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811.
by crusso 12y ago
"They were marketed almost exclusively to boys" Back before anyone was really marketing computers in any mainstream way, I remember gathering around the few that were available in the school library or in a math teacher's cla
812.
by crusso 12y ago
Breast-fed infants don't typically have exposed teeth subject to tooth decay, do they?
813.
by crusso 12y ago
With the avalanche of evidence showing negative health impacts from sugar, it's surprising to see someone defending its use. http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=263708 http://www.telegraph
814.
by crusso 12y ago
There's a perceived difference between outside forces raising money for legal battles vs a specific law firm doing its own money-raising. The latter comes across as self-serving for the attorneys.
815.
by crusso 12y ago
The beauty of good writing is the ability of the author to state things simply without requiring the reader to meander through all the half-filled closets of the author's mind.
816.
by crusso 12y ago
Yep. It's a great example of how cherry picking can be used to completely misrepresent reality.
817.
by crusso 12y ago
What's the rationale for patenting work funded by taxpayers? The research was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
818.
by crusso 12y ago
submitting an issue on just about any github project run by "professionals" is a good way to be met with hostile behavior I would hesitate to equate what the author is describing (raising funds to have him killed, for example) w
819.
by crusso 12y ago
I was just looking the other day to see if I could get Trader Joe's sunflower seeds online. Their sunflower seeds are far and away the best I've found. I buy 10 bags at a time whenever I'm at their nearest store that's
820.
by crusso 12y ago
I think the parent poster is talking about eliminating all known-vulnerable bash shells from his machine, not just having the default user shell change.
821.
by crusso 12y ago
I love my big TV. Playing games on it on a Saturday evening after my kids have gone to sleep puts an ear-to-ear grin on my face.
822.
by crusso 12y ago
I don't know what I'd choose since I can't tell you a meaning for life that is at all universal or that I buy into all that much. I do, however, know that Jobs was responsible for a lot more than the iPhone.
823.
by crusso 12y ago
Hard to say. The guy lived more of an interesting life and had a bigger impact on the world than any of us will ever come remotely close to. Would 80 years of mostly mediocrity beat 56 years with plenty of "best on earth"?
824.
by crusso 12y ago
Its easy to mix them by non-natives like myself You're being far too generous to us natives by implying that this is only a problem for non-natives.
825.
by crusso 12y ago
I set a goal several years back of getting into the top 100, then top 50 Why? Oh, why? I look at my own HN posting as a personal weakness that does nothing to advance my career, general happiness, or sense of personal development. The
826.
by crusso 12y ago
I was responding to my parent poster's argument, not yours. If this particular case is about national sovereignty of indigenous tribes, why is the ACLU mounting a first amendment religious protection defense?
827.
by crusso 12y ago
It's less common sense behavior than Cargo Cult behavior.
828.
by crusso 12y ago
Indigenous cultures are kind of a special case because of the whole conquest and genocide thing There isn't a homosapien alive whose ancestors' people weren't subjected to some sort of brutality. Either the rules should ap
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by crusso 12y ago
The "cartel", if it really was that, fell apart in a few years. Compare that to government failures like the 17th amendment that has eroded states' rights for almost a century, the high-carb low-fat diets they pushed that ca
830.
by crusso 12y ago
There's a difference between making a profit and maximizing it at the expense of everything else They're aligning rewards for their loyalty program with the behaviors of customers not trying to game the system. And you criticiz
831.
by crusso 12y ago
This is great. I fly because I need to get somewhere, not because I'm trying to game the system to board ahead of the other travelers with my elite status or "earn" bonus mile tickets which just adds extra ticket costs for a
832.
by crusso 12y ago
The part that bothered me most about the situation (and I realize that it's only your side being told here) is that she gave lots of warning signs that she was not holding up her side of any form of partnership. If she couldn't s
833.
by crusso 12y ago
Institutions are boring. Audiences typically want to identify with characters, so it's only natural that strong character-based stories will favor individuals over faceless institutions.
834.
by crusso 12y ago
Exactly. auto ensures consistency, but it eliminates the need to officially declare intent - which was a key part of type safety. Not only did you need to use the type correctly, but you needed to declare the desire to use a specific type
835.
by crusso 12y ago
Right. The problem with natural-ish language processing is that it's: 1. Inherently imprecise. 2. Not true natural language processing, so it's not as forgiving of syntax errors as you'd think - making it even
836.
by crusso 12y ago
I was wondering where the downvotes were coming from. I meant to be accurate, not insulting. I thought that hive-minded accurately described the seeming desire to centralize authority and form a collective, trusting that those in charge ha
837.
by crusso 12y ago
Maybe so, but there are some nations/organizations looking to absorb more territory like China, Russia, ISIS, and maybe Turkey.
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by crusso 12y ago
Some network technologies solve problems client-server, some network technologies solve problems peer-to-peer. Different approaches, different philosophies. Historically, Americans have been more fiercely independent and valued bottom up a
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by crusso 12y ago
This proposal sets up the same mechanisms AT&T needs to start creating packaged content so they can increase their profits. It just gives them a weakly defined excuse for when to pull the trigger that has the aura of being at the &quot
840.
by crusso 12y ago
capitalistic structure + unbridled automation is a stable combination It's worth noting that the killing robots in use now are the drones in service of the United States government. Sure, sooner or later, individuals are going to bui

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