confuzatron

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by confuzatron 16y ago
Here's one for Sizes: "How big would the map on the BBC Dimensions website look on your monitor?" (answer - a small rectangle about 10% of the screen's size that can't be made bigger, partially obscured by a big textbox).
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by confuzatron 16y ago
Lawks, it must suck to work in a factory where scented water is puffed onto doilies by baby deer with adorable eyes (I am guessing). But seriously - "motherfuckinglasers.com" didn't alert you?
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by confuzatron 16y ago
a "pattern" of 2 big, 2 little seems to have emerged http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_line
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by confuzatron 16y ago
Ironically, the irony punctuation mark shows up as a square on all browsers that I try. (yes I know - that's not actually ironic).
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by confuzatron 16y ago
Kinky!
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by confuzatron 16y ago
It wasn't me, but hey - the System lets people do it, so it must be okay to do it.
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by confuzatron 16y ago
I don't think this would make a huge difference to me, as I don't subscribe to enough feeds in GR for it to make a big difference to how I'd use it. Also, speaking of unread flags [grating record scratch sound] I wrote a Chrome extension to
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by confuzatron 16y ago
I am guessing it's because motorcycles are capable of going faster, accelerating quicker, so people go faster on them and tend to drive more aggressively. I'd say, at the same speeds, a motorcyclist is much more likely to be injured than a
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by confuzatron 16y ago
I wouldn't ride a motorbike for just this reason. I wonder what the corresponding stats are for mopeds. It's a truism that some [young] reckless motorcyclists ride machines that are too powerful for them to control. Mopeds, not so much I'd
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by confuzatron 16y ago
Surely, for Hacker News, a more suitable headline would be "Study shows iPhone users more likely to suffer from viruses than Android users".
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by confuzatron 16y ago
I have to disagree. If an official puts up a barrier and tells you to pay him to pass through it, but you can easily walk round the barrier, do so. It's his job to make the barrier more difficult to get round. I would say that there ought t
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by confuzatron 16y ago
Hah, well spotted. That's a debug message I forgot to remove. (I've updated the extension to get rid of it).
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by confuzatron 16y ago
Okay, okay. I'll cycle to work, next time it isn't raining.
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by confuzatron 16y ago
I'd call it 'gaming the system' rather than 'fraud', but am not a lawyer. @maushu, the real solution here is to get rid of the dumb trade barriers in the first place. The 'problem' of dodging round them pales into insignificance in comparis
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by confuzatron 16y ago
OK, where's the "fraud", or are you just harrumphing at having missed the point of the article?
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by confuzatron 16y ago
OK, it appears that we both lack any argument to back up our positions, but my position is 'Hmmm. I don't know about that'. I feel like I'm more justified in taking my position than you are in taking yours. :)
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Chrome Extension to add 'unread comment tracking' to HN(chrome.google.com)
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by confuzatron 16y ago
Here's the clue to why doing this made sense: "But import duties greatly reduced the profit margins of importers." It's as if the shoes were smuggled into India in plain sight. Presumably the cost of buying the 'useless' shoes at auction ca
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by confuzatron 16y ago
I'm afraid I don't see where you have successfully linked service-reliant economies with debt. There may be a correlation - I haven't looked at the data, but is A a cause of B?
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by confuzatron 16y ago
All problems can be overcome, @bobbyflanders, if you just let the light of Jesus flood into your life! :) (sorry, I meant 'bikes', not Jesus). EDIT: I knew this would get down-voted. No sense of humour these bicyclists ;) I my case, I hav
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by confuzatron 16y ago
International law does cover treatment of civilians during conflicts, but I'm afraid you are wrong - international law doesn't automatically class any and all civilian deaths as war crimes. This is pretty basic stuff.
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by confuzatron 16y ago
People in the developing world suffer from injustices, but it's silly to argue that this is a hidden cost of Nuclear. If the reserves were in a developed country they would be mined as cheaply and more safely. And don't forget 'the hidden c
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by confuzatron 16y ago
That is irrelevant to the issue, which is that of government subsidies on the purchase of computing technology, for end-users. No doubt NASA have done some solar panel research - that would be more analogous to what you mention. The only ex
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by confuzatron 16y ago
Ignoring the .NET version problem, not using LINQ probably makes plenty of sense, given that implementing a LINQ solution would be much much more complicated to implement than what you've done. Breaking apart expressions to get to your XML
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by confuzatron 16y ago
He's confused when he compares the Soviet Union with Al Quaeda, and proposes that Al Quaeda is popular due to the loss of moral superiority of the US. A more sensible comparison would be Soviet Union versus some hypothetical repressive theo
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by confuzatron 16y ago
Hardware wise, I suppose I can't fault the build quality. But the form factor and controls - a tiny screen and a NSEW joystick were very limiting. The keyboard was tiny but worked pretty well. But it was definitely the software that ruined
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by confuzatron 16y ago
I used to have an E71 - dreadful OS/software. Email client formatted emails horribly. Browser was awful. I use my Android phone so much more, for web surfing etc, because the usability is lightyears ahead. By the way, does anyone want to bu
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by confuzatron 16y ago
* Check out the dude below -- he says he's actually offended that I pointed this out* You're right. Being offended by words is absurd. Doubly-so when they are not even uttered with an offensive meaning. This may be too subtle, so I'll clari
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by confuzatron 16y ago
I would appreciate it if you would stop requesting people to not use a harmless word just because there are morons in the US who misuse it. I find it extremely offensive. Also, stop using the word 'black' please. Some of the definitions of
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by confuzatron 16y ago
Here in the UK, you can also harm the environment and emit carbon by buying a windmill from the DIY store and sticking it on your roof. People are mostly doing it for the 'cool factor' since they tend not to generate much power at all. I'm

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