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by drharris 13y ago
Hypothesis confirmed. I posted this as an experiment to see how moderation occurs. People were clearly interested in this (7 points in 15 minutes), made it to #11 on the front page, and then was killed completely. I was mainly curious how t
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Dear parents, you need to control your kids. Sincerely, non-parents(themattwalshblog.com)
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by drharris 13y ago
The article mentions that he keeps earning more miles by paying attention to every promotion out there, and has over 4 million now. I also wouldn't be going straight from US to Asia; I'd be hopping locations gradually for an exten
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by drharris 13y ago
Bar codes have no intrinsic value. The value is in the promotion. Think of it as a "reimbursement" not for the product, but for the activity of purchasing it.
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by drharris 13y ago
Same can be said of startups. There are people who get lucky off of an incredibly simple/clever concept that has little actual value (instagram?), while many other teams fail while toiling away on difficult problems that could be world
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by drharris 13y ago
It's the Bing Rewards logo. Not sure why it says 0/5, but if you have a bing rewards account it displays your points there.
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by drharris 13y ago
I agree with this in theory, but in practice there's no way a government/economy will take those dollars and magically spend them on causes that actually benefit humanity. More likely they go to the war machine, welfare state, and
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by drharris 13y ago
For awhile, it was Twitter. Then someone came out with the idea of a Twitter you pay for (App.net), and since then it's been at the top of my list. Even when they're both making billions, I'll still believe they're stupi
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by drharris 13y ago
I don't get why people are still whining about this in 2013. Is it really that unreasonable for an OS manufacturer to restrict the devices on which it can be installed? I write firmware for a specific known hardware platform; do I real
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by drharris 13y ago
> The body's needs change on a regular basis > Changes in metabolism, bigger life changes like puberty and menopause, obviously pregnancy I do not think these things happen on a regular basis.
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by drharris 13y ago
In high school I had friends convinced I'd hacked Microsoft using this trick when they saw my IRC handle on a whois.
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by drharris 13y ago
The body's needs only change because you're not getting everything you need with every meal. Soylent gives you everything you need all at once. I don't see why people in the 21st century still believe there's something m
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by drharris 13y ago
I once heard a truck driver call in to a talk radio show to explain his theory that global warming is caused by a decay in the Earth’s orbit. The planet is gradually falling into the sun, which is why things are getting hotter, he said. Th
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by drharris 13y ago
It's not really an opinion so much as fact. Labor unions have proven to be beneficial only for the members of the union and politicians. If you had ever done business around them, you'd agree.
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by drharris 13y ago
This data could actually be used to support my previous statement. Graduation rates are not a great indicator of actual knowledge gained. Nor are test scores, for that matter.
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by drharris 13y ago
> This is part of the problem. How do you expect students to stay motivated and progress when 50% effectively equals 0%? Maybe we dumb Americans expect more out of our students than the oh-so-smart Europeans? Get over yourself.
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by drharris 13y ago
The good ones are. My wife puts in around 55-60 hours per week, especially when you consider all the junk they are required to be there for (sports, extracurriculars, dances, etc.) and continuing education requirements. However, amortized o
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by drharris 13y ago
Indeed, and have been free for a long, long time. The only thing they charge money for is the IDE.
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by drharris 13y ago
Ok, I'll fess up that this was my first thought too.
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by drharris 13y ago
Yes, please make me hit three keys instead of one just to make an assignment.
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by drharris 13y ago
This was the first thing I thought of when I saw the "Dotted Line" bit. Sad that this thing was already parodied almost two decades ago!
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by drharris 13y ago
He didn't say they get back out.
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by drharris 13y ago
Man, talk about Jaded! Well, I want to be a believer, but unfortunately I had the exact same thought when I saw it.
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by drharris 13y ago
Agreed, great content being hidden by poor usability.
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by drharris 13y ago
The Old Reader is like the Google Reader of 5 years ago. I didn't care much for Feedly's flashy interface or browser plugin interface.
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by drharris 13y ago
> Of course, it's also a getting-new-shit-for-free source which may be irresistible for some people I unsubscribed for this reason after I just couldn't pass up 60 free mason quart jars. Right before we moved. Want to know how
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by drharris 13y ago
> All in all I'm jealous of the engineers at Tesla who get to work on it :) This. I love my job, but this had me extremely jealous. This stuff is the future .
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by drharris 13y ago
No, we're talking about defense of our nation, not a voluntary war.
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by drharris 13y ago
Misleading. The real story is that someone wants to be a citizen without being willing to defend the land. That's cowardly, antithetical to the history of our nation, and plain stupid. If you seriously wouldn't grab a pitchfork wh
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by drharris 13y ago
This, totally. They basically have to make a custom app for every platform/browser, when a single responsive website would have done the trick. I really don't understand the rationale here. What does a plugin platform give them th

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