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by Strang 13y ago
It's not, and that's the problem. Printer ink prices and practices are universally reviled.
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by Strang 13y ago
HDMI is also very unreliable in my experience. The sound on my tv cuts out randomly whenever viewing an HDMI source. And my monitor occasionally blacks out for a few seconds. Sometimes it doesn't come back on, or only displays color
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by Strang 13y ago
I thought the exact same thing. This article seems to be reinforcing the idea of a gold phone as a shallow spectacle.
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by Strang 13y ago
What exactly is dismaying about the parent comment? You don't truly believe that the parent commenter believes it is "her own stupid fault that she died penniless of cancer," do you? Please open your mind a little and please
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by Strang 13y ago
Agreed. I thought "Paradigm: Yes" was hilarious, but the Perl row has a few errors. "Function Overloading" should be "N/A" for a language without subroutine signatures. Any Perl function can take any com
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by Strang 13y ago
Hmm, I guess I will degrade my account and flickr will lose a paying customer. Seems like most users either a) are resigned to seeing ads on every website or b) have installed an ad-blocker. I don't see how paying for ad removal can genera
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by Strang 13y ago
I am genuinely confused. I am currently a Pro user. I'm happy paying $25/year for what I get. Now, to get all the same benefits that I was getting for $25/year, I can just degrade to a free account? I guess this assumes that there are a
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by Strang 14y ago
Those graphs are terrible. Why bother comparing the USA's 95th-percentile prices to the average price of other countries? And why refuse to show any countries that are more expensive than the USA in any category? Very ham-fisted.
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by Strang 14y ago
Yes, we are. Britain is not perfect, but it does not deserve to be lumped in with China as a "repressive nation." In my opinion, this style of argument is not helpful. It reminds me of this quote: "To say that the CIA and the KGB engage i
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by Strang 14y ago
Yes, China is a "repressive nation." Especially when it comes to technology, e.g., "The Great Firewall." No, Britain is not a "repressive nation." The British government surely takes some repressive actions, but not to such a degree as to
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by Strang 14y ago
I don't think she is really whining; she's just using dry humor. And she is raising an important point, and one that keeps recurring with Google: what do you do when their automated processes are not enough? She should not have to edit Wiki
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by Strang 14y ago
Shawshank's message is "Enjoy the journey"? Andy's "journey" includes rape, beatings, and solitary confinement. I don't see how you can find that message in the movie.
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by Strang 14y ago
You make a very good point: between tariffs, subsidies, FDA and UDSA regulations, etc., the government has effectively shaped the US food industry into what it is today. However, that doesn't mean it would be a good idea to ban HFCS. But
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by Strang 14y ago
> next article we'll see a comment proclaiming how "Big Grocery" prices unhealthy foods too low, so now it's their fault. And here it comes: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01... This is a backhanded attack o
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by Strang 14y ago
Then whose boat was it, lawfully? You raise an interesting point, by the way. America is partly founded on the idea that laws do not create rights, but instead recognize natural rights. If this story is accurate and the DHS agent did not
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by Strang 14y ago
They absolutely did "steal" his boat, for some definition of the word "steal." The DHS agent will not be charged with theft or larceny. But he was in lawful possession of a boat, someone with a gun ordered him off the boat, and he is no lo
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by Strang 14y ago
They would no longer be able to sell it as a "straight bourbon." Cutting it with ethanol would create a "blended whiskey."
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by Strang 14y ago
Three reasons. 1) They aren't my photos, they are my family's photos. My wife has her own user account and needs just as much access as I do. I'm sure there is some sort of "sharing" solution, but then you lose the convenience of having o
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by Strang 14y ago
The federal government has no business in education. There is no feasible, informative way for a single organization to comprehensively evaluate the education of every K-12 student in America. Education should between a student, his parent
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by Strang 14y ago
I know this is only tangentially related, but this has always annoyed me in Windows. For example, "My Pictures" does not contain my pictures. My photos are in c:\photos. And it gets worse with every Windows release. The standard file dia
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by Strang 14y ago
Take a moment and ask yourself why you felt this was necessary. You are 1) missing out on a potentially useful resource and 2) exposing yourself as close-minded in response to a stranger's mention of his beliefs.
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by Strang 14y ago
Dear Colleague, Put the laptop/smartphone down. I'd rather you paid attention to the meeting instead of checking email/evernote/facebook. Even if you had the best intentions of taking notes for this meeting, I know how insidious notificat
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by Strang 14y ago
Is Rap Genius just a layer of fluff over a lyrics site? Are they using "commentary" and "criticism" of the lyrics to eke out a fair use claim?
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by Strang 14y ago
But the only reason that Constitutional justification is even required for the individual mandate is that we have a Tenth Amendment. Again, you only see the Tenth Amendment as a tautology because you take it for granted. There is no guara
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by Strang 14y ago
I don't see it as a new thing, depending on your definition of "new thing." I think the rolling back of federalism and the Tenth Amendment mostly dates to the beginning of the 20th century, with most of the heavy lifting handled by Wilson
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by Strang 14y ago
The Progressive movement's attempts to circumvent federalism date to the beginning of the 20th century, so you can hardly cite a 1941 case to defend your assertion. That was four years after FDR's court packing scheme and eight years after
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by Strang 14y ago
The Tenth Amendment is only now interpreted as a tautology for political convenience. The text reads: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respect
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by Strang 14y ago
> The reason women don't go into these fields is because of the misogynistic culture. That is quite an assertion. Surely you can see that there are many, many more factors than just this one, even if you discount "biological inclinatio