder 6y ago
It's a more effective strategy. They can only eat one human once. This way they can be parasites of a human for years. Remember, parasites: killing your host is generally a bad strategy.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Well, just check his username.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
MA ballot initiatives, if passed, become ordinary laws. The Legislature can modify or delete them, just like any other ordinary law. However since the people voted for it, the Legislature is generally reluctant to do that.
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by D-Coder 6y ago
> yeah you're going to need to provide a source for such a ridiculous claim. My grandmother has owned her house for much longer than that. Maybe not mortgages but this article from 2013: https://www.huffpost.com/entr
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Also see https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if... : "Trump’s state and national legal teams are already laying the groundwork for postelection maneuvers that would circumvent t
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by D-Coder 6y ago
"Perfection is usually expensive and frequently impossible. Settle for excellence."
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by D-Coder 6y ago
Cmd-tab shows the row of open applications, you can tab through them (or shift-tab to go backwards), OR mouse over and click whichever app you want. Cmd-backtick only cycles through the windows.

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