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by aardvarkious 18y ago
I didn't know how to swim efficiently: if you threw me in the pool, I wouldn't drown, and I could maybe do one continuous lap (50m) if I pushed myself.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
About commercials: I live in Canada, where the Olympics are broadcast by the CBC, which is a government-owned networks. I too was frustrated by there being commercials every two minutes. However, I got a stopwatch and timed how many commerc
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
Swimming also puts you in better shape IMO. I used to run plenty, but my knees started hurting, so now I only run if I am actually playing a sport. I took up swimming for my exercise. I'd never taken a swimming lesson in my life, but I just
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
The issue with targeted ads isn't the targeted ads, but the information collected and stored to generate them. AFAIK, Ad Block does nothing to help with this. Also notice that opting out likely doesn't help either.
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The Day the Routers Died...(youtube.com)
1 points by aardvarkious 18y ago|0 comments
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
In regards to the first paragraph: my mom has a sweet gadget I'm envious of. It is a sensor you attach to your electric metre (its a camera which reads how fast it spins) with a wireless monitor. The main feature of the monitor is how many
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
Sure, money brings stresses. However, it also eliminates many sources of misery. For example, a trip to the ER is only going to be stressful for health, not financial, reasons.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
Best advice I ever got: all money does is give you freedom (to do what you want and to get what you want). Therefore, it is absolutely pointless to give up freedom for money.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
It is kind of arbitrary, but unless your going to eliminate weight limits altogether, I don't really see how else you could do it.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
I didn't see anywhere that the early prototypes would be free to developers: just that they would get first dibs.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
They're also great for carrying around to meetings where you just want to jot down notes and not do any serious work on your computer.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
my possibly wrong understanding isn't that this is law, but that consumers boycott phones without this "feature"
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
I was looking at a sweet one that also allows you to enter a code. It hooked up to the internet and allowed you to program restrictions on codes. For example, if you had a maid come in regularly (wouldn't that be nice?), her code would only
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
I've never heard of that. Does it use the magnet to hold the door locked, or to unlock it? If the latter, what happens when power goes down or the battery runs out and you want to get in or out? If the former, what stops people from disrupt
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
I live in Calgary, Alberta. For a long, long, long time there has been a company doing the exact same thing between Calgary and Edmonton (a 3 hour drive). I love it- in fact, I take it instead of a plane: its more comfortable, and when you
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
One reason they might not be similar: Apple really is marketed to people with little computer skills- they are VERY user friendly as well as trendy. Presumably, an average person buying online would be [at least a little] more computer savv
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
If you want to play with numbers, the New York Times has an excellent tool: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/business/2007_BUYRENT_GRAP... It allows you to play with multiple variables and then tells you how many years you need to own a
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
Your right about college students, but not high school students. They have the largest disposable income of any age group. Many of them have jobs, many of them get given money by grandma/mom/pop/etc..., but very few of them need to spend mo
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
If you did have to pay (I realize this is hypothetical), what if they charged per article you read and you got a free read when you contributed? Or part of a free article when you edited. Would that help to keep it extensive?
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The best measurement of code quality(flickr.com)
1 points by aardvarkious 19y ago|0 comments
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by aardvarkious 19y ago
I wouldn't like that one bit. I know a fair bit about technology, but when it comes to most here I probably know diddly squat when it comes to programming. I'm a reddit refugee who finds quite a bit of the articles here interesting and is e
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13 Useful email addresses(forums.slickdeals.net)
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by aardvarkious 19y ago
Here is a link that lets you quickly ignore all non friend or group invites- I find it quite handy: http://www.ignoreall.com/ I don't mind being invited (not with that tool) but its annoying because every so often (its very rare) I actual