VB6_Foreverr

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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
A further insight into the type of man OBL was. I heard BBC reporter John Simpson describe his one encounter with OBL which occurred in 1989 in Afghanistan during the war against the Soviets. Simpson was interviewing some Mujahadeen when OB
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
Someday google will have a streetview of the most wanted with his face blurred out
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
The best place to hide is the last place you'd be expected to. Also when you hear of cases like the man in Austria who kept his daughter captive in his cellar for years and of Phillip Garrido in California maybe people shouldn't be so quic
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
If the true odds are greater than 50% then you are more likely to win the bet than to lose it. So even if the odds given imply true odds far greater than 50% (ie poor odds) then you will still probably win money if you bet just 1 bet.
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
"Can I at least bring a tube of toothpaste with me when I travel now?" Only toothpaste, what about your shaving gear? Maybe we shouldn't have any security at all, it's so inconvenient.
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
The best strategy for this is to only do it for a limited period at large stakes so that your actual outcome is more likely to deviate from the expected outcome
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
The minute in football where most goals are scored is the 90th (because it is often as long as 5 mins long). I remember where someone laid at huge odds (in running) a horse after Tony McCoy fell off only for McCoy to get back up and win the
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
I wrote a program to calculate my kelly stakes based on supposed 'true' odds (ie no bookie overround) on English football matches. Maybe it would have worked out in the long run but I gave up owing to the effect it was having on my bank. I
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
"we're sorry but this video is not available in your area due to rights restrictions". There's money to be made from everything.
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
I am no math whiz but I did have one road to Damascus moment that helped me feel less daunted. Proofs of theorems can be very intimidating. With a lot of effort I might eventually be able to understand and reproduce a proof. However I'd thi
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
It's not even that, it's KISS for users
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
I'd love to work at somewhere like fogbugz. Is there anywhere like it that accepts crap programmers?
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
I bought an xbox and a game for it at the same time from amazon. The xbox was fine the game disk was defective. I contacted amazon via my account, got a call from a human in less than a half hour (mainly I'd say to confirm the xbox itself w
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
Sorry, should have seen discussions already about this topic including http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2490067
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
Yes but can you be sued for discriminating against lawyers?
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
What would be an interesting experiment would be no points and no name displayed. Let the comment rise or fall purely on its own merits rather than the rep of its author. It seems to me that some people need only to cough to get karma
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by VB6_Foreverr 15y ago
It's not just London or not just UK either, the teens love Blackberry where I live too
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by VB6_Foreverr 16y ago
Sorry for being OT but does MLB.TV have condensed games anymore?
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by VB6_Foreverr 16y ago
I visited IKEA for the first time last week. I guess having all the names of items in Swedish is officially viewed as a feature. I think it's a bug as it's easier to remember a name than a (bar-code) number or a word you cant pronounce. I n
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by VB6_Foreverr 16y ago
I never knew Android OS was derived from Linux. If android is suitable for tablets is it only a matter of time before ubuntu is squeezed from its already small desktop share?
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by VB6_Foreverr 16y ago
I must try that!
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by VB6_Foreverr 16y ago
huawei 845
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by VB6_Foreverr 16y ago
Point taken. What people should say is "it's easy" or "it's not difficult".
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by VB6_Foreverr 16y ago
I just got a cheap android smartphone for the equivalent of $100. I was afraid it might be crappy but I'm delighted with it. It has resistive rather than capacitative touch which aparently is not as good but you then don't miss what you nev
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by VB6_Foreverr 16y ago
Why do people use this tired old cliche. Surely it's not heisenberg debugging to come up with something other than rocket science (or brain surgery?)
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by VB6_Foreverr 16y ago
Cletus got 418 of you with this one
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by VB6_Foreverr 16y ago
There is another memory technique where each item is like a member of a linked list. Say you have to remember bread, milk and sugar. So you imagine a loaf of bread that when you cut a slice off a cascade of milk comes gushing out and topple
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by VB6_Foreverr 16y ago
LOL! Didn't get that at first. A restaurant with tables for 1 only reminds me of a classroom full of new boys. Make eye contact at your peril.
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by VB6_Foreverr 16y ago
Their second product could be extortion of their first product's customers. Synergy!
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by VB6_Foreverr 16y ago
Thanks for the explanation, I appreciate it

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