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751.
by DrScump 8y ago
I emailed the mods.
752.
by DrScump 8y ago
The article is a meandering and muddles I agree... so I was surprised to read at the bottom: "John Herrman is a technology reporter for The Times."
753.
by DrScump 8y ago
You can list for a high-end price and use the "best offer" feature to capture lower offers.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Because eBay own PayPal Not anymore.
755.
by DrScump 8y ago
A seller banned for counterfeit sunglasses hasn’t lost any rights, just his ability to use eBay. That's a crock. eBay has defended the sale of all kinds of counterfeit fashion items. Even if they shut off an account, the sel
756.
by DrScump 8y ago
...revealing everyone’s max bid limit, then cancelling the bid It's deliberate and common. This is why I, as most sellers, do only fixed-price listings anymore.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Their UI is so bad, they have to use a phony mockup app in their TV commercials. Watch the commercials where a woman sees a fashion item on the street and then buys it on eBay. Just try doing anything like that on the actual site.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Chrichton wrote the screenplay.
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by DrScump 8y ago
I have to say that the book never grabbed me the way the movie did. Really? I read the book first. I was profoundly disappointed in the movie. I was angered by how artificial and contrived the deviations from the book were.
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by DrScump 8y ago
decreased body fat (down 3% from 14% to 11%) A decrease from 14%BF to 11%BF is a decrease of over 20% , not 3%. Three percentage points is not 3%, unless the base is 100. But what's really distracting is the basic terminolog
761.
by DrScump 8y ago
I'm not sure how this doesn't qualify as unlimited local calling? It just depends on how one defines "local". Nowadays, people assume your entire country at a minimum. 15 years ago, it was 10 miles or so. It w
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by DrScump 8y ago
Not so long at all. Into this century in California, at least, your Pacific Bell local calling area was something like 8 miles, and your "free" area was the collection of prefixes for which the nearest point for each prefix was wi
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Creative Airline Passenger Safety Videos from Around the World(youtube.com)
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764.
by DrScump 8y ago
Stopping the importation of slaves did not stop the growth of slavery by itself. Those born of chattel slaves became slaves themselves from birth.
765.
by DrScump 8y ago
Nobody hit a ball through his windshield?
766.
by DrScump 8y ago
COBOL was never "hip". It existed to do work, not to excite or entertain. It's the parcel van of languages -- not a Tesla, nor even an SUV. But for a lot of needs over the past 50 years(!), that parcel van does a reliable job
767.
by DrScump 8y ago
... on the Bay side of 101. Only two roads get you over 101, and they are jammed during commute hours.
768.
by DrScump 8y ago
"Update, 2:50 p.m.: Friends, in our eagerness to find a spark of joy on the internet, we’ve all been had. "
769.
by DrScump 8y ago
The blockchain boom suggests we don’t trust the foundations of our financial system. No, a mistrust of the financial system would result in precious metals and other extra-systemic assets going up in price.
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by DrScump 8y ago
The article should have made clear that 6 of the 9 counts were dismissed and that this was a 3-judge panel ruling, not en banc .
771.
by DrScump 8y ago
If it's that straightforward, yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Oscar_Grant
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by DrScump 8y ago
Comments from a few days ago on a related but inferior article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17283330
773.
by DrScump 8y ago
At first, I thought this might be about the Cusco song of the same name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpPXh_dLESk
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by DrScump 8y ago
Do you mean that he was at Data General at the time? The subject of the book was the machine itself (the so-called "bag on the side of the Eclipse", IIRC).
775.
by DrScump 8y ago
If you can tell the renter did the action But you can't, without onboard video, anyway. Anybody wanting to steal or vandalize a scooter won't do so on one for which they are (or just were) an active renter. by locking
776.
by DrScump 8y ago
In Bay Area cities, most of the "crotchety old people" are "progressives". The non-"progressive" seniors bailed for other states.
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by DrScump 8y ago
In downtown San Jose, there was a hookah lounge and a large billiards space on the same block. Both failed. In contrast, the failed Borders across from AT&T Park became a bowling space.
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by DrScump 8y ago
You can also detect if... someone is screwing with the scooters after the fact with accelerometers How does that help you? You can't do anything about it.
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by DrScump 8y ago
I've never understood this idea of feeling humiliated at the gym I think it's a common insecurity, especially given the degree of body shaming in a society. Newbies need to be encouraged with the basic fact that generally
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by DrScump 8y ago
It's not an either/or. Both have different, if complementary, effects. Each primarily activates different muscle fiber types, each with its own metabolic benefits.

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