Goronmon

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by Goronmon 12y ago
(I suspect the complex helmets and padding are actually the cause of brutality and concussions in football because the players use the padding as a weapon and as justification to go to physical extremes they would not dare try without thei
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by Goronmon 12y ago
If you want to avoid ads and bundled spyware, better to use up-to-date FOSS instead of years-old unsupported versions of uTorrent. Why is it better to use up-to-date FOSS if the older version of uTorrent works fine (better even, in my exp
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by Goronmon 12y ago
You claim it's histrionics, but it might be real things she is feeling. What if she really felt this way? Her feelings being real don't make them acceptable or reasonable. Take the below example. http://reason.com&#x2
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by Goronmon 12y ago
Card: Get out wallet, put card in machine, wait 10 seconds for authorization (I'm in Switzerland - their terminals take longer), sign receipt. I hate signing. I am finding more and more that I don't have to actually sign anythin
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by Goronmon 12y ago
That's a nice video streaming service you have there. It would be a shame if it were to suffer from sudden 'congestion' issues.
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by Goronmon 12y ago
The biggest problem is that gamification tends to provide incentives to improve your efficiency in affecting the "game" portion, to the detriment of the actual thing being scored. As the game becomes more popular, the game becomes
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by Goronmon 12y ago
I'm actually struggling to recall the last time I followed a link to a StackOverflow question where the question wasn't closed for some reason or another. It's gotten to the point where it feels like the only goal of the site
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by Goronmon 12y ago
Chrome on Android simply punts you to the Play Store app This isn't true at all. Edit: It's interesting that you shout about coordinated anti-Google sentiment, then put forth obvious falsehoods in your posts.
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by Goronmon 12y ago
Call me a dick if you like, but I'd love the web to contain a little middleground between mindless listicles and sentences like... And I'd love the web if people could provide criticism without overwhelming amounts of sarcasm an
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by Goronmon 12y ago
Your impression lines up pretty closely with mine. My strongest memory of my time in Houston is how much driving we did to get places.
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by Goronmon 12y ago
I don't understand how someone can drive but not know basic car maintenance It's easy. Did the car start? If yes, drive it. If no, take (tow) it to get fixed. Is the car making funny noises or is some form of warning light poppi
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by Goronmon 12y ago
The carrot is that companies pay the politicians. The stick is that the companies stop paying the politicians.
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by Goronmon 12y ago
Sports aren't a healthy part of society. They are games mean to occupy the less curious people of our culture so they don't get bored and dissatisfied with their existence. You could say the same thing of any form of entertainme
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by Goronmon 12y ago
That's nice. What other corporate products must I consume in order to be a validated member of your social caste? Whats funny is that you could actually bring up this topic with fans of mainstream sports (especially for the NFL) and
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by Goronmon 12y ago
Isn't the argument of the students in the article effectively that they were expected to apply knowledge they weren't taught to solve a new problem?
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by Goronmon 12y ago
But it's certainly not a good, modern regulatory infrastructure. Of course not, but then again, is that even realistically possible these days? Serious question.
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by Goronmon 12y ago
the fact of the matter is that there was a not-unlikely chance (according to the models) that NYC, Boston, and other cities could have seen crippling snowfall. They were able to prepare for that eventuality. That it didn't come to pas
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by Goronmon 12y ago
It's not my job to cater to special snowflake syndrome. I'm just going to assume this was done on purpose.
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by Goronmon 12y ago
As opposed to what they've been doing until now..? My interpretation is that Windows 10 will by the last 'version' of Windows, in other words, that there won't be a Windows 11. So, for as long as you own the device, Wi
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by Goronmon 12y ago
Probably one of those situations where the city can't afford to have people fighting smaller fines regularly, so they try to discourage people from doing so.
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by Goronmon 12y ago
I'm not afraid that any of the providers where I have bought things gets hacked, because my identity and payment details is not kept by them. Aren't you just trading the risk of the merchant being hacked and stealing payment det
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by Goronmon 12y ago
Are you claiming that someone or something is forcing you to visit certain websites?
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by Goronmon 12y ago
The author has no lordship over my computer or my mailbox. I can toss out junk mail. I can even more easily program my computer to toss out ads. Programmability is a very natural feature of a computer, so why not use it? My home, my comput
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by Goronmon 12y ago
It's really not though. It's basically a sign that he's an academic, and again, not a web developer.
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by Goronmon 12y ago
I honestly don't know how people stay teachers for more than a couple years in most places. The people who I know who are teachers not only get paid fairly poorly, they work 60-70 hour weeks, have less and less control over how they ar
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by Goronmon 12y ago
Got my Fire TV stick before Christmas (impulse purchase when it was available for $19). I find it to be a much more useful device in general. Actually being able to select apps/videos through a UI on-screen is much better than dealing
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by Goronmon 12y ago
I think he was just speaking metaphorically.
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by Goronmon 12y ago
Gold has no value whatsoever as well. You mean other than in jewelry and electronics? Even money has no value whatsoever. Money is a promise from a government to grant some goods or services. I think you are using a strange definition o
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by Goronmon 12y ago
I suspect that the time investments for "getting a Ph.D." versus "getting a job in industry" don't quite match up.
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by Goronmon 12y ago
I'm not sure how your point relates to the topic being discussed. Blizzard has kept WoW going strong for a decade, releasing expansions (not sequels) every two years. Diablo is on it's third iteration since debuting in 1996. These

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