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by abraae 9y ago
Sounds plausible. In rugby a goal is to always keep the ball in possession. When you are tackled, you try and feed the ball back to your own side, who are (ideally) close behind you in support. So yeah - yardage gain is somewhat meaningless
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by abraae 9y ago
Speaking as someone from a rugby-playing nation, where mostly players wear no protection except mouthguards and shin pads, American Football is spectacular but insane. Wearing protective helmets just ups the ante as players launch into each
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by abraae 9y ago
But when they eventually did, and proved that AWS had... targeted them.. then the financial penalties and the loss of confidence would cause enormous harm to AWS. Which is why AWS would never do this in the first place.
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by abraae 9y ago
Try reading Dr. Seuss's "Fox in socks" for a chore.
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by abraae 9y ago
The best thing is to appear like you are somewhat holding it together most of the time, but when pushed - when your temper flips on - that's when the big crazy comes out. That was more how Nixon used to play it. That's better than
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by abraae 9y ago
During the Vietnam war (or the American war, depending on your perspective) the North Vietnamese got very skilled at concealing artillery pieces, even inside caves, and then rolling them out, blasting off a few rounds, and whipping them awa
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by abraae 9y ago
If the world worked like this, then BigCorps would probably demand easy to use, intuitive payroll and ERP systems first. But exhibit A: SAP.
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by abraae 9y ago
There's an insoluble issue in that making permissions super granular - what you really need for good security - makes them unusable for Joe public, because he can't understand them. Heck, most people probably don't understand
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by abraae 9y ago
I guess I don't know what sort of scenarios you're alluding to. In the context of healthcare, universal healthcare means by definition that its available to everyone. But yes, unfortunate you if you get something that's not c
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by abraae 9y ago
I live in a country with universal healthcare and it works pretty well much of the time, so perhaps I don't have the same perspective as you. But some of your examples ring a little extreme. Do you really suggest "having a big fam
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by abraae 9y ago
Curious. I've read your comment several times and I can't work out where you're seeing racism. Is it the word clamshell? That just means something that opens and shuts in my circles.
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by abraae 9y ago
That made me snort my coffee.
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by abraae 9y ago
Such a great idea. It raises lots of questions (can I visit my space? pest control? etc.), but kudos to you.
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by abraae 9y ago
Cut down the trees and use their timber for building. Then repeat (trees grow to maturity in 15-25 years in my neck of the woods). Concrete-based construction is popular because it is easy, fast and cheap, but the hidden costs are the massi
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by abraae 9y ago
Ah, the delightful irony. Install a chrome extension to warn you if you get owned by a chrome extension.
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by abraae 9y ago
> You don't have to have every single American in the War of Independence to anti-British to talk about "the Americans had soured on 'taxation without representation' ", or demand that every single Briton be anti
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by abraae 9y ago
> Write an application on iOS or Android, and you are reusing vast amounts of OO code. Right on. So many passionate arguments amongst developers could be cut off at the pass if people simply accepted that in computing the answer is alway
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by abraae 9y ago
I'd posit that the majority of road warrior types know how to tether.
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by abraae 9y ago
Very insightful.
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by abraae 9y ago
Or, complying with the CIA's guidelines regarding capitalization: "On writing".
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by abraae 9y ago
Or they could have let someone else take all of the "glasshole" flak, then arrived after that with a trusted, safe, Google product that addressed the concerns. As they say, you can spot the pioneers because they're the ones w
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by abraae 9y ago
My apologies, I hadn't thought through my comment, and did not until I read your response. My thoughts were completely out of line and I was wrong.
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by abraae 9y ago
The point under discussion was the effect of endurance exercise, not exercise generally.
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by abraae 9y ago
Not intended to support the parent's assertions, but it has been established that endurance exercise increases the propensity for Atrial Fibrillation, a potentially dangerous arrhythmia of the heart. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih
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by abraae 9y ago
It also looks weird when I see that the article lives on the vendor's own web site. There's no way Atlassian would title it like that.
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by abraae 9y ago
> Hand pollination is possible, of course You must be kidding. I can't think of many things that would less possible to do by hand. We have 10 acres which is mostly in manuka (i.e. manuka honey), spaced a metre apart from each other
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by abraae 9y ago
I always use normalization/database design as an interview question. I firmly believe that good questions about database design can really identify the candidate's skills and weaknesses in this area: - it works well sitting around
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by abraae 9y ago
If you wish to climb the corporate ladder, stick in there when things get crazy. When mad shit is going down, when entire groups are being canned and chaos is reining, then that's when opportunity sometimes presents itself. Sometimes t
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by abraae 9y ago
There's a saying in our house (we're on rain tanks): "If it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown, flush it down". If everyone acted like that, then toilets could have a good, decent flush, powerful enough to
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by abraae 9y ago
When my first child was born, we were in a hospital in the UK. Peeling paint on the walls, flickering fluoros, harried staff. He had trouble extricating himself, his heart beat started fluctuating, and so the staff rushed out to get the Ven

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