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by kgermino 16y ago
He is a recovering alcoholic so I'd think it's reasonable to see him as someone you could have a beer with.
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by kgermino 16y ago
That's a good point and when I was reading the article I actually predicted that the "Learn More" button would win because it was the least committal but I never drew the connection between that and volunteer signups. A few theories: 1) May
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by kgermino 16y ago
Is it wrong for me to be a little startled by that conversion rate? I wouldn't have expected anything that high. It depends on how much of a commitment they're asking from volunteers. If you've already signed up on the website it's not m
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by kgermino 16y ago
Interesting. I wonder would the cars in this video be significantly different than cars in the US as I have a hard time keeping my car that slow regardless of the road I'm on?
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by kgermino 16y ago
By the way, .?123 is an odd label. You can already type . and ? from the main keyboard. Minor Note: This is a holdover from the iPhone keyboard which has no punctuation marks on the main letter keyboard. I'm not sure whether it's better
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by kgermino 16y ago
It could also mean that, knowing that engraved products are harder to sell, and knowing that an iPod is likely to be engraved a criminal will be less likely to steal any iPod, as opposed to say a GPS that could be more easily sold.
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by kgermino 16y ago
Two thoughts: 1) If you've already read a comment you've already read it regardless of where you read it, and if the comments are exactly the same they are probably not terribly context sensitive. 2) I believe that if a submitted comment
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by kgermino 16y ago
Private school in Milwaukee and our largest lecture hall seats less than 300.
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by kgermino 16y ago
That's all I could tell. The main page doesn't say anything about a pre-order (that I could tell anyway) and I'm not sure if I trust them when they say they are "close to shipping" as they've been close to shipping for a year now. Thank
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Ask HN: Anybody know anything about wakemate?
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by kgermino 16y ago
They use the back of he hand on more private areas so that the fingers are facing outwards. The idea is to prevent any kind of grabbing: perceived, actual, accidental, intentional, whatever. Edit: iPod typos
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by kgermino 16y ago
I didn't notice it and I can't be sure, but short-term outages on HN are usually because pg reboots the server. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1274058
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by kgermino 16y ago
Chicago had a similar problem when they started requiring that taxi's accept credit cards at no extra charge. When someone tried to pay their fare with a credit card a cab driver who didn't want to pay the service fee would either say that
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by kgermino 16y ago
Interesting. For whatever reason it didn't even occur to me that traffic lights would still have a "hard-wired" circuit available to operate the lights. I'm a Computer/Electrical but I tend to think in terms of coding rather than being ab
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by kgermino 16y ago
Do you mind explaining? I can't tell if this is meant as a joke or a serious counter-argument. At any rate I assume there is some sort of firmware controlling the lights [edit: guess not, read juson's comment below], monitoring the button
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by kgermino 16y ago
"almost nothing" would still equate to sever thousand dollars, probably over $100k. Not to mention future costs, a sticker would probably need to be replaced after a year at most, and a sign would cost significantly more. If you decide to
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by kgermino 16y ago
I'd be far more insulted if the city spent $2 million [Made up Number] it doesn't have removing buttons that did no harm to anyone.
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by kgermino 16y ago
Why would they even bother to do that? Just deactivate the buttons in software.
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by kgermino 16y ago
I think that part of the problem is the "verbing" of their brand. Nowadays even my grandparents (who don't even have a web connection) have a DVR, but most people don't know the difference between the DVR they get from Comcast and an actua
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by kgermino 16y ago
I didn't downvote you, but jokes like that usually aren't well received here. Particularly from relatively new users like yourself.
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by kgermino 16y ago
email pg@ycombinator.com Just include what you said here and the username in question. He should be able to take care of you.
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by kgermino 16y ago
I think that the best system is probably a non-partisan primary followed by a runoff election between the top 2 or 3. I feel like this would help make more center of the aisle candidates more successful in the primaries. Part of the proble
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by kgermino 16y ago
It seems you're correct. A quick search is giving me nothing to disagree with you. That being said: My understanding was that the many-line system worked better primarily because of the potential for a lot of lost time between the server s
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by kgermino 16y ago
Probably should put snowy winters under cons too. I'm from Chicago and quite frankly don't think that I could live somewhere without a real winter but I'm fairly certain the rest of the country thinks we're nuts.
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by kgermino 16y ago
Especially when driving and late for work...
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by kgermino 16y ago
I cant easily look it up myself right now (am on a mobile device) but I believe that the many cashiers many lines approach is faster from an average wait time perspective. However people tend to prefer the many cashiers one line approach b
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by kgermino 16y ago
I added it to the feature request page. For people who don't know there's a link at the bottom of the pages labeled "Feature Requests". I''m on a phone but I'll add a direct link when I get to a pc. [Edit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by kgermino 16y ago
Collapsible Comment threads. (as described in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1864844 )
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by kgermino 16y ago
In Illinois at least employers are required to allow employees to take two paid hours off at the beginning or end of their shift to vote. Also there's "no excuse" absentee vote by mail and early voting available throughout the state.
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by kgermino 16y ago
It saddens me that you seem to have made this account just to say that...

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