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by aestra 13y ago
>lack of card slots for newer smartphones My Galaxy S4 uses microSD. Use cases? Phones, tablets, GPSes, MP3/portable video players...?
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by aestra 13y ago
>my grandfather was in a coma for 18 months from Guillain–Barré syndrome which was a reaction to a vaccination I'll follow up your useless anecdote with another useless anecdote. I had a close family friend die of the flu. In his 50
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by aestra 13y ago
Funny enough I just found another one today. http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/75793/1/cesifo_wp503.... [pdf] all the figure placeholder text weren't replaced and the figures are missing. Figur
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by aestra 13y ago
Any medical intervention goes through something called a "Risk–benefit analysis" where the potential risks are weighed against the potential benefits. We accept a certain level of risk as necessary to achieve certain benefits. Va
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by aestra 13y ago
No rational consumer is going to trust them going forward but new consumers who might not know the history of MtGox might not know any better.
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by aestra 13y ago
Other exchanges were DDoSed but never lost any coins or got hit with double spends. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/bitcoin-ddos/
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by aestra 13y ago
>Tried texting in class without looking? What the hell? Are you really that addicted to your phone you can't put it away for 2 hours to pay attention to a class you are paying hundreds of dollars to attend? If anything it is incredi
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by aestra 13y ago
It is known that news organizations already have obits for prominent figures written and ready to be published at a moment's notice. CNN accidentally exposed some of these in 2003. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cnn-c
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by aestra 13y ago
Ok, I give up. Where is the placeholder text on the first newspaper? The 4th picture down, has "A Push To Let Ryan Be Ryan" as a heading.
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by aestra 13y ago
A difference is you don't have to create a WhatsApp account, it just uses your phone number. It is plug and play.
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by aestra 13y ago
BTC on MtGox are at a very low price right now because people are dumping them for (say) USD because they believe MtGox will go under and they have a better chance at getting USD from MtGox than BTC if that happens. Speculators are betting
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by aestra 13y ago
>Agents, landlords or property developers would be able to easily create those with their mobile device But they won't! It is very difficult to get those people to post more than a low res picture of one room online when they can ve
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by aestra 13y ago
That isn't at all what the H-1B Visas are being used for in practice. They are being used for cost cutting and facilitating outsourcing. http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/04/03/176
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by aestra 13y ago
If you're so drunk you can't solve a CAPTCHA then you also probably can't sit at a chair and type on a keyboard.
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by aestra 13y ago
I think every communication protocol is destined to eventually be replaced by another communication protocol.
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by aestra 13y ago
[For me and most people I know SMS is virtually free, but I guess that's not the case around the world] Define virtually free? I pay like 10 bucks a month for unlimited SMS, that's hardly virtually free!!! If I didn't they co
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by aestra 13y ago
>ou self publish, and most people regard you as a kook. You publish in Nature, and suddenly you're someone worth reading. Nature (and others) are (in theory) peer reviewed journals with lends a sense of credibility that self publish
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by aestra 13y ago
Not too many bills from 1972 are still in circulation.
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by aestra 13y ago
>I usually prefer to grab a coffee and talk to a real human being Plenty of people like to de-stress away from humanity, in the woods, near water especially think waterfalls, oceans, waves, beach, river... Nothing wrong with that. Everyo
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by aestra 13y ago
Many many years ago my brother found a site where you could operate real claw crane games remotely. These: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claw_crane They had a bunch in like a warehouse and you'd control the claw to
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by aestra 13y ago
I find voice controls extremely distracting, mentally. It takes your focus off the road just as much if not more, I believe. Plus, I always have to repeat myself a bunch because I believe they are programed to recognize a man's voice.
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by aestra 13y ago
Science proves that you tend to spend less money when you pay with cash, especially on unplanned and/or impulse purchases. I guess the psychology of actually handing something over then having less of it afterwards makes people think t
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by aestra 13y ago
The funny thing is on mobile I long press to see where a link is going to go. I do this all the time. On Dolphin long press gives you the link at the top (usually truncated though) then a list of options like "open in new tab" &qu
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by aestra 13y ago
So why is the employee id sensitive information? Why do you care that your badge picture is ugly? Seriously? Do you also expect to take a picture of you kayaking at the lake to the DMV?
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by aestra 13y ago
>However, most large corporations are going to use badges because 1) no need for separate name tags, 2) quick and easy visual indication of who belongs and who doesn't, and 3) you're not as likely to take it off and leave it so
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by aestra 13y ago
Badges convey a lot more info once you are already in the building, such as "I'm allowed to be here" or "I'm allowed to be in this sensitive area" or "I'm allowed to be here without an escort" In
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by aestra 13y ago
I've never worked at a place that didn't have RFID tags that opened the doors. This is old old tech and doesn't require a smartphone at all. One place I worked you needed special permission to be there after core hours so you
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by aestra 13y ago
"..misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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by aestra 13y ago
I take fairly to mean less than pretty. Oh somewhat like "ok." or the newer word "meh." Tone of voice and situation sometimes counts though. In order: fairly > pretty > [the word] > very
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by aestra 13y ago
That's New England dialect. Almost nobody says that outside of New England but people commonly know what it means.

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