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cujo
9y ago
It does matter though. They don't say they want 10000 clicks in a vacuum. They pay for that many clicks because the math tells them it should be worth $1k in revenue. In reality someone is manipulating the math They should have been
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256 players get drafted every year. There are 124 DI football teams with a max of 85 scholarships per year. If every player made it to their senior year, and the draft only took seniors, and every class was the same size, a player would h
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9y ago
> You can respect their achievements while separating the other half Agree to disagree. If people would tell them to go to hell from the beginning, their achievements would go to someone else and we would all be better for it.
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9y ago
I'm seeing a checkbox to disable DRM content playing in preferences. I know it's just one item in your list, but at least it's an option.
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9y ago
I don't find the font style a problem, but the size is so large that I find myself retreating from the screen.
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9y ago
Very little map checking. People generally know where public land is, as it is typically some sort of park or rec area. Otherwise, land is mostly considered private and you stay off unless you have approval of the owner.
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cujo
9y ago
That is the catch.
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> Also, activating Bluetooth is as frictionless as activating WiFi. Not in my experience. Bluetooth is functional, but it's hard to call it better. * Connecting 2 people (phones) to one device is hardly supported. * Those 2 people
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9y ago
That's a fine solution if you have an extra one laying around. But I don't and I'm hesitant to buy a tablet just to drive a speaker.
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9y ago
* Shared playlist/queue between all users of a household. * No need to have a second device present to stream music. That is, I can start up music with the controller on my phone, and go to the store, but the music still plays since a
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9y ago
We have a garage, but we keep our car in the driveway and I say this as a New Englander. Having to keep the garage clean of the shit that falls off the car after a winter excursion is worse than having to brush the snow off after a storm,
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9y ago
How is it a fantasy? If anything, I find it easier to get around in the winter, living in a city. Less traffic on the roads make cycling more pleasant (yes, I cycle in all levels of snow), and walking through town is peaceful and quiet(er
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9y ago
I thought it it was illegal to have certain controlled substances past the prescription. So if you were prescribed a month's supply of oxycontin and got pulled over with it on your passenger seat a year later, you were breaking the la
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9y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but can't it go the other way also? A contrived example... A person has $X that they spend every week at the local town restaurant. They see they can buy a cool new widget from a Chinese vendor (from the article)
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9y ago
As for MS, Ballmer laid that foundation. Nadella is capitalizing, but MS is mostly capitalizing on it's position and not so much offering a ground breaking direction.
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9y ago
Numbers. It's all about how you feel about that risk of crashing vs the potential payout. Say I'm squirreling away $5k a year for a new car in 4 years. Every year I put in another $5k, so by the end, I've put in $25k. If
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9y ago
I always thought this was going to be the direction of the original iPod. Any day now...
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9y ago
He had 3 caffeinated drinks. Obviously, he had a heart condition, but I'd guess this isn't the first time he'd had that much caffeine in his body. Kid just got dealt a shit hand.
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9y ago
> 99% of movies today are crap, so there's not much to talk about So it's true now, then. > If you've lost sight of the value of basic human interaction with anyone not baked into your caste, I pity you, even if you are
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10y ago
Are you sure? From where I sit, it looks like Tesla is just offering a traditional car with a different set of organs. They don't seem to show any signs of doing anything different than ford on the sales/direction angle.
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10y ago
I don't think I buy this as a viable alternative. The first problem that pops into my head is transportation for disabled people who are visiting the city or that commute in for whatever reason. Providing them access to the disabled-
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10y ago
I get the feeling that 15 hours is a ballpark number and there are certain occupations that do require more time "in the seat" to make good progress. It's probably also true that if you're putting in only ~15 hours of p
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10y ago
So you think this briefing was just a "special edition" or something?
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>If a gun manufacturer should be held liable for the results of people misusing a gun They aren't.
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10y ago
Gifting exploiters a 0day before the KNOWN patch release date, is causing problems.
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10y ago
The researcher sounds really petty. They're patching it, but not on this person's schedule so he's causing microsoft and USERS problems they didn't have before. If they weren't patching, I'd understand, but th
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10y ago
People don't complain about USPS because they suck at delivering to my "island" home in the middle of a swamp. They complain about USPS because somehow they seem to get a lot of employees who just don't try. In my exper
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10y ago
And people with celiac are benefiting enormously by the generic diet trend of eating low gluten/gluten free by the masses who have nothing wrong with them. A quick google search shows 86% of people who are think they're gluten sen
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10y ago
Haven't been through the whole catalog, but #3 and #4 were very good. "Lots of things in the world seem ordinary. But when you dig deeper, it turns out, they’re fascinating. Surprisingly Awesome tells those stories." https:&
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10y ago
I believe the reason for "a FOIA" is "FOIA" is being pronounced as a word like "foya" instead of the individual letters "F-O-I-A".
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