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by D9u 13y ago
I've never really been much of a Reddit fan so I rarely visit, but I've always liked reading the classified ads in my local newspaper, and Craigslist is infinitely better than my local daily newspaper, plus the ads are free. As fo
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I live in the USA, in a rural agricultural community, and there is still no electricity on my part of the road. Apparently the funds from the "Rural Electrification Program" were spent elsewhere. We got phone lines in during the 1
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I've been using clang/LLVM in my FreeBSD system for several months now, and I've noticed that clang builds faster than gcc, and I've not had any issues with reliability, so I don't see what the problem is here. Also
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The irony here is that we didn't have to do anything to fix this bug (well, we did have to rename an image file that had a vulgar name!). I don't think that it's the actual CSS, but rather the linked content which
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‘from a human one-on-one level to an institutional level.’ I fail to see how government vs a single individual can be construed as "a human one-on-one level."
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I was an early adopter of mobile web enabled devices (pre iPhone) and I remember my friends making fun of me for being so obsessed with the internet, to the point where I felt embarrassed and avoided (with great difficulty) using my web ena
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...some with hate you for it... I find that proofreading my writing helps to avoid such errors...
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Thanks for your comment, as I clearly had erroneous preconceived notions regarding this subject.
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All of the readings are skewed by air conditioned buildings.
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How are we to know what happens after death? If electrical energy is what constitutes brain activity, then what happens to that energy when death occurs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_law_of_thermodynamics What is
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>the NSA has nothing to do with domestic surveillance Have you not been reading the news? https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassid
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I'm honored to share my experiences here. While the initial expenses related to going off-grid may be exorbitant (to some) the resulting savings more than makes up for it, and you can always incrementally add to your system as finances
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This is a cool project, as I think a voice interface would be the ultimate in computing, something like in "2001, A Space Odyssey," or "Star Trek." I remember first playing with voice recognition and voice command on a P
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My neighborhood is under served by municipal utilities (No telephone, no electricity, no water, no sewage, no cable, no pavement,) so for water most here use rainwater catchment systems using above ground cisterns or pools for storage, and
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I live off-grid, and have done so for nearly 20 years, and I never needed indoor lighting during daylight hours. I also dislike the idea of poking holes in my roof, for any reason. I'm much more intersted in the gravity light which was
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6155556 http://blog.twistedcode.org/2008/03/customizing-your-bash-pr... http://www.bbs-software.com/blog/2013/08/03/%EF%A3%
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Isn't "true democracy" a form of civilized mob rule? Why should individual sovereignty be forfeit in favor of the group sovereignty that is democracy? East Germany was another "Democratic Republic," which didn'
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Disambiguation is called for in respect to what democracy actually is... http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democracy_vs_Republic Black's Law Dictionary says that the difference between a democracy and a republic
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You don't have to install it in order to use it. bash <(curl record.showterm.io) Records everything in that terminal until you exit, then gives you a URL to share.
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As the director of one of the world's most well funded intelligence agencies one would expect that Petraeus would have been properly versed in all manner of security precautions, as well as knowing how to conduct clandestine affairs wi
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If the Director of the CIA can't keep his email secure, what makes anyone think that their email is more secure than his?
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So... Can I still get the free snail mail for life? I don't have a twitter account, and I'm not going to register one just to get free snail mail for life... I hope that you can afford the postage, as I intend to embark on a mega
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You defend your own ad hominems with more ad hominems? How do you know that I am misinformed? I've read everything that I can get my hands on regarding this subject. Then you go on to confuse the sentiments of one Russian for the pol
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(Ad hominems?) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6178980 You're assuming that I haven't actually done my homework and am making an off-the-cuff statement based upon media exposure, when the facts of this matter
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"In such moments one feels pride with our country and regret over the course taken by United States -- a country betraying the principles it was once built on," Even Russians get it... Why don't more Americans get it?
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I LoL'd so much at this... I love it! That his bank failed to read the fine print, as so many of us do, yet signed the agreement anyway, is a hilarious case of poetic justice. This reminds me of the story here awhile back regarding s
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Obviously, the leaks are intended to justify the current trend of global surveillance. You should have heard the backlash against Biden for dropping the "ST6 killed bin Ladin" bomb in the press. People were saying that naming (a d
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I love (not!) the way people who were against domestic surveillance when the previous administration was caught doing it are now strangely quiet after the current administration admits to doing the same.
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Among my drinking buddies we have one inviolable and long standing rule: No discussions of religion or politics
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I dislike being limited to only 140 characters when trying to convey my thoughts and ideas, so I've never really been a fan of Twitter or tweeting... (as this comment illustrates)

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