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by rev_bird 10y ago
Oh, I agree with you far more than the original comment, I was just trying to clarify because I thought it was an interesting point.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
For what it's worth, the Third Amendment claims were thrown out: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/judge-police-tak...
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I don't think parent commenter was saying it's not a problem, just that it's a pretty universal problem.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Ancestry.com, both its web app and iPhone app. This is a little different than most other responses in the thread, but I'm absolutely astounded how smoothly it works -- sure, you end up with some weird entries (husband/wife get ta
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Saw this a week or two ago -- was absolutely blown away by the quality of the animation. Far and away the most realistic-looking animations I've ever seen; the birds still had a little of that "a computer drew me" look, but t
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by rev_bird 10y ago
It's intentionally misspelled, ostensibly to avoid old-school newsroom confusion with "lead," the linotype separators that sat between lines on a printing press. It's debated whether it's a word that was actually us
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Sorry, I meant in an Apache config file or something.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Custom domains would be huge for me, but I totally understand. How would they ever manage to do it? They'd either need a zillion separate entries, or the broadest wildcard cert ever.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
This is such a bummer to me. I was a late-comer to CoffeeScript (just joined a project at a company that's been using it for years), and I absolutely love it. I was really skeptical ("JavaScript works just fine! Why change the syn
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by rev_bird 10y ago
"Keep Earth hospitable" and "Colonize Mars" have very different goals, though. It would likely be humanity's crowning achievement to put a permanent outpost on another planet, but it would be, what, 15 people maybe?
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by rev_bird 10y ago
This seems fallacious, but I can't put my finger on how. Yes, there is currently a lack of "planet-altering intelligent species," but, as far as we can tell, there has always been a lack of planet-altering intelligent speci
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I'm not sure this is relevant. I mean, yes, they most certainly changed the planet itself, but it wasn't really to benefit themselves, was it? We build skyscrapers and Howitzers for intentional purposes, not because we excrete the
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by rev_bird 10y ago
It's not, surprisingly: Their brand is "Smart"; I'm assuming we call them "Smart cars" because "Smarts" sounds weirder than "Toyotas."
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I'm not able to toss my hat in the ring for this job, but I wanted to say it's refreshing to see the hiring process outlined so clearly. Thanks.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
> A messaging service that only allows 140characters sounds ridiculous. It made a lot more sense when we used SMS to tweet.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
The oldest bald cypress tree in the world grew in Florida for 3,500 years. Then it was burned down by a woman smoking meth inside of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Senator_(tree)
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by rev_bird 10y ago
>just look how Ellie used to hide in plain view of enemy humans and zombies I loved TLoU, so I might be biased, but I tend to be pretty forgiving of companion weirdness in games -- I can appreciate how hard it is to make that work. Fallo
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by rev_bird 10y ago
That sounds right on first glance, but I wonder how much money companies would spend internally doing the same work the recruiter is doing. If it was THAT much cheaper, I'd think the recruiting industry would be in trouble. I think tha
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by rev_bird 10y ago
This is a lot to go through, but I've bookmarked your comment so I can take my time. Thanks for sharing.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I'm from the U.S., and I'm guessing you are too -- I wonder, in Europe, if "end-of-life" care bankrupts old people like it does here.
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by rev_bird 10y ago
This is kind of baffling to me -- the "approval" process is only performed after the patient is dead ?
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I really don't think it will be productive to turn this into a discussion about Trump in particular, but I should clarify: I'm not opposed to Trump because he's not a lawyer, or because he's an "everyman." I am
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by rev_bird 10y ago
It might be (waaay) outside the scope of the usual discussions around here, but I don't know that it's pointless. I'm an atheist, and I'm totally fine with the idea that when I die, that's it, I'm as dead as an
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by rev_bird 10y ago
That sounds nice to me, and I like Biden, but I'm not sure this is accurate. Democrats had a Clinton/Biden matchup in 2008, and Biden came up short by a mile. A lot has happened since then with Clinton, both good and bad, but I
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by rev_bird 10y ago
I should preface this with the declaration that I'm not trying to start a debate about which presidential candidate to vote for. People get really touchy about that -- I'm just talking about the logic that you are criticizing, bec
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by rev_bird 10y ago
>No more smoking in the office I'm glad this is a rule now, but for the opposite reason: If I could smoke at my desk, I'd probably be dead now. What a wonderfully convenient way to satisfy my (former) addiction. Now, where did
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by rev_bird 10y ago
>albeit crudely There you have it. I'd bet dollar to doughnuts that if this person had simply "expressed interest," I don't think there would have been an issue. But if a total stranger says they only want to "
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by rev_bird 10y ago
Honestly, it does seem sort of egoistic to continue being a soldier if you have a family, at least to me. I'm going to have a hard time explaining it in a way that doesn't seem confrontational, but the most exaggerated example o
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by rev_bird 10y ago
>Dead or alive they are still your friends, family, coworkers I think that's the main idea at issue here: Are they still those people? Or are they just, to oversimplify a little, just some old meat?
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I think we agree? When you let "the crowd" make decisions for you, sometimes they make weird, possibly dumb decisions -- that's why "the crowd" doesn't get to do that very often. It's also why I was so imp

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