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by flashman 10y ago
I highly doubt, jokey rural stereotypes aside, that antibiotic resistant gonorrhea is being transmitted from livestock to humans.
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by flashman 10y ago
I'm not sure I agree. There will be a percentage of users who would see the initial google.com page and not realise the subsequent page was an impostor, especially since Google 'took them there' after they logged in. This doe
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by flashman 10y ago
Signing in on this page will download PuTTY, for example: https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=mail&contin...
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by flashman 10y ago
Not the case mentioned in the OP, but a similar one: https://www.scribd.com/document/319728448/NJD-15-Cv-02250-KM... > 'Absent any evidence to the contrary, it is generally true that "the Defendant&#x
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by flashman 10y ago
Would be good to get a recording of it. If I had to guess, I'd say it's something to do with adding a salesperson to the call. Imagine your agents are sitting there manually making calls and waiting for a pickup (preview dialling)
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by flashman 10y ago
Abbott's mistake was giving Putin a warning of his feelings, which allowed Putin time to plan a response. If Abbott wanted to embarrass Putin (because presumably Putin is beyond feeling shame over the mere deaths of foreign civilians d
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by flashman 10y ago
Not true! We abolished free tertiary education.
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by flashman 10y ago
As with everything in astronomy: it depends. Just because the star is longer-lived than the Sun doesn't mean its planets will remain habitable as long. Small stars have planets that orbit close and become tidally locked, possibly losin
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by flashman 10y ago
You orient the card based on the other player's card, for their benefit. That's why I think it would be against the rules - it's the same as if you held up fingers or made a face, it's communication. Bruce and Ava decide
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by flashman 10y ago
Orienting the cards vertically or horizontally would count as communication, wouldn't it? Otherwise this would be trivial.
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by flashman 10y ago
Yes, let's see a chart of first-class runs scored per head of population.
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by flashman 10y ago
Well, good for Steve. I'm happy just rambling along and it would be nice if I had more time to do it. Maybe I wouldn't be as worried about status, money, pride or achievement if I didn't feel like I was in a race against time
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by flashman 10y ago
Filing "the problem of optional immortality" under "good problems to have"
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by flashman 10y ago
It looks bad that the Tesla didn't detect the SUV. But on the flip side, if the SUV had also had Autopilot, maybe it would have been a less dangerous situation. And when more cars have autopilot systems, maybe they'll be better ab
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by flashman 10y ago
A long, long time ago, I read a blog post in which a developer chided people for making expensive-to-develop games that could only run on 5% of PCs, then complaining about low sales. His point was, "Why would you drive up your developm
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by flashman 10y ago
If you are in a survival situation and need to know if something is edible, use the Universal Edibility Test: http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/MILITARY/united_states_army... (Do not repeat do not eat unknown fungi
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by flashman 10y ago
I've read lots of comments from people bewildered that Hello Games is continuing to add features and work on bugs after the game has gone gold. Gold is the 1.0 release: they got the game to a state where there were no showstoppers, and
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by flashman 10y ago
Most gamblers know that most gamblers come out behind... but me, I've got a system, I'm not a rube...
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by flashman 10y ago
Agreed. The article says: > there’s a certain point at which it just starts to look like absentmindedness Yes, but there's also a certain point at which a computer is fast enough, powerful enough, capacious enough, has enough batter
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by flashman 10y ago
"In the event of an emergency, the first twenty people off the aircraft will receive $100 cash." Of course then you'll have people deploying the escape slides without permission during non-evacuations...
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by flashman 10y ago
I doubt this is culturally specific to Indians because westerners do it too: https://www.runwaygirlnetwork.com/2015/09/08/incidents-revea...
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by flashman 10y ago
I never tire of seeing this series reposted. I only wish he'd written more since 2014.
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by flashman 10y ago
What a great idea - make an iPhone as adversarial towards thieves as possible, so stealing one becomes a huge personal risk. Maybe even add a stealth version of Lost Mode, so the phone works in a sort of guest mode (without access to your d
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by flashman 10y ago
Since nobody has tackled this so far: what are the answers? And more interestingly, how do you get them?
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by flashman 10y ago
Seriously, even gamers playing Eve Online know this.
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by flashman 10y ago
The history of computing is a straight line from economy to abundance.
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by flashman 10y ago
If you don't want to go all the way back to paper, you could always try a USB typewriter: http://www.usbtypewriter.com/
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by flashman 10y ago
The closest I get to this is turning off the wifi while I code (with little breaks to check something on Stack Overflow).
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by flashman 10y ago
Computing power trends towards infinity, while computing price trends towards zero ;)
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by flashman 10y ago
> Most of the people I know use the internal speakers on their phones extensively These people are a pox on public transport.

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