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by baakss 11y ago
I can't comment except for my own experience. We visit relatives in Cuba occasionally. When we go, we always had to come up with some excuse to bring medical supplies and leave them there. On one occasion, my mom pretended to be crippl
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by baakss 11y ago
Reliability is a huge, huge concern with guns. That's why a weapon like an AK-47 is so popular. It shoots if it's muddy, sandy, you name it. A failed fingerprint recognition (even due to the conditions listed above) when you inten
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by baakss 11y ago
Unless I'm misreading your last sentence, I think you vastly overestimate how much it annoys me. The only issue I described was extraneous noise on the website (most of which has nothing to do with weather). It's just less usable&
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by baakss 11y ago
Wunderground and weather.com were owned by the same company? For some reason I never would have guessed that just based on my experience on those sites. Wunderground generally feels clean and on-topic. Weather.com is often filled with &quot
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by baakss 11y ago
This is interesting to me mostly because my favorite translation is often criticized for being difficult to read because of archaic word choice. Though in this case, a lot of that may be the 'directness' of the translation from th
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by baakss 11y ago
Why would that have annoyed Tolkien? He was Roman Catholic, and KJV is a protestant translation.
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by baakss 11y ago
I missed this... but yeah same thing here. We won every year lubricating the wheels and axles.
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by baakss 11y ago
I just applied industrial strength lubricant to the wheels/axles and crushed everyone in my troop 3 years in a row or whatever it was. The final year we did it, I didn't even bother carving out or painting the car. I sent the lubr
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by baakss 11y ago
I would call it a fear issue more so than loyalty. I would be willing to bet not a lot of people knew to begin with, and the few that were told or stumbled upon it didn't want to make it into a big deal for fear of getting caught up in
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by baakss 11y ago
Corporations aren't flawless, but it definitely isn't a given that the people at the top have any clue what is going on with their software either. I can think of two instances that I've personally seen very similar to the re
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by baakss 11y ago
Solar's fine, but very inconsistent. I work in natural gas myself, but I know quite a few people in Solar. It's great in some areas, not so great in others. They get a lot of calls during the winter wondering why they're gett
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by baakss 11y ago
This partially expresses what I wanted to reply. The other part is that food calories are the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree celsius. By that definition, calories in vs calories out s
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by baakss 11y ago
LASIK cost me about $3500 in Texas at the best place I could find. It is easily the best money I have ever spent. I highly recommend it if you're a candidate.
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by baakss 11y ago
>I exercised my judgement and decided to phone the local Highway Patrol office. That was rash. You called the police within an hour of reading this article? You didn't think it's possible the writer is embellishing or exaggerat
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by baakss 11y ago
I'd be curious if it also qualifies the person who found the bug for their million mile lifetime membership programs. http://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/account/lifetime.asp...
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by baakss 11y ago
I tend to (maybe unjustly) associate the Reddit community as being the Gamergate community. I think Ellen Pao may immediately conjure up a perceived connection with the SJW scene, especially after her lawsuit. If I had to guess, that's
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by baakss 11y ago
Drop me a line at plonn1999 at gmail dot com.
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by baakss 11y ago
I think the strangeness for me is that the article is written from the casino's perspective. They went so far as to dox the 'culprit' and are portraying him in a negative light in the article.
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by baakss 11y ago
Strange choice to put a picture from the Ocean's Eleven series at the top of the article, seeing as how the thieves in those films are considered the protagonists/heroes. I think a bit more information included with the article to
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by baakss 11y ago
From an article attached to the book: "From an initial list of 20,400 companies, we sifted through 11 layers of cuts to identify cases that met all our tests (our study era ran through 2002). Only seven did. We labeled our high-perform
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by baakss 11y ago
Integrated settlement / closing software for Title companies. The market leaders right now are God awful. Market leaders include Adeptive (Resware software), ISGN (Gators software), and Ramquest (Closing Market software). Their platfor
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by baakss 11y ago
My apologies, the book name was Great by Choice, as someone else pointed out. Both books are excellent and worth the read though.
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by baakss 11y ago
Seconded on the book choice. Although, I thought the business parts of the book were excellent, but the mountain climbing anecdotes were absolutely gut wrenching. I actually at times found some of those passages about people freezing to dea
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by baakss 11y ago
Having worked in a couple large enterprises that tried to make the Data Lake concept work, I would love to see this concept in practice where it actually does something useful. Thus far, both attempts I've seen ended up falling back to
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by baakss 11y ago
There were other efforts involved. Actually, if you're curious, there's some good analysis of Southwest Airlines' success in a book I read recently: "From Good To Great" by Jim Collins
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by baakss 11y ago
If we're basing revulsion based on cost of diseases spread, vaginal sex would also have to be considered disgusting. Actually, you'd have to view quite a lot of non-sexual activities with revulsion as well based on that premise. S
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by baakss 11y ago
I did think about that a bit. That's part of why I added the disclaimer. I included it more because I was watching it this weekend, saw that bit, and thought, "That would be a really unacceptable thing to say today, but back then
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by baakss 11y ago
In my lifetime, I think this is the social issue that has seen the most positive change. As a kid, gay people were practically lepers. Eleven Years ago, Dave Chappelle just outright said "gay sex is just gross, sorry it just is",
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by baakss 11y ago
>If you choose to move away from London, fine, go forth and be happy in New Whatevershire in the county of Who Cares.. Your comment's attitude reminds me of those AirBnB / DropBox soccer players kicking the kids out of Mission
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by baakss 11y ago
I guess it would depend on who you ask. Ask someone from that wedding party that gone attacked by a drone predator missile last year what the U.S. flag represents.

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