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by cobrausn 12y ago
More information than I thought I would ever give on HN, but I rarely use antibacterial soap on my entire body (I do shower daily). My wife finds it completely perplexing that I exhibit no body odor at most times, even when sweating heavil
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by cobrausn 12y ago
In all seriousness, I think the plan was to make sure our bombs got dropped also. It's not MAD if you can't follow up on either the 'mutual' or the 'assured' part.
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by cobrausn 12y ago
I was once asked to acquire 'one yard of gig line'. http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-a-gig-line
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Defender Of The GNU/LGPL Threatens Project Zomboid(gamingonlinux.com)
5 points by cobrausn 12y ago|0 comments
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by cobrausn 12y ago
Not quite. They do require just enough skill and just enough technical learning to filter out most of the non-college educated population, but not enough to attract any college grads. So you end up hiring the people with the skill who are
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Microsoft announces $399 Xbox One without Kinect(theverge.com)
3 points by cobrausn 12y ago|1 comments
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Oculus respond to Zenimax IP claims: "all of its claims are false"(pcgamer.com)
1 points by cobrausn 12y ago|0 comments
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by cobrausn 12y ago
You probably misread the previous statement - it says placing her hand in his pants... EDIT: Dear downvoters: This statement is a favor to the guy above me, who probably thought the statement was referring to Al Bundy like behavior of w
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by cobrausn 12y ago
You are right, they aren't terribly far apart in proportional terms (I had a decimal place off in my initial calculation that threw me off... hadn't had my coffee yet). I agree that this is economically feasible and may even be a
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by cobrausn 12y ago
I'm aware of how the government spends on other inane things - my point was that spending the 24B on this is probably not going to happen in the current political climate, regardless of whether or not you think it is a good investment.
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by cobrausn 12y ago
There are 7 billion people on earth, and a few hundred do this thing per year, so now it's so mainstream it's not worth doing? Is the point to experience something or to tell people about how you experienced something they haven&
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by cobrausn 12y ago
There are something like 17 million enrolled higher education students in the US, and with the current exchange rate, that would equal about 24 billion USD in stipends. Not really sure such a thing is politically tractable, not to mention
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by cobrausn 12y ago
The lack of an alphabet is not really a superficial point. That's a huge divide to begin with, and it only diverges further from there.
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by cobrausn 12y ago
The more subtle ones I was unable to pick up on. To me, when people spoke, it sounded monotone, especially on those audio exercise sounds played over speakers. I don't have a problem picking up on the tonal differences in English,
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by cobrausn 12y ago
Though he says that tonal languages are 'weird', I found it to be a bit more troublesome than that. As a lifelong monotone English speaker, I was actually unable to hear tonal differences that changed the meaning of words durin
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by cobrausn 12y ago
I would argue that paying $900,000 for any house isn't really a great investment.
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by cobrausn 12y ago
The one word answer is 'gentrification', depending upon how you feel about that.
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by cobrausn 12y ago
True, provided we don't see a commensurate increase in suicide by some other means. Considering how effective suicide by firearm is at accomplishing that goal it probably would significantly reduce first-attempt "success"
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by cobrausn 13y ago
My father-in-law was pretty high up in the NY State taxing agencies before he retired. When I once asked him why he thought the tax codes in the US were so complicated, he said it was simply because the US likes to use the tax codes to for
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Heh. If you ever really stop to think about it, Halo is a love story between a cyborg and an AI, with the backdrop being a war for survival of the species. It probably didn't start out that way, but it surely turned into that.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I hope you spent some extra power points on that, because PR 19 is not enough here. So confused.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Good to hear. I must have imprinted that opinion from some scaremongering headlines earlier. Doing a search for 'Supreme Court 5 4' or similar yields a lot of spin.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
"In a refugee centre in Rome we had been taught that Americans, when they ask "How are you?" don't really expect an answer" Still true. I responded to someone's 'How are you?' yesterday with an actua
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by cobrausn 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee#Supe... Practically speaking, as long as some needed transparency is in place, is there much of a real difference to how things are currently run? Also, the rash
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by cobrausn 13y ago
I'll take the bait. The NRA is reacting to any mention of gun control from the left the same way the left reacts to any mention of abortion restrictions from the right - don't believe anything they say, because they are trying fo
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North Korea: Men required to get Kim Jong-un haircuts(bbc.com)
3 points by cobrausn 13y ago|0 comments
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by cobrausn 13y ago
nishithfrrole, you appear to be shadowbanned (comments appearing dead). Not sure why, I see nothing objectionable in comment history. Thought you should know.
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by cobrausn 13y ago
Sure, if you assume everyone has an equal chance in the running for millionaire. I don't think you are really competing with your waiter or bartender for that coveted slot. Of course, you don't have the same odds as the VP of De
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by cobrausn 13y ago
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101099732 FWIW, 1.7 million Americans last year were.
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Oculus Rift Simulator(vr.mkeblx.net)
4 points by cobrausn 13y ago|0 comments

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