DrSprout

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by DrSprout 16y ago
You could start by making a rational argument instead of appealing to a cynical belief that everyone is irrational and intent on restricting freedom. The essence of the irrationality that pervades American political discourse is exactly tha
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by DrSprout 16y ago
those things are easy to obtain, but they are well-on near impossible to smuggle into the US without someone noticing.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
What you're missing is that nothing occurs in a vacuum. People don't like being associated with terrorists, especially not people helping immigrants across the border. If you go to Latin America, they're often even more bigoted than America
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by DrSprout 16y ago
This is a lot like how I became a vegetarian. One day I just stopped eating land-dwelling creatures. A couple weeks later I gave up seafood for Lent. Though I don't think I'll be going back. Unlike the shower experiment, what I discovered w
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Gizmodo did not buy the phone. They paid for the chance to look it over before turning it over to Apple, which they did once Apple told them it was Apple property.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Actually, it's less than that. It's your perception of the healer. In other words, people don't think skeptically about people they trust. Essentially a tautology, only confirming that those are the regions of the brain involved in skeptici
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I would like to see it get back to publishers at any rate. It would be extremely useful for authors.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>since not all windows can be minimized, maximized, or closed. This is one of the worst usability problems on the desktop. Granted, it doesn't show up in the "default configuration" but do a little thing like change the text size and th
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Seems to me they likely have the causality reversed. As your mental acuity decreases, your ability to properly care for your teeth decreases. You forget to brush as often as you should, and so you lose more teeth. Also your brushing effecti
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Ironic that we're reading this article from a bastion of "pay for high quality" and such is the quality we receive.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I just can't get over the casting for Universe. It's a cross between a CW soap and the CSI clone of the week.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
It's just the problem with the interface design paradigm that says a user should be able to do anything immediately without instruction. If you want to cache, you need to have an understanding of how the Internet works, so it's "too hard" f
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by DrSprout 16y ago
It looks a lot more like a distraction from how flimsy the reform is.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Unless they're active colonizers, moving from solar system to solar system consuming all available resources, I don't see why we would want to fear them. Assuming they are, if anything they would avoid solar systems that might have active d
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Completely false dichotomy. Deep sea drilling, while an important part of world production, is not essential, and certainly in no way necessary for spaceflight. Furthermore, spaceflight's biggest disasters are roughly on the scale of plane
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>All industry efforts must b employed I'm honestly not sure whether she's just talking about cleanup or about further drilling.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Myspace is trashy. That's all there is to it. They gave everyone full ability to do whatever they want with their pages, and ordinary people make terrible design decisions. Facebook gave everyone a standard template and told them they weren
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by DrSprout 16y ago
If this is legit, Apple almost certainly owns some of the patents involved, even if they're not the instigator.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
The latest version of the enterprise trash I develop for replaced a mid-90's Win32 GUI with Silverlight running in a browser... leaving intact the Java database connection code. When I installed it on my machine I had to reinstall Java befo
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>This is a reboot of PHP, like the reboot of Star Trek. So it's going to be a cotton-candy superficial take on a language with a deep and active user base that basically ends up making it no different from every other language of the mo
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by DrSprout 16y ago
My Droid is actually faster than I need it to be. I just want a notebook. Literally, a device that is useful for taking notes and general writing. This thing is beautiful, but it's twice as powerful as my Droid, and I really don't need that
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Packaging systems and their associated programming languages / APIs. Like Android .apk files, Apple .dmg files, Microsoft's .msi. All open and usable by anyone who wants to build one (though some fees may apply.)
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by DrSprout 16y ago
With WinMo 7 all apps must be coded in Silverlight, and there is no native development. This might be okay if they weren't using IE7 as the basis for the WinMo 7 browser.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Alton Brown's explanation on Good Eats of how to get good frozen strawberries effectively said that if you freeze them slowly, you get jagged ice crystals which slice membranes and cause them to turn to mush when you defrost. If you do it q
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by DrSprout 16y ago
The majority of them are Linux-based, and all of them make heavy use of the same web technologies for the primary part of the user experience. The exception is WinMo, but I can't believe that they're going to last long at all with IE7 as th
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by DrSprout 16y ago
It's clear in context (and you've again taken the quote out of context) that he's referring to edge cases, like where a 16 year old was prosecuted for having sex with a 13 year old, and so on.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Any consideration for toxicity? I can't imagine plastic baggies are designed to keep food safe for human consumption when you heat them enough to cook meat.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Trade secret and top secret are two very different things. In any case, while it is possible that the loss of such a prototype could have devastating implications for a company, it seems pretty clear that this publication was not a serious
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>Furthermore, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (the federal appellate court for California and the surrounding states) in its 2009 opinion in United States v. Comprehensive Drug Testing Inc., 579 F.3d 989 (9th Cir. 2009), identified a
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by DrSprout 16y ago
You actually need to eat a lot of salt to survive, so it's much more of a trick than adding salt. MSG is not an essential nutrient that you need in any quantity, so using it is a trick to make your body think you're being well nourished w

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