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The NFL changed the ownership rules, and the Green Bay model cannot be repeated elsewhere. "The NFL does not allow corporate membership. Instead, it requires clubs to be wholly owned either by a single owner, or small group of owners,
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The Fine Bros do seem like lawyered-up scumbags, but that graph is a classic example of how to lie with statistics. Thanks to the Y-axis range, the drop off appears to be substantial, but it's only a 1% drop.
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From the article: "While I am happy to share data with those that request it, I will summarize by saying that most restaurant customers that use OpenTable abhor it (for a few different reasons)." His company, TableHero, is a com
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Interoffice memos were often used to document important issues that had been previously discussed. I'd be really surprised if this issue hadn't already been brought to management's attention verbally. In the early 90's (
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Maybe I'm in the minority, but I actually liked Windows 8.1 better than 10. It's hard for me to explain why, but Windows 10 gives me the feeling that I don't own the system - that Microsoft does and they're just letting
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There's already a built in solution for this on HN: - Upvote posts you like. - Do not upvote posts you don't like. - Use 'Flag' judiciously for content that you feel is not appropriate to HN. - Let the HN ranking algorit
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They should tier it. 140 characters for a free account. 280 characters for a cheap but paid ($) account. 1000 chars for a premium ($$$) account.
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Hands down, Air Jordan is the best logo ever created. Designers might not think so, but people bought $2.6 million worth of products last year just because of it. It's hard to beat that.
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> while the US Republican party has become more radicalized Not picking on you specially, but I've noticed that the word reactionary has been dropped from the political lexicon. I feel kind of silly rooting for a word to be used m
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> talks of a culture that has never made drinking a forbidden fruit I had the same conversation (as a US college student) 24 years ago with my Spanish roommate. Alone, you and I are anecdotes. Together, we're data. ;-)
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The only reason ad blockers work is because they serve external resources. When media sites really wise up, they will figure out a way to serve ads from their own domains. Building a system for ad bidding, rotation, tracking, advertiser mon
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Here's a performance test of Levenshtein vs Sift4 using UTF-8 strings for anyone interested: http://jsperf.com/levenshtein-perf
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One of the reasons that I don't buy more e-books is because my Kindle's battery charge is often depleted. Somewhere along the line, Amazon changed airplane mode such that ads are still displayed all the time. I haven't been a
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> just plain break my mobile experience I installed Firefox on my Android recently since it allows extensions and I could install UBlock Origin. I've found it helps quite a bit.
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Right-click, inspect, then delete a node or two.
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Just removing the font-weight: 300 helps tremendously. Personally, I'm becoming less of a fan of external fonts. I've noticed lately that they're often the slowest thing to load on sites that use them (especially Google fonts
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I haven't followed all the details of this saga, but my understanding is that this release is the result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the emails. The emails were vetted by the State Department, and only those that
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There must be a bug in the tabulation, because the data I'm seeing is: $5,740,989,156 last 24 hrs ($239207881.50 / hr) $67,463 last month ($93.70 / hr) $2,506 last week ($14.91 / hr) Either
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Has sentiment analysis successfully conquered sarcasm yet? Twitter is ripe with it.
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Aside: I met Rick Goff when I was in high school. My dad lived in Yamhill and was friends with him. One day we drove out to his place, turning off the gravel road toward a barn. Stepping inside the barn was a surreal experience. There, out
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> but the RAM usage has gone up when compared to 8.1. On a device with just 2 GB of RAM, this matters, but not nearly as much as what’s coming next… In that entire article, increased RAM usage was the only thing that piqued my interest.
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> the double-negative Just speculating, but this might be a fail safe since bool's default to false in .NET.
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Surprisingly, there was even a winforms update recently.
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They could publish descriptive statistics of the salaries without publishing the salaries themselves.
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They're owned by Disney, so it's not like the bills wouldn't be paid, but if (when) the bubble burst, it would have a ripple effect through sports and television. Hypothetically, ESPN itself doesn't need to lose many vie
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> The financial stakes are especially high for ESPN because it earns the most carriage fees of any TV channel, about $6.61 a month per subscriber That's not why the financial stakes are high. They're high because ESPN has fixed
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> It leads one to wonder what exactly they're spending all the extra money on. I just looked up the operating budget for my alma mater (Oregon State University), and if I'm reading it correctly, administrative costs are about 1
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I posted this because of Sam's piece on Energy came on the heals of me listening to the organizer of the Survivor Library [1] on NPR this weekend. If the world experienced another solar flare on level with the Carrington Event [2], we&
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What If the Biggest Solar Storm on Record Happened Today? (2011)(news.nationalgeographic.com)
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According to the Ken Burns documentary Prohibition [1], it was both - especially if you replace "people" with "men". I don't remember all the facts and details leading up to Prohibition, but the documentary did ma

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