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by planetguy 14y ago
McDonald's is in a fortunate/unfortunate position in that they can afford to have an ad campaign based upon honesty, because the unvarnished truth is still a lot better than the stuff that an awful lot of people already believe about them.
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by planetguy 14y ago
I have difficulty believing these poll numbers. How can 46% of Americans be full-on young-Earth creationists, when I've never met one? I think there must be some flaw in the way they're asking the question, apart from the fact that the phra
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by planetguy 14y ago
Academic papers also make terrible pornography. That's not what they're designed for either.
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by planetguy 14y ago
The thing about part-time citizen scientists is that they could exist, but don't. Or rather, they do exist, but nearly one hundred percent of them are crackpots. I don't think this kind of project can change that, because I don't think la
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by planetguy 14y ago
There isn't any difference, except often when people microwave water they don't get it all the way to boiling. With a kettle it's pretty obvious when your water is at boiling.
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by planetguy 14y ago
Some let you just press the "add minute" button and it immediately starts cooking on a one-minute timer. Want to cook for more than a minute? Keep pressing that add-minute button while it's cooking.
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by planetguy 14y ago
I don't want it. I want a cordless one with a dock and a zillion-watt element that can boil a litre of water in forty seconds.
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by planetguy 14y ago
Even that needs a lot of work. Okay, so I can create "connections" on an "if this then that" basis. I need more examples of the sorts of thises and thats that I can use as input and output, though. Like, apparently I can control my home app
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by planetguy 14y ago
And by "frequently" you mean "almost never, cuz I've been trying to get it to happen for years and it damn well doesn't"
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by planetguy 14y ago
Also, Douglas Adams on a very similar subject: http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2002/12/a_proper_cup_o... So the best advice I can give to an American arriving in England is this: Go to Marks and Spencer and buy a packet of Earl Gre
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by planetguy 14y ago
I've tried to superheat water in my microwave and never managed it.
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by planetguy 14y ago
The problem is that electric kettles in America are slow as fuck, which I assume is due to the 110V power supply. Go somewhere with 240V and two things happen: (a) you're far more likely to die of electrocution in your own house and (b) you
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by planetguy 14y ago
Interesting observation on the random direction, I'd always wondered why that was. The other thing to remember is that in the 1990s a microwave oven cost several hundred dollars at least. Now you can pick one up for fifty bucks, possibly fo
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by planetguy 14y ago
One of the most visually offensive things about a lot of communist architecture is top-heaviness. It's not just a grey block of filthy concrete, it's a grey block of filthy concrete that looks like it's about to crush you.
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by planetguy 14y ago
It felt like Borges wrote the first half and Neal Stephenson wrote the second. I liked the first half better -- the mystery of the situation was so fabulous that any possible resolution would be a letdown.
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by planetguy 14y ago
Because fame and ego. Assange is a weird-looking socially awkward epsilon-male, but make him the figurehead of anti-Americanism and apparently a bunch of Swedish leftist chicks want to bang him. At least once. As long as he puts on a condom
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by planetguy 14y ago
> The US would be happy to volunteer a few if it's a question of manpower How many times? This is nothing to do with the US. This is a UK-Sweden extradition of an Australian citizen. If the US DoJ ever gets off its ass and decides to pr
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by planetguy 14y ago
I'm confused by the embassy's statement. Is an embassy really obliged to shelter any foreign national who might show up on the run from the law for a fairly prosaic [ ahem alleged] crime? If I knock over a gas station can I show up at th
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by planetguy 14y ago
Not disagreeing with you, but I wonder how much the Burj expands and contracts every day.
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by planetguy 14y ago
If this were fark someone would reply with some kind of comment about the threat typically posed to skyscrapers by persons of middle-eastern origin. But yeah, I wouldn't wanna be on a high floor of this thing.
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by planetguy 14y ago
To make the entrants feel smarter. The whole thing is, of course, completely isomorphic to a guess-an-integer competition, but the rather minimal effort you need to go to to figure out the Nth prime makes it all worthwhile. Perhaps it also
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by planetguy 14y ago
I would assume that the right strategy here varies depending on how many other people are going to enter the competition. Actually, a "guess how many people will enter this competition" competition would be fun. What would be interesting no
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by planetguy 14y ago
It wasn't the engineers, it was the architects. Communist architecture followed the principles of communist architecture. Diversion from what the state thought was a good idea was highly un-recommended. The principles of communist architect
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by planetguy 14y ago
Once again, in action, the unnamed law that decrees that any article about anything happening in any country in the world inevitably turns into a thread about much worse things are in the US.
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by planetguy 14y ago
Actually I think words are sufficient. As in "Oh man, those three and a half seconds of actual video of the reconstruction were awesome, it'd be nice if there were more of that" edit: I found the full video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by planetguy 14y ago
I watched it and it did tell me one thing: it's a bit like an iPad but it comes with a cover that's also a keyboard. And that's probably going to be the big selling point. "It's a bit like an iPad, but it comes with a cover that's also a k
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by planetguy 14y ago
Cargo-cultism. Apple was doing both those things back in 1998 when they were going broke, and they could have just as easily gone broke doing 'em. There are many ways to run a successful company. Some of 'em involve in-house engineering and
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by planetguy 14y ago
Nobody is mentioned except Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Stockholm and Tel Aviv. And a few of those aren't even in Europe.
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by planetguy 14y ago
I rarely buy stuff online, but I do worry about what happens to retail areas as shopping continues to move online. There's nothing more depressing than one of those run-down unrenovated malls that nobody bothers to visit any more, half empt
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by planetguy 14y ago
Lascaux.

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