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by georgefox 14y ago
I'm a TWC customer, and I used to have consistently horrible YouTube speeds. I eventually got sick of it and read somewhere to try different DNS, as you suggested. I switched from TWC's DNS to OpenDNS probably around a year ago, and YouTube
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by georgefox 14y ago
> What do people actually use SimpleHTTPServer for? I've used it as a half-baked and very short-lived file-sharing mechanism before, similar to what you describe above. I haven't noticed the DSL-like transfer rates because my broadban
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by georgefox 14y ago
I agree completely, but the original sentence used a policeman as a member of the list, not an appositive. As an ardent lover of the Oxford comma, the only solution for this sentence is to move some words around.
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by georgefox 14y ago
I must be missing something here. Your revs will go up regardless due to the nature of downshifting. It's just a question of whether you get there immediately or if you slowly glide there at the expense of your clutch. It seems to me you'd
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by georgefox 14y ago
I'm not sure I understand why your revs would need to be perfectly matched to avoid fuel consumption. If you're slipping the clutch, you're wearing the clutch, but what does that have to do with fuel consumption? Personally, I wouldn't down
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by georgefox 14y ago
> I always do a combination of down-shifting and braking as this saves fuel vs purely engine braking... Assuming your car is reasonably recent, engine braking doesn't use significant fuel. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_brakin
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by georgefox 14y ago
I was just going to post something very similar. Glad to see it's already been done for me. :) I'm in the middle of The Paradox of Choice right now, and while the maximizing/satisficing thing applies to many aspects of life—the book was c
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by georgefox 14y ago
"In Israel" isn't quite true. > The EU's highest court ruled in 2010 that Sodastream was not entitled to claim a "Made in Israel" exemption from EU customs payments because of the companies' primary manufacturing plant location outside
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by georgefox 14y ago
Considering Visual SourceSafe's extended support runs through 2017, I think it's safe to say TFVC will be around and supported for quite a while yet.
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by georgefox 14y ago
I believe this varies by state and by age ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_Ameri... ). As I understand it, here in New York, two consenting but unmarried 16-year-olds would technically be engaging in mutual statutory
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by georgefox 14y ago
There's a pretty weird combination of liters and ounces in soft drinks. 2 L and 20 oz are very (most?) common for bottled soda. 1 gal is common for bottled water, but for individual bottles, 0.5 L (16.9 oz) is common. 1 L and 1.5 L bottles
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by georgefox 14y ago
Coming from the United States, I find the idea of a country with "rapid trains" pretty darn sophisticated.
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by georgefox 14y ago
There's also a fair number of union workers who are not allowed to strike at all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_action#In_the_United_Sta... .
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by georgefox 14y ago
I believe the point was that programming is a seller's market, so the ease with which someone like you may be able to switch jobs doesn't necessarily translate to other industries. But even for programming, who says there's always another c
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by georgefox 14y ago
The concept you're talking about is the so-called "right-to-work law" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law ). The problem seems to be exactly what jiggy mentions: it's much cheaper not to join the union, and you still enjoy at l
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by georgefox 14y ago
I completely agree. Unfortunately, many places that use SSN for identity verification don't seem to think so.
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by georgefox 14y ago
He mentions that there are "shockingly complete" SSN databases available online. Is there any more information on this? Any way to find out if your own SSN or that of a loved one might be in such a database?
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by georgefox 14y ago
Shouldn't the percentage of savings go down if you adjust for inflation (i.e., larger savings)?
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by georgefox 14y ago
Is there any reason that in this case and in the case of the parent comment, there's a tendency to jump to conclusions about the intelligence level of the test/puzzle writer? Do truly intelligent people never write lousy questions?
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by georgefox 14y ago
> Hmm, the page of counterexamples you listed seems to be about making women feel "sexy" (it's on the ad for many of them), so it makes sense they would show "sexy" women, just like selling clothes and other items that would make men fe
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by georgefox 14y ago
> You don't see women with big breasts on ads for female hygiene products, or, indeed, anything that doesn't target mostly (or even specifically) men. That's simply not true. See http://www.genderads.com/page5/sexobject/sexobject.html
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by georgefox 14y ago
"Objectification of body parts" was poor phrasing on my part. The issue is the sexual objectification of women, in this case reducing them to their component body parts (e.g., "big boobs"). A woman is more than a set of breasts—she's a huma
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by georgefox 14y ago
Although I obviously understand how you formed your analogy, I just don't see how it's actually analogous. Software development is a male-dominated field, and the objectification of body parts is much more prevalent with women's breasts tha
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by georgefox 14y ago
Discussion from two days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4099751
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by georgefox 14y ago
There is reasoning; it's just not valid reasoning.
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by georgefox 14y ago
I assume the support person is asking the security question, but the user entered his mother's maiden name as -K$%3{Tm,fsj$k8L or something similar.
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by georgefox 14y ago
Capital letters.
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by georgefox 14y ago
What about detecting replaceState support and falling back to location.replace if necessary?
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by georgefox 14y ago
In American English, which is normally used in non-restrictive clauses (offset by commas), and that is normally used in restrictive clauses (not offset by commas). Using which in a restrictive clause like The senator which represents
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by georgefox 15y ago
Also, who's to say you're only searching for one item? Ever searched for a used car on Craigslist? You probably want to see more than one result. Even if you were only searching for one item (say you're searching Google for an article you r

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