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by mason240 12y ago
This is pretty common comment pattern on reddit (everyone hand-wringing self-righteously over the "problem" of a few, heavily downvoted comments). It's disappointing to see it here. And yes, I realize there is some irony in t
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by mason240 12y ago
>The “sneak into basket” pattern is now illegal. Full stop, end of story. You cannot create a situation where additional items and services are added by default. active.com is a horrible offender. If you sign up for an event, you are aut
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by mason240 12y ago
They have been around for decades in the US as well. Industry uses far more electricity than residential, so the focus of managing peak use has been factories to shift energy use to off-peak hours, something that the average person would ne
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by mason240 12y ago
Just another example of how SJWs of the 2010s are like the moralist Christians of the 1980s. In this case they both view video games as being detrimental to society.
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by mason240 12y ago
So were not actually evicted.
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by mason240 12y ago
>They could just follow the regulations like everybody else I can't speak for the regulations in Germany, but in the US, the system is designed by the "everybody else" with the intention of keeping new entrants out. There
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by mason240 12y ago
>are berliners really unhappy with the service? It's quite simple: If they were happy with the status qup, Uber would not be able to gain a foothold. If they are not happy, Uber will be a popular alternative.
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by mason240 12y ago
The article initially claims that >Once these devices connect, the stingray can be used to actually eavesdrop on conversations, text messages, and web browser activity. Yet further reading shows that "all" it can do is triangul
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by mason240 12y ago
They didn't fail. They were ordered to shoot down a plane, and they shot it down.
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by mason240 12y ago
It would be cool to frame and display one them, like one for Automatic Maneuvers. http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/Comanche055/AUTOMATIC...
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by mason240 12y ago
>Turns out space folks are great at sharing knowledge! I've read that one of the problems a new moon-or-beyond space program would have is that we are so far removed from the Apollo program that all institutional knowledge that was
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by mason240 12y ago
I wish I was only bullied physically as a student, then I probably wouldn't be saddled with issues 15+ years later. Oh I forgot, I was a boy though so it doesn't matter.
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Wordpress will turn on HTTPS for all subdomains of Wordpress•com.(en.blog.wordpress.com)
2 points by mason240 12y ago|0 comments
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by mason240 12y ago
The blasphemy law from the article actually sounds a lot closer hate speech laws progressives are trying to implement. > "Whoever, with deliberate and malicious intention of outraging the religious feelings of any class of [citizens
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by mason240 12y ago
How much fossils fuels will be consumed building (and then operating) the thousands of clipper ships need to replace one massive cargo ship?
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by mason240 12y ago
Tort reform boils down to "Getting hurt shouldn't like winning the lottery." FTFY
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by mason240 13y ago
I think what he is trying to say is that the baseline for getting cancer is random, and there really isn't much you can do you reduce the chances of it happening. However, you can increase the chances of happening through things like e
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by mason240 13y ago
With an attitude of "you will take I think you should like and be happy with it," I hope you work far away from anything related to user interface. >Americans seem to prefer to put a blindfold on and act like animals arent kill
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by mason240 13y ago
Because "kids these days" are refusing to do them, yet demanding they have better lifestyle then the people who are doing them.
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by mason240 13y ago
I have been looking for a good open source, Picasa type photo management platform, unfortunately I haven't been about to find any good ones.
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by mason240 13y ago
>Finland is sometimes given as an example of a prosperous socialist country It's poor example considering that Finland is not a socialist country, they have the same capitalistic economy and democratic government that US and most of
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by mason240 13y ago
Wouldn't that be profiling?
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by mason240 13y ago
They seemed to have found funds in their budget to harass political groups from one ideology.
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by mason240 13y ago
One company in Duluth MN calls it "Offshore to the North Shore"
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by mason240 13y ago
Looks like we are living a new age of McCarthyism.
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by mason240 13y ago
Daily Mail, Phys.org, and NPR all mess up, DM get singled out.
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by mason240 13y ago
If funny you say that, because one of the highest ranking Democrats in the Senate until his death in 2010, Sen Robert Byrd was an actual klansman with a long history of blatant racism, from fighting against racial integration in the militar
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by mason240 13y ago
It's interesting that this got flagged off the front page. At least I assume it was flagged off, as there are several stories on the front page right now that older and with less votes.
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Anti-Tech Protesters Are Telling Kevin Rose’s Neighbors That He’s A “Parasite”(techcrunch.com)
88 points by mason240 13y ago|89 comments
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by mason240 13y ago
Prediction: those who insisted that political actions and professional life should be one and the same will respond with "meh," completing the ouroboros of hypocrisy.

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