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Wow, that made me cry.
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Currently I have several cards due to having a life that's very internationally split, between the US/France/UK mostly, with bank accounts in each, plus (in the US at least) separated accounts for business/personal. I have 3 US credit cards
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Because of their decision, certainly more will die that could have lived. The grey area, where getting a transfusion might actually be riskier than not getting one, is what they're finding out more about. That's useful to know. There are a
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It's not insane that progress is being made -- that's pretty sensible (because more guinea pigs = more data, and in normal circumstances patients don't volunteer for more dangerous paths). Deciding to be the guinea pigs is... well, not ins
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Of course not, but... a service is what you make of it. If I want to be inspired, I might not also want to simultaneously be reminded that, historically, a lot of folks didn't even really THINK that women might ALSO be doing historical stuf
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I'm not sure of the best solution to this problem, but these quotes (and a lot of famous inspirational quotes, I suppose) are very clearly "men-only". They refer directly to "men", or "man", use masculine pronouns only, etc.. Do you need a
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This is nicely worded, near the end of the review: But by that final two hours I was, however, not exactly caught up in the music, but surrounded by it, subdued by it, quelled. There are bound to be things that a piece of music can do to
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This would trap me almost every time I try to buy tickets from RyanAir. I don't know what's up with their CC processing, but it has never worked for me on the first try/first card.
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This was my worry. I've had experiences on a few sites (notably, RyanAir always seems to have problems) where I may try 3-4 cards, sometimes multiple times, before the transaction goes through. Note that I have a few US credit cards, plus b
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Implementing the spec, you pick & choose. I don't support alternative response_types; I don't support dynamic redirect_uri (at the moment, it's completely static; in future we may offer the list option), and the allowed scope for a give
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The chief problem with OAuth2 is that you can do almost anything and call it "OAuth2" -- the spec is ridiculously flexible, and allows all kinds of options that are explicitly stated within the spec as not advised. I'm fairly sure most of t
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Yup, my wife & I co-sleep with our 5-month old (same reasons as you mentioned) and also our 3 year old (who could have her own bed if she wanted, but she likes being in the big nest), and generally we all sleep well. We researched risks
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Uh, carbs as in "you burn it, you get X carbs", or carbs as in "when your body digests this, it uses A carbs to process, B carbs go out in waste, and the balance is C carbs"? The former isn't nearly as useful (but of course is much easier t
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That's clever wording: That helps support Brain Pickings by offsetting a fraction of what it takes to maintain the site[...] It implies that only a small amount of the costs to maintain the site are paid for by affiliate link earni
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This is useful - how are most places using it? I'd suggest making a drop-in script or two something like the extensions Stripe has been adding on a bit at a time, to make it easy to use this for in-page on-the-fly currency conversion... Tha
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Dutch MP fined for "hacking" into medical file system(itworld.com)
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Not many Facebook engineers, though, I suspect. And it's worth noting that even less technical users aren't so likely to click through all of the warnings when they're not expecting some kind of interactive game to play. That also reduce
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This happened last month, so it was 0-day THEN, not NOW. The hole in question was patched in the February 1st Java release, plus the way the Java plugin works now (and how most browsers handle Java now) even if there are still holes remaini
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This happened last month, so it was 0-day THEN, not NOW. The hole in question was patched in the February 1st Java release. This is news because it shows how Facebook was affected by the many unaddressed security holes that were present in
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Blame doesn't rest in one location only, does it? Obviously the people drinking alcohol in liquids not meant for consumption aren't in normal rational states of mind; but yes, they're doing something really stupid. But suppose when you're
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The vaccine will (if it works as planned) last 6 months to a year.
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From the article -- they're hoping the fully-developed vaccine would last 6 months to a year. That's a big deal -- you decide "yes" once, and even when the going gets rough, you don't get to change your mind for many months yet... you'll ha
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No, bad thing. Because this didn't exist in the 20's, the government started adding poison to alcohol not intended for drinking -- because people were drinking it, predictably, and bootleggers were reselling it to be consumed -- and kille
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First comment on the article: Edvin Dunaway 22 minutes ago um guys, no.. I am an Icelander, and I'll have you know this: Iceland is not going to ban porn! Ögmundur is just one guy, he does NOT represent Iceland in whole. he wrote a bill th
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That's fine if you're technical enough to even know what that means; I'm worried about the people working outside the tech realm who could be unaware even of the personal risk when they try to help out.
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"Having a personality" is going to happen whatever you do. Somewhat counterintuitively, this doesn't mean your interface pretends it's a person; but all copy is written by people -- words are used by people only (pretty much), directly or i
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Their choice of "My" caused a humorous reaction on quite a few people who felt the computer was much more a separate entity than a mechanical extension of themselves (to use the terminology of the OP)... Remember the joke that Bill Gates re
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Cross-platform development is in a better place now than it was when Java first tried to tackle that challenge. I'm not a huge fan of maintaining installed software, though -- if you have a silent auto-updater, that's not bad, but otherwise
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Can we just wait until real alternatives exist before letting client-side Java completely self-destruct? My problem is that as of now, they don't.
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> Don't even get me started on the recent security debacle. I'm kinda curious to get you started on the security debacle, actually. Do you ship Java software that runs client-side? Spring is usually for server-side; if you're just on t

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