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by mmagin 13y ago
While I don't want to diminish how bad it may be for those actually living in this situation, it seems to me that the only big problems about this -- besides "poverty makes non-poor people feel guilty" are essentially safety
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by mmagin 13y ago
In a lot of the discussions I'm seeing on here, it seems like a lot of the disagreement is around the question of whether it is reasonable to expect that people should be expected to know how their tools work. I would have to take the
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by mmagin 13y ago
To save on battery, portable devices tend to actively probe for networks (i.e. it is cheaper to transmit a packet than to leave the receiver on for long enough to hear beacon frames from the access points). Thus, even if your iThing doesn&#
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by mmagin 13y ago
On a tangent (but hopefully quite relevant): Does anyone else feel that perhaps a lot of what we're seeing is a case of "Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them"? As I look back on all of the
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by mmagin 13y ago
Wow: "Internet Explorer: In Malaysia (my country), IE is the only choice if I need to perform Online Stock Trading (every brokerage use the same ActiveX app developed by the same company), and the same goes with some Online Banking.&qu
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by mmagin 13y ago
I think that the usability of words/pictograms/etc. depends a lot on the user. I find pictograms generally easier to distinguish at a glance, but only if the color content is different, or if the shape is strikingly different. I
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by mmagin 13y ago
This article doesn't mention it, but I've heard the suggestion that far more of the runoff is from over-fertilized suburban lawns than from agriculture. At least commercial agriculture tends to be a bit more concerned about wastef
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by mmagin 13y ago
You'd be surprised at all the illicit activity that happens in prisons, at least in the US.
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by mmagin 13y ago
One of the shocking things (to those of us in the developed world) is that in many cases, human life is treated as less valuable in less-developed parts of the world. Not just by other people, but by the person themselves.
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by mmagin 13y ago
My understanding of lightning rods is that they help more in that they help dissipate charges from the surrounding air, preventing a strike, rather than actually taking the strike, in most cases. Though, in such case lightning struck the b
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by mmagin 13y ago
Sadly, the real lesson here is that he should have just forgotten about it, disposed of the remaining counterfeit money, and hoped nothing ever came of the matter. Doing the "right thing" in these situations just opens the door to someone
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by mmagin 13y ago
Can all of you who just want to be disembodied brains please figure out a way to do so? The rest of us would like your spare organs. Thanks.
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by mmagin 13y ago
I love these graphs with no scale on the y-axis.
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by mmagin 14y ago
Why should you care about whether they are "truly passionate"? It seems like in your working interactions with people, either they're delivering enough (and delivering what they promised) or not, and they can be judged on that, rather than
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by mmagin 14y ago
I don't think there's been any lawsuits over small-scale non-commercial infringement, but there have definitely been lawsuits against farmers regarding the propagation of patented crops.
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by mmagin 14y ago
And another example of how badly Wordpress scales.
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by mmagin 14y ago
This reminds me of how Yahoo! mail screwed up over a decade ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medireview
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by mmagin 14y ago
A random thought: I work as a software engineer. Also, I can think about 3-dimensional structures and sketch them on paper sufficiently to record the idea for later thought or sharing. But, darn, all CAD software seems incredibly tedious t
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by mmagin 14y ago
I wonder how many of these cases are due to the combination of caffeine and other risk factors such as dehydration or hyponatremia.
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by mmagin 14y ago
Marketing. A lot of their recent stuff is cheap crap, IMHO.
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by mmagin 14y ago
Am I the only one who hates the AirBlade dryers because they splash me in the face (presumably partially with the water that's been pooling in crevice along the bottom if it's being heavily used)?
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by mmagin 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanotan_II
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by mmagin 14y ago
Well, it's a list of individuals, after all this time, I imagine that wealth has been split between quite a few of them. Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family#Conspiracy_th...
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by mmagin 14y ago
There's a normal human tendency to occasionally worry about whether one is doing the correct thing with one's life. And then sometimes people extend that from themselves to those they associate with.
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by mmagin 14y ago
And in the "Valley", with rent and (California income) taxes what they are today, 100k isn't as great as you might think.
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by mmagin 14y ago
It is also notable how many non-profits aren't necessarily what people would conventionally think of as charities, despite being given a special tax status, etc.
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by mmagin 14y ago
I find a laptop very comfortable in my lap, not on a desk.
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by mmagin 14y ago
"California is making great progress toward income equality by eliminating the ability of the middle and upper classes to build wealth, and thereby eradicating greed." Besides the dubious idea that it's good to eliminate the ability for the
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by mmagin 14y ago
Surely it's illegal to let anyone turn the crank without first obtaining proper proof of employment eligibility (per the I-9 form.) :)
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by mmagin 14y ago
Generally, a soldered IC is more physically durable and gets some more heatsinking as a result.

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