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by m_myers 3y ago
Nor was anyone looking to go to the Arabian Peninsula on their vacation 30 years ago, and yet here we are.
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by m_myers 3y ago
Or they use a device like a Tablo to get free OTA TV with all the advantages of streaming to devices, no subscription needed. I've done this for several years. I can be out working in the yard and pull out my phone to watch couple minu
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by m_myers 4y ago
The conservative perspective is not, and has never been, that poor people deserve to stay poor. It is that I can and will give my money to poor people, and you're free to do likewise, but we're not going to point a gun at old St
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by m_myers 4y ago
Biblical eyewitness testimony also requires multiple witnesses: > One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses
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by m_myers 5y ago
Apropos of nothing, I notice that your comment is post number 30 000 000 on Hacker News. Congratulations, I guess?
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by m_myers 5y ago
Recently ran across this interesting guide to Moby-Dick: "The 100 Chapters of Moby Dick You Can Skip - And why you won’t want to" https://baos.pub/the-100-chapters-of-moby-dick-you-can-skip-... The point is that w
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by m_myers 5y ago
Or build a house from a kit, as noted building expert Buster Keaton does in the short "One Week". What could possibly go wrong? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd6ddOlbKp8
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by m_myers 5y ago
I did that once, 10 years ago or so. My reddit account is coincidentally 10 years old now. Beware of unintended consequences.
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by m_myers 5y ago
Viasat also heavily throttles video streams, so as not to allow a user to accidentally reach their monthly data cap in the first day or two. I currently average 25-30 Mbps on speedtest.net and 700 kbps (not a typo) on fast.com. And still I
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by m_myers 5y ago
I don't understand where this question is coming from. How many Americans have you met who believe the moon landings were fake? For me that number is 0. Beware of polls showing a small percentage of people believe something. Anything u
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by m_myers 5y ago
I'm just tired of "commuter" EVs that don't have enough range for my 30-minute commute (17 miles each way). I'd need at least a 60 mile range to be able to get to the farthest reaches of the nearest city and back. T
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by m_myers 5y ago
> A professor naturally speaks with the authority of their corresponding institution Does she though? She had every reason to believe her choice of email address would remain private. By a similar token, I am currently working for <RE
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by m_myers 5y ago
Is he starting to memorize jokes from Centurion Vilhelmus's Whiz Bang?
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by m_myers 6y ago
One of Red Alert's hacks was making dogs (the unit) distinct from dogs (the projectile). That is, a dog was a dog until it began its attack. At that point it transitioned into a dog projectile, which looked like a leaping dog but wasn&
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by m_myers 6y ago
I'm currently behind a corporate firewall which blocks Imgur. Not being very familiar with Futurama, I thought the entire joke was that the quote for episode 1 was "Episode 1", the quote for episode 2 was "Episode 2&quot
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The Great NFL Heist: How Fox Paid for and Changed Football Forever(theringer.com)
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by m_myers 8y ago
I admire your optimistic view of how many users would read such a manual when all they want to know is why doesn't this code do what it's supposed to and can you hurry I need this by 5 pm? But... I do agree that a detailed, educ
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by m_myers 8y ago
I'm not that familiar with soccer stats, but this section needs a reply: > A “shutdown” cornerback like Richard Sherman can be a star in the NFL thanks to interceptions, broken up plays and tackles. “Lock down NBA defenders” like Br
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by m_myers 8y ago
This is the paradox: Every new language feature in C++ has, as you say, a rational argument for inclusion. Yet when you combine them, you get a language that I will never use if I have a choice.
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by m_myers 8y ago
You can either flag for another moderator to take a look, or (better) bring it up publicly on https://meta.stackoverflow.com . Most times you'll get an answer from the moderator in question. (Also, that's a... very broa
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by m_myers 8y ago
2013 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6074388
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by m_myers 9y ago
It's not common for those backups to actually kick, but it does happen. Wes Welker was placekicker for the Dolphins for one game as a rookie in 2004, besides being the team's kick and punt returner. He successfully converted both
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by m_myers 9y ago
A frost fair was held on the Thames that very winter of 1776 [1], so I imagine the British were familiar with hard winters. The problem was more that the professionals couldn't predict the actions of highly motivated amateurs. [1]: ht
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by m_myers 9y ago
> This page crashes my chrome tab!! The problem appears to be the SVG image http://mooooo.ooo/chebyshev-sine-approximation/horner_ulp.sv... , which has a path of 5000+ points.
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by m_myers 9y ago
Or play a classical opera overture that has the "Wake up!" built in to it. For example, Mozart's Magic Flute : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Gedb05J5M
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by m_myers 9y ago
Unfortunately, the Amazon TNF package is only for the games that will also be available over the air. NFL Network games will still require cable/satellite.
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by m_myers 10y ago
Jumping into the plate to get hit would not work since the batter must attempt to avoid the pitch. Another commenter has mentioned bunting after pointing at the fence. I would instead propose bunting to break up a no-hitter. It's compl
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by m_myers 10y ago
I rather doubt that liking one of the most popular musicals ever made is a minority opinion even on HN.
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by m_myers 10y ago
This is a time when I'm glad HN highlights new accounts. A train of green accounts making personal attacks is pretty self-explanatory.
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by m_myers 10y ago
This site appears to only have clips of individual plays, so neither a 5x5 nor a triple double would appear except as a long set of highlights. And not every play is a highlight; I checked a recent Russell Westbrook game and it had every as

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