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by jontas 14y ago
I am not sure where you got those numbers from, but "more than 500 kids treated in the emergency room for ingesting small rare earth magnets" is just not accurate. I need to do some digging, but the last time I saw the statistics, balloons
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by jontas 14y ago
How do you feel about a product like balloons? Balloons are responsible for the deaths of dozens of children every year. They are marketed directly to children, used primarily by children, and incredibly dangerous if swallowed. Your argum
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by jontas 14y ago
To be fair (and for all I know you could be 100% correct), it has not yet been made clear how he plans to disburse this money. Maybe he isn't going to do it in the wasteful ways you predict. Maybe he is.. time will tell.
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by jontas 14y ago
I dont think it needs to be disrupted, and even if it did, I dont think Lockitron is that product. We are moving towards a world where everything is connected, online, and accessible. Doors and keys are not in need of an overhaul, but some
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by jontas 14y ago
I have not ordered one, but here is how I see it: It is a step towards what the world will be like at some future point, when everything about your home (and life) is managed from your phone (or some kind of device). I'm not trying to sound
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by jontas 14y ago
I would agree with you except it seems they aren't setting the caching headers correctly either.
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by jontas 14y ago
Bill Hicks would agree with you: http://youtu.be/qZqYV9KKOZQ?t=3m46s
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by jontas 14y ago
I believe it was meant to be a pun :)
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by jontas 14y ago
You need to first create an account (if you dont already have one).
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by jontas 14y ago
It is working for me right now--I already downloaded my book free of charge.
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by jontas 14y ago
I believe they let you download in a number of formats, including PDF, epub, mobi, etc.
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by jontas 14y ago
It appears to be up now, but I would expect they got a surge of traffic that might've knocked them out when you were trying.
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Download any ebook free from Packt Publishing (through the end of the month)(packtpub.com)
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by jontas 14y ago
I've been using this for years now and love it: https://rocketship.it/ It is a slightly different concept, you pay once and get code that gives you a uniform interface for communicating with the different carriers (USPS, FedEx, UPS, etc.)
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by jontas 14y ago
That is good to know, thanks! I have also built totally custom ecommerce platforms in the past (getbuckyballs.com) and I understand many of the difficulties involved. I think you guys have done a great job with this, I hope I have a projec
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by jontas 14y ago
I have recently been evaluating e-commerce platforms for an upcoming project. This looks very nice, but it seems to be missing one key piece of functionality: variable products. For example, shirts that come in three sizes and three colo
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by jontas 14y ago
I installed this with one specific goal: I was really hoping it would give me quick access to the format letters for the date() function, however, it doesn't seem to display that part of the docs. It does, hover, let me open the php.net pag
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by jontas 14y ago
John Waters has written some great books--I read an autobiography of his years ago called Shock Value and some of its hilarity is still with me.
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by jontas 14y ago
Which in its own way may lead some visitors to get an impression of your reading tastes too :-) Oh I know, that is exactly what I meant. I fear the conclusions people might draw when the only reading material they see in my house are my
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by jontas 14y ago
Seeing this makes me a bit wistful.. it used to be if I walked into someone's home and didn't see shelves full of books, my impression of that person was forever changed. Now, my home has no shelves full of books. All my (dead tree) books
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by jontas 14y ago
I'm curious: does anyone know the context of the grades in the application? I saw actual grades listed in three places (pages 3, 17 and 26). He seems to have received scores ranging from 50-85. Are these out of 100? If so, it appears h
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by jontas 14y ago
The letter from his father to Harvard does mention that he has had some health problems (blood disease) but that he has fully recovered. Interesting that he was willing to contradict the letter of recommendation that you mentioned. However
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by jontas 14y ago
I went through a similar experience, and I eventually discovered that audiobooks made my driving commute almost as enjoyable as the train.
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by jontas 14y ago
The way the work is done is mind blowing[0]. The divers have to go so deep they need to live in helium tanks for more than a month, to make sure that their blood is sufficiently saturated with the gas. The helium is the only way they can d
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by jontas 14y ago
That isn't quite right. The 21 year sentence can be extended to keep him in prison for life [0]. He is not going to be walking out of jail free 21 years from now. [0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17724535
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by jontas 14y ago
http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-four-critical-security-flaws-...
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by jontas 14y ago
Once, while getting a certified check, I was unable to sign correctly (you have to sign two or three times). After a couple of failures the teller turned her computer screen around to show me my saved signature and said "just sign it so it
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by jontas 14y ago
Isn't this sort of the way those flower delivery sites work? You purchase some arrangement online and then a local retailer puts it together and delivers. So this model already exists and is (presumably) successful. I'd sure love to see
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by jontas 14y ago
I think you're on to the right answer (though I don't know for sure myself). It seems to me that if all file format identifiers started at the zero offset, it would be impossible for a single file to identify as more than one format. Howev
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by jontas 14y ago
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