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by mertd 13y ago
On the other hand, there is little doubt that overwhelming ingestion of anything will kill you. I'm not sure if it is too much or how long he kept it up, but 60g of butter sounds a lot to me.
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by mertd 13y ago
By "pourover", they don't mean machine drip coffee. It's the coffee a barista individually brews per order on a pourover cone. I've never seen it cheaper than $3, including DC.
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by mertd 13y ago
So you don't eat invertebrates except for the ones you eat?
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by mertd 13y ago
What is the difference between this guy's scheme and not using the debit card for purposes other than withdrawing cash at ATMs ever? As an added bonus, your cash at the bank stays as cash theoretically forever rather than converting i
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by mertd 13y ago
Also many employers will let you buy it pre-tax. http://web.mta.info/mta/farebenefits.htm
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by mertd 13y ago
(123) 456 7890 wouldn't work?
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by mertd 13y ago
Isn't it more like walking down the same bad street every night with other people's cash in their hands, getting mugged repeatedly, not telling anyone and still taking more money?
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by mertd 13y ago
Zero signup = zero friction. You install the software, and your contacts who have WhatsApp immediately show up on your WhatsApp contact list. It was basically a free SMS replacement at first. Of course that came with a massive security hol
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by mertd 13y ago
The falsest dichotomy of all. What are the circumstances? what is the "work" trying to accomplish? Who are your competitors? Sometimes you have to work both smart and hard.
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by mertd 13y ago
Would you like half of your steak well done and the other half rare?
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by mertd 13y ago
That's impractical. VLC is just using the standard OS API to send some sound to speakers. Can you imagine every piece of software checking for every piece of esoteric hardware and having some special behavior? Maybe Microsoft could r
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by mertd 13y ago
Kind of funny that the page is broken on iPad (Safari).
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by mertd 13y ago
It was meant to be an observation, no judgement or opinion. Now that you have provided some background, it is interesting that you produced the same set of priorities in the same order.
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by mertd 13y ago
That is pretty much Maslow's pyramid.
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by mertd 13y ago
Which would be scenario A. You just did the lookup of finding that 0xEA's business hours are from @300 to @800.
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by mertd 13y ago
How would you know if it is appropriate to call someone in some other part of the globe? One way or another you have to do a lookup. A) Everyone uses UTC. Now you have to know the business hours in Tokyo because it is not universally 8-6 a
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by mertd 13y ago
> Whip out your phone. Well that scenario is more like this: Fish your phone out of your pocket or bag, unlock the screen, pull down the notification bar, navigate to the app... vs Look at your wrist. Pebble is quite convenient especiall
528.
by mertd 13y ago
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC appears to be a few blocks off.
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by mertd 13y ago
I'm not sure what your point is. A lot of negative factors contributed to the state of the world that we were born into. Are we supposed to accept these as essential elements of life and keep the status quo?
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by mertd 13y ago
Your logic is cyclic.
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by mertd 13y ago
In what way is prematurely ending a fellow humans life "key" to my experience?
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by mertd 13y ago
I doubt there will be enough plant carnage to warrant a class action case and a single plant is barely small claims court material.
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by mertd 13y ago
Instead of being snarky, you could have read the first sentence, which gives the time interval of the mortality risk.
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by mertd 13y ago
My guess is that those particular scanlines were being read out at the instance of the impact, which momentarily flexed the circuitry and caused funny things.
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by mertd 13y ago
Almost everyone was indeed eligible. Freakonomics did an episode on it, and there is a study on this affair since it was pretty well documented.
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by mertd 13y ago
Your fear is misplaced. 1) The game exclusively on IOS, where piracy is minuscule. It couldn't have been the motivator. 2) People are willing to pay for good quality and convenience instead of pirating (e.g., Steam, Netflix, game conso
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by mertd 13y ago
It actually makes it unusable on a mobile phone browser.
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by mertd 13y ago
This reminds me of the Northwest flight that overshot the airport 150 miles because the pilots fell asleep. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222401/Pilots-suspe...
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by mertd 13y ago
> The number of accidents caused by human error is terrifying. Problem is that we don't know about the number of accidents avoided thanks to human interventions. Also, remote pilots will never be sure about the reliability of info
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by mertd 13y ago
Evanston, IL.

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