noonespecial

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   by noonespecial 11y ago

   Basically, thanks to CLUE, you only really get to use insurance once. Take this into account when thinking about your premiums and any claim you consider making. Insurance is for the big fire that takes it all. Also (in my experience), hire
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   by noonespecial 11y ago

   A good analogy? It's batman. We're debating web batman. Cool.
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   by noonespecial 11y ago

   All this is true. The sneaky thing they are doing is to quietly define more and more of the things you pay for to no longer be your property.
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   by noonespecial 11y ago

   Might I suggest that you split the folders up in your uploads. 0b692a00635682fabc78b6a50655242c.binary gets stored, for example in "./uploads/0b/69/2a/0b692a00635682fabc78b6a50655242c.binary" etc. Too many
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   by noonespecial 11y ago

   "The things we know ought to be in the public domain so people are fearful only in the measure in which fear is justified and rational." and "The trouble with secrecy is that it denies to the government itself the wisdom a
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   by noonespecial 11y ago

   I had a wise teacher early on who without fail used "becomes the same as", "is assigned to", and "points at" when reading code out loud. "Is equal to / equals" was only for comparisons. This has
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   by noonespecial 11y ago

   I'm not so sure that governments are too concerned with the 11 million cheating cars so long as they have a nice easy target to blame, fine, and play politics with. I have a feeling they'd much rather have one company and 11 milli
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   by noonespecial 11y ago

   Slightly misinterpreted title at first glance. Was really hoping for testing via turtles and martial arts...
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   by noonespecial 11y ago

   Really like that quote. I was thinking, G. K. Chesterton, or maybe C. S. Lewis on a good day, but it actually seems to be from Pope John Paul II! “There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the pr
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    Why? They didn't consume a bunch of resources or anything. They just relinquished their claim on said lots of resources to be the only guy in the world who gets to have a certain bit of dirty old fabric. It sounds like a net win for ev
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    I think copwatch.com is/was trying for something like this.
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    I love this sort of build video. I wish I could watch for hours the setting up of the various machines and the construction of the different parts.
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    Massive patent troll suit seeks to tax USB hubs at Wal-Mart, Amazon, Best Buy(arstechnica.com)

    7 points by noonespecial 11y ago|1 comments
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    Feels a bit like "anecdotes are not data"; "arguments are not evidence" perhaps?
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    Interesting that you still accepted without question that brushing at all was important. You didn't simply say "well then, who can know?" and quit brushing altogether. No comment on that really, just hmmmmm.
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    I'd say there is an internet going on here, it just happens to have really, really crappy latency.
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    >This doesn't change the huge red flag that should give prospective customers pause. No it does not. And among the people who care, they're just digging the hole deeper. It felt evasive to ignore the question about the cloud ov
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    So, umm, how is it exactly that you found out this exciting news about this and other medical breakthroughs? We could be doing a lot more medical research and a lot less social networking. We could also be doing a lot less medical research
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    It used to be a browser just went to the destination and showed you what was there. This was fast. Now every time you visit a site, a giant war goes on behind the scenes between what the site wants to force you to see and what you actually
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    "The world is seven billion people swimming in a boiling froth of water, oil, guns, steel, race, sex, language, wisdom, secrets, hate, love, pain and TCP/IP." Yep. There's my quote of the week.
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    $>echo $COOLJ "Don't call it a comeback, I been here for years"
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    I do too. I take the music of an entire decade, throw out 99.99% of all of it, make the rest into a big mix tape, and then call it a golden age. Even when they're pumping out commercialized, mass-produced dreck, sometimes a little qual
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    It was all so much "cut up the flower to find what makes it beautiful". The latent hypocrisy of the whole thing depressed me to no end, but it was a vivid introduction to that distasteful pseudo-highbrow thing people do with every
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    That is exactly the sort of thing some pseudo-highbrow twit would have given me a 'D' for in high school after assuring me that "there are no wrong answers". I love it.
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    You mean someone, somewhere might do something bad with it!? Whew, its a good thing we turned it off when we did! This is just like that time I thought people should be free to say what they think, but then someone said something that hur
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    So what do you call the demo that was delayed a couple of weeks to perfect before releasing? I don't know either.
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    You are very right with this. I've bought plenty of both. What it comes down to is that if you just want one to make a cool project or experiment with, buy the official one. The extra $ is worth it and then some on saved hassle. If you
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    That's a bit of a rant but it's a good point. The most effective thing ordinary people can do to fix the system is show up for jury duty when summoned.
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    There's a "Darmok and Jalad" xkcd for this phenomenon. Its #1217. Maybe we should just shrug and say, "hmf, just another 1217".
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    by noonespecial 11y ago

    I've definitely made peace with it to the point its a game. When I think of the idea, I purposely spend a day or two "building it in my head" before I search for it. Then to google to see how others have done it! Humbling som