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by dubfan 13y ago
Have you called Comcast about the connectivity issues? I was having problems with connections dropping and packet loss. I called them, they sent a tech out who replaced a bad wire connecting to the building. Apparently others in the buildin
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by dubfan 13y ago
Gigabit Seattle is a public-private partnership.
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by dubfan 13y ago
Most of those complaints are from people who haven't lived in Seattle long enough to know those areas have been problem spots for at least 20 years. My father worked downtown in the early/mid-80s and says it was exactly the same t
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by dubfan 13y ago
Why does this site have its own scroll handler? It looks very strange and floaty and doesn't play with touchpad gestures in Chrome for OSX.
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by dubfan 13y ago
> Mises, sometimes called the last knight of liberalism By whom?
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by dubfan 13y ago
> Taleo, Kenexa, LinkedIn, Monster.com, CareerBuilder, and their diaspora That's not what "diaspora" means.
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by dubfan 13y ago
As a resident of Washington the first thing that comes to mind is the difference in climate between the west and east. The eastern part of the state is mostly semi-arid, nearly desert in some areas. I've heard we also have one of the h
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by dubfan 13y ago
Guns are pretty useful in remote areas inhabited by large, aggressive animals.
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by dubfan 13y ago
What about Baltimore?
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by dubfan 13y ago
Access to firearms may play some part, but the rates of death due to firearm injury is high in the South which has relatively low suicide rates. Perhaps religious/cultural attitudes play a part? That wouldn't account for Utah thou
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by dubfan 13y ago
Alaska and Nevada have some of the highest rates of suicide, but those areas are not suitable for farming. Another article posted earlier in this thread indicates population density isn't a factor, and the map seems to show that as wel
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by dubfan 13y ago
I didn't run the numbers but the correlation between poverty/education and cancer+heart disease seems relatively high. The mortality rates for those appear to be highest in the deep South, Appalachia and lower Midwest, which are s
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by dubfan 13y ago
While I agree there are some bad examples of TLD abuse, the British Indian Ocean Territory is not so much a country as a military outpost. The native inhabitants were forcibly removed decades ago, and in the very unlikely event they were ev
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by dubfan 13y ago
There's a massively skewed ratio of men to women on these sites, probably around 10:1 men to women. As a result, women get spammed with no-content or offensive messages, driving many away. Those who do stay have to spend significant ef
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by dubfan 13y ago
foobar2000 has been closed source freeware for a long time and has not resorted to anything like this.
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by dubfan 13y ago
Perhaps, but we still have our share of dense morons (the "wage theft" people, the May Day crowd, the NIMBY anti-growth types)
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by dubfan 13y ago
Your reasoning relies entirely on the ability to quantify environmental damage, but it's not clear how you would quantify this. To me it appears completely arbitrary how you decide "this damage is 2.5x worse than the other damage&
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by dubfan 13y ago
With IPv6, there's no need for NAT and insecure, unreliable hacks like UPnP to break through it. Having worked in tech support for a major video game company I can say it's a serious problem, especially for people with crappy prov
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by dubfan 13y ago
For those of us who haven't heard of Wonga, it's an online payday loan service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonga.com
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by dubfan 13y ago
What would be the advantage? Chrome on iOS is just a reskinned Safari minus Nitro.
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by dubfan 13y ago
Then at that point you are no better than 9/11 truthers and moon landing hoaxers.
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by dubfan 13y ago
As nknighthb replied, there is an Apple affiliated service location in Bozeman. Be glad you don't live in Butte, though, or you'd be looking at a drive to Helena.
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by dubfan 13y ago
Nintendo of America isn't even "just a few miles" from Microsoft. It's almost completely surrounded by the Microsoft campus.
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by dubfan 13y ago
Have you developed for IE10 or 11? They are far more standards compliant than any other version. In fact IE11 surpasses Firefox in some areas (full support for Flexbox for example)
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by dubfan 13y ago
An article that elaborates on your point: http://www.forbes.com/sites/baldwin/2013/06/05/the-trouble-w...
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by dubfan 13y ago
There was an article on a similar phenomenon, which I swear made it to the front page here but I can't find the discussion: http://readwrite.com/2012/12/11/why-are-dead-people-liking-s...
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by dubfan 13y ago
> There is no land on earth outside of the control of nation-states, except Antarctica Not quite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil
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by dubfan 13y ago
These tips are all well and good, but what about those of us who can't even get women to respond to our texts?
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by dubfan 13y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403988
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by dubfan 13y ago
We're alternative media, not beholden to mainstream corporate interests! So here's an article from a Canadian Crown corporation re-posted verbatim. Edit: Plus the article is two years old.

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