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by dubfan 13y ago
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Way_Viaduct_replacement...
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by dubfan 13y ago
I used to work in customer service at Nintendo. I didn't keep any statistics but I wouldn't be surprised if the most common reason for a DS repair was a broken hinge.
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by dubfan 13y ago
There's a site that is trying this (not letting men message women until the woman gives permission). I tried it out but there were only about 20 female profiles in my area (a large coastal metro) and most of them were inactive. The one
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The Wrong Lesson From Detroit's Bankruptcy(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by dubfan 13y ago|0 comments
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by dubfan 13y ago
This is no surprise to me. The company in question, American Traffic Solutions, has been caught engaging in some ethically questionable behavior by the Everett (WA) Herald. Some choice articles: http://www.heraldnet.com/arti
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by dubfan 13y ago
One of my dorm-mates in my first year of university was addicted to computer games. My friends and I tried to take him out drinking on his 19th birthday (the legal age in that location) but he insisted on playing Counterstrike all night. La
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by dubfan 13y ago
I'd love a system that could warn me of earthquakes.
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by dubfan 13y ago
I disabled the alerts on iPhone by going into Notifications settings, scrolling to the bottom and toggling the Amber Alerts and Emergency Alerts off. This is on an AT&T phone, not sure if it's carrier-specific. A friend of mine exp
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by dubfan 13y ago
How can you reliably turn out hits? If you could, the one-hit wonder wouldn't exist. We'd only have hit machines.
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by dubfan 13y ago
mod_python and its publisher handler is how I got started with web development. Being able to rapidly write web apps in Python was, at the time, a great boon for me. I'm not sure how it fits in with the current state of web app framewo
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by dubfan 13y ago
I'm all for giving low-wage workers a larger share of the productivity gains made in the last few decades, but this kind of simplistic thinking doesn't take the immense complexity of the macroeconomy into account. Prices on goods
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by dubfan 13y ago
Probably not, although the post dated July 5th that states "the holidays are upon us" indicates to me they aren't very serious about quality.
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by dubfan 13y ago
That's not what byline means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byline
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by dubfan 13y ago
Hippy culture largely died out in the early 1970s. What's newsworthy is that there are still people who believe it's a viable lifestyle.
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by dubfan 13y ago
From Wikipedia: "Biodiesel is the only alternative fuel to have successfully completed the Health Effects Testing requirements (Tier I and Tier II) of the Clean Air Act (1990)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E
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by dubfan 13y ago
What if you happen to share a name with a convicted multi-million dollar Ponzi schemer? It's pretty hard to game Google to ignore all the news reports and .gov pages.
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by dubfan 13y ago
That's Hamtramck, a city that was mostly settled by Eastern Europeans but also now has many immigrants from the Middle East and South Asia. It is technically a separate city from Detroit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by dubfan 13y ago
They dropped conditional comments, but it still supports the @cc_on conditional compilation trick. I've had to use this to target some regressions that popped up in IE10.
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by dubfan 13y ago
Yep, a couple that I've found include no support for cursor: none (even though IE9 supports it), and a rendering bug around using gradient backgrounds on tr:hover.
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by dubfan 13y ago
You link off to some blog posts as being 20% of your inspiration for writing the posts, but they're behind bit.ly redirects. Now I can't tell if I've read those before without actually clicking on the link, which is rather an
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by dubfan 13y ago
I got this update last night and immediately turned everything off. Call me callous but I really don't want to be woken up at 3am because a kid was abducted on the other side of the state. Also, from my friend's experience the we
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by dubfan 13y ago
This is actually a pretty well-covered aspect of liability law. Each party has to take reasonable care to mitigate risk. It's not the kind of problem that you are making it out to be, and there's a huge body of case law establishi
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by dubfan 13y ago
It all comes down to who has liability when some drunk kid gets injured or killed in there. When it's illegal and difficult to access, the government has no reasonable expectation to keep it safe, and has no liability.
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by dubfan 13y ago
This seems to be Priceonomic's MO. See their earlier article entitled "Diamonds are Bullshit". It's largely the same (a few non-controversial facts mixed in with anecdotes and straw man arguments)
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by dubfan 13y ago
Ecuador does indeed have an embassy in Moscow. http://embajada-ecuador.ru/ecuador/
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by dubfan 13y ago
Don't forget the Spanish Flu epidemic. That was pretty nasty.
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Ride-share cars: illegal, and all over Seattle(seattletimes.com)
1 points by dubfan 13y ago|0 comments
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by dubfan 13y ago
My old phone (LG Thrill) had a bug where the clock would simply stop syncing for some unknown reason. It could be hours out of date at any given time. The only way to resolve this was to restart the phone. Of course, it was never fixed befo
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by dubfan 13y ago
Hence why the term "meteorology" refers to the study of the weather than the study of meteors.
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by dubfan 13y ago
I managed to snag <myfullname>@ymail.com during that land rush, but when I gave out my email to people, many thought the "y" was a mistake and would send email to gmail instead. The lack of free IMAP and the supermarket tabl

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