kgermino

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   by kgermino 14y ago

   My interpretation is that gbadman did not mean the situation where two lanes merge into one, but rather where you have two lanes traveling in a single direction approaching an interchange where the lanes split such that the left lane goes o
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   by kgermino 14y ago

   Not sure where gbadman is, but a similiar situation I often see at the circle interchange in Chicago waiting in line (as you should do in that case) can easily cost you several minutes.
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   by kgermino 14y ago

   True, but unless Im mistaken there is an online only subscription, the sole purpose of which is admission past the Paywall. If nothing else, every dime generated from that is related to Times decision to sell an online product. Additionally
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   by kgermino 14y ago

   I don't understand your confusion. The only legit way around the pay wall (the pay) is to subscribe to the Times. Since the pay wall more people are subscribing to the online and dead tree versions of the paper. These extra subscribers pay
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   by kgermino 14y ago

   >git uh b Minor, but unprofessional in light of the $000,000.00 price :)
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   by kgermino 14y ago

   That's fair. I guess my counter argument would be that it's a problem when meta on a different thread, or when there are more than 1 or 2 meta threads a week. Otherwise they are easy to avoid and infrequent enough that meta threads don't c
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   by kgermino 14y ago

   I tend to agree, usually when I see these polls I think of them as feeling out the community's opinion rather then 'let's take a vote and pressure pg to follow the result' Especially since I think pg doesn't particularly care about most peo
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   by kgermino 14y ago

   Basically a users comments and submissions are automatically killed (you can see them by turning on 'showdead' in your profile) to everyone but the user. It's a very useful technique for fighting spam and trolls because it hides their activ
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   Poll: How do you feel about the number of hellbans?

   4 points by kgermino 14y ago|7 comments
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    I haven't noticed any problems
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    I see some mistakes both ways - they seem to balance out
12. 432.▲
    by kgermino 14y ago

    I think a few too many accounts are hellbanned
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    I think a few too few accounts are hellbanned
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    I think far too many accounts are hellbanned
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    I think far too few accounts are hellbanned
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    I don't know what hellbanned means or I have showdead turned off in my profile
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    Other / no opinion
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    >We hypothesized that they do this for a higher turnover. I can (anecdotally) confirm that many places do this. One place where my friend worked adjusted the background music volume based on the wait time, and I know of several restaur
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    I have seen (although I can't remember where so this might not be worth much) that the freequency clipping cell phones do for compression can make it harder for you to processes what you're being told on a phone. Put a better way, cell carr
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    Netflix Poison Pill Aims to Thwart Icahn Takeover(cnbc.com)

    1 points by kgermino 14y ago|0 comments
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    <META> > I googled it but it leads back to this page. It blows my mind how often this happens to me, even though I understand how and why. Especially since it's usually just a few minutes after the original comment is written.
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    I don't think I've ever seen anything explode like this did.
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    >What we really need is a poll. Ok, /newpoll... >Sorry, polls are turned off for a while. Now we'll never know.
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    Why I Hate the Arduino(fourwalledcubicle.com)

    4 points by kgermino 14y ago|0 comments
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    It only looks at articles that are in memory. You'll notice that the Steve Jobs article has made it there now that people have been opening it.
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    Well, looking at the math I see them getting about $6,615,000 worth of ad-time (not counting news or social media, just the video stream) The math: 7.35 average daytime CPM[1] * 5 Million (5,000 thousand) viewers, watching for an average of
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    For Context, from http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/presidential-debate-tran... : (CROSSTALK) ROMNEY: ... to oil, to tax breaks, then companies going overseas. So let's go through them one by one. First of all, the Department of Energy
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    Agreed, I actually appreciate the grammar correction (to an extend) when someone corrects me, since I usually learn about something I was doing wrong. However, it is annoying to read everyone else getting corrected. I'm not sure how to sol
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    Imposters Everywhere(www4.ncsu.edu)

    2 points by kgermino 14y ago|0 comments
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    by kgermino 14y ago

    I would think that risk could be a part of it (or at least risk mitigation)... If I were a photagrapher, I would likely want to charge more for a wedding then say the engagement pictures (or other portraits) which have a similiar amount of